Category: Abrupt Climate Change
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Where’s the Climate Change Game?
You may have noticed that the structure of the ‘game’ is not completely spelled out. Like many strategic planning games, I envisioned discussions of possible things people might implement in response to the the game scenario. Cost/benefit & impementation times would lead to reasonable proposals for communities to consider. Very dry. The BBC has come up…
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Who Knew the UK Drank So Much Tea? Maybe Their Streets Are Dark?
Only boil the water that you need for your cup of tea. If everyone boiled just the water they needed, the energy saved could . .
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Zone Roof Gardens to Plan For Abrupt Climate Change (the game)
If you knew global warming would bring an abrupt climate change, roof gardens might be close to a first response. (See premise for the game.) Better yet, they offer immediate benefits. Roof gardens are of two types. There are shallow gardens that use between 1 to 4 inches of dirt and are relatively low maintenance…
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Insurance Companies – the Unexpected Ally in Long-term Planning for Disaster
In the US, insured climate-related losses have gone up 10 times faster than premiums or economic growth since 1971. Lloyds of London issued a report in June, 2006 Climate Change: Adapt or Bust. outlining the challenges facing the insurance industry and their analysis of insurer’s risk from global climate change. They recommend spending much more…
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Deer and the Abrupt Climate Change Game
Deer are currently nothing more than a nuisance in the Northeast – areas with deer tend to have endangered tulips but don’t contend with massive outbreaks of Lymes Disease. Communities tolerate leveled hostas and even an occasional car accident out of a respect for co-existing with nature or a desire to not kill Bambi. Does…
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Victory Gardens as Community Insurance
Turning a portion of everyone’s backyard into a viable vegetable garden can be very effective. Victory gardens planted by approximately 20% of the population helped supply 40% of the food
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Should Communities Support Seed Banks?
Norway, awash in oil revenue and significantly at risk if an abrupt climate change event occurs, has been working on a seed bank. They are planning to hollow out a mountain, install failsafe climate control and rent out space to governments to store seeds against cataclysmic disasters like abrupt climate change, asteroid strikes or nuclear…
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How Likely Is It That The Gulf Stream Will Actually Stop?
There’s only about a 10% possibility (very unlikely) that there would be an abrupt climate change event in the 21st century according to the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Does considering that a 30-year old male with a new baby will probably buy life insurance for the next 20 years on his 5 1/2%…
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Culprit Tax (Carbon Tax) to Pay For Disaster Preparedness
That said, paying for disaster preparations takes some money & taxing the culprit to both generate the funds needed for planning and as a deterrent makes sense.
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One Way to Think About A Community Disaster
Here’s a picture from PostSecret, a blog in the running for best American blog & best of year for 2006 (vote here through February 2, 2007). Not necessarily the way I’d like to think about disaster but perhaps something to keep in mind if you didn’t plan anything (or those days when the plans really…