Category: Abrupt Climate Change

 If you’re new to the Community Planner Game on Abrupt Climate Change see the premise here. (You don’t need to be a Community Planner to give your ideas.) Oaks and maples seem to be very popular for municipal shade trees.  But if your community needs to be a net food exporter at some point (a…

 The game assignment is is turn your town into a net food exporter. Could you turn the town park into a corn field? Should you? Here’s a 2004 corn yield map from the US Agricultural Dept. (2004)

Although there’s some evidence that dams might not be maintained the way you might hope for expected rainfalls (courtesy of MYWAY.com) what will happen to your community if rainfalls increase in intensity during the spring & fall? The National Inventory of Dams gives you an idea

Politicians can’t effectively handle threats that have a long planning horizon. Any attempt to address a very scary possibility will result in the politician being voted out of office as a wing-nut that isn’t paying attention to more immediate problems. Trying to pass broad, expensive-to-someone regulations give that someone an immediate incentive to spend money…

Check out Jean-Marc Jancovici on what might lead us to think the Gulf Stream will stop with some nice grounding in why no one is sure exactly what might happen.    Check out the whole site on the range of things that could happen.  The bottom-line take-away is that the environment will change.  Like a school exercise, I’m going…

Did Poseidon just put a trident in front of it? Wouldn’t the water just go around the prongs? I said no discussion of the premise and already you’re asking how the Gulf Stream stopped. The short answer is that fresh water from the melting of the Arctic ice cap and Greenland ice sheet dilute hot…

The rules for discussing abrupt climate change responses – no discussion of if they’re coming, no realignment of the community to a ‘war-footing’. Basic goals – no arks.