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NY Times: Did Exxon Deceive Its Investors on Climate Change?

Wed, 2019-10-23 10:51 — mdmcdonald

In an OP-ED in the New York Times, the director of the Rockefeller Family Fund states that EXXON systematically lied to the public and to its stockholders about the risks of climate change and EXXON's major contributions to the catastrophic damage climate change will inflict on humanity and on biodiversity.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/opinion/exxon-climate-change.html

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CLICK HERE - NOAA - Watches, Warnings or Advisories for Florida

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Hurricane Dorian - News and Information Resources

Thu, 2019-10-10 13:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

AN EXPANDING LIST OF NEWS AND INFORMATION RESOURCES RELATED TO HURRICANE DORIAN . . .

CLICK HERE - Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM)

CLICK HERE - FDEM - Emergency Info

CLICK HERE - FDEM - Open Shelters

CLICK HERE - Orange County Shelters

CLICK HERE - Red Cross - Find Open Shelters

CLICK HERE - Housing - Airbnb - Hurricane Dorian - Southeastern United States

CLICK HERE - Ready.gov - Hurricanes - Preparedness

CLICK HERE - CDC - Preparing for a Hurricane or Tropical Storm

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CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days (2019)

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Scientists Predict Climate Change Will Make Dangerous Heat Waves Far More Common

Wed, 2019-07-17 07:45 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - PAPER - Increased frequency of and population exposure to extreme heat index days in the United States during the 21st century

time.com - by Jamie Ducharme - July 16, 2019

People all across the U.S. have been sweating through heat waves this summer, and new research suggests they should get used to it.

Over the next century, climate change will likely make extreme heat conditions—and their concordant health risks—much more frequent in nearly every part of the U.S., according to a paper published in the journal Environmental Research Communications. By the end of the century, it says, parts of the Gulf Coast states could experience more than 120 days per year that feel like they top 100°F.

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'Everyone Would Have Left': Putting Lessons From Hurricane Michael To Work

Sat, 2019-06-08 01:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

A boat moved by Hurricane Michael rests near a canal in May in Mexico Beach, Fla. Seven months after the hurricane made landfall, the town is still littered with heavily damaged or destroyed homes and businesses. Scott Olson/Getty Images

npr.org - by Greg Allen - June 7, 2019

As another hurricane season begins, emergency managers and other officials throughout the Southeast and along the Gulf Coast are applying lessons they learned last year during Hurricane Michael. Those lessons include how they conduct evacuations . . .

. . . we're going to start seeing a lot of things change . . .

. . . Among those likely changes: how people prepare for storms, how many evacuate and how strong new construction on Florida's Panhandle will need to be to survive hurricanes like Michael.

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National Storm Surge Hazard Maps

Tue, 2019-04-30 08:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

This national depiction of storm surge flooding vulnerability helps people living in hurricane-prone coastal areas along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Hawaii, and Hispaniola to evaluate their risk to the storm surge hazard. These maps make it clear that storm surge is not just a beachfront problem, with the risk of storm surge extending many miles inland from the immediate coastline in some areas. If you discover via these maps that you live in an area vulnerable to storm surge, find out today if you live in a hurricane storm surge evacuation zone as prescribed by your local emergency management agency. If you do live in such an evacuation zone, decide today where you will go and how you will get there, if and when you're instructed by your emergency manager to evacuate. If you don't live in one of those evacuation zones, then perhaps you can identify someone you care about who does live in an evacuation zone, and you could plan in advance to be their inland evacuation destination – if you live in a structure that is safe from the wind and outside of flood-prone areas.

National Hurricane Center - National Storm Surge Hazard Maps - Version 2
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/nationalsurge/

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How Climate Change Is Fuelling the U.S. Border Crisis

Wed, 2019-04-10 10:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Outside the small village of Chicua, in the western highlands, in an area affected by extreme-weather events, Ilda Gonzales looks after her daughter.

newyorker.com - by Jonathan Blitzer - Photography by Mauricio Lima - April 3, 2019

. . . In most of the western highlands, the question is no longer whether someone will emigrate but when. “Extreme poverty may be the primary reason people leave,” Edwin Castellanos, a climate scientist at the Universidad del Valle, told me. “But climate change is intensifying all the existing factors” . . . Farming, Castellanos has said, is “a trial-and-error exercise for the modification of the conditions of sowing and harvesting times in the face of a variable environment.” Climate change is outpacing the ability of growers to adapt.

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CLICK HERE - STUDY - Recent increases in tropical cyclone intensification rates

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Atlantic Hurricanes Are Strengthening Faster, Partially Because of Climate Change, Study Finds

Fri, 2019-02-08 23:15 — Kathy Gilbeaux

A neighbor takes photographs of a boat smashed against a car garage, deposited there by the high winds and storm surge from Hurricane Florence, along the Neuse River, Sept. 15, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina. - (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

weather.com - by Sean Breslin - February 8, 2019

Hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin are exploding into monster storms at a rapid pace more and more often, and climate change is one reason why, a new study has found.

Published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications, the findings compiled by a team of hurricane experts – several of whom work for NOAA – concluded that rapid intensification is happening more often than it should.

The result can be a hurricane that grows from a relatively tame Category 1 to a massive Category 4 or 5 storm, the most recent example being Hurricane Michael, which ravaged the Florida Panhandle last October (the Gulf of Mexico is included as part of the Atlantic Basin).

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'Climate Grief': The Growing Emotional Toll of Climate Change

Wed, 2019-01-02 08:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

The Delta Fire rages in Shasta-Trinity National Forest in California on Sept. 6. Noah Berger / AP file

nbcnews.com - by Avichai Scher - December 24, 2018

. . . The increasing visibility of climate change, combined with bleak scientific reports and rising carbon dioxide emissions, is taking a toll on mental health, especially among young people, who are increasingly losing hope for their future. Experts call it “climate grief,” depression, anxiety and mourning over climate change.

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