IPCC 6th Assessment Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first of three installments of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The first installment is from Working Group I (WG1) and it discusses the physical science of climate change. Reports from Working Groups II (Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability) and III (Mitigation of climate change) will follow in 2022.
Part I of the new IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, The Physical Science Basis, updates the current scientific understanding of climate change, indicating that the impacts of climate change are largely happening the way scientists have expected. This report emphasizes the increasing confidence that scientists have that human activities increased CO2 concentrations and warmed and continue to warm our planet.
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FCI Laying Groundwork for 'Getting to Neutral' in the State
States across the US are undertaking the work to understand what it will take to get to carbon neutral. These efforts support Biden’s plan of 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net-zero emissions economy-wide by 2050. The US Energy Information Administration reports that in 2017 Florida was the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide ( www.eia.gov). To support this goal, the Florida Climate Institute (FCI) is undertaking work to develop a state-wide greenhouse gas inventory and initiate net-zero action planning. Led by Florida International University and University of South Florida, university faculty and students from across the FCI, and stakeholders from across the State, are contributing expertise and research support in greenhouse gas inventory sectors of energy, industrial processes and product use, agriculture, land use, land-use change and forestry, including wetlands, and waste; Florida economic trends; and negative emissions technologies (e.g., direct air capture, geological sequestration, BECCS, agricultural soils, blue carbon).
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Climate Change May Increase Winter Mosquitoes
In temperate climates, mosquitoes are generally inactive during the winter because temperatures are too cold, but as climate change makes winters shorter and warmer, scientists want to know how these shifts might affect mosquito activity. A new UF study shows that mosquitoes can adjust to rapid changes in temperature, indicating that mosquitoes normally dormant during winter may become active year-round due to climate change.
The study’s authors conducted experiments with mosquitoes collected in and around Gainesville, a North Central Florida city on the dividing line between subtropical and temperate climates. The researchers say that insights from this study can help communities better prepare for the impacts of climate change as they relate to mosquitoes, which spread diseases that affect humans and animals.
You can read more on this study on Samantha Murray's UF/IFAS blog post here. |
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The Florida Water & Climate Alliance is hosting a webinar on “Climate Change Impacts on Wastewater & Stormwater Management” on Sept. 20, 11:00am – 1:00pm.
The webinar will feature presentations on risk and vulnerability assessments of wastewater systems to sea level rise, risk-based decision making for total maximum daily loads, and future rainfall modeling based on downscaled climate model data – all with a Florida focus.
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Bianchi, T. S., Aller, R. C., Atwood, T. B., Brown, C. J., Buatois, L. A., Levin, L. A., et al. (2021). What global biogeochemical consequences will marine animalsediment interactions have during climate change? Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 9(1).
Dokoohaki, H., Kivi, M. S., Martinez-Feria, R., Miguez, F. E., & Hoogenboom, G. (2021). A comprehensive uncertainty quantification of large-scale process-based crop modeling frameworks. Environ. Res. Lett., 16(8).
Jones, N. P., Kabay, L., Semon Lunz, K., & Gilliam, D.S. (2021). Temperature stress and disease drives the extirpation of the threatened pillar coral, Dendrogyra cylindrus, in southeast Florida. Sci Rep, 11.
Long, X., Widlansky, M. J., Spillman, C. M., Kumar, A., Balmaseda, M., Thompson, P. R., et al. (2021). Seasonal Forecasting Skill of SeaLevel Anomalies in a MultiModel Prediction Framework. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 126(6).
Page, H. N., Hewett, C., Tompkins, H., & Hall, E. R. (2021). Ocean Acidification and Direct Interactions Affect Coral, Macroalga, and Sponge Growth in the Florida Keys. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 9(7).
Ray, P., Zhou, X., Tan, H., Dudhia, J., & Moncrieff, M. W. (2021). Improved Simulation of Midlatitude Climate in a New Channel Model Compared to Contemporary Global Climate Models. Geophys Res Lett, 48(11).
Smart, L. S., Vukomanovic, J., Taillie, P. J., Singh, K. K., & Smith, J. W. (2021). Quantifying Drivers of Coastal Forest Carbon Decline Highlights Opportunities for Targeted Human Interventions. Land, 7(2).
Sridharan, V. K., Quinn, N. W. T., Kumar, S., McCutcheon, S. C., Ahmadisharaf, E., Fang, X., et al. (2021). Selecting Reliable Models for Total Maximum Daily Load Development: Holistic Protocol. J. Hydrol. Eng., 26(10).
Thompson, P. R., Widlansky, M. J., Hamlington, B. D., Merrifield, M. A., Marra, J. J., Mitchum, G. T., et al. (2021). Rapid increases and extreme months in projections of United States high-tide flooding. Nat. Clim. Chang., 11, 584–590.
Toth, L. T., Precht, W. F., Modys, A. B., Stathakopoulos, A., Robbart, M. L., Hudson, J. H., et al. (2021). Climate and the latitudinal limits of subtropical reef development. Sci Rep, 11(133044).
Vitek, N. S., Morse, P. E., Boyer, D. M., Strait, S. G., & Bloch, J. I. (2021). Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the PaleoceneEocene thermal maximum. Paleobiology, 47(3), 464–486.
Zhang, X., Bianchi, T. S., Hanna, A. J. M., Shields, M. R., Izon, G., Hutchings, J. A., et al. (2021). Recent Warming Fuels Increased Organic Carbon Export From Arctic Permafrost. AGU Advances, 2(2).
Zhao, X., Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Farfan, L. M., Briceno, H., Castaneda-Moya, E., Travieso, R., et al. (2021). Tropical cyclones cumulatively control regional carbon fluxes in Everglades mangrove wetlands (Florida, USA). Sci Rep, 11(13927). |
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