Brief and Rapidly Closing Window of Opportunity to Secure a Liveable and Sustainable Future
New IPCC report does not mince words
The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.
"This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction," said Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC. "It shows that climate change is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy planet. Our actions today will shape how people adapt and nature responds to increasing climate risks."
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On February 14, 2022, NOAA along with other interagency collaborators released the Sea Level Rise Technical Report providing the most up-to-date sea level rise projections available for all U.S. states and territories. The updated data offers projections out to the year 2150 and information to help communities and decision-makers assess potential changes in average tide heights and height-specific threshold frequencies as they strive to adapt to sea level rise. These new and updated projections fill in the gaps in information for some rural and underserved regions.
More details about this report, including a podcast link to a discussion on the report, can be found here.
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Last month, the Minerva Research Initiative announced that the UF project, Social & institutional determinants of vulnerability & resilience to climate hazards in the Sahel, was one of seventeen grants selected from 220 applications in this year’s competition.
The research team is comprised of an interdisciplinary group of scholars affiliated with the UF Sahel Research Group, including project P.I. Leonardo A. Villalón, Professor of African Politics and currently Dean of the International Center and Associate Provost, and co-P.Is Sarah McKune (Global & Environmental Health and African Studies) and Renata Serra (African Studies), with contributions by Gregory Kiker (Agricultural and Biologial Engineering) and Steven Radil of the US Air Force Academy.
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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $12.8 million four-year cooperative agreement to Florida International University’s Extreme Events Institute to support the design of a national full-scale testing facility capable of wind speeds of up to 200 miles per hour, combined with a water basin to simulate storm surge and wave action.
Partnering with the University of Florida and other universities, the facility is intended to become part of NSF’s Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure.
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March 8, 2022
12:00PM – 4:00PM ET
South Florida’s Social Coast Gathering
Virtual Gathering to Explore the People Side of Coastal Management
These will be spaces for participants to have deep discussions on locally relevant coastal issues, social science methods and practices, and living in coastal communities.
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You are invited to contribute a research or comprehensive review article for consideration for publication in the special issue "Sea-Level Rising - Coastal Vulnerability and Adaptation Management" of Sustainability, an international open-access journal that publishes original research articles, reviews, conference proceedings (peer-reviewed full articles) and communications.
The deadline for manuscript submissions is November 30, 2022. You can find details on the special issue, including guest editors and how to submit manuscripts, on our website.
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If you have any climate-related research, news items, or events that you would like to submit for consideration in the next newsletter, please email them to info@floridaclimateinstitute.org
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Pokrzywinski, K. L., Bishop, W. M., Grasso, C. R., Fernando, B. M., Sperry, B. P., Berthold, D. E., et al. (2021). Evaluation of a Peroxide-Based Algaecide for Cyanobacteria Control: A Mesocosm Trial in Lake Okeechobee, FL, USA. Water, 14(2).
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