Climate Change
III. Culpability
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V. IPCC
VI. Economic Damages
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Puerto Rico, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oakland/San Francisco, Washington
VI. Economic Damages
The Forever Glaciers of America's West Aren't Forever Anymore
September 12, 2023
New York Times
Climate change is melting the ice on Mount Rainier. The environmental effects will be widespread, a Park Service study warned. Click here
Heatwaves are becoming more frequent and more deadly
August 25, 2023
EurekAlert!
Heatwaves of the kind we are currently experiencing are particularly deadly for the elderly, the sick and the poor. The 2003 heatwave, which saw temperatures in Europe reach 47.5 degrees Celsius, was one of the worst natural disasters of recent decades, claiming an estimated 45,000 to 70,000 victims in the space of a few weeks. Click here
Commercial Real Estate is in Trouble. Climate Change Is Part of the Problem
August 17, 2023
TIME
It turns out climate change may be playing a meaningful, if admittedly secondary, role further stressing the commercial real estate market. Click here
Climate projections detail future risks for many people worldwide
August 10, 2023
Phys.ORG
A recent study conducted by scientists at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI) and NASA Ames Research Center provides a thorough examination of how these extreme events will worsen as our planet's temperature creeps upwards, and where these events are more likely to clash and combine in ways that significantly impact people's lives and livelihoods. Click here
Great, Climate Change Will Even Make Food Poisoning Worse
August 10, 2023
GIZMODO
Climate change will make stomach bugs an even bigger problem, a new report has found. The study concludes that expected changes in temperature, precipitation, and humidity will make foodborne infections and toxins all the more commonat least in Germany. Click here
Threatened by wildfire smoke, West Coast cities are piloting clean-air centers
August 2, 2023
C. Thompson, The Grist
A few weeks ago, while visiting friends in San Francisco, I stopped by the Linda Brooks-Burton Branch Library in the city’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. Rather than checking out books, I was there to check out a room a nondescript space with a few tables and chairs, a hand-washing station, and two quiet but impressive MERV 13 air filters. Click here
Extreme heat has cost the global economy $16 trillion on average, research shows
August 4, 2023
Business Insider India
There's no question that the extreme heat blanketing the globe costs the economy, as dangerous conditions push workers to stay home or cut their days short and businesses temporarily close. Click here
How climate change drives hotter, more frequent heat waves.
August 3, 2023
Whats Up New
in late June 2021, a high-pressure atmospheric system settled over Seattle to create an inescapable heat dome. Jean-Paul Yafali, a resident of nearby Kent, Washington, thanked his good luck for the two secondhand air-conditioning units that a friend had given him back in 2019. He wasn’t used to this kind of stifling. Click here
Climate Change Is Making Us Sick, Says WHO Envoy
August 2, 2023
Busani Bafana, Inter Press Service
Climate change is making us sick. It has become urgent to build resilient health systems to secure humanity’s well-being, says the special envoy for climate change and health of the World Health Organization (WHO). Click here
Threatened by wildfire smoke, West Coast cities are piloting clean-air centers
August 2, 2023
C. Thompson, The Grist
A few weeks ago, while visiting friends in San Francisco, I stopped by the Linda Brooks-Burton Branch Library in the city’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. Rather than checking out books, I was there to check out a room a nondescript space with a few tables and chairs, a hand-washing station, and two quiet but impressive MERV 13 air filters. Click here
Most of the world is feeling climate change. Study finds 81% of the global population in July experienced abnormally high heat.
August 2, 2023
Hayley Smith (LA Times)
Four out of every five humans alive experienced at least one day of abnormally hot temperatures in July a global onslaught of extreme heat that would not have occurred without climate change, according to new research. Click here
The cost of climate change: 2°C global warming target is not economically reasonable unless we make major changes
August 1, 2023
EurekAlert!
Climate change goals set out in the Paris Agreement are only economically reasonable if non-market factors such as human health and loss of biodiversity are prioritized, according to a new study published by Dr. Taikan Oki, former Senior Vice-Rector of United Nations University headquartered in Japan, in IOP Publishing’s academic journal Environmental Research Letters. Click here
Heat Is Costing the U.S. Economy Billions in Lost Productivity
July 31, 2023
Coral Davenport (New York Times)
From meatpackers to home health aides, workers are struggling in sweltering temperatures and productivity is taking a hit. Click here
America’s cruel summer
July 8, 2023
Andrew Freedman, AXIOS
Record-setting heat and hazardous air have already consumed much of the U.S. this summer, and the worst may be yet to come. Driving the news: Blistering heat waves have struck all over the country; another one is now ramping up in the Southwest. Click here
This summer alone, extreme heat will cause $1 billion in U.S. healthcare costs
July 5, 2023
Fast Company
Extreme heatsummertime temperatures and humidity that exceed the historical averageis being made more frequent and intense by climate change. In the first two weeks of June, a late-spring hot spell prompted schools in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Great Lakes areas to close or send students home early. Click here
Current heatwave across US south made five times more likely by climate crisis
June 27, 2023
Climate Crisis
The record heatwave roiling parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mexico was made at least five times more likely due to human-caused climate change, scientists have found, marking the latest in a series of recent extreme “heat dome” events that have scorched various parts of the world. Click here
JPMorgan, Exxon Spurn Rigid Emissions Data as SEC Mandate Looms
June 2023
Bloomberg Law
JPMorgan, Exxon, Chevron and Goldman Sachs this year have won shareholder support to keep using greenhouse gas emissions calculations that activists say are murky and misleading, as the SEC looks to make public companies boost climate data transparency. Click here
Costs of natural disasters set to increase with continued rise in CO2 and global temperature.
April 2023
J. Mitchell. PHYS.ORG
Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability
2023
C. Callahan, J. Mankin. Dartmouth College
In 2003, Professor Myles Allen of the Oxford Martin School considered the limits of climate science and posed the question: “Will it ever be possible to sue anyone form damaging the climate?” In this paper the authors link corporate emitters to specific economic losses from warming. They show the billions in economic losses directly attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from individual fossil fuel firms…and answer YES! Click here
Sixth Oregon Climate Assessment. The Economic Implications of Climate Change for Oregon
2023
S. Dundas, S. Capalbo, and J. Sterns
In this article, the authors, including Steven Dundas (an environmental economist and professor at Oregon State University) discuss climate migration, the temporary or permanent movement of person or groups primarily in response to sudden or progressive changes in the environment due to climate change. Click here
World is on brink of catastrophic warming, U.N. climate change report says.
March 2023
S. Kaplan – Washington Post
Sarah Kaplan of the Washington Post discusses the latest release from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Click here
OCCRI’s Sixth Climate Assessment Outlines Climate Change Effects on Oregon
January 2023
Energy Info Blog
Oregon Department of Energy Analyst Amy Schlusser summarizes the key findings of the OCCRI’s sixth climate assessment. Click here
The Scientific Case for Climate Liability and Loss and Damage Claims
November 2022
C. Callahan, J. Mankin. Dartmouth College
The authors examine the causal chain from emissions to harm. The question arises immediately of how best to measure each link. There are the emissions themselves, the accounting of which is ultimately a political question. Click here
Climate and Health in Oregon 2021-2022 Report
2022
Oregon Health Authority
Annual report on the public health impacts of climate change in Oregon to the Governor, the Oregon Global Warming Commission and the Environmental Justice Council. Click here
Apportioning responsibility for heat-driven loss and damage
2022
C. Callahan, J. Mankin. Dartmouth College
Can scientists attribute the impacts of climate change to particular emitters?
2022
C. Callahan, J. Mankin. Dartmouth College
Understanding the 2021 Heat Dome Event in Multnomah County, OR: Causes, Consequences, and Future Risks
2022
A tutorial on how the 2021 heat dome affected Multnomah County, Oregon and the broader Pacific Norwest region, including how and why the event occurred and the role of climate change and fossil fuel emissions. Click here
Regional Climate and Health Monitoring Report Multnomah Clackamas Washington. 2021
2021
Multnomah County Health Department
This is the first update to the Regional Climate and Health Monitoring Report that was released in 2019. Discussed is the connection between mental health and climate change. Click here
Climate change in Oregon by the numbers, from 0.1 to 200. 2023
2021
B. Parks
After reviewing the Fifth Biennial Climate Assessment, Bradly Parks of the Oregon Public Broadcasting breaks down the possible frequency of wildfires in Oregon, how hot the temperature is getting, more precipitation with less snow, and the rising sea levels. Click here
Bill McKibben Explains Global Warming By The Numbers
April 2020
B. McKibben
It’s simple math. Stop burning fossil fuels or stop living on Earth. It’s our choice. Click here
Two new studies warn that a hotter world will be a more violent one
July 16, 2019
Washington Post
As the planet warms, experts have increasingly sounded the alarm over the potential for increased climate-driven geopolitical conflict Two new studies underscore how rising temperatures are likely to increase aggression and violent behavior at the individual level as well. They arrive at a similar conclusion using two very different data sets: crime in Los Angeles and terrorist attacks around the world. Click here
The Oil and Gas Industry in Energy Transitions
January 2020
IEA
The oil and gas industry is facing increasing demands to clarify the implications of energy transitions for their operations and business models, and to explain the contributions that they can make to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Click here
Paying for Oregon’s Future: Costs Climate Change Will Impose on Oregon’s Households. 2018
August 2018
E. Niemi. Natural Resources Economics
This report describes the potential economic costs that Oregon’s households, businesses, communities, and governments will incur in the near future. Mr. Niemi prepared this report for Natural Resource Economics and extensively from his earlier efforts to describe the costs climate change will impose on households and communities. Click here
Assessment of Columbia and Willamette River Flood Stage on the Columbia Corridor Levee System at Portland, Oregon, in a Future Climate
2018
S. Wherry, T. Wood, H. Mortiz and K. Duffy
This study provided important information for the Levee Ready Columbia project and the Columbia Corridor Levee System in the Portland, Oregon, area regarding the potential effect of a future climate on extreme but plausible floods. Click here
What Climate Change Means for Oregon.
August 2016
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
In this report, the EPA warns of the dangers of the marine and coastal ecosystems, wildfire and landscape changes, snowpacks and water availability and failing health to vulnerable people – all due to climate change. Click here
Turning up the Heat
October 1996
The Oregonian
This article reports that although there is a consensus among qualified scientists that fossil fuel emissions are warming the planet, there is a concerted effort by industry and confederates to undermine it, and they are spending millions of dollars to do so. Moreover, 100 scientists met in Seattle to discuss how global warming would likely affect Oregon. They predicted a 2F rise in temp by 2020 and a 4.5F increase by 2050. The discerned that should those temperature increases occur, Oregon would experience weather changes resulting in:
Hotter and drier summers
Increased need for cooling AC
Drought
Decreased snowpack
More wildfires burning with increased intensity
Less tree density
Temperature and Violent Crime in Dallas, Texas: Relationships and Implications of Climate Change
August 13, 2012
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
April 1979
The complex origins of violent crime have been widely documented. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), weather is one of many factors affecting its incidence. Click here
The Long Term Impact Of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide On Climate
G. MacDonald, H. Abarbanel, et al
Technical Report Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy
April 1979
If the current growth rate In the use of fossil fuels continues at 4.3% per year, then the CO concentration in the atmosphere can be expected to double by about 2035 provided the current partition of CO2 between the atmosphere, biosphere and oceans is maintained as Is the current mix of fuels. Slower rates of anticipated growth of energy use lead to a doubling of the carbon content of the atmosphere sometime in the period 2040 to 2060. Click here
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