[GWSG] 66 mya; South Pole mountains; GA climate group; SC reading; ICLEI & its 25%; floods in MD; plea for news; Miami's slr committee

[Tilley, Al]

1. The asteroid which killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago also put enough carbon into the atmosphere through fires and exposed carbonate rocks to cause a severe greenhouse heating event that lasted 100,000 years. The finding is a reminder that the carbon we are releasing today will interfere with the climate for a very long time. http://www.ibtimes.com/asteroid-killed-dinosaurs-caused-global-warming-1000-centuries-2684397

Forests and tree-dwelling birds perished along with most other dinosaurs. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524141736.htm



2. Mountain ranges and three valleys just discovered under the ice near the South Pole could speed the flow of destabilized ice to the ocean, where it would cause the sea to rise. https://phys.org/news/2018-05-subglacial-valleys-mountain-ranges-south.html



3. A group of Georgia's citizens are undertaking to ask and answer the questions, what does climate change mean for Georgia? What can we do about it? They are beginning with a list of forty questions on agriculture. Government guidance and funding have gotten scarce, so they are undertaking the project on their own. (Some have climate planning experience.) Thanks to Peggy Tilley for the item. https://www.wabe.org/georgia-group-lays-out-climate-change-questions/



4. The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, ed. Daniel Lerch (Island Press, 2017), brings together writings by twenty people skilled in the strategies of resilience. https://smile.amazon.com/Community-Resilience-Reader-Essential-Resources/dp/1610918606/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1527454849&sr=1-1&keywords=community+resilience+reader

The Sierra Club's Climate Adaptation Team is using the Reader to prepare for its task of helping the Club to "ramp up an effective campaign to work on climate change/disruption adaptation issues." Other readings are posted on their web site. https://content.sierraclub.org/grassrootsnetwork/teams/climate-change-adaptation-team-0



5. ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability now has a global network of over 1500 cities, towns, and regions, accounting for more than a quarter of the world's urban population, which it supports in planning for climate action. ICLEI will hold its 2018 World Conference in Montreal June 19-22. http://www.iclei.org/



6. Ellicott City, MD, has been hit by the second 1,000-year flood in two years after it got eight inches of rain in six hours. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/maryland-community-heartbroken-after-second-flood-in-2-years/ar-AAxTAZH?ocid=spartandhp



7. Journalism professor Elizabeth Arnold says that after covering disaster stories for years and living in the transitioning state of Alaska she has "a pretty good idea of how bad it is. What I'd like to know more about is what people are doing to counter it. I want to know how cities are meeting emissions targets in spite of the Trump administration's environmental rollbacks. I want to know that the fastest-growing job in the country is solar panel installer." http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arnold-climate-change-resilience-20180527-story.html



8. The chair of Miami's Sea Level Rise Committee warns that the federal government is likely to factor sea level rise into the National Flood Insurance Program in the next few years. He and his committee are submitting a 40-year plan to help their city manage the risks posed by climate change. http://wlrn.org/post/sea-level-rise-might-soon-raise-insurance-costs-heres-what-local-leaders-want-do-about-it ?

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