Climate & Sea-Level Update: Digital Dispatches from a World on the Edge

[from the Online Course:]  CLIMATE CHANGE & TRANSITION STUDIES: 

Boston Harbor and surrounding area from the air

Why Transition Studies? 

Starting locally:

• Climate Change Impacts and Projections for the Greater Boston Area – Ellen Douglas, PhD, Paul Kirshen, PhD, June 2022
• More heatwaves, rising seas, and intensifying storms will pummel the Boston area, new report finds June 2022
• Boston could see a rash of flooding in the coming years from climate change – The Boston Globe | Climate Change
• Boston Climate & Sea-Level Update – January 2019
• Boston Climate & Sea-Level Update – October 2018
• Boston Climate & Sea-Level Update – September 2018

and:

• Boston could see a rash of flooding in the coming years from climate change – The Boston Globe
• How Climate Change Could Drown New York City | Vanity Fair
• Are You “Climate Ready” Boston? (& New York? Philadelphia? Baltimore? Washington?…+ London? Hong Kong? Lagos? Cairo?, …etc?)
• Living on the Edge in a Climate Changed World: Anticipating Extreme Weather, Tsunamis and Sea-Level Rise | EV & N 287 | CCTV
• Climate & Sea-Level Update: Digital Dispatches from a World on the Edge | EV & N 290 | CCTV
• Coastal Cambridge | Harvard Political Review
  and
• Designing Climate Resilience
  

The related larger context:

• Sinking Cities | Official Preview | PBS
• Sinking Cities | Tokyo | Preview | PBS
• Sinking Cities | London | Preview | PBS
• Sinking Cities | Miami | Preview | PBS
  and
• Sinking Cities: Peril & Promise – The Challenge of Climate Change (A Four-Part Series on the Threat of Climate Change)
  • Full length PBS video – New York – w/ intro PBS self-promotion
  • Full length PBS video – Tokyo – w/ intro PBS self-promotion
  • Full length PBS video – London – w/ intro PBS self-promotion
  • Full length PBS video – Miami – w/ intro PBS self-promotion

The PBS series “Sinking Cities: Peril & Promise – The Challenge of Climate Change (A Four-Part Series on the Threat of Climate Change)” finished its final week of broadcast on PBS on Wednesday, 21 November 2018.  Two days later, on Friday, 23 November the United States government released its most dire warning in Volume 2 of the Forth National Climate Assessment report.  See:

• Fourth National Climate Assessment – Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States

See related 29 October 2019 report:

• New Data Reveal 3x More Risk from Rising Seas
• Flooded Future: Global vulnerability to sea level rise worse than previously understood | Climate Central
• New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding

as well as:

• Trump says he’s “not happy” about GM cuts, doesn’t believe climate report
• The relationship between climate change and the economy
• The Club of Rome launches Climate Emergency Plan • Club of Rome
• The Club Of Rome Climate Emergency Plan
• “Criminally Insane”: Chomsky on Trump | Climate Denial Crock of the Week
• U.N. releases gloomy report on global warming
• Scientists warn of imminent climate catastrophe without massive changes
• Climate & Sea-Level Update: Digital Dispatches from a World on the Edge
• Donald Trump’s Climate Change Tweet Lambasted by Scientists: ‘He’s a Dangerous Clown’
• President Trump’s failure to fight climate change is a crime against humanity (Opinion) – CNN
• Noam Chomsky: The Future of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Thanks to GOP’ s Climate Change Denial
• Carl Sagan: It’s Called Denial (1990)