From the Wash. Post on 9/18 this article: Deniers club: Meet the people clouding the climate change debate. They’ve stalled action with a campaign of deliberate misinformation.
Deniers of Climate Change – text and pictures
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Article on Trust During Recovery
NOTE: The Diva considers this a significant article.
Trust deficit: Japanese communities and the challenge of rebuilding Tohoku, by Daniel P Aldrich , Northeastern University. Forthcoming in Japan Forum (2017)
Thanks to the author for sending the link to this pre-publication version.
The Diva found the article quite interesting, as did fellow blogger Eric Holdeman. See also the comment from Jerry Quinn in the section below.
One View of Flood Insurance
From the Village Voice (NYC), FEMA’s Flood Maps Protect Banks and Mortgages; People, Not So Much
Case Study on Reducing Flood Losses
Reducing Losses through Higher Regulatory Standards; 2013 Colorado Floods Case Study. FEMA-DR-4145-CO ;145 pp, March 2016.
Thanks to Ed Thomas of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association for the citation.
LA Flood Costs Estimated at $15B, Mostly Uninsured
Louisiana Flood of 2016 seen costing up to $15 billion, mostly uninsured
The flooding that damaged as many as 110,000 homes and more than 100,000 vehicles in Louisiana last month cost $10 billion to $15 billion, with most of the sum uninsured, according to a risk modeler.
Private residential policies don’t protect against flooding in the U.S., and at least 80 percent of the damaged homes lacked coverage through a government program, according to a report Friday from Impact Forecasting, an arm of insurance broker Aon.
Extensive Resource Guide on Resilience
A significant contribution to the topic by a team of authors from many countries. See: IRGC Resource Guide on Resilience
The resource guide available on this page is a collection of authored pieces that review existing concepts, approaches and illustrations or case-studies for comparing, contrasting and integrating risk and resilience, and for developing resilience. Most papers focus also on the idea of measuring resilience. Although this idea may not sound right to some, there are on-going efforts for evaluating resilience, developing resilience indicators, and measuring the effectiveness of actions taken to build resilience. These efforts are worth considering because indicators and metrics for resilience are needed to trigger interest and investment from decision-makers.
This guide is designed to help scientists and practitioners working on risk governance and resilience evaluation. It stresses the importance of including resilience building in the process of governing risk, including in research, policy, strategies, and practices. It emphasises the need to develop metrics and quantitative approaches for resilience assessment and instruments for resilience management.
Some Health Resources
From the National Institutes of Health: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (archived site).
Flooding Expected in NYC Due to Climate Change
This is not the first, but just the latest on this topic. See: Flooding in NYC Due to Climate Change. Even locals who believe climate change is real have a hard time grasping that their city will almost certainly be flooded beyond recognition.
Here is another article on the same topic: By 2050, storms like Hurricane Sandy could flood nearly a quarter of New York City
More Lessons Learned Since 911
Personal Effects of Climate Change
Climate Change Isn’t Just Making Us Hot: We’re Angrier and More Violent. More crime, more death—even more bad math grades. And economies will continue to slow.
It doesn’t take a PhD to see that climate affects our lives. Anyone who lives far enough from the equator can tell just by opening the closet.
It takes a lot of scientists, however, to reveal how climate affects us—particularly as our climate changes. Sure, there’s prolonged heat and drought in some places, persistent floods and storms in others—all the ways we’ve learned to see global warming (though some still reject the science). But an exhaustive review of almost 200 different studies reveals not only the extent of those predictable changes but also how we humans are reacting to climatic wallops. The results are troubling.
Recovery Diva 