by Judith Curry
Ahmedabad’s Heat Action Plan offers a proven track record and model to protect their residents from heat waves. My Georgia Tech/CFAN colleagues Violeta Toma, Peter Webster and Mark Jelinek are enabling this Plan with a pioneering heat wave forecast product to help the Ahmedabad Municipal Council determine when to implement a heat alert.
by Judith Curry
Some interesting thrivability ideas for the world’s deserts.
For context, my interest in transformational ideas emerging from adversity (anti fragility) to support regional thrivability are described in these posts:
by Judith Curry
I have just returned from my engagement at the National Press Club, sponsored by the Marshall Institute Roundtable.
The talk was recorded, it should be available online in a few days.
UPDATE: video now available [here]
The pdf for my talk is here marshall. Much of the material from my talk comes from my recent congressional testimony:
by Judith Curry
If we really want to help globally, there is clear evidence that most can be accomplished through effective support at a community level for locally-designed and implemented adaptation measures in Africa and poor Asian countries where the real vulnerability exists, not nugatory mitigation that helps no one. – W. David Montgomery
by Judith Curry This post discusses Workshop presentations on the utility of climate models for regional adaptation decisions. This post is a follow-on to the two previous posts: UK-US Workshop on Climate Science to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions UK-US Workshop … Continue reading →
by Judith Curry This post discusses Workshop presentations on methodologies and application examples of decision analytical strategies to support robust decision making on climate adaptation. This post is a follow-on to the two previous posts: UK-US Workshop on Climate Science … Continue reading →
by Judith Curry Perspectives on climate change adaptation from Coca Cola, SwissRe, and Acclimatise. In Part I UK-US Workshop on Climate Science Needed to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions, we considered presentations from the ‘demand’ side, presenting perspectives from the UNFCCC, … Continue reading →
by Judith Curry Last week, I was privileged to host the UK-US Workshop on Climate Science Needed to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions. The website for the Workshop is [here]. The Workshop was held in Atlanta on the Georgia Tech campus … Continue reading →
