Climate Risk – Time to Hop to It.
Is how we think a barrier to climate action? This post provides some stratgies for the climate change practioner to get decision makers attention regarding climate risk.
Deanna
The Better News is a Vision of a Very Low Emissions Pathway
As discussed in the Climate Diagnosis and Bad News post, climate impacts are already occurring. Strong climate adaptation measures are needed to minimize harm from locked-in climate change and the impacts of increasing emissions (IPCC, 2022, p. 13). In addition, reducing or mitigating greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible is imperative to avoid worsening …
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Unprecedented Extremes
The word unprecedented caught my attention when reading the Summary of Policy Makers, where it appears twelve times (IPCC, 2021). In Chapter 11, unprecedented is paired with extremes to convey human-induced climate impacts and the breadth and magnitude of the extremes to be expected from the impacts. Unprecedented extremes are “events not experienced in the …
Climate Change Communication Content Analysis of a CBC Article
A CBC article was selected to analyze its use of climate change communication evidence-based techniques. Communicating about climate change has been a complex enterprise for climate scientists as simply providing increasingly alarming information has not generated sufficient action to mitigate the damage done. What climate change communication research has found is there are evidence-based techniques …
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Critical Reflection on Climate Communication
Climate change is a complex, pervasive and unprecedented challenge facing all living beings and ecosystems (IPCC, 2022). During MACAL 502 Climate Communications course, I have found that communicating about climate change is as challenging as achieving emissions reduction targets and attaining the necessary adaptation of mindsets, society, and infrastructure. At the very least, I have …
Imagining my Green Neighbourhood Twenty Years From Now
Today, June 21, 2042, it has been ten years since my household achieved net zero carbon emissions. Even better, many of my neighbours have done the same thing or are close to doing so. Impressively, that is eight years before Canada will achieve the same target. I say “will” because the federal and provincial governments …
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Cals 502 Assignment 4 Climate Content Using Images
Overview The forward-looking narrative Imaging my Green Neighbourhood Twenty Years From Now (Fourt, 2022) envisioned what changes might occur and the health and well-being benefits that might be derived if recent government climate actions are implemented and acted on. The recently approved (July 4, 2022) City of Nanaimo Plan intended to guide the city’s development …
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Nanaimo Citizens Climate Action Story Gallery
Welcome to the Nanaimo Citizens Climate Action Story Gallery. Here is a place to tell real stories about real people taking climate action. The climate is changing, and the choices we make in our lives have impacts on the environment. Those choices can also affect how much the climate will continue to change and how …