Official #floodplain #maps, used when making important decisions about #zoning and #property #development, are #outdated and omit critical information, in particular about potential #climateimpacts. Inaccuracies and omissions from #FEMA’s dataset likely #perpetuate the under protection of high-exposure, high-vulnerability #communities

https://naacp.org/resources/turning-tide-advancing-racial-justice-federal-flood-infrastructure-projects

I like this piece by @andrewdessler on the inequality that people face in dealing with #climateImpacts.
I'm afraid I too often say things like "we can adapt" without adding the obvious caveat "but there's going to be suffering which will overwhelmingly affect already disadvantaged groups"

The Danish #ClimateAtlas isxat least an attempt to make sure everyone has the same high quality information freely available. But that doesn't mean the same capacity to act on it

https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler/110905897211896122

Back in 2016 #Wellington city councillor Jo Coughlan ran for Mayor on a platform of #FourLanesToThePlanes and faster traffic flows. She lost despite endorsement from her brother-in-law, Bill English. Voters in Wellington looked at the bigger picture, including #ClimateImpacts in that election.

Will voters in #Election2023 make similar decisions or go for #MoreRoads.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300939040/congestion--not-climate--focus-of-nationals-new-transport-policy

This post reminded me of the brilliant @lo_ise who I met today at a #QGIS workshop - we should not underestimate the importance of good #Dataviz to communicate #ClimateImpacts...

https://masto.ai/@haritulsidas/110656652234323944

@greenpeace
🙄Le compagnie fossili non possono più nascondere i loro crimini neanche all'intelligenza artificiale...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqLP3tsI6JC
#EndFossilCrimes #FossilFreeRevolution ⁣#Greenpeace #clima #crisiclimatica #cambiamentoclimatico #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #dirittumani #giustiziaclimatica #giustiziasociale #ClimateImpacts #IPCC #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #fossilfree #GPT

NSW state election is this Saturday. The current (outgoing?) Coalition government has:

- approved many new/expanded #CoalMines with catastrophic #ClimateImpacts. Their record on biodiversity is even worse: record land clearing, #koalakiller, brumbies, mass fish kills. Not to mention #WaterMismanagement (& #corruption).

- undermined #CivilLiberties to an alarming extent. Compare anti-protest laws and #NSWpolice powers now vs a decade ago.

- corruption scandals aplenty, going right to the top: all four premiers subject to credible accusations of serious misconduct. Two premiers & a deputy premier have resigned as the direct result of #ICAC investigations. Some of them have openly defended #pork-barrelling, which ICAC labels corrupt behaviour.

- privatised the electricity grid & large chunks of public transport. Overseen the creeping #privatisation of health + education, putting crucial infrastructure + services in the hands of #plutocracy, subject to the pernicious effects of the profit motive. All these areas have seen significant erosion of public well-being + satisfaction, with widespread industrial action one symptom of many.

- close ties—philosophically, personally + practically—to the federal #Coalition who finally got the boot last year.

#NSWpol

Check out this recent paper by some colleagues from our lab, where they conducted the first comprehensive assessment of a range of #climate-related #threats to the vast undersea network of #seafloor cables across the #globe and their landing stations. They analyzed how and where future #ClimateChange is likely to impact subsea cables and their shore-based #infrastructure.

Full paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825222003804

#ClimateImpacts #ClimateRisk #telecoms #risk #ocean #ClimateAdapation #RiskAssessment

RT @HebdenSophie
New research from Brazil @FutureEarth @AIMES_IPO highlighted today @UNFCCC #cop27egypt indicates that forest degradation, independent of deforestation, is driving Amazon carbon loss. We need operational forest disturbance monitoring & canopy structure mapping. #ClimateImpacts

While I enjoyed being on a general instance, this is perhaps where I'd feel more comfortable in the long run, so have moved. Here goes my (re-) #introduction

I'm an environmental social scientist, broadly working within #PoliticalEcology. I work & fit in many disciplines so can't tell where I belong but am interested in #institutions #governance #power #climateimpacts #environmentaljustice #conservation #mixedmethods #dataviz #interdisciplinarity

More here: https://maheshpoudyal.com