Today in climate change (11 July 2016)

Please find links below to some aspects of climate change and extreme weather that were in the news today…

Why the Earth’s past has scientists so worried about sea level rise https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/07/09/why-the-earths-past-has-scientists-so-worried-about-sea-level-rise/?postshare=7481468187471127&tid=ss_tw-bottom

Marshall Islanders Set To Become Climate Refugees Before International Law Can Catch Up http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marshall-islands-climate-refugees_us_577e7996e4b01edea78cc4bc?utm_hp_ref=climate-change

Southwest USA Extreme Heat June 2016 http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/southwest-us-extreme-heat-june-2016#/.V4FdAPhe-HQ.twitter

Double Shock of El Niño, La Niña Could Affect 100 Million http://www.climatecentral.org/news/el-nino-la-nina-affect-100-million-people-20506

Threatened by climate change, Mozambique’s Beira bets on urban renewal http://news.trust.org/item/20160708105817-a0kuz/

A new first-of-a-kind study works out how many of the deaths in Paris and London are down to the heatwave being intensified by human-caused climate change https://www.carbonbrief.org/study-links-heatwave-deaths-london-paris-climate-change?utm_content=buffer51e56&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

How a single word sparked a four-year saga of climate fact-checking and blog backlash https://theconversation.com/how-a-single-word-sparked-a-four-year-saga-of-climate-fact-checking-and-blog-backlash-62174

The recent temperatures experienced over the past three decades in Australia, New Zealand and surrounding oceans are warmer than any other 30-year period over the past 1,000 years http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00781.1

Should the US help this island from oblivion? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/should-the-united-states-save-tangier-island-from-oblivion.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

Closing the Pacific Rainfall Data Void https://eos.org/project-updates/closing-the-pacific-rainfall-data-void

In NC, dangerous delays and delusions on sea-level rise http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article88567407.html?platform=hootsuite

Coastal Cities, Critical Infrastructure Unprepared to Face the Rising Tides of Climate Change https://robertscribbler.com/2016/07/08/coastal-cities-critical-infrastructure-unprepared-to-face-the-rising-tides-of-climate-change/

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I am a Principal at Water Technology Pty Ltd, an Australian-based coastal, environment and natural hazards company - see https://www.watertech.com.au/. I specialise in the community aspects of disaster risk reduction and emergency management. Samples of my research and projects can be accessed at https://works.bepress.com/neil_dufty/ Check out my latest book 'Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement' at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119569796/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6 I am also a published fiction writer specialising in short stories and poems - see https://neilduftyfiction.com/

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