SRCCON - Interactives and Climate Change Resources

SRCCON-climate.md

Interactives and Climate Change

Meta

• This doc: http://bit.ly/srccon-climate
• Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/srccon-climate

Me

• Brian T. Jacobs (@btjakes), Knight Mozilla Fellow, ProPublica

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Reading

Comprehensive Reports

• 2014 National Climate Assessment
• IPCC Assessment
• State of the Climate 2013
  • Visual Highlights
• Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change
• What We Know - AAAS
• Climate and national security
• Reducing Coastal Risks on the East and Gulf Coasts
• Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California

Climate change communication

• Communication as journalists and scientists (Metcalf Institute)
• Psychology of Climate Change (CRED, Columbia Univeristy)

Media/Political Studies

• Who Speaks for the Climate (Max Boykoff)
• Politics and the Environment (Robert Brulle)

Cultural Studies

• Climate Change in the American Mind

Denialism

• Dealing in Doubt (Greenpeace report)
• Institutionalizing Delay (Robert Brulle, Drexel)

Data Sources

• RealClimate (list gets updated)

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Task

Rules

• Take these random scenarios
• Come up wiht an idea for an app, visualization, graphic, datasets, or adapt things that already exist
• Try to keep the scope limited to the scenario. If the scenario doesnt make sense, narrow the scope or talk through it until you find one that does, but dont broaden the scope.
• How can you get outsiders (people across the country, globe, different background, rural/urban, etc) to personally relate to the subject?

Timing

• 20-30 mins talk
• 2 mins presentation each

Group Topics

Group 1 - 2,2,6,3

Demographic impact of disaster stemming from coastal flooding in urban indonesia

Group 2 - 4,1,2,2

Infrastructure for adaptation to thermohaline circulation changes in municipal government

Group 3 - 7,1,8,6

Economics of mitigation of wildfires in Western USA from an ecosystem persepctive

Group 4 - 13,3,3,1

History of adaptation to extreme weather in rural cultures

Group 5 - 9,1,1,5

Aquaculture and the mitigation of ocean acidification in the pacific northwest from a local industry perspective

Group 6 - 1,3,8,9

Psychology of adaptation to extreme heat in Mexico from an urban perspective

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Topics

Domains

1. Psychology (how do people process threatening information, how do they make decisions about it? how do we get people to care)
2. Demographics - populations at risk geographically
3. Socioeconomics - rich/poor differences
4. Engineering / Infrastructure
5. Clean energy industry
6. Fossil fuel industry
7. Economics (to guide energy policy, or resulting from disaster)
8. Public health
9. Media studies
10. Science communication
11. Urban planning / Public Works
12. Ecology - local habitats
13. History (previous climate disasters)
    • http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/opinion/climate-change-doomed-the-ancients.html
14. Geographic risk and insurance
15. Agriculture / Aquaculture
16. Politics

Facets

1. Mitigation - pathways to prevention
2. Disaster - including emergency management
3. Adaptation - after disasters

Phenomena

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming

1. Ocean acidification - Northwest USA
2. Thermohaline circulation changes - Eastern Europe
3. Extreme weather (Hurricanes, Typhoons) - Phillipines
4. Changing organism population - more mosquitos, loss of coral reefs etc. - Vietnam
5. Inland flooding - Northeast usa
6. Coastal flooding - Indonesia
7. Drought - Southern Africa
8. Wildfires - Western USA
9. Extreme heat - Mexico

Perpsective

1. Rural
2. Municipal government
3. Urban
4. Animal habitat/population
5. Local industry
6. Local ecosystem