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Liz Payton Aug 4, 2023

Western Water Assessment Aug 4, 2023

After a record winter #snowpack at many locations in eastern Utah and western Colorado, hot and dry conditions have caused the emergence of #drought. July was the driest on record for a large area of southwestern Colorado and southern Utah. Learn more: https://wwa.colorado.edu/resources/intermountain-west-climate-dashboard#latest-briefing

Intermountain West Climate Dashboard | Western Water Assessment

Western Water Assessment needs your help improving the Intermountain West Climate Dashboard! Please share your input in this short, anonymous survey which should take less than 5 minutes to complete.Take our surveyThe Intermountain West Climate Dashboard provides situational awareness of climate, drought, and water resources for Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.Click the question mark icon above each graphic to see the description of that graphic.Weekly or monthly summaries of evolving climate, drought, and water conditions for the Intermountain West are also available from these providers: - Colorado Climate Center/NIDIS Intermountain West Drought Status Briefings - NOAA CBRFC Water Supply Briefings for the Colorado River Basin and Great Basin - monthly, January through May - NRCS Water Supply Outlook Reports for Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming - monthly, January through May/JuneView the latest briefing

Liz Payton Aug 1, 2023

Western Water Assessment Jul 31, 2023

On this day in 1976, the most deadly natural disaster in CO history occurred. A massive thunderstorm dropped up to 12" of rain in 6 hours in Big Thompson Canyon, causing extreme #flashflooding and killing 144 people. https://wwa.colorado.edu/resources/high-impact-weather-and-climate-events

📸 Steve Larson, The Denver Post.

High-Impact Weather and Climate Events | Western Water Assessment

High-impact events cause the majority of societal costs related to weather and climate. They provoke societal responses that can either enhance or detract from long-term adaptation to climate risk. In 2015, WWA began a new research focus on extremes that is designed to place high-impact events in the context of historical climate variability and projected climate change, assess how the risk of these events varies over time and space, and examine how high-impact events interact with place-based vulnerability. The first activities in this new research theme have been to build a database of 160+ historical high-impact weather and climate events in the three-state region, and to generate a complementary set of regional event maps showing how risk varies seasonally across the region for different types of weather and climate events. All CPI-Adjusted Damage costs are 2022 values, calculated from: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/. CPI-Adjusted Damage costs are unavailable before the year 1913. Note: The High-Impact Events Database is currently being updated with more features. Stay tuned.

Liz Payton Jul 3, 2023

Bethany Black Jul 3, 2023

For hundreds of years philosophers and artists have asked “what is it to be human?”

And about 10 years ago tech bros discovered that it’s actually our ability to tell which pictures contain bridges.

Liz Payton Jun 25, 2023

Brian Bilston Jun 25, 2023

Trying to write but it’s noteasy.

Liz Payton Jun 8, 2023

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CelloMom On Cars Jun 7, 2023

Here's @bloombergbusiness connecting the dots right in the headline

"Not long ago, #Canada was seen by some as a potential winner from #GlobalWarming, with vast stretches of frozen tundra thawing into fertile #farmland. Now it’s on fire. Cranking up the heat in a system as complex as a planetary #climate has complex effects, it turns out.

And the notion that some people can be sheltered indefinitely from those effects is just as silly."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-06-06/new-york-city-s-new-climate-hazard-is-wildfire-smoke

New York City’s New Climate Hazard Is Wildfire Smoke

It’s the latest reminder that the effects of rising temperatures will be universally felt.

Bloomberg

Liz Payton Jun 7, 2023

Western Water Assessment Jun 7, 2023

A slow-moving storm system that combined elements of both winter and summer #weather patterns brought ten days of #rain to the Front Range and Eastern Plains of Colorado. From May 10-19, two to nine inches of rain fell in CO east of the Continental Divide.
Learn more in our May #climate briefing: https://wwa.colorado.edu/resources/intermountain-west-climate-dashboard#latest-briefing

Intermountain West Climate Dashboard | Western Water Assessment

Western Water Assessment needs your help improving the Intermountain West Climate Dashboard! Please share your input in this short, anonymous survey which should take less than 5 minutes to complete.Take our surveyThe Intermountain West Climate Dashboard provides situational awareness of climate, drought, and water resources for Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.Click the question mark icon above each graphic to see the description of that graphic.Weekly or monthly summaries of evolving climate, drought, and water conditions for the Intermountain West are also available from these providers: - Colorado Climate Center/NIDIS Intermountain West Drought Status Briefings - NOAA CBRFC Water Supply Briefings for the Colorado River Basin and Great Basin - monthly, January through May - NRCS Water Supply Outlook Reports for Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming - monthly, January through May/JuneView the latest briefing

Liz Payton May 28, 2023

Peter Gleick May 28, 2023

Climate change and extreme events are explicitly mentioned as a reason insurance companies are withdrawing from markets with skyrocketing risks.
Do you still deny #climate change, or don't want to act to address it?
The market is coming for you.

#climatechange

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-27/state-farm-is-no-longer-accepting-property-insurance-applications-in-california?s=09

State Farm not accepting property insurance applications

The company blames 'increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure and a challenging reinsurance market.'

Los Angeles Times

Liz Payton May 27, 2023

Bread and Circuses May 26, 2023

Yesterday, 25 May 2023 — For only the third time in recorded history, we had the highest average world air temperature, the lowest global sea ice extent, and the highest average ocean temperature, all on the same day.

And this is just the beginning of the dubious and destructive record-setting events we will see in the months and years ahead.

Continue to work and hope for the best, but definitely *prepare* for the worst.

#Ocean #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Liz Payton May 23, 2023

Western Water Assessment May 19, 2023

Thank you @CIRESnews for the Outstanding Performance Awards! We are honored. Huge shoutout to the We Are Water team led by CIRES E&O and all of our colleagues there who won awards alongside us! It has been and continues to be a wonderful project to be a part of.

Liz Payton May 23, 2023

Western Water Assessment May 23, 2023

Fangfang Yao, WWA Director Ben Livneh, and Balaji Rajagopalan from @CIRESnews and CU Boulder find that more than 50% of the world’s largest freshwater lakes are in decline, storing less #water than they did three decades ago.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo2812