Jun
9
Comments Sought on ‘National Action Plan: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources in a Changing Climate’
June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
Dr. Matt Larsen, USGS Associate Director for Climate and Land Use Change, recently posted a comment on a WaterWired post in which he announced CEQ’s 2 June 2011 release of the draft report, National Action Plan: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources in a Changing Climate. Here is the press release. Larsen also mentioned that CEQ [...]
Dec
19
PNAS Special Feature: Eight Papers on ‘Climate Change and Water in Southwestern North America’
December 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The current issue of PNAS features eight papers covering Climate Change and Water in Southwestern North America. The articles are freely downloadable; I’ve listed them below with links to their PDFs. Water, climate change and sustainability and the Southwest, Glen M. MacDonald Reclaiming freshwater sustainability in the Cadillac Desert, John L. Sabo, Tushar Sinha, Laura [...]
Nov
8
Groundwater and Sea Level Rise: Avoiding The Water Budget Myth Trap
November 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
A few months ago I posted about two papers dealing with global groundwater depletion that had been published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters: Paolo D’Odorico, Francesco Laio, and Luca Ridolfi (2010). Does globalization of water reduce societal resilience to drought? Geophysical Research Letters, 37: DOI 10.1029/2010GL043167 Marc.F.P. Bierkens et al (2010). A worldwide view [...]
Aug
8
Wally’s Warming World Warning
August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Time for a shout-out to a remarkable scientist (thanks to columbiawater for alerting me to this). Thirty-five years ago, on this date in 1975, renowned geoscientist Wallace (Wally) Broecker published a seminal paper in Science titled,“Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?“. To say that Broecker was prescient is an understatement. Here is the abstract: If [...]
Aug
2
The Western Governors’ Association and the Western States Water Council will sponsor a two-day workshop in DC, 14-15 September 2010, on: Drought, Climate and Water: Using Today’s Information and Designing Tomorrow’s Services. Here is a copy of the flyer: Download Western States Water Council Conf Info PURPOSE: To bring together a diverse group of federal, tribal, [...]
Jul
26
Report: Evaluating Sustainability of Water Demands in 2050 Under Climate Change
July 26, 2010 | 3 Comments
Tetra Tech and the Natural Resources Defense Council have just released the report, Evaluating Sustainability of Projected Water Demands under Future Climate Change Scenarios. From the WWW site: Climate change will impact water supplies, exacerbating existing pressures on water resources caused by population and economic growth. Given the combination of these stressors, the sustainability of [...]
May
8
A group of National Academy of Sciences members, led by Peter H. Gleick, submitted a Letter to the editor of Science [7 May 2010] on the issue of climate change and the integrity of science. Download Climate_statement We are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation of political assaults on scientists in general and on climate scientists in particular. [...]
Mar
16
Whom To Believe: Climate-Change Deniers or World’s Scientific Societies?
March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Dr. Peter Gleick’s recent post is a wonderful summary of some of the climate-change position statements of some of the world’s most prestigious scientific societies: AGU, GSA, AAAS, ESA, ACS, EPS, IUGG, APS, et al. He also includes positions of the national science academies of the G8 + 5 nations. And, as he says, don’t [...]
Jun
19
Santa Clara Valley Water District’s Climate Change Portal
June 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
Bob Teeter, the librarian at the SCV Water District, just sent this information to me. The Santa Clara Valley Water District has a new Climate Change Portal page where interested users can follow the latest reports on climate change. We think it will be particularly useful for those in the water industry on the West [...]
May
29
Western Water: Words of Wisdom
May 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Two days ago I finally met Sarah Bates, who is one of the best thinkers and writers on Western USA water and land issues. I have known of Sarah’s work for almost 20 years, ever since she collaborated with the late Marc Reisner to produce Overtapped Oasis: Reform or Revolution for Western Water, the ‘sequel’ [...]
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