Climate Changer

The Climate Is Changing, Deal With It

A Different View of Climate Change and Renewable Energy

Debating the Causes Of Climate Change

California Assesses The Climate Change Vulnerabilities of its State Highway System

Hydropower, Environmental Groups to Collaborate on Climate Change, River Issues

American Cities Climate Challenge Names Five Final Winners of National Competition

Connect the Dots for Climate Action

At the Crossroads of Civil Engineering and Climate Change

The New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Climate, By Bruce King. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2017

Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment, By Harold L. Platt, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018

Hydrocarbon Nation: How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us, By Thor Hogan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018

Blue Dunes: Climate Change by Design, Edited by Jesse M. Keenan and Claire Weisz. New York City: Columbia University Press, 2017.

Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change, By Seamus McGraw. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2015

Introduction
The purpose of this white paper is to: foster understanding and transparency of analytical methods necessary to update and describe climate, including possible changes in the frequency...

Review of Climate Science for Engineering Practice
Weather and climate are a factor in civil engineering design and practice. Weather is defined as the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure,...

Incorporating Climate Science into Engineering Practice
This section provides a review of engineering practices and discusses how engineers canconsider climate change in their practice, given the uncertainty of the future....

Civil Engineering Sectors
This section reviews the challenges for engineering practice posed by climate variability for the following traditional infrastructure sectors and special themes....

Research, Development, and Demonstration Needs
Research, development and demonstration (RDD) is needed to advance recommended civil engineering practices and standards in order to effectively address climate change impacts. Wilbanks...

Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, By Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2015

 

 

 

 

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