| ID | 132475 |
| Title Proper | Real and present danger |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Mazo, Jeffrey |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The latest US assessments drive home the fact that dangerous climate change is not just a future risk. It is already here.
In parts of southern Florida, residents are seeing their streets flood at high tide as decades-old coastal defences fail to cope with sea-level rise. In Alaska, thawing permafrost is causing more than $10 million per year in damage to roads, runways and other infrastructure. The amount of precipitation in the northeast has increased by 8% since 1991 compared to the long-term average, but the amount falling in extremely heavy rainstorms or blizzards has risen by 71%. Nationally, river flooding has remained constant, but it has increased dramatically in the northeast and Midwest and fallen in the southeast and southwest. Nearly 20% of Arizona and New Mexico's forest land suffered heavy damage from wildfires and pest outbreaks due to warming and drought between 1984 and 2008. Insurance against climate-related disasters is becoming increasingly expensive in some places, and unavailable in others. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol.56, No.4; August-September 2014: p.175-184 |
| Journal Source | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol.56, No.4; August-September 2014: p.175-184 |
| Key Words | Sea-Level Rise ; Environment Security ; Coastal Security ; Climate-Related Disasters ; Climate Change ; United States - US ; Survival ; US National Climate Assessment - USNCA ; UN Framework ; International Community ; US National Security ; Rio Summit - 1990 ; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC ; Global Warming |