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October 17, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: Hurricanes and History

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative The 2024 hurricane has been an unusual one. Predicted in the spring to be highly active with large numbers of large storms, there was an unexpected lull mid-August to mid-September, and then a roar back to life with Hurricane Helene, Hurricane...

October 15, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: Because Heritage Isn’t Remotely Plain Vanilla

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Flavor, memory, and words are all connected here. The tropics where vanilla beans are warming and being hit by stronger and longer-lasting cyclones, which is making their cultivation more difficult. And the forests that host the vanilla-bearing orchids are being cut...

October 10, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: Climate, Heritage, and Human Rights

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Is protection from climate change a human right? The International Court of Justice taking up the issue of climate change and questions of whether and how countries might be held accountable for not taking sufficient action to protect citizens from climate...

October 8, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: Ongoing Challenges of Relevance in Climate Education

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative At the university level, attention to climate change as a field of study is increasing. As reported in this piece by InsideClimate News, some universities (such Arizona State University and University of California, San Diego) will be requiring students to take...

October 3, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: Heritage in the New U.S. National Nature Assessment – Opportunity for Review of Outline

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative A new U.S. environmental assessment is underway – the National Nature Assessment (NNA). To date, the U.S. has published five National Climate Assessments and the sixth is now in preparation. The NNA will join this family, assessing not only what we...

October 1, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: The Ongoing Necessity and Invisibility of Human Behavior in Climate Action

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative A compare and contrast today. Carbon Brief has summarized and assessed recent research about the current potential to limit global warming to 1.5℃. Key conclusion is that, in words of one of the authors, “the technological feasibility of climate-neutrality is no...

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