NOAA Coastal Services Center's Climate Adaptation Blog

The NOAA Coastal Services Center’s (CSC) Climate Adaptation Blog features information about current climate-related events and offers best practices for helping your community adapt. The March 19th post links to a physorg.com article about storm surge frequency and climate change. According to the MIT-Princeton University study highlighted in the article, storms impacting the coast with a storm surge capable of causing a 100-year flood event could happen as frequently as every three to 20 years, and a 500-year flood event every 25 to 240 years with a changing climate.  For more posts and to subscribe to the CSC Climate Adaptation Blog online, click here. 

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NASA Gives Kids Their Own Guide to Climate Change

A blinking red-eyed tree frog and flitting butterfly greet visitors to the new NASA Climate Kids website. Targeting grades 4-6, this kid-friendly guide de-mystifies one of the most important science issues of our time. The site answers the “ Big Questions” about global climate change using simple illustrations, humor, interactivity, and age-appropriate language. For example, one interactive feature is the Climate Time Machine, which reveals how global changes have affected or will affect our planet over time. “Climate Tales” has animal cartoon characters coping more or less good humoredly with the effects humans are having on their habitats. A collection of Earth-science-related games offers such experiences as “Wild Weather Adventure” and “Missions to Planet Earth.” A Green Careers section.

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Wetlands and Climate Change

By Tom Pelton – Baltimore Sun.com – October 9, 2007
I had a story in today's paper about the planting of wetlands as a tool to fight climate change. Maryland in 2009 will start a "cap and trade" system for reducing carbon dioxide pollution from power plants. And both the state and Maryland's biggest power company are interested in the idea of using pollution credits -- essentially fines to power companies for spewing too much carbon dioxide -- to pay for the planting of acres of wetlands, which absorb carbon dioxide. Whether or not planting more marsh grass in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge will do much to stop global warming is a matter of debate. Probably, it could play a small role -- when combined with large cuts in actual carbon dioxide emissions. But pollution credit systems are a hot topic not only in Annapolis, but also in DC and around the world. For example, Barack Obama yesterday outlined his support of a national pollution credit trading system to limit carbon dioxide pollution. "No business will be allowed to emit any greenhouse gases for free,” Mr. Obama said while campaigning Portsmouth, N.H, according to The New York Times. “Businesses don’t own the sky, the public does, and if we want them to stop polluting it, we have to put a price on all pollution.” Constellation Energy, the state's largest owner of power plants, is one of several power companies across the country that support a national cap-and-trade system for cutting down greenhouse gas pollution. In fact, a large coalition of both industrial corporations -- like General Motors and Duke Energy -- and environmental groups -- like the Natural Resources Defense Council -- support a national pollution credit system for attacking climate change.

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