Climate Change
Activities to evaluate, address, plan, and educate about climate change in Wisconsin and nationally. This work is developed by WGF’s Climate Change Work Group.
Governor’s Climate Change Task Force Starts Work
Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes opened the first meeting of the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change held December 19 in Madison by reminding its 31 members of the urgency of both mitigating the severity of climate change and helping communities adapt to its impacts.
Read More >Wisconsin Legislators Take on Climate Change
Climate change is part of our daily lives: Wisconsin is warmer and wetter than in the past and its residents are experiencing more frequent extreme storms that cause flooding, damage roads and destroy forests.
Responding to Wisconsin’s changing climate would become a public policy priority through a package of legislative proposals, known as Forward on Climate, …
Read More >Climate Fast Forward
“Action is needed now.”
In expressing that urgent call to respond quickly to the Earth’s changing climate and its increasingly disruptive and destructive impacts, Dan Vimont captured in a few words the shared commitment of more than 300 Wisconsin residents attending a Nov. 8 Climate Fast Forward conference in Madison.
Vimont, director of the Nelson Institute’s Center …
Read More >WGF Partners with FE University on Climate Change Short Course
Many people are uncertain about how climate change will affect Wisconsin and what they should be doing to slow the change and adapt to new conditions. Please join Fe University as we study the latest research with two Wisconsin Green Fire scientists.
In collaboration with Wisconsin Green Fire, Fe University presents the course, Climate Change: Causes, …
Read More >New Federal Report Predicts Increasing Environmental and Ecological Costs due to Climate Change in the United States.
Climate change presents growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth in the United States. On November 24, 2018 the US Global Change Research Project released the FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States. The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses …
Read More >In the Vortex of Climate Change
Over eleven days in late August, four major storms raked across central and southern Wisconsin, each dumping multiple inches of rain. Late in the afternoon of August 20, a record-breaking deluge of more than eleven inches in just four hours hit western Dane County. On August 26-27, parts of Ozaukee and Washington Counties north of
Read More >Evolving Science: Extreme Winter Cold and Arctic Warming
By: Dr. Michael Meyer
“Climate skeptics” often point to episodic extreme winter weather, such as the 2017/2018 polar outbreak, as evidence that climate change science is incorrect. If one were to delve into the topic a bit further, it becomes apparent that this recent cold spell could be consistent with evolving climate change theory.
A commonly heard …
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