by Jane Elder | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
If you live in a flood-prone area, you may be familiar with a term like 500-year flood, which is a description engineers, planners, and emergency agencies use to predict the likelihood, frequency, and scale of flooding events. A 500-year flood, which has a 0.2% chance...
by Mary Schlaefer, John Imes, Chelsea Chandler, Jane Elder | Jun 28, 2017 | Videos
There have been many notable developments concerning climate and energy over the past few years in Wisconsin since the Wisconsin Academy released its 2014 Climate Forward report. This media and community briefing comes on the publication of an update to our 2014...
by Meredith Keller | May 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
The e-mail arrived the afternoon before the event: “CISCO system is down at Hotel Le Méridien in Paris. We need to find another telepresence center.” The high-tech video system that was supposed to connect a panel of Wisconsin climate change leaders in Paris for the...
by Sharon Dunwoody | Feb 23, 2016 | Videos
While everyone in Wisconsin has a story about an epic blizzard or a harrowing thunderstorm, it can be challenging to tell stories about changes to our climate over time. We come to understand the world around us through stories. This is especially true for phenomena...
by Sumudu Atapattu, Richard Keller, Jonathan Patz, Clay Nesler, Nathan Schulfer, Jeffrey Thompson | Feb 9, 2016 | Videos
In December, the United Nations 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) met in Paris, where nearly 200 nations ratified a new universal climate change agreement with the goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. For the first time since the Kyoto Protocol in...
