{"id":1837,"date":"2017-02-01T08:52:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2017-02-01T08:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:52:39","slug":"a-year-of-climate-change-impacts-one-day-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/a-year-of-climate-change-impacts-one-day-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A year of climate change impacts, one day at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our changing climate is already affecting lives in a multitude of ways, and the impacts of climate change will only increase as the world continues to heat up. But because climate operates in the background, it’s easy to ignore the magnitude of the changes happening around us, as we are caught up in a daily news cycle and the rhythms of our own lives. 2017 seems fated to be an eventful – and exhausting – year and it would be all too easy to put climate change on the back burner, while facing seemingly more urgent crises. But, the longer we avoid tackling climate change head on, the more dramatic the impacts we are going to be facing. <\/p>\n

I quietly launched a new personal project in January, and now that I’m a month in, I’m ready to tell you about it. I’m tweeting one climate change story per day for each day in 2017, with the tag #365climateimpacts<\/a>. I’m aiming to tweet timely news stories or compelling visualizations across a wide range of climate change impacted arenas, from oceans to ice, from food to energy, from policy to theology, and more. While I’ve tagged the tweets with the word impacts, I’ll cover climate science and climate solutions as well as the impacts of past, present, and future climate change.<\/p>\n

My goals for this project are three-fold:<\/p>\n

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  1. For those of us who are climate concerned<\/a>, my goal is to keep climate change on the front burner of our collective agenda with daily reminders of the pervasiveness and magnitude of climate change implications and the hope that individual choice and policy and technological solutions have to offer.<\/li>\n
  2. For those who are climate cautious or disengaged<\/a>, I hope that the in the diversity of topics I tweet at least one will make it across your timeline and resonate with you and the things you care about. We know that just piling on facts doesn’t change people’s minds, but finding a genuine connection is a first step towards a real dialogue. As much as a one-to-many, 140-character limited platform lets me do, I hope I connect with you at some point this year.<\/li>\n
  3. For those who are engaging with the climate doubtful and dismissive<\/a>, I hope to equip with you new resources for those important conversations, give you ideas for how to avoid the deficit model of science communication<\/a>, and encourage you in the work you are doing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Without further ado, here’s an archive of January’s #365climateimpacts stories:<\/p>\n

    January 1:<\/em>
    \nI started the year with this entrancing visualization of 2016 in atmospheric precipitable water by James Warner:<\/p>\n

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    The atmosphere in 2016; visualised using precipitable water. Featuring hurricanes, monsoons, tropical convection and much more. pic.twitter.com\/sO8MiGJ8s6<\/a><\/p>\n

    — James Warner (@MetmanJames) January 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n