CIG Director to Present at Upcoming WA Insurance Commissioner’s 2021 Climate Summit

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Dr. Amy Snover, director of the UW Climate Impacts Group and the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, will present on Climate Risk in the Pacific Northwest at the virtual 2021 Climate Summit. The summit will be hosted by Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler on October 6, 2021.

As climate change impacts like wildfire, smoke and flooding are increasing across the Northwest, insurance companies are experiencing increasing property, life and health claims. The Climate Summit brings together a national audience of climate, government and insurance professionals to discuss how climate change is affecting our communities, regulatory efforts and businesses, and what we can do to prepare for increasing risks in a warming climate. Register to hear from Dr. Snover and an exciting lineup of speakers including Washington Representative Joe Fitzgibbon, Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest and Director of Yale Program on Climate Change Communication’s Anthony Leiserowitz, among others!

Learn more about how Commissioner Kreidler is working with insurance companies in Washington state, nationally and internationally to ensure they are prepared for climate-related challenges.

Outdoor recreation industry fears for future as these changes impact the North Cascades

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As climate change alters the fabric of the Pacific Northwest, increasing the frequency and severity of heatwaves, wildfires and precipitation extremes, outdoor recreation outfitters are scrambling to adapt their business models to shorter seasons and unpredictable conditions. CIG science is referenced.

Extreme weather events and climate change

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Dr. Crystal Raymond, climate adaptation specialist, says that research on the connection between climate change and wildfires has been very accurate and that expectations are that wildfires won’t get better until we can reduce warming.

Register Today For Upcoming NW CASC Webinar on Cultural Burning and Collaborative Fire Research and Management

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The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center is hosting a three-part webinar series centering tribal perspectives on fire management. The first webinar in the series will be held Tuesday, April 27, 11 a.m. PT.

USFS Research Scientist Dr. Frank Lake will discuss the historical context of cultural burning, clarify misconceptions about cultural burning, and present a decolonizing framework for fire management as a grounding for modern approaches to collaborative fire management that achieve shared values and resource objectives.

NW CASC Seeks Postdoc Focused on Fire & Climate

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Are you a researcher interested in the nexus of climate change and wildfire? The University of Washington, in partnership with the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC) and the University of Montana, is searching for a talented scientist with an interest in climate-fire-ecosystem dynamics and associated natural resource management in the Northwestern US and a passion for delivering research that informs decision-making!

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America’s Year of Fire and Tempests Means the Climate Crisis Just Got Very Real

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Record-breaking wildfires and hurricanes were just the most high-profile effects of global heating — and this is only the start. 

“All of the systems that society depends on were designed to function in the climate of the past,” Snover, Climate Impacts Group director, told the Guardian. “But we no longer live in the climate of the past. The climate disruption brought by warming, changes in precipitation, changes in storms and changes in sea level is destabilizing the foundation of all these systems at once.” 

How Climate Change Affects Wildfires, Like Those in the West, and Makes Them Worse

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The consequences climate scientists have long been warning about are coming to fruition in the increased intensity of natural disasters around the globe, recently in the form of devastating wildfires that ravaged the western states and enshrouded areas not plagued with flames under hazes of smoke. 

“These are not unprecedented events,” Dr. Crystal Raymond, climate adaptation scientist, told ABC News. “Scientists know these types of fires burned in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but it’s the frequency at which they are now burning that has become a concern.”