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Nives Dolšak & Aseem Prakash with “Climate Change Did It!” Is a Convenient Excuse!
An article written by Nives Dolšak - professor in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and Aseem Prakash - founding director of the Center for Environmental Politics. "Climate change is a big, messy problem for which a specific individual or government cannot be held accountable (even though human actions are certainly to blame). Blaming climate change for flooding makes it easier to escape responsibility for not enforcing zoning laws or allowing development on flood plains. But this is not sound policy".
Read more at Slate MagazineLuAnne Thompson, PCC Director, on Global Warming and the new Population Health Initiative
"Over the next 25 years, global warming will challenge population health in countless ways, from extreme heat events and drought to floods and sea level rise. We need to get ahead of this now, ...." - LuAnne Thompson, member of the Advisory Committee for the UW Popluation Health Initiative.
Read more in UW NewsOcean conditions contributed to unprecedented 2015 toxic algal bloom
“A study led by researchers at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 that closed fisheries from southern California to northern British Columbia to the unusually warm ocean conditions — nicknamed “the blob” — in winter and spring of that year.” – Hannah Hickey
Read moreEarthGames - "Climate Quest and EcoTrivia: Save the Animals"
Dargan Frierson’s EarthGames, an educational video game about the environment, is now available on iOS, Android, Mac and PC.
Read moreEarthGames Featured in GeekWire
EarthGames, an educational video game about the environment, led by Dargan Frierson at UW, was featured in GeekWire.
Read moreThe Washington Post - Greenland may be losing ice even faster than we thought
Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington was quoted in The Washington Post this past week about the current and expected loss of ice across Greenland.
Read moreTribute to Ed Miles - Scholar, Humanitarian, Teacher, Friend and Mentor 1939-2016
Ed Miles was part of envisioning the Program on Climate Change, but that was but a small piece of his academic footprint at UW. Read the tribute here: https://smea.uw.edu/about/news/2016/05/09/tribute-to-ed-miles-scholar-humanitarian-teacher-friend-and-mentor-1939-2016/
Read the Tribute by Ed's Colleagues in the SMEA news.