This Region Could See a 30 Percent Increase in Precipitation by 2100: STOP SAYING THAT!

Shaun Martin, WWF-US

Hurricane Sandy on October 25, 2012, with winds of 90 mph and a pressure of 954 mbar

It’s Monday morning, October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy is strengthening as she approaches the US east coast. In Washington, DC the US federal government is closed, public transport has ceased operations, and WWF staff [...]

Climate Change Impacts like Drought, Floods, and Hurricanes: STOP SAYING THAT!

Shaun Martin, WWF-US

In spite of what you may have heard, floods are not “impacts” of climate change. © Shaun Martin

With this post I am inaugurating a new series called “STOP SAYING THAT!,” a look at the use of language in climate change adaptation and how well-intentioned, knowledgeable people are making the field [...]

Thoughts on Managing Change, from Jared Diamond

By Eliot Levine, WWF-US

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond  is a world-renowned expert on ancient societies. His now  famous book, Collapse, is a study of the choices societies have made throughout history in the face of change – climate change,  as well as others — and the consequences of such choices.

In early 2011, my [...]