CALS 500

Influence of Human-Induced Climate Change on Hurricane Fiona

By Joanna Burris, for CALS500: Climate Science, Impacts, and Services, Assignment 2 Even before Hurricane Fiona’s landing in Atlantic Canada on September 24, 2022, news articles had already linked the major storm to climate change. The storm had ravaged the island nation of Puerto Rico a few short days before, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without water […]

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Using Shared Socio-economic Pathways to Visualize a Sustainable Future

By Joanna Burris, for CALS501: Leading Climate Action in Society, Assignment Climate scientists and researchers have projected what the Earth’s climate will look like under different scenarios of future decisions, policies, and actions taken by humans. We understand the socio-economic changes needed to actualize a sustainable future, but there is an immense challenge ahead of

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