I believe that we need to be thinking about how emergency management will work to establish climate adaptation measures to cope with rising global temperatures and seas. There are all sorts of implications for emergencies and disasters due to anticipated impacts to our environment.
Click on the link below for Disaster Zone TV: Climate Adaptation for a 30-minute program on what the climate evidence is at this point and what some of the projections are for the future. This is not some catastrophe waiting to happen look at the future, but a common sense look at the indicators of changes happening now and the future.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
