{"id":18260,"date":"2024-09-16T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/?p=18260"},"modified":"2024-09-16T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:13:49","slug":"national-preparedness-month-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2024\/09\/16\/national-preparedness-month-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"National Preparedness Month and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/september\">National Preparedness Month<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/es\/septiembre\">Mes de Preparaci\u00f3n Nacional<\/a>), which makes it a great time to talk about climate related preparedness. How does climate change affect extreme weather? And how is preparedness part of climate adaptation?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18261 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/09\/ready-gov_npm-2024_take-steps-to-prepare-with-family-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Top: light green background, dark green text National Preparedness Month Take Steps to prepare with your family and the ready.gov logo.\n\nBottom: Picture of a multiracial family (Black\/Asian) laying on the ground in a house smiling, parents on the ends, two kids in the middle.\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/09\/ready-gov_npm-2024_take-steps-to-prepare-with-family-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/09\/ready-gov_npm-2024_take-steps-to-prepare-with-family-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/09\/ready-gov_npm-2024_take-steps-to-prepare-with-family-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/09\/ready-gov_npm-2024_take-steps-to-prepare-with-family.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>How are climate change and preparedness related?<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Precipitation Extremes\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vIq8ItorQyE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Past blog posts have covered <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2023\/09\/15\/climate-change-data-and-health-extreme-weather-events\/\">climate change and extreme weather<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2024\/01\/22\/climate-change-data-and-health-extreme-heat\/\">climate change and extreme heat<\/a> as part of a series on climate change and data. And what we see from data is that climate change is causing larger storms (ex: bigger hurricanes more often) and more concentrated storms (ex: storms that lead to more flooding).<\/p>\n<p>A statistic that shows this well is that in the last 20 years, the pay outs from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floodsmart.gov\/climate-change\">National Flood Insurance Program<\/a> has been 660% higher than the previous 20-year period.<\/p>\n<h2>How is preparedness part of climate change adaptation?<\/h2>\n<p>When we talk about climate change and interventions, there are two main areas-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climate-adaptation\/climate-adaptation-and-epas-role\">Mitigation and adaptation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation<\/strong>: Programs and interventions designed to reduce climate change<\/p>\n<p>Mitigation strategies include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reducing greenhouse gases by using renewable energy.<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing \u201csinks\u201d that capture and store greenhouse gases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Adaptation<\/strong>: Programs and interventions designed to adapt to life in a changing climate. Climate change is coming and\/or here, what do we do?<\/p>\n<p>Adaptation interventions include upgrades to infrastructure (resilient design) and updated disaster management planning for communities and individuals to address the extremes caused by climate change.<\/p>\n<h2>Resources for Personal Preparedness<\/h2>\n<p>MedlinePlus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/climatechange.html\">Climate Change Health Topics Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/spanish\/climatechange.html\">Cambio clim\u00e1tico<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/disasterpreparationandrecovery.html\">Disaster Preparation and Recovery Health Topics Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/spanish\/disasterpreparationandrecovery.html\">Preparativos y recuperaci\u00f3n ante un desastre<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/guides\/emergency-and-disaster-resources\">NNLM Emergency Preparedness Guide<\/a>-Find links to resources including FEMA regional resources, preparedness for specific demographic groups and more.<\/p>\n<p>Past R7 blog posts focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/tag\/emergency-preparedness-epp\/\">Emergency Preparedness Resource<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/reading-club\/topic\/325\">NNLM Reading Club Disasters and Emergencies<\/a>-Find books and resources to use with patrons during September and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/\">Ready.gov<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/es\">Listo, ready.gov en espa\u00f1ol<\/a>) for information on specific emergencies, natural and man-made, and resources for making plans for your household including resources such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/kids\">Ready Kids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/ready-your-language\">Ready in Your Language<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other Resources from federal partners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/emergency-managers\/risk-management\/climate-resilience\">FEMA Climate Resilience<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/find-help\/disaster-distress-helpline\">SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/find-help\/disaster-distress-helpline\/espanol\">L\u00ednea de Ayuda para los Afectados por Cat\u00e1strofes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>To Do:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Attend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/training\/class-catalog\/virtual-disaster-preparedness-forum-september-2024\">NNLM preparedness month events<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecrew.org\/climate_prep_week\">Climate Prep Week 9\/24-30 events<\/a> hosted by CREW<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/get-involved\">Volunteer<\/a> to help your community with planning, response and recovery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is National Preparedness Month (Mes de Preparaci\u00f3n Nacional), which makes it a great time to talk about climate related preparedness. How does climate change affect extreme weather? And how is preparedness part of climate adaptation? How are climate change and preparedness related? Past blog posts have covered climate change and extreme weather and climate&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2024\/09\/16\/national-preparedness-month-and-climate-change\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18263,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260\/revisions\/18263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}