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Cultural Heritage and Historic Places in a Rapidly Changing Climate Adam Markham, Union of Concerned Scientists Cultural Heritage What we inherit from the past and what we pass from generation to generation. Not just monuments, art and

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Cultural Heritage and Historic Places in a Rapidly Changing Climate

Adam Markham, Union of Concerned Scientists

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Cultural Heritage

What we inherit from the past and what we pass from generation to generation. Not just monuments, art and artefacts but all the expressions of our ways of living including traditions, languages, rituals and foods.

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We are not doing a very good job of keeping history above water…

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NASA

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have increased to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years in the atmosphere. - IPCC fifth assessment

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2015: The warmest year. Ever.

Source: NSA/GSFC/Scientific Visualization Studio

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PARIS AGREEMENT “below 2ºC above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5ºC”

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1°C already

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Source: EPA

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New research on Antarctic ice sheet melt suggests that US East coast could see 5-6 feet of sea level rise by 2100.

Photo: NASA

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Photo illustration:Darrow/Vanity Fair

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Hurricane Sandy provided a wake- up call …

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Ellis Island

Closed for 1 year after Sandy

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Observed Change in very heavy precipitation

Source: NCA/Updated from Karl 2009

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Western Wildfires

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Direct fire effects: stone & ceramic artifacts

Heat spalling Fire fracture

Photos: Ana Steffen

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Photo: Rory Gauthier, NPS

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NASA Langley

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Getty

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Coquina wall – Castillo de San Marcos

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Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, FL.

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Snapshot of Arctic Archaeology at Risk

  • 1. Qajaa
  • 2. Foulke Fjord
  • 3. Fort Conger
  • 4. Sannirut
  • 5. York Factory
  • 6. Kuukpak
  • 7. Herschel Island
  • 8. Cape Krusenstern

NM

  • 9. Bering Land Bridge

NP 10.Nunalleq 11.Yana River 12.Longyearbyen

Image: UCS/Hugo Ahlenius, UNEP/GRID-Arendal

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Walakpa, Alaska: August 2003

Slide courtesy of Anne Jensen

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Walakpa, Alaska: September 2014

Slide courtesy of Anne Jensen

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Images courtesy Mark Ahsoak Jr. Slide courtesy of Anne Jensen

August 2015

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Nunalleq Y’upik Village, Alaska

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  • opersville, MD

hoto: Gary Braasch

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World Heritage Sites at Risk

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132 of 700 UNESCO World Heritage Sites Threatened by Sea level rise

Bruges, Belgium

Source: Potsdam Institute, 2014

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Photo: Adam Stanford

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Photo: Adam Stanford

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Ifugau Rice Terraces, Philippines

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Damage from extreme rain storms

Ancient Pompei Nero’s Domus Aurea, Rome

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Photo: NPS/Marcy Rockman

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David Harvey & Jim Perry

“The traditional view that heritage conservation carries a treasured past into the future must change” “A new view of heritage, serving society and communities in times of rapid climate change, embraces loss, alternative forms of knowledge & uncertain futures”

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Call to Action

“…neither the costs of addressing climate change impacts on cultural heritage, nor the knowledge we gain from understanding our cultural heritage, have been comprehensively addressed in climate policy responses at any level “

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  • Empower and support local communities to maintain and preserve

what they value

  • Ensure cultural heritage voices and expertise are represented in

climate policy discussion at all levels

  • Share the data and information necessary to identify cultural

resources at risk, assess the level of threat and prioritize actions

  • Share best practices and incorporate into cultural resource

management planning and decision making

  • Increase public awareness of climate risks to cultural heritage and

the array of potential solutions

  • Attract the resources needed for climate preparedness and

resilience.

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Pocantico Follow-up

  • Public workshop at the National Adaptation Forum
  • A new Society for American Archaeology Committee
  • n Climate Change
  • New initiatives by the NTHP
  • ICOMOS and other cultural heritage groups’

presence at the Paris Climate Summit

  • UNESCO/UNEP/UCS report on World Heritage Sites
  • Numerous articles, posters and conference

presentations

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CONTACT: amarkham@ucsusa.org www.ucsusa.org

Thank You!