Climate Workshop

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January 2025

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Deneen Wiske

Roy Thilly

Jeff Lutsey

Climate Workshop: Welcome & Introductions

Deneen Wiske Roy Thilly Jeff Lutsey

Climate Workshop

Day 1: Today

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• Climate change & Door County
• Climate resilience planning with Sascha at Adaptation International

Day 2: Next Week

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• Workshop: vulnerabilities & risks to resilience action
• Goals: agree on next steps and timeline
• Working groups
• Climate resilience work funding

Climate Workshop: Overview

Climate Workshop

Today’s Schedule

9:00 am Welcome & Introductions

9:20 am Community Climate work

9:35 am Climate projections, mitigation & resilience

10:15 am 15-minute break

10:30 am Resilience planning with Sascha at Adaptation Int’l

11:40 am Wrap up & homework

12:00 pm Class dismissed!

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Climate Workshop: Overview

Climate Change Coalition of Door County

Community Compost Tree Planting Climate Education

Climate Workshop

Climate Workshops: a brief history

Climate Mitigation

→ reduce warming

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Connection between Mitigation and Resilience

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Climate Resilience

→ adapt and prepare for warming

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Source:

NOAA & CMIP3

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Fossil fuel reduction & energy efficiency & renewables

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Reforestation & tree planting

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Land Conservation

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Education

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Partners in Climate Mitigation & Resilience Action

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Individual Businesses

1850

Climate impacts are increasing

Door County: already warmer and wetter

3⁰ F warmer since 1950

20% wetter since 1950

Temperature Increase

1950-2020

Precipitation Increase

1950-2020

Our Future: “Warmer, Wetter, & Wilder”

“Warmer, Wetter, & Wilder” → Warmer, especially Winter

• Door County about 4^oF warmer than recently
• Similar to present-day Milwaukee

Winter Increase

Temperature Increase, annually

“Warmer, Wetter, & Wilder” → More Rain, especially Winter

Precipitation Increase (%), Winter

• Wetter throughout Wisconsin

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• Door County about 5% wetter annually

“Warmer, Wetter, & Wilder” → More Extreme HOT days

Past

Future

Less warming

along Lake Michigan

Days Greater than 100⁰ F, annually

Door Conty: “Warmer, Wetter, & Wilder”

“Warmer, Wetter, & Wilder” → More Extreme Precipitation

Past

Future

Days with Heavy Rain Greater than 2 inches

Climate and Possible Impacts

• Warmer → Agricultural change: early warmth, early blooms

longer growing season

more super dry droughts

More residents; more visitors

Plant / animal / ecosystem uncertainty

Climate and Possible Impacts

• Wetter → More heavy rains, more rain run-off

more soil erosion

more shore erosion

More fertilizer, waste water in lake and beaches

More infrastructure/road/water/sewage stress

Climate and Possible Impacts

• Wilder → Plant / animal / ecosystem uncertainty

More seasonal droughts

More heavy rains

Lake levels rise and fall more quickly

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Sascha Peterson

Wrapping Up

Before we look ahead to next week, additional thoughts & questions?

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Wrapping Up

Resources: Links to community plans being sent to you

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Monroe County

Dane County Natural Emergency Plan

Lac de Flambeau

Green Bay

Milwaukee

Michigan communities

Homework Assignment

1. What do you think are the biggest climate risks that we face in Door County? (share from one to five risks)

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• Who would need to be involved to make actions to address these risks effective?

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• (Optional) When you think about climate change, either here in Door County or in general, what are you afraid of?

Please email responses before Monday, Feb 3 noon

Next week (workshop day 2)

• Summary of responses to guide our workshop activities
• Working group session
• Roadmap and next steps to expand work on the plan

Getting to work!

Reference slides follow