EL DORADO COUNTY CVA

Climate Vulnerability Assessment

The following was sent by one of our members for your information. Attached is the link to the full document. Enclosed is the Executive Summary. You decide if this is a good use of your tax dollars:

Sharon

Here's a link to the crazy climate vulnerability assessment that is the epitome of government waste and nonsense: 

https://www.edcgov.us/Government/longrangeplanning/Documents/El%20Dorado%20CVA_Public%20Review%20Draft_05.01.23F.pdf 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Purpose of the Climate Vulnerability Assessment In the past decade, El Dorado County (County) has experienced increased temperatures, prolonged drought and extreme levels of precipitation and severe heavy snow events, widespread flooding, landslides, and larger and more severe wildfires. Each hazard event has impacted the communities in the County differently through direct impacts to property and infrastructure and people’s well-being to indirect impacts associated with public service disruptions, power outages, school closures, economic hardship due to unemployment, loss of natural resources. These climate-related hazard events are projected to become more frequent and more severe by mid-century and the end-of-the-century. The County’s Climate Vulnerability Assessment (CVA) addresses how people, property, critical infrastructure, and key economic and natural assets are vulnerable to climate change. Through a common understanding of climate change and its effects on natural hazards, the County, its stakeholders, and the community can work towards how to adapt to these changing climate stressors. Assets in the County that are highly vulnerable to climate change are based on a combination of those assets with more exposure and higher sensitivity to climate hazards and an overall lower adaptive capacity or ability to manage and recovery from exposure impacts. The CVA builds on climate change science research and publications from publicly available tools, like Cal-Adapt and California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment to local assessments to evaluate vulnerability. Through this research and the local data, climate stressors to the County’s more sensitive assets, like people with increased susceptibility due to factors such as age, income levels, education, language barriers, and underlying health conditions are examined and summarized through collaborative planning process and detailed vulnerability assessment.