This document provides an overview of a lecture series on climate change that will take place over 6 weeks. The series will discuss the history of climate research, current and future impacts of climate change like changes in weather patterns and sea level rise, actions that can be taken now to slow climate change, and approaches for managing and adapting to unavoidable impacts through regional assessments and knowledge sharing between experts and local decision-makers.
Climate change is both a development issue and an environmental issue. Developing countries are more vulnerable to climate change than rich countries. CC may be limited to a specific region, or it may occur across the whole Earth.
It can be caused by recurring and cyclical climate patterns.
The causes of climate change are many. There is a need to understand these factors for reducing the effects.
PowerPoint slides from the July 1, 2011 press conference held in Albany, NY by DEC Commissioner Joe Martens to announce the new drilling regulations that will allow gas drilling in New York's Marcellus Shale.
Incorporates brief details and steps to prevent numerous environmental issues persisting in today's world (such as various pollution, global warming, over population, waste disposal etc.)
Climate change is both a development issue and an environmental issue. Developing countries are more vulnerable to climate change than rich countries. CC may be limited to a specific region, or it may occur across the whole Earth.
It can be caused by recurring and cyclical climate patterns.
The causes of climate change are many. There is a need to understand these factors for reducing the effects.
PowerPoint slides from the July 1, 2011 press conference held in Albany, NY by DEC Commissioner Joe Martens to announce the new drilling regulations that will allow gas drilling in New York's Marcellus Shale.
Incorporates brief details and steps to prevent numerous environmental issues persisting in today's world (such as various pollution, global warming, over population, waste disposal etc.)
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1.Do you think it is appropriate that the consumer bears part of the burden of pollution fees in the form of higher prices? Why or why not?
2.In the U.S., landowners have the mineral rights to all minerals that might be found under their property (e.g, oil and natural gas). In most European countries, the government, not the property owner, has the rights to any minerals found in the ground. Fracking occurs in several U.S. states, but remains unpopular in Europe. If national governments in other nations agreed to share the profits from fracking with the landowners on whose property the drilling takes place, how might that change attitudes toward the fracking process?
3.Do you think we are a throwaway society? Are your attitudes towards consumption of goods the same as your parents? Your grandparents? (Think of how goods have changed over the years.)
4.A few years ago we became aware that disposable diapers were a major item being put into U.S. landfills. Some communities discussed banning disposable diapers from their landfills. There were protests from parents groups whose members found disposable much more convenient than cloth diapers. Rationally evaluate this policy from both the community environmentalists and the parents groups’ viewpoints.
5.Should income in the U.S. be distributed equally? If not, should there be at least a greater degree of equality than we presently have? What are the advantages and disadvantages of greater equality?
6.Which do you feel is more effective in reducing poverty: government poverty programs or economic growth of a nation? How do private charities fit in? Are you an economic conservative or economic liberal when it comes to addressing poverty?
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Wetlands and global climate change: the role of wetland
restoration in a changing world
Kevin L. Erwin
Received: 15 April 2008 / Accepted: 24 September 2008 / Published online: 7 November 2008
� Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Abstract Global climate change is recognized as a
threat to species survival and the health of natural
systems. Scientists worldwide are looking at the
ecological and hydrological impacts resulting from
climate change. Climate change will make future
efforts to restore and manage wetlands more com-
plex. Wetland systems are vulnerable to changes in
quantity and quality of their water supply, and it is
expected that climate change will have a pronounced
effect on wetlands through alterations in hydrological
regimes with great global variability. Wetland habitat
responses to climate change and the implications for
restoration will be realized differently on a regional
and mega-watershed level, making it important to
recognize that specific restoration and management
plans will require examination by habitat. Flood-
plains, mangroves, seagrasses, saltmarshes, arctic
wetlands, peatlands, freshwater marshes and forests
are very diverse habitats, with different str ...
This is the 7th lesson the course - Climate Change & Global Environment taught at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Jayantha Obeysekera
This session will discuss the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact agreed to by Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties in SE Florida, and their partnering with the
South Florida Water Management District. The 5.6 million residents of the four counties exceed the population of 30 states and represent 30 percent of Florida’s population, and are situated in
one of the nation’s areas most vulnerable to climate change. The session will detail the Regional Climate Change Compact’s objectives,
its accomplishments to date and the ongoing development of a regional climate action plan.
IEEE Webinar on Humanitarian Technologies: Baselining Rural Macro and Micro L...Narayanan Subramaniam
Climate Change (C2) is a Globally Pervasive, Borderless Phenomenon, owing to Man-Made Energy Imbalance, resulting in the Unnatural Extinction of Species in the Natural World, along with Unnatural “Landscaping” of the Geographical Environment. This presentation attempts to provide an overview of key tenets that qualify and quantify its cause and effects. Local impacts Global and vice-versa. There is NO border between rural or urban, land sea or air.
1. Avoid the Unmanageable, Manage the Unavoidable
What can we expect from the climate in the coming decades, and what can we do?
J. H. Plumb Auditorium, Christ’s College, Thursdays, 5:30 to 7 pm
Jan 16: Introduction
Brief history of climate research, focusing on the relationship between atmospheric abundance
of CO2 and global temperature over time, and fundamental truths about the long-term future
Jan 23: Impacts of Climate Change
Can we infer from today’s changes and climate models what tomorrow’s world might look like?
Regional weather patterns, water availability, floods, drought, wildfires
Impacts on agriculture, ecology, human disease, regional technical systems
Jan 30: What we can do right away and what we still will have to adapt to
The failure of the climate negotiations, the inertia of the of the global energy system; slowing the rate of climate
change by working with short-lived climate pollutants; why we cannot avoid 2 degC warming at mid-century
Feb 13: Sea Level Rise, Coastal Cities, and Wetlands
Factors affecting rates of global and local sea level rise
How advanced regions are preparing-Venice, the Netherlands, Sacramento Bay-Delta
Vulnerable cities, agricultural river deltas, low-lying island nations
Feb 20: California and the Arctic
The first and most advanced regional assessments
Impacts on regional natural systems, regional technical systems, and populations
Assessments-the first step in adaptive management
Feb 27: Adaptive Management of Climate Change
The essential role of assessment in the adaptive management of complex systems; the regional specificity of
climate change impacts; the critical role of local communities; the complexity of knowledge assembly for regional
and local decision‐support; the need to encourage timely decisions; and the capacity problem. “Knowledge Action
Networks” comprising international experts and local decision‐makers can inform and motivate good decisions