The document discusses the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise negatively impacting the Nile Delta region in Egypt through flooding, destruction of protective sand bars, loss of agricultural land and saline contamination of groundwater. It also notes that sea level rise is accelerating and discusses potential releases of methane from thawing permafrost and clathrates that could further accelerate warming. Stabilizing temperature rise below 2°C will be an unprecedented technological, political and social challenge requiring emissions to peak by 2020-2030 and reductions of 60-80% below 1990 levels.
Happy environment's day version 2-pragyan priyadarshiniPramod Sahu
This is a presentation prepared by my daughter Pragyan Priyadarshini. she is studying in standard -VIII. The presentation touched me and motivated me to work for our Mother Earth, Our Planet , Preserve for our Next Generations...
Happy environment's day version 2-pragyan priyadarshiniPramod Sahu
This is a presentation prepared by my daughter Pragyan Priyadarshini. she is studying in standard -VIII. The presentation touched me and motivated me to work for our Mother Earth, Our Planet , Preserve for our Next Generations...
Climate Change Extremes: Increasing Wildfires & HurricanesPaul H. Carr
1. CLIMATE CHANGE EXTREMES: INCREASING FOREST FIRES AND HURRICANES
2. CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE:
CO2 from fossil fuel burning is warming our Earth via the Greenhouse effect
3. WHAT WE CAN DO IMMEDIATELY:
A more vegetarian diet.
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.
Climate Change Extremes: Increasing Wildfires & HurricanesPaul H. Carr
1. CLIMATE CHANGE EXTREMES: INCREASING FOREST FIRES AND HURRICANES
2. CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE:
CO2 from fossil fuel burning is warming our Earth via the Greenhouse effect
3. WHAT WE CAN DO IMMEDIATELY:
A more vegetarian diet.
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.
Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics, summarises the World Bank report Turn Down The Heat: Why a 4C Warmer World Must Be Avoided for The Climate Institute's Boardroom Lunch Conversation on 21 October 2013.
Challenges and Outlook for the 21thCentury
ICLEI World Congress 2009, F2 Building and Construction, 17 June 2009
Philipp Tepper, Project Officer, ICLEI European Secretariat
Holger Robrecht from ICLEI European Secretariat gives an introduction to "Sustainability Management" or how to run our cities and towns in an environmentally friendly way.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
2. After IPCC 2007 beyond collective adaptation Limits to adaptation - cumulative critical impacts EU goal “ dangerous” Inevitable intolerable
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4. 1993-2003 ≈ 30 mm = 3.0 mm/yr; compare 1910-1990 = 1.5±0.5 mm/yr. Sea-level rise is accelerating mm ACIA, 2004 From Holdren 2007
5. Raising the temperature of 1 km of water at 20 0 C by 1 0 C will cause it to expand by about 20 cm
6. Clathrates – methane ice … a temperature sensitive sleeping giant in sea floor sediments
7. Absorption of Sun’s energy by a greater area of open water warms the region …. melting permafrost and releasing methane that, in turn, accelerates warming 1979 2003 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
8. Permafrost thaws when T ≥ 0°C ACIA 2004 Methane bubbles In ice on a permafrost lake Katey Walter Permafrost is thawing
10. What science projects about the next 100 years compared to the last 400 Coloured lines pre-2000 are proxy-based temperature reconstructions by different groups. Gray wedge for 2000-2100 shows the range of IPCC global average projections based on different emission scenarios (A2) The recent ghg emission trend ( blue arrow) leads by 2100 to temperatures not reached since ~3 million years ago when sea level was 25 - 30m higher. Jumps in the trend may result from abrupt C releases The European Union’s global goal ( green emission trend) is not to exceed 2 ºC above pre-industrial temp: the onset of “dangerous climate change” likely too late. B1 After John Holdren 2007 ~ 400 ppm
11. 2050 2009 14 7 Billion of tons of carbon in CO2 and methane emitted per year 1955 0 Past emissions 2100 Initial reduction of emissions using improved existing technologies Stabilizing global avge temp rise below 2 0 C is an unprecedented technological, political, ethical, and social challenge Emissions peak 2020 - 2030 Deep reduction with new low C technologies David Pearson (Developed from Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow 2005) 2080 tripling CO2 Emissions 60 – 80% below 1990 level Beyond limits to adaptation ADAPTATION
14. Carbon stored in Alberta’s Oil Sands 170 billion barrels of oil 420 kg of CO 2 equivalent per barrel = 18 billion tonnes of Carbon (D.P.) per Alberta’s Oil Sands Forests of Papua New Guinea
15. Change in run-off water availability in 2050 compared with 1961-1990 (emission scenario A1)
17. Easterling and Apps, 2005 Temperate-zone crop yields start dropping at local ∆T ≥ 1-2°C Drops are more gradual than in tropics, but still significant. Where we’re headed: temperate-zone agriculture
18. Easterling and Apps, 2005 Crop yields in tropics start dropping at local ∆T ≥ 1-1.5°C Where we’re headed: agriculture in the tropics Rice Corn
21. Vulnerability Assessment and Risk Management for Adaptation Informed Decision Making Informed Decision Making Informed Decision Making Informed Decision Making OCCIAR 2009 Analyse Current Climate Impacts and Vulnerability Analyse Climate Data and Scenarios Build Adaptive Capacity Assess Climate Change Risk Implement Risk Reduction, Monitor, Evaluate and Adjust Risk Reduction Method & Plan Development
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Editor's Notes
Whatever you think of bailing out General Motors or giving huge amounts of money to banks, you have to be impressed by the enormous sums of money govts have been able to find so quickly; This is system we invented but v,few people predicted it would collapse. But it is the systems that operate here – the planet’s systems that are really in trouble – and thousands of scientists in the IPCC have been predicting that for years. And the situation is even worse than they have predicted. Have to have a sense of real URGENCY
Moberg mit Sedimenten für den langfristigen Trend Oerlemans: Gletscher Aus den Punkten 1-3 folgt fast zwangsl ä ufig diese weitere Erw ä rmung
“ The Wedge Model is the IPOD of climate change: You fill it with your favorite things.” David Hawkins, NRDC, 2007. Adopt a 50-year focus Anticipate a portfolio of options Emphasize the scale-up of what we already know how to do
Whatever you think of bailing out General Motors or giving huge amounts of money to banks, you have to be impressed by the enormous sums of money govts have been able to find so quickly; This is system we invented but v,few people predicted it would collapse. But it is the systems that operate here – the planet’s systems that are really in trouble – and thousands of scientists in the IPCC have been predicting that for years. And the situation is even worse than they have predicted. Have to have a sense of real URGENCY