Global Warming
Table 7.5Examples of climate variability and extreme climate events and their impacts∗ Projected changes during the twenty-first ...
190 The impactsof climate change costing can only represent a part of the overall impact story. Any assessment of impacts has to ...
Notes 191 4 From the information in Chapter 6, make estimates of possible climate change by the middle of next century for typic ...
192 The impactsof climate change 6 For a comprehensive account of the impact of climate change on Bangladesh see Warrick, R. A., ...
Notes 193 20 From Figure 3.6 in Watson, R.et al. (eds.) 2001.Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report.Contribution of Working Group ...
194 The impactsof climate change 37 Reilly, J.et al. 1996. Agriculture in a changing climate. In Watson,Climate Change 1995: Imp ...
Notes 195 50 Melillo, J. M.et al. 1996. Terrestrial biotic responses to environmental change and feedbacks to climate. In Hought ...
196 The impactsof climate change 63 SeeGlobal Environmental Outlook 3 (UNEP Report).2002. London: Earth- scan, pp. 272. 64 Studi ...
Chapter 8 Why should we be concerned? I havebeen describing the likely changes in climate that may occur as a result of human ac ...
198 Why shouldwe be concerned? global ecosystem; as the size and scale of human activities continue to escalate, so can the seri ...
‘Back to nature’ 199 Great benefits have come to humankind through the use of fossil fuels, minerals and other resources. Yet, m ...
200 Why shouldwe be concerned? The technical fix A third common attitude to the Earth is to invoke the ‘technical fix’. As a sen ...
The unity of theEarth 201 next generation. I do not think he had appreciated that the longer we delay in taking action, the larg ...
202 Why shouldwe be concerned? dependent on fires for their survival; for instance, some conifers require the heat of fire to re ...
Daisyworld andlife on the early Earth Daisyworld is an imaginary planet spinning on its axis and orbiting a sun rather like our ...
204 Why shouldwe be concerned? the the effect on the Earth’s system of substantial disturbances, in par- ticular vulnerability o ...
Environmentalvalues 205 committed to a belief...in thereality of matter and its place in the divine scheme’.^17 For the Christia ...
206 Why shouldwe be concerned? with ideas that come from the underlying environmental science. Is it legitimate, however, to mak ...
Environmentalvalues 207 human communities can assist in the definition and application of such shared values. Many of these shar ...
208 Why shouldwe be concerned? the disembodied intellect, which knows the way things work but not the way they are’.^31 However, ...
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