PPT-Climate change and Paleoclimates

Climate change Climate change can be discussed in short medium and long timescales Shortterm recent climate change is on a timescale of decades an example would be global warming The mediumterm historical timescale covers changes over the last few thousand years. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rising global temperatures will very likely increase the frequency and intensity of heat waves droughts and heavy rainfall events adversely affecting agriculture forests water resources indu About the Resiliency of Habitable States? . An Example from the . Neoproterozoic. Snowball Earth. Linda E. Sohl. ,. 1,2. . Mark A. Chandler. ,. 1,2. . Jeffrey Jonas. ,. 1,2. . Alexander Pavlov. ,. Problems. Prof. B.K.P. Sinha, IFS (Retd.). Advisor, . Amity School of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development. Email. : . balkrishanps@amity.edu. Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Metropolitan Cities . Central Great Plains Climate Education Partnership. A . regional project. Agricultural producers. Rural communities. Rural schools. Outline For This Talk. Overview of our project. Lessons from . research focus . Using these websites, the textbook and your own research- complete a table of information about how people at different scales are responding to climate change. Individual . Local. National. International. John Olson. Desert Research Institute. Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting. 23 May 2016. River & stream salinity. Varies . over four orders of magnitude, . specific electrical conductivity (EC) from < . resources of the western U.S.. Dennis P. Lettenmaier. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. University of Washington. University of . Texas Austin. Center for Integrated Earth System Science Seminar Series. Entry . Into Climate . Change Adaption . Surfrider’s 30 years of coastal . preservation . advocacy applies directly to climate change.. Limit impacts . to . ecosystems, public . access & recreation. Doug Campbell. Department of Philosophy. University of Canterbury. What is skepticism?. First pass: a skeptic is someone who opposes bullshit. . Okay: but what’s ‘bullshit?’. How is this technical term to be unpacked?. What is it? . An assessment of the risks . climate change poses to human health in the United . States . An Interagency product of the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). Part of the ongoing National Climate Assessment (NCA) process. Sea Level Rise and the Future of Coastal Cities. Boston University. 14 November 2014. Outline. Context. What do we know, and how do we know?. Implications for the future. Actions for today. We are a coastal city…. S. Appanah. Climate Change Coordinator . a.i. . . FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Background. Review “Rice and climate change in Asia”. Study outsourced to IRRI. Constitutes part of consultation on the formulation of rice strategy for Asia. Is it getting worse?. Are Humans causing it?. Is Time running out?. Is there anything that should be done?. Is the “standard model” the only option?. Climate change?. . “Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.” Enrico Fermi 1938.. Climate Matters in the Newsroom Josh Murphy Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) George Mason University Overview Our Mission (4C) “ We develop and apply social science insights to help society make informed decisions that will stabilize the Earth’s life-sustaining climate, and prevent further harm from climate change.”