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CCW.org and ClimatePrep.org interview Jared Diamond: Where do we go from here?
01/06/11 15:31
Last October, my friend and colleague Eliot Levine from ClimatePrep.org and I sat down and talked with world-renowned conservation biologist Jared Diamond and author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse (as well as many other publications) and asked him to look forward in time: how do we cope with the coming climate change impacts globally? What kinds of choices do we face? What risks do we face? Our questions to Diamond focused on finding the emerging issues that we in the developed world, the developing world, and all humans globally face as we move forward.
Given who was interviewing him and the scope of the issues we were discussing, Diamond prominently mentions water as a fundamental adaptation problem. Our discussion lasted about an hour and a half and was both wide ranging and rich. Hence a length of 11 minutes.
Given who was interviewing him and the scope of the issues we were discussing, Diamond prominently mentions water as a fundamental adaptation problem. Our discussion lasted about an hour and a half and was both wide ranging and rich. Hence a length of 11 minutes.
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Call for Colleagues: Mongolian ice-sheets
03/11/10 13:08
Dear Colleagues,
We are based in Mongolia and would like to share with you some novel research we are undertaking.
We are investigating ice shields that form in winter, and are called naleds (Russian) = aufeis (German) = taryn (Yakutian) = icing (English). We have detected thousands in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, around Beijing, Tibet and across parts of Central Asia. Many are far from permafrost and are even found in scorching hot deserts provided the winters are severe enough to freeze water easily.
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We are based in Mongolia and would like to share with you some novel research we are undertaking.
We are investigating ice shields that form in winter, and are called naleds (Russian) = aufeis (German) = taryn (Yakutian) = icing (English). We have detected thousands in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, around Beijing, Tibet and across parts of Central Asia. Many are far from permafrost and are even found in scorching hot deserts provided the winters are severe enough to freeze water easily.
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Flowing Forward: Managing infrastructure in a shifting climate
08/09/10 03:44
The impacts of climate change are most visible in the dramatic changes occurring to the planet’s freshwater resources, says a new report written by WWF for the World Bank. The report, Flowing Forward and available at FlowingForward.org, finds both “visible” water such as rivers, lakes, precipitation, glaciers and snowpack, and water used for crops and livestock, health and sanitation services, hydroelectric and nuclear power as well as manufacturing and business are heavily influenced by climate change.
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Video: Conservation portfolios for climate adaptation - Daniel Schindler, University of Washington
07/01/10 16:38
In this video, Daniel Schindler of the University of Washington discusses his research on ecosystem changes in response to climate change and the importance of heterogeneity. Schindler is a fisheries ecologist who works on a wide range of topics, especially with salmonids and plankton in the Pacific Northwest of the North America. Read More...
Meteorology & Climate Change Skepticism
26/06/08 18:29
Your local TV meteorologist seems like she or he should be my natural ally: a person in the local media market you trust, who is educated in climate science, and who can relate climate science and climate change trends to the daily news. These meteorologists should be the local evangelists of climate change. Sadly, they are often not. Read More...
NEWS: Death of Philip Corbet
31/03/08 09:39
