Central Otago, which tends to hang its hat on the ability to grow the phenomenally sensitive Pinot Noir, is set to get hotter with wilder, more unpredictable weather and stronger winds. As Phil Handford of Central Otago wineryGrasshopper Rockexplains: "There has been significant long-term warmin...
former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said repeatedly that the federal government is “asleep at the wheel,” so the onus is on cities to fight the effects of climate change, including extreme weather and the impacts on transportation and infrastructure...
Canadians face varied climate change impacts. They have already experienced extreme weather including costly wildfires, droughts, and floods. Several Canadian sub-populations, including its Indigenous Peoples (amongst them Arctic-dwellers), are particularly vulnerable, facing potentially cataclysmic destruction ...
the framing on the right acknowledges the futility of control. Solutions on the right focus on the basic human necessities of energy, water and food. Economic development supports these necessities while reducing our vulnerability to weather and climate ...
This chapter notes the efforts of implementing a climate change curriculum within the Harvard Graduate School of Education that helps to build competencies for potential leaders in different education sectors so that they can collaboratively combat climate change. Literature points out the fruitful and pr...
The energy source driving Earth’s weather comes from a. the Earth’s core through heat conduction. b. release of radiant heat energy through volcanic activity. c. the Sun through electromagnetic radiation. d. the Moon through tides. Both a and b produce heat energy, but not enough to warm...
These flavours of Green have been tried, and have proven to have insufficient appeal. We can regret this failure if we like. If the semi-forgotten Energy Crisis of the 1970s had provoked a wiser and more energetic response, we would not now be facing a weather crisis. But the past’s ...
occurring sunlight and to minimise shading within each chamber. The photosynthetic photon flux density was between 300 and 600 μmol m−2 s−1(equivalent to a photosynthetic active radiation of 65–130 W m−2) throughout the day, depending on the prevailing weather during the ...
development,(5)airpollution,and(6)anthropogenicinfluencesonweatherandclimate. Thiscourseincludesthreehourslectureandoneandone-halfhourslabperweek. PREREQUISITENone SEQUENCINGThiscourseisofferedinthefallandspringsemesters. METHODOFEVALUATION/GRADING Yourgradeiscompletelydeterminedbythetotalnumberofpointsearnedduringthese...
Trying to understand the link between forest fires and climate change, and to predict the future, researchers look at the available fire statistics and try to reveal links between forest fire trends and weather pattern modifications that can be attributed to climate change. They also use fire ...