Climate change has been a topic of debate for centuries. Back in the 1870s, there was also a growing awareness of the potential impacts of human activity on the climate, triggered by reasons and worries different than ...
In April 2018, China adjusted the functions of relevant government departments, and put the newly established Ministry of Ecology and Environment in charge of responding to climate change, thus reinforcing the coordination betwe...
Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea). PNAS 110, 8777-8781. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302698110.Wroe, S., Field, J.H., Archer, M., Grayson, D.K., Price, G.J., Louys, J., Faith, J.T., Webb, G.E.,...
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but 5 degrees is roughly how much difference there is between the world as it is today and as it was during the last Ice Age.[3]In other words, when we came out of the Ice Age,the planet warmed by 5 degrees over about 5000 years. Modern climate change threatens to produce the same...
But it could usher in a more matter-of-fact debate about climate change and mitigation, without the background cacophony. Arguably, the space between 1.5 and 3°C may be where the real story now lies. Note: Scenarios are not intended to be predictions of likely future events or outcomes ...
Laws and policy to stop climate change and global warming, including wildfire prevention, carbon limits, cap and trade, carbon tax, flood prevention, emergency mitigation, land use, migration, immigration.
This report precipitated an intense and discordant debate and led to the emergence of the hashtag #yes2meat, which became a focal point for the pro-meat discourse (Garcia et al., 2019). Similarly, in August 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported on the detrimental ...
Global projections of macroeconomic climate-change damages typically consider impacts from average annual and national temperatures over long time horizons1–6. Here we use recent empirical findings from more than 1,600 regions worldwide over the past 40
The prospect of human-induced climate change encourages drastic neomalthusian scenarios. A number of claims about the conflict-inducing effects of climate change have surfaced in the public debate in recent years. Climate change has so many potential consequences for the physical environment that we ...