191 Climate Change
Environmental Economics
MAY 29, 2018
Last week ( or at least that's when it was covered in the popular press ), climate scientist Ed Hawkins put out a simple illustration of changes in global temperatures since 1850.
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A Climate Change Crash
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2018
We expect climate change to have a mostly negative effect on natural habitats, at least short and medium term. Yes, there has “always” been climate change. But we also know that rapid change can have long term devastating effects.
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Can Migrating Birds Adapt To Climate Change?
Nature Conservancy - Science
MAY 7, 2019
Migratory birds are facing changing insect hatches and tree blooms. Birds & Birding Climate Change Birds Climate NatureNet FellowsHow can they adapt? And how can you help?
Overcoming a Climate Change Fallacy
Nature Conservancy - Science
DECEMBER 16, 2018
Climate Change From the Field Ideas Climate Natural Climate Solutions Nature-based Solutions TNC ScienceNew Science shows coastal wetlands in the U.S. remove more greenhouse gases – especially CO2 – than they release. For now.
System change not climate change
Green (Living) Review
JUNE 7, 2017
While “personal solutions” have some effect, even the smallest things, but they will not really change anything unless we are, all together, prepared to change the system. But less than hundred years later the Vikings seem to have abandoned Greenland for climatic reasons.
Recycling helps us avoid tackling Climate Change
Green (Living) Review
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Climate change and environmental destruction are contentious and disputed topics. In the US, for instance, there is a powerful faction of Republican politicians who flat-out deny that climate change even exists.
Climate Change and Birds
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2011
When climate changes, causing habitats to move, birds can get up and fly away to a new habitat, so really, they’ll be fine. I’ve been working on climate change lately (not causing it, but reading and writing about it) and birds have come up in a few places.
My Day at the Reality of Climate Change Hackathon
Nature Conservancy - Science
JUNE 30, 2019
36 hours at a Yale hackathon where students experiment with virtual, augmented and mixed reality to confront that global reality check of all reality checks: climate change. Climate Change Ideas Nature Tech Climate Natural Climate Solutions TNC Science
Is Climate Change Fair?
Environmental Economics
JULY 11, 2017
Just got around to reading the Hsiang et al piece in Science on the inequitable economics impacts of climate change. Here's the abstract: Estimates of climate change damage are central to the design of climate policies.
No punches pulled in Climate Change Encyclical
Green (Living) Review
JUNE 23, 2015
We are invited to “change direction” by taking on the beauty and responsibility of the task of “caring for our common home”. climate change Climate Change Encyclical Holy Father Pope Francis
EPA: Climate change research
Environmental Economics
JANUARY 25, 2017
From the EPA climate change webpage : EPA research improves knowledge of the health and environment effects of climate change and provides sustainable solutions for communities to effectively manage and reduce the impacts of a changing climate. Research Areas for Climate Change. Air Quality and Climate Change. Ecosystems and Climate Change. Energy and Climate C hange. Human Health and Climate Change.
The ‘Alal uses tools, Climate Change Hammers Hawaii
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
In a related story, a recent study notes that Kauai, an Island of Hawaii, have lost a lot of birds due to climate change. Birds climate change Conservation Hawaii tool useHawaiian Crows Use Tools.
Climate Change and Snot
Environmental Economics
MAY 28, 2015
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Censorship on Climate Change
Green Home Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2012
Censorship on Climate Change. Denial Whatever you choose to call it – climate change or global warming – it’s a hot-button issue as divisive and discordant in its arena (e.g., Tagged: climate change , ecofriendly , G.
Weitzman on climate change
Environmental Economics
MAY 29, 2013
Weitzman has also been working on environmental economics and most recently, in a series of widely cited academic papers, on the economics of global warming; the most famous, on the "Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change." Does it portend catastrophic climate change?
Managing Fisheries in the Face of Climate Change
Nature Conservancy - Science
AUGUST 29, 2018
Climate change is impacting fisheries, but regulating agencies are ill-equipped to respond to the challenges. Climate Change Fish & Fisheries Climate Fisheries Oceans
"Climate Change’s Bottom Line"
Environmental Economics
FEBRUARY 1, 2015
From a profile of "the Risky Business Project, an unusual collection of business and policy leaders determined to prepare American companies for climate change": In May 2014, the committee members gathered at the Bloomberg Philanthropies offices in Manhattan to hear two of the authors commissioned by the Rhodium Group — Robert E. Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University, and Solomon M.
Climate change threatens Christmas
Environmental Economics
DECEMBER 19, 2016
adaptation. https://t.co/hslh2bpBht. hslh2bpBht. — (((Richard Tol))) (@RichardTol) December 12, 2016
Arnold Schwarzenegger: climate change is not science fiction
Green (Living) Review
JULY 22, 2015
Arnold Schwarzenegger climate change science
RECYCLING HELPS US AVOID TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE
Green (Living) Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
Climate change and environmental destruction are contentious and disputed topics. In the US, for instance, there is a powerful faction of Republican politicians who flat-out deny that climate change even exists. In Britain, the Environment Secretary, Owen Patterson , is also a climate change sceptic, oddly enough. The 2011 Durban Climate Change Conference is a case in point – we’re three years later and no agreements have been reached.
EPA: Climate change research grants
Environmental Economics
JANUARY 25, 2017
From the EPA's climate change website : EPA funds climate change research grants to improve knowledge of the health and environment effects of climate change, and provide sustainable solutions for communities to effectively manage and reduce the impacts of a changing climate. Understanding the underlying factors contributing to changes air pollution and water quality.
Our 2 Biggest Obstacles to Fighting Climate Change.
Elephant Journal
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Editor's Picks Enlightened Society Green Yoga being Uncomfortable climate change ego fighting Climate Change greed green klesas Planet Earth yoga sutrasFor many, willful ignorance has become this “magical pill” that relieves them of taking responsibility or action.
Predicting Adaptation to Climate Change using Regional Heterogeneity in Mortality Effects of Temperature
Environmental Economics
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
My research on environmental economics is in solar geoengineering , health effects of air pollution and climate change , behavioral economics , and some other stuff. Lastly, when allowing for adaptation (gray bars), climate change isn't as bad.
"Conservatives and Climate Change"
Environmental Economics
JUNE 23, 2014
Paul Krugman: On Sunday Henry Paulson, the former Treasury secretary and a lifelong Republican, had an Op-Ed article about climate policy in The New York Times. In the article, he declared that man-made climate change is “the challenge of our time,” and called for a national tax on carbon emissions to encourage conservation and the adoption of green technologies. Considering the prevalence of climate denial within today’s G.O.P.,
Infrastructure week and [shhhh.] climate change
Environmental Economics
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
Hey, ignoring the potential for climate change doesn't make me look like a complete idiot ( Trump's infrastructure. )! Since the beginning of his administration, Mr. Trump and his appointees have steadily worked to roll back climate change regulations. chief, Scott Pruitt, has taken the lead role in the administration’s efforts to undo climate policies and question the validity of climate science.
Revealed costs of climate change?
Environmental Economics
MAY 4, 2016
government has started programs to pay for the relocation of those located in particularly vulnerable areas : In January, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants totaling $1 billion in 13 states to help communities adapt to climate change, by building stronger levees, dams and drainage systems. The U.S.
Climate change and stock shifts
Environmental Economics
DECEMBER 15, 2014
But many other fishermen do not blame climate change. Years of overfishing have winnowed some fish populations, muddling efforts to measure climate change’s impact. Fishermen, scientists and regulators often disagree over whether the current changes are temporary or the new normal. Weather records document a steady, if slow warming of the region’s waters since the 1850s, and a 50- to-70-year climatic cycle set off unusual ocean warming in the 1950s.
FAIR TRADE IN A WORLD OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Green (Living) Review
OCTOBER 29, 2014
While governments, scientists, civil society and others convened at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the U.N.’s s climate. disasters and higher costs to adapt to and mitigate climate change impacts.
"Economists agree: economic models underestimate climate change"
Environmental Economics
DECEMBER 8, 2015
David Roberts: It's fairly well-established at this point that there's a robust scientific consensus about the threat of climate change. Now the New York–based Institute for Policy Integrity has tried to remedy that situation with just such a large-scale survey of economists who have published work on climate change. Like scientists, economists agree that climate change is a serious threat and that immediate action is needed to address it.
Water pricing, "free" markets and climate change
Environmental Economics
AUGUST 21, 2015
I don't think adaption to climate change can be accomplished efficiently by government taking a hands off approach. day conference on the economics of climate change adaptation. Matt Kahn: Adam Nagourney appears to be an adherent of the ideas of the Club of Rome.
Here’s How Climate Change Will Make Food Less Nutritious
Green (Living) Review
JULY 30, 2015
The increase in nutritional deficiencies these drops could cause “represents the most significant health threat ever shown to be associated with climate change,” according to a Harvard press release. climate change food nutrition
"Republicans criticize climate change cost accounting"
Environmental Economics
MARCH 10, 2015
In other words, some people don't like measuring the benefits of climate change mitigation: Senate Republicans are criticizing the Obama administration for using what they see as an opaque, secretive process to calculate the costs associated with climate change. The administration uses social cost of carbon to calculate the societal benefits of regulations that reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are believed to cause climate change.
"Crime, weather, and climate change"
Environmental Economics
MAY 6, 2014
This paper estimates the impact of climate change on the prevalence of criminal activity in the United States. Between 2010 and 2099, climate change will cause an additional 22,000 murders, 180,000 cases of rape, 1.2 Based on these per-offense valuations, the right-hand side of Table 3 shows estimates of the social cost of the climate-related crime that is likely to occur between 2010 and 2099. Matthew Ranson in JEEM : Abstract.
The 14-Year-Old Voice of the Climate Change Generation
Green (Living) Review
JANUARY 6, 2015
We are the generation of change.” In December, HBO will debut the music video “Be the Change,” by Martinez’ hip-hop group, Voice of Youth. In These Times spoke to Martinez about how to stop climate change. activism climate change green living
"Trump denies calling climate change a hoax"
Environmental Economics
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
In case you missed the debate Monday night (I wish I had), I think this was the only environmental economics: Donald Trump on Monday sparred with Hillary Clinton over whether he has called climate change a hoax as they debated the nation's energy policy. She predicted that “some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 20th century,” adding that, “Donald Trump thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.”
New Science Shows Nature’s Potential to Fight Climate Change
Nature Conservancy - Science
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
New research shows that we have vastly underestimated the potential for nature to fight climate change. Climate Change Adaptation Agriculture Climate Forest Carbon Research Restoration Wetlands
Free Webinar on Climate Change Solutions
Green (Living) Review
JUNE 26, 2014
Gaia Education are holding a free webinar on climate change solutions. Their next project is to launch a series of free webinars with the first one exploring Climate Change Solutions.
Another benefit of climate change.
Environmental Economics
AUGUST 30, 2013
the potential to uncover cool new tourist attractions. One of the biggest canyons in the world has been discovered buried beneath. more than two miles of ice in Greenland
"Details Of Obama’s Climate Change Plan"
Environmental Economics
AUGUST 4, 2015
president to combat the effects of climate change. Here are some key details of Obama’s climate change plan: Immediate removal of smokestacks atop White House. The Onion: President Obama unveiled Monday a plan to increase the country’s clean power usage that many are calling the strongest action ever taken by a U.S. Designates team of workers to cool down planet’s hottest surfaces with damp towels and washcloths. Increases wind by 80 million gusts.
The Climate Change Grammar Police*
Environmental Economics
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
"Has Exxon been funding these organizations?" " she asked. "Well, "Well, the answer is yes," [Kenneth Cohen, ExxonMobil's VP of Public and Government Affairs] replied. "And "And I will let those organizations respond for themselves."
What can small cities do to fight climate change?
Green (Living) Review
SEPTEMBER 20, 2014
Our huge and wasteful appetite for energy sucks money out of the economy and produces greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. climate change green living CARROTS BEAT STICKS Everyone should know by now that the U.S.
On my reading list: "The Economic Impacts of Climate Change"
Environmental Economics
JANUARY 29, 2018
Abstract: This article reviews the economic impacts of climate change and the policy implications of the results. Current estimates indicate that climate change will likely have a limited impact on the economy and human welfare in the twenty-first century. In fact, the initial impacts of climate change may well be positive. Poverty reduction complements greenhouse gas emissions reduction as a means to reduce climate change impacts.
Pope Francis scooped on climate change doctrine!
Green Prophet
JUNE 16, 2015
It puts a papal high beam on environmental stewardship and climate change , specifically on its impact on human life. He continues that the heaviest impacts of climate change “will probably fall in the coming decades on developing countries.
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