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While climatologists believe that humans play an active role in climate change, petroleum geologists and the meterologists do not [1].... An analysis of the atmospheric circulation data from the Northern Hemisphere reveals that climate change has occurred due to the changes in the frequency of occurence of natural atmospheric circulation regimes [2].... Northern Hemisphere climate change – A COMBINATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURAL FACTORS....
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While there has been a scientific agreement about climate change, there has not been an agreement among nations' responses to climate change and there are several deductions as to why this is the case (Frantz & Stephan 205).... This research is going to examine the reasons why there are varied reactions to climate change.... The UN Environment Program approximates that the added economic adversities related to climate change translate to over $300 billion each given year....
A debate has therefore developed on the applicability of volcanic activities to climate change studies.... climate change is brought about by many factors.... Studies to determine the level of climate change is done using observation and theorems.... There also are climate change feedbacks which are elements that act in three ways to climatic forcings (Orr, 1999).... Lamb and various researchers analyzed data and suggested that volcanism was very instrumental in causing climate change in the past 500 years....
Businesses are now faced with the challenge of responding to climate change in a way that will support their corporate strategy, which includes the business' corporate social responsibility.... Climate change is commonly associated with industrial factories churning out smoke from cooling towers, however, non-industrial organisations contribute to climate change through their carbon and greenhouse emissions generated by their operations and product/service lifecycle (Grubb 1989, Cantwell 1995, ICTSD 2005)....
he organization works with an intention of bringing close business and environmental communities to attainment of mutual understanding and comprehension on issues that contribute to climate change, and derive consensus solutions regarding the challenges in energy sectors.... Some of the examples that support this move are with inclusion of integration of collaborative efforts to reduce operations that highly facilitate to climate change and those that negatively affect the environment(Ruddiman, 2003: 261-293)....
It has been widely argued that human activities contribute to climate change.... Even though the current climate change could not be wholly attributed to human activities, it is evident that human activities contribute by far to climate change.
... "Arguing on Anthropogenic climate change" paper evaluates the arguments for and against anthropogenic climate change to give an evidence-based argument for anthropogenic climate change....
o Hansen (2000), the effect of these gases from the burning of fossil fuels is climate change.... nited Nations Environment Programme (2003) has acknowledged global warming is responsible for climate change.... "Living in a World Free of global Warming or with All the Riches in a World with global Warming" paper studies how global warming affects the entire world.... According to Nordhaus (2007), occurrence of global warming is because of the high concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) like carbon dioxide which are brought by the burning of fossil fuels....
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eing able to predict future fire activity that is related to climate change is a leap towards appreciating the future state of the Boreal ecosystem since the natural disturbances are usually controlled by the interplay between biotic and abiotic factors.... The forest covers nearly thirty four percent of all the land which translates to 412 million hectares and it is also transcontinental in that it stretches from Alaska's Pacific and Its unique characteristics are quickly changing as a result of human and natural pressure and this area is expected to be one of the most rapidly impacted regions of the world by the climate change that is ongoing which might lead to degradation of the Boreal eco systems in the end (Shvidenko & Apps, 2006)....
This paper ''climate change and the Experience of Poverty'' tells us that stakeholders have the option of responding to extreme weather events.... A gap exists in the current literature on the relationship between climate change and poverty.... Mitigation encompasses reducing the impact that one has on the environment through the reduction of one's carbon footprint among other activities....
This paper "Global Warming and climate change" discusses that scientific studies have indicated that human activities are the major causes of global warming.... Part 1 For decades, global warming and climate change have been at the center of most social and political debates.... In turn, climate change causes effects like the Arctic and Antarctic ice loss, coral bleaching, extreme weather patterns like the tsunamis and the tornadoes (Texley, 2011)....
”climate change is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism” Sir David King, the chief scientific adviser of UK Government declared (BBC, 2004).... Literature Review "All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real.... The climate change points towards more rainfalls in the New York State....
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... Apart from the direct human activities, animals too have contributed to climate change.... They thus produce a high amount of methane gas daily which is harmful to the environment and has contributed to climate change....
This article defines a role for cities and their inhabitants in climate change governance.... The study explores some of the consequences of the inattention of the climate change literature, and especially the mainstream U.... based legal scholarship on climate change.... Then it outlines some of the normative advantages of city-inclusive governance in the context of climate change regulation and some possible solutions to address the concerns addressed before....
Henson, R 2008, The Rough Guide to climate change.... This dissertation "climate change" shows that focus especially on transportation, and its role in urban communities, one fact was clear from across the literature – that global transport emissions are not only huge, but growing fast, and expected to continue in this trend.... iterature Review: climate change and the Sustainability of Urban Communities and Urban Transport Emissions Focus especially on transportation, and its role in urban communities, one fact was clear from across the literature – that global transport emissions are not only huge, but growing fast, and expected to continue in this trend....
There is migration of people from the increased climate change leading to severe drought, coastal flooding, and shoreline erosions.
... anna, E, Huybrechts, P, Steffen, K, Cappelen, J, Huff, R, Shuman, C & Griffiths, M 2008, Increased runoff from melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: a response to global warmin, Journal of Climate, 21(2), 331-341.
... Moreover, there is growing air pollution leading to great implications to human health, and growing problem in the electricity supply, change of seasons, and destruction of the coral reefs....
"The Eucalyptus Leaf Characteristics and Habitat Complexity Change in response to climate" paper identifies the changes realized during the field trip study in relation to the eucalyptus leaf characteristics and habitat complexity.... The Eucalyptus leaf characteristics and habitat complexity change in response to climate
... How do Eucalyptus leaf characteristics change in response to climate (e.... How does habitat complexity change in response to climate (e....
In the paper 'Business and Climate Change' the author analyses the challenge of responding to climate change in a way that will support business corporate strategy, which includes the business' corporate social responsibility.... Businesses are now faced with the challenge of responding to climate change in a way that will support their corporate strategy, which includes the business' corporate social responsibility.... Climate change is commonly associated with industrial factories churning out smoke from cooling towers, however, non-industrial organisations contribute to climate change through their carbon and greenhouse emissions generated by their operations and product/service lifecycle (Grubb 1989, Cantwell 1995, ICTSD 2005)....
As at 2015, the country's energy consumption had ballooned with the country consuming 17 percent more coal contents than what had been reported the previous years (IPCC climate change 2007).... PCC, “climate change (2007): Mitigation of climate change,” Intergovernmental Panel on climate change, 2007.... China's National climate change Programme, National Development and Reform Commission of China, Beijing, China, 2007....
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Recent climate change is recognised as fundamentally a problem brought about by human actions, with ultimately the survival of humanity and ecosystems at stake.... climate change is increasingly framed as an issue where the threats are severe, increasingly imminent and potentially catastrophic.... If the worst predictions of scientists prove to be accurate, then no one will be able to escape the consequences of climate change.... While it is increasingly accepted by a growing number of policy makers that action needs to be taken immediately to address climate change, it is politically difficult to do so when the impacts, in most parts of the world, are still insignificant....
World Health Organization (WHO)-climate change and human health - risks and responses.... Effects of global warming on: Plant life; global warming and climatic change have become the major cause of the change in the functioning and the distribution of plant life.... This change has led to the problem of speciation and extinction of plants.... In addition to this, there may result to a change in the herbivore nutrition due to the variation in the Carbon Nitrogen ratio....
The opposers to this argument assert that the climate change panic has gathered pace globally, and it is fueled by global skirmishes over the finite resources, international politics, as well as economic doom-saying from stakeholders whose motives are ulterior.... In response to this, Long (32) echoes how the catastrophic climates changes have had effects on the surface conditions of the planet and directed the gigantic or minute environmental factors' changes....
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nother similar study was carried out by Viscusi and Zeckhauser in which over 250 respondents took part in a survey and gave their opinion on the problem of climate change, how realistic it is, and how much they would be willing to pay for climate-change mitigation policies.... ne similar study was carried out in Australia to gauge their perceptions about climate change, and whether or not they are willing to take action against it.... It was found that at that time, there was less willingness to pay to fight climate change....
Following the little attention offered to climate change issues by policy makers in the 1990s, its effects spread to a substantial extent.... climate change policy brief Name: Instructor: Task: Date: climate change mitigation policy brief Title: Human behavior change as a remedy to global climate change Produced for: Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC) Executive summary The worrying trends of increase in ice melts in most of the world's mountain peaks including the Himalayas prove that existing strategies to reduce climate change are unproductive....
The exponential rise in the surface temperature of the earth and the increase in the global sea level has been a major aspect of climate change.... he effects of global warming on the animals in the North Pole In the past decade, the exponential rise in surface temperature of the earth and the increase in the global sea level has been a major aspect of climate change.... Also, not all accept that climate change is bad.... Thus, skeptics and opponents of global warming do not see the need to take measures to slow down or reverse global warming and climate change (Aizebeokhai)....
climate change has a negative impact on all living organisms in the natural environment either for the short-term and for the long-term.... For short climate change, raise the sea level which will get over the coastal habitats everywhere, causing severe flooding, erosion, and disruption of low lying shorelines.... The intergovernmental evaluation on climate change indicates that there was a significant difference of 0.... he Intergovernmental Panel on climate change state that sea level rise might vary between 9 and 48 cm in a low emissions scenario at 2080....
Nearly half of the members are small island states, several of which were placed at the forefront of the climate debate such as tiny island states like the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and Tuvalu and Kiribati in the Pacific, whose continued existence is being threatened by rising ocean levels linked to climate change (Fletcher).
... The paper "The Copenhagen Conference on climate change" discusses that looking to the future, disagreements on how many individual nations have to sacrifice in terms of money and time to develop alternate technology promise to be hotly debated and difficult to resolve....
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To sum up, tourism companies and the industry at large will use the outcomes of the research to develop strategic approach to climate change which in turn ensure future tourism activities in these regions.
... owever, the close relationship to the environment has prompted the adventure tourism companies to feel and react promptly to climate change impacts, come up with business practices that can cope with these effects (Grant, 2008).... Adaptation to climate change is regarded as the only way out that will foster tourism sustainability in the Polar Regions (Porter & Reinhardt, 2007)....
There are many factors causing climate change with human activities being the main contributors to climate change.... This premise that by reducing the trips that people make by vehicles, emissions that contribute to climate change are to reduce is based on the arguments that increased trips by automobiles increases the emissions and this eventually impacts on the quality of air in the US.... Developed countries have adopted this strategy whereby companies which do not want to contribute to climate change are paying other stakeholders in developing countries to plant trees on their behalf....
This essay "Contemporary Risk Management and climate change" focuses on global warming and global climate change which are critical environmental issues with implications for the risk management and insurance industry.... Global warming/climate change may be the leading issue in sustainable development.... Running Head: RISK MANAGEMENT Risk Management: Change in Climate of the of the Risk Management: Change in Climate Global warming and global climate change are critical environmental issues with major implications for the risk management and insurance industry....
The article presents a research conducted by the authors showing background stress reduces the ability of corals to resist global climate change.... climate change and Carbon Threats to Coral Reefs: National Meteorological and Ocean Services as Sentinels.... climate change and Carbon Threats to Coral Reefs: National Meteorological and Ocean Services as Sentinels.... Global change Biology, 15(7), 1804-1816.... Global change Biology, 17(1), 45-55....
Lastly, community or group effort lags far behind in context to climate change.... Thus, one can easily relate climate change to the Global Financial Crisis, as the latter seems to be the deterring point behind the ignorance on the former.... However, this isn't the point where it can be established that climate change is a lost cause.... The scholarship on climate change indicates that government involvement with the issue is very critical to resolving the crisis at hand....
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The Main Challenges Faced By the International Community in the Successful Implementation of a Global Government, Response to These Challenges and the Future of Global Governance The global climate change discussions offer a graphic illustration of the forms of challenges that usually hamper the efforts to develop common global environmental regulations and political norms.... The response to these challenges is diverse and one of the common means used in negotiations and the formation of global movements and discourses....
The geochemistry of the wetlands is also very useful in tracing both the palaeoenvironmental changes and Palaeoenvironment: Quaternary materials and succession related to climate and sea level change Introduction Understanding of both the sedimentary and environmental responses in the coastal areas to the changes in climate and sea levels is very fundamental for proper management of the coastal areas and land use.... Understanding of both the sedimentary and environmental responses in the coastal areas to the changes in climate and sea levels is very fundamental for proper management of the coastal areas and land use....
The solutions to climate change are somewhat contested implying that there is no one specific solution that will stabilize GHG emission, it can only reduce it.... It is therefore important to use the platform offered by these meetings to come up with a consensus relating to climate change (Finegan, 2003: 23).... (2008) Framing adaptation to climate change – a challenge for building institutions.... The paper "Ensuring climate change Policies within the Organisation" discusses that the company needs to set up extreme measures to ensure climate change policies within the organisation are followed to the letter....
Recycling is beneficial in the process of environmental conservation because greenhouse gases produced by wastes contribute to climate change (Recycling Basics, 2015).... A big percentage of the amount of waste produced affects the amount of GHG produced and finallyleads to climate change.... This report "The Potential of Recycling in Mitigating Global climate change" discusses recycling that plays an enormous role in mitigating and reducing climate change resulting from global warming....
The connection between global warming and human rights cannot be underestimated because, as global warming shapes climates and migration patterns, it can also affect people's access to basic human rights to food, water, and shelter and their freedoms of speech and movement.... United States and Sudan do not share similar human rights values for basic rights and freedoms because they differ in current human rights global warming has similar negative effects on human rights issues because of its impacts on health and water and food security in the U....
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To reduce the impact of climate change, countries have adopted measures to reduce carbon emission and improve the potential of the environment to absorb excess green house emissions.... climate change: A Natural Hazard.... climate change.... In the 1000 years prior to 1850, temperatures were relatively stable according to climate proxies with few significant variations such as the medieval warm era and the modest ice age.... This difference in change of temperatures can be attributed to the fact that oceans have a higher effective heat capacity and they lose more heat through evaporation than land surface....
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he global climate change discussions offer a graphic illustration of the forms of challenges that usually hamper the efforts to develop common global environmental regulations and political norms.... The response to these challenges is diverse and one of the common means used is negotiations and the formation of global movements and discourses.... he Main Challenges Faced By the International Community in the Successful Implementation of a Global Government, response to These Challenges and the Future of Global Governance
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For every firm to be able to take control of this dynamic change there is a need to employ relevant strategic move.... rom the given illustration using the firm Apple, the ultimate reason why it leads in its industry today is due to its ability to manage with change.... In fact, leadership could be all about the ability of an organization, firm or individual to manage with change (Mercer and Wyman, 2007; Nahavandi, 2011; Davies, 2005; Kotter, 1990)....
Since the increase in the sea level is a confident scientific prediction of change in climate, it has been subjected to various research studies with regard to its possible influences on issues to do with coastal management (Subramanian, 2012).... Nonetheless, it is useful to focus on various projections regarding the science of global change and the uncertainties that are affecting it.... The individuals in charge of planning are expected to carefully consider the effects of climatic change as a way of minimizing the impacts to come in future regarding the new infrastructure....
The Stern Report (2006) on the Economics of climate change made some landmark observations as to the detrimental impact of the global warming upon the tourist economy.... While drawing attention to the potential damage caused by unmitigated climate change it stated that,
... The overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year, now and foreverDamage could rise to 20% of GDP or more.... he South West is a particular example of the how regional manifestations of climate change are becoming highly relevant for tourism destinations and tourists alike whereas allegedly the needful response has been said to be missing from the tourism managers of the region (Amelung et al 2008)....
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The purpose of the following research is to describe the changes in public policies implemented in the United Kingdom as a response to climate change.... Assuming this, the alternative to not mitigating or adapting to climate change imperatives, however, is far more costly.... climate change AND UK PUBLIC POLICY Introduction In line with the adage “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” it is important for mitigation efforts to begin as soon as possible in order to reduce the needed adaptation measures in the future....
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The Potential Impact of climate change on Insurance Regulation.... According to National Association of Insurance Commissioner (NAIC) (2008) 60 percent of American companies indicated lack of change in the climate risk policies with over reliance of ancient.... The change in ideology is pushed by the market demand and threat for incompliance from business and potential customers.... The laws where used to give a scenario in which the rule books are subject to change....
management of cost base, foreign exchange rate exposures, inability to obtain required price increase, geopolitical tensions and major impact of climate change.... For the market risks which include inability to obtain required price increase, geopolitical tensions and major climate chance separate strategies at the corporate level were done and should give priority to those with high-level risks which include competition from illicit trade, excise shocks from tax rate increase or structure changes, and management of cost base....
The changes in biodiversity with regard to climate change entail disruption of specie distribution.... egional Climatic Implications resulting from climate change Mitigation Policies 10
... lthough attention with regard to socio-economic implications of climate change on lower income earning groups has largely been given to Black Americans, recent studies have also identified the Australian Indigenous Communities as affected groups (Ross & Gerrard, 2008)....
Global warming leads to climate change which in turn will affect the quality of life and habitat of lizards and this could certainly lead to extinction.... The effect of the climate change on the Behavioral of the Lizards climate change has affected both animal and plant life.... climate change affects lizard life significantly.... Moreover, the reproduction period of lizards has been affected by climate change as well....
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The extent in which climate change will have an impact on human health will vary by the duration and extent of exposure to climate change itself, by region, by society's ability to cope to or adapt with the change, and by relative vulnerability of population groups (Watson, Zinyoera & Moss 1996).... Warmer temperature due to climate change has created those conditions that are favor vectors and germs spread such mosquitoes.... For example, environmental changes due to climate change have affected traditional activities such as ceremonial practices, bush tucker and hunting collection and this has affected nutritional intake as well as mental health of indigenous people (Ellemor 2005)....
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... This paper "Approaches to climate change in the Asia and Pacific Region" has analyzed the factors that have led to climate change in the Asia Pacific region and examined the issues in the context of the relative importance of climate change mitigation and adaptation in these regions.... Discuss the relative importance of these two approaches to climate change in the Asia and Pacific region....
A slow response to climate change by global players only worsens the situation for it may eventually result in a myriad of economic hardships that may stunt growth and development.... Organisational development largely depends on the organisation's ability to adapt to climate change and respond to disasters; in this regard, organisations are turning to organisational development practitioners for solutions to respond to climate change and disasters (Nguyen, 2007)....
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Global climate change is a phenomenon that has been happening for millions of years and is still happening up to date.... lobal climate change is a phenomenon that has been happening through millions of years and is still happening up to date.... As a result of such occurrences, the regional and global, international organizations, which are involved in both the political and economic aspects of life, should be able to arrange a global response that is effective (Weiss, Forsythe, Coate, & Pease, 2009, p....