Archive for 'Adaptation'
Adaptation and Organic Development: Part I
A Guest Blog by Mohammad A. Chakaki
Standing amidst Dubai’s tall buildings and immaculate landscaping or gazing out at the sandy desert beyond all the construction, one could be forgiven for not realizing that this emirate’s dominant ecology is coastal and marine. I certainly wasn’t looking there when I first got to Dubai, and I imagine this [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2008 under Adaptation, Climate Changes, Guest Blogs.
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Fly Derrie-Air
With the tremendous increases in the price of fuel (the price of light sweet crude, the benchmark indicator for crude oil prices, went up over $10 in a single day on the New York Mercantile Exchange for July delivery - almost 10%), including setting up a new record high of $139.12. There are many reasons [...]
Posted: June 8th, 2008 under Adaptation, Climate Economics.
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No Where to Run: Species Extinction and Climate Change
My favorite website - www.mongabay.com - has a terrific interview with Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo, an ecologist at Stanford University, on defaunation (the full interview is available here). Defaunation is the removal of species from an ecosystem through different processes, including hunting, deforestation, wildlife trade, invasive species, and extinction (both local and global) through forest fragmentation [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2008 under Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate Changes, Climate Science.
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Lots of Signal, Little Noise. New meta-analysis study on Climate Change.
A major meta-analysis study published in the May 15 edition of Nature that combined nearly 30,000 data sets on biological and physical changes around the world collected for at least 20 years between 1970 to 2004 with a detailed database of global temperature change found, not surprisingly, that the biological changes were strongly correlated with [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2008 under Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate Changes, Climate Science.
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Not Just Pretty Places: More on Climate Change & Tourism
This article has some great images showing 20 of the world’s travel destinations that are threatened by climate change. These images not only help to visualize where climate change will cause damages, it highlights the fact that the entire world will be impacted.
And it’s important to note that many of those places, though they are [...]
Posted: May 14th, 2008 under Adaptation.
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The Plight of Tropical Bugs
The mission of C2Si focuses on both conservation and adapting to climate change because these two issues are inextricably linked both scientifically and in terms of humanity’s response. A new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlights just how important this connection is.
Curtis Deutsch, of UCLA, and his colleagues have looked [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2008 under Adaptation, Biodiversity.
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Adapting Food Production
Following on the earlier post regarding rising food prices as a result of climate change, the Washington Post has a good article detailing the myriad challenges farmers and planners will face to adapt their agricultural practices, food production systems, and food distribution issues in response to a changing climate.
In a warmer world beset by greater [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2008 under Adaptation, Climate Economics.
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