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Climate Change - Science topic
Climate Change is an any significant change in measures of climate (such as temperature, precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period (decades or longer). It may result from natural factors such as changes in the sun's intensity, natural processes within the climate system such as changes in ocean circulation, or human activities.
Questions related to Climate Change
the scientific consensus is that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are the primary driver of the observed changes in global climate patterns.
Why are the commitments made by governments and corporations at the UN COP Climate Summits not being implemented?
Why are the pledges made by governments and corporations at the UN COP Climate Summits to accelerate the processes of green transformation of the economy not being implemented or only marginally implemented?
The 28th UN Climate Conference (COP 28) will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from November 30 to December 12, 2023. In view of the fact that 2023 was the warmest year in 125,000 years, so the question is increasingly topical: Why are the pledges made by governments and corporations at the UN COP Climate Summits to accelerate the processes of green transformation of the economy not being implemented or only marginally implemented? The COP28 Climate Summit once again points to the need to raise funds to help economically underdeveloped countries and those particularly burdened by the negative effects of the accelerating process of global warming to finance pro-environmental and pro-climate economic ventures, create solutions to reduce the aforementioned negative effects of climate change, and prevent the development of these negative effects, including but not limited to building power plants based on renewable and zero-emission energy sources, building additional irrigation systems, desalinating seawater, developing climate-resilient construction, developing sustainable agriculture adequately protected against increasingly frequent and severe periods of drought, counteracting the progressive process of soil aridity, stopping the progressive process of deforestation of tropical rainforests, and so on. In addition, once again, as at previous UN COP climate conferences, the same demands were made, including, among others, that there should be no more support for fossil fuels, as unfortunately these subsidies are still in place. In addition, that the continuing processes of forest deforestation should be replaced with aforestation, among other things, in industrially degraded areas, that the rapid decline in the biodiversity of the planet's natural ecosystems should be halted, that expansive industrial agriculture should be replaced with sustainable organic farming, that waste generation should be reduced and closed-loop economics should be developed, and so on. However, at the current UN Climate Conference COP28, strongly controversial issues have emerged, which may suggest that the issue of urgently accelerating the green transformation of the economy is still not taken seriously by some countries. Well, the UN Climate Conference COP28 will be chaired by a board member of one of the world's largest oil companies. The hosts of this year's COP28 Climate Conference, the Saudis want to promote technologies to capture CO2 from the atmosphere and do not want to reduce oil production. Unfortunately, this way the climate crisis will not be solved. This issue evidently confirms the thesis that countries that have developed large-scale fossil fuel extraction and/or processing industries are not interested in seriously, efficiently and quickly implementing the green transformation of the economy.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
Why are the pledges made by governments and corporations at the UN COP Climate Summits to accelerate the processes of green transformation of the economy not being implemented or only marginally implemented?
Why are the commitments made by governments and corporations at the UN COP Climate Summits not being implemented?
And what is your opinion on this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
· Discuss the use of drought-resistant crop varieties and their role in adapting to changing climate conditions.
· Express the challenges associated with managing extreme weather events, such as prolonged droughts and erratic rainfall patterns in dryland areas.
· Evaluate the benefits of agroforestry and windbreaks in mitigating the impact of wind erosion on dryland farms.
· Compare government policies and support systems for promoting climate-resilient dryland agriculture in different regions.
Out of nowhere apparently came at the same time in 2023, researchers from different countries, governments from different countries, different international organizations and banks, all are praying in the name of CIRCULAR ECONOMY at the same time, from different angles and levels.
Probably some of them are the same researchers, countries and organizations that in 1987 were praising the SCIENCE BASED call *WCED 1987 Our Common Future to move away from traditional economic thinking as the only way to correct its social and environmental market failures are now endorsing.
Perhaps some of them are the same researchers, countries and organization that in *2012 UNCSD Rio +20 conference The Future We Want were endorsing the SCIENCE BASED decision to go green markets, green economies and green growth to solve the environmental market failure embedded in the pricing mechanism of the traditional market.
THEN THEY apparently forgot that, and they are now PROMOTING THE PROBLEM AS THE SOLUTION, BUT THIS TIME THE PROBLEM IS CIRCULAR, an apparent contradiction.
Keep in mind that the environmental market failure associated to the traditional market that go uncorrected by going circular economy MEANS now that under CIRCULAR ECONOMY THINKING we formally have a life under a PERMANENT MARKET FAILURE that is profitable for those polluting and for those cleaning after them.
Is this science or ideology? Can the root cause of a sustainability problem be made the solution to that problem just by making the problem circular?
And this raises the question: Is the 2023 circular economy push perfect academic tunneling?
I think yes. What do you think?
Isn't the cause of global warming (climate change) more a consequence of the big worldwide thermal heat release of fossil combustion / fire processes and far less secondary, the result of their CO2 release as green house gas?
Finally, will oil companies and combustion energy companies realistically join the green transformation of the energy sector after many years?
Finally, will oil companies and energy companies that produce energy from burning fossil fuels under the influence of changing social opinion, pro-environmental and pro-climate awareness of citizens after many years realistically join the green transformation of the energy sector as an important element of the process of green transformation of the economy?
That civilization's greenhouse gas emissions generate a progressive process of global warming has been known from independent and reliable scientific research for many decades. The first research results on the subject, confirming the above thesis, were already conducted more than 100 years ago, but at that time the scale of greenhouse gas emissions was many times lower compared to emissions of recent years. At that time, the topic was ignored. At that time, the process of global warming was proceeding much more slowly than it is now, and was practically not yet noticed in many regions of the world. But as early as the 1960s and 1970s, oil companies and energy companies producing energy from the combustion of fossil fuels founded and funded various non-governmental organizations whose main goal was to falsify the results of scientific research in order to question the role of civilization's greenhouse gas emissions, CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions from the fossil fuel combustion energy sector as a key factor in the greenhouse effect, the accumulation of CO2 in the planet's atmosphere and generating the process of global warming, which is progressing ever faster. On the other hand, today the level of awareness of citizens on the above topic is already much higher than it was just a few decades ago. As a result, companies and enterprises operating in various industries and sectors, in order not to lose customers, customers of their product and service offerings, customers who are increasingly environmentally and climate-conscious, are increasingly joining the process of green transformation of the economy, including scaling up the implementation of sustainable development goals in their business activities. This issue is finally beginning to affect oil companies and energy companies that produce energy from burning fossil fuels. In this regard, perhaps at the next UN Climate Summit COP28, to be held in Dubai, some oil companies and energy companies of companies that produce energy from burning fossil fuels will reportedly declare that they will realistically join in the implementation of the process of green energy transformation, the green transformation of the economy.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
Finally, will oil companies and energy companies that produce energy from the combustion of fossil fuels, under the influence of a change in public opinion, pro-environmental and pro-climate awareness of citizens after many years, realistically join the green transformation of the energy sector as an important element of the process of green transformation of the economy?
Finally, will oil companies and energy companies that produce energy from burning fossil fuels realistically join the green transformation of the energy sector after many years?
Finally, will the fuel and combustion energy sector realistically join the green transformation of the economic sector after many years?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
How does climate change affect the environment and living creatures and how do adaptations help an organism survive in its environment?
Can climate changes lead to an organism’s extinction due to failure of adaptation and how can changes in the environment affect the continued survival of the species?
To be able to deal head on with the social and environmental sustainability failures linked to NON-CIRCULAR TRADITIONAL ECONOMY thinking the Brundtland Commission in 1987(WCED) led us away from that type of thinking by recommending sustainable development tools....The WCED did not recommend then to go CIRCULAR TRADITIONAL ECONOMY THINKING to solve the social and environmental problems created by traditional economic thinking as in both economies you are not accounting for the social and environmental costs of doing business.
To be able to deal head on with the environmental sustainability failures linked to NON-CIRCULAR TRADITIONAL ECONOMY thinking the United Nations Commission on Sustainabiled development in 2012(UNCSD) was leading ust the way of circular green markets through green markets, green growth and green economies, away from business as usual.....The UNCSD did not recommend then to go CIRCULAR TRADITIONAL ECONOMY THINKING to solve the environmental problems created by traditional economic thinking as in both economies you are not accounting for the environmental costs of doing business.
In other words, the WCED was trying to fix a social and environmental sustainability problem by using sustainable development means to leave traditional thinking behind; and the UNCSD was trying to fix an environmental sustainability problem using green market thinking.
If the circular economy thinking has the same problems as the non-circular economic thinking of Adam Smith in social and/or environmental terms, how can circular economy thinking be presented today as the solution to the problem that the circular economy is also contributing to?
And this raises the question, Does CIRCULAR ECONOMY THINKING means a WORLD living under permanent social and environmental market failure?
What do you think? If you think No, why do you think so? If you think Yes, Why do you think so?
Does global warming affect ocean currents and what role do oceans play in climate change?
The Brundtland Commission told us in 1987 in "Our Common Future" that the traditional development model has failed us as it has brought with it deep social and environmental sustainability problems, and to leave TRADITIONAL ECONOMIC THINKING BEHIND they recommended sustainable development thinking, sadly they did not set priorities such as to focus sustainable development thinking to fix the social sustainability problem first, then the environmental sustainability problem or to focus on the environmental sustainability problem first, and then the social sustainability problem or focus on solving both problems, the social and environmental sustainability problems at the same time.
Notice, the WCED did not recommend to go CIRCULAR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT to lead traditional thinking behind.
This lack of foresight led to a very active competition between different sustainable development schools of thoughts, where in 2012 Rio +20 the WIN-WIN ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENTA MODEL or the ECO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL OF THOUGHT WON the sustainable development contest; and they indicated the need to go green market, green growth, and green economies in THE FUTURE WE WANT(UNCSD 2012) as now, there was a priority, to solve the environmental sustainability problem first through green market circularity as WIN-WIN meant that now the environmental cost associated with economic activities were going to be reflected in green market prices.
Notice, that RIO +20 conference did not recommend to go CIRCULAR TRADITIONAL ECONOMY then because they knew it is not pollution reduction friendly as it only account for economic cost of production; and hence it is not consistent with the environmental responsibility priority they had set to advance now environmentally friendly development models.
Both the WCED 1987 approach and the UNCSD 2012 approach are approaches leading the world away from BUSINESS AS USUAL as both of them knew that the sustainability issues they were tasked to solve are driven by irresponsible market behavior in social and/or environmental terms.
Now like if the WCED 1987 process and the UNCSD 2012 process never took place, out of no where the world is systematically pushing the idea of CIRCULAR TRADITIONAL ECONOMY to solve the development problems IT HAS CREATED as documented by those 2 different but linked processes.
They are presenting the idea of the CIRCULAR TRADITIONAL ECONOMY as a solution to the environmental market failure the WCED and the UNCSD linked to traditional market thinking under broken circularity in practice, but circular in theory by the environmental externality neutrality assumption given to us by Adam Smith in 1776 and under which his market can expand for ever without producing environmental externalities. Hence, it seems like the market supporting this CIRCULAR TRADITIONAL ECONOMY is no longer a traditional market, and hence, it is no longer AN ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION PRODUCTION MARKET.
And this raises the question, What type of market and price structure is behind this current push on traditional economy circularity?
What do you think?
How does climate change affect flora and fauna and how does climate change affect the forest ecosystem in India?
How does climate change affect river flow and impact of climate change on water resources?
What impact does climate change have on organic matter and why is natural farming important in crop production and climate change?
Identify the sociological theories that explain climate change
There is an open research grant call which requires the collaboration of researchers in the Global South and Danish researchers. Any Danish researcher working on Climate Action, particularly on Climate change resilience and adaptation to get in touch with me on baloo@uoeld.ac.ke. My area of research is on plant-microbe interactions, rhizobacteria, and plant growth promotion. Thank you
Is India helping climate change and what are the future effects of climate change in India?
There is an environmental pollution problem linked to the environmental pollution production market of Adam Smith the world has been trying to solve ongoing since 1987/Our Common Future and later in 2012/RIO +20 The Future We Want. Both the WCED 1987 and the UNCSD 2012 recommended solutions other than CIRCULAR ECONOMY THINKING. They did this as they knew that this thinking is not environmental pollution reduction friendly and it is not pollution-less market/environmentally clean market friendly.
In other words, both the WCED and the UNCSD knew that the working of the traditional economy, circular by assumption or by definition leads to environmental problems, reason why the WCED asked us to go beyond traditional economic thinking, circular or not, to solve the sustainability issues of the day.
Yet today October 2023, the circular economy is presented, contrary to the facts above, as the solution to environmental problems caused by the traditional economy that feeds them or will feed them as now polluting is profit making and cleaning pollution is also profit making. This makes the circular economy a predetermine or science-less approach that can only be supported by alternative academic facts as it is not aimed at fixing the root cause of the environmental problems.
And this raises the question: Is the current circular economy thinking push a current example of academic tunneling?
What do you think? Yes, and why you think so? or No, and why you think so?
In your opinion, should the issue of ensuring climate and environmental security for people become part of basic human rights? Should adherence to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the urgent implementation of the green transformation of the economy also be recognized internationally, globally, as the basis for ensuring the conditions of existence for the life of future generations on planet Earth, ensuring the possibility of saving the biosphere, the biodiversity of natural ecosystems and the climate for future generations of people, for reducing the scale of the occurrence of global climate and environmental catastrophe in the near future? Therefore, for all of the aforementioned issues, should they be upgraded and recognized as one of the key factors in ensuring the survival of humanity on the planet and, therefore, recognize that they are important determinants of basic human rights? Recognize the right to clean air, to clean water, to an undestroyed biosphere, to a forest undegraded by predatory management, to an unsterilized soil, etc. as basic human rights, i.e. rights that will ensure human security for future generations of people?
With reference to the article published titled: "HUMAN SECURITY AS AN ELEMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW" of research results on the issue of climate and environmental security, the accelerating process of global warming generated by civilization's greenhouse gas emissions, the increasing scale of the negative effects of the climate crisis, the decreasing scale of human security, the increasing importance and scale of the implementation of the goals of sustainable development and the need to accelerate and increase the efficiency of carrying out the green transformation of the economy, I propose a discussion on the above topic. The research shows that one of the important factors in the increase in the importance and scale of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the need to accelerate and increase the efficiency of carrying out the green transformation of the economy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, slowing down the process of the planet's greenhouse effect, slowing down the process of global warming, which continues to progress faster and faster, reducing the scale of droughts, forest fires, water shortages, declining production of agricultural crops and other negative effects of progressive and human-induced climate change is to recognize human security as an important factor in the context of legislation and to recognize the issue of ensuring climate and environmental security as an important element of basic human rights. In view of the above, the issue of ensuring climate and environmental security should become part of basic human rights. Adherence to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the urgent implementation of the green transformation of the economy should also be recognized internationally, globally as the basis for ensuring the conditions of existence for the life of future generations on planet Earth, ensuring the possibility of saving the biosphere, the biodiversity of natural ecosystems and the climate for future generations of people, for reducing the scale of the occurrence of global climate and environmental catastrophe in the near future. Therefore, for the aforementioned all issues should be upgraded and recognized as one of the key factors in ensuring the survival of humanity on the planet and, therefore, recognize that these are important determinants of basic human rights. Recognize the right to clean air, to clean water, to an undestroyed biosphere, to a forest undegraded by predatory management, to an unsterilized soil, etc. as basic human rights, i.e. rights that will ensure human security for future generations of people.
These considerations are inspired by the research results contained in my article entitled: "HUMAN SECURITY AS AN ELEMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW"
I invite you to familiarize yourself with the problems of this article. Please respond whether you agree with the above theses? I invite you to discuss and cooperate scientifically in this problematics.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
In your opinion, should the issue of ensuring climate and environmental security become part of basic human rights? Should adherence to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the urgent implementation of the green transformation of the economy also be recognized internationally, globally as the basis for ensuring the conditions of existence for the life of future generations on planet Earth, ensuring the possibility of saving the biosphere, the biodiversity of natural ecosystems and the climate for future generations of people, for reducing the scale of the occurrence of global climate and environmental catastrophe in the near future? Therefore, for all of the aforementioned issues, should they be upgraded and recognized as one of the key factors in ensuring the survival of humanity on the planet and, therefore, recognize that they are important determinants of basic human rights? Recognize the right to clean air, to clean water, to an undestroyed biosphere, to a forest undegraded by predatory management, to unsterilized soil, etc. as basic human rights, i.e. rights that will ensure human security for future generations of people?
Should ensuring climate and environmental security for people become part of basic human rights?
And what is your opinion on this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Counting on your opinions, on getting to know your personal opinion, on a fair approach to the discussion of scientific issues, I deliberately used the phrase "in your opinion" in the question.
The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
The nexus between energy and the environment is a critical concern in today's world, as the need for sustainable energy sources becomes increasingly evident due to the challenges posed by climate change and resource depletion. Keeping up with the latest developments and research in this field is essential for informed decision-making and policy formulation.
Global boiling is the description given by the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Antonio Guterres) to the extreme hot weather the world is witnessing and the record high global temperatures recorded this month of July, which prompted him to say (the era of global climate warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived).
In light of this, many countries have witnessed unprecedented intense heat waves as one of the most prominent effects of the climate change crisis that threatens the entire world, and which poses more challenges, especially with regard to economic activity. The world is burning, the behavioral moods of some individuals are lacking, and the economies of some countries are disappearing, and with the continued rise Global temperatures create extreme weather events, causing more devastation and leading to higher costs and losses.
Climate change leading to a 'Super-Dynamic' Coastal System?
1. Regarding the accelerated sea-level rise predictions associated with the melting of glaciers and ice sheets and from thermal expansion of water, where do we stand now, with reference to the levels of 2000, 2010 & 2020?
Where do we stand now, from '2 mm per annum' during 20th century?
2. If mean sea levels have already risen to the anticipated levels, then, at how many places across the globe, the coastal shorelines have got retreated?
And, how many low-lying areas have been inundated across the globe?
3. Have we captured any significant change in the run-off to the coast, resulting from (a) extreme rainfall events; and (b) enhancement in mean global temperature?
4. Whether the sustainability of existing coastal communities and natural resources have become a challenging task – associated with the climate change?
5. How easy would it remain for coastal economies in order to adapt to the changing climate?
How complex would remain to be the role of coastal land-forms and estuaries?
6. Do we have a control over the impacts and the timing of the impacts of the extreme events associated with coastal regions – resulting from climate change?
7. What exactly have we learnt from an enhanced erosion of beaches; and frequent flooding from rivers and tidal surge?
8. To what extent, coral reefs and shellfish have been affected by ocean acidification resulting from an enhanced uptake of atmospheric CO2 by the oceans?
9. How exactly waves, winds and currents have been altered resulting from sea-level rise and increase in sea surface temperature?
Have we observed any fundamental changes in physical forces associated with ocean circulation and sediment budgets?
10. Whether climate change has resulted in a significant variation in ocean circulation pattern?
Feasible to capture the effects of sea level rise given the wide range of variations in both spatial as well as temporal scales?
The answers to your questions are in my monograph "Modern changes in the level of the Black Sea as the basis for the strategy of construction development of the coasts". Look at several of the drawings analyzed in my book.
The first figure is the rise and fall of the coast relative to the shape of the geoid. It's about geodynamics. These are answers to requests about land flooding.
The following figure shows the dependence of sea level changes on increasing carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. On this issue, see my discussion "Increasing carbon dioxide contribute to lowering sea levels? Is it possible?".
The other two figures provide information about the stabilization of sea level changes.
Can we stop global warming and climate change and how do we solve the problem of greenhouse effect?
What is diversification of crop production and productive activities and crop diversification for sustainability in changing climatic scenario?
How does climate change affect biodiversity in India and relationship between forests and climate change?
How does climate change affect forest ecosystems and how has climate change affected the abiotic and biotic factors in ecosystems?
Indicators like precipitation intensity, duration, geology, etc.
Think of the environmental sustainability problem the Brundtland Commission highlighted and documented in 1987(WCED) in “Our Common Future” as an environmental pollution production market problem, the consequence of a market failure that was always there and which has always been there embedded in the perfect traditional market thinking, but it was assumed away using environmental externality neutrality assumptions. A problem that can only be solved by internalizing the environmental cost of production in the pricing mechanism of the traditional market to shift it to green market pricing. Hence, only when we fix the root cause of the environmental pollution production problem, the environmentally distorted traditional market prices, we address the environmental pollution problem head on as when doing this we are making environmental pollution reduction a good business opportunity for green producers.
Since we have not fixed the root cause of the problem yet as there are no green markets in place today to transition green economies towards the environmentally clean economies; then this raises the question: Is the current traditional circular economy thinking push worse for the environment than the perfect traditional market economy thinking of Adam Smith that created the environmental problem in the first place?
If Yes, why? If, No, why not?
What do you think?
How is agroforestry a sustainable solution to address climate change challenges and role of agroforestry in sustainable forest management?
How does soil organic matter assist with climate change and why does soil have a central role in organic and sustainable agriculture?
SCOPE and FOCUS:
- The variety of differing scientific opinions regarding the causes of 20th/21st century global warming and climate change is somewhat surprising, considering that Physics and Mathematics are the common language for describing them, and considering that Physics and Mathematics are the oldest and most mature of all the hard sciences. Nevertheless, here we are. This discussion is intended to be an open forum for sharing and discussing differing alternative concepts about the sources and causative factors for the earth's temperature and climate history, from ancient times up to the present day, including predictions for the future. Ideally, these discussions will be evidence-based. Discussions about the process of conducting good science are also appropriate.
RESPECT for PARTICIPANTS:
- It is also surprising how emotional this subject has become for many people. Pejorative name-calling and labelling abound within many internet forums. Please — such things are not welcome here. Pejorative language is not conducive to successfully resolving alternative viewpoints.
CONTENTS:
- The first page of this thread is pre-reserved for user tips and recommended best practices.
- The second page of this thread is pre-reserved for thought-provoking, discussion-starter posts. Each one highlights an important aspect of climate science, citing a high-quality paper.
- The third page of this thread is pre-reserved for highlighting the work of some of the active participants posting on this thread. This can give new readers an idea of the mix of content they will find throughout this thread.
- New posts by ResearchGate members begin on the fourth page of this thread.
Initially, most of the above category entries are placeholders, but they will be replaced with content, as described above, in the very near term.
Here are the direct links to each of the first four pages in the thread:
- https://www.researchgate.net/post/The_physical_processes_of_global_warming_and_climate_change--How_can_alternative_viewpoints_be_resolved/1
- https://www.researchgate.net/post/The_physical_processes_of_global_warming_and_climate_change--How_can_alternative_viewpoints_be_resolved/2
- https://www.researchgate.net/post/The_physical_processes_of_global_warming_and_climate_change--How_can_alternative_viewpoints_be_resolved/3
- https://www.researchgate.net/post/The_physical_processes_of_global_warming_and_climate_change--How_can_alternative_viewpoints_be_resolved/4
Sea Level Rise.
Concerns are always raised about sea level rise, supposedly due to our CO2 emissions.
Sea level always goes up and down a bit, with the various climate cycles which are driving our climate changes.
For example, sea level was 2m higher than now, 6,000 years ago when it was much warmer than now, in the early Holocene (see graph).
- BUT there was no 'tipping point' and neither the Antarctic nor Greenland melted significantly at that time.
Sea levels cannot possibly rise by even 0.5m by 2100, that is absolutely impossible. A realistic level would be 0.05m plus or minus 0.1m.
And if you look carefully at the sea level graph, you'll see that rapidly rising CO2 had no effect on sea level rise.
Cutting CO2, by no matter what amount, is a total waste of time and money and can have no effect whatsoever on the global temperature or on climate change.
Dr Robert Ian Holmes
Reducing the emissions of GHGs and its level can mitigate climate change to certain level. However, already lots of inputs can't be stop immediately there comes the importance of adaptation to climate change. How this climate change mitigation can corelate with the Genotoxicology studies?
This question essentially seeks information about the best methods for capturing and storing carbon in terrestrial ecosystems to mitigate climate change. It asks for an understanding of the most effective strategies without delving into specific measurement or monitoring details.
I have a netCDF4 (.nc) file having ocean SST data, with coordinates (lat, lon, time). I want to predict and plot maps for the future. How can I do this using python?
Please recommend a python code for time series forecasting based on this approach.
I have a monthly netCDF4 file containing chlorophyll-a values, and I aim to forecast these values using time series analysis.
My approach involves computing monthly spatial averages for this entire region and then forecasting these averages. Is this methodology valid?
Additionally, could you recommend a Python code for time series forecasting based on this approach?
Is it feasible to predict values for individual grid points without considering spatial averaging?
My study area encompasses an oceanic region of approximately 45,000 sq km near the southern coast of Sri Lanka.
Parts of East and Southern Africa, in particular, have experienced severe droughts, leading to water shortages, crop failures, and food insecurity. On the other hand, intense rainfall events have led to flooding in various regions, especially in low-lying areas and regions with poor drainage systems. What are the other threats and how those threats are related to nutrition security?
What is direct and indirect effect on biodiversity and how does climate change affect direct and indirect species interactions?
What is the role of soil in climate change adaptation and mitigation and how does agriculture reduce climate change?
Effect and mitigation of climate change in agriculture
I do not doubt climate change and the disasters that come and will come from it ( ). However, one thing puzzles me: why would melting ice lead to rising ocean water levels? Plain high-school physics tell us it would not: see, for example: https://lnkd.in/d78U9S_f.
Of course, there is another physical thing we've all learnt in high school: warmer substances have a larger volume than cold substances. However, we also know the volume expansion coefficient of water is very tiny: only 210 parts on a million per degree Celsius (https://lnkd.in/e65sxJ5a). Oceans are 3.8 km deep (on average) but span millions of km2, so that can explain a few cm only - at best. Also, studies on rising sea levels in coastal cities show these cities tend to sink. So they need better shore protection but it has got nothing to do with rising ocean levels, it would seem.
Any thoughts, anyone? [Again, I am not a climate change denier. See my rant against John Clauser, for example: https://readingfeynman.org/2023/09/04/another-tainted-nobel-prize/.]
Hello
What topic do you suggest for the doctoral dissertation in the field of agricultural extension and education related to climate change education in schools?
Thank you
What are the direct and immediate effects on biodiversity on the earth and how does climate change affect biodiversity in India?
Avoiding the shift from perfect traditional market thinking to perfect green market thinking since 2012 RIO +20 has created a deep green market paradigm shift knowledge gap.
Flipping perfect traditional market thinking to imperfect dwarf green market thinking since 2012 to avoid the shift to perfect green markets has created a deep dwarf green market paradigm flip knowledge gap too.
These knowledge gaps are apparently helping those researchers and institutions implementing development under permanent environmental market failure as well as confusing environmental stakeholders on proper place for action and protest as the responsibility of governments, of businesses and of consumers are changed, and even inversed depending on the market in question.
And this raises the question, green market paradigm shift knowledge gaps and dwarf green market paradigm flip knowledge gaps, are they academic tunneling/willful blindness push helpers?
What do you think?
If the dwarf green markets implemented through permanent government intervention tends toward extreme environmental policy failure, should you expect governments to deal with environmental protest, through policy or force? If Policy, Why? If force, Why?
What do you think?
As the dwarf green markets implemented through ongoing government intervention tend towards clear collapse, should we expect government policy to move towards the criminalization of the democratic right like the right to protest? If yes, Why? If no, Why?
What do you think?
A lot seems to be coming out in publications about the circular economy or sustainable development and the circular economy or circular economy and sustainability or circular economy, sustainable development and global warming...and so on.
All researchers and publications seems to have the same theme of directly or indirectly indicating that the broken circularity traditional market economy can be made circular by non-green market means; and hence, they advocate circularity without indicating where the circularity problem came from or comes from; hence, without indicating whether they are fixing a broken circularity problem or patching that broken circularity problem plus their circularity thoughts seem to be disconnected from the need to one day transition away from the pollution production based economies to the pollution free economies....
They seem to start with addressing the consequences of the broken circularity problem without any regards with respect to fixing the root cause of the broken circularity problem.
And this raises the question, Can you have a circular green economy without green markets? If No, why No? If Yes, why yes?
Are environmental issues and social change intertwined? Can a theatrical work of art play an effective role in solving environment-related issues, such as climate change and global warming climate change crisis, and reform human behavior in relation to the environment?
Will the use of renewable energy help to manage climate change and difference between energy conversion and energy conservation?
Is it possible to simulate the distribution areas of earthworms taking into account climate change using MaxEnt, if the soil environment is more stable than the ground-air environment
What are the 7 Rs of sustainable living and steps that need to be taken to promote sustainable agriculture and food security in the wake of climate change?
Generating food for thoughts:
It seems that the capitalist world does not realize yet that green marxism is a bigger threat than red marxism was to capitalism as usual as this time it is coming from within.
And avoiding going green markets since 2012 has played well, and it will continue to increasingly play well for the green marxism claim as pretending to do something when the situation is getting worse may backfire, which raises the question: What comes next after the fall of dwarf green markets, green marxism or green markets?
What do you think?
Are millets the super food for combating food and water security in changing climatic scenario?
How biodiversity is important for sustainability of environment and threats to the ecosystem and biodiversity in changing climate scenario?
Is renewable energy always good for the environment and sustainable energy reducing climate change?
What is conservation of agriculture for sustainable land use in India and impact does conservation agriculture have on climate change?
How is energy efficiency good for the environment and role of sustainable development in climate change?
Do greenhouse gases affect climate change and how does ozone layer depletion contribute to global warming?
In precise terms, define the concept of "carbon sequestration" in soils and elucidate its role in mitigating global climate change, along with the potential trade-offs it presents to food security ?
No trade offs in food security, in fact the tree planting that India and 24 countries have started with the "Middle East Green Initiative" will actually increase the amount of farmlands, that can be created when replanting arid areas that formerly had grassland-savannah like the THAR desert.
A more important impact of the tree planting, will be the increase of rainfall, especially if the local "rain trees" are replanted that create the "Cloud forests" where rainclouds are formed from the Pseudomonas bacteria living on the host plant leaves. Read https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/does-rain-come-from-life-in-the-clouds
India is about to start replanting millions to billions of trees, to sequester carbon, according to what was said at the COP27 meeting a year ago by your Minister of the Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
That is a very important issue that scientists in India need to discover, which are India's "rain trees", so more can be planted to help extend the monsoonal moisture during the rainy season further east.
India has the perfect Cloud forests to study, in the Western Ghats, which produce new rain clouds all of the time, but they are wasted as they fly westward over water--instead need to be planted on the eastern side of the Thar to produce rain clouds to rain on that region and regreen it again.
You can read my 2002 proposal at https://www.ecoseeds.com/cool.html which the Saudi government adopted in 2010 to set aside 200 million hectares as Ecological Restoration Preserves, and they are started to replant at the rate of one million trees per week, until 10 billion are planted.
In 2012 Rio + 20 conference(UNCSD) we were going to go green markets, green growth and green economies, which means we were going to go the way of environmental pollution reduction markets, but we know today that we did not go that way.
We chose to go the way of a patch through environmental pollution management markets instead of going for the fix, green markets, knowing or perhaps failing to know that in environmental pollution management markets the root cause of the pollution production problem is still not fixed.
No wonder, the environmental situation now is worse than it was in 2012, which raises the question: Will the period 2012 to now and perhaps into the foreseeable future be known in the history of economic thought as the green market paradigm shift avoidance period?
What do you think?
What is carbon capture and how will it reduce the impacts of climate change and impact of cloud computing on the environment?
Dear Researchers: I am wondering why we say the Climate is Changed. I think it doesn't make sense, because in science, the word "Change" is used to describe a situation when a phenomenon changes from One State to Another State without returning to its Initial State, correct?
But, Climate components, e.g., temperature and precipitation, have been going through Temporal Variability over the scale of days, weeks, months, seasons, years, decades, centuries, and ..., due to Temporal Variability in Solar Activities, correct (please, exclude the yearly seasonal variability due to the rotation of Earth's axis)?
If we think about the two periods in our Geological History such as the Ice Age and the Warming Era, it can prove that climate had been historically varying over Temporal Scales, correct? And, those Variabilities had nothing to do with human and human activities when at the Ice Age and the Warming Era, there was no human existing on the Earth, correct?
So, who was in charge of those variabilities if humans were not existing on Earth?
Sun and Temporal Variability in Solar Activities?
And, the last but most important question, when air temperature varies/fluctuates over two consecutive days, do you think the amount of greenhouse gases, especially the criminal one, CO2, can be that much increased/decreased Over A Day to cause the variations in air temperature?
Or, the Variations in Air Temperature for the most part is because of the Variations in Solar Activities with subsequent Variations in Solar Heat Release?
And the 2nd last question, can the horrifying words "Climate Change" with further implications made out of it to blame Humans as the main driver of "Climate Change" significantly influence our minds and hearts to Easily Accept the Depopulation of our Planet Earth by ...?
And the 3rd last question, can a substantial decrease in the CO2 level of our Earth's Atmosphere have some sort of side effects (negative impacts) on our Earth's Environment in coming years? And, do we really know what would be the optimum amount of CO2 level in our Earth's Atmosphere? And, can we take enough well-representative samples from the Atmosphere to figure out a very good estimate of CO2 level as the Atmosphere is vastly distributed in multidimensions with no clear boundaries and with very dynamic behaviors over spatial and temporal scales?
Climate change and mental health are two of the most significant global challenges today's world has been facing. Researchers want to fill the gaps on how climate change is negatively impacting mental health and what we can do about it.
What is the fastest growing renewable energy source in the world and how will renewable energy help climate change?
Is renewable energy the answer to climate change and why renewable energy is important for the future?
I am in need of climate change impact on water resource in Ethiopia research recently published on prestigious Journal???
