From inside the UN Delegation Hall - 2:00 pm: Professor Thomas Gladwin, instructor for the University of Michigan's annual Erb Seminar, asked his students to debate the following statement: “Humanity will be able to limit global warming to no more than 1.5-2.0 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and will thus experience abrupt, irreversible, runaway and …
Tag: Adaptation
Global Hazards in July
What is outside the envelope of natural variation? How are we framing risk? Global hazards in July, according to a NOAA report: Severe drought plagued Bolivia, killing crops and livestock. Three massive wildfires raged across Southern California. Record high temperatures and sparse rainfall in Russia, killing 40% of the grain harvest, creating huge wildfires, oppressive …
Diverse interests – Adam E
As a person with interests ranging from the funding of micro-finance projects to restore rain-forests, to the emerging studies of emergy and water footprints, to the engendering of climate change as an issue to display the imbalance of risk posed by global warming onto women, I am beyond thrilled to be going to COP15. Coming …
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