Gambling with abrupt climate change 
Mount Kilimanjaro
What is around the corner?
"It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight."
– German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on the urgency of combating climate change
(March 8, 2007).
Fifth Assessment Report | Recent findings | What is happening | Terminology | What can we do? | Solutions
"Technological measures are important, but equally important is . . . a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility."
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel.
"If the rainy season starts late, crops fail and people suffer. Children eat leaves. In that situation, only God can help us."
Kasko Ajikara, farmer and father, Gadabedji village, Niger.
"The depression we're all trying to avoid could very well be a prolonged chronic reaction to what we've been doing to the world, a mourning and grieving for what we're doing to nature and to cities and to whole peoples ...partly because this is the soul's reaction to the mourning and grieving that we're not consciously doing."--
James Hillman, psychologist, author of "Soul's Code."
"The report shows -- and this is encouraging -- that ambitious climate protection is economically manageable."
-- German government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm, on the findings of IPCC Working Group III (May, 2007)
Fifth Assessment Report | Recent findings | What is happening | Terminology | What can we do? | Solutions
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| Mitigation | Adaptation |
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means to minimize human impacts on surrounding areas by |
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reducing:
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1) pollution
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2) deforestation
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3) water loss
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| 4) coastal wetland reclamation | |
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Sources |
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| James Hansen's warning in 2006, & comments in 2004. | |
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David Archer, The Long Thaw, |
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Gale Christianson, Greenhouse: Biography of an Idea, Robert Musil, Hope for a Heated Planet, |
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Gavin Schmidt, Picturing the Science, |
| Spencer Weart, Discovering the Science of Global Warming. | |
Anderson & Bows | Archer conclusion | Gelbspan | Lackoff | Leggett | Lohman | McKibben | Prinn | Wigley
This page was created, by J. Siry.
