The closing thought of my last post was: Can we, as the global community, prove that we can deal with climate warming without large-scale (SRM) geoengineering?
An attempt to provide a comprehensive answer to that thought would with no doubt need a little more than 5,000 words (which is our term-blog limit). Next week, I will introduce a fairly straight-forward approach to mitigate global warming through geoengineering. For now, however, I would like to share one of the gifs we watched in today's lecture. It is modelled by Ed Hawkins, one of the scientists and authors of the IPCC AR5 reports. I view that gif a very bold way of saying: Whatever answer we find to that question - find it quickly; it's getting hot in here. Stay tuned!
And, talking of rising temperatures - another dive: The term "global warming" appears to imply that the most pressing consequence of climate 'change' is the climbing temperatures on earth. Yet, within the arena of climate warming effects, hotter weather is a 'just' one aspect of many.
An attempt to provide a comprehensive answer to that thought would with no doubt need a little more than 5,000 words (which is our term-blog limit). Next week, I will introduce a fairly straight-forward approach to mitigate global warming through geoengineering. For now, however, I would like to share one of the gifs we watched in today's lecture. It is modelled by Ed Hawkins, one of the scientists and authors of the IPCC AR5 reports. I view that gif a very bold way of saying: Whatever answer we find to that question - find it quickly; it's getting hot in here. Stay tuned!
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| Global Temperature Change. Source: climate-lab-book.ac.uk |
Welcome to Kiribati. We are in the town Betio, on one of the many islands of this Pacific state. We look at sandbags, piled up on the shoreline. They are supposed to hold of the waves which flood the island in an increasing frequency. Climate studies suggest that Kiribati might be amongst the first places on earth which will be fully uninhabitable in the near future. Here, climate warming causes more and stronger extreme weather events such as floods and tropical cyclones while the highly vulnerable island states like Kiribati lack the capacities to deal with them. Kiribati's former president, Mr Tong, previously promoted "migration with dignity" in the light of these climate challenges.
Hi Luisa,
ReplyDeleteWow! Thanks for including the Google Maps section within your blog, it really makes for a dynamic reading experience, and really does transport your readers to that specific location.
Keep up the great posts,
Anparasan
Hi ! I happy to hear you like these frames, I got really excited when finding out this is possible but had not seem them before anywhere really in this context. So, great- if this future blog happens - there certainly will be google frames :)
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