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20 Apr 2018 |
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Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict: full academic talk at USGS
Full academic talk at USGS about quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: what needs to be done
Finding the necessary political will to act is the biggest challenge facing climate policy, says Tom BurkeIf we are to meet the challenge of generating political will, the climate conversation must involve everyone, from all professions and all walks of life. Political will is built into the base of society; it is not something that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Contraction and convergence: the best possible solution to the twin problems of climate change and inequity
Much is now known about anthropogenically induced climate change, its impacts on the planet’s species, and the need for urgent action to avoid catastrophe.1 2 The unequal distribution of resources between the materially rich and the materially poor amplifies the multiple adverse effects of climate change, so disrupting ecosystems, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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COP21 SERIES Reshaping the landscape: The geography of human rights, climate change, and disasters
When leaders gather in Paris to discuss serious measures to address climate change this December, they will be surrounded by a city and region that, in recent decades, has spent its summers grappling with deadly heat. The ongoing effects of these annual climatic threats may not be visible from the Paris-Le Bourget site in December, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Don’t Even Think About It: Why our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change.
Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change? And what does it need for us to become fully convinced of what we already know?George Marshall’s search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and the activists of the Texas Tea Party; the world’s leading ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Debunking Handbook
The Debunking Handbook, a guide to debunking misinformation, is now freely available to download. Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there’s no summary of the literature that offers practical guidelines on the most effective ways of reducing the influence of myths. The Debunking Handbook ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Communicating Climate Change and Motivating Civic Action: Renewing, Activating, and Building Democracies
Governments are critical for bringing about the transition to a more sustainablehuman interaction with the environment as they set priorities and policies and maymodel new behavior. Yet, civil society is also indispensable in bringing aboutchange. It is no small challenge to communicate effectively in order to engage civilsociety in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Greenhouse Gas Basics
Many chemical compounds in the atmosphere act as greenhouse gases. These gases allow sunlight (shortwave radiation) to freely pass through the Earth’s atmosphere and heat the land and oceans. The warmed Earth releases this heat in the form of infrared light (longwave radiation), invisible to human eyes. Some of the infrared light ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Conceptos Basicos Sobre Gases de Invernadero
Muchos de los compuestos químicos que se encuentran en la atmósfera funcionan como gases de invernadero. Este tipo de gases permiten que la radiación de onda corta de la luz solar atraviese la atmósfera de nuestro planeta calentando la tierra y los océanos. La Tierra libera calor en forma de luz infrarroja invisible para el […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Mining Coal, Mounting Costs: The Life Cycle Consequences of Coal
Energy is essential to our daily lives, and for the past century and a half we have depended on fossil fuels to produce it. But, from extraction to combustion, coal, oil and natural gas have multiple health, environmental and economic impacts that are proving costly for society. We estimate that the life cycle impacts of […]