Climate change and malaria: the debate is heating up

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Mark Woolhouse
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Heating Up

scholarly journals Heating Up the Hot Spots

Eos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damond Benningfield
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
American Military ◽  
Heating Up

Climate change is affecting American military operations and infrastructure—and could have security implications across the globe.

2. Global warming

2014 ◽  
pp. 22-46
Author(s):  
Bill McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Assessment Report ◽  
Global Average ◽  
Tackle Climate Change ◽  
Heating Up ◽  
Atmospheric Concentrations

‘Global warming’ explains that the Earth is now warmer than it has been for over 90 per cent of its 4.6 billion year history and is heating up faster than at any time in the last 11,500 years. In 2013, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide exceeded 400ppm, the highest level for at least 15 million years. The 2013 IPCC 5th Assessment Report forecasts that global average temperatures could be 5°C higher and sea levels 1m higher by 2100. No one can escape the effects of anthropogenic climate change, but unless there is a widespread adoption of sustainable development, urgent action to seriously tackle climate change may only happen if there is an Earth-shattering climate catastrophe that no one can ignore.

scholarly journals Things Are Heating Up

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Ian Farnell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Change Resistance ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
International Conference ◽  
European Centre ◽  
Utopian Studies ◽  
Heating Up

This article offers a short scholarly reflection on the 20th international conference of the Utopian Studies Society, themed around utopia, dystopia and climate change, and hosted by Monash University’s European centre in Prato, Italy. Engaging with numerous threads which emerged organically across multiple panels, this article positions the notions of change, resistance, and activism within the heart of the conference’s focus. In doing so, it relates the implications of these discussions to the wider ecological future of the planet, asking how utopian ideals are enacted, challenged and expanded in a time of global crisis. Simultaneously, it turns its gaze inwards, applying its thinking to the structures of the conference and Society itself, asking how utopian principles may be practised within the workings of utopian studies itself, as well as the wider academic field.

scholarly journals Post-Paris policy relevance: lessons from the IPCC SR15 process

2021 ◽  
Vol 169 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erlend A. T. Hermansen ◽  
Bård Lahn ◽  
Göran Sundqvist ◽  
Eirik Øye
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
National Level ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Policy Relevance ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Heating Up ◽  
The Eu

AbstractPolicy relevance is the raison d’être for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), yet few studies have analysed what the concept entails, not least from the perspective of key target groups for the IPCC. We present a framework which enables analysis of how different actor strategies (heating up and cooling down) contribute to shape relevance-making in specific political situations when IPCC knowledge is interpreted and used. Drawing on empirical evidence from the reception and use of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) across three policy making levels, the paper demonstrates different examples of creating policy relevance. First, the paper analyses the origin of SR15 and the failed attempts to formally acknowledge SR15 in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. Second, it investigates how SR15 has been used to develop and legitimize the EU net-zero target and the European Green Deal. Third, the paper demonstrates how SR15 has been used both for legitimizing and challenging climate policy at the national level, using the example of Norway. In sum, the reception of SR15 demonstrates that while IPCC outputs have resulted in controversy at the international level, they have been highly relevant at regional and national levels. The analysis shows that policy relevance is context-dependent and indirect—created through processes involving many actors, institutions, and types of knowledge. Situating these findings within the larger shift in the international climate regime implied by the Paris Agreement, the paper concludes with a set of empirically grounded recommendations for how the IPCC may approach the goal of policy relevance post-Paris.

Climate change debate heating up

1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (40) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
BETTE HILEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Heating Up
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