Future economic damage from tropical cyclones: sensitivities to societal and climate changes

2007 ◽  
Vol 365 (1860) ◽  
pp. 2717-2729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger A Pielke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Change Climate ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines future economic damages from tropical cyclones under a range of assumptions about societal change, climate change and the relationship of climate change to damage in 2050. It finds in all cases that efforts to reduce vulnerability to losses, often called climate adaptation, have far greater potential effectiveness to reduce damage related to tropical cyclones than efforts to modulate the behaviour of storms through greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies, typically called climate mitigation and achieved through energy policies. The paper urges caution in using economic losses of tropical cyclones as justification for action on energy policies when far more potentially effective options are available.

The Paradox of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Danish Housing

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Rob Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Mitigation Strategy ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Space Heating ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Passive Solar

Climate change means that buildings must greatly reduce their energy consumption. It is however paradoxical that climate mitigation in Denmark has created negative energy and indoor climate problems in housing that may be made worse by climate change. A literature review has been carried out of housing schemes where climate mitigation was sought through reduced space heating demand, and it is shown that extensive problems with overheating exist. A theoretical study of regulative and design strategies for climate mitigation in new build housing has therefore been carried out, and it is shown that reducing space heating with high levels of thermal insulation and passive solar energy results in overheating and a growing demand for cooling. Climate change is expected to reduce space heating and increase cooling demand in housing. An analysis of new build housing using passive solar energy as a climate mitigation strategy has therefore been carried out in relation to future climate change scenarios. It is shown that severe indoor comfort problems can occur, questioning the relevance of passive solar energy as a climate mitigation strategy. In conclusion, a theoretical study of the interplay between climate adaptation and mitigation strategies is carried out, with a cross-disciplinary focus on users, passive design and active technologies. It is shown that the cumulative use of these strategies can create an adaptation buffer, thus eliminating problems with overheating and reducing energy consumption. New build housing should therefore be designed in relation to both current and future climate scenarios to show that the climate mitigation strategies ensure climate adaptation.

The kids aren't alright

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Thiery ◽  
Stefan Lange ◽  
Joeri Rogelj ◽  
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner ◽  
Lukas Gudmundsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
Extreme Events ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Crop Failure ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Impact Models

<p>People are being affected by climate change around the globe today at around 1°C of warming above pre-industrial levels. Current policies towards climate mitigation would result in about twice as much warming over the next 80 years, roughly the lifetime of a today's newborn. Here we quantify the stronger climate change burden that will fall on younger generations by introducing a novel analysis framework that expresses impacts as a function of how they are experienced along the course of a person's life. Combining projections of population, temperature, and 15 impact models encompassing droughts, heatwaves, tropical cyclones, crop failure, floods, and wildfires, we show that, under current climate pledges, newborns in 2020 are projected to experience 2-13 times more extreme events during their life than a person born in 1960, with substantial variations across regions. Limiting warming to 1.5°C consistently reduces that burden, while still leaving younger generations with unavoidable impacts that are unmatched by the impacts experienced by older generations. Our results provide a quantified scientific basis to understand the position from which younger generations challenge the present shortfall of adequate climate action.</p>

The relationship of climate change, pollen count and occurrence of rhinitis

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 4982
Author(s):  
Hwanjin Park ◽  
Jaechul Song ◽  
Jaeyoung Kim ◽  
Inah Kim ◽  
Clara Tammy Kim
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Pollen Count ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The relationship of mean temperature and 9 collected butterfly species’ wingspan as the response of global warming

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumi Na ◽  
Eunyoung Lee ◽  
Hyunjung Kim ◽  
Seiwoong Choi ◽  
Hoonbok Yi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Pieris Rapae ◽  
Wing Length ◽  
Butterfly Species ◽  
Butterfly Wing ◽  
Mean Temperature ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Organism body size is a basic characteristic in ecology; it is related to temperature according to temperature-size rule. Butterflies are affected in various aspects by climate change because they are sensitive to temperature. Therefore, this study was conducted to understand the effect of an increase in temperature due to global warming on the wing of butterflies. Results A total of 671 butterflies belonging to 9 species were collected from 1990 to 2016 in Seoul (336 specimens) and Mokpo (335 specimens). Consequently, as the mean temperature increased, the wing length of the species increased. However, there are exceptions that the Parnassius stubbendorfii, Pieridae canidia, and Pieris rapae wing length of Seoul increased, but the butterfly wing length of Mokpo decreased. Conclusions The positive correlations between the butterfly wing length and mean temperature showed that the change of mean temperature for about 26 years affects the wing length of butterfly species. The exception is deemed to have been influenced by the limited research environment, and further studies are needed. We would expect that it can be provided as basic data for studying effect of climate change.

scholarly journals Reviewing the links between climate change and resource conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-152
Author(s):  
Abugu Nkechinyere Anthonia ◽  
Yero Ahmed Bello ◽  
Odele Muyiwa Oliatan ◽  
Irene Amahagbor Macaulay
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Resource Conflict ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Resource Conflicts ◽  
Change Climate ◽  
The Relationship

Knowledge of the relationship between climate change and resource conflict is paramount in resolving resource conflict between farmers and herdsmen in Nigeria. However, there is yet no general agreement on how climate change causes or influences resource conflict. Thus, a review of existing literature that link climate change and resource conflict was conducted for identification of the missing link. These were achieved through the review of literature published in the era of the recent global climate change from late 90s to date. Selections of papers were based on the topic and date of publication. Result showed that there is general agreement that climate change influence resource conflicts. Some of the authors agreed that climate change cannot cause resource conflict in isolation but through influences on other factors that affect resource availability, accessibility and utility. These factors are also influenced by policies and socio-cultural system. Thus, resource conflict may be a secondary or tertiary effect of climate change. Climate change solution is scares in literature that linked climate change and resource conflict. Thus, future studies should be focused on climate change solution to resource conflict. Keywords: Climate change, Resource conflict, Literature review, Famers

scholarly journals Non-Conventional Agricultural Spaces and Climate Change: The Cases of Le Grenier boréal and Lufa Farms in Quebec, Canada

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Mélanie Doyon ◽  
Juan-Luis Klein
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food System ◽  
Canadian Province ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of this text is to present a reflection on the link between local initiatives to combat food insecurity and actions adapting to climate change. To this end, two case studies of ongoing experiments in the Canadian province of Quebec will be presented and compared. While these two cases are very different in terms of location, production and people involved, they share the objective of bringing fresh and healthy food, produced locally, to the population of their territory and of rethinking the relationship of the community to nature through food production. Despite their significant differences, each of these two cases features actions for responding to problems that have a common cause: an agro-industrial food system that, by decoupling the locations of production and consumption, in order to maximize the economic profitability of the capital invested, has compromised both the health of citizens and the ecological balance.

scholarly journals Epistemic injustice, risk mapping and climatic events: analysing epistemic resistance in the context of favela removal in Rio de Janeiro

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-391
Author(s):  
Luciana Mendes Barbosa ◽  
Gordon Walker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Risk Mapping ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Epistemic Justice ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Abstract. Environmental and climate justice scholarship has increasingly focused on how knowledge and expertise play into the production of injustice and into strategies of resistance and activist claim making. We consider the epistemic injustice at work within the practices of risk mapping and assessment applied in Rio de Janeiro to justify the clearance of favela communities. We trace how in the wake of landslides in 2010, the city authorities moved towards a removal policy justified in the name of protecting lives and becoming resilient to climate change. We examine how favela dwellers, activists and counter-experts joined efforts to develop a partially successful epistemic resistance that contested the knowledge on which this policy was based. We use this case to reflect on the situated character of both technologies of risk and the emergence of epistemic resistance, on the relationship between procedural and epistemic justice, and on the challenges for instilling more just climate adaptation strategies.

The relationship of climate change & major events in Austria

2021 ◽  
pp. 100393
Author(s):  
Anna Burton ◽  
Oliver Fritz ◽  
Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider ◽  
Kathrin Ginner ◽  
Herbert Formayer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Towards Adaptive Spatial Planning for Climate Change: Balancing Between Robustness and Flexibility

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arwin van Buuren ◽  
Arwin van Buuren ◽  
Peter P.J. Driessen ◽  
Arwin van Buuren ◽  
Peter P.J. Driessen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Complex Character ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Change Climate ◽  
The One

Adaptation to climate change necessitates serious adjustments to the spatial organization of our environment. However, the uncertainties, the controversial character of the climate debate, the variety of climate change consequences and the inherently complex character of climate change puts specific demands on adapting spatial planning to climate change. Due to these characteristics of climate change, climate adaptation demands “adaptive spatial planning”. One of the main challenges is to balance between a robust and a flexible approach. On the one hand adaptive spatial planning tries to enable social and economic functions to flourish. On the other hand flexibility is required in finding creative combinations between the fulfillment of climate adaptation and other spatial interests. In this article we reconsider the strategic departure points for spatial planning (norms, values and principles), the interactive organization of planning processes, and the allocation of responsibilities, costs and benefits in planning processes which in our view constitute adaptive spatial planning practices in the context of climate change.

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