Addressing climate change with geoengineering in the 21st century [reviews of "climate wars: the fight for survival as the world overheats" (gwyer, g.l.;2010); "how to cool the planet: geoengineering and the audacious quest to fix earth's climate" (goodell, j. 2010); "hack the planet: science's best hope - or worst nightmare - for averting climate" (kintisch,e.; 2010) and "the climate fix: what scientists and politicians won't tell you about global warming" (pielke, r.; 2010)

Since the 21st century, the idea of green constructing has gradually become popular again was launched in many countries, which has become a popular alternative to sustainable development construction industry. Over the past few decades, many scholars and experts have done more research on the green structure. Green construction technology is one of the world’s leading topics set to reduce the major impact of the construction industry on the environment, society and the economy. The world has an urgent need for sustainability and an intelligent development as the problem of pollution and global warming grows rapidly around the world. Major climate change has also been noted and experience globally due to the proliferation of Green House Gases (GHG's). The purpose of this paper is to focus on how sustainable constructing material can help reduce the impact of environmental degradation, and produce healthy buildings that are sustainable for the human being and for our environment.

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Climate change scenarios as a driver for “Raсe to Zero” campaign

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202111401006 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 114 ◽

pp. 01006

Author(s):

Leonid Sorokin

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

Sea Level Rise ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Sea Level ◽

Average Temperature ◽

The World ◽

Negative Emission ◽

Earth’S Climate ◽

Negative Emission Technologies

The Race to Zero is the largest credible alliance aiming to reduce twice emissions by 2030, with the main goal of moving towards a carbon-zero economy by 2050. Zero emission technologies can reduce the greenhouse gas concentrations in Atmosphere that can help to slowdown the Global Warming but for making the Earth’s climate system more stable we need implement Negative emission technologies. Negative emission technologies can significantly reduce the greenhouse gas concentrations in Atmosphere that can getting down the global average temperature to the pre-industrial level and prevent Global Warming and future Sea Level Rise. The currently observed climatic changes cannot be completely explained by the increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Taking into account the impact of methane emissions, including the Polar Regions and the World Ocean, it will be possible to explain rapid changes in the Earth's climate. For getting the Earth’s climate system stable and predictable we need to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and the global average temperature to the pre-industrial levels. If this aims cannot be achieved then Climate Change and associated with Global Warming future Sea Level Rise in the nearest future would be the most important Risk factors in the Global World and World Economy, that can provide the world massive losses and economic crisis.

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Effects of climate change on environmental sustainability

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202125001005 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 250 ◽

pp. 01005

Author(s):

Manuela Tvaronavičienė

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

Natural Resources ◽

Carbon Footprint ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Industrial Pollution ◽

Climatic Conditions ◽

Adaptation Strategies ◽

Viable Solution ◽

The World

Adaptation strategies to the climate change include measures that can be taken to take account of the new climatic conditions. This paper aims at assessing the effects of climate change on environmental sustainability. This sustainability constitutes a major problem in many countries and regions around the world that experience industrial pollution, degradation of land as well as natural disasters caused by the global warming. The paper shows that adaptation strategies are often parallel strategies that can be integrated simultaneously with the management of natural resources. They can make resources more efficient and resilient to climate change. The paper shows that reducing the carbon footprint by more than 50 percent by 2030 and eliminating it by 2050 might be a viable solution how to tackle the climate change and support the environmental sustainability.

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Conservation of Plants and Trees in the Light of Prophetic Teachings

Journal of Islamic and Religious Studies ◽

10.36476/jirs.5:1.06.2020.16 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 65-84

Author(s):

Sumaira Nawaz ◽

Dr. Shah Moeen ud Din Hashmi

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Environmental Behaviors ◽

Environment Friendly ◽

Human Behaviors ◽

The World ◽

Ecological Problems

Article endeavors to analyze the prophetic guiding principles regarding human behaviors related to plants and trees being an important component of our environment. The discussion mainly deals with the key environmental issues emphasizing plantation and its significance for balancing the equilibrium of the environment. Additionally, it thrashes out that humans are urged to seedling the plantation even the world is to be ended in Islam. The present study is delimited to the present ecological crises faced by society and a great challenge to the globe. The current ecological problems i.e global warming and climate change are interpreted just to analyze the environmental behaviors in Hadith literature. However, a profundity descriptive study has been conducted in the most influential way to examine the prophetic rules for human behaviors related to trees and plants being environment friendly. Furthermore, the existing practices of humans related to such an environmental sphere also been aptly figure out to highlight all possible ways in the light of prophetic guidance to deal with prevailing environmental issues. Inconsistency between religious teachings and human behaviors need the keen interest of religious scholars and social scientists to carefully harmonize both for maintaining the ecological balance in nature.

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Conclusion

Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197506219.003.0010 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 199-202

Author(s):

Philip Jenkins

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Global Warming ◽

Science Fiction ◽

The Political ◽

Climate History ◽

Accurate Knowledge ◽

The World ◽

Religious Dimensions ◽

Better Than

My own interest in the topics of this book dates back a good many years. In fact, it predates the emergence of the modern field of climate history, or the identification of global warming as an incipient menace. In saying that, I am claiming no status as a prodigy, still less a prophet. Rather, in my teenage years, I read a great deal of speculative fiction, science fiction, in which themes of climate change and cataclysm have long percolated, at least since the latter years of the nineteenth century. We can debate how accurate the scientific analyses or predictions were in many of these works—in many cases, the level of accurate knowledge was minimal—but those works had the inordinate advantage of thinking through the human and cultural consequences of catastrophe, commonly speculating about religious dimensions. Obviously, some works succeeded better than others in that regard, but the essential project was critically important. If we are foretelling that the world will be assailed by lethal menaces, then we cannot fail to go on to imagine what the political or cultural consequences would or should be....

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Global Warming

Antarctica ◽

10.1093/wentk/9780190641320.003.0008 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

David Day

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

The Arctic ◽

Polar Bears ◽

The World

How vulnerable to climate change are Antarctica’s fauna? Antarctica’s fauna are very vulnerable to climate change. All we have to do is look at the penguins. With the recent dramatic loss of ice in the Arctic, the world has focused on whether polar bears are...

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Global Climate Change: Real or Myth?

Why We Need Nuclear Power ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199344574.003.0006 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Michael H. Fox

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

Greenhouse Gases ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

An Inconvenient Truth ◽

The World ◽

The United Nations ◽

Earth’S Climate ◽

The One

We, the teeming billions of people on earth, are changing the earth’s climate at an unprecedented rate because we are spewing out greenhouse gases and are heading to a disaster, say most climate scientists. Not so, say the skeptics. We are just experiencing normal variations in earth’s climate and we should all take a big breath, settle down, and worry about something else. Which is it? A national debate has raged for the last several decades about whether anthropogenic (man-made) sources of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) and other so-called “greenhouse gases“ (primarily methane and nitrous oxide) are causing the world to heat up. This phenomenon is usually called “global warming,” but it is more appropriate to call it “global climate change,” since it is not simply an increase in global temperatures but rather more complex changes to the overall climate. Al Gore is a prominent spokesman for the theory that humans are causing an increase in greenhouse gases leading to global climate change. His movie and book, An Inconvenient Truth, gave the message widespread awareness and resulted in a Nobel Peace Prize for him in 2008. However, the message also led to widespread criticism. On the one hand are a few scientists and a large segment of the general American public who believe that there is no connection between increased CO2 in the atmosphere and global climate change, or if there is, it is too expensive to do anything about it, anyway. On the other hand is an overwhelming consensus of climate scientists who have produced enormous numbers of research papers demonstrating that increased CO2 is changing the earth’s climate. The scientific consensus is expressed most clearly in the Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 by the United Nations–sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the fourth in a series of reports since 1990. The IPCC began as a group of scientists meeting in Geneva in November 1988 to discuss global climate issues under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program.

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Climate Fiction and the World Literary System

Science Fiction and Climate Change ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781789621723.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 51-74

Author(s):

Andrew Milner ◽

J.R. Burgmann

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Political Economy ◽

Global Warming ◽

Perceived Vulnerability ◽

System P ◽

Green Politics ◽

The World ◽

Climate Fiction ◽

Literary System ◽

Structural Determinant

The chapter opens with a discussion of two early instances of global warming cli-fi, Arthur Herzog’s Heat and George Turner’s The Sea and Summer, and argues that both are more or less oblivious to the wider world beyond their respective national frontiers. It proceeds to elaborate an account of the place of SF in the world literary system, understood in Wallerstein and Moretti’s terms as comprising a core, semi-periphery and periphery. This model is then applied more specifically to cli-fi, distinguishing between structural and conjunctural determinants of the evolution of the sub-genre. The main structural determinant, it argues, will be the world SF system. But this may be either countered or reinforced by one or more of three main conjunctural factors: the degree of perceived vulnerability to extreme climate change of any particular national political economy; the salience of Green politics within any particular national polity; and the salience of climate change within broader environmentalist discussions in any particular national culture. The chapter concludes with critical accounts of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital trilogy, Frank Schätzing’s Der Schwarm, Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy and Antti Tuomainen’s Parantaja.

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Global Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change: Insights from World Wide Views on Global Warming in Australia

PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies ◽

10.5130/portal.v8i3.1734 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Chris Riedy ◽

Jade Herriman

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

World Wide ◽

Global Climate ◽

Climate Change Policy ◽

Global Scale ◽

Climate Change Response ◽

Deliberative System ◽

The World ◽

Change Response

On 26 September 2009, approximately 4,000 citizens in 38 countries participated in World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWViews). WWViews was an ambitious first attempt to convene a deliberative mini-public at a global scale, giving people from around the world an opportunity to deliberate on international climate policy and to make recommendations to the decision-makers meeting at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP-15) in December 2009. In this paper, we examine the role that deliberative mini-publics can play in facilitating the emergence of a global deliberative system for climate change response. We pursue this intent through a reflective evaluation of the Australian component of the World Wide Views on Global Warming project (WWViews). Our evaluation of WWViews is mixed. The Australian event was delivered with integrity and feedback from Australian participants was almost universally positive. Globally, WWViews demonstrated that it is feasible to convene a global mini-public to deliberate on issues of global relevance, such as climate change. On the other hand, the contribution of WWViews towards the emergence of a global deliberative system for climate change response was limited and it achieved little influence on global climate change policy. We identify lessons for future global mini-publics, including the need to prioritise the quality of deliberation and provide flexibility to respond to cultural and political contexts in different parts of the world. Future global mini-publics may be more influential if they seek to represent discourse diversity in addition to demographic profiles, use designs that maximise the potential for transmission from public to empowered space, run over longer time periods to build momentum for change and experiment with ways of bringing global citizens together in a single process instead of discrete national events.

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Psychiatry in 21st century: The road ahead

Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice ◽

10.4103/0976-3147.140013 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 05 (04) ◽

pp. 426-427

Author(s):

Sayantanava Mitra ◽

Anjana Rao Kavoor

Keyword(s):

Global Warming ◽

21St Century ◽

Mentally Ill ◽

Mental Illnesses ◽

The Other ◽

The Road ◽

Gender Empowerment ◽

The World ◽

Advance Care ◽

And Gender

ABSTRACTIn spite of becoming more humane in its approach with improvements in understanding of mental illnesses over last century, psychiatry still has a long way to go. At this point in time, on one hand the world faces issues like terrorism, wars and global warming; while on the other it is witnessing economic and gender empowerment like never before. With technology providing us with immense opportunities to advance care for the mentally ill, we are closer than ever to finding the holy-grail of psychiatry, and overcoming daunting challenges.

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