scholarly journals Book Review: Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-way Street of Global Warming

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-113
Author(s):  
Nicholas W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Home Life ◽  
At Home

BOOK REVIEW: "Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming" by Dave Reay

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (02) ◽  
pp. 337-338
Author(s):  
CHEW HUNG CHANG
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Home Life ◽  
At Home

Book Review: Climate Change as Social Drama: Global Warming in the Public Sphere

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-390
Author(s):  
Daniel Welch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Drama ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Book Review: Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change

The Holocene ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 1488-1489
Author(s):  
Eimear Dunne
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Numerical Models

scholarly journals Book Review of Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature // Reseña de Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-163
Author(s):  
Tatiana Prorokova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
American Literature

      Book review of Antonia Mehnert's Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature.Resumen      Reseña de Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature de Antonia Mehnert.

Modelling ecosystem adaptation and dangerous rates of global warming

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Millington ◽  
Peter M. Cox ◽  
Jonathan R. Moore ◽  
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Diffusion Rate ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Genetic Evolution ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Intraspecies Competition ◽  
High Trait

Abstract We are in a period of relatively rapid climate change. This poses challenges for individual species and threatens the ecosystem services that humanity relies upon. Temperature is a key stressor. In a warming climate, individual organisms may be able to shift their thermal optima through phenotypic plasticity. However, such plasticity is unlikely to be sufficient over the coming centuries. Resilience to warming will also depend on how fast the distribution of traits that define a species can adapt through other methods, in particular through redistribution of the abundance of variants within the population and through genetic evolution. In this paper, we use a simple theoretical ‘trait diffusion’ model to explore how the resilience of a given species to climate change depends on the initial trait diversity (biodiversity), the trait diffusion rate (mutation rate), and the lifetime of the organism. We estimate theoretical dangerous rates of continuous global warming that would exceed the ability of a species to adapt through trait diffusion, and therefore lead to a collapse in the overall productivity of the species. As the rate of adaptation through intraspecies competition and genetic evolution decreases with species lifetime, we find critical rates of change that also depend fundamentally on lifetime. Dangerous rates of warming vary from 1°C per lifetime (at low trait diffusion rate) to 8°C per lifetime (at high trait diffusion rate). We conclude that rapid climate change is liable to favour short-lived organisms (e.g. microbes) rather than longer-lived organisms (e.g. trees).

Political Preferences, Personality Traits, and Environmentalism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Soutter ◽  
René Mõttus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Party Voting

Although the scientific evidence of anthropogenic climate change continues to grow, public discourse still reflects a high level of scepticism and political polarisation towards anthropogenic climate change. In this study (N = 499) we attempted to replicate and expand upon an earlier finding that environmental terminology (“climate change” versus “global warming”) could partly explain political polarisation in environmental scepticism (Schuldt, Konrath, & Schwarz, 2011). Participants completed a series of online questionnaires assessing personality traits, political preferences, belief in environmental phenomenon, and various pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. Those with a Conservative political orientation and/or party voting believed less in both climate change and global warming compared to those with a Liberal orientation and/or party voting. Furthermore, there was an interaction between continuously measured political orientation, but not party voting, and question wording on beliefs in environmental phenomena. Personality traits did not confound these effects. Furthermore, continuously measured political orientation was associated with pro-environmental attitudes, after controlling for personality traits, age, gender, area lived in, income, and education. The personality domains of Openness, and Conscientiousness, were consistently associated with pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours, whereas Agreeableness was associated with pro-environmental attitudes but not with behaviours. This study highlights the importance of examining personality traits and political preferences together and suggests ways in which policy interventions can best be optimised to account for these individual differences.

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