scholarly journals COUNTERING CLIMATE CHANGE BY PROTECTING THE ATMOSPHERE FROM ANTHROPOGENIC GASES AND CREATING ARTIFICIAL SOURCES OF FRESH WATER

ASJ. ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (56) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
V. Kosmin ◽  
K. Galitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Proactive Management ◽  
Technical Potential ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
Emergency Mode ◽  
Selection Of

The activities of mankind in the past at least 70 years have led to the disruption of the planet's ecosystem with the prospect of serious consequences for life on Earth. To start at least slow down their action, only global scientific and technical solutions with very short periods of their implementation are needed. The article proposes to carry out the separation of fumes before their emission into the atmosphere, during which, to carry out the selection of greenhouse and toxic components of fumes, with the aim of their further utilization or neutralization. Protecting the atmosphere from smoke and eliminating the shortage of freshwater are purely technical areas that will not create unsolvable problems for the modern scientific and technical potential of mankind. All that is needed is a proactive management, ideologically aimed at solving these technical problems in an emergency mode.

scholarly journals An environmental and economic evaluation of carbon sequestration from pyrolysis and biochar application in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (No. 12) ◽  
pp. 569-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cao Xiaoyong ◽  
Kung Chih-Chun ◽  
Wang Yuelong
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Sector Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
Agricultural Sector Model ◽  
Moderate Energy ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Life On Earth

In the past decade, China has more than doubled its consumption of fossil fuels resulting in the emission of substantial amounts of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>), which are considered to be the main cause of climate change. To mitigate climate change and ensure the continued survival of life on earth, the current level of CO<sub>2R</sub> emissions must be cut. This study establishes a price endogenous mathematical programming (Jiangxi Agricultural Sector Model) and incorporates bioenergy technologies such as ethanol, conventional co-firing and pyrolysis to examine how an agricultural province may contribute to bioenergy development and carbon sequestration. The results indicate that under moderate energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) prices, net electricity generation reaches 6.5 billion kWh annually. Net emission reduction is affected by market operations. At high GHG prices, pyrolysis and biochar application can sequester up to 4.74 million tons of CO<sub>2R</sub> emissions annually. However, this measure fluctuates significantly when GHG prices vary. Our study shows that pyrolysis and biochar application provide significant environmental effects in terms of carbon sequestration.  

scholarly journals Speculative Performance Meets Immersive Learning: Lessons of Drylab2023

1969 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriene Jenik
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Immersive Learning ◽  
Future Scenario ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrative Frame ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Vital Resource

Drylab2023, an experiment in “immersive learning,” was conducted from May 13-June 11, 2017. Eight participants lived for 30 days in a remote desert outpost limited to 4 gallons of water per person per day to meet all water needs (drinking, cooking, washing, hygiene, etc) while subsisting on a water-wise diet. Participants were charged to live within a “near future scenario” of water scarcity (2023); modelling how to manage a limited vital resource: fresh water. During the experiment, narrative progress could be tracked as it unfolded through online posts at drylab2023.net. This article argues that: 1) speculative performance is a powerful form of knowledge creation that can prefigure and manifest alternate ways of living with climate change; 2) the participants, scenario, environmental stage, and audience collaboratively produced the performance; 3) through performance – an embodied form of knowledge – the participants came to understand what it means to live water-wise; and 4) the use of the speculative (the narrative frame of 2023) allowed participants to reflect on the past and present as well as imagine the future.  

Language and End Time (Sections I, IV and V of ‘Sprache und Endzeit’)

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 153 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günther Anders ◽  
Translated by Christopher John Müller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Nuclear Science ◽  
Journal Issue ◽  
The Third ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
Original Essay ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Selection Of

‘Language and End Time’ is a translation of Sections I, IV and V of ‘Sprache und Endzeit’, a substantial essay by Günther Anders that was published in eight instalments in the Austrian journal FORVM from 1989 to 1991 (the full essay consists of 38 sections). The original essay was planned for inclusion in the third (unrealised) volume of The Obsolescence of Human Beings. ‘Language and End Time’ builds on the diagnosis of ‘our blindness toward the apocalypse’ that was advanced in the first volume of The Obsolescence in 1956. The essay asks if there is a language that is capable of making us fully comprehend the looming ‘man-made apocalypse’. In response to this, it offers a critique of philosophical jargon and of the putatively ‘objective’ language of (nuclear) science, which are both dismissed as unsuitable. Sections I, IV and V introduce this core problematic. The selection of this text for inclusion in this special journal issue responds to present-day realities that inscribe Anders’s reflections on nuclear science and the nuclear situation into new contexts. The critique that ‘Language and End Time’ advances resonates with the way in which the (undemocratic) decisions of a few companies and individuals are shaping the future of life on earth. At the same time, the wider stakes of Anders’s turn against the language employed by (weapons) scientists are newly laid bare by the realities and politics of climate change and fake news. In this new context, the language of science is all too readily dismissed as if it were a mere idiom that can be ignored without consequence. It is against the backdrop of a future that is, if anything, more uncertain than at the time of Anders’s writing, that the essay’s reflections on popularisation, the limits of language and the nature of truth gain added significance.

scholarly journals Dendroclimatology as the Part of Dendrochronology

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Tree Rings ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
The Past ◽  
Selection Of

As a the brench of dendrochronology, dendroclimatology assesses the climate in the past and uses tree rings and weather data, mainly precipitation and temperatures, to assess future climate change. The rate of publications on dendroclimatology was slow during the first half of the 20th century, but it has grown exponentially since the 1960s. More than 3,000 of the 12,000 scientific publications now listed in the dendrochronology's online bibliography contain the word "climate". The purpose of the paper is to review the history of dendro-climatology and its basic provisions. The American astronomer A.I. Douglas at the beginning of the 20th century developed the methods and principles that we use today. The basic principles of dendrochronology are borrowed from general ecology: the uniformitarian principle, the principle of limiting factors, the principle of aggregate tree growth, the principle of ecological emplitude, the principle of crossdating, the principle of cite celection. The basic methods in dendrochronology are: selection of research sites, selection of cores, cross-dating, indexation of tree-ring chronologies. Statistical methods for quantifying tree to climate ratios are briefly discussed, as well as correlation analysis and response function. Examples of dendroclimatological studies are given. F.G. Kolyshchuk proposed an original technique for the study of radial pine growth in the Carpathian Mountains. He found that during the last 200 - 230 years different species of pine (Pinus mughus Scop., Sembra L.) growing in the high mountains and inter-forested marshes (P. Silvestris L., P. Mughus Scop.) In the Ukrainian Carpathians it’s revealed a similar growth rate in tree rings, which may be evidence of climatic conditioning of the dynamics of growth and the same response of these pine species to climate change. An example study of the response of pine radial growth to climate variations in the forest-steppe zone shows an increase in the sensitivity of stands due to climate warming. Conclusions. Dendroclimatology is an interdisciplinary science that helps to determine how similar or not climate is today to the past and continues to play an extremely important role in the study of the response of forest ecosystems to climate change.

scholarly journals Climate change on fisheries: Challenges and opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
GOLAM M. MATHBOR
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Climate System ◽  
Salt Water Intrusion ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Revenue Sources ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Life On Earth

Science has shown us that since Earth’s creation, climate has been affected by natural occurrences,both within and outside the climate system, but in recent years, climate is also being affected by actions andinactions of the human race. Climate system changes affect all life on earth, but fisheries are affected inparticular, because almost three-quarters of the Earth’s surface is water and home to a variety of aquatic life.Changing weather is producing more droughts, floods, rising sea levels, salt water intrusion of fresh water,acidity in the oceans and ocean warming. This paper discusses how climate change is affecting both marinelife in the oceans and aquatic species in fresh water, as well as the effects of these changes on the seafoodsupply chain and other revenue sources in coastal areas. Factors causing climate change and actions needed tomitigate these changes are also discussed.

Integrated FAHP-VIKOR model for green supplier selection in a Nickle coating SME

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
Sanatan Ratna ◽  
B Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Staff Training ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Supplier Evaluation ◽  
Green Supplier Selection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Coating Industry ◽  
Sustainability Issue ◽  
Selection Of

In the past few decades, there has been lot of focus on the issue of sustainability. This has occurred due to the growing concerns related to climate change and the growing awareness about environmental concerns. Also, the competition at global level has led to the search for the most sustainable route in the industries. The current research work deals with the selection of green supplier in a Nickle coating industry based on certain weighted green attributes. For this purpose, a hybrid tool comprising of Fuzzy AHP (Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy) and VIKOR (VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) is used. The Fuzzy AHP is used for assigning proper weights to the selected criteria for supplier evaluation, while VIKOR is used for final supplier selection based on the weighted criteria. The three criterions for green supplier selection are, Ecological packaging, Corporate socio-environmental responsibility and Staff Training. The outcome of the integrated model may serve as a steppingstone to other SMEs in different sectors for selecting the most suitable supplier for addressing the sustainability issue.

Denouement: World Politics, Systemic Leadership, and Climate Change

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Thompson ◽  
Leila Zakhirova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
World Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Climate Fluctuations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
Historical Processes

In this final chapter, we conclude by recapitulating our argument and evidence. One goal of this work has been to improve our understanding of the patterns underlying the evolution of world politics over the past one thousand years. How did we get to where we are now? Where and when did the “modern” world begin? How did we shift from a primarily agrarian economy to a primarily industrial one? How did these changes shape world politics? A related goal was to examine more closely the factors that led to the most serious attempts by states to break free of agrarian constraints. We developed an interactive model of the factors that we thought were most likely to be significant. Finally, a third goal was to examine the linkages between the systemic leadership that emerged from these historical processes and the global warming crisis of the twenty-first century. Climate change means that the traditional energy platforms for system leadership—coal, petroleum, and natural gas—have become counterproductive. The ultimate irony is that we thought that the harnessing of carbon fuels made us invulnerable to climate fluctuations, while the exact opposite turns out to be true. The more carbon fuels are consumed, the greater the damage done to the atmosphere. In many respects, the competition for systemic leadership generated this problem. Yet it is unclear whether systemic leadership will be up to the task of resolving it.

Evidence-based Assessment

2010 ◽  
pp. 76-98
Author(s):  
John Hunsley ◽  
Eric J. Mash
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
The Many ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Made In

Evidence-based assessment relies on research and theory to inform the selection of constructs to be assessed for a specific assessment purpose, the methods and measures to be used in the assessment, and the manner in which the assessment process unfolds. An evidence-based approach to clinical assessment necessitates the recognition that, even when evidence-based instruments are used, the assessment process is a decision-making task in which hypotheses must be iteratively formulated and tested. In this chapter, we review (a) the progress that has been made in developing an evidence-based approach to clinical assessment in the past decade and (b) the many challenges that lie ahead if clinical assessment is to be truly evidence-based.

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