PPT-Climate Change and Conflict

Catherine Thomasson MD Physicians for Social Responsibility Risk Factors for Conflict Competition for scarce resources Migration Partial social structuresgovt control Demographic amp economic inequities . According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rising global temperatures will very likely increase the frequency and intensity of heat waves droughts and heavy rainfall events adversely affecting agriculture forests water resources indu Osmanova. Inna,. June 24,2015, . Ormea. Agriculture in Central Asia. Tajikistan. . - . 21% of GDP and 64% of total employment . Kyrgyz Republic. -. 17% of GDP and 30,7 % of total employment . Uzbekistan. Problems. Prof. B.K.P. Sinha, IFS (Retd.). Advisor, . Amity School of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development. Email. : . balkrishanps@amity.edu. Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Metropolitan Cities . With particular reference. to. THE CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA. Major General (retd). Joseph G Singh. (GUYANA). IES - Climate Change & . Security. at Copenhagen - II. The Contribution of the Global Security Community to Success. resources of the western U.S.. Dennis P. Lettenmaier. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. University of Washington. University of . Texas Austin. Center for Integrated Earth System Science Seminar Series. Entry . Into Climate . Change Adaption . Surfrider’s 30 years of coastal . preservation . advocacy applies directly to climate change.. Limit impacts . to . ecosystems, public . access & recreation. Doug Campbell. Department of Philosophy. University of Canterbury. What is skepticism?. First pass: a skeptic is someone who opposes bullshit. . Okay: but what’s ‘bullshit?’. How is this technical term to be unpacked?. The experience in TUVALU. Mr Itaia Lausaveve. (Director of Agriculture, Ministry of Natural Resources). Building Resilience to Climate Changes in the Pacific islands. 31. st. October – 2. nd. November, Le Lagon Resort, Vanuatu. CUHK Summer Institute 2017. Prof. Benoit MAYER, . bmayer@cuhk.edu.hk. . Sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Session 3:. International cooperation. Today’s class:. International cooperation. Addressing climate change. 17 January 2011. How and Why Does Climate Change?. Climate changes over a broad range of time scales. Years, decades, centuries, millennia. Many factors combine to affect climate. Variability of incoming solar radiation. Climatology. is . the study of Earth’s climate and the factors that affect past, present, and future climatic changes.. Climate describes annual variations of temperature, precipitation, wind, and other weather factors.. Is it getting worse?. Are Humans causing it?. Is Time running out?. Is there anything that should be done?. Is the “standard model” the only option?. Climate change?. . “Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.” Enrico Fermi 1938.. long-term weather patterns. for a particular area.. On Earth we have different climates depending on where you are. . Can you think of any  different climates?. 2. What is climate change?. Climate change. Examples of the both fine-scale and larger-scale signature of climate and climate history include:. Effect of differences in climate on landforms . Relict . topography formed by now inactive . processes..