PPT-Conference Culture and Climate Change

Michael Hicks SIGPLAN Chair SIGPLAN Professor Computer Science University of Maryland Conferences and Climate Conferences are the heart of SIGPLAN and ACM Our best results appear in conference proceedings. This is an essential step to reach a final agreement in Paris in 2015 57524 said Marcin Korolec Pre sident of the COP19 conference In the context of 2015 countries decided to initiate or intensify domestic preparation for their intended national con 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 Ms. . Divya. Mohan. Associate Fellow. Earth . Sceince. and Climate Change Division. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Agriculture and Climate Change. Agriculture contributes to climate change through GHG emissions. 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. Using these websites, the textbook and your own research- complete a table of information about how people at different scales are responding to climate change. Individual . Local. National. International. John Olson. Desert Research Institute. Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting. 23 May 2016. River & stream salinity. Varies . over four orders of magnitude, . specific electrical conductivity (EC) from < . 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. Patricia Carpenter. Masters of Environmental Education. Thesis Research. July 18, 2016. Overview. Personal Background. Methods. Research Questions. Results. Limitations. Summary. Significance. Personal Background: Education. Sea Level Rise and the Future of Coastal Cities. Boston University. 14 November 2014. Outline. Context. What do we know, and how do we know?. Implications for the future. Actions for today. We are a coastal city…. S. Appanah. Climate Change Coordinator . a.i. . . FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Background. Review “Rice and climate change in Asia”. Study outsourced to IRRI. Constitutes part of consultation on the formulation of rice strategy for Asia. 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. 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.. 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..