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Impacts of Geoengineering on Biodiversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity just released a report [PDF] put together by their Liaison Expert group on geo-engineering and biodiversity. The report – to which I have contributed as one of several lead authors – brings together peer-reviewed literature … Continue reading
Links: Melting glaciers, floods, and species responses to climate change
1) BBC News – Rivers of ice: Vanishing glaciers.- David Breashears retraced the steps of early photographic pioneers such as Major E O Wheeler, George Mallory and Vittorio Sella – to try to re-take their views of breathtaking glacial vistas. … Continue reading
Posted in General, Links, Vulnerability
Tagged climate change, floods, glaciers, species range shift, Thailand
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Loss of Old Arctic Sea Ice
Old sea ice, which had survived several summers, used to dominate the sea ice of the winter Arctic. However, today less than half of the sea ice at winter maximum has survived at least one summer. NOAA’s climatewatch has a … Continue reading
Climate Stablization Wedges – an update, responses and critiques
A well know proposed strategy for reducing carbon emissions was the 2004 “wedges” paper in by ecologist Stephen Pacala and engineer Robert Socolow (Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1100103). For more on wedges see Carbon Mitigation Initiative website at Princeton. Robert Socolow has … Continue reading
Scanning the Internet for Ecological Early Warnings
If Google Flu Trends can, why can’t we? The possibility to mine large amounts of individual reports and local news posted on the Internet as early warning signs of pending epidemic outbreaks has been a part of global epidemic governance … Continue reading
Posted in General, Tools, Visualization
Tagged climate change, early warning, forest, internet, invasive species, land use, monitoring
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Links: death threats, uprisings, social memory, nature, and LIDAR
1) From Nature News, death threats are being sent to Australian climate scientists, including our Stockholm Resilience Centre colleague Will Steffen. More information from Australia’s ABC news 1 & 2. 2) How well are researchers able to forecast popular uprisings? … Continue reading
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Tagged books, climate change, death threats, Greg Asner, Jay Ulfelder, revolutions, TC Boyle, will steffen
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Evoking Climate Change’s Systemic Risks
Stephen Thomson of Plonomedia.com remixed 350.org climate activist Bill McKibben‘s popular sarcastic recent Washington Post op-ed “A link between climate change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never!” into a video that is more gripping than the article. McKibben is being sarcastic for … Continue reading
Posted in Visualization
Tagged activism, Bill McKibben, climate change, Stephen Thomson, video
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Links: writing, activism, First Nations, Arctic, immigration, and walking
A selection of links I found interesting from around the web 1) How to write about your science from SciDev.Net 2) Rob Hopkins from Transition Towns writes about the tension between creating change and activism in Transition and activism: a … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, General, Links, Networks
Tagged activism, arctic, Canada, climate change, facebook, first nations, immigration, science writing, Toronto, Transition Towns, transport, walkable neighbourhoods
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Chicago invests in resilient ecological infrastructure
Leslie Kaufman in the New York Times has a good article, A City Prepares for a Warm Long-Term Forecast, that reviews Chicago’s efforts to improve its ecological infrastructure. The article describes the city’s approach to climate change adaptation: As a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Cities, Ecosystem services
Tagged chicago, chicago climate action, climate change, paved space, Seoul, trees, water
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Information and communication technologies in the Anthropocene
UPDATED: Slides from the talks at the end of this blogpost The use of social media for political mobilization during the political uprisings in Northern Africa and the Middle East during 2010 and 2011; digital coordination of climate skeptic networks … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, General, Networks, Reflections, Visualization
Tagged Arizona, climate change, IDRC, internet, mobile phones, Resilience 2011, SEI, Stockholm Resilience Centre
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