Climate Change Risks

Barrie Pittock
Catholic perspective Walt Grazer
Jewish response to climate change Rabbi Warren G Stone
Moral and Profitable Path to Climate Stabilization
Mormon perspective Joseph Cannon
Muslim perspective Khalid Shaukat
A role for government
Acknowledgements
Addressing and slowing the consequences of climate change
Addressing Climate Change Religious Perspectives and Initiatives
Admiral James M
Alexia C Kelly
Andrew E Derocher
Anthony C Janetos
Are these changes significant over the longer term
Attribution of the increased hurricane activity
Background and context
Bruce C Douglas
Changes in polar bear habitat
Changes in Polar Sea Ice Coverage
Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet and Implications for Global Sea Level Rise
Christopher Flavin
Claire L Parkinson
Climate change and coastlines
Climate change and the small island developing states
Climate Impacts in the Developing World A Case Study of the Small Island States
Climate Solutions on Todays Campuses How Todays Students Must Drive a Modern Industrial Revolution
Concluding thought
Conclusion
Conclusions - 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Contents
Current observations of change related to climate
Dan Worth
Denis Hayes
Devra Lee Davis
Discussion - 2 3
Early actions
Ecological impacts
Effects of forest cover change on ecosystem services and society
Effects of future warming on polar bear populations and other Arctic species
Eric Rignot
Eric S Kasischke
Erin Frey
Evangelical actions to build climate protection into overseas ministry Jo Anne Lyon
Stuart Chapin III
Figures
Foreword
Frances Moore
Green leadership in the religious community Rev Sally Bingham
Greenhouse gas offsets and regulatory policy
Greenhouse gas offsets and their benefits
Gulf Coast physiographic setting
Health impacts from heat stress and air pollution
Health impacts resulting from international interconnections
Historic context University roots run deep
How climatenegative campuses will drive a modern industrial revolution
Ice sheet changes
Iceland is taking actions to address climate change
Impacts and policy responses
Increasing international awareness
Increasing Vulnerability of Alaskas Boreal Forest as a Result of Climate Warming and the Changing Fire Regime
Info
International Action to Buffer Against the Rapid Onset of Climate Change
Introduction to Part - 2 3 4
John Ashton
John Topping
Joseph A Cannon
Judith Curry
Kahlid Shaukat
Linkage to increased tropical sea surface temperature
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Malcolm Bowman
Mass balance estimates
Michael C Mac Cracken
Michael S Kearney
Moving Toward Climate Stabilization Icelands Example
Named storms Hurricanes
Named storms SSTs
Nasir Khattak
New evidence suggesting more rapid climate change
New technology to improve coastal resilience
Notes - 2
Offset Project
Our preparedness for responding needs enhancement
Paul C Pritchard
Polar bear survival
Polar Bears in a Warming Arctic
Political acceptance of climate change
Possible responses to increasing risk from accelerating sea level rise
Potential Increased Hurricane Activity in a Greenhouse Warmed World
Presbyterians move toward climate neutrality Pam McVety
President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson
Progress across the North
Projections of future hurricane activity in the North Atlantic
Rabbi Warren G Stone
Recent changes to the fire regime and permafrost
References - 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Results from the US National Assessment
Rev Sally G Bingham
Robert Bindschadler
Robert W Corell
Rrrrrr
Sea level rise and its impacts
Sir Crispin Tickell
State of the ice sheets
Status of polar bear populations
Stephen P Leatherman
Storm surge barriers for Metropolitan New York
Strategies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions The Role of Greenhouse Gas Offsets
Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change
Taking action on energy Stepping up to the challenge and driving a shift in power
Ten Reasons Why Climate Change May be More Severe than Projected
The Antarctic record
The Arctic record
The challenge of global warming to the Chesapeake
The economics of decentralization
The extent and influence of polar sea ice
The importance of offset quality
The importance of thresholds and tipping points
The potential for responding
The Potential for Significant Impacts on Chesapeake Bay from Global Warming
The Stony Brook storm surge models
The voluntary greenhouse gas market
Thomas R Casten
Threats and Responses Associated with Rapid Climate Change in Metropolitan New York
Tom Roper
Understanding ice sheet behavior
Variation in fire severity and its effects on ecosystem characteristics
Virginia Burkett
Vulnerability of Alaskas black spruce forests
Walter E Grazer
We continue to face the likelihood of natural catastrophes
What can be predicted
What is causing these changes
Where Will Ecosystems Go
William A Nitze
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