Their Secure American Future Program, dedicated to raising public awareness of the threat posed by climate change and creating a movement for action, recently released Climate Security Index (5.3 MB download), a report that looks at the impacts of
global climate disruption as a U.S. national security problem.
We think it is very significant that US national security experts have begun to recognize
global climate disruption as a problem of security and preparedness.
Not exact matches
Alongside her roles
as the Chair of
Climate - KIC Australia, founding member of the
Global Blockchain Business Council, and contributor to Forbes on blockchain
disruption, Dr Jemma Green was recently elected Deputy Lord Mayor of Perth, and is currently in the role of acting Lord Mayor of Perth.
At risk of going beyond the theme of this thread, I offer up excerpts from it because I think Orr's review speaks indirectly to the larger issue of how we
as humans and
as a
global society are reacting to the findings of the earth sciences regarding anthropogenic
global warming,
climate disruption, and their ensuing ecological and socio - economic consequences:
As the respondent to a panel on
climate and the press at this year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston (I was on the panel), he urged the media, and scientists who talk to the press, to substitute «
global climate disruption» for that all - too - comfortable pair of words.
As John Holdren of Harvard and the Woods Hole Research Center put it to me one time, a quiet message on a looming issue like global climate disruption can be interpreted as «satisfaction with the status quo.&raqu
As John Holdren of Harvard and the Woods Hole Research Center put it to me one time, a quiet message on a looming issue like
global climate disruption can be interpreted
as «satisfaction with the status quo.&raqu
as «satisfaction with the status quo.»
It's hard to see anything shifting these coal trends unless and until other energy choices become
as cheap and convenient, or countries are kicked so hard by
climate disruption that they realize the value of a
global push to limit the human contribution to warming exceeds the economic value of abundant fossil energy.
We would argue that
global climatic
disruption will make these relationships even more crucial
as the ever - escalating
climate change impacts permeate issues of economic security, national and international security, national energy policy, environmental and natural resource management and protection, and so on.
Yes, the simple term «
global warming» doesn't convey all the complexities of what can happen
as that warming causes air and ocean currents to shift, but
climate change /
disruption provides even less information.
Yes, much more useful to «frame» the discussion with unequivocal terms such
as global warming /
climate change / climage
disruption /
global wierding / extreme
climate / extreme weather /
climate disruption /
climate chaos.
Over the last three decades, five IPCC «assessment reports,» dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions,
as being responsible for «dangerous»
global warming,
climate change,
climate «
disruption,» and almost every «extreme» weather or
climate event.
If the sun is primarily responsible for observed
global air temperature changes (even if heavily modulated by ocean behaviour
as I contend elsewhere) then we need to know sooner rather than later otherwise a misdiagnosis of the causes of
climate change could cause unimaginable
disruption and hardship through the imposition of incorrect remedies.
As climatologist Tim Ball summarized «Beck's work completely undermined the IPCC claims and assumptions about the role of CO2 in man - made
Global Warming, then
Global Warming, then
Climate Change, and now
Global Climate Disruptions.»
While the cover is an instant classic, the article itself is just
as great — clear, direct, and unequivocal in the connection between extreme weather like Superstorm Sandy and manmade
global climate disruption.
Hmm... Seems to be somewhat at odds with John Holdren's preferred reframing of
climate change (aka
global warming)
as «
global climate disruption».
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The science of
global warming IS NOT settled, and catastrophic anthropogenic
climate disruption is not unequivocal (even without change from business
as usual).
As such, AMEG has declared: «An extremely high international security risk of acute
climate disruption followed by runaway
global warming.»
This is precisely the sort of headline that
climate scientists have been warning us about when they talk about altered precipitation patterns
as a result of
global climate disruption.
The report warned that poor and marginalized communities around the globe will be some of the first and hardest hit victims of
climate change: «The poorest people in the world, who have had virtually nothing to do with causing
global warming, will be high on the list of victims
as climate disruptions intensify.»
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Keep these stunning changes in the Arctic in mind,
as this month's
global survey of abrupt
climate disruption continues.
There is nothing wrong with «man made
global warming» but it is not the same thing
as «
climate change» or «
climate disruption» — one is the consequence of the other,
global temperatures are only one aspect of our
climate.
I
as a President / CEO: GREENPLANET appreciate him work to stopping
global climate disruption.
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This is the same approach where the terms «
climate change» and «
climate disruption» are used
as [erroneous] synonyms for
global warming due to the emissions of greenhouse gases.
Global climatic
disruption has been elevated
as a national priority to the point that the Obama - Biden administration has acknowledged that it must have one or more top - notch
climate advisers in the White House to deal with the problem effectively.
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«
Global warming» is simply renamed
as «
climate disruption.»
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As this concession ocurred it manifested to the unwashed masses as «global warming» was first replaced by «climate change» and now is morphing yet again into «climate disruption»
As this concession ocurred it manifested to the unwashed masses
as «global warming» was first replaced by «climate change» and now is morphing yet again into «climate disruption»
as «
global warming» was first replaced by «
climate change» and now is morphing yet again into «
climate disruption».
Human activities are exerting pressure on the environment with consequences such
as global climate change,
disruption of the hydrological cycle and impacts on water catchments.
The impacts of
global climate disruption are already manifesting themselves and already costing the world hugely in human lives and well - being,
as well
as economically (check out CA's Imperial Valley, the water crisis in Israel, the permanent dry
climate settling over the US Southwest, the desertification underway in Spain, Germany, etc..)
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Global Warming /
Climate Change /
Climate Disruption / Carbon Pollution could easily be mistaken
as a Hoax, given the constant name changing and how it is portrait
as causing everything from shrinking penises to the potential extinction of coffee trees
Such
as a
Global Climate Disruption panel....
Global warming and
climate disruption affect seniors dramatically,
as the European heatwaves of a couple of years demonstrated; most of the deaths were seniors, often living alone without air conditioning or assistance.
If you define «
global climate disruption»
as being fewer and less severe hurricanes, fewer and less severe tornadoes, fewer and less severe instances of drought, wildfires, etc., well then I guess I would agree that
global warming is causing tremendous [laughs] «
global climate disruption.»