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A farmer burns his dried-up rice on a paddy field stricken by drought: Mekong Delta (Vietnam) March 30, 2016. Reuters/Kham/File Photo
Prof Colin D Butler
Global challenges of climate change
Arctic environment, people and health – Building bridges between research and policymakers Univ Oulu Center for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research; WHO Collaborating Centre in Global Change, Environment and Public Health
31/5/2016: Little Parliament building, Helsinki, Finland
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Diversity of response critical to social resilience
1st World Conference on Changing Atmosphere
(1988) Humanity conducting .. “globally pervasive
experiment .. ultimate consequences second only
to a global nuclear war.”
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A woman, who survived the typhoon (Haiyan) by climbing up a steep hill, stands beside her temporary home. “I’m scared living here. When the tide comes up here, I’m very nervous that my house will be destroyed,” she said. Photograph: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam
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“Nowadays, man finds himself to be a technical giant and an ethical child.”
Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga (Honduras; 2015)
St. Peter's 2013, hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation (Filippo Montefortef/AFP/Getty Images)
46 Injured after lightning, Europe May 28 2016
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Credits: Dave/Flickr Creative Commons/CC BY 2.0http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-nasa-web-portal-shines-beacon-on-rising-seas/#
Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Florida
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Kevin Arrow, a volunteer with the Miami High Water Line project, explains sea level rise to onlookers in Miami Beach, Fla. (Courtesy Jayme Gershen/High Water Line)https://weather.com/science/environment/news/miami-flooding-increase-over-past-decade
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Isle de Jean Charles in southeastern Louisiana. A $48 million federal grant has been allocated to resettle its residents because of flooding. Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times
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http://m.bangkokpost.com/news/939193
Around 340,000 families have faced water shortages caused by the drought (Mekong delta April 2016)
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http://mashable.com/2016/04/29/asia-heat-wave-india/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29#T2k7Kq56bmqt
Deadly heat wave is shattering all-time records in Southeast Asia and India
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Drought in India, 2016
A crow drinks water from a tap on a hot day in Ahmadabad, India on April 25, 2016. Image: Ajit Solanki/AP http://mashable.com/2016/04/29/asia-heat-wave-india/#T2k7Kq56bmqt
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A huge well dries up due to consecutive years of droughts in Lature, India on April 11, 2016. Image: Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times/Getty Images
http://mashable.com/2016/04/29/asia-heat-wave-india/#WnTbPNCgomq8
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Indian men remove dead fish and try to rescue the surviving ones from the Vastrapur Lake that dried up due to hot weather in Ahmadabad, India on April 24, 2016.
http://mashable.com/2016/04/29/asia-heat-wave-india/
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Pakistani flood, April 2016
https://weather.com/safety/floods/news/pakistan-floods-latest-news
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Pakistani flood, April 2016
https://weather.com/safety/floods/news/pakistan-floods-latest-news
World heading for catastrophe over natural disasters, risk expert warns With cascading crises – where one event triggers another – set to rise, international disaster risk reduction efforts are woefully underfunded
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null hypothesis: no human role
“science community too conservative .. too many authors make Type II errors” (accept the null hypothesis in error) – ie conclude any particular extreme event has no anthropogenic (human) component”
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“Global warming is contributing to a changing incidence of extreme weather because the environment in which all storms form has changed from human activities”
Both quotes from Trenberth in WIREs Clim Change 2011, 2:925–9 30. doi: 10.1002/wcc.142
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Oreskes & Conway (2013):
“Western scientists built an intellectual culture based on the premise that it was worse to fool oneself into believing in something that did not exist than not to believe in something that did. Scientists referred to these positions as “type I” and “type II” errors, and established protocols designed to avoid type I errors at almost all costs”.
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Type 1 error spectrum Type 2
conservative?risky?precautionary? risky?
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Two warnings
Alberta, Canada, May 2016
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ENCYCLICAL LETTER LAUDATO SI’OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCISON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME (24/5/2015)
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“the most amazing technical abilities, the most
astonishing economic growth, unless they are
accompanied by authentic social and moral progress,
will definitively turn against man”
Pope Paul VI, 1970
Address to FAO on the 25th Anniversary of its Institution (16 November 1970)
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The far-sighted amongst you are anticipating
broader global impacts on property, migration and
political stability, as well as food and water security.
… Past is not prologue … the catastrophic
norms of the future can be seen in the tail
risks of today.
Mark Carney, 2015
(Governor of the
Bank of England)
Carney M. Breaking the tragedy of the horizon – climate change and financial stability. http://wwwbankofenglandcouk/publications/Pages/speeches/2015/844aspx
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Photos show African migrants hidden behind car’s engine, seats during illegal border crossing into Spain
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Photos show African migrants hidden behind car’s engine, seats during illegal border crossing into Spain
Jos Lelieveld, director of the Max Planck Institute for Atmosheric Chemistry: “Climate change will significantly worsen the living conditions in the Middle East and in North Africa.”
“Prolonged heatwaves and desert dust storms can render some regions uninhabitable, which will surely contribute to the pressure to migrate”.
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Burden of Disease (proportion)
Year widely accepted
now 2050?
PRIMARY (eg heat, injury, productivity)
SECONDARY (e.g. vector-borne diseases, air pollution, allergies)
TERTIARY: (a “systemic multiplier”) famine, conflict, large-
scale migration, economic collapse
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Solar is now cheaper than coal, says India energy minister
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/04/18/solar-is-now-cheaper-than-coal-says-india-energy-minister/
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