Climate change and freshwater zooplankton: what does it boil down to?

Motivation and confidence: What does it take to change behaviour?

Amplified Arctic climate change: What does surface albedo feedback have to do with it?

[1] A group of twelve IPCC fourth assessment report (AR4) climate models have Arctic (60N–90N) warmings that are, on average, 1.9 times greater than their global warmings at the time of CO2 doubling in 1%/year CO2 increase experiments. Forcings and feedbacks that impact the warming response are estimated for both Arctic and global regions based on standard model diagnostics. Fitting a zero-dime...

Climate change and persistent high temperatures: does it matter?

*Correspondence: Mustafa M. Aral, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30355, USA e-mail: [email protected] Climate change may affect the behavior of various systems on earth, one of which is human population. In the current literature, it is hypothesized that anthropogenic impacts on earth may yield persistent and adverse climatic condition...

Climate change and the oceans--what does the future hold?

The ocean has been shielding the earth from the worst effects of rapid climate change by absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This absorption of CO2 is driving the ocean along the pH gradient towards more acidic conditions. At the same time ocean warming is having pronounced impacts on the composition, structure and functions of marine ecosystems. Warming, freshening (in some ar...

participation, what does it mean?

participation has been with us since the inception of living in a family. participation developed in the matrix of religion and, two centuries ago, opend up its way in political systems of european countries. it supported the democratic principle of people's determining their own destiny. today, participation is considered a necessity for the total development of not only individuals, but ...