Limits to Change

Limits to Climate Change

The paper proves the existence and uniqueness of a noncooperative steady state in the context of a model of climate change. It also explores the possibility of cooperation and attainment of an optimal steady state. It is shown that the problem is similar to that in the static model (Chander and Tulkens (1997)). This research is part of the CLIMNEG/CLIMBEL projects funded by the Belgian Federal ...

From barriers to limits to climate change adaptation: path dependency and thespeed of change

Research on the barriers and limits to climate change adaptation identifies many factors, but describes few processes whereby adaptation is constrained or may indeed fail to avoid catastrophic losses. It often assumes that barriers are by and large distinct from limits to adaptation. We respond to recent calls for comparative studies that are able to further knowledge about the underlying drive...

Augmenting intelligence: Developmental limits to learning-based cognitive change

Limits to the quantification of local climate change

Wedemonstrate how the fundamental timescales of anthropogenic climate change limit the identification of societally relevant aspects of changes in precipitation.We show that it is nevertheless possible to extract, solely fromobservations, some confident quantified assessments of change at certain thresholds and locations.Maps of such changes, for a variety of hydrologically-relevant, threshold-...

Limits to the quantification of local climate change

Wedemonstrate how the fundamental timescales of anthropogenic climate change limit the identification of societally relevant aspects of changes in precipitation.We show that it is nevertheless possible to extract, solely fromobservations, some confident quantified assessments of change at certain thresholds and locations.Maps of such changes, for a variety of hydrologically-relevant, threshold-...