climate change

Examples of climate change in the following topics:

• Investor of involvement

  • Intelligent CEOs and shrewd, independent thinkers aren't the only ones hankering for sustainable change.
  • The 115-page petition, signed by state treasurers, attorney generals and state fund managers in California, Florida, Maine, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Vermont, states that ‘climate change has now become a significant factor bearing on a company's financial condition… Investors are [therefore] looking for companies that are best positioned to avoid the financial risks associated with climate change and to capitalize on the new opportunities that greenhouse gas regulation will provide. ' The petition went on to claim that ‘Interest in climate risk is not limited to investors with a specific moral or policy interest in climate change; climate change now covers an enormous range of investors whose interest is purely financial…
  • How seriously companies are taking climate change into account when making strategic business decisions (particularly the physical risks that climate change imposes on a company's operations and financial condition),
  • Legal proceedings relating to climate change. ( Butler, Jim, ‘Hotel Lawyer: Why the SEC May Make You Go Green')
  • Guidelines approved by the SEC in January of 2008 now require companies to weigh the impact of climate-change laws and regulations (including overseas regulations and accords) when assessing what information to include in corporate filings.

• Evidence of Global Climate Change

  • Global climate change can be understood by analyzing past historical climate data, such as atmospheric CO2 concentrations in ice cores.
  • Climate change can be understood by approaching three areas of study: (1) evidence of current and past global climate change, (2) causes of past and present-day global climate change, and (3) ancient and current results of climate change.
  • It is helpful to keep these three different aspects of climate change clearly separated when consuming media reports about global climate change.
  • It is common for reports and discussions about global climate change to confuse the data showing that earth's climate is changing with the factors that drive this climate change.
  • This 1 °C change is a seemingly-small deviation in temperature (as was observed during the Medieval Climate Anomaly); however, it also resulted in noticeable changes.

• Causes of Global Climate Change

  • The data shows a correlation between the timing of temperature changes and drivers of climate change.
  • The Milankovitch cycles describe how slight changes in the earth's orbit affect the earth's climate.
  • The variation in the sun's intensity is the second natural factor responsible for climate change.
  • Finally, volcanic eruptions are a third natural driver of climate change.
  • No other driver of climate change has yielded changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at this rate or to this magnitude.

• Climate Change and Biodiversity

  • Climate change, specifically, the anthropogenic (caused by humans) warming trend presently underway, is recognized as a major extinction threat, particularly when combined with other threats such as habitat loss.
  • Scientists do agree, however, that climate change will alter regional climates, including rainfall and snowfall patterns, making habitats less hospitable to the species living in them.
  • Changing climates also throw off species' delicate timing adaptations to seasonal food resources and breeding times.
  • Some climates will completely disappear.
  • Since 2008, grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) have been spotted farther north than their historic range, a possible consequence of climate change.

• Climate Change

  • Global warming, or climate change, is the idea that the actions of human beings are drastically changing weather patterns on the planet, including the temperature.
  • Most scientists are also confident about the anthropogenic drivers of climate change.
  • One of the key problems is that the immediate effects of climate change are likely to be felt by counties with less political and economic clout.
  • One aspect that has been identified as important in slowing down climate change is the reduction in greenhouse gases, also referred to as carbon emissions.
  • Republican politicians often questioning the science behind climate change.

• Past and Present Effects of Climate Change

  • Results of climate change, past and present, have been documented and include species extinction, rising sea levels, and effects on organisms.
  • Scientists have geological evidence of the consequences of long-ago climate change.
  • Changes in climate can negatively affect organisms.
  • A number of global events have occurred that may be attributed to recent climate change during our lifetimes.
  • In addition to some abiotic conditions changing in response to climate change, many organisms are also being affected by the changes in temperature.

• Energy Consumption

  • Consumption of fossil fuel resources has led to global warming and climate change.
  • Global warming and climate change are generally accepted as being caused by anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas emissions.
  • There is a highly publicized denial of climate change, but the vast majority of scientists working in climatology accept that it is due to human activity.
  • The IPCC report "Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability," predicts that climate change will cause shortages of food and water, as well as increase flooding that will affect billions of people.
  • Wind turbines provide a green source of alternative energy, as opposed to the burning of fossil fuels which contributes to climate change.

• Legislative involvement

  • A modest introductory tax placed on the burning of fossil fuels, for example, coupled with a reduction in payroll taxes, could boost America's GDP and create 1.4 million new jobs while cutting climate change pollutants by 50%.
  • The problem, of course, is that there are few people in government who have the vision (or backbone) to commence such a change.
  • Historically, businesses have always fought against most forms of legislation, but the costs associated with climate change are causing many CEOs to think twice about how laws that promote higher taxes and carbon caps can be used to help industry.
  • Bush to enact mandatory reductions in carbon emissions to combat global climate change (their goal was to cut greenhouse gas emissions 60% by 2050).
  • Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), consisted of chief executives from Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Duke Energy, DuPont, the FPL Group, General Electric, Lehman Brothers, PG&E and PNM Resources – along with four leading non-governmental organizations including Environmental Defense, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Pew Center on Climate Change and the World Resources Institute.

• Climate and Weather

  • A common misconception about global climate change is that a specific weather event occurring in a particular region (for example, a very cool week in June in central Indiana) is evidence of global climate change.
  • However, a cold week in June is a weather-related event and not a climate-related one.
  • Climate can be considered "average" weather.
  • Climate refers to long-term, predictable atmospheric conditions of a specific area.
  • This map illustrates the various climate conditions around the world.

• Supply Reduction

  • Agricultural economics is largely bound by concepts of climate and overall world food producing capacity (i.e. farmlands and infrastructure), while simultaneously being enabled by government policy, technological advances, and the continued growth of developing nations.
  • We will look at both the governmental components and the climatic/aggregate demand components contributing to overall supply in this industry.
  • Climate changes means a different growing environment for plants, which are not used to it. illustrates the reduction in yield as a result of altering climatic environments.
  • Shifts in climate drastically reduce aggregate supply.
  • This chart illustrates the reduction in yield as a result of altering climatic environments.