Mathematics of climate change

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1. Scientists keep raising ever-louder alarms about the urgency of tackling climate change, but the world’s governments aren’t listening.
2. This chapter presents the mathematics in climate change.
3. From meteorology to economics, a wealth of scientific research will be necessary to improve our understanding of climate change, its impacts and what we can do to prepare for them.
4. The effects of climate change will be felt on many levels, and knowledge is key to safeguarding human health and livelihoods as we adapt to changing circumstances.
5. Businesses also need detailed information on how climate change might affect them.
6. And although the basic science behind climate change is well understood, convincing the general public and decision makers to take action to reduce carbon emissions is very much a work in progress.
7. Climate change affects humans and natural environments today and particularly in the future.
8. Mathematical knowhow is necessary in producing knowledge about climate change, understanding it as a phenomenon and contributing to the climate debate.
9. The senses are not the only authoritative source of knowledge and it is not possible for any individual to perceive planetary climate change.
10. In other words, climate is about weather statistics and therefore climate change is a statistical phenomenon, the effects of which are seen in the world around us.
11. In response to this threat, the UN parties adopted the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change along with its implementation by 2020.
12. We’re entering a phase in which we must think about enduring the shock of climate change.
13. But as Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, said, “I think we have kind of reached the limit.
14. We found many of these people just gave their preferred, ideologically aligned answers when it came to the climate change question.
15. She had the idea several years ago of uniting mathematicians from across the globe to study problems ranging from climate change and sustainability to earthquake prediction and disease pandemics.
16. One goal of MPE is to convince more mathematicians that climate change and other planetary problems are not only important but also interesting.
17. Rousseau hopes that the initiative will help nurture new ideas for dealing with climate change and encourage changes at the political level.
18. Climate change, and its effects on our weather, is important, controversial and is possibly going to affect all of our lives over the next fifty years.
19. If instead they are part of a series of events due to climate change, then we need to be worried indeed.
20. There are at least five indicators that make us think that climate change is occurring.
21. Most scientists (and this includes mathematicians) believe that climate change is occurring, but this is certainly not a universally held opinion.
22. This analysis upends most of the conventional political thinking about climate change.
23. , it’s fair to say that it’s the only thing about climate change the world has settled on.
24. And the number is being further confirmed by the latest climate-simulation models currently being finalized in advance of the next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
25. “There have been efforts to use more renewable energy and improve energy efficiency,” said Corinne Le Quéré, who runs England’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
26. The World Bank has estimated that climate change will have negative impacts for some 100 million people worldwide.
27. First, you will learn about climate change and global warming through web explorations.
28. You will then explore sites with data to see how climate change and global warming are monitored.
29. You learned about the issues of climate change and global warming through online explorations.
30. You also learned how climate change and global warming are monitored.
31. Climate change is one of the most challenging problems that our society faces today.
32. “Similarly, to how food deserts disproportionately occur in minority and low-income communities, the impacts of climate change disproportionately weigh upon minority and low-income communities.
33. Can we use models and data to estimate the probability of severe weather events under climate change, and quantify our errors?
34. Climate change represents an urgent challenge for humanity.
35. Mitigating climate change through decarbonization represents the other half of the challenge.
36. “Because key climate change attributes, such as ice sheet collapse and sea level rise, are occurring ahead of schedule, uncertainty has in many respects turned against us.
37. Professor Pope’s online lecture will focus on climate change: how can mathematics help us to respond.
38. Two of the mandatory courses will specifically focus on the issues related to climate change and are taught by expert staff from the University's School of Life Sciences.
39. Adaptive Traits focuses on practical means and approaches to further the use of genetic resources for mitigating the effects of climate change and improving crop production.
40. It also highlights ways to provide much-needed information to practitioners and innovators engaged in addressing the effects of global climate change on agriculture.
41. Climate change is having a dramatic effect on a wide range of animals, by altering the environment in which they move and live.