Klimaændringer

Dieses Buch bietet einen praktischen Leitfaden für das Design, die Entwicklung und den Betrieb energieeffizienter Webseiten. Torsten Beyer hat eine konkrete Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung entwickelt, die zur Optimierung bestehender Seiten als auch vor dem Website-Relaunch nutzbar ist. Dabei werden die Ziele und Ansätze diverser Initiativen, u.a. die SDG-Klimaziele der Vereinten Nationen, die Prinzipien der Corporate Digital Responsibility und das von Web-Designern formulierte Sustainable Web Manifesto berücksichtigt.Durch die Optimierung von Bildern, Videos, Schriften, Skripten und Seitentemplates sowie der Konfiguration des Webservsers lässt sich das Datenvolumen mit einfachen Mitteln und ohne Qualitätseinbußen substanziell reduzieren. Als Nebeneffekt werden die Ladezeiten geringer, was zu besseren Rankings in Suchmaschinen und einer höheren Nutzerzufriedenheit führt. Kostenersparnis, Ranking-Verbesserungen und CO2-Optimierungen können somit Hand-in-Hand gehen.Aus dem InhaltAnalyse des CO2-Fußabdrucks von WebsitesSchritt-für-Schritt-Optimierung: von der Konfiguration des Webservers über Bilder, Icons und Animationen sowie Schriften, CSS, Video-, Audio- und PDF-Dateien, JavaScript und HTML-DateienMit zahlreichen kleinen Programmcode-Tipps zur schnellen Optimierung. Plus erprobte und häufig kostenlose Tool-Tipps zur Prüfung und Optimierung Ihrer WebsiteDas Buch zeigt mit seinen vielfältigen praktischen Tipps, wie Internetseiten selbst mit kostenlosen Hilfsmitteln nachhaltiger und datensparsamer gestaltet werden können. Es richtet sich gleichermaßen an die Betreiber von Webseiten als auch an Agenturen.

This is the final CLIMATE book. All is Well All will be Well explained how the Sun's cycles, Earth's orbits and ocean shifts govern temperature. CO2 Nature's Gift showed that CO2 provides all our oxygen and food but is at its lowest level for over 99% of the past 500 million years. If CO2 doubled crop yields rise by over 50% - with no noticeable effect on warming. At pre industrial levels CO2 has already absorbed all available radiated heat. Adding more of the gas has no noticeable effect. Even if doubled it would result in warming of only 0.80C. This is a basic principle of radiation spectroscopy. It has been known for over 50 years to those responsible for disseminating the shocking deception of global warming dogma. Intent must be inferred from the effects. Ending fossil fuel combustion, which eco-socialism requires, will bring about the collapse of the open market economies of countries that enforce it. Our prosperity is receding as ever more burdens of compliance become insupportable.This final CLIMATE volume raises four questions forced upon us by the insanity of Net Zero.How have the liberal democracies of the World allowed the collapse of industrialised civilisation to become even a possibility?How is it that the dismal and fallacious conception of a fearful and imperilled humanity has been allowed to paralyse reason?How has a colossal deception come to be dictated by an unaccountable bureaucracy and basic principles of physics and spectroscopy distorted and suppressed? Which States will benefit from such a disaster? Are they not China and Russia whose scientists and governments know that there is no man made CO2 climate crisis?Will our way of life be preserved if we allow these things or do not even seek answers?

According to UN estimates, approximately nearly half of the world's population now lives in cities and that figure is expected to rise to almost 70% by 2050. Cities now account for around 70% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, and this percentage is predicted to rise in the near future as a result of projected increases in global urbanization patterns. It is widely acknowledged that irrational urban planning and design can increase emissions while also exacerbating threats and risks, resulting in a slew of environmental issues such as urban heat islands, air pollution, flooding, amongst other issues, as well as environmental, social, and economic losses. Therefore, these concerns must be addressed promptly in order to cope up with these rising difficulties and make urban environments safer for residents. With the advancement of remote sensing technology and the use of current remote observation systems, urban data science, remote sensing, and artificialintelligence (AI), modeling and quantifying emergent difficulties in urban regions and urban systems have become easy. They aid in the quantitative analysis of urban shape, functions, and human behavior in cities. Harvesting data, developing models, and suggesting new methodologies will be aided by combining urban ecology with new breakthroughs in data science. This book is of great value to a diverse group of academicians, scientists, students, environmentalists, meteorologists, urban planners, remote sensing and GIS experts with a common interest in geospatial sciences within the earth environmental sciences, as well as human and social sciences.

Climate change is one of the most severe dangers for mankind worldwide. Beside the temperature increase, the sea level will rise and flood wide coastal areas, which is already remarkable today. The effects will be dramatic, in particular, at coasts with low elevation gradients such as at the German coasts of the North and Baltic Sea. The impact will be not only severe for coastal people, but still more for the unique coastal ecosystems, which harbors many plant and animal species that are already endangered today.This book focuses on the coastal terrestrial ecosystems of the German North and Baltic Sea. It describes the reactions of plants and animals (i.e. spiders, carabid beetles, bees and nematodes) on the future temperature and sea level increase. The combination of field and experimental studies is unique for Europe and for many parts of the world. It not only studies the actual elevation gradients and the climatic and saline gradients fromWest to East, but also the historical changes to document processes at coastal ecosystems that were already passed. In contrast to many books that studied the marine processes with similar backgrounds, this book concerns the terrestrial coastal ecosystems that were overall rarely studied and, in particular, never studied under this specific viewpoint.

This edited volume examines how to develop a planning and design process with green infrastructure that creates technical answers to the social and ecological function of the city¿s climate change adaptations demands. In this context, it proposes a process that engage the values linked to the art and culture of the place, capable of generating adoption by the population and promoting the right to landscape.Since the nineteenth century, many theoretical and practical experiences have integrated urban and environmental issues, revising the understanding of nature as an object and thinking of nature and culture in conjunction. However, consensus of the methodological strategies needed to guide the development of multi-scale landscape planning and design capable of responding to the climate emergency, heritage, water, biodiversity and social inclusion, among other issues has not been achieved. Green infrastructure has emerged as a tool to link considerations of theplanning and design process to examine the impact urban nature can have at a global and a local scale.The book gathers together authors from different parts of the world and disciplines to showcase conceptual thinking, best practices and methodological strategies relating to landscape planning and design with green infrastructure adapted to climate change. The topic of this book is particularly relevant to scholars, practitioners and developers around the world who have an interest in planning and environmental management, landscape architecture, and socio-cultural understandings of landscape.

A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment.If digital technology were a country, it would be the third-highest consumer of electricity behind China and the United States.Every year, streaming technology generates as much greenhouse gas as Spain - close to 1 per cent of global emissions.One Google search uses as much electricity as a lightbulb left on for up to two minutes.It turns out that the 'dematerialised' digital world, essential for communicating, working, and consuming, is much more tangible than we would like to believe. Today, it absorbs 10 per cent of the world's electricity and represents nearly 4 per cent of the planet's carbon dioxide emissions. We are struggling to understand these impacts, as they are obscured to us in the mirage of 'the cloud'.The result of an investigation carried out over two years on four continents, The Dark Cloud reveals the anatomy of a technology that is virtual only in name. Under the guise of limiting the impact of humans on the planet, it is already asserting itself as one of the major environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.

This book puts forward a new angle of understanding the society of states in the milieu of the contemporary world. The absence of a regulatory mechanism, i.e., anarchy, has been the fundamental issue of international relations. This book explains how the normative imperatives, information and communication technology (ICT) and nuclear deterrence generated ambiance have poised the states in a society where they are bound to follow certain normative imperatives that dilute the color and meaning of anarchy and obliges the states to act in a certain way. It develops a theoretical proposition with regard to state power defined in terms of the capability of determining the outcomes. The proposition first elaborates how international institutions foster normative imperatives; then, in line with this ontology, it narrows down the focus solely on the power of the states in the contemporary world. It explains how the power that can determine the outcome today is holistic in nature, comprising both materialistic and normative factors. In the next step, it tailors the proposition in a way so as to employ it for a specific empirical work. The book does not end just positing the theoretical proposition; the proposition is testified through some case studies with regard to climate negotiations under the UNFCCC.The empirical part not only serves to examine the plausibility of the theoretical proposition, but it also presents the logic of the major actors and the politics with respect to some of the major issues of climate change, i.e., mitigation, funding policy and mechanism and adaptation. The scholars in this arena, climate activists and climate-conscious people in general would find this book worth reading as it kindles a different angle to understand the issues in the context of the contemporary world and as it elaborates the logic, framing process, and mechanism of reaching outcomes through complex negotiation process. No other work has so far analyzed the issues covering the entire period of 21 apex UNFCCC negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement. Apart from university libraries, this book, thus, has the prospect to be sold in the markets targeting the academicians, climate change experts, bureaucrats, negotiators and the common readers.

Dem Klimawandel soll durch drastische Reduktionen und die eventuelle Sistierung von Emissionen aus fossilen Kraftstoffen entgegengewirkt werden. Fossile Energien sollen durch erneuerbare Energien (sprich Sonneneinstrahlung und Wind) ersetzt werden. Wie ich am Beispiel der Schweiz unter Verwendung von allgemein zugänglichen Zahlen aufzeige, ist diese Strategie unrealistisch. Deshalb ist es wohl auch nicht von Nachteil, dass diese Strategie nicht wirklich zielstrebig verfolgt wird. Ich plädiere für einen zwischenzeitlichen Weiterausbau der Kernkraft und eine konsequente, parallele Entwicklung der geothermischen Stromproduktion, die zu einem Grundpfeiler der Stromversorgung werden sollte. Die Fortschritte, die in der tiefen Geothermie in den letzten Jahren erzielt wurden, sollten diese alternative Strategie ermöglichen.

This volume examines how local communities respond and adapt to ecological changes and disasters resulting from climate change. The main aim of the book is to understand the range of human responses to ecological change and to contextualise the reasons for adopting any particular adaptive strategy by a community. Through the help of specific case studies presented as individual chapters, the book aims to find out whether adaptation due to environmental stress is an individual decision and, therefore, is an isolated phenomenon, or if resilience and adaptation are part of the same action paradigm of society as a whole in response to environmental change. Of particular interest are the case studies of climate change or disasters that have rendered the site unsuitable for the return of its community at present, and thus necessitated the relocation of such communities to new locations. The case studies in the book focus on regions in India, but cover different parts of the world as well, and address concepts of resilience, vulnerability, risk, adaptation, and mitigation. The book will be useful for students and researchers in the fields of geography, disaster management, environmental science, and anthropology.

The aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of the newest research in Geography concerning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG¿s). Although the world is strongly interconnected, the majority of the chapters in this volume focus on Europe or the work of European researchers. Each chapter of this book focusses on one of the 17 SDG¿s providing in-depth knowledge from a geographical perspective, fostering comprehensive research on these global targets to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change.The Sustainable Development Goals are part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To achieve them, it will be necessary for all stakeholders, including citizens (civil society, doctors, teachers), governments, private sector to collaborate.

The resilience of food systems and security to emerging challenges and threats, especially in the context of environmental and climate risks and global pandemics such as the Covid-19 crisis, is currently gaining growing importance in research, policy, and practice. Based on this, the core focus of this book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, consists of identifiying and exploring the best ways to overcome such challenges and shocks and to build resilience in the Global South. More precisely, the book analyzes current dynamics and trends related to the climate resilience of food security and assess the relevance of emerging approaches such as climate-smart agriculture, new roles of agriculture extension, smart farming, and climate adaptation of farming systems.The book includes both conceptual and empirical research reporting lessons learned from many geographical, environmental, social, and policy settings while focusing on Africa, Middle East, and Asia. It also provides research and policy-oriented inputs and recommendations to guide change processes at multiple scales.

The health status and future of tropical coral reefs, as tourist destinations, are regularly subjected to media coverage. Many documentaries recognize the natural beauty and biological richness of the Australian Great Barrier Reef and French Polynesian lagoons, but point to the equally significant risk that would result from current global warming and human-made hazards. The future of coral reefs is usually a matter of death foretold, real or purely imaginary. In this context, it has become necessary to differentiate between what is falling within reality of scientific facts or fantasy. To this end, the present general review, in the expert translation of Charlotte Fontan aims at: (1) defining the conditions and life requirements of reefbuilding corals; (2) the history of corals along with that of a number of associated, skeletal organisms involved in reef building since the very beginning, i.e. the last 540 million years, including the ups and downs they have experienced; (3) giving special reference to the development patterns of recent and modern reefs; (4) projecting corals and reefs into a still unknown future. Understanding how corals and reefs have originated, how they have been able to face the major biological crises which have punctuated the Earth¿s history, how they have survived is a prerequisite to better gain a significant picture of their future.

Was man nicht verworten kann, kann man auch nicht beschreiben, nicht erklären und erst nicht verstehen, geschweige denn emotional begreifen.Sogar Menschen, die sich täglich mit Klimakrise, Massenaussterben und Gesellschaftskrise auseinandersetzen, gelingt es oft nicht, ihr Anliegen in knappe Worte zu fassen und angemessen zu beschreiben, wo wir Menschen ökologisch und planetar gesehen derzeit stehen. Bereits der Begriff Klimaschutz erzählt die falsche Geschichte: Wir Menschen müssen nicht das Klima schützen, sondern uns selbst, unsere Mitmenschen, unsere Kinder sowie sämtliche nachfolgenden Generationen. Und alles Lebendige auf diesem Planeten. Denn ohne das web of life, d. h. ohne das Netz des Lebens, das wir Menschen im Falle eines Weiter so absehbar unwiderruflich zerstören, ist alles nichts. Wir Menschen befinden uns folglich in einer existenziellen Krise. Ein neues Vokabular, ein neues Begriffsfeld und eine bewusst eingesetzte Wortwahl können helfen, die Debatte um die Überlebenskrise der Menschheit emotional und argumentativ zu verschlanken.Mit der Handreichung SPRACHE MACHT ZUKUNFT legen Dr. Wolfgang Lührsen (Mitglied im Vorstand des BUND Hamburg) und Dr. Marc Pendzich (Autor des Handbuch Klimakrise), eine Sammlung von Begriffen, Inspirationen und Hinweisen zu Argumentationen vor. Ziel ist es, dass interessierte Menschen künftig leichter und ablenkungsfreier als bisher in wenige präzise Worte fassen können, was Sache ist.Sprache hat Macht. Also macht Sprache Zukunft. Die Diskussion ist eröffnet. Weitere Vorschläge sind willkommen unter https://sprache-macht-zukunft.de

Overskrifterne fortæller os, at kloden er ved at koge over, og at det haster med at stoppe udslippet af CO2 i atmosfæren.Heldigvis findes der en lang række af tekniske løsninger, som kommer til at gøre en forskel. I denne bog kan du læse om nogle af disse grønne teknologier: energi fra sol, vind og vand, nye former for atomkraft, brint som drivmiddel og energilager, huse på vandet, CO2-venligt byggeri, Power-to-X og meget mere.Så bevar optimismen. Med klog og smart teknologi kan vi sammen fikse klimakrisen.Fra 10 år.

"A stellar roster of essayists share their reimagings of the institutions of democracy and governance necessary to resolve the climate crisis, and call on the reader to do so as well"--

O livro insere-se na tendência de ir delineando as características do "planeta água", mas assumindo uma visão diferente do todo. Ao invés de aprofundar apenas um aspecto particular (o científico-tecnológico ou o social, por exemplo), preferiu-se considerar todos os vínculos que a água tem com o homem e a sociedade, passando a delinear uma série de "viagens", cada uma correspondendo a cada um dos sete capítulos que formam a estrutura da escrita. Muito resumidamente, estes diferentes e complementares pontos de vista podem ser resumidos neste esquema: A ligação indissolúvel entre a água e a vida, desde o Universo ao nosso Planeta até à biosfera e às nossas células. As propriedades físico-químicas da água, de que dependem e que influências têm na definição da importância desta molécula. Fenómenos relacionados com a água como o ciclo da água, geologia, tipo de água e tudo o que está ligado à morfologia do planeta Terra. Quais usos, quanto consumo e quais tratamentos estão ligados à água para entender os números, finalidades e qualidade das águas utilizadas. Quais são os aspectos sociais relacionados à água desde os históricos, econômicos e políticos até todas as formas de expressão artística e vida cotidiana. Como estamos atacando a água através de vários tipos de poluição, o problema do aquecimento global e o desperdício relacionado à sociedade atual. O conceito de direito das águas, a escassez dos recursos hídricos com as desigualdades relativas, o confronto-conflito entre visão de mercado e direitos humanos essenciais. O início e o fim do livro são os temas centrais em torno dos quais se desenvolvem todos os argumentos. O vínculo com a vida e o direito à água são duas faces da mesma moeda que nos levarão a conclusões muito precisas e detalhadas, como a conscientização de um novo modelo de desenvolvimento sustentável, as ações necessárias para combater problemas globais como a poluição, aquecimento e escassez de recursos hídricos e a crença de que os direitos e a vida são mais importantes e necessários do que questões puramente econômicas.

This book describes the importance of sustainable livestock production from a food security perspective in the changing climate scenario. It covers the amelioration of climate change impacts and describes the various mitigation strategies to reduce enteric methane emissions. The book targets sustainable livestock production by covering diverse concepts of amelioration, mitigation, and policy up-gradation. Further, it examines various adverse impacts of climate change on growth, meat, milk, and reproduction in livestock. Most importantly, the book covers novel aspects of quantifying heat stress response of livestock based on non-invasive methodologies, including infrared thermal imaging, sensor-based applications, hair, urine, and fecal cortisol estimation. Particular emphasis was given to describing the skin-based novel approaches to establish climate resilience in indigenous breeds. The book provides detailed descriptions of alleviating climate change impacts on shelter management, nutritional interventions, and genetics-based strategies involving advanced genomic tools. Lastly, it highlights the livestock species which could be considered ideal climate-resilient animal models to withstand the adversities associated with climate change.

This book highlights the approaches for achieving trans-disciplinary research integration for "e;semi-arid dryland agriculture systems"e; under changing climates, while also identifying the elements of a collaborative research agenda that are needed to advance global food security. The book emphasizes climate change being a reality and how drylands are bearing the brunt in diverse ways. The major impact of dryland agriculture is on communities that need to: avoid the short- and long-term impacts of the changing climate; adapt strategies that can minimize these impacts; and be able to mitigate climate change, for which they need climate smart interventions. These interventions are only realized through knowledge and experience sharing among stakeholders from different sectors and backgrounds. It is in this context that the publication was seen as a necessity in order to bring together ideas that will transform lives and build adaptation capacities, thereby providing the much-needed products in communities leading to development

Reveals how we can learn from the intelligent communities of trees and plants.

FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND BOOKLISTThe story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why it matters to us allCoral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they’re thriving, these fairy gardens hidden beneath the ocean’s surface burst with color and life. They sustain bountiful ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. Corals themselves are evolutionary marvels that build elaborate limestone formations from their collective skeletons, broker symbiotic relationships with algae, and manufacture their own fluorescent sunblock. But corals across the planet are in the middle of an unprecedented die-off, beset by warming oceans, pollution, damage by humans, and a devastating pandemic.Juli Berwald fell in love with coral reefs as a marine biology student, entranced by their beauty and complexity. Alarmed by their peril, she traveled the world to discover how to prevent their loss. She met scientists and activists operating in emergency mode, doing everything they can think of to prevent coral reefs from disappearing forever. She was so amazed by the ingenuity of these last-ditch efforts that she joined in rescue missions, unexpected partnerships, and risky experiments, and helped rebuild reefs with rebar and zip ties.Life on the Rocks is an inspiring, lucid, meditative ode to the reefs and the undaunted scientists working to save them against almost impossible odds. As she also attempts to help her daughter in her struggle with mental illness, Berwald explores what it means to keep fighting a battle whose outcome is uncertain. She contemplates the inevitable grief of climate change and the beauty of small victories.

This book offers philosophical and interdisciplinary insights into global climate justice with a view to climate neutrality by the middle of the twenty-first century. The first section brings together a series of introductory contributions on the state of the climate crisis, covering scientific, historical, diplomatic and philosophical dimensions. The second section focuses on the challenges of justice and responsibility to which the climate crisis exposes and will expose the global community in the coming years: on the one hand, aiming for the ambitious mitigation target of 1.5°C and, on the other hand, securing resources for adaptation and for climate-damage compensation to the most vulnerable. The third section investigates normative aspects of the transition towards a fossil-fuel free society, from the responsibility of oil companies to the gender-differentiated effects of climate change, passing through what is owed to transition losers and the legal protection of future generations.

A curious collection of essays, seeking answers to BURNING QUESTIONS such as: Why do people everywhere tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us.

This textbook introduces readers to basic scientific principles of climate change. Based on extensive empirical evidence, it explains weather events that indicate climate change¿s evolution and presents important topics connected to climate change, such as political controversies, climate policy, as well as Native American perspectives. Finally, it presents attempted solutions, including policy recommendations and technological proposals for necessary changes in our world.Providing a well-written and easy-to-follow overview of knowledge of science-based geophysical facts, including thermodynamics, the book puts a strong emphasis on why expeditious action on global warming is urgent. The book also explains why smart greenhouse-gas reduction strategies will ignite economic growth, generate new domestic jobs, protect public health, and strengthen energy security.Not assuming a scientific background on the part of the reader, Global Warming and the Climate Crisis: Science, Spirit, and Solutions offers an ideal supplemental reading in many types of courses in Earth sciences, climate policy, climate change sciences, as well as politics of climate change, from high school through undergraduate. General readers also will benefit from its treatment of this very important and timely issue.