The climate system of the earth is an image system consisting of four major components. Now, let us take a look at the image among the components of the climate...

Adaptation As we already know, IPCC defines adaptation as ‘adjustment in natural or human systems to a new or changing environment’. Before we move further, it is important to understand three terms related to adaptation, namely, coping range, resilience range, and failure range. Coping Range: Coping range represents the magnitude or rate of disturbance various systems like communities, enterprises, or ecosystems can tolerate without...

Joseph J. Romm Joseph J. Romm is a physicist turned author who’s relentless blogs on climate change was effective in highlighting the importance of climate change and the importance of bringing down geen house gases in America. He was named in Rolling stone magazine’s list of 100 people who are changing America and in September 2009, Time magazine honoured him as one of its Heros of the Environment. He is one of the most influencial bloggers...

To tackle global warming, most countries of the world have signed an international treaty – the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) – in June 1992. Till October 2009, 192 parties became members of the UNFCCC. The main purpose of the UNFCCC is to consider what can be done to reduce global warming, and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. The UNFCCC Secretariat supports all...

Feedback is the response of the climate to the internal variability of the climate system and to external forcings. Interestingly, the response of climate against a change can induce or reduce further change. Based on this, feedback can be classified into Positive Feedback: A positive feedback cycle is a cycle where the effect reinforces the cause. This means that the impact will go on increasing. Let us understand the example shown in the...