Hello again. If you’re reading this I guess it is safe to say that you either found something interesting in my first post, or I succeeded in scaring you into reading further.
Funnily enough, I’ve been doing some reading on the role of
fear in encouraging climate change adaptation and I came across a few
interesting points that might actually help me write this blog.
Hoog et al. (2005) talk about how fear can promote action and
behavioural changes, but it works best when the threat has personal relevance.
At the same time Moser and Dilling (2007) point out that without constructive
information on how to reduce the threat, fear mongering can actually prove to be extremely disempowering.
Taking all that into account welcome to my first segment on
Dangerous
Climate Change
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| http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/belgium/index.cfm?uProjectID=BE0009 |
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| http://www.cockburn.wa.gov.au/Council_Services/Environment/Climate_Change/Adapting_to_Climate_Change_/default.asp |
In all seriousness, this next series of posts is going to be a bit of discussion on what it is we are trying to achieve with a GHG concentration stabilisation scenarios. I’m going to talk about:
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What we mean when we say dangerous climate change
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How we actually quantify and assess danger in this
context
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And how the notion of dangerous climate change
is used to judge a desirable level at which GHG concentrations should be
stabilised
So stay tuned as I take
you through all things dangerous about climate change.
Here’s my secret link to really get you excited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E
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