09/10 - Climate Change/Mitigation/Adaptation Flashcards

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an issue with familiar resolution and reachable solution

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Tame Environmental Problem

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regional short-term phenomena, state of the current atmosphere
data driven to develop a forecast, uniform and universal instrumentation use, expected anomalies and extremes

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weather

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a climate phenomenon characterized by irregular and periodic variations in sea surface temperatures and atmospheric pressure across the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Pacific Ocean current variability

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El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

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defined/understood in multiple ways, difficult to resolve

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Wicked Environmental Problem

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long-term weather pattern of a particular region

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climate

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regional long-term climate shifts (warmer, or cooler) and/or planetary
evidence that is 4G years old, >1°C increase current ~80y, glacial and periglacial melting shifting ecosystem regions, natural and anthropogenic-forced components

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climate change

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increasing average long-term temperatures of the planet

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global warming

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key atmosphere gasses trap heat, retard radiant energy loss to space

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Greenhouse Effect

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gas contributing to the greenhouse effect, e.g., water, carbon dioxide

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Greenhouse Gas

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rise of land masses depressed by the huge weight of past ice-age sheets

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Isostatic Rebound

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contrarian to activist, political, ideological, economic, etc. agenda approach/tactic often taken: act, before all facts are in, pro-organization support

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change doomsayer

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unconvinced, political, ideological, economic, etc. agenda approach/tactic often taken: don’t act, until all facts are in, counter-organization support

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change denier

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scientific inquiry, examine ideas/claims beyond mainstream science approach/tactic often taken: precautionary principle, silenced, unless in the public eye

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change sceptic

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consensus, agreeing with the majority, may miss the nature of science approach/tactic often taken: absolute resolve, unquestioning, no longer open to ideas

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chance convinced

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strategies to reduce or minimize the negative consequences of a natural hazard

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migitation

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agreed-upon carbon amount limiting global emission

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carbon budget

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form of carbon pricing, government set GHG limits can be bought/traded

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cap-and-trade

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carbon dioxide (CO2) is removed from the atmosphere and stored in carbon sinks, such as forests, soils, oceans, and geological formations. reforestation/afforestation/agricultural crops to ameliorate carbon

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carbon sequestration

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maladaptation, incremental adaptation, transformation adaptation

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  1. Chosen action inadvertently increasing vulnerability for social groups/systems
  2. Build on existing means to reduce output in context of climate change
  3. New means approach/system to prepare for future climate risk
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international agreement, limiting anthropocentric carbon dioxide amounts greenhouse gas intensity – ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to economic output

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Kyoto Protocal