Adaptation that focuses on the maintenance of natural systems also helps avoid,” the report says. Irrigating fields with groundwater can provide immediate relief from drought, for example—but if droughts become more frequent or long-lasting, the water table may ultimately disappear. Similarly, sea walls might protect coastal areas in the short term, but their construction can destroy coastal ecosystems such as coral reefs, which themselves contribute to coastal protection.
“The worst possible maladaptation,” Mann argues, would be “to put too many marbles in the adaptation bag and not enough in the mitigation bag”—in other words, to adapt to the impacts of climate change without taking adequate steps to eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions that cause it. In a sense, he continues, “the report is a summary of what we already know: Dangerous climate change is now upon us, and it is simply a matter of how bad we’re willing to let it get.
The report covers 3,675 pages, detailing the impact of climate change on continental and polar regions, terrestrial and marine ecosystems, food, and health. It also explores the intersection of global warming and poverty and examines pathways to development that are as resilient as possible to climate change and its impacts. It is prefaced by a 35-page “Summary for Policymakers” which, says Field, “is painstakingly approved, sentence by sentence, by consensus.
That process means that IPCC reports are sometimes criticized for being watered down, but Field argues that it gives the report a strength that individual studies cannot match, in that “every country in the world agrees that every sentence in the summary for policymakers is an accurate description of the underlying technical literature.”
Photo of my family helping people evacuate in QLD Australia from 2 days ago
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Meditation Mindfulness InnerPeace NH: +2.5C over the 'new' base today... Life-ending methane release is happening in the Arctic right now.. We are about to lose the habitat.....
Might be a good idea to start brainstorming a solution to the problem as opposed to emphasizing over & over that there is a problem.
Oh, my God, when will that asteroid come? This planet needs a factory reset.
Nature is beautiful.
Quem está distante morrerá pela peste, quem está próximo tombará ao fio da espada será assassinado,e ainda,quem sobreviver e for poupado não resistirá à fome extrema.Deste modo expressarei toda a minha indignação sobre todos eles. Eu sou o menino Jesus Vim tirar o pecado do mundo
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But can you remove the POP UP war from your website please? So we can read the words, not ads? 🧐
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& war in the Ukraine with the threat of nuclear war isn't helping