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129058
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Oxon, Routledge, 2013.
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179p.Pbk
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Adelphi Series No.440
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9781138776692
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| 057689 | 613.111/MIE 057689 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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122005
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2013.
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Climate change caused by global warming is, arguably, a serious, even existential, threat to the world order and to the welfare of humanity. No one really knows; there are many uncertainties around the rate of warming and the severity of its environmental and social impacts, and hence the most effective, and cost-effective, ways to avoid or ameliorate them. But over the last five or six years, public discourse has been driven less by policy needs and more by punditry. The propagation of myths and misconceptions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, continues to poison the debate over how to mitigate or adapt to climate change.
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135747
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Extreme environmental events over the past decade have highlighted the threat these pose to security, and their links to conflict and civil unrest. Jeffrey Mazo explores the dynamics at work and the potential ramifications of these unpredictable hazards.
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157209
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In 150 CE, during the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius, the Roman Empire was at its height. It spanned over 3,500 kilometres from northern Britain to the lower Red Sea, and around 4,000km from Morocco to Syria. Rome was the first city on the planet to exceed one million inhabitants, and ruled a quarter of the world’s population. Along with Han China, the empire was one of the anchor states in a vast trading network uniting three continents. Less than three centuries later, Rome was captured and sacked, for the first time in 800 years, by a ‘barbarian’ Gothic army, and by 476 CE the western half of the empire – Britain, Gaul, Spain, Italy and North Africa – had disintegrated into a collection of Germanic kingdoms. Within two more centuries the eastern half had been reduced to just another mediaeval kingdom, a Roman Empire in name only.
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132475
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2014.
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The latest US assessments drive home the fact that dangerous climate change is not just a future risk. It is already here.
In parts of southern Florida, residents are seeing their streets flood at high tide as decades-old coastal defences fail to cope with sea-level rise. In Alaska, thawing permafrost is causing more than $10 million per year in damage to roads, runways and other infrastructure. The amount of precipitation in the northeast has increased by 8% since 1991 compared to the long-term average, but the amount falling in extremely heavy rainstorms or blizzards has risen by 71%. Nationally, river flooding has remained constant, but it has increased dramatically in the northeast and Midwest and fallen in the southeast and southwest. Nearly 20% of Arizona and New Mexico's forest land suffered heavy damage from wildfires and pest outbreaks due to warming and drought between 1984 and 2008. Insurance against climate-related disasters is becoming increasingly expensive in some places, and unavailable in others.
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127316
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2014.
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On 9 December 2013 Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird announced that Ottawa was deferring its expected submission to an obscure UN commission with regard to mineral rights on and below parts of the Arctic Ocean seabed to ensure that the eventual submission 'includes Canada's claim to the North Pole'. According to Canadian media reports, the claim that had been prepared for submission by scientists and civil servants did not include the pole, and was therefore vetoed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The following day, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his defence ministry, in televised remarks, to 'devote special attention to deploying infrastructure and military units in the Arctic' - a statement widely interpreted as a direct response to the Canadian action.
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