Blog 9: Taylor Fucini, 4/13/14 11:09, climate change

About every six years a panel on climate change produces a three part encyclopedia of the climate. One part  is the science of climate change and the world temperature. Another part is how climate is affecting ecosystem's, the economy and peoples livelihoods. "The report describes three different problems and the first are those in which climate is the dominant influence, so that no human action other than stopping it changing will have an effect. The second are those in which the climate’s influence is modest and where the news is not entirely bad. The third are the ways a changing climate alters which species (both natural and agricultural) thrive where—which from a human perspective can be both good and bad." Rising sea levels cause problems for people living in coastal cities because of flooding. The warmer climate causes more diseases to spread and cause heat related deaths. Plants are changing their migrating patterns, tropical yields are declining and food crops are changing. The solution to rising sea levels is hard but attacking the cause by cutting carbon-dioxide emissions is the best. "The most effective vulnerability reduction measures for health are programs that implement and improve basic health." A new way of looking at climate change is to determine other factors that contribute to problems like rural development and a solution is to adapt the change rather than attempting to stop it. Climate change is already a problem and one cant really stop something that has been started. The best thing to do is to figure out ways to lessen the effects and lessen the problem altogether. 

Link to article: 
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21600080-new-report-ipcc-implies-climate-exceptionalism-notion