Adaptation to Climate Change

May 6, 2009 - Lisa Schipper, research fellow at the Stockholm Environmental Institute, discusses theories connecting climate change adaptation to international development, and how they relate to concrete changes being implemented in southeast Asia and elsewhere. The Energy Seminar meets during the academic year on Wednesdays, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. For a listing of upcoming Energy Seminar talks, please visit the events listing at the Woods Institute for the Environment website.

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[l2bdl]

good presentation, interesting examples

[agapitoflores001]

She pointed out many ways to adopt to climate change. Very well.

[chuckthreefingers]

i use my legs to get around anyone that uses vehicles are just little fucking earth killing worthless peices of shit, im a walker runner or sprinter i can get around pretty fast to, im changing the world evertime i put on my shoes and run to a friends house or to work, the world is stuck in their power, i don't need power i would rather have strength makes me feel better then those weakling humans useing vehicles, im chuck threefingers, and i am changing my mother earth, get rid of the cars.

[austpom333]

We need to move on from fossel fuels in order to get into the mind set of the public that society is good and moving faward.

[austpom333]

Any western country could have years ago deleloped a clean alternative to stinking fossel fuels

[austpom333]

What is Australia doing in regard to coal? more than an inteligent country.

[austpom333]

Of course adaption to electric is necassery, Mitigation now after the evidence has been around for years??? This system is to big with to much read tape, the system of cozy governments just dosn't like any change. You have to ask yourself why we are still using fossel fuels now when the world has come so far with technology.

[TRUMPHENT]

Dr. Stephen Schneider, for decades, attempted to avoid the "A" word. He and others are now convinced that adaptation is necessary. Why? Because it has taken so long to even start thinking about mitigation.

I have two of his lectures saved in my Favorites. One is at Stanford U. The other was recently given at UNSW.

Electric transportation is a nice concept. The 8 Gigaton Gorilla is still coal. What is Australia doing in that regard?

[mac195000]

I would not have believed that a presentation on "adaptation to climate change," delivered by such and attractive woman, could be so skull crushingly dull and defoid of content

[kevbrav]

Yes how silly of me, i ment global warming. Ive got so used to the two headlines meaning the same thing, i forget to distinguish between them