Book Reviews: Mars Workshop Manual, Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale, Murmur

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 86-87
Author(s):  
M. Williamson ◽  
V. Vitaliev ◽  
H. Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Tar Sands

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1145-1146
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Group Index ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
English Edition ◽  
Green Paradox ◽  
The Earth ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
The University

Tao Wang of Environmental Defense Fund and Swarthmore College reviews, “The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming” by Hans-Werner Sinn. The EconLit Abstract of this book begins: “Updated English edition of Das grüne Paradoxon presents an approach to combating global warming based on regulating the supply of fossil fuels instead of the demand. Discusses why the Earth is getting warmer; reshaping the world's energy matrix; table or tank; the neglected supply side; and fighting the green paradox. Sinn is Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich and President of the CESifo Group. Index.”

Book Reviews

Tempo ◽  
1995 ◽  
pp. 29-36
Keyword(s):  
List Type

Volume I of Messiaen's ‘Traite’, ‘Music and Color’, and organ recordings Christopher DingleRobert Craft's Stravinsky memoirs and recordings Rodney Lister

Modelling ecosystem adaptation and dangerous rates of global warming

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Millington ◽  
Peter M. Cox ◽  
Jonathan R. Moore ◽  
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Diffusion Rate ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Genetic Evolution ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Intraspecies Competition ◽  
High Trait

Abstract We are in a period of relatively rapid climate change. This poses challenges for individual species and threatens the ecosystem services that humanity relies upon. Temperature is a key stressor. In a warming climate, individual organisms may be able to shift their thermal optima through phenotypic plasticity. However, such plasticity is unlikely to be sufficient over the coming centuries. Resilience to warming will also depend on how fast the distribution of traits that define a species can adapt through other methods, in particular through redistribution of the abundance of variants within the population and through genetic evolution. In this paper, we use a simple theoretical ‘trait diffusion’ model to explore how the resilience of a given species to climate change depends on the initial trait diversity (biodiversity), the trait diffusion rate (mutation rate), and the lifetime of the organism. We estimate theoretical dangerous rates of continuous global warming that would exceed the ability of a species to adapt through trait diffusion, and therefore lead to a collapse in the overall productivity of the species. As the rate of adaptation through intraspecies competition and genetic evolution decreases with species lifetime, we find critical rates of change that also depend fundamentally on lifetime. Dangerous rates of warming vary from 1°C per lifetime (at low trait diffusion rate) to 8°C per lifetime (at high trait diffusion rate). We conclude that rapid climate change is liable to favour short-lived organisms (e.g. microbes) rather than longer-lived organisms (e.g. trees).

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