Atmospheric sciences
FT Climate Experts' Forum: The Copenhagen agreement - disappointment or relief?
IPN Opinion article
IPN's Executive Director comments on the end result of COP-15 in Copenhagen
Starving for Freedom
IPN Opinion article
Blame famine on trade restrictions, not on climate change or a lack of Western aid.
Africa can feed itself, if allowed
IPN Opinion article
FAMINES are created by policies, not by pests or droughts. Hunger plagues hundreds of millions of Africans, even though they are capable of feeding themselves. The solution is the right sort of policies. Agricultural production has surpassed population growth and reduced hunger everywhere except in sub-Saharan Africa. Poverty and malnutrition are widespread. Environmental hardships such as soil erosion are omnipresent and are only worsening with primitive techniques of subsistence farming.
Forget about changing weather -- just adapt
IPN Opinion article
A new book, Adapt or Die - the science, politics and economics of climate change edited by Kendra Okonski - offers another path.
Adapt or Die is a collection of papers by some leading climatologists, energy experts and policy researchers. It does not deny that climates change nor that man can play a role in climate change.
The book argues that in the face of an uncertain and changing climate, the best option for mankind is to adapt to climate as man has done for thousands of years, rather than trying to change it.
