SPECIAL CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE "To Protect Succeeding Generations"
Volume XLVI Number 3&4 (01.08.2009)
- Climate Change & Our Common Future: A Historical Perspective
- Small Islands, Rising Seas
- A Hypothesis of Hope for the Developing World
- Livelihoods In Peril: Indigenous Peoples and their Rights
- Will There Be Climate Migrants en Masse?
- Will Climate Change Impact the Right to Health & Development?
- Is Africa Ready?
- Climate Change and Freshwater in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Africa -- A Future for Itself
- The Pattern of Response to HIV/AIDS & Climate Change -- A Commentary
- Beyond Carbon Markets
- Human Security, Climate Change and Women
- Women...In The Shadow of Climate Change
- The Ecology of Recycling
- Greening the Workforce
- Financial Innovations & Carbon Markets
- Biotechnology -- A Solution to Hunger?
- Global Warming and Surging Glaciers
- Tracking Climate Change From Space
- Unlayering of the Ozone: An Earth Sans Sunscreen
- "PLANET UN"
- The True Costs of Conventional Energy
- Oil in a Low-carbon Economy
- Bare Sanctuaries
Climate Change & Our Common Future: A Historical Perspective
I saw at one time a leaflet that asked people to come together in stopping climate change. It seems that many are not aware that the climate changes all the time and that the change is not stoppable. Climate changes, however, differ in their timing and magnitude and are a result of many factors, such as the distance between the sun and the equator, which contributes to the heat budget of the Earth, and the difference in the temperature of the equator from that of the cooler poles due to deviations in Earth’s orbit, or variations in solar radiation.
Livelihoods In Peril: Indigenous Peoples and their Rights
Inuit hunters in northern Greenland are treading carefully on increasingly thinning ice, while at the same time the key marine species they depend on—seals, walrus, narwhals and polar bears—are moving away from the areas in which they are traditionally hunted, as they in turn respond to changes in local ecosystems. In the high ranges of the Himalaya, Sherpa, Tamang, Kiranti, Dolpali and other indigenous groups are witnessing the melting of glaciers; the same is true in other mountain regions of the world such as the Peruvian Andes, where the indigenous Quechua report that they are worried when they look at the receding glaciers on their mountain peaks.