Recent engineering responses to the potentially damaging effects of climate warming are outlined, and risk assessment strategies to minimise geological hazards are described.
As the poorest and most vulnerable people of the world endure the increasingly damaging impacts of a warming world, tired excuses and calls to delay action are no longer acceptable.
Extreme hydrological events are generally predicted to become more frequent and damaging in Europe due to warming climate1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Though consensus seems to exist regarding the trajectory of future climatic developments seem certain, there is less confidence in the changes in flood losses as a result of climate change so far8,9,10,11.
"We express an answer to what is considered God's appeal to take action on the urgent and damaging situation of global climate warming".
As science reveals more and more links between our warming atmosphere and damaging weather, we're realizing that climate change's effects are already here -- and that they will become increasingly devastating.
What Happens In The Arctic Doesn't Stay In the Arctic - where melting ice fuels more warming that, in turn, fuels ever stronger and more damaging hurricanes in the US, and typhoons in Asia.
Last week, the scientists' group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the damaging consequences of further warming will come from the extreme weather conditions -- flash floods, droughts and strong storms -- that, collectively, nudge the average toward greater warming.
Nematodes are also most damaging in lighter soils that warm up quickly.
"These floods and those of 2009 were probably made more damaging by the warming we've already had," says Allan.
"We have produced the first comprehensive analysis of the greenhouse gas footprint of shale gas," said lead author Robert Howarth from Cornell University in Ithaca, US. "We have used the best available data [and] the conclusion is that shale gas may indeed be quite damaging to global warming, quite likely as bad or worse than coal," he told BBC News.
