And still, I'm hopeful that we will win the race of our lives -- that we will take action to stop greenhouse gas emissions before it is too late, before our highly complex, interconnected climate system simply spins out of control.
"The future issues we're facing are deeply interconnected – climate change produces disease and resource scarcity; conflict interrupts education, exacerbates poverty and inequalities, and threatens financial stability," said Mr. Lake.
"The ecosystems of different continents are intimately interconnected by climate, fugitive dust, toxins, and human activities and health -- think epidemics, resource wars (possibly turning nuclear) and so forth, and thresholds are typical of all of them," Ehrlich said.
Pulling on his expertise as a scientist to discuss climate change from a historical perspective, Flannery also explains how climate change is interconnected across the planet.
Thailand is now coping with massive flooding from monsoonal rains that illustrate how climate is also interconnected with other manmade issues such as population and urban development, river management and sinking lands, Schmidt said.
The relationship between the zebra, the grass and the climate is highly interconnected, and the preferences of the zebra are dictated by the larger environment, as Julie tells us: "The height of grass is important the zebras favor grasses between 50 and 150 mm in length.
The capacity to cope with market shocks in many ways reflects the capacity to cope with climate shock, as covariate market and climate risk are highly interconnected.
Clearly the world's climate and weather systems are interconnected.
But, like many things that might send humans to an early collective grave, climate change and overpopulation are interconnected, says Karin, and they're our fault.
Local, regional, and national levels are interconnected in supporting and facilitating action on climate change; thus data at multiple levels and research that link scales to understand these relationships are needed.
"This paper is another example of how surprisingly complex the climate system is, how interrelated or interconnected all the parts are, and how difficult it is to model correctly".
