2012
Science Briefs
The New Climate Dice: Public Perception of Climate Change
By James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy — July 2012
The greatest barrier to public recognition of human-made climate change is probably the natural variability of local climate. How can a person discern long-term climate change, given the notorious variability of local weather and climate from day to day and year to year?
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2012/20120803_DicePopSci.pdf
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2012/20120803_DiceQNA.pdf
Public Perception of Climate Change and the New Climate Dice
http://www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/PerceptionsAndDice/
August 2012
Floods submerge most of Phillippine Capital
‘……Manila is an overpopulated city paying the price of poor urban planning and the extreme weather linked to global warming”
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/08/2012885413360470.html
