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Growing disruption: climate change, food, and the fight against hunger

This briefing paper explores how the failure to tackle climate change threatens all aspects of food security – availability, access, utilisation, and stability. The changing climate is already jeopardising gains in the fight against hunger, and it looks set to worsen. It threatens the production and distribution of food.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2013
Oxfam
Tags:
Climate Change, Food Security, Malnutrition, India, Global, Food Prices, Agriculture, Extreme Weather Events, Food Safety, Health Effects
Climate Change

How the people of Nepal live with climate change and what communication can do

This report explores how people live and deal with change in order to understand their communication needs and help them respond to changes in climate.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2013
Anna Colom, Sabina Pradhan
Climate Asia
Tags:
Climate Change, Nepal, South Asia, Climate Impacts, Extreme Weather Events, Environment, Communication, Climate Adaptation
Climate Change

How the people of India live with climate change and what communication can do

This is the largest ever study of people’s experience of climate change in India. It seeks to build a picture of how people live their lives and deal with change, in order to understand their communication needs and help them respond to changes and variations in climate.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2013
Varinder Gambhir, Prerna Kumar
Climate Asia
Tags:
Climate Change, India, Urbanisation, Climate Impacts, Extreme Weather Events, Communication, Environment, Media
Climate Change

Explaining extreme events of 2012 from a climate perspective

This new analysis published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society links human-caused climate change to half of 2012′s extreme weather.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2013
Thomas C. Peterson, Martin P. Hoerling, Peter A. Stott, Stephanie C. Herring
American Meteorological Society
Tags:
Extreme Weather Events, Climate Change, Heat Waves, Atmosphere, Rainfall, Drought, Climate Science, Atmosphere Science
Climate Change

Coastal wildlife species 'at risk due to climate change'

UK coastal species such as puffins and little terns could be "seriously affected" by erosion and climate change, the National Trust has said.

Publication Date: 
23/08/2013
BBC (UK)
Tags:
United Kingdom (UK), Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Wildlife, Extreme Weather Events, Sea Level Rise, Global Warming
Climate Change

Historic and future increase in the global land area affected by monthly heat extremes

Climatic warming of about 0.5 ° C in the global mean since the 1970s has strongly increased the occurrence-probability of heat extremes on monthly to seasonal time scales. For the 21st century, climate models predict more substantial warming. Here we show that the multi-model mean of the CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project) climate models accurately reproduces the evolution over time and spatial patterns of the historically observed increase in monthly heat extremes.

Publication Date: 
15/08/2013
Dim Coumou, Alexander Robinson
Environmental Research Letters
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Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Extreme Weather Events, Green House Gases, Heat Waves
Climate Change

Senate panel warns over climate change

Bipartisan report highlights scientific link between severe weather events and dangerous global warming

Publication Date: 
09/08/2013
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Australia, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Extreme Weather Events, Storms, Heat Waves, Floods
Wildlife

Britain's barn owls under threat due to extreme weather

Cold, wet springs have led to worst breeding season in three decades, which has devastated the species' UK population

Publication Date: 
02/08/2013
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Extreme Weather Events, Birds, Wildlife, United Kingdom (UK), Europe, Rainfall
Climate Change

Hotter temperatures lead to hotter tempers: Study

As the world gets warmer, people's tempers are likely to get hotter, scientists say.

Publication Date: 
02/08/2013
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Global Warming, Africa, Extreme Weather Events, Health Effects, Mental Health
Climate Change

Executive summary of climate resilient urban development: vulnerability profiles of 20 Indian cities

This executive summary provides an overview of methodologies and findings of vulnerability assessments undertaken in 20 Indian cities as well as recommendations for future actions.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2013
Integrated Research and Action for Development
Tags:
Climate Change, Urban Development, India, Climate Adaptation, Urbanisation, Extreme Weather Events, Climate Impacts

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