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 Societies have a long record of adapting to the impacts of weather and climate. But climate change poses novel risks often outside the range of experience, such as impacts related to drought, heat waves, accelerated glacier retreat, and hurricane intensity. These impacts will require adaptive responses such as investments in storm protection and water supply infrastructure, as well as community health services. Adaptation measures essential to reduce such vulnerability, are seldom undertaken in response to climate change alone but can be integrated within, for example, water resource management, coastal defence, and risk-reduction strategies. The global community needs to coordinate a far more proactive effort towards implementing adaptation measures in the most vulnerable communities and systems in the world. -- R K Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC  Societies have a long record of adapting to the impacts of weather and climate. But climate change poses novel risks often outside the range of experience, such as impacts related to drought, heat waves, accelerated glacier retreat, and hurricane intensity. These impacts will require adaptive responses such as investments in storm protection and water supply infrastructure, as well as community health services. Adaptation measures essential to reduce such vulnerability, are seldom undertaken in response to climate change alone but can be integrated within, for example, water resource management, coastal defence, and risk-reduction strategies. The global community needs to coordinate a far more proactive effort towards implementing adaptation measures in the most vulnerable communities and systems in the world. -- R K Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC 
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 +Global warming is a unique geological event, more akin to the scale of nuclear war than saving the spotted owl. So why are we treating it as if it is a spotted owl? -- Sheril R. Kirshenbaum 
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 +The seasonal cycle in atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> shows that the lifetime of a CO<sub>2</sub> molecule in the air before it is exchanged with another in the land biosphere is about 12 years. Therefore if the trees could simply be persuaded to drop diamonds instead of leaves, repairing the damage to the atmosphere could be fast, I suppose. -- http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/freeman-dysons-selective-vision/
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   * The Outquisition > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html   * The Outquisition > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html
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   * Imagine What Comes After Green > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008207.html   * Imagine What Comes After Green > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008207.html
   * http://variablemedia.net/   * http://variablemedia.net/
 +  * The 'Princeton Wedges" and Carbon Mitigation Initiative > http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/news/CMIinBrief.pdf
  
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   * http://carbonfarm.us/KATALOG/stmt.html   * http://carbonfarm.us/KATALOG/stmt.html
   * http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hawk_small.html   * http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hawk_small.html
 +  * http://carbonnation.org/
 +  * http://biopresence.com
  
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