Solar variation

civil war and insurgency (p. 45). Another used rainfall variability to explore the marginal influence of small-scale conflict in Kenya (Raleigh and Kniveton 2012). Its findings show that small conflicts surge through the periods of extreme rainfall variation, irrespective of the sign of the rainfall change. These conflicts increase during the dry and wet seasons. It is difficult to identify the causal mechanism as the directional effect of climate variability goes both…

Is Global Climate Change a Hoax? Are humans to blame for the Ice capes melting and rapid changes in our weather patterns? What motivated President Elect Donald Trump to say that global climate change is a hoax. The present environmental warming trend is a huge topic today and an issue that raises great debate around the world. The earth is home to billions of humans, plants and animals, we all need the earth to sustain life. Therefore, the wellbeing of this planet is of major concern. This essay…

Nobel Prize-winning economist and Op-Ed Columnist for The New York Times Paul Krugman proudly identifies as a liberal and makes no attempt to remain nonpartisan. His columns are nearly always filled with inflammatory remarks and numerous invectives hurled towards the right-wing, “know-nothing” conservatives. Krugman’s candidness in describing the pitfalls of conservative views regarding the economy, as well as public policy, garners a base of likeminded, staunch liberals who find his columns…

Scientists, when it comes to responsibility, will take credit when something helps people, but not when something kills a lot of people. If people’s tax dollars are paying for something, people do have a right to say what is being done with your tax money. Most scientists, if you ask them, will say that they have ethics. What they usually mean, according to Miller in lecture, is the legal thing. The law simply states what you can or can not do. It is just a piece of paper, more or less. Ethics…

demonstrates how drastic an effect climate variation can have on daily life. By moving to the coast, Icelanders must have been unable to produce enough food via inland farming, or at least farming alone. The that fact climate can impact communities to the point where they have to change their entire lifestyle in such a way, shows the possible impact climate can have. After all, if a little ice age can turn farmers into fishermen, then why can’t climate variation turn fishermen and farmers into…

A pressing issue in Pakistan is the country’s vulnerability to climate change. In 2011 the Global Climate Change Vulnerability Index ranked Pakistan as the 16th most vulnerable country after enduring many severe floods, droughts and storms. In a country that relies heavily on the agriculture sector, taking up 45% of employment, the effect of climate change on farming is a serious matter that creates a possible threat to everyday lifestyle. While this issue has created discussion within the…

Ranging from the modernisation of a country to the experience of small islands that threatened by rises of the sea level, most countries including developed countries somehow vulnerable to climate change. Vulnerability is a condition that is difficult to measure as mostly is based on the approximation (Parsons, 2014). Vulnerability occurs not only because of environmental change, but also on socio-economic characteristics such as poverty and inequality governance. This demonstrates that it also…

A main objective of this chapter is to explain the modelling approach used in this thesis. This chapter begins with a description of the research paradigm. Following this, data collection and data analysis are explained. The contributions of this study and its research focus are discussed in the next section. Next, a methodological approach to obtain an appropriate model combining climate production factors is described step by step. At the end, a detailed description of the research method, the…

Everything we do affects the carbon in our atmosphere. Our world already has a natural, balanced carbon cycle to use and reuse the CO2 and therefore keep the levels at a healthy rate in the air. This process from sun to plants through photosynthesis, then into the soil as the plant decays, and evaporation back into the air, is disrupted by auto and factory emissions. We cannot control the natural carbon cycle, and we don’t need to because it is already balanced! However we can control the amount…

Even in 2004, scientists published an article explaining that they believe climate change to be caused by an increase in the sun’s activity stating, “The data suggests that changing solar activity is influencing in some way the global climate causing the world to get warmer.” There are various theories about climate change claiming either that it is entirely false or that the cause is something other than human activity. Though these…