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Scientists and policymakers should focus more on how local communities can adapt to climate change
Interview of Andrew Gouldson
The London School of Economics and Political Science has been at the forefront of analyzing the costs of climate change. Together with the University of Leeds in England, the school has started a Center for Climate Change Economics and Policy to examine issues in more detail. Co-director Andrew Gouldson assesses the likelihood of an international climate agreement and what local communities can do to adapt to change.
Anna Barnett is assistant editor of Nature Reports Climate Change, which originally published a longer version of this interview in its February 2009 online issue (available at www.nature.com/climate/2009/0902/full/climate.2009.7.html). Andrew Gouldson is co-director of the Center for Climate Change Economics and Policy in London.
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Add CommentTo understand this, we must first ask why the climate has changed in the past. It does not happen by magic. Climate change when he is forced to change. When our planet is suffering from an imbalance of energy, and gains or loses heat, changes in global temperature. There are a variety of forces that can affect earth climate. When the sun gets brighter, the Earth receives more energy and warms. When the volcanoes erupted, they emit particles in the atmosphere that reflect sunlight and the planet cools. When there, greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, the planet warms. These effects are considered outside influences, because by changing the energy balance of Earth, they force the climate change.
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