Archive for the ‘Climate Change’ category

Climate Change Causes Fall of the Roman Empire

January 30th, 2012

Apparently climate change is not just a problem of modern civilization. Some scientists claim climate change is responsible for the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Researchers using tree-ring growth to study the impact of climate instability pattern. The results of the study seemed to be attributable to several historical events, including the fall of the Roman Empire and the 30 Years War.

Ulf Buntgen from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape, who co-authored research report claimed, “If we back 2,500 years, there are examples that the climate change impact on human history.”

In this study researchers reconstruct the climatic history of Europe during the summer of 2500 years using wooden artifacts. The study results are based on measurements of tree rings from the sample tree of life in Germany, France, Italy and Austria.

In a good season, where water and nutrients are abundant, the trees formed a wide circle pattern. But contrary to the conditions that are not too good, a circle that is created is much more tightly to one another. » Read more: Climate Change Causes Fall of the Roman Empire

Global Warming Is Real

January 27th, 2012

Pros and cons are still looming issue of climate change. Some scientists, such as those belonging to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or other independent scientists, said that based on research they have done to climate change is taking place. While for other scientists are skeptical, as the leading physicist Richard Muller of the University of California Berkeley, United States declared that climate change is not real and is more influenced political element as well as strengthened environmental activists.

The reality of what is now believed by Muller himself rebuffed. As quoted from Bussiness Investor Daily, Muller revealed in the Wall Street Journal, Muller is now admitted that climate change is taking place.

Her belief is based on research he had done himself to the truth about climate change as has been stated by other scientists before. Any data recorded at the monitoring center temperatures worldwide were analyzed by him, and the result can be guessed that climate change is raising the temperature by 1 degree Celsius since the mid-1950.

To reduce bias that may occur in the captured data, in addition to using temperature data from urban areas are believed to cause bias in the analysis, Muller also use temperature data from areas outside of urban areas. And the result is the temperature in the region also increased. » Read more: Global Warming Is Real

Ecological Disaster As Global Climate Change Impacts and Disaster Risk Suppression Efforts

January 25th, 2012

Climate change caused by global warming in the world has an impact on the occurrence of natural disasters is an ecological disaster, where there is loss of the ecological balance of tropical cyclones such as hurricanes, tidal and flood, extreme temperature rise, endemic, tsunami, drought and El Nino. This has an impact on the surrounding environmental conditions. Disaster is an accumulation of natural factors that have experienced a balance disorder in which there is a vulnerability (vulnerability) in an affected area so that the decline in public deterrent power in receiving disaster risk, disasters frequently occurring one after another in the same time (twin disasters ). Disaster risk reduction can be done through the stages of disaster management including prevention and mitigation; preparedness: emergency management, recovery and action plans that could have implications for disaster risk reduction.

Disaster risk reduction efforts are integrated and well planned effort undertaken in disaster management so that it can be implemented into the environment pengeloalaan based disaster risk reduction, by reducing the effects of global warming are interconnected between disaster risk reduction, the reduction of global warming and sustainable development (sustainable development) .