By Michael H. Glantz
This ebook offers a evaluate of early caution platforms in operation, whereas exploring quite a number dangers together with hurricanes, warmth waves, floods, droughts, tsunami and volcanoes.--Publisher's description.
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To minimize unexpected surprises, however, this “benign neglect” of EWSs by governments must be made explicit and avoided. The future has been arriving earlier than predicted; take global warming, for example With each passing decade since the 1970s, it seems that more and more of the signs scientists have warned us about related to the gradual warming of the earth’s atmosphere have been observed. Many of these signs are emerging far more quickly than originally predicted, yielding an increasingly palpable sense of urgency for response planning.
Success has many fathers. ” People tend to recall failed warnings more often than successful ones. INTRODUCTION 13 • EWSs are integral to sustainable development. • People have different views about the structure and function of an EWS. EWS as a technical unit issuing only quantitatively based warnings. EWS as a holistic method including warning, communication and response. • Not all governments or EWSs want transparency in early warning processes. • No agreement exists on how best to express “likelihood” or “probability”.
The future has been arriving earlier than predicted; take global warming, for example With each passing decade since the 1970s, it seems that more and more of the signs scientists have warned us about related to the gradual warming of the earth’s atmosphere have been observed. Many of these signs are emerging far more quickly than originally predicted, yielding an increasingly palpable sense of urgency for response planning. For example, sea level continues to rise; 96 per cent of the world’s glaciers are receding; warm climate ecosystems are moving upslope to higher altitudes and into previously cooler climates and latitudes; and exotic species and disease vectors are appearing in new locations poleward, adjusting to warmer winters and hotter summers.