this document is to investigate the impact of climate change on the Information Technology (IT) industry in South Africa. Initial investigation will be into what is happening to the global and South African climate based on recent studies and academic papers. By then examining the impact of climate change on each sector‚ and by examining the percentage of IT spend per sector‚ the impact on IT during our lifetimes can be extrapolated. 2. Global Climate Change; South African Impact 2.1. The average
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THEORY AND PRACTICE IN ASSESSING VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND FACILITATING ADAPTATION P. M. KELLY 1‚2‚∗ and W. N. ADGER 2 1 Climatic Research Unit‚ and 2 Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment‚ School of Environmental Sciences‚ University of East Anglia‚ Norwich NR4 7TJ‚ U.K. ∗ E-mail: m.kelly@uea.ac.uk Abstract. We discuss approaches to the assessment of vulnerability to climate variability and change and attempt to clarify the relationship between the concepts
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agreeing. People of higher power are calling on activists‚ and new laws are being made every day supporting this. Everywhere you go it’s all about energy effiency and new products being made that don’t give off CO2 emissions. It makes you wonder... does climate change really matter? Global warming is the increase of the earths average surface temperature caused by burning fossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gasses. Pretend the atmosphere is a decent blanket‚ not to thick not to thin‚ just good enough
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Approximately every 100‚000 years Earth’s climate warms up temporarily. These warm periods‚ called interglacial periods‚ appear to last approximately 15‚000 to 20‚000 years before regressing back to a cold ice age climate. At year 18‚000 and counting our current interglacial vacation from the Ice Age is closer to its end than its beginning (Geo Craft). This leads to the growing debate of today‚ is global warming man-made? Or is it just a cycle that the Earth goes through? This is a controversial
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In his essays “Kids‚ Trees‚ and Climate Change” and “The Green Dream” Mark Hertsgaard informs us of a current would issue that is occurring that was created by humans‚ global warming. Americans should take global warming as a serious matter because it could extinct some plants or animals due to the climate warming up which is not suitable for some species. Also it creates ice caps to melt at rapid speeds which could lead to parts of the states that live on a border of the ocean to flood. Mark describes
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Climate change is controversial for a myriad number of reasons‚ but the main controversy is is it real. According to Sallie Baliunas‚ Ph.D. and Senior Scientist at George C. Marshall Institute‚ the warming of the earth is not due to human-made greenhouse gases. Furthermore‚ Baliunas asserts sunspots and the natural cycles of warming and cooling in the Pacific cause it. Baliunas makes this argument by deducing from from scientific studies‚ facts‚ and computer models; presenting the studies and models
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Journal of Business Ethics (2009) 86:273–295 DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9847-4 Ó Springer 2008 The Effects of Ethical Climates on Bullying Behaviour in the Workplace ¨ Fusun Bulutlar ¨ ¨ Ela Unler Oz ABSTRACT. Various aspects of the relationship between ethical climate types and organizational commitment have been examined‚ although a relationship with the concept of bullying‚ which may be very detrimental to an organization‚ has not attracted significant attention. This study contributes
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In No Climate Change Under the Faint Early Sun‚ Rosing makes an argument about the climate during Earth’s early life. Rosing’s main focus and motivation of the paper is to explain why the Earth was warmer than expected. He does this by having different scenarios and for some of them‚ finding a counterargument that contradicts them. In the paper‚ he contradicts that there was an extremely high level of carbon dioxide and that the greenhouse gases alone were not sufficient to compensate for the faint
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The seminar is about Earthquake‚ Climate Change‚ Fire Prevention and NSTP History. It happened in Lyceum Of the Philippines University of Batangas‚ at the SHL Building in the Freedom Hall. Let’s talk about first the earhtquake. An earthquake is a series of vibrations induced in the earth’s crust by abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. It is a natural phenomenon that results from underground movement along fault plane. Things to do incase
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Firstly‚ As the climate warm up or cool down‚ many of local species shift from their origin habitat into the area where suited the the most (Friedman L.S‚ 2012). This means that when the temperature is increasing during the summer time‚ polar bear do migrate to the land area or we called it ashore. According to National Geography‚ that since 1979 sea ice cover has declined by about 30 percent in the Arctic. As the greenhouse effect continuing to warm the Earth‚ polar bears forced to stay in the land
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