ENV 1101 Lecture : Class 11 - Climate Change Impacts.docx
16 Mar 2012
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The nature of the physical changes to which a population is exposed. The sensitivity of that population to climatic variability and change. Vulnerability (v) = potential for harm or loss. The exposure and sensitivity are similar for holland and bangladesh. The adaptive capacity of holland is very different from bangladesh. In 2009, hackers stole emails from accounts of scientists at university of east. Anglia, some of which were later posted to the internet. The released emails give impression that some scientists were actively conspiring to refute the arguments of critics of climate science (commonly described as. Skeptics ), maybe even manipulating data to achieve particular results. Uea is an important centre for climate research, and several of these scholars are leaders in the field. Fundamental tenets of good science are that the research must be replicable, results should not be manipulated to achieve particular ends. Emails give impression scientists may have had ulterior motives.
