Monday, January 23, 2012

New Security Beat: From the Wilson Center: New Research on Climate and Conflict Links Shows Challenges for the Field

We know that there will be more conflicts in the future as a result of climate change than there would have been in a hypothetic world without climate change,” said Marc Levy, deputy director of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, although existing data and methodologies cannot predict how many additional conflicts there will be, or which causal factors will matter most.

Climate CoLab: Harnessing The Hive Mind To Alleviate Climate Change | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

It certainly doesn’t seem like anyone in charge has any ideas about how to stop climate change, so let’s open it up to everyone. A crowdsourcing project from MIT has found the best solutions from the rest of us--like personal rapid transit or convincing us all to eat less meat.

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