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"Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level and its emphasis on the crucial importance of ethnographic detail in demonstrating how people in different parts of the world are scaling down the phenomenon of global warming"-- |c Provided by publisher.

Climatic changes --- Social aspects. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Anthropogenic effects on climatic changes --- Human ecology

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In playfully pessimistic and thought-provoking essays, author Andrew McMurry explores a vital but fundamentally perverse human practice: destroying our planet while imagining we are not. How are humans able to do this? Entertaining Futility: Despair and Hope in the Time of Climate Change investigates the discourses of hope, progress, and optimism in the era of climate change, concepts that, McMurry argues, are polite names for blind faith, greed, and wishful thinking. The itemized list of humanity's arrogance can quickly lead to despair, so McMurry compensates by presenting the news in a darkly comic and irreverent style. McMurry believes human culture relies on a full suite of rhetorical tricks to distract us from our own demise. He investigates the role language, discourse, media, and technology play in shaping perceptions and misperceptions of our complex environmental crises. Writing in a mode that freely mixes the scholarly, fictive, poetic, and personal, McMurry draws on philosophy, history, ecology, film, science fiction, and pop culture to raise questions that are difficult to face, let alone answer. In the author's words, "our age is utterly paralyzing unless you can crack jokes about it." Entertaining Futility offers no easy solutions to today's environmental calamities and, in fact, claims that perhaps the continual proposing of solutions is part of the problem. Instead, McMurry encourages readers to examine their own deeply held beliefs about the environment and the future and to look more closely at where those beliefs originate. By pulling back the curtain, he reveals the rhetorical and cultural ruses that distract us from the reality of our environmental crises.

Ecocriticism. --- Climatic changes --- Environmentalism --- Anthropogenic effects on climatic changes --- Human ecology --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Effect of human beings on. --- Philosophy.

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"While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these local issues, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which is otherwise dominated by natural scientists and policy makers. It shows what an ethnographic focus can offer in furthering our understanding of the lived realities of climate debates. Contributors from communities around the world discuss local knowledge of, and responses to, environmental changes that need to feature in scientifically framed policies regarding mitigation and adaptation measures if they are to be effective"--

Climatic changes --- Weather --- Social aspects. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Anthropogenic effects on weather --- Human ecology --- Anthropogenic effects on climatic changes

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Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, this book argues, will bring unprecedented migrations, famine, war, and disease. It will be a social and political disaster of the first order. This book takes climate change out of the realm of scientific abstraction to explore its real-world consequences. The text takes as its starting point a fairly optimistic outcome in the range predicted by scientists: a 2 degrees Celsius increase in average global temperatures. Even this modest rise would lead to catastrophic environmental and social problems. Already we can see how it will work: The ten warmest years since 1880 have all occurred since 1998, and one estimate of the annual global death toll caused by climate change is now 300,000. That number might rise to 500,000 by 2030. This shows how climate change is already playing out in the real world. Rising seas will swamp island nations like Maldives; coastal food-producing regions in Bangladesh will be flooded; and millions will be forced to migrate into cities or possibly “climate-refugee camps.” Even as seas rise, melting glaciers in the Andes and the Himalayas will deprive millions upon millions of people of fresh water, threatening major cities and further straining food production. Prolonged droughts in the Sahel region of Africa have already helped produce mass violence in Darfur.

Climatic changes --- Human ecology. --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Anthropogenic effects on climatic changes --- Human ecology --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on

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Au cours de son histoire, notre planète a connu des conditions climatiques très diverses. Comment fonctionne la machine climatique ? Qu’est-ce que le climat global ? Pourquoi et comment a-t-il changé au cours des temps géologiques ? Comment se situe le changement climatique en cours dans ce contexte géologique et historique ? Le réchauffement en cours est marqué par des phases d’accélération et de ralentissement, et des amplitudes différentes selon les régions. Comment faire la part des facteurs naturels et des activités humaines dans ce réchauffement récent ? À quels risques climatiques serons-nous amenés à faire face, pour les prochaines décennies, et les prochains siècles ? Les sciences du climat ont construit des méthodes d’observation, d’analyse, de modélisation et de reconstitution des climats passés qui permettent de répondre à ces questions. Cet ouvrage, clair et précis, présente ainsi les acteurs du climat, leurs interactions, leurs échanges avec toutes les composantes de l’environnement terrestre, cet environnement qui est à la fois conditionné par le climat et affecte son évolution. Il en résulte un système qui génère sa propre variabilité, et peut produire des variations abruptes, comme en témoignent les climats passés. C’est également un système qui va réagir à des perturbations, qu’elles soient naturelles ou liées à l’influence humaine, avec des mécanismes complexes de rétroactions. La modélisation du climat est donc centrale pour décrypter les causes des changements récents ou passés, et pour anticiper les futurs possibles.

Climatology. --- Climatologie --- Climatic changes. --- Climatic changes --- Climate --- Climate science --- Climate sciences --- Science of climate --- Atmospheric science --- Anthropogenic effects on climatic changes --- Human ecology --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Effect of human beings on. --- Environmental aspects --- Global environmental change