Zmena klÃmy â možný dopad (nielen) na obyvateľstvo - Prohuman
Zmena klÃmy â možný dopad (nielen) na obyvateľstvo - Prohuman
Zmena klÃmy â možný dopad (nielen) na obyvateľstvo - Prohuman
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climatic changes, sustai<strong>na</strong>ble development, and their influence on the environment<br />
an man need further study. In many aspects, the current state of science,<br />
although significantly improved in comparison to even the previous several years,<br />
does not allow for a simple conclusion. The critical insight into some issues, obliges<br />
to summarize the most important ones, coming from both the deliberation and<br />
notions from the literature:<br />
• Climate changes are fasci<strong>na</strong>ting issues from the scientific point of view. However,<br />
they require broad, interdiscipli<strong>na</strong>ry knowledge.<br />
• Climate change reveals as unusual complex problem. It also concerns its climate<br />
impacts.<br />
• Due to official scientific sce<strong>na</strong>rios the climate change impacts on population including<br />
the life quality and health are not too optimistic for low latitude located<br />
countries (e.g. Sahel region). Let us hope that these sce<strong>na</strong>rios will be totally wrong.<br />
Sce<strong>na</strong>rios are much better for Central Europe.<br />
• One should believe that human mind and activity including policy and solidarity<br />
will solve the most difficult human problems – even if the worst sce<strong>na</strong>rios will<br />
happen.<br />
• In all climate change studies and research there is some percentage of uncertainty.<br />
No one with high responsibility can formulate absolute opinions as to climate<br />
future as well as impacts including human population.<br />
• Therefore the following sentence given by Oscar Wilde seems to be quite actual:<br />
”Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable”<br />
BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />
Burroughs W. J., 2009: Climate Change, A Multidiscipli<strong>na</strong>ry Approach, Cambridge<br />
University Press, Cambridge, p. XI + 378.<br />
Glossary of Meteorology, 2000, Second Edition, American Meteorological Society,<br />
Boston.<br />
Heino R., 1994: Climate in Finland during the period of meteorological observations,<br />
Finnish Meteorological Institute Contributions, Helsinki, 1994, pp. 209.<br />
ICSU, 2010: Earth System Science for Global Sustai<strong>na</strong>bility: The Grant Challenges,<br />
Inter<strong>na</strong>tio<strong>na</strong>l Council for Science, Paris.<br />
IPCC, 2001: IPCC Third Assessment Report, Cambridge University Press.<br />
IPCC, 2007: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Cambridge University Press, also:<br />
http://www.ipcc.ch<br />
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