Anxiety and Adaptation for Climate Change: Stop the tide or adapt to it?

Tom Nordblom

No 369408, 2020 Conference (64th), February 12-14, 2020, Perth, Western Australia from Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society

Abstract: Social media asserts man-made CO2 is the cause of global warming, and that we must focus policy and private efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Agriculture is a great source of greenhouse gasses; enteric methane (CH4) from ruminants, nitrous oxide (N2O) from nitrogen fertilizers, and CO2 emissions from farm equipment and transportation. But, there are other, more profound, reasons to expect continued global warming, then cooling, for which agricultural research and industry must adjust and adapt. The Earth has presently reached an interglacial peak temperature range not witnessed in the past 120,000 years, as evidenced in Antarctic ice-cores, deep ocean sediment cores and the glacial melting and slow sea-level and sea-temperature rises in the news these days. This paper aims to show the above status of our current interglacial peak is a natural phase in the great geologic/orbital cycles of ice ages on earth; it has all happened before, repeating about every 100 thousand years over the past half million years. These findings are revealed in 160 years of scientific observation, analysis and discovery. Outlined finally, are opportunities for dealing with real and present problems: adaptations to control air and water pollution, clean use of fossil fuels and support for better agricultural and forest management in light of modern understandings of physics, chemistry, biology and human needs. This will require the best young minds of present and future generations as climate changes continue to unfold.

Keywords: Environmental; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.369408

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