Project 3_Renaja Butler
Research
Natural Disasters and its relations to Climate Change
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781315081045/climate-change-natural-disasters-vinod-thomas
"Given the substantial time delay between GHG emissions reductions and the actual reduction in atmospheric GHG concentrations, and the irriversibility of climate change on a multi- century time scale, it is imperative that mitigation actions start now.It should be in a country’s interest to pursue climate action soonest. If countries ignore climate change now, the cost of tackling them in the future will be many times greater."
[Vinod Thomas.Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Transforming Economics and Policies for a Sustainable Future]
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23141285
"Global warming is expected to make the climate warmer, wetter, and wilder. It is predicted that such climate change will increase the severity and frequency of climate-related disasters like flash floods, surges, cyclones, and severe storms. This article uses econometric methods to study the consequences of climate-induced natural disasters on economic growth, and how these disasters are linked to the onset of armed civil conflict either directly or via their impact on economic growth. The results show that climate-related natural disasters have a negative effect on growth and that the impact is considerable."
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03242-6
"The frequency and intensity of natural disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, and foods
are predicted to change as greenhouse gas concentrations increase. These disasters may
represent sources of information for individuals as they update their beliefs related to climate change. Using a dataset that includes climate beliefs of respondents, we examine the
effect of natural disasters on climate change beliefs and find that hurricanes significantly
increase the probability that survey respondents from a given county believe that climate
change is occurring and that it is human caused. "
Sloggy, M.R., Suter, J.F., Rad, M.R. et al. Changing opinions on a changing climate: the effects of natural disasters on public perceptions of climate change. Climatic Change 168, 25 (2021).
Climate change is the greatest price society is paying for decades of environmental neglect. The impact of global warming is most visible in the rising threat of climate-related natural disasters. Hazards of nature have always been with us, but the growing incidence of floods, storms, and droughts all across the world is putting a spotlight on the need for action. As this book argues, it will be harder to sustain growth unless the worst effects of climate change, notably natural calamities, are averted. Sustainability, understood as meeting the needs of the present without endangering future generations, is key to these efforts.
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