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Climate change also affects the gross domestic product (GDP) of the country by reducing between 0.5% and 2.5% each year (estimate for 2010). [20] In the Awash basin in central Ethiopia floods and droughts are common. Agriculture in the basin is mainly rainfed (without irrigation systems). This applies to around 98% of total cropland as of 2012.
Climate change is of great concern in Ethiopia, especially since the 1970s. Between the mid-1970s and late 2000s, Ethiopia's rainfall in some areas and seasons decreased by 15-20 percent. Furthermore, numerous studies predict climate change will increasingly affect the country's ecosystem, causing drought and famines.
Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (2011) by the IPCC; Renewable Energy Systems: A Smart Energy Systems Approach to the Choice and Modeling of 100 % Renewable Solutions; Renewable energy. Technology, economics and environment; Small is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change is a non-fiction environmental science book by Elizabeth Kolbert that was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2006. The book documents a series of scientific observations and political processes, bringing attention to the causes and effects of global climate change. In this book ...
In Cool It, Lomborg argues his view that many of the elaborate and expensive actions being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars without the same return on investment, often are based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may have very little impact on the world's temperature for centuries.
Deforestation in Ethiopia is caused by past governmental and institutional changes, insecurity of land tenure, resettlement programs, population pressure, agricultural and infrastructure developments. Farmers suffer from poverty as well as food insecurity and cannot bear the costs of forest conservation.
The book also alerted Zhou Ji, president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, "to the extent of the climate problem". [8] The book was cited as contributing to Flannery being named Australian of the Year in 2007 for his clear and accessible communication of climate change science and its likely consequences for a fragile planet. [4]
Climate change: climate change denial from the perspective of climate change belief: Clive Hamilton: 2010: ISBN 978-1-84971-081-7: The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we Can Still Save Humanity: Various themes: James Lovelock: 2007: ISBN 0-14-102597-2: Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate: Climate change: Leonie ...