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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.
Productivity in Highland Ethiopia, 1900–1987," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 20:3, pp. 389–416. (Retrieved November 18, 2006 from JSTOR database) (Retrieved November 18, 2006 from JSTOR database)
The first chapter describes the expected effects of climate change with one degree Celsius (1 °C) increase in average global temperature since pre-industrial times.. The second chapter describes the effects of two degrees average temperature and so forth until Chapter 6 which shows the expected effects of an increase of six Celsius degrees (6 °C) average global temperature.
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 ...
Economist Frank Ackerman of Tufts University and the Stockholm Environment Institute, wrote a review of Lomborg's book. [4] In it, Ackerman criticised Lomborg for his views on the economics of climate change, including the costs of the Kyoto Protocol and the use of cost-benefit analysis.
The Climate Book is a collective non-fiction book by the climate activist Greta Thunberg. [ 13 ] [ 1 ] The original English edition was published in October 2022. [ 1 ] Translations are published in languages including German, [ 2 ] Spanish, [ 3 ] Portuguese, [ 4 ] Italian, [ 5 ] French, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Dutch, [ 8 ] Swedish, [ 9 ] Danish, [ 10 ...
The lecture was called "The Economics and Politics of Climate Change. An Appeal to Reason " [ 4 ] As explained in the introduction, the aim of the book is to examine each of the dimensions of the global warming issue, including the science, the economics, both from the perspective of long-term forecasting and cost-effectiveness analysis, the ...