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Mintzer, Irving. 1992. Confronting climate change: risks, implications, and responses.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wong, Kaufui Vincent. 2016. Climate Change. New York: Momentum Press.

Bell, Justine. 2012. Review of Climate change and Australia: Warming to the global challenge

by Ben Saul, Steven Sherwood, Jane McAdam, Tim Stephens and James Slezak. Alternative

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United States. Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. 2010. Progress report of the

Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. Washington, D.C.: Interagency

Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.

The Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force is tasked to assess, predict, and prepare

for the possible detrimental effects of climate change, particularly to the country’s adaptation and

resilience. This report focuses on the progress that the task force was able to accomplish in 2010,

which include the development of stronger partnerships, and increased support and participation

of different local partners. Significant progress was also made in terms of linking resources to

areas with critical needs, and in forming a more robust approach in climate change assessment

and in the application of the lessons learned from said assessment. The task force was also able

to recommend a strategy for resilience and adaptation efforts, which features 6 key elements

namely, science inputs to adaptation and decision and policy, communication and capacity-

building, coordination and collaboration, prioritization, a flexible framework for agencies, and

evaluation. These progress and recommendations aids in understanding the direness of climate

change causing it to require elaborate contingency plans from the government.

Henry, Hugh A. L. 2008. “Climate change and soil freezing dynamics: historical trends and

projected changes.” Climatic Change 87: 421-434. doi:10.1007/s10584-007-9322-8

This scholarly article by Henry, studied the changes in the soil freezing dynamics as a response

to the changing air temperature, and precipitation due to climate change. Weather station data

was used to determine the relationship between the changing air temperature conditions and the

carbon and other nutrient loss in the soil. This relationship was based on the hypothesis that

winter climate accompanied with warming temperatures causes an increase in the freezing of soil

due to the reduction of snow thickness. This study found that a decline in soil freezing was

caused by increasing winter air temperatures, while reduction in precipitation caused increase

soil freezing. Essentially, this results to increased soil thaw cycles. It was projected that this

thawing cycle will be longer, as stronger effects on the annual soil freezing days is to be

expected by 2050, which will affect the ecosystem in the soil. These results highlight the

possible detrimental effect of climate change in terms of food security due to the chemical

changes that happens in the soil with warmer winters, and lesser precipitations.

Nunez, Sarahi. “Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity: Is Below 2 °C

Enough?” Climatic Change 154: 351-365. doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02420-x

Aside from human, other living organisms is also in danger due to the worsening situation

brought upon by climate change. In this work by Nunez, the impact of climate change on the

habitat of local remaining species was studied. Several other studies were summarized by this

work. One of the key findings of this work is that both the remaining species, and remaining

livable area is expected to be reduced by 14-35% as the global temperature increase by 1-2 oC.

This study covers a wide range of species across a wide range of biomes. These findings support

the suggestion that the increase in global temperature should be limited to 1.5 oC or lower for the
protection of biodiversity. This study effectively discusses how other organisms aside from

human beings is affected much earlier due to subtle increase in global temperature that is

probably not noticeable to humans. Since each member of the Earth’s ecosystem has a key role

in their environments, this also show how dire the possible effects of climate change are.

Morris, Brandi S. et al. 2019. “Stories vs. facts: triggering emotion and action-taking on climate

change.” Climatic Change 154: 19-36. doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02425-6

This work by Morris, studies the low engagement that the topic of climate change receives, even

from the segments of the public that should be concerned the most to the issue. The study

focuses on the increased resistance that some people have towards information, that may appear

persuasive to most. Particularly, the group of Morris investigated if change the structure of

presenting the issue from informative to narrative will elicit increased engagement, and aid in

promoting environmentally friendly behavior as a response. After a series of studies, it was

found that stories are more effective than informational structures in promoting environmentally

friendly behavior in the target audiences. This study was able to highlight a key factor in the

fight against climate change, which is centered in the psychological aspect. While factual

statements and narratives are indeed, scientifically true, the contribution of the audience in the

fight against climate change is significantly defined by how the message of the issue is delivered

to them.

Chiu, Allyson. 2022. “People Don’t Really Talk About Climate Change. Here’s How to Start.”

The Washington Post.

Kaplan, Sarah. 2021. “Humanity’s Greatest Ally Against Climate Change Is the Earth Itself.”

The Washington Post.

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