Sakura Bloom and The Global Warming
The Sakura bloom is getting earlier in Japan. In Tokyo, it is about a week earlier compare to the 1980s. Study in Kagoshima found that warmer weather not only causing early blooming, but also making the sakura unable to fully bloom. If the warming continue, the romance of full blooming Japanese sakura will start to disappear from these Islands.
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Combating climate change may not be a question of who will carry the burden but could instead be a rush for the benefits, according to new economic modeling presented at “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions” hosted by the University of Copenhagen.
Contrary to current cost models for lowering greenhouse gases emissions and fighting climate change, a group of researchers from the University of Cambridge conclude that even very stringent reductions of can create a macroeconomic benefit, if governments go about it the right way.
“Where many current calculations get it wrong is in the assumption that more stringent measures will necessarily raise the overall cost, especially when there is substantial unemployment and underuse of capacity as there is today”, explains Terry Barker, Director of Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Congress.
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