In the lead editorial appearing in Science magazine today, co-authors Rosina M. Bierbaum, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, and Peter H. Raven, president of the Missouri Botanical Garden, recommend a two-pronged strategy to manage climate change.
We must “mitigate the pace and ultimate magnitude of the changes that occur and adapt to the changes that cannot be avoided,” they write. “Business as usual could have us three- to five-degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures by 2100 – a temperature jump equaling that from the height of the last ice age to the present warm period.”
The Science editorial appears in the April 6 edition of the magazine as a complement to the scheduled release today of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, “Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability,” which is expected to provide comprehensive analysis of how climate change is effecting natural and human systems.
See full Press Release.
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