Americans and Adaptation to Climate Change

Americans are seen as not being interested in diminishing their footprint of carbon dioxide. Thinking of any people as being monolithic is a great mistake. Many American citizens have changed their way of lives to decrease the carbon dioxide emission. Many cities are already contributing to decrease the emission of this gas by means of a strict legislation about motor vehicle emission, even though the central government has not signed the Kyoto protocol. But if the mitigation is not a concern for the majority of citizens neither to all instances of government, they contribute to a world level consciousness about the Global Warming by means of information about the pace of the emission of carbon dioxide by different activities on different countries on the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - CDIAC and analysis of the contribution of the Global Warming to the Global Climate Change and predictions to near and not near future elaborated by NOOA and other entities. Adaptation to the Global Warming, by its hand, is tackled very seriously by the US Army Corps of Engineers, responsible for investigating, developing and maintaining the nation's water and related environmental resources as can be seen in the USACE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLAN AND REPORT 2011 : “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers considers the global changes that can result in regional and local impacts, and the design, engineering, and management of responses to those changes, as the major challenges of the 21st century”.

See also:

DIAS, Adriano; MEDEIROS, Carolina 

(Consultores:  MELO,  Lúcia; SUASSUNA, João; TÁVORA, Luciana; WANDERLEY, Múcio)

Convivência com a Seca e Adaptação - realidade e pesquisa

Relatório Parcial da Pesquisa  Adaptação ao Aquecimento Global:

uma visão sobre a pesquisa agropecuária no Norte/Nordeste

Coordenação de Estudos em Ciência e Tecnologia - CECT/Fundação Joaquim Nabuco  www.fundaj.gov.br.    Recife, 2014