Climate Change Adaptation
Adaptation is a term used to describe the idea of learning to live with something, or to change one’s way of doing things in order to better cope or deal with a new change. It means tweaking, overhauling or making modifications to how things were before in order to make the best of a situation that is, to get the same results as before or to get even better results. In terms of climate change, adaptation refers to learning how to cope with the impacts of a changing climate. Climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, of chief consequence being carbon dioxide and methane. Greenhouse gases trap heat and raise global temperatures wreaking havoc in the global climate system and having a host of socioeconomic impacts. Because there are already emissions in the atmosphere and these have not peaked so as to start falling, climate is going to continue changing presently and for the foreseeable future. Climate change impacts are dangerous, irreversible and unpredictable. They