Your Sea Wall Won’t Save You: Negotiating Rhetorics and Imaginaries of Climate Resilience

The life you save may be your own.

1953 Like much of Flannery O’Connor’s short fiction, ‘‘The Life You Save May Be Your Own’’ is set in the American South and contains characters whose most notable feature seems to be their ordinariness. Through imagery, dialogue, and moments of revelation, O’Connor explores the themes of morality and religion, both frequent concerns in her work. The story evoked critical praise upon its publica...

Resilience of the Present Climate to Antarctic Sea-Ice Loss

The role played by Southern Hemisphere sea-ice in global climate is explored using an Earth system climate model of intermediate complexity. An ensemble of experiments is analysed where freshwater forcing equivalent to a complete 100 year meltback of Southern Hemisphere sea-ice is applied to a model run that simulates the present climate. This freshwater forcing acts to mildy subdue Southern Oc...

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Could Your Pet Save Your Life?

Negotiating challenges and climate change

The difficulties in negotiating a post-2012 regime of binding targets and timetables and the decisions of the US, Canada, and Russia on the Kyoto Protocol regime have led to pessimism about the future of the climate regime. Negotiation issues for different coalitions and actors are placed in a wider historical context by examining the key challenge facing the evolving longterm climate change ne...