NDLI: Software research and climate change

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Easterbrook, Steve Glenn, Michael Aranda, Jorge Pipitone, Jon
Abstract	This workshop explored the contributions that software research can make to the challenge of climate change. Climate change is likely to be the defining issue of the 21st Century. Recent studies indicate that climate change is accelerating, confirming the most pessimistic of scenarios identified by climate scientists. Our past use of fossil fuels commit the world to around 2°C average temperature rise since the preindustrial era, and, unless urgent and drastic cuts are made, further heating is likely to trigger any of a number of climate change tipping points. The results will be a dramatic reduction of food production and water supplies, more extreme weather events, the spread of disease, sea level rise, ocean acidification and mass extinctions. We are faced with the twin challenges of mitigation (avoiding the worst climate change effects by rapidly transitioning the world to a low-carbon economy) and adaptation (re-engineering the infrastructure of modern society so that we can survive and flourish on a hotter planet).
Starting Page	362
Ending Page	363
Page Count	2
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1145/1723028.1723109
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2009-11-02
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Software research and climate change