Of Climate Change and Crystal Balls

December 14, 2012

The Air and Space Power Journal ““ Africa and Francophonie, a quarterly publication of the U.S. Air Force, recently featured an article by CCAPS researchers on the future consequences of climate change in Africa.

CCAPS researcher Joshua Busby, with co-authors Jay Gulledge, Todd Smith, and Kaiba White, review what is known about climate change and, more specifically, climate change in Africa. Of Climate Change and Crystal Balls discusses the limitations of the tools, such as historical analogues, forecasting, and scenario analysis, that have been thus far implemented to predict the effects of climate change in the years to come. The authors put forth the CCAPS model of vulnerability as an approach to identify where, when, and how climate-related events will disrupt Africa’s security and development. The vulnerability model combines data on physical, socio-economic, demographic, and political insecurities, and utilizes GIS to locate the confluence of these various sources of vulnerability.

Of Climate Change and Crystal Balls: The Future Consequences of Climate Change is available here.

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