Category:Earth System Science
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Earth System Science
Earth system science (ESS) is the application of systems science to the Earth sciences.[1][2][3][4] In particular, it considers interactions between the Earth's "spheres" — atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, pedosphere, biosphere, and, even, the magnetosphere — as well as the impact of human societies on these components.
The Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College, offers the following description: "Earth system science embraces chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics and applied sciences in transcending disciplinary boundaries to treat the Earth as an integrated system. It seeks a deeper understanding of the physical, chemical, biological and human interactions that determine the past, current and future states of the Earth. Earth system science provides a physical basis for understanding the world in which we live and upon which humankind seeks to achieve sustainability".
(Via Wikipedia)
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November 2018
Only shifts commensurate with the scale of our existential crises have any prospect of averting them. Hopeless realism, tinkering at the edges of the problem, got us into this mess. It will not get us out.
Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth’s systems are highly complex, and complex systems do not respond to pressure in linear ways. When these systems interact (because the world’s atmosphere, oceans, land surface and lifeforms do not sit placidly within the boxes that make study more convenient), their reactions to change become highly unpredictable. Small perturbations can ramify wildly. Tipping points are likely to remain invisible until we have passed them. We could see changes of state so abrupt and profound that no continuity can be safely assumed.
Only one of the many life support systems on which we depend – soils, aquifers, rainfall, ice, the pattern of winds and currents, pollinators, biological abundance and diversity – need fail for everything to slide...
Radical action needed to confront climate change by George Monbiot @TheGuardian
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Subcategories
This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total.
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Pages in category "Earth System Science"
The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total.
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- Each of us can make a positive difference
- Earth and Space, Politics
- Earth from NASA
- Earth Imaging-New Space
- Earth Right Now
- Earth Science Research from Space
- Earth Science Vital Signs
- Eco-economic Decoupling
- Ecolivia
- Ecosystem
- Environmental full-cost accounting
- Environmental protection
- Environmental Studies Online
- ESA Living Planet Announcement - May 2022
- European Union Green Deal - Fit for 55
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- George E. Brown Jr
- Glasgow Climate Summit - Pledges, Promises, Declarations - What's Next Up
- Going Green
- Google Earth
- Google Earth Timelapse
- Green Education
- Green Futurist Literary Writers
- Green Politics 360
- Green Politics with GreenPolicy360
- Green Quotes
- Green Stories of the Day
- Green Stories of the Day - GreenPolicy360 Archive
- Greening Our Blue Planet
- GreenLinks
- GreenPolicy360 (eOS)
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2013
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2014
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2015
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2016
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2017
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2018
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2019
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2020
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2023
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Media in category "Earth System Science"
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