This is according to the report of the Knowledge Center for Climate Change Preparedness in Israel, headed by Prof. Moti Schechter from the University of Haifa, which was submitted yesterday to Minister Erdan * Haim and Environment in response to the report on the climate crisis: the government must prepare and budget to reduce damages that are known in advance
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The Yade Center for Climate Change Preparedness in Israel, headed by Prof. Moti Schechter from the University of Haifa, submitted yesterday to the Minister of Environmental Protection Gilad Erdan the second part of a report reviewing the ways Israel should take to prepare for climate change.
Over the past year, about 100 scientists, experts, government officials and representatives of civil movements have been engaged in examining the effects of climate change on the State of Israel.
In the introduction to the report, Prof. Shechter explains: "Apparently, climate change is only expected to affect the water economy of the State of Israel in the future, the health of the residents, the existence of biological diversity in the various ecosystems, our urban climate and the energy consumption in the homes we live in. But already today we are forced to deal with these changes, although still on a relatively moderate scale: changes in the occurrence of rainfall, an increase in the heat load, migrant workers, some of whom are climate migrants, diseases that are transmitted by vectors, and more.
Prof. Schechter also points out: that the hard work that has been done still does not prepare the State of Israel for climate change. First, regarding each of the areas that have already been studied, there is a need for regular and ongoing monitoring and surveillance, and an up-to-date examination of the effects of the changes and the realization derived from it regarding the required preparation. The preparedness plan must be dynamic, and adapt itself to the changing conditions. In addition, the work does not contain other areas that are obvious to everyone that will be affected by climate change, such as sea level rise and its consequences on water infrastructure, energy, the military and more. Other important areas such as the energy sector, tourism, security, industry and more were not examined. It should be noted that in the field of agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture was prepared at the same time as the expected changes. Another important factor that must be involved in the plan is the local authorities, because in the end, the authorities are the ones who will have to respond to an outbreak of an epidemic or damage to vital infrastructure.
Prof. Schechter recommends establishing a knowledge center with a permanent multidisciplinary faculty, which will work with the relevant government ministries, but with a large degree of research independence, and will operate as an independent legal entity, and which will accompany the academic work and formulate recommendations in the field of optimal adaptation of the various sectors to the government ministries concerned , with interagency funding over time.
"Climate change will accompany us for many years, and the State of Israel must prepare accordingly in order to minimize the negative effects if and when it occurs."
Life and Environment - the umbrella organization of environmental organizations in Israel welcomes the submission of the report on Israel's preparedness for climate change to the Minister of Environmental Protection today.
According to Naor Yerushalmi, CEO of Haim and Environment: "We call on the government to adopt the recommendations of the report and prepare a comprehensive work plan as soon as possible, which also includes appropriate budgets, in order to prepare for the known impact of the climate crisis. Early preparation will make it possible to reduce the expected damages, and even make positive use of opportunities that will arise as a result, especially in the need for environmental technologies in the world.
Along with preparing for the consequences of the crisis, it is also necessary to continue fulfilling Israel's international obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its territory.
However, closing in behind fences cannot be a solution, rather it is important to develop cooperation with neighboring countries and international agencies, in order to develop resistance at all levels to the known consequences of the crisis. The Haim and Environment organization expressed appreciation for the activity of the Climate Change Preparedness Knowledge Center led by Prof. Ofira Ayalon and Prof. Moti Shechter, and express hope that its important activity will continue in the years to come.
The climate chapter
Back to the report. Below is the climate chapter from the executive summary
Climate: The northern part of Israel is characterized by a Mediterranean climate and the southern part by an arid climate, with a narrow strip of semi-arid climate in between. In this area of meeting between different climate zones, many fluctuations in the weather are evident due to the effects of climatic systems from sources with different synoptic characteristics. This is reflected, among other things, in great variation in the temperature regime and fluctuations in the rainfall regime - in all its components.
The most critical element in Israel's climate is the rainfall regime, which has extensive consequences in many areas, since the vast majority of the water available in the State of Israel, about 75% of the total water consumption in Israel (domestic, agricultural and industrial) originates from rainwater. Hence, any change in the rainfall regime, i.e. the annual amounts of rain, the intra-seasonal distribution of rain, momentary rain intensities, the timing of the rainy season, the dry episodes during it, the number of rain episodes and the rain yield per rain episode, are critical to the water system in the State of Israel. The trends of temperature changes in Israel in recent decades indicate a decreasing trend in temperatures (minimum, maximum and average) from the 0.5s to the 0.3s, and then an increasing trend until the beginning of the XNUMXs and stability in the last decade. Global scenarios (not yet empirically established) predict a continued increase in temperatures at an average rate of between XNUMXºC-XNUMXºC per decade (depending on the season and location). In addition to these trends, there is a trend of increasing uncertainties in the temperature regime.
As part of the first report, it was found that in most of the parameters reviewed (temperature regime, rain regime, extreme weather events - heat waves and pollutant concentrations) there are scenarios for worsening (increase in temperatures, decrease in the amount of precipitation, increase in the frequency and intensity of certain types of extreme weather). It is important to emphasize that not all trends were found to be statistically significant. These scenarios (if they will indeed occur) may have an impact on different areas of the economy (the water sector, agriculture, public health, coastal protection, energy, geostrategy, diversity of species, and more).
The main recommendations of the climate team:
A. Thickening the network of meteorological stations in Israel. It is highly recommended to establish stations within nature reserves with the assumption that these areas will not be disturbed in the future and therefore the measurements will represent the same environmental conditions in the future and not disturbed conditions as happened in many stations.
B. Deepening the research about the relationship between synoptic conditions and the characteristics of the rain (amount, intensity, duration).
third. Expanding research in the field of models and especially on the subject of downscaling which will take into account Israel's special geographical location and its topographical diversity.
d. Conducting a comprehensive study that refers to as long a time period as possible of the distribution of extreme cold and heat events while focusing on their intensity, duration, and timing during the season, as well as in the prone areas
God. Increased pollutant monitoring within the cities.
and. Monitoring and accurate mapping of urban heat island throughout the year while emphasizing the role of urban parks in mitigating heat loads and reducing pollutant concentrations.
G. Assessing the expected level changes in the Mediterranean Sea based on the global scenarios.
In separate articles later this week, we will present the conclusions of the report regarding the water sector, public health, the geopolitical situation and the economic consequences of the warming
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The one who determines the audience's opinion... this is only the most successful advertisement or propaganda,
A mechanism for thinking without emotions has not yet developed in the human brain. And it will not develop.
Enough with the fictions and enough with the lack of scientific basis. Enough to indulge and enough to make love with the mind of the public. Whoever thinks that looking a few years ahead is for the long term is just using it to his advantage. Well, trees live for a thousand years. Think like that, maybe something will come out of this. The world continues to exist and it's enough to create problems to make people believe in this crap!!! There is water and there will be water as long as someone has an interest, there will be water one way or another. It would be a real waste of resources to invest in the solutions that were presented instead of a thousand other problems that should come long before the next commercial of "Israel is drying up - pay us more. It's really simple. We make a commercial on TV and you believe everything because the presenter... or... she looks so innocent and so Too bad there's no way she's an actress who works for the producers of these very simple ideas."
The conspirator who writes is a water systems engineer.
Idan
First, your schematic (dichotomous) division does not represent all the nuances of the situation, therefore it is impossible to conclude anything from it.
Secondly, changing energy types is something that costs a lot of money, astronomical amounts. This is not what the "fans of warming" tell you (they tell you that there are "miracle solutions" because of which the change will not cost you money).
Suppose that for the purpose of replacing the energy you will have to give up a *fifth" of your income. In that case I'm sure you'll explode with such anger that money is being taken from you for a dubious purpose.
I don't understand what the debate is about, the fact that the green areas in the world are decreasing (rain forests, groves, orchards and others) is a fact.
The fact that the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases and causes a greenhouse effect is also a fact.
The fact that the polluting industry (and vehicles) in the world is growing (in China, India, Europe, USA) is a fact.
That natural contamination from volcanoes and others is also a fact.
The question is what should be done with it? Sit still or try to keep our wonderful blue ball.
In my opinion, it is necessary to educate, act and invest in activities for a green environment and quickly.
The question of whether there is indeed global warming or not is important,
But when we plan the future in case of uncertainty it is worth considering the alternatives before us
(1) To assume that there is no warming, and all people are trying to earn money, status, etc...
(2) The warming is real
In case (1) is true and we did not act, well, nothing happened
In the case that (1) is true but we still acted against the warming, we lost money
In case (2) is true and we didn't act, well, it happened to us... When we find out it will probably be too little too late..
In case (2) is true and we acted, great, we managed to take advantage (and then we might have to thin out the population 🙂 )….
In any case, the worst result as I see it is not to act, because to act even though there is no warming will only result in a loss of money....
I hope some get the joke 🙂
The vaccine reduces mortality, not the population.
Abby, are you speaking against Bill Gates on vaccines???
The person who is a vaccine expert and owns vaccine factories tells you that vaccines can thin the population by 10-15%. Look at this video at 2 minutes and 40 seconds.
Those who do not understand English Vaccin = vaccine
Lower= reduce, dilute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzqiio73Qk
For 40 years some have claimed that there is no connection between cigarettes and cancer, and if there is, it is coincidental.
my father
It is interesting that the lecturer brings research together with his opinion and profession and despite all this you claim that you are from
Reading scientific studies shows that he is wrong.
For your information, this scientist does not rule out one opinion or another, and recommends continuing to investigate and delve into the subject, however
He emphasizes that we do not have enough data and enough tools in the field of environmental sciences in order to determine the trend
of the global climate and man's part in it.
Father, I also have the impression that the esteemed professor is trying to make a little living for himself and his friends.
Regarding the water problem. Israel is the only country in the region that has solved and is solving its water problem
in a positive way and will hardly be affected by global warming in the future (provided that the business does not turn into a furnace)
And as a result there was indeed an influx of refugees mainly through the border with Egypt. ...but this problem was also solved due to
The security need to prevent infiltrations so that this problem was also greatly weakened.
Israel is alone, even if you do extensive research and argue that it is indeed warming, you will come to the conclusion that it is indeed warming...
What to do with this figure, there is no answer in his research proposal, and in my humble opinion the research should continue
and be carried out by the UN, because the problem is worldwide. And that Israel will know more about what is happening within its borders
It will not benefit her from a practical point of view, because the problem is worldwide.
Regarding our energy resources and air pollution, here too we have had a "miracle from heaven" in recent years. due to discovery
the gas deposits. And Israel is working (due to other needs, such as price) to switch to much cleaner energy.
And the level of pollution in the country due to emissions from the power plants has been decreasing, and in the future will decrease even more.
So to say we won't do anything here. Research is needed, etc. This seems to me to be intimidation for the sake of it, a desire to be famous
and a desire to earn money, unnecessarily.
The system automatically checks a response with two or more links, because this is one of the characteristics of spam responses. Just wait patiently until I enter the site.
Beyond that, lectures are a nice thing, but they do not replace research. A charismatic lecturer can prove that two plus two are three. On the other hand, the skeptical science website provides sources in every explanation for these prevalent myths.
My father, what should be corrected in the article to receive approval....
In light of your response "you probably confused the cause and the motive"
Attach the lectures and the time in lecture minutes that you can hear in the shortest possible time,
and correct what you claim, and perhaps your approach in general on the subject of warming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFEogpB-L_w
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Abi, I have an engineering degree in this field, I need the answer for information on energy issues.
The combustion of the gas is one of the cleanest available from the fossil fuels and it is found in abundance in the Mediterranean Sea. There is no reason not to use this material.
Of course, we need to develop cleaner options such as wave energy, wind energy, solar energy and others.
Ruby, because that's what Tesva wants you to think. There are other practical solutions besides enriching the tycoons even more.
I probably didn't understand the joke, vaccines actually save children who would otherwise die, how exactly do they thin out the population?
Not only does Bow talk about population thinning, he also details how, and one of the ways he mentions is the production of a vaccine.
Just so you know, Bill Gates is heavily invested in vaccine production factories, and he understands vaccines well, and he actually throws out a statement here that a good vaccine will do the job of thinning the population by some 15 percent.
Bill Gates presented a formula with parameters that affect the growth of carbon dioxide and of course the number of people is there. I have not heard that he preaches the thinning of the population. Of course, reducing one of the parameters will affect the formula like reducing the amount of services and energy needs.
I wrote the previous comment.
A little more research reveals something surprising about the subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzqiio73Qk
Here, Bill Gates, also one of the richest people in the world (it's interesting that only the richest deal with this important topic). Lectures everyone about the need to thin out the number of humans on Earth.
do you hear They invented the global warming thing as a justification for having to thin out a few billion people.
Abby, do you support population thinning? Interesting to hear your opinion.
Father, the climate in Israel is related to sunspots, it is hard to argue that we can influence sunspots.
And in general, I remember that the first one who started confusing everyone's brains in a mass way about global warming was the same Algor.
Algor was a candidate for president of the USA and as such he is not trustworthy, and if it was necessary for such a fraud to spread the rumor about global warming, then it is probably not true.
My father, there is not enough free space for solar collectors along the coast for the desalination facilities, maybe in the Negev and then power lines have to be moved.
There are many "green" solutions such as utilizing the endless energy of the sea waves to generate electricity.
The gas is the immediate practical solution that I see.
Waste fossil fuel on water desalination? What are solar collectors for? You can set up collectors next to the desalination plant, even above the sea and pray during the day at the expense of the sun. If we do it in Dubai, where they have oil, we should do it too.
The fact that they found huge gas reserves in the Mediterranean allows the State of Israel to produce desalinated water for a period of decades without air pollution.
I think you can calm down.
The fact that there are dissident scientists on the climate issue is not new to me, and I also know that they are loud and give the impression of many.
1. You probably confused the reason and the motive - http://www.skepticalscience.com/water-vapor-greenhouse-gas.htm
2. please http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models.htm
3. I didn't find it, but for more than 30 years there have been measurements from satellites, including of the air temperature over the oceans.
4. It is also impossible to explore the interior of the earth, and our information about the moon also comes from several spacecraft that landed on its surface. There are reasonable means to assess what is happening, and the models also consider different scenarios.
5. http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm
Ice Age estimates were the preserve of a noisy few http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm
Is it true what a senior scientist, the head of the department of environmental sciences claims.
In one of the latest articles in the science, one of the readers published a link to a lecture by a professor of environmental sciences
At Be'er Sheva University (I think the head of the department), from a series of lectures by the Institute named after Ilan Ramon..
The lecturer claimed that global warming does not exist, he also presented the circumstances supporting his opinion. As: (with limited warranty according to my memory)
1. An increase in carbon dioxide is not the cause of the increase in temperature, in his opinion the water vapor is the main responsible,
for rejecting or absorbing the heat in the earth.
2. The mathematical model has a great influence on the prediction results, therefore the prediction depends on the type of model chosen.
3. The measurements were mostly carried out in a land area, when most of the earth's surface was marine.
4. Most of the Earth is marine and it is not possible to follow and measure what takes place in the depths of the oceans, which have a decisive influence on the climate,
5. There is a regular cycle of far-reaching changes in weather conditions that are not related to human actions.
It is also a book that not many years ago, a team of scientists and government officials in the USA, including the president, was formed in order to urgently prepare for the coming ice age.
One thing bothers me especially when I work in the tower I see all the roofs of Tel Aviv empty since we don't have electricity reserves you can put solar panels on the roofs and it makes the building less warm and there is no direct contact between the sun's rays and the building
Secondly, the recycling of water in buildings and offices needs to set standards quickly and recycle urgently, recycling can make up 15-20%
Skeptic, I gave the personal example because you don't believe scientists, so at least believe what you see with your eyes. Apart from that, have you seen any facts about the decrease in the amount of precipitation, it is mainly evident in two areas of the country - the south of the country and the east of the Golan Heights, but in order to investigate better, you need to accept the recommendation to improve the meteorological service
https://www.hayadan.org.il/hot-israel-190412/
One of the longest titles I've come across...
Spring.
I have not seen any verified facts that the amount of precipitation in Israel has decreased in the last decades. That is, I "deny unverified facts". If "denying unverified facts" in your eyes is equivalent to "denying global warming" that is your problem in understanding the situation.
Apart from that, you use proofs by citing anecdotes about sediments and other proofs according to "gut feeling". This is a totally wrong approach.
By the way, regarding proofs using the anecdote method. By chance I remember once seeing an annual precipitation table in Tel Aviv from the 450s, according to this table the multi-year average precipitation in Tel Aviv was 530 millimeters per year. The multi-year average day of precipitation in Tel Aviv per year is XNUMX millimeters (if I'm not mistaken). Ostensibly this indicates an increase in the amount of rainfall, in practice it has no meaning because the calculations of anecdotes have no meaning.
Wait for the episode of migrant workers who are climate migrants, and you'll see that the body can't stand it. What's more, our bodies are not the only problem - there is the flooding of the coastal cities (and in Egypt this is basically the entire inhabited area), water shortages and many other things that treating today will be much cheaper than dealing with the results in the future, and this is despite the fact that capitalists do not like to worry about the long term but only For the next quarter (there were those who said - in the long run we will all die).
It is not wise to sit in an air-conditioned office in Tel Aviv and say that there is no warming, and let's see if you owned a herd of cattle in the Sahel, the border region between the Sahara and the rainforests of Central Africa, swallowed up by the Sahara, how you would respond to claims that there is no warming.
Father, the really serious problem is not overheating, our body can handle it easily.
The real problem is that people are naive enough to believe everything they are told.
Samken, you present in this response the perception of the deniers. If you have to spend huge sums and lower the standard of living because of some problem, to solve the problem they claim it doesn't exist and then everything is fine.
But not everything is fine, 100 people sat down and tested the effect of warming on the earth and someone came with a nickname, who doesn't even appear by name and decides that there is no problem. As with the 3 monkeys, he doesn't see, he doesn't hear, but with one difference - he decides that he must speak.
By the way, you have to be one of the 100 researchers in the academy, by the way, all of us personally feel the warming, at least those who live in the years of the week and remember rainy winters all season, they have become a desert where there are fewer rain events but when there are they are more important.
By the way, what's important to me is not who will benefit as a result of a certain action, but whether the action is right or not, and since warming is certain and already having an effect, we need to act against it, no matter how much it costs... It bothers me that there are many who make money from denial.
There is no significant climate change in Israel. There is also no verified information in which direction the change is going. The change is slow and it is doubtful that there will be a significant change in the next 50 years. enough digging.
Professor Schechter tries to make a living by making scares that terrible things will happen.
There is currently a water desalination plan, it is progressing at a decent pace. And it will reach fullness at the pace it takes, there is no need to rush it.
As for agriculture, Israel is not an agricultural country and never will be. It is forbidden to subsidize agriculture in Israel beyond the minimum required for times of war.
A report is a good thing. The question is who reads them and who relates to them.
In my opinion:
The future of the State of Israel does not depend on the climate report but on the poverty report.
What is this hallucination?
No one in the world knows how climate change will affect the future, so he determines that it will even affect the water in the future.
wake you up why? for it to be a little warmer?
This whole argument sounds absurd to me. There are much more urgent things.
And from here the question immediately arises, who makes money from all these edits he talks about? Someone will make a lot of money from it, and for them and for them this report was written.