Climate change is any long-term significant change in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region (or, more relevantly to contemporary socio-political concerns, of the Earth as a whole) over an appropriately significant period of time. Climate change reflects abnormal variations to the expected climate within the Earth's atmosphere and subsequent effects on other parts of the Earth, such as in the ice caps over durations ranging from decades to millions of years.
In recent usage, especially in the context of environmental policy, climate change usually refers to changes in modern climate (see global warming). For information on temperature measurements over various periods, and the data sources available, see temperature record. For attribution of climate change over the past century, see attribution of recent climate change [Source: Wikipedia]
ICT can support efforts to mitigate climate change impact on population, utilities and infrastructure through scenario-based prediction, simulation, trianing etc,[Source: Wikipedia]
Climate change is addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 (p. 109, 117) under the following challenges/objectives:
> Challenge 9: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Objective ICT-2011.9.13 Exa-scale computing, software and simulation
> Challenge 11: Horizontal Actions
See also:
Call title: "Energy-efficient Buildings" - 2011 (page 134 of the WP)
