SEM Institute for Climate Change

Climate change, a natural phenomenon of changing climate patterns around the Earth, has become more and more today's reality. With other problems increasingly impinging on nature, space and the environment as a result of pressures generated by civilisation, it is hard to understand what is going on. Already facing problems of population boom, pressures on the environment and space, societal and other complex problems, our civilisation might be thought to have little chance of solving the major complex problem posed by climate change.
The human brain represents the most powerful resource available to our society if it is to meet the challenge of comprehending what we may term mankind's third most complex problem, i.e. nature, - the first and second problems consisting of the cosmos and our galaxy respectively. As issues of decisive importance in this context one can, in our opinion, speak of the development of our civilisation's ability to think, and the realisation of a holistic scientific approach to research.
If the greatest threat to our civilisation lies in the proliferation of nuclear technologies, the second most dangerous threat is surely climate change. Climate change alters the basic life conditions in nature, and in doing so it causes a number of life forms to disappear, and a number of new ones to appear. Special importance attaches to changes in the atmosphere and consequently in the Earth's water cycle. How Homo Sapiens will adjust to this new challenge is what we have to understand.
It is our intention to achieve advances in complex problem solving, in reaping the benefits of case studies in learning and teaching, and in moving towards a better understanding of how the common human's ability to think can be enhanced in relation to nature, space and environment protection, sustainable development and a sustainable future. That, in summary, is what the present contribution attempts to do.