The paper discusses human relationship towards weather and climate changes, from their awareness to perception of their causes, consequences and preparedness for action. Weather and climate variability include all forms of unstable weather and climate conditions, which may last for different lengths of time, which makes their adequate perception more difficult. This is shown also in false understanding of their causes. Results obtained on 1311 participants support findings that Slovenian inhabitants are aware of climate change; they attribute them mainly to human activity and are anxious about them. Many have implemented various countermeasures to mitigate the direct and indirect consequences.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36995117
In this paper, we attempt a multiscalar analysis of the Maharski prekop archaeological site, connecting the landscape context, temporal dynamics, and spatial organisation with the composition of the artefact assemblage, the shapes, sizes and technological composition of the pottery, and traces of activities in the form of food residues on pottery. The pottery assemblage from Maharski prekop is characterised by a wide variation in vessels. This canbe explained by the non-specialised use of vessels, where they were deliberately designed to be able to perform a series of different functions, which is supported by the technological analysis of fabrics and the wide rangeof identified foodstuffs, interesting contexts with an abundance of anthropomorphic figurines are presented and discussed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 50775394
The paper discusses trends in the changing of air temperatures and precipitation in the higher, southeastern part of the Kras. The sub-Mediterranean climate of the hinterland is here combined with continental climate, therefore, the characteristics of climate changes slightly differ from the trends along the shore of the Gulf of Trieste. Due to the lesser impact of the sea, the air warming trend is more explicit, especially in spring and summer. More explicit than by the sea is also the decline in annual precipitation amount.
COBISS.SI-ID: 56538466
Over 30 samples from bedrock and boulders from theVeliki vrh rock avalanche have been collected for surface exposure dating. The limestone rocks have been radiochemically treated to isolate and determine long-lived 36Cl by accelerator mass spectrometry. It could be shown that the Veliki vrh rock avalanche from the Košuta Mountain (Slovenia) event can be very likely linked to one of the major historical earthquakes in Europe happening on the 25th of January 1348. Taken into account independently determined denudation rates, inherited 36Cl originating from pre-exposure at shallow depths (20-55 m) could be calculated. The high amount of inherited 36Cl, i.e. 17-46 % of the total 36Cl, makes this site not suitable for a precise determination of the 36Cl production rate as it was originally anticipated. Veliki vrh is a classic rock avalanche of high velocity. The slope failed in the upper part with a translational slide predominantly along the bedding planes, whereas dynamic fragmentation is the cause for further crushing of the material and the long runout.
COBISS.SI-ID: 53972322
This paper is a compilation of up to date, best available quantitative and semi-quantitative records of past climate and biotic response from CEE covering this period. It first presents the proxy and archive used. Speleothems and loess mainly provide the evidences available for the 60-20 ka BP interval, whereas pollen records provide the main source of information for the Lateglacial and Holocene. It then examines the temporal and spatial patterns of climate variability inferred from different proxies, the temporal and spatial magnitude of the vegetation responses inferred from pollen records and highlights differences and similarities between proxies and sub-regions and the possible mechanisms behind this variability. Finally, it identifies weakness in the proxies and archives and their geographical distribution. This exercise also provides an opportunity to reflect on the status of research in the area and to identify future critical areas and subjects of research.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37388333