Climatology and Climate Change
... Summer temperatures can rise above 0°C, thus: Glacial retreat is an indication of warmer summers => melting Given its vastness, we are particularly alarmed by the thinning of the Antarctic Ice However, Antarctica remains well below freezing all year round But warming of adjacent seas should enhance ...
... Summer temperatures can rise above 0°C, thus: Glacial retreat is an indication of warmer summers => melting Given its vastness, we are particularly alarmed by the thinning of the Antarctic Ice However, Antarctica remains well below freezing all year round But warming of adjacent seas should enhance ...
Evaluation, characterization, and communication of uncertainty by
... wanting future assessments to cover not only highly likely outcomes (i.e., high confidence conclusions), but also less likely outcomes, presumably those with demonstrably high potential consequences. This will be an extra challenge for the AR5 and for subsequent assessments, but it is also an enormo ...
... wanting future assessments to cover not only highly likely outcomes (i.e., high confidence conclusions), but also less likely outcomes, presumably those with demonstrably high potential consequences. This will be an extra challenge for the AR5 and for subsequent assessments, but it is also an enormo ...
CCTF GLaciers FINAL w logo
... Land ice can be divided into two categories: (1) glaciers -- both mountain glaciers in the interior of landmasses, such as the glaciers of the Alps, Himalayas, Rocky Mountains, and Andes, and coastal or outlet glaciers, such as those along the coasts of Norway, Alaska, Greenland, and Antarctica -- a ...
... Land ice can be divided into two categories: (1) glaciers -- both mountain glaciers in the interior of landmasses, such as the glaciers of the Alps, Himalayas, Rocky Mountains, and Andes, and coastal or outlet glaciers, such as those along the coasts of Norway, Alaska, Greenland, and Antarctica -- a ...
Class-01 - University at Albany Atmospheric Sciences
... (During the first classes you will have time to find a research project you are interested in.) Get a pre-approval for your research idea from your instructor You will start with a scientific proposition (hypothesis) and present the key ideas in class and get feedback from your peer students You wri ...
... (During the first classes you will have time to find a research project you are interested in.) Get a pre-approval for your research idea from your instructor You will start with a scientific proposition (hypothesis) and present the key ideas in class and get feedback from your peer students You wri ...
Overview - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
... concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and t ...
... concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and t ...
Pseudoscientific elements in climate change research
... UN by 100 scientists, engineers, and professionals in the social sciences (see Box 1). It said the danger of dramatic climate change is being exaggerated in the reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). (See box 1.) At the time there was a large group of scientists who we ...
... UN by 100 scientists, engineers, and professionals in the social sciences (see Box 1). It said the danger of dramatic climate change is being exaggerated in the reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). (See box 1.) At the time there was a large group of scientists who we ...
Climate Change
... events and advise on response strategy. Examples would be forecasts and warnings of tsunami, hurricane, seasonal drought and climate change. The response strategies would be different, depending on the event and the length of advance warning of the event. For a tsunami, where the warning may be only ...
... events and advise on response strategy. Examples would be forecasts and warnings of tsunami, hurricane, seasonal drought and climate change. The response strategies would be different, depending on the event and the length of advance warning of the event. For a tsunami, where the warning may be only ...
Advance briefing: IPCC report on climate impacts
... September 2013. A Friends of the Earth summary of its findings is available here. The second group Working Group 2 will publish their report on 31st March 2014. This Questions and Answers briefing – produced in advance of the Working Group 2 report – explains what the report will cover, what their l ...
... September 2013. A Friends of the Earth summary of its findings is available here. The second group Working Group 2 will publish their report on 31st March 2014. This Questions and Answers briefing – produced in advance of the Working Group 2 report – explains what the report will cover, what their l ...
Observed Changes and their Causes
... since the pre-industrial era, driven largely by economic and population growth, and are now higher than ever ...
... since the pre-industrial era, driven largely by economic and population growth, and are now higher than ever ...
CLIMATE CHANGE 2014 Mitigation of Climate Change
... Reaching 450ppm CO2eq entails consumption losses of 1.7% (1%-4%) by 2030, 3.4% (2% to 6%) by 2050 and 4.8% (3%-11%) by 2100 relative to baseline (which grows between 300% to 900% over the course of the century). ...
... Reaching 450ppm CO2eq entails consumption losses of 1.7% (1%-4%) by 2030, 3.4% (2% to 6%) by 2050 and 4.8% (3%-11%) by 2100 relative to baseline (which grows between 300% to 900% over the course of the century). ...
Advent Light, for Lima: Part 2
... likely to limit warming to below 2°C relative to pre-industrial levels. These pathways would require substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades and near zero emissions of carbon dioxide and other long-lived greenhouse gases by the end of the century IPCC Fifth Assessment, Synthesis R ...
... likely to limit warming to below 2°C relative to pre-industrial levels. These pathways would require substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades and near zero emissions of carbon dioxide and other long-lived greenhouse gases by the end of the century IPCC Fifth Assessment, Synthesis R ...
National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World (2007
... necessarily think they have got most of the worst case scenarios here wrong, it's just that I do tend to suspect they have got the rates wrong, and that the effects depicted in this film will take a lot longer to occur than is depicted (think in terms of hundreds or even thousands of years, not in d ...
... necessarily think they have got most of the worst case scenarios here wrong, it's just that I do tend to suspect they have got the rates wrong, and that the effects depicted in this film will take a lot longer to occur than is depicted (think in terms of hundreds or even thousands of years, not in d ...
A Glimpse Inside the Global Warming Controversy
... likely agree that simple answers are not only bad education, but can lead to bad policies. The controversy surrounding global warming is not centered so much on the increase in global temperature over the last 150 years, but on the primary cause of this increase—natural, human, or a combination of t ...
... likely agree that simple answers are not only bad education, but can lead to bad policies. The controversy surrounding global warming is not centered so much on the increase in global temperature over the last 150 years, but on the primary cause of this increase—natural, human, or a combination of t ...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
... have ranged over how to bring in the knowledges and experiences of people on the ‘frontline’ of climate change, for instance in the Arctic. This might mean revision on how expert authors are selected and included (Ford et al., 2016), or on how different types of knowledge are rendered credible and t ...
... have ranged over how to bring in the knowledges and experiences of people on the ‘frontline’ of climate change, for instance in the Arctic. This might mean revision on how expert authors are selected and included (Ford et al., 2016), or on how different types of knowledge are rendered credible and t ...
awareness of both type 1 and 2 errors in climate science and
... Another set of polling data questioned a nationally representative sample of Americans concerning the Himalayan glacier error in June 2010, six months after the incident. Around 24% of the nation said they remembered hearing about recent errors, but only 4% said they thought the errors indicated sci ...
... Another set of polling data questioned a nationally representative sample of Americans concerning the Himalayan glacier error in June 2010, six months after the incident. Around 24% of the nation said they remembered hearing about recent errors, but only 4% said they thought the errors indicated sci ...
Kyoto Protocol
... GHG outflows ought to keep genuine reductions from the present level, rather than essentially diminished level of the future discharges or to which nations would be liable to the new duties. EU bolstered significant reductions; however the JUCANZ (Japan, US, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand) constit ...
... GHG outflows ought to keep genuine reductions from the present level, rather than essentially diminished level of the future discharges or to which nations would be liable to the new duties. EU bolstered significant reductions; however the JUCANZ (Japan, US, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand) constit ...
QIN Dahe
... the United Nations for a long time. As the Co-Chair of the Working Group I of the Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC (2002-2008), he organized successfully the IPCC scientific assessment activities, and he strongly supported and recommended the scientists including young scientists from the developing ...
... the United Nations for a long time. As the Co-Chair of the Working Group I of the Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC (2002-2008), he organized successfully the IPCC scientific assessment activities, and he strongly supported and recommended the scientists including young scientists from the developing ...
ppt - Department of Statistics | Rajshahi University
... COSPAR space science meeting in Birmingham and published as “Variation of cosmic-ray flux and global cloud coverage – a missing link in solarclimate relationships” (Svensmark and FriisChristensen 1997). ...
... COSPAR space science meeting in Birmingham and published as “Variation of cosmic-ray flux and global cloud coverage – a missing link in solarclimate relationships” (Svensmark and FriisChristensen 1997). ...
PPT - Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group
... • US has warmed faster than global mean, as expected in general for mid-latitudes land • But there has been no warming between 1930 and 1980, followed by sharp warming after 1980 ...
... • US has warmed faster than global mean, as expected in general for mid-latitudes land • But there has been no warming between 1930 and 1980, followed by sharp warming after 1980 ...
Jack Fishman Saint Louis University
... asked to teach a course on Global Change. By training, I am an atmospheric chemist, having received my PhD in Meteorology from SLU in 1977, subsequently working for 31 years at NASA Langley Research Center. As part of my self-education for the course I was asked to teach I have also learned what “cl ...
... asked to teach a course on Global Change. By training, I am an atmospheric chemist, having received my PhD in Meteorology from SLU in 1977, subsequently working for 31 years at NASA Langley Research Center. As part of my self-education for the course I was asked to teach I have also learned what “cl ...
Special Report on Emission Scenario’s
... Prospective areas in sedimentary basins where suitable saline formations, oil or gas fields, or coal beds may be found. Locations for storage in coal beds are only partly included. Prospectivity is a qualitative assessment of the likelihood that a suitable storage location is present in a given area ...
... Prospective areas in sedimentary basins where suitable saline formations, oil or gas fields, or coal beds may be found. Locations for storage in coal beds are only partly included. Prospectivity is a qualitative assessment of the likelihood that a suitable storage location is present in a given area ...
The AIACC Project (Opening) - global change SysTem for Analysis
... of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions & Sectors AIACC Africa Region Meeting Hartebeespoortdam, South Africa 10 March 2003 ...
... of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions & Sectors AIACC Africa Region Meeting Hartebeespoortdam, South Africa 10 March 2003 ...
Climate Change: The Move to Action
... • Scientist are part of the conversation… should help frame better questions. • Two different realities, natural and the anthropogenically changed… this does not exist. • “The result is that scientific debates that were historically carried out in the slow deliberations of peer-reviewed journals are ...
... • Scientist are part of the conversation… should help frame better questions. • Two different realities, natural and the anthropogenically changed… this does not exist. • “The result is that scientific debates that were historically carried out in the slow deliberations of peer-reviewed journals are ...