Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change
... Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change: Global Changes and Local Impacts Anthony J. Broccoli Director, Center for Environmental Prediction Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University ...
... Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change: Global Changes and Local Impacts Anthony J. Broccoli Director, Center for Environmental Prediction Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University ...
Co-chairs (2)
... levels of confidence to express expert judgements on the correctness of the underlying science: very high confidence : at least a 9 out of 10 chance of being correct; high confidence : about an 8 out of 10 chance of being correct ...
... levels of confidence to express expert judgements on the correctness of the underlying science: very high confidence : at least a 9 out of 10 chance of being correct; high confidence : about an 8 out of 10 chance of being correct ...
IPCC - wcrp-climate.org
... to exacerbate current stresses on water resources from population growth and economic and land-use change, including urbanisation. On a regional scale, mountain snow pack, glaciers and small ice caps play a crucial role in freshwater availability. Widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions ...
... to exacerbate current stresses on water resources from population growth and economic and land-use change, including urbanisation. On a regional scale, mountain snow pack, glaciers and small ice caps play a crucial role in freshwater availability. Widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions ...
Dr Heleen de Coninck
... 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 ...
Monitoring Trends in Renewable Energy
... 2. Need for urgent mitigation and adaptation actions. 3. UNFCCC agreement on <2’C and stabilization targets 4. Energy efficiency technologies for mitigation. 5. Renewable energy systems, policies and measures. 6. Urban systems, transport and infrastructure. 7. New technologies with large mitigation ...
... 2. Need for urgent mitigation and adaptation actions. 3. UNFCCC agreement on <2’C and stabilization targets 4. Energy efficiency technologies for mitigation. 5. Renewable energy systems, policies and measures. 6. Urban systems, transport and infrastructure. 7. New technologies with large mitigation ...
Millions at risk
... equivalent, respectively, to 10 times and 20 times the reduction in emissions assumed in the Kyoto Protocol. The 750 ppmv target delays the damage but does not avoid it. By 2080 it would halve the number at risk from hunger and flooding. reduce the population at risk of malaria by perhaps a third an ...
... equivalent, respectively, to 10 times and 20 times the reduction in emissions assumed in the Kyoto Protocol. The 750 ppmv target delays the damage but does not avoid it. By 2080 it would halve the number at risk from hunger and flooding. reduce the population at risk of malaria by perhaps a third an ...
unpacking the ipcc fifth assessment report
... is approved line-by-line by member countries prior to its release. Working Group I of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), covering the physical science, was released on 27 September 2013. The report found that warming of the climate system was unequivocal, with scientists more certain than ever befor ...
... is approved line-by-line by member countries prior to its release. Working Group I of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), covering the physical science, was released on 27 September 2013. The report found that warming of the climate system was unequivocal, with scientists more certain than ever befor ...
Document
... Source McCarl work for US National Assessment Table 2 National crop sensitivity over all crops giving average yield change in percent to 2030 ...
... Source McCarl work for US National Assessment Table 2 National crop sensitivity over all crops giving average yield change in percent to 2030 ...
Climate modelling
... from hour to hour, from day to day, from year to year • Climate models have no tuning to fit observations • Climate models simulate the observed global warming during the latest decades • Best tool for future projections and attribution of sources for climate change • Decadal prediction with models ...
... from hour to hour, from day to day, from year to year • Climate models have no tuning to fit observations • Climate models simulate the observed global warming during the latest decades • Best tool for future projections and attribution of sources for climate change • Decadal prediction with models ...
Knutti - Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
... The worst-case scenario Stephen Schneider explores what a world with 1,000 parts per million of CO2 in its atmosphere might look like. Thinking about worstcase scenarios is nothing new — climate scientists have been doing it for more than 20 years. In 1988, after intense heat waves baked the eastern ...
... The worst-case scenario Stephen Schneider explores what a world with 1,000 parts per million of CO2 in its atmosphere might look like. Thinking about worstcase scenarios is nothing new — climate scientists have been doing it for more than 20 years. In 1988, after intense heat waves baked the eastern ...
Time for action? Options to address climate change Bert Metz
... • Energy infrastructure investment decisions, (20 trillion US$ till 2030; 50% in developing countries) will have long term impacts on GHG emissions. • The widespread diffusion of low-carbon technologies may take many decades, even if early investments in these technologies are made attractive. • Ret ...
... • Energy infrastructure investment decisions, (20 trillion US$ till 2030; 50% in developing countries) will have long term impacts on GHG emissions. • The widespread diffusion of low-carbon technologies may take many decades, even if early investments in these technologies are made attractive. • Ret ...
Unit 12 - Global Warming - e
... This slide show summarizes the scientific consensus on humancaused climate change, as embodied in the United Nationssponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2001 Report (www.ipcc.ch), the source of the figures shown (annotations added for this class). The skinny version is, with high conf ...
... This slide show summarizes the scientific consensus on humancaused climate change, as embodied in the United Nationssponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2001 Report (www.ipcc.ch), the source of the figures shown (annotations added for this class). The skinny version is, with high conf ...
"Climate Change: (aka Global Warming): Is it real or a hoax?"
... "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal (>99% certain) and is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level." "The last time the polar regions were significantly warmer than present ...
... "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal (>99% certain) and is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level." "The last time the polar regions were significantly warmer than present ...
C S L
... with the substantial strategic thinking that is needed to address the specific challenges that can come from sea level rise. A recent Council on Foreign Relations study should be praised for calling attention to the need for risk reduction through investment in coastal and vital infrastructure defen ...
... with the substantial strategic thinking that is needed to address the specific challenges that can come from sea level rise. A recent Council on Foreign Relations study should be praised for calling attention to the need for risk reduction through investment in coastal and vital infrastructure defen ...
Climate Change LECTURE
... Climate Change LECTURE Following on the success of the climate change lecture series during 2007 and 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency will host a number of occasional climate change lectures in autumn 2008 and spring 2009. The occasional lectures are aimed at providing updates from the scien ...
... Climate Change LECTURE Following on the success of the climate change lecture series during 2007 and 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency will host a number of occasional climate change lectures in autumn 2008 and spring 2009. The occasional lectures are aimed at providing updates from the scien ...
Climate Change Science: What we know today and future impacts
... over Southern Ocean and parts of NA ocean) – snow cover will contract – widespread increases in thaw depth over most permafrost regions – sea ice will shrink in both Arctic and Antarctic, in some projections late summer sea ice disappears in the Arctic by latter part of 21st century – very likely th ...
... over Southern Ocean and parts of NA ocean) – snow cover will contract – widespread increases in thaw depth over most permafrost regions – sea ice will shrink in both Arctic and Antarctic, in some projections late summer sea ice disappears in the Arctic by latter part of 21st century – very likely th ...
Working Group III Mitigation of Climate Change
... Most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries even if emissions of CO2 are stopped. • Sustained mass loss by ice sheets (some of which irreversible) would cause larger sea level rise. • Sustained warming greater than some threshold (greater than about 1°C but less than about 4°C glo ...
... Most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries even if emissions of CO2 are stopped. • Sustained mass loss by ice sheets (some of which irreversible) would cause larger sea level rise. • Sustained warming greater than some threshold (greater than about 1°C but less than about 4°C glo ...
Cities are major contributors of CO2 emissions
... Urban populations and infrastructure are vulnerable to climate change. Half of humanity now lives in cities. This will increase to 60 per cent within two decades. Coastal cities are particularly exposed to rising sea levels and storm surges due to climate change (e.g. compared to today’s levels of e ...
... Urban populations and infrastructure are vulnerable to climate change. Half of humanity now lives in cities. This will increase to 60 per cent within two decades. Coastal cities are particularly exposed to rising sea levels and storm surges due to climate change (e.g. compared to today’s levels of e ...
to David Karoly`s PP
... temperature at regular intervals over the last million years. These ice ages are relatively stable climate states with similar total solar irradiance at the top of the atmosphere, but a much higher albedo. Global temperature decreases during past ice ages are ~5°C. ...
... temperature at regular intervals over the last million years. These ice ages are relatively stable climate states with similar total solar irradiance at the top of the atmosphere, but a much higher albedo. Global temperature decreases during past ice ages are ~5°C. ...
anthropogenic climate change
... • Since Ein (energy in) is not changing much, we have Ein > Eout and so the Earth is out of energy balance and so T rises. • Q: What happens to temperatures in the stratosphere (up 10-50km / 6-31miles)? • A: Stratospheric temperatures are falling. • Q: How sure are scientists about anthropogenic cli ...
... • Since Ein (energy in) is not changing much, we have Ein > Eout and so the Earth is out of energy balance and so T rises. • Q: What happens to temperatures in the stratosphere (up 10-50km / 6-31miles)? • A: Stratospheric temperatures are falling. • Q: How sure are scientists about anthropogenic cli ...