Impacts, Adaptations and Uncertainty in the face of Anthropogenic
... disease. In 2010 roughly 3.15 million hectares of forest area was burned in Canada, much of it the boreal forest (Natural Resources Canada, 2011)18. Fire disturbances are influenced by weather conditions. Increases in warm and dry weather conditions should result in increased frequency and severity ...
... disease. In 2010 roughly 3.15 million hectares of forest area was burned in Canada, much of it the boreal forest (Natural Resources Canada, 2011)18. Fire disturbances are influenced by weather conditions. Increases in warm and dry weather conditions should result in increased frequency and severity ...
The Challenge of Adapting to Climate in a Changing World
... Procedures for developing socioeconomic scenarios If you think the task of developing climate scenarios is difficult, the job of generating socio-economic scenarios is even more complex. Due to the fast changing, and poorly understood interactions of factors operating within socioeconomic systems, ...
... Procedures for developing socioeconomic scenarios If you think the task of developing climate scenarios is difficult, the job of generating socio-economic scenarios is even more complex. Due to the fast changing, and poorly understood interactions of factors operating within socioeconomic systems, ...
Sea-level Change - Hong Kong Observatory
... The maximum sea-level recorded during Typhoon Hagupit is an event with a return period of about 50 years based on statistical analysis. ...
... The maximum sea-level recorded during Typhoon Hagupit is an event with a return period of about 50 years based on statistical analysis. ...
Retreat of Himalayan Glaciers – Indicator of Climate Change
... climate represents a particularly sensitive approach. On the global scale, air temperature is considered to be the most important factor reflecting glacier retreat, but this has not been demonstrated for tropical glaciers. Mass balance studies of glaciers indicate that the contributions of all mount ...
... climate represents a particularly sensitive approach. On the global scale, air temperature is considered to be the most important factor reflecting glacier retreat, but this has not been demonstrated for tropical glaciers. Mass balance studies of glaciers indicate that the contributions of all mount ...
sea-level rise
... and economy situated within reach of the shorefront at low elevation, the impacts of sea-level rise are a constant and crippling economic cost. Scientists have asserted that climate change will “shrink nations and change world maps” (Hansen, 2006). ...
... and economy situated within reach of the shorefront at low elevation, the impacts of sea-level rise are a constant and crippling economic cost. Scientists have asserted that climate change will “shrink nations and change world maps” (Hansen, 2006). ...
Sea Level Rise in BC: mobilizing science into action
... sea level rise science into various tools to support and/or drive local action. The choice to include in regional projections a sea level rise scenario considered “extreme” at the time anticipated the evolving science and facilitated the subsequent introduction of a planning target of 1m by 2100. In ...
... sea level rise science into various tools to support and/or drive local action. The choice to include in regional projections a sea level rise scenario considered “extreme” at the time anticipated the evolving science and facilitated the subsequent introduction of a planning target of 1m by 2100. In ...
Issues relating to GHG, Sectors and Source Categories in IPCC
... many types of paper are likely to have a use life in uses less than 5 years which may include recycling of paper sawnwood or panels used in buildings may be held for decades to over 100 years discarded HWP can be deposited in solid waste ...
... many types of paper are likely to have a use life in uses less than 5 years which may include recycling of paper sawnwood or panels used in buildings may be held for decades to over 100 years discarded HWP can be deposited in solid waste ...
Consensus‟ Exposed: The CRU Controversy - Inhofe
... free and open inquiry. It‘s about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics. It‘s about listening to what our scientists have to say even when it‘s inconvenient— especially when it‘s inconvenient.‖ -- President Barack Obama, December 20, 2008 ―The two MMs have been a ...
... free and open inquiry. It‘s about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics. It‘s about listening to what our scientists have to say even when it‘s inconvenient— especially when it‘s inconvenient.‖ -- President Barack Obama, December 20, 2008 ―The two MMs have been a ...
Reliable Science: Overcoming Public Doubts in the Climate Change
... inquiry based on principles and methodology. 20 Unlike the standard in Frye, which essentially outsourced admissibility determinations to the scientific community, the standard in Daubertand its progeny tasks judges with separating good science from bad science by using those inquiries.2 1 The appro ...
... inquiry based on principles and methodology. 20 Unlike the standard in Frye, which essentially outsourced admissibility determinations to the scientific community, the standard in Daubertand its progeny tasks judges with separating good science from bad science by using those inquiries.2 1 The appro ...
Future sea level rise constrained by observations and long
... times τ between 82 and 1,290 y (Table S1). Driven by observed global mean temperature change (16), our model can reproduce the different time series of observed thermosteric sea level rise (see Fig. 1A for a subset and Fig. S2 for the full set). The estimates for the full time period since 1900 enco ...
... times τ between 82 and 1,290 y (Table S1). Driven by observed global mean temperature change (16), our model can reproduce the different time series of observed thermosteric sea level rise (see Fig. 1A for a subset and Fig. S2 for the full set). The estimates for the full time period since 1900 enco ...
this publication
... (e.g. van Vuuren et al., 2008) and are needed for a higher than 50% chance that CO2 concentrations remain below 450 ppm. In addition, by achieving negative CO2 emissions in the second half of the ...
... (e.g. van Vuuren et al., 2008) and are needed for a higher than 50% chance that CO2 concentrations remain below 450 ppm. In addition, by achieving negative CO2 emissions in the second half of the ...
We Have Been Conned - The Science and Public Policy Institute
... other material that might support a specific hypothesis. Its reports are not an honest assessment of climate because they omit, dismiss or distort research findings that do not conform to a certain belief, and if those reports are supposed to focus only on any possible human influence on climate the ...
... other material that might support a specific hypothesis. Its reports are not an honest assessment of climate because they omit, dismiss or distort research findings that do not conform to a certain belief, and if those reports are supposed to focus only on any possible human influence on climate the ...
INTERREG IIIB ASTRA PROJECT Report on Generation, Use and
... large scale predictors. These relationships can be based on a range of mathematical functions and fitting routines (cf. Wilby et al. 2002, for an overview and, for example, Fig. 2). Advantages of these methods are there computational efficiency, the possibility to apply them easily to several GCMs a ...
... large scale predictors. These relationships can be based on a range of mathematical functions and fitting routines (cf. Wilby et al. 2002, for an overview and, for example, Fig. 2). Advantages of these methods are there computational efficiency, the possibility to apply them easily to several GCMs a ...
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... The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011-2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas (Baltic, We ...
... The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011-2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas (Baltic, We ...
Upper limit for sea level projections by 2100
... sea level budget included in each report. For example, the 0.59 m rise projected under the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) A1FI, scenario in AR4 does not include the contribution of ice sheet dynamics in Greenland and Antarctica, which the report explicitly stated could contribute up to ...
... sea level budget included in each report. For example, the 0.59 m rise projected under the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) A1FI, scenario in AR4 does not include the contribution of ice sheet dynamics in Greenland and Antarctica, which the report explicitly stated could contribute up to ...
NIPCC SPM Published - Australian Environment Foundation
... Many scientists, policymakers, and engaged citizens have become concerned over the possibility that man-made greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), may be causing dangerous climate change. A primary reason for this public alarm is a series of reports issued by the United Natio ...
... Many scientists, policymakers, and engaged citizens have become concerned over the possibility that man-made greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), may be causing dangerous climate change. A primary reason for this public alarm is a series of reports issued by the United Natio ...
Summary for Policymakers - Climate Change Reconsidered
... Many scientists, policymakers, and engaged citizens have become concerned over the possibility that man-made greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), may be causing dangerous climate change. A primary reason for this public alarm is a series of reports issued by the United Natio ...
... Many scientists, policymakers, and engaged citizens have become concerned over the possibility that man-made greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), may be causing dangerous climate change. A primary reason for this public alarm is a series of reports issued by the United Natio ...
Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
... mm per year, as compared to the average rate of 1.8 [1.3 to 2.3] mm per year from 1961 to 2003 (IPCC, 2007); and significantly higher than the average rate of 0.1 to 0.2 mm/yr increase recorded by geological data over the last 3,000 years.1 Even if greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were stabilized in t ...
... mm per year, as compared to the average rate of 1.8 [1.3 to 2.3] mm per year from 1961 to 2003 (IPCC, 2007); and significantly higher than the average rate of 0.1 to 0.2 mm/yr increase recorded by geological data over the last 3,000 years.1 Even if greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were stabilized in t ...
Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
... In addition, policies have been developed that try to hide the huge cost of greenhouse gas controls, such as cap and trade, a Clean Development Mechanism, carbon offsets, and similar scams that enrich a few at the expense of the rest of us. Seeing science clearly misused to shape public policies tha ...
... In addition, policies have been developed that try to hide the huge cost of greenhouse gas controls, such as cap and trade, a Clean Development Mechanism, carbon offsets, and similar scams that enrich a few at the expense of the rest of us. Seeing science clearly misused to shape public policies tha ...
The IPCC`s Fifth Assessment Report
... second biggest driver of human-induced climate change (high confidence) accounting for 17–20% of total greenhouse gas emissions during the 1990s.23 Climate change is also altering coastal and marine ecosystems, with mangrove degradation due to climate change observed on the north coast of South Amer ...
... second biggest driver of human-induced climate change (high confidence) accounting for 17–20% of total greenhouse gas emissions during the 1990s.23 Climate change is also altering coastal and marine ecosystems, with mangrove degradation due to climate change observed on the north coast of South Amer ...
False Certainty Or False Uncertainty
... US National Research Council 2010 report Advancing the Science of Climate Change (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12782 ...
... US National Research Council 2010 report Advancing the Science of Climate Change (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12782 ...
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... 6. Student #3 will hang the level on the survey line and direct student #2, helping them to keep the bubble in the line level evenly positioned as the string is extended until it intersects with the shore (in other words, it hits ground). Student #4 marks this location ‘A’ with a stake or othe ...
... 6. Student #3 will hang the level on the survey line and direct student #2, helping them to keep the bubble in the line level evenly positioned as the string is extended until it intersects with the shore (in other words, it hits ground). Student #4 marks this location ‘A’ with a stake or othe ...
On summing the components of radiative forcing of climate change
... parameter may dier for some RF mechanisms such as absorption by black carbon aerosols (e.g. Hansen et al. 1998), these forcing mechanisms should currently be considered as exceptions to the rule, given the number of studies that have shown the relationship between global mean temperature response a ...
... parameter may dier for some RF mechanisms such as absorption by black carbon aerosols (e.g. Hansen et al. 1998), these forcing mechanisms should currently be considered as exceptions to the rule, given the number of studies that have shown the relationship between global mean temperature response a ...