Environmental Change and Migration: State of the
... These are very broadly conceived and do not include other environmental factors that may cause movement (for example, the destruction of habitat after a nuclear accident). Research on the ways in which different environmental changes affect people’s lives and their propensity to move would be useful ...
... These are very broadly conceived and do not include other environmental factors that may cause movement (for example, the destruction of habitat after a nuclear accident). Research on the ways in which different environmental changes affect people’s lives and their propensity to move would be useful ...
Modelling the response of glaciers to climate warming
... a global selection of glaciers more difficult. Moreover, it is unclear how the behaviour of glaciers can be generalized to make inferences about all glaciers on earth. Despite this, when looking at the possible implications of global warming and concommitant glacier retreat on sea level, the issue n ...
... a global selection of glaciers more difficult. Moreover, it is unclear how the behaviour of glaciers can be generalized to make inferences about all glaciers on earth. Despite this, when looking at the possible implications of global warming and concommitant glacier retreat on sea level, the issue n ...
Establishing Links between Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate
... Both disasters – be they climate-induced or otherwise created – and climate change impacts negatively affect development outcomes (Schipper and Pelling, 2006; IPCC, 2012). Similarly, the most effective disaster risk reduction and adaptation approaches are those that promote development by increasing ...
... Both disasters – be they climate-induced or otherwise created – and climate change impacts negatively affect development outcomes (Schipper and Pelling, 2006; IPCC, 2012). Similarly, the most effective disaster risk reduction and adaptation approaches are those that promote development by increasing ...
overcoming barriers to the adoption of climate-friendly
... emissions and is also vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate. Considerable research efforts have been devoted to understanding and developing effective technologies and practices that can reduce the sector’s GHG emissions, leading to an expanding range of viable options. Similarly, agricult ...
... emissions and is also vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate. Considerable research efforts have been devoted to understanding and developing effective technologies and practices that can reduce the sector’s GHG emissions, leading to an expanding range of viable options. Similarly, agricult ...
Executive Summary Powering Climate Action
... Another perception about cities, for instance from the private sector, is that due to their complexity and scale, cities can be challenging partners to work with. However this work demonstrates that many cities are ensuring comprehensive action is taken through collaboration, confounding this misshe ...
... Another perception about cities, for instance from the private sector, is that due to their complexity and scale, cities can be challenging partners to work with. However this work demonstrates that many cities are ensuring comprehensive action is taken through collaboration, confounding this misshe ...
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Engaging
... (including plantations and especially palm oil, rubber, and tea), oil and gas, water and utilities, energy, fast-moving consumer goods, consulting, transportation, infrastructure, engineering, tourism, cement, and health care, as well as conglomerates. While the results are not wholly representative ...
... (including plantations and especially palm oil, rubber, and tea), oil and gas, water and utilities, energy, fast-moving consumer goods, consulting, transportation, infrastructure, engineering, tourism, cement, and health care, as well as conglomerates. While the results are not wholly representative ...
Climate change threatens the fight against poverty
... Irrawady, Mekong, Salween and Yangtze — that provide water supplies for more than 2 billion people10. In the semi-arid Northeast Brazil, with the lowest level of human development in Latin America, global warming has accelerated desertification with the consequences of rising poverty, hunger and mig ...
... Irrawady, Mekong, Salween and Yangtze — that provide water supplies for more than 2 billion people10. In the semi-arid Northeast Brazil, with the lowest level of human development in Latin America, global warming has accelerated desertification with the consequences of rising poverty, hunger and mig ...
Death by Degrees: North Carolina
... IPCC projections, temperatures in the state could increase by 3 degrees F over the next century. Precipitation is also projected to increase by 15 percent in many parts of the state.12 Other climate models may show different results. While projections look to the future, global warming appears to be ...
... IPCC projections, temperatures in the state could increase by 3 degrees F over the next century. Precipitation is also projected to increase by 15 percent in many parts of the state.12 Other climate models may show different results. While projections look to the future, global warming appears to be ...
3/97 - Population Health Sciences
... Co-developed and taught first JHU course on Global Change and Human Health, piloted Spring semester, 1997. The course brings together faculty from Schools of Public Health, Engineering, and Arts and Sciences. Authored first resolution on Health and Climate Change that was passed by the American Publ ...
... Co-developed and taught first JHU course on Global Change and Human Health, piloted Spring semester, 1997. The course brings together faculty from Schools of Public Health, Engineering, and Arts and Sciences. Authored first resolution on Health and Climate Change that was passed by the American Publ ...
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... vulnerability of farming households to those climatic extremes in both irrigated as well as rainfed farming ecosystems. Using the expected poverty approach, the study has found that the degree of vulnerability of farming households is mounting with a shift in minimum threshold level of income in bot ...
... vulnerability of farming households to those climatic extremes in both irrigated as well as rainfed farming ecosystems. Using the expected poverty approach, the study has found that the degree of vulnerability of farming households is mounting with a shift in minimum threshold level of income in bot ...
Prince Edward Island and Climate Change
... in the increased levels of heat-trapping gases which contribute to the warming of the Earth.” 1 In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provided the most authoritative scientific information so far on climate change. Key findings from their “Fourth Assessment Report”2 included the foll ...
... in the increased levels of heat-trapping gases which contribute to the warming of the Earth.” 1 In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provided the most authoritative scientific information so far on climate change. Key findings from their “Fourth Assessment Report”2 included the foll ...
Climate change in the Netherlands
... Climate scenarios typically have a time horizon of 50 to 100 years. In that respect, they differ from weather forecasts, which reach ahead until 10 days and seasonal forecasts which reach ahead until one year. However, the time horizon is not the only difference;the type of information also differs. ...
... Climate scenarios typically have a time horizon of 50 to 100 years. In that respect, they differ from weather forecasts, which reach ahead until 10 days and seasonal forecasts which reach ahead until one year. However, the time horizon is not the only difference;the type of information also differs. ...
Potential changes in the distributions of latitudinally restricted
... studied either individually, or en-masse, and for hypotheses to be developed regarding factors that may limit distributions. These models attempt to match the current distribution of a species with a number of climatic variables, producing an envelope that describes the climate within a species' cur ...
... studied either individually, or en-masse, and for hypotheses to be developed regarding factors that may limit distributions. These models attempt to match the current distribution of a species with a number of climatic variables, producing an envelope that describes the climate within a species' cur ...
Summary for Policymakers
... confidence (from very low to very high) and, when possible, probabilistically with a quantified likelihood (from exceptionally unlikely to virtually certain). Confidence in the validity of a finding is based on the type, amount, quality, and consistency of evidence (e.g., data, mechanistic understan ...
... confidence (from very low to very high) and, when possible, probabilistically with a quantified likelihood (from exceptionally unlikely to virtually certain). Confidence in the validity of a finding is based on the type, amount, quality, and consistency of evidence (e.g., data, mechanistic understan ...
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
... Observations in this region indicate that treelines advanced upslope by up to 60 meters in altitude in northern Sweden during the 20th century. The rate of advance in recent decades has been half a meter per year and 40 meters per ˚C. In the Russian part of this region, there has actually been a sou ...
... Observations in this region indicate that treelines advanced upslope by up to 60 meters in altitude in northern Sweden during the 20th century. The rate of advance in recent decades has been half a meter per year and 40 meters per ˚C. In the Russian part of this region, there has actually been a sou ...
Environmental tipping points and food system dynamics: Main Report
... is quite resilient, and farmers can plan their operations because they understand this variability. However, imagine if, over time, agricultural intensification has gradually reduced some property of the soil making it less stable to weather; and, at the same time, climate change is causing an incre ...
... is quite resilient, and farmers can plan their operations because they understand this variability. However, imagine if, over time, agricultural intensification has gradually reduced some property of the soil making it less stable to weather; and, at the same time, climate change is causing an incre ...
- Wiley Online Library
... of decreased precipitation and increased evaporation (Mariotti et al., 2008). A study of temperature and precipitation extremes in northern Israel using a regional model suggested that under an A2 scenario, temperature will increase and precipitation will decrease over Israel during the 21st century ...
... of decreased precipitation and increased evaporation (Mariotti et al., 2008). A study of temperature and precipitation extremes in northern Israel using a regional model suggested that under an A2 scenario, temperature will increase and precipitation will decrease over Israel during the 21st century ...
My Little COP Pocket Book
... Just like human relationships, there were issues that were involved in the “separation” of the countries. The “South” countries blamed the “North” countries for being supremely responsible for most of the GHG emissions since the Industrial Revolution. So, what did this mean? Well, it meant that the ...
... Just like human relationships, there were issues that were involved in the “separation” of the countries. The “South” countries blamed the “North” countries for being supremely responsible for most of the GHG emissions since the Industrial Revolution. So, what did this mean? Well, it meant that the ...
An Adaptation Portfolio for the United States Coastal and Marine
... concern, an adaptation framework shifts the emphasis toward a risk management portfolio approach as opposed to an approach focused on a single issue at a time. Questions arise as to whether and how the instruments in our regulatory toolkit need to be redesigned to account for the scale, severity, ...
... concern, an adaptation framework shifts the emphasis toward a risk management portfolio approach as opposed to an approach focused on a single issue at a time. Questions arise as to whether and how the instruments in our regulatory toolkit need to be redesigned to account for the scale, severity, ...
Full-Text PDF
... following counties were included in the city-specific mortality data: Suffolk County, MA for Boston, New York County, NY, Kings County, NY, Queens County, NY, Bronx, NY and Richmond County, NY for New York City and Pennsylvania County, PA for Philadelphia. Daily mean temperature data for the same pe ...
... following counties were included in the city-specific mortality data: Suffolk County, MA for Boston, New York County, NY, Kings County, NY, Queens County, NY, Bronx, NY and Richmond County, NY for New York City and Pennsylvania County, PA for Philadelphia. Daily mean temperature data for the same pe ...
On forced temperature changes, internal variability
... tropical Atlantic temperatures [e.g., Enfield et al., 2001; Goldenberg et al., 2001; Wyatt et al., 2012; Wyatt and Curry, 2013]. These studies employed what we will henceforth refer to as the “detrended-AMO” approach: the AMO signal was defined as the low-frequency component that remains after linearl ...
... tropical Atlantic temperatures [e.g., Enfield et al., 2001; Goldenberg et al., 2001; Wyatt et al., 2012; Wyatt and Curry, 2013]. These studies employed what we will henceforth refer to as the “detrended-AMO” approach: the AMO signal was defined as the low-frequency component that remains after linearl ...
Projected Heat-Related Mortality in the US Urban Northeast
... following counties were included in the city-specific mortality data: Suffolk County, MA for Boston, New York County, NY, Kings County, NY, Queens County, NY, Bronx, NY and Richmond County, NY for New York City and Pennsylvania County, PA for Philadelphia. Daily mean temperature data for the same pe ...
... following counties were included in the city-specific mortality data: Suffolk County, MA for Boston, New York County, NY, Kings County, NY, Queens County, NY, Bronx, NY and Richmond County, NY for New York City and Pennsylvania County, PA for Philadelphia. Daily mean temperature data for the same pe ...
The Recent Trend and Variance Increase of the
... consecutive seasons, and the interannual variance of this time series, that is, the variance of the winter-mean values, must arise from intraseasonal fluctuations. In this study, I examine the extent to which the picture in Fig. 2, that is, intraseasonal fluctuations accounting for interannual varia ...
... consecutive seasons, and the interannual variance of this time series, that is, the variance of the winter-mean values, must arise from intraseasonal fluctuations. In this study, I examine the extent to which the picture in Fig. 2, that is, intraseasonal fluctuations accounting for interannual varia ...
12699 Suffolk Climate Action Plan 2 FINAL
... upon which we rely. It is distinct within the temperature record from cycles of natural variability and climate modelling cannot explain this recent, rapid warming without taking the impact of human activities into account. ...
... upon which we rely. It is distinct within the temperature record from cycles of natural variability and climate modelling cannot explain this recent, rapid warming without taking the impact of human activities into account. ...
Full Press Release
... Other reefs, like those off the coast of Bahrain, in Chile and in French Polynesia, will be hit decades later, according to research recently published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports. “These predictions are a treasure trove for those who are fighting to protect one of the world’s most magn ...
... Other reefs, like those off the coast of Bahrain, in Chile and in French Polynesia, will be hit decades later, according to research recently published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports. “These predictions are a treasure trove for those who are fighting to protect one of the world’s most magn ...