The future of terrestrial mammals in the Mediterranean basin under
... [48] (CGCM31 run by the CCMA, CSIRO’s MK35, CM21 run by the GFDL, PCM1 operated by NCAR and UKMO’s HADCM3) for two of the IPCC’s climate scenarios, the B1 scenario, describing a world with reduced use of natural resources and the use of clean and resource-efficient technologies, and the A2 scenario, ...
... [48] (CGCM31 run by the CCMA, CSIRO’s MK35, CM21 run by the GFDL, PCM1 operated by NCAR and UKMO’s HADCM3) for two of the IPCC’s climate scenarios, the B1 scenario, describing a world with reduced use of natural resources and the use of clean and resource-efficient technologies, and the A2 scenario, ...
Assessing Current Climate Risks
... This template has three climate ranges, depending on whether the outcomes are beneficial, negative but tolerable, or harmful. Beneficial and tolerable outcomes form the coping range (Hewitt and Burton, 1971). Beyond the coping range, the damages or losses are no longer tolerable and an identifiable ...
... This template has three climate ranges, depending on whether the outcomes are beneficial, negative but tolerable, or harmful. Beneficial and tolerable outcomes form the coping range (Hewitt and Burton, 1971). Beyond the coping range, the damages or losses are no longer tolerable and an identifiable ...
Risk perception and commitment to reduce global climate change in
... Humans have been exposed to many threats throughout history: epidemic illnesses, world wars, terrorist attacks, and environmental catastrophes. Human’s survival instinct forces people to evaluate circumstances and make decisions when faced with risks. Many different factors determine the resulting c ...
... Humans have been exposed to many threats throughout history: epidemic illnesses, world wars, terrorist attacks, and environmental catastrophes. Human’s survival instinct forces people to evaluate circumstances and make decisions when faced with risks. Many different factors determine the resulting c ...
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... There is an emerging economic literature concerning climate-economy relationships which has largely been sparked by a desire to inform the global community of the potential consequences of global climate change.2 Most of this literature is concerned with establishing linkages between these outcomes ...
... There is an emerging economic literature concerning climate-economy relationships which has largely been sparked by a desire to inform the global community of the potential consequences of global climate change.2 Most of this literature is concerned with establishing linkages between these outcomes ...
A human-induced hothouse climate?
... hothouse climate in the Phanerozoic (Table 1). These include the PETM and some oceanic anoxic event (OAE) pulses (e.g., Leckie et al., 2002), many of which are interpreted as warming intervals (e.g., Jenkyns, 2003) and have also been linked to LIP activity and extinctions (e.g., Keith, 1982; Kerr, 1 ...
... hothouse climate in the Phanerozoic (Table 1). These include the PETM and some oceanic anoxic event (OAE) pulses (e.g., Leckie et al., 2002), many of which are interpreted as warming intervals (e.g., Jenkyns, 2003) and have also been linked to LIP activity and extinctions (e.g., Keith, 1982; Kerr, 1 ...
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... key sectors, the economic benefits simulated under optimistic assumptions are not sustainable and economic damages are inevitable. …. most, if not all, potentially positive impacts of climate change under optimistic assumptions are likely to be transient and unsustainable over the long run in the fa ...
... key sectors, the economic benefits simulated under optimistic assumptions are not sustainable and economic damages are inevitable. …. most, if not all, potentially positive impacts of climate change under optimistic assumptions are likely to be transient and unsustainable over the long run in the fa ...
‐century warming scenarios Persisting cold extremes under 21st Evan Kodra, Karsten Steinhaeuser,
... related extremes. One study on cold‐air outbreaks (CAOs) using seven global climate models suggested that while mean wintertime temperature will significantly increase by the end of the 21st century, extreme cold events will not disappear, and that models even project an increase in CAOs for some re ...
... related extremes. One study on cold‐air outbreaks (CAOs) using seven global climate models suggested that while mean wintertime temperature will significantly increase by the end of the 21st century, extreme cold events will not disappear, and that models even project an increase in CAOs for some re ...
climate futures responses to climate change in 2030 October 2008
... heady days of 2012, when an ambitious post-Kyoto agreement on climate change was signed, to great fanfare. Or picture this: it’s 2030 and major companies are adopting ‘consumer wellbeing’ as a performance metric. South Korea has renounced the idea of economic growth, as spirituality and religion und ...
... heady days of 2012, when an ambitious post-Kyoto agreement on climate change was signed, to great fanfare. Or picture this: it’s 2030 and major companies are adopting ‘consumer wellbeing’ as a performance metric. South Korea has renounced the idea of economic growth, as spirituality and religion und ...
responses to climate change in 2030
... heady days of 2012, when an ambitious post-Kyoto agreement on climate change was signed, to great fanfare. Or picture this: it’s 2030 and major companies are adopting ‘consumer wellbeing’ as a performance metric. South Korea has renounced the idea of economic growth, as spirituality and religion und ...
... heady days of 2012, when an ambitious post-Kyoto agreement on climate change was signed, to great fanfare. Or picture this: it’s 2030 and major companies are adopting ‘consumer wellbeing’ as a performance metric. South Korea has renounced the idea of economic growth, as spirituality and religion und ...
Consequences of Global Warming of 1.5 °C and 2 °C for Regional
... Phase 5 (CMIP5) to determine the timing and magnitude of regional temperature and precipitation changes across the contiguous United States (US) for global warming of 1.5 and 2˚C and highlight consensus and uncertainties in model projections and their implications for making decisions. The regional ...
... Phase 5 (CMIP5) to determine the timing and magnitude of regional temperature and precipitation changes across the contiguous United States (US) for global warming of 1.5 and 2˚C and highlight consensus and uncertainties in model projections and their implications for making decisions. The regional ...
Coffee and Climate Change
... sufficient water with their large stores of underground water, replenished annually by the monsoon rains. Overall rainfall volume has been sufficient for Robusta coffee, but the uneven yearly distribution requires irrigation to achieve the high yields. Water for coffee irrigation is acquired from 3 ...
... sufficient water with their large stores of underground water, replenished annually by the monsoon rains. Overall rainfall volume has been sufficient for Robusta coffee, but the uneven yearly distribution requires irrigation to achieve the high yields. Water for coffee irrigation is acquired from 3 ...
Denman-Opening_Talk
... and intensely to these events. But how can we respond (rather than react) as a scientific community so as to help minimize the likelihood/risk of occurrence and/or severity of such events in the future? • These 'crises' & our personal, institutional and funding horizons lead us to focus on shorter t ...
... and intensely to these events. But how can we respond (rather than react) as a scientific community so as to help minimize the likelihood/risk of occurrence and/or severity of such events in the future? • These 'crises' & our personal, institutional and funding horizons lead us to focus on shorter t ...
Impact of climate change on ozone-related mortality and morbidity in Europe
... in young and healthy adults. In some Asian studies, ozone exposure has been associated with increasing mortality due to stroke [27]. The mortality risk exhibited a seasonal variation, being more intense during periods of warmer weather. A few studies have projected the effects of climate change on g ...
... in young and healthy adults. In some Asian studies, ozone exposure has been associated with increasing mortality due to stroke [27]. The mortality risk exhibited a seasonal variation, being more intense during periods of warmer weather. A few studies have projected the effects of climate change on g ...
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... Climate has always varied. However, the prospect of continuing global and regional climate change beyond that of normal climatic variation, due to a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is now a real possibility.This has potentially serious implications, and possibly some benefits, for th ...
... Climate has always varied. However, the prospect of continuing global and regional climate change beyond that of normal climatic variation, due to a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is now a real possibility.This has potentially serious implications, and possibly some benefits, for th ...
Fritz Reusswig, Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf Social Representation of
... Climate change is one of the most striking problems in the world today, not only politically, but also economically. It has gained international political importance, however only in the last two decades. Before, it has long been mainly a scientific problem. This is not only because of its complexity ...
... Climate change is one of the most striking problems in the world today, not only politically, but also economically. It has gained international political importance, however only in the last two decades. Before, it has long been mainly a scientific problem. This is not only because of its complexity ...
Decision Making Under Climate Uncertainty
... experience of others or are based on scientific models derived from past data. Yet, we also often draw on knowledge acquired by personal exposure. While in decisions from experience the outcome distribution may initially be unknown, repeated exposure and repeated choices provide us with knowledge of ...
... experience of others or are based on scientific models derived from past data. Yet, we also often draw on knowledge acquired by personal exposure. While in decisions from experience the outcome distribution may initially be unknown, repeated exposure and repeated choices provide us with knowledge of ...
Assessment of impacts of agricultural and climate change scenarios
... SWAT2012/Release 622 was the version of the model used for this study. SWAT is dynamic model that is typically executed on a daily time step, although sub-daily options are also provided. The model is comprised of climate, soil, hydrology, management, nutrient cycling and transport, pesticide fate a ...
... SWAT2012/Release 622 was the version of the model used for this study. SWAT is dynamic model that is typically executed on a daily time step, although sub-daily options are also provided. The model is comprised of climate, soil, hydrology, management, nutrient cycling and transport, pesticide fate a ...
Global Change and Air Quality, In: Technical challenges of multipollutant air quality management,
... part by the temperature dependence of the chemistry for ozone formation (Jacob et al. 1993; Sillman and Samson 1995). A few studies have used observed correlations of high-ozone events (>80 ppbv) with meteorological variables, together with regionally downscaled GCM projections of these meteorologi ...
... part by the temperature dependence of the chemistry for ozone formation (Jacob et al. 1993; Sillman and Samson 1995). A few studies have used observed correlations of high-ozone events (>80 ppbv) with meteorological variables, together with regionally downscaled GCM projections of these meteorologi ...
Climate change and the impact of aerosol
... indirectly by modifying the properties of clouds. Black carbon causes warming, whereas all other aerosol causes cooling. The short lifetime of aerosols (days/weeks) means that their effects are more regional and less persistent into the future than those of the long lived greenhouse gases. Aerosol c ...
... indirectly by modifying the properties of clouds. Black carbon causes warming, whereas all other aerosol causes cooling. The short lifetime of aerosols (days/weeks) means that their effects are more regional and less persistent into the future than those of the long lived greenhouse gases. Aerosol c ...
Climate Change: Current Issues and Policy Tools
... human-induced climate change. Contentious debates scrutinize issues of science, economics, values, geopolitics and a host of other concerns. Deliberations also weigh the appropriateness of alternative policy tools and program designs. The economic stakes are potentially large – with both the costs o ...
... human-induced climate change. Contentious debates scrutinize issues of science, economics, values, geopolitics and a host of other concerns. Deliberations also weigh the appropriateness of alternative policy tools and program designs. The economic stakes are potentially large – with both the costs o ...
problems in evaluating regional and local trends in temperature
... et al. (1999) as further evidence that the Central Grasslands in the USA and the Earth were warming. Escalating the issue further, the news media report on this work sensationalized that ‘Global warming could mean trouble for ranchers on the plains of Colorado and New Mexico’ (Associated Press). Thi ...
... et al. (1999) as further evidence that the Central Grasslands in the USA and the Earth were warming. Escalating the issue further, the news media report on this work sensationalized that ‘Global warming could mean trouble for ranchers on the plains of Colorado and New Mexico’ (Associated Press). Thi ...
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... et al. (1999) as further evidence that the Central Grasslands in the USA and the Earth were warming. Escalating the issue further, the news media report on this work sensationalized that ‘Global warming could mean trouble for ranchers on the plains of Colorado and New Mexico’ (Associated Press). Thi ...
... et al. (1999) as further evidence that the Central Grasslands in the USA and the Earth were warming. Escalating the issue further, the news media report on this work sensationalized that ‘Global warming could mean trouble for ranchers on the plains of Colorado and New Mexico’ (Associated Press). Thi ...
Climate Change Planning in Alaska`s National Parks
... parks in Alaska. Warming is especially pronounced for the northernmost parks and during the historically coldest times of the year. Average annual temperatures shift from below freezing to above freezing in several parks (BELA, DENA, YUCH), changing the freeze/thaw balance. Precipitation Average ann ...
... parks in Alaska. Warming is especially pronounced for the northernmost parks and during the historically coldest times of the year. Average annual temperatures shift from below freezing to above freezing in several parks (BELA, DENA, YUCH), changing the freeze/thaw balance. Precipitation Average ann ...
UK Legislation RTFO (1)
... N20 needs further study • microbes convert N fertiliser to N2O • Underestimated (IPCC) - Crutzen • oilseed rape biodiesel, for example, is up to 70% worse for the climate than fossil fuel diesel (also corn ethanol) • UK and EU Biofuels GHG calculations in scientific doubt • Nitrogen pollution – Bal ...
... N20 needs further study • microbes convert N fertiliser to N2O • Underestimated (IPCC) - Crutzen • oilseed rape biodiesel, for example, is up to 70% worse for the climate than fossil fuel diesel (also corn ethanol) • UK and EU Biofuels GHG calculations in scientific doubt • Nitrogen pollution – Bal ...
Thermophilic Fungi to Dominate Aflatoxigenic/Mycotoxigenic Fungi
... Global warming due to climate change is becoming more certain and accepted. It is likely being exacerbated by human industrial activities, which at least offers the hope that it can be reduced by humans, in contrast to natural phenomena. The recent Paris agreement on climate change restricts increas ...
... Global warming due to climate change is becoming more certain and accepted. It is likely being exacerbated by human industrial activities, which at least offers the hope that it can be reduced by humans, in contrast to natural phenomena. The recent Paris agreement on climate change restricts increas ...