The tipping point trend in climate change communication
... analysis of US prestige newspapers to determine how well news represented this claim. Other researchers have used cross-national media comparisons to illuminate the greater divergence of US media from other national media on this point (Dispensa and Brulle, 2003), or focused on specific instances of ...
... analysis of US prestige newspapers to determine how well news represented this claim. Other researchers have used cross-national media comparisons to illuminate the greater divergence of US media from other national media on this point (Dispensa and Brulle, 2003), or focused on specific instances of ...
creation care - The Center for Health and the Global Environment
... What the World’s Leading Climate Scientists Are Saying There is a scientific consensus that the earth is warming and that the warming is being caused mainly by human activity. The scientific academies of major nations, including our own National Academy of Science, strongly support this consensus. T ...
... What the World’s Leading Climate Scientists Are Saying There is a scientific consensus that the earth is warming and that the warming is being caused mainly by human activity. The scientific academies of major nations, including our own National Academy of Science, strongly support this consensus. T ...
Brook Trout Related Research Projects_2-26
... managers, knowledge of how survey design affects the ability of monitoring to detect population trends would be highly beneficial. To assess the affects this research applied varying spatial and temporal survey designs to a brook trout population dataset that contained nineteen years of finescale su ...
... managers, knowledge of how survey design affects the ability of monitoring to detect population trends would be highly beneficial. To assess the affects this research applied varying spatial and temporal survey designs to a brook trout population dataset that contained nineteen years of finescale su ...
Thematic Sub-Priority 1.1.6.3 Global Change and Ecosystems
... Topic for up to one Network of Excellence or Integrated Project to implement in 2003 I.4.a) Integrated climate change scenarios. Earth system modelling and integrated climate change studies for the prediction of climatic change and regional impacts and scenarios. Ensemble based probabilistic methods ...
... Topic for up to one Network of Excellence or Integrated Project to implement in 2003 I.4.a) Integrated climate change scenarios. Earth system modelling and integrated climate change studies for the prediction of climatic change and regional impacts and scenarios. Ensemble based probabilistic methods ...
Increasing the influence of LDC climate diplomacy
... least responsible for causing climate change. They also have the least capacity to act to combat climate change through foreign policy efforts or domestic undertakings, but are most at risk under a changing climate (Richards 3. Integrating climate change across policies: 2001). Although it is in th ...
... least responsible for causing climate change. They also have the least capacity to act to combat climate change through foreign policy efforts or domestic undertakings, but are most at risk under a changing climate (Richards 3. Integrating climate change across policies: 2001). Although it is in th ...
Multilateral Climate Change Mitigation
... higher than a century ago. 25 The Greenland ice sheet has been losing ice at an alarming rate of fifty cubic kilometers a year. 26 A rise in this rate will significantly increase sea levels. According to Hansen, "[w] e are getting dangerously close to the tipping point for the Arctic, as summer sea ...
... higher than a century ago. 25 The Greenland ice sheet has been losing ice at an alarming rate of fifty cubic kilometers a year. 26 A rise in this rate will significantly increase sea levels. According to Hansen, "[w] e are getting dangerously close to the tipping point for the Arctic, as summer sea ...
Warm climates of the past—a lesson for the future?
... estimate of approximately 1000 ppmv); taken along with our understanding of the physics of the atmosphere and radiation and the greenhouse effect, this is consistent with the idea that increases in CO2 can have a large influence on the Earth system. However, without well-constrained proxy evidence fo ...
... estimate of approximately 1000 ppmv); taken along with our understanding of the physics of the atmosphere and radiation and the greenhouse effect, this is consistent with the idea that increases in CO2 can have a large influence on the Earth system. However, without well-constrained proxy evidence fo ...
Climate of the Past
... to the introduction of the term “Medieval Warm Period” or “Medieval Warm Epoch”, which originated from the examination of primarily western European documentary proxy evidence (Lamb, 1965). The underlying cause for this apparent warm period in Europe has remained unclear. Furthermore, as it preceded ...
... to the introduction of the term “Medieval Warm Period” or “Medieval Warm Epoch”, which originated from the examination of primarily western European documentary proxy evidence (Lamb, 1965). The underlying cause for this apparent warm period in Europe has remained unclear. Furthermore, as it preceded ...
Public Policy and Climate Change: Land-use
... Limited financial and human resources, which have ultimately limited our adaptive capacity ...
... Limited financial and human resources, which have ultimately limited our adaptive capacity ...
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... and hardest hit by climate change - are the same people who provide the bulk of the planet’s food: family farmers, pastoralists, fisher folk and community foresters. For the world’s poorest, adaptation to climate change means ensuring food security. ...
... and hardest hit by climate change - are the same people who provide the bulk of the planet’s food: family farmers, pastoralists, fisher folk and community foresters. For the world’s poorest, adaptation to climate change means ensuring food security. ...
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... bVorki'~zgPapers are interim reports on work of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and have received only limited review. Views or opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Institute, its National Member Organiza,tions, or other organizations supportin ...
... bVorki'~zgPapers are interim reports on work of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and have received only limited review. Views or opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Institute, its National Member Organiza,tions, or other organizations supportin ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INCORPORATING CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY INTO ESTIMATES OF CLIMATE
... literature on the economics of climate change – while influential within economics – is unfortunately all too often disregarded outright by climate scientists, both among researchers and those advising public policymakers. From their perspective, articles published in this economics subfield seem li ...
... literature on the economics of climate change – while influential within economics – is unfortunately all too often disregarded outright by climate scientists, both among researchers and those advising public policymakers. From their perspective, articles published in this economics subfield seem li ...
Paper on Enforcement with regard to the Adaptation to Climate
... States to the UNFCCC Secretariat. Member States must submit every year by 15 January (the main elements of) their national greenhouse gas inventory report (NIR) to the Commission, which in turns draws up the EU’s annual inventory report. Member States shall also report by 15 March every second year ...
... States to the UNFCCC Secretariat. Member States must submit every year by 15 January (the main elements of) their national greenhouse gas inventory report (NIR) to the Commission, which in turns draws up the EU’s annual inventory report. Member States shall also report by 15 March every second year ...
iprc climate vol14 no1
... climate projections for Hawai‘i including the anticipated greenhouse gas climate forcing through the remainder of the 21st century. The modeling group has included two of IPRC’s more junior researchers Chunxi Zhang and Axel Lauer (now at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Germany) ...
... climate projections for Hawai‘i including the anticipated greenhouse gas climate forcing through the remainder of the 21st century. The modeling group has included two of IPRC’s more junior researchers Chunxi Zhang and Axel Lauer (now at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Germany) ...
Climate Change in Value Chain Development
... land is very limited. However, other crops will step into the altitude position that will be left vacant by tea. Passion fruit is such a crop and a potential winner and it is economically very attractive, too. Looking into value chains and possibilities of mitigation, i.e. contributing to reducing t ...
... land is very limited. However, other crops will step into the altitude position that will be left vacant by tea. Passion fruit is such a crop and a potential winner and it is economically very attractive, too. Looking into value chains and possibilities of mitigation, i.e. contributing to reducing t ...
Global mechanisms for sustaining and enhancing PES schemes ⁎ Josh Farley
... affects agriculture, which is only a small percentage of GNP in the wealthiest nations, it will have minimal impacts on our welfare (Beckerman, 1995; see Daly, 2000 for discussion; Schelling, 2007); the underlying assumption is that all resources have substitutes, even food. Other studies using lowe ...
... affects agriculture, which is only a small percentage of GNP in the wealthiest nations, it will have minimal impacts on our welfare (Beckerman, 1995; see Daly, 2000 for discussion; Schelling, 2007); the underlying assumption is that all resources have substitutes, even food. Other studies using lowe ...
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... temperature, i.e., less than 2 °C, are projected to have a stronger impact in the SW US on mean annual temperature (MAT), and perhaps mean annual precipitation (MAP), than in the rest of the United States [7,25]. The higher sensitivity of forest species in the SW US is a result of many communities e ...
... temperature, i.e., less than 2 °C, are projected to have a stronger impact in the SW US on mean annual temperature (MAT), and perhaps mean annual precipitation (MAP), than in the rest of the United States [7,25]. The higher sensitivity of forest species in the SW US is a result of many communities e ...
Climate change and urbanization: effects and implications for urban
... found that flooding is more frequent and intense and often occurring in locations previously not at risk. They also showed how little local government was doing to address these issues (Douglas et al., 2008). Climate change has the potential to increase flooding risks in cities in three ways: from t ...
... found that flooding is more frequent and intense and often occurring in locations previously not at risk. They also showed how little local government was doing to address these issues (Douglas et al., 2008). Climate change has the potential to increase flooding risks in cities in three ways: from t ...
Climate Change and California`s Local Public Health Agencies
... order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Executive Order S-3-05). This executive order established greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the state both in the near- and longterm. The near-term goals have been codified into law through the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32, Núñez and ...
... order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Executive Order S-3-05). This executive order established greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the state both in the near- and longterm. The near-term goals have been codified into law through the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32, Núñez and ...
Blöschl, G., A. Viglione and A. Montanari (2013)
... scenarios that are at variance with the economic optimality goal are considered. Since extreme floods are usually economically less important than smaller floods if a long period is considered (Merz et al. 2009), risk aversion functions can be used to give greater weight to extreme events (Merz et al. ...
... scenarios that are at variance with the economic optimality goal are considered. Since extreme floods are usually economically less important than smaller floods if a long period is considered (Merz et al. 2009), risk aversion functions can be used to give greater weight to extreme events (Merz et al. ...
climate changes and adaptation policies in the baltic and the adriatic
... All countries under consideration in the Baltic and the Adriatic regions signed, ratified and contributed to lead into force United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol. However, as the Kyoto Protocal addresses primarily the mitigation – reduction of greenhouse ...
... All countries under consideration in the Baltic and the Adriatic regions signed, ratified and contributed to lead into force United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol. However, as the Kyoto Protocal addresses primarily the mitigation – reduction of greenhouse ...
Development of a system emulating the global carbon cycle in Earth
... high sensitivity version of MIROC3.2 (with a 6.3 K equilibrium climate sensitivity) is also demonstrated. Given the highly adjustable nature of the model, we believe that the LCM should be a very useful tool for studying uncertainty in global climate change, and we have named the model, JUMP-LCM, af ...
... high sensitivity version of MIROC3.2 (with a 6.3 K equilibrium climate sensitivity) is also demonstrated. Given the highly adjustable nature of the model, we believe that the LCM should be a very useful tool for studying uncertainty in global climate change, and we have named the model, JUMP-LCM, af ...
2014 Norwich Conference on Earth System Governance Parallel
... Making Energy Efficiency Affordable: Insights from Behavioural Economics for Policy Design Babette Never ...
... Making Energy Efficiency Affordable: Insights from Behavioural Economics for Policy Design Babette Never ...