Global warming - The Open University
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... attention any other Special Restrictions which may apply to the content. For example there may be times when the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Sharealike licence does not apply to any of the content even if owned by us (The Open University). In these instances, unless stated otherwise, the content ...
Climate Change Detection and Attribution: Beyond Mean
... growing rapidly. Additional climate forcings have been identified recently, such as several types of aerosols, changes in land use, urbanization, and irrigation practices (e.g., Dolman et al. 2003; Bonan 1999; Charney 1975; Hahmann and Dickinson 1997). The importance of these forcings will vary betw ...
... growing rapidly. Additional climate forcings have been identified recently, such as several types of aerosols, changes in land use, urbanization, and irrigation practices (e.g., Dolman et al. 2003; Bonan 1999; Charney 1975; Hahmann and Dickinson 1997). The importance of these forcings will vary betw ...
Climate Change Impacts and Spatial Planning Decision Support
... What does climate change adaptation mean for national, regional and local development planning? This guidance document introduces a range of tools that will help spatial planners to carry out a high level qualitative climate risk assessment to help answer these questions. The guidance adopts the Uni ...
... What does climate change adaptation mean for national, regional and local development planning? This guidance document introduces a range of tools that will help spatial planners to carry out a high level qualitative climate risk assessment to help answer these questions. The guidance adopts the Uni ...
- Northumbria Research Link
... there were simply too few people living in these early times to have made such an impact. This criticism has been countered in three main ways. First, the time effect: the impact of changing land cover has been compounded over a very long period – Ruddiman (2011, 5) uses the tortoise and hare as ana ...
... there were simply too few people living in these early times to have made such an impact. This criticism has been countered in three main ways. First, the time effect: the impact of changing land cover has been compounded over a very long period – Ruddiman (2011, 5) uses the tortoise and hare as ana ...
presenting - InterAcademy Council
... The issue of “grey”-ness “The essence of the Lead Authors’ task is the synthesis of material drawn comprehensively from the available scientifically legitimate literature (e.g. peer reviewed literature, conference proceedings, reports of scientific institutes). Studies whose results and conclusions ...
... The issue of “grey”-ness “The essence of the Lead Authors’ task is the synthesis of material drawn comprehensively from the available scientifically legitimate literature (e.g. peer reviewed literature, conference proceedings, reports of scientific institutes). Studies whose results and conclusions ...
report on adaptation challenges in pacific island countries
... lives within 1.5 km of the shore and many of these countries are less than a few meters above sea level. An increase of as little as half a meter, along with increased incidents of storm surges, would inundate many critical areas and threaten their populations. While the rate of sea level rise will ...
... lives within 1.5 km of the shore and many of these countries are less than a few meters above sea level. An increase of as little as half a meter, along with increased incidents of storm surges, would inundate many critical areas and threaten their populations. While the rate of sea level rise will ...
climate science
... years, I have been exploring these issues as they relate to climate science in a series of blog posts1 and several publications.2 My perspective is summarized below. Science is a process for understanding how nature works. The scientific process can be summarized as: ask a question or pose a hypoth ...
... years, I have been exploring these issues as they relate to climate science in a series of blog posts1 and several publications.2 My perspective is summarized below. Science is a process for understanding how nature works. The scientific process can be summarized as: ask a question or pose a hypoth ...
interspecific interactions exceed climate effects
... 2010). For tightly linked species, such as insects and their host plants, the effect of biotic interactions can be stronger than climate effects on range extent, even at a continental scale (Araujo & Luoto, 2007). However, to date, the role of less specialised interactions, for example interference ...
... 2010). For tightly linked species, such as insects and their host plants, the effect of biotic interactions can be stronger than climate effects on range extent, even at a continental scale (Araujo & Luoto, 2007). However, to date, the role of less specialised interactions, for example interference ...
Full Congressional testimonials
... years, I have been exploring these issues as they relate to climate science in a series of blog posts1 and several publications.2 My perspective is summarized below. Science is a process for understanding how nature works. The scientific process can be summarized as: ask a question or pose a hypoth ...
... years, I have been exploring these issues as they relate to climate science in a series of blog posts1 and several publications.2 My perspective is summarized below. Science is a process for understanding how nature works. The scientific process can be summarized as: ask a question or pose a hypoth ...
Global Warming and Climate Change
... a global precautionary agreement to first, reduce emission of greenhouse gases to a safe level and second, to ensure that future development becomes sustainable. 8 This requires the participation and cooperation of all elements of international society working together to achieve such an agreement f ...
... a global precautionary agreement to first, reduce emission of greenhouse gases to a safe level and second, to ensure that future development becomes sustainable. 8 This requires the participation and cooperation of all elements of international society working together to achieve such an agreement f ...
Contribution of overall portfolios of accredited entities to GCF
... The past couple of years have seen a rapid expansion of efforts to assess the climate-related impacts and exposure of investments and financial flows. There are a wide range of initiatives available and under way, using a wide range of approaches, methodologies, and indicators. This proliferation of ...
... The past couple of years have seen a rapid expansion of efforts to assess the climate-related impacts and exposure of investments and financial flows. There are a wide range of initiatives available and under way, using a wide range of approaches, methodologies, and indicators. This proliferation of ...
Introduction Long-Term Environmental Policy: Definition, Knowledge
... Long-term policy challenges shall be deªned as public policy issues that last at least one human generation, exhibit deep uncertainty exacerbated by the depth of time, and engender public goods aspects both at the stage of problem generation as well as at the response stage. First, a long-term probl ...
... Long-term policy challenges shall be deªned as public policy issues that last at least one human generation, exhibit deep uncertainty exacerbated by the depth of time, and engender public goods aspects both at the stage of problem generation as well as at the response stage. First, a long-term probl ...
ENSEMBLES_DoW_vn.4_RT5_and_RT6_overview
... revealed by observations over the last two decades will be assessed, unraveling the dynamic and thermodynamic components of water vapor, clouds and radiation variations at these time scales in model simulations. The interactions between moist/convective and dry/subsiding regions of the Tropics, and ...
... revealed by observations over the last two decades will be assessed, unraveling the dynamic and thermodynamic components of water vapor, clouds and radiation variations at these time scales in model simulations. The interactions between moist/convective and dry/subsiding regions of the Tropics, and ...
Article - Cerfacs
... large ensemble of climate models from the CMIP3 archive is studied. This implies that it is necessary to downscale many climate projections, which has some practical implications concerning the choice of the downscaling method. These methods are generally divided in two families [Mearns et al., 1999 ...
... large ensemble of climate models from the CMIP3 archive is studied. This implies that it is necessary to downscale many climate projections, which has some practical implications concerning the choice of the downscaling method. These methods are generally divided in two families [Mearns et al., 1999 ...
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... post-Kyoto) climate regime. This has happened primarily through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), but in addition, the key emitting countries of the world have held a series of meetings under the auspices of the Major Economies Forum for Energy and Climate and the G ...
... post-Kyoto) climate regime. This has happened primarily through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), but in addition, the key emitting countries of the world have held a series of meetings under the auspices of the Major Economies Forum for Energy and Climate and the G ...
LLoyd's Science of Risk Conference Booklet 2012
... variations arose as a result of natural ocean oscillations. For the first time our study, published in Nature this year, shows using physically based climate simulations, that historical changes in emissions of industrial aerosols together with large volcanic events may in fact explain much of the p ...
... variations arose as a result of natural ocean oscillations. For the first time our study, published in Nature this year, shows using physically based climate simulations, that historical changes in emissions of industrial aerosols together with large volcanic events may in fact explain much of the p ...
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... crucial stage of implementing the “moderate prosperity” program, and increasing climate risks have to be seen in the context of accelerating urbanization, industrialization and rising residential energy consumption. In this context, reducing development costs, preventing potential risk and improving ...
... crucial stage of implementing the “moderate prosperity” program, and increasing climate risks have to be seen in the context of accelerating urbanization, industrialization and rising residential energy consumption. In this context, reducing development costs, preventing potential risk and improving ...
Issues relating to GHG, Sectors and Source Categories in IPCC
... NATIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORIES PROGRAMME ...
... NATIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORIES PROGRAMME ...
Climate change as a driver of change in the Great Lakes St
... ⁎ Corresponding author at: 901 Saint Vincent, Irvine, CA 92618, USA. Tel.: +1 949 394 ...
... ⁎ Corresponding author at: 901 Saint Vincent, Irvine, CA 92618, USA. Tel.: +1 949 394 ...
Arid and Semi-Arid Regions
... One of the greatest policy challenges would be the financing of climate change adaptive measures. With imperfect information about the magnitude of climate change impact, the allocation of financial resource to construct expensive infrastructures will be a great challenge for developing countries. O ...
... One of the greatest policy challenges would be the financing of climate change adaptive measures. With imperfect information about the magnitude of climate change impact, the allocation of financial resource to construct expensive infrastructures will be a great challenge for developing countries. O ...
Urbanization and Climate Change in Small iSland developing StateS
... Many SIDS face falling levels of development cooperation, gaps in technical expertise, financial and institutional obstacles and challenges related to monitoring and evaluation (UN-OHRLLS 2011). Today, as exemplified in the statement given by Minister de Brum from the Marshall Islands at the High-le ...
... Many SIDS face falling levels of development cooperation, gaps in technical expertise, financial and institutional obstacles and challenges related to monitoring and evaluation (UN-OHRLLS 2011). Today, as exemplified in the statement given by Minister de Brum from the Marshall Islands at the High-le ...
Climate of Concern
... issue of global warming and whether a teaching intervention specifically addressing that issue could improve this. Previous studies of environmental knowledge and attitudes undertaken with students in Australia have largely been conducted at the secondary level. In a two-year study of secondary stud ...
... issue of global warming and whether a teaching intervention specifically addressing that issue could improve this. Previous studies of environmental knowledge and attitudes undertaken with students in Australia have largely been conducted at the secondary level. In a two-year study of secondary stud ...
Financing Adaptation: The Case of Morne Trois Pitons and Morne
... climate change, response/adaptive capacity must be built such that the planning mechanisms are put in place to lay the foundation for more directed adaptation actions. Risk must be managed through careful assessments and implementing the associated integrated policies that involve all levels of gove ...
... climate change, response/adaptive capacity must be built such that the planning mechanisms are put in place to lay the foundation for more directed adaptation actions. Risk must be managed through careful assessments and implementing the associated integrated policies that involve all levels of gove ...
What do stakeholders need to manage for climate change
... context of planning for future resource management in the face of change at multiple timescales. As we will describe next, data and information needs were often expressed in terms informing warning systems, evaluating impacts or planning for uncertain or very different, unpredictable futures. Second ...
... context of planning for future resource management in the face of change at multiple timescales. As we will describe next, data and information needs were often expressed in terms informing warning systems, evaluating impacts or planning for uncertain or very different, unpredictable futures. Second ...
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... Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS, 2010) has released the report on “Global Surface Temperature Change” recently and concluded that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade and the global warming trend of 0.15-0.20°C per decade that began in the late 1970s has not decr ...
... Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS, 2010) has released the report on “Global Surface Temperature Change” recently and concluded that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade and the global warming trend of 0.15-0.20°C per decade that began in the late 1970s has not decr ...