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... and precipitation extremes, where individuals may be pushed to the limits of their environmental tolerances [12]. Their survival depends on the rate at which they can migrate to different elevations, latitudes or regions otherwise suitable in terms of environmental conditions [13]. Whilst some speci ...
... and precipitation extremes, where individuals may be pushed to the limits of their environmental tolerances [12]. Their survival depends on the rate at which they can migrate to different elevations, latitudes or regions otherwise suitable in terms of environmental conditions [13]. Whilst some speci ...
Synthesis Report “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges
... are already moving beyond the patterns of natural variability within which contemporary society and economy have developed and thrived. These indicators include global mean surface temperature, sealevel rise, global ocean temperature, Arctic sea ice extent, ocean acidification, and extreme climatic ...
... are already moving beyond the patterns of natural variability within which contemporary society and economy have developed and thrived. These indicators include global mean surface temperature, sealevel rise, global ocean temperature, Arctic sea ice extent, ocean acidification, and extreme climatic ...
Response of the Arabian Sea to global warming and associated
... rainfall over India (Fig. 1) during 1960 and 2005 (Parthasarathy et al., 1995; Kothawale and RupaKumar, 2005) were taken from Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) (http://www.tropmet.res.in). The monthly mean climatology of wind was obtained from NCEP/NCAR reanalysis (Kalnay et al., 1996) ...
... rainfall over India (Fig. 1) during 1960 and 2005 (Parthasarathy et al., 1995; Kothawale and RupaKumar, 2005) were taken from Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) (http://www.tropmet.res.in). The monthly mean climatology of wind was obtained from NCEP/NCAR reanalysis (Kalnay et al., 1996) ...
FOUNDATION PAPER |ONE CLIMATE CHANGE Victoria: the
... There are many areas in government and academia conducting research and analysing environmental trends – working to bring the best possible scientific knowledge to our considerations of policy direction and public debate. Each ‘discipline’ is seeking to explain biophysical changes and social dynamic ...
... There are many areas in government and academia conducting research and analysing environmental trends – working to bring the best possible scientific knowledge to our considerations of policy direction and public debate. Each ‘discipline’ is seeking to explain biophysical changes and social dynamic ...
The Role of Climatic Change in the Evolution of Mammals
... that its individuals can no longer mate with those from different populations and produce viable offspring under natural conditions. It is therefore a new species, because it has attained its own evolutionary trajectory, distinct from that of the parent population or other populations. This biologic ...
... that its individuals can no longer mate with those from different populations and produce viable offspring under natural conditions. It is therefore a new species, because it has attained its own evolutionary trajectory, distinct from that of the parent population or other populations. This biologic ...
Climate Change Science - Stephen Schneider
... The report does not make policy recommendations regarding what to do about the potential of global warming. Thus, it does not estimate the potential economic and environmental costs, benefits, and uncertainties regarding various policy responses and future human behaviors. While beyond the charge pr ...
... The report does not make policy recommendations regarding what to do about the potential of global warming. Thus, it does not estimate the potential economic and environmental costs, benefits, and uncertainties regarding various policy responses and future human behaviors. While beyond the charge pr ...
Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions
... The report does not make policy recommendations regarding what to do about the potential of global warming. Thus, it does not estimate the potential economic and environmental costs, benefits, and uncertainties regarding various policy responses and future human behaviors. While beyond the charge pr ...
... The report does not make policy recommendations regarding what to do about the potential of global warming. Thus, it does not estimate the potential economic and environmental costs, benefits, and uncertainties regarding various policy responses and future human behaviors. While beyond the charge pr ...
Climateâ•`induced changes in the distribution of freshwater fish
... Correspondence: Lise Comte, Université de Toulouse, UMR 5174 EDB, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France. ...
... Correspondence: Lise Comte, Université de Toulouse, UMR 5174 EDB, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France. ...
6 Climate change impacts, adaptation measures and vulnerability
... or municipal level for quite a long time, though they have not been seen as adaptation measures as such. By the end of 2012, 16 out of 18 regions had published a climate strategy, which included a certain degree of adaptation as well. In 2012, approximately 40 per cent of municipalities were underta ...
... or municipal level for quite a long time, though they have not been seen as adaptation measures as such. By the end of 2012, 16 out of 18 regions had published a climate strategy, which included a certain degree of adaptation as well. In 2012, approximately 40 per cent of municipalities were underta ...
Kelman 2007 Vulnerability definitions
... Townsend, C.R., M. Begon, and J.L. Harper. 2003. Essentials of Ecology, Blackwell, Oxford, U.K. Resilience The speed with which a community returns to its former state after it has been disturbed. IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/syrgloss.pdf Resilience The abi ...
... Townsend, C.R., M. Begon, and J.L. Harper. 2003. Essentials of Ecology, Blackwell, Oxford, U.K. Resilience The speed with which a community returns to its former state after it has been disturbed. IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/syrgloss.pdf Resilience The abi ...
Communicating climate change in mainstream
... hone it to meet the specific needs of their investors, who are looking to appraise the significance of climate change for the business from a financial perspective. This advice does not represent a new requirement, and nor should following this advice create duplication of effort – and in many cases ...
... hone it to meet the specific needs of their investors, who are looking to appraise the significance of climate change for the business from a financial perspective. This advice does not represent a new requirement, and nor should following this advice create duplication of effort – and in many cases ...
Geoengineering and the Accusation of Hubris
... „The person who gives insult also belittles; for insult [hybris] is doing and speaking in which there is shame to the sufferer, not that some advantage may accrue to the doer or because something has happened but for the pleasure of it; for those reacting to something do not give insult but are reta ...
... „The person who gives insult also belittles; for insult [hybris] is doing and speaking in which there is shame to the sufferer, not that some advantage may accrue to the doer or because something has happened but for the pleasure of it; for those reacting to something do not give insult but are reta ...
Geoengineering and the Accusation of Hubris
... „The person who gives insult also belittles; for insult [hybris] is doing and speaking in which there is shame to the sufferer, not that some advantage may accrue to the doer or because something has happened but for the pleasure of it; for those reacting to something do not give insult but are reta ...
... „The person who gives insult also belittles; for insult [hybris] is doing and speaking in which there is shame to the sufferer, not that some advantage may accrue to the doer or because something has happened but for the pleasure of it; for those reacting to something do not give insult but are reta ...
Vermont`s Wildlife Action Plan
... 2011a, Stager, C., and Thill, M. 2010, U.S. Global Change Research Program 2009). Of particular concern is the potential for entire ecosystems to be disrupted. As diverse species and habitats in Vermont respond to climatic fluctuations in different ways, important interspecific connections—such as b ...
... 2011a, Stager, C., and Thill, M. 2010, U.S. Global Change Research Program 2009). Of particular concern is the potential for entire ecosystems to be disrupted. As diverse species and habitats in Vermont respond to climatic fluctuations in different ways, important interspecific connections—such as b ...
Transcript from COP-22 Ocean Panel moderated by Fred Krueger
... concentration of CO2. And even though it was a barely distinguishable result, it meant that the atmosphere was less consistent than what you would have expected from our industrial civilization. It was about a year or so later that Revelle actually informed President Lyndon Johnson in person of the ...
... concentration of CO2. And even though it was a barely distinguishable result, it meant that the atmosphere was less consistent than what you would have expected from our industrial civilization. It was about a year or so later that Revelle actually informed President Lyndon Johnson in person of the ...
Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white
... et al., 1999) are more likely to express concern about global warming than are their conservative, white, and male counterparts, respectively. The analysis presented below is the first to (a) consider the intersection of political ideology, race, and gender and (b) explicitly examine climate change d ...
... et al., 1999) are more likely to express concern about global warming than are their conservative, white, and male counterparts, respectively. The analysis presented below is the first to (a) consider the intersection of political ideology, race, and gender and (b) explicitly examine climate change d ...
Report of the Smith College Study Group on Climate Change
... for future ones fall well short of what is needed.2,3,4 How did climate change become one of modern society’s most pressing issues, and what are the risks? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has declared warming of the climate system to be unequivocal and its root cause the emissio ...
... for future ones fall well short of what is needed.2,3,4 How did climate change become one of modern society’s most pressing issues, and what are the risks? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has declared warming of the climate system to be unequivocal and its root cause the emissio ...
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... effects are likely to affect global livelihood and environmental systems in various ways. Since climatic factors serve as direct inputs to agriculture, any change in climatic factors is bound to have a significant impact on crop yields and production. This area has attracted the attention of researc ...
... effects are likely to affect global livelihood and environmental systems in various ways. Since climatic factors serve as direct inputs to agriculture, any change in climatic factors is bound to have a significant impact on crop yields and production. This area has attracted the attention of researc ...
Submission DR134 - Chairman of the Australian Building Codes
... In order to better assess the future impacts of climate change on the built environment ongoing access to contemporary climate change information including research and data is imperative. The ABCB is not the appropriate organisation to undertake research and collect data of a nature that predicts f ...
... In order to better assess the future impacts of climate change on the built environment ongoing access to contemporary climate change information including research and data is imperative. The ABCB is not the appropriate organisation to undertake research and collect data of a nature that predicts f ...
Regional Climate Change Curriculum Development ToT Report
... framework. One of LEAF’s objectives is to build and institutionalize technical capacity for economic valuation of forest ecosystem services and monitoring changes in forest carbon stocks at the project and national levels. To meet this objective, LEAF is working with universities in ...
... framework. One of LEAF’s objectives is to build and institutionalize technical capacity for economic valuation of forest ecosystem services and monitoring changes in forest carbon stocks at the project and national levels. To meet this objective, LEAF is working with universities in ...
ocean climate change, phytoplankton community
... toxins in seafood products using increasingly sophisticated analytical techniques. Last but not least, global climate change is now adding a new level of uncertainty to many seafood safety and HAB monitoring programs. Whereas in the past two decades unexpected new algal bloom phenomena have often be ...
... toxins in seafood products using increasingly sophisticated analytical techniques. Last but not least, global climate change is now adding a new level of uncertainty to many seafood safety and HAB monitoring programs. Whereas in the past two decades unexpected new algal bloom phenomena have often be ...
Biospheric Changes Are Threat Multipliers
... Liebig’s Law of the Minimum states that growth is controlled not by the total of resources available but by the scarcest resource at the time of the year of greatest scarcity. The time of greatest scarcity for many resources will be determined by climate change. ...
... Liebig’s Law of the Minimum states that growth is controlled not by the total of resources available but by the scarcest resource at the time of the year of greatest scarcity. The time of greatest scarcity for many resources will be determined by climate change. ...
Targets for global climate policy An overview
... environmental problem of the 21st century (Stern et al., 2006)—without much evidence. Climate change has been said to fundamentally challenge economics as a discipline (van den Bergh, 2004). More sober people would recognize greenhouse gas emissions as an externality. It is an externality that is gl ...
... environmental problem of the 21st century (Stern et al., 2006)—without much evidence. Climate change has been said to fundamentally challenge economics as a discipline (van den Bergh, 2004). More sober people would recognize greenhouse gas emissions as an externality. It is an externality that is gl ...
Recent intense hurricane response to global climate change
... is low confidence in any observed long-term (i.e., 40 years or more) increases in tropical cyclone activity’, based largely on potential errors in the observed data. Here we investigate this apparent anomaly and find that there has been an increase in the proportion of intense hurricanes relative to ...
... is low confidence in any observed long-term (i.e., 40 years or more) increases in tropical cyclone activity’, based largely on potential errors in the observed data. Here we investigate this apparent anomaly and find that there has been an increase in the proportion of intense hurricanes relative to ...
Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments: Working Paper 51 (556 kB) (opens in new window)
... The Munich Re Programme is evaluating the economics of climate risks and opportunities in the insurance sector. It is a comprehensive research programme that focuses on the assessment of the risks from climate change and on the appropriate responses, to inform decision-making in the private and publ ...
... The Munich Re Programme is evaluating the economics of climate risks and opportunities in the insurance sector. It is a comprehensive research programme that focuses on the assessment of the risks from climate change and on the appropriate responses, to inform decision-making in the private and publ ...