- Harvard University
... Advance the attribution of decadal to centennial climate change Reduce uncertainties associated with indirect aerosol radiative forcing Better quantify the direct radiative effects of aerosols Better quantify radiative forcing by ozone Integrate climate forcing criteria in environmental po ...
... Advance the attribution of decadal to centennial climate change Reduce uncertainties associated with indirect aerosol radiative forcing Better quantify the direct radiative effects of aerosols Better quantify radiative forcing by ozone Integrate climate forcing criteria in environmental po ...
spaces – science partnerships for the assessment of complex earth
... wind speed and direction of the Southeast Trade wind system on ocean circulation and water mass properties that mix and upwell over the shelf to the sea surface. They analysed mixing ratios of upwelling source waters to determine both nutrient and oxygen concentrations in the water column over the s ...
... wind speed and direction of the Southeast Trade wind system on ocean circulation and water mass properties that mix and upwell over the shelf to the sea surface. They analysed mixing ratios of upwelling source waters to determine both nutrient and oxygen concentrations in the water column over the s ...
the economics of climate change the economics of
... climate change are less than the costs of inaction. This simple statement is built on detailed analysis of the wide-ranging potential impacts of climate change and an understanding of mitigation and adaptation responses. To do this properly requires reflecting on the nature of the problem which mean ...
... climate change are less than the costs of inaction. This simple statement is built on detailed analysis of the wide-ranging potential impacts of climate change and an understanding of mitigation and adaptation responses. To do this properly requires reflecting on the nature of the problem which mean ...
Evidence for parallel adaptation to climate across the natural range
... distance among collection localities calculated from nine different climatic factors. A. thaliana was found to be highly labile when adapting to novel climate space, suggesting that populations may experience few constraints when adapting to changing climates. Our results also provide evidence of a ...
... distance among collection localities calculated from nine different climatic factors. A. thaliana was found to be highly labile when adapting to novel climate space, suggesting that populations may experience few constraints when adapting to changing climates. Our results also provide evidence of a ...
the full-sized Document - University of Alberta
... Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Arctic Institute of North America Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska) ...
... Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Arctic Institute of North America Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska) ...
Coupled Climate–Economy–Biosphere (CoCEB) model – Part 1
... 25 as such, it allows one to easily formulate and compare different functional representations of climate change mitigation policies. Using different mitigation measures and their cost estimates, as found in the literature, one is able to compare these measures in a coherent way. While many studies ...
... 25 as such, it allows one to easily formulate and compare different functional representations of climate change mitigation policies. Using different mitigation measures and their cost estimates, as found in the literature, one is able to compare these measures in a coherent way. While many studies ...
6-4 Charting a Course for the Future
... The geological record shows that Earth’s climate has changed repeatedly during its history. Researchers must determine whether the current warming trend is part of a larger, natural cycle of climate change, or whether it is caused by human activity. ...
... The geological record shows that Earth’s climate has changed repeatedly during its history. Researchers must determine whether the current warming trend is part of a larger, natural cycle of climate change, or whether it is caused by human activity. ...
Carbon, climate change, and controversy
... atom may need millions of years to traverse this complex circuit (Figure 1). Carbon travels through the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere and thus represents one of Earth’s primary biogeochemical cycles. Two categories of the carbon cycle are known: 1) the geological category, whic ...
... atom may need millions of years to traverse this complex circuit (Figure 1). Carbon travels through the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere and thus represents one of Earth’s primary biogeochemical cycles. Two categories of the carbon cycle are known: 1) the geological category, whic ...
7. Agriculture
... the implications of climate change for agriculture and pose a reasonable concern that climate change is a threat to sustainable development, especially in countries not included in Annex I to the Convention. Identifying which regions and populations are at greatest risk from climate change (i.e., ar ...
... the implications of climate change for agriculture and pose a reasonable concern that climate change is a threat to sustainable development, especially in countries not included in Annex I to the Convention. Identifying which regions and populations are at greatest risk from climate change (i.e., ar ...
SASHA CAREY REED
... and my work explores how terrestrial ecosystems respond to a host of global changes. Currently, I have research sites in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Hawai’i, and Puerto Rico. While my study sites and the methods I use are diverse, with each of my projects I strive to determine the dynamic controls ov ...
... and my work explores how terrestrial ecosystems respond to a host of global changes. Currently, I have research sites in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Hawai’i, and Puerto Rico. While my study sites and the methods I use are diverse, with each of my projects I strive to determine the dynamic controls ov ...
Farmers` Risk Perception towards Climate Change: A Case of the
... Are they willing to pay for adaptation? As adaptation becomes more tightly integrated into the range of responses due to climate change, understanding how knowledge of climate change impacts on farmers and how vulnerabilities can effectively be used is necessary both to direct research and to suppor ...
... Are they willing to pay for adaptation? As adaptation becomes more tightly integrated into the range of responses due to climate change, understanding how knowledge of climate change impacts on farmers and how vulnerabilities can effectively be used is necessary both to direct research and to suppor ...
Utilization of Science-Based Information on Climate Change in
... This project report completes a two-phased NOAA-funded project by the Institute for Science Technology and Public Policy at Texas A&M University ("Utilization of Science-based Information on Climate Change in Decision Making and the Public Policy Process," NA03OAR4310164) exploring several aspects o ...
... This project report completes a two-phased NOAA-funded project by the Institute for Science Technology and Public Policy at Texas A&M University ("Utilization of Science-based Information on Climate Change in Decision Making and the Public Policy Process," NA03OAR4310164) exploring several aspects o ...
Land-use and carbon cycle responses
... otherwise), can have positive effects on crop yields at low levels of climate change, especially in higher latitudes, while tropical regions are typically affected negatively even under low levels of warming13,17,18. Increases in agricultural yields might reduce cropland requirements, which in turn ...
... otherwise), can have positive effects on crop yields at low levels of climate change, especially in higher latitudes, while tropical regions are typically affected negatively even under low levels of warming13,17,18. Increases in agricultural yields might reduce cropland requirements, which in turn ...
Pacific Climate Change Finance Assessment Framework (PCCFAF)
... framework when considering issues related to accessing and managing these resources. Different organisations have developed definitions for various purposes, however, these definitions do not necessarily align, which makes it difficult to compare information across sources. The terms ‘finances’ and ...
... framework when considering issues related to accessing and managing these resources. Different organisations have developed definitions for various purposes, however, these definitions do not necessarily align, which makes it difficult to compare information across sources. The terms ‘finances’ and ...
Cosmic Rays, Carbon Dioxide, and Climate
... Earth can explain 66% of the temperature variance over the past 520 m.y., and that the sensitivity of climate to a doubling of CO is less than previously estimated. Shaviv and Veizer’s paper was accompanied by a press release titled “Global Warming not a Man-made Phenomenon,” in which Shaviv is quot ...
... Earth can explain 66% of the temperature variance over the past 520 m.y., and that the sensitivity of climate to a doubling of CO is less than previously estimated. Shaviv and Veizer’s paper was accompanied by a press release titled “Global Warming not a Man-made Phenomenon,” in which Shaviv is quot ...
IIIS Discussion Paper Rescaling climate justice: sub-national issues and
... Climate justice is emerging as a discourse for mobilising activism around the globe. The language of justice is less explicit as a policy principle despite long standing attention to negotiating responsibilities for causing climate changes and bearing costs related to reducing climate change emissio ...
... Climate justice is emerging as a discourse for mobilising activism around the globe. The language of justice is less explicit as a policy principle despite long standing attention to negotiating responsibilities for causing climate changes and bearing costs related to reducing climate change emissio ...
The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons
... this framework, the evidence suggests that individuals are displaying an impressively high degree of rationality in the formation of their beliefs about climate change. Nevertheless, public opinion can be understood to be irrational at the collective level. This perspective sees society as the agen ...
... this framework, the evidence suggests that individuals are displaying an impressively high degree of rationality in the formation of their beliefs about climate change. Nevertheless, public opinion can be understood to be irrational at the collective level. This perspective sees society as the agen ...
Vol.5, No.2, 2005
... a deficiency that applies over most of the land in the tropics. These difficulties may, at least partly, have to do with the way shallow convection is represented in the models. Shallow cumulus clouds in the morning take moisture from the atmospheric boundary layer at the sea surface and moisten the fr ...
... a deficiency that applies over most of the land in the tropics. These difficulties may, at least partly, have to do with the way shallow convection is represented in the models. Shallow cumulus clouds in the morning take moisture from the atmospheric boundary layer at the sea surface and moisten the fr ...
The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons
... this framework, the evidence suggests that individuals are displaying an impressively high degree of rationality in the formation of their beliefs about climate change. Nevertheless, public opinion can be understood to be irrational at the collective level. This perspective sees society as the agen ...
... this framework, the evidence suggests that individuals are displaying an impressively high degree of rationality in the formation of their beliefs about climate change. Nevertheless, public opinion can be understood to be irrational at the collective level. This perspective sees society as the agen ...
The Tragedy of the Risk
... this framework, the evidence suggests that individuals are displaying an impressively high degree of rationality in the formation of their beliefs about climate change. Nevertheless, public opinion can be understood to be irrational at the collective level. This perspective sees society as the agen ...
... this framework, the evidence suggests that individuals are displaying an impressively high degree of rationality in the formation of their beliefs about climate change. Nevertheless, public opinion can be understood to be irrational at the collective level. This perspective sees society as the agen ...
Integrating Dendrochronology, Climate and Satellite Remote
... vegetation structure including increases in density of woody species and shifts from grass- and tree-dominated landscapes (grass savanna) to less biologically productive shrub-dominated ones (woodland). This modification has been observed throughout southern Africa [23–25] and the causal factor to w ...
... vegetation structure including increases in density of woody species and shifts from grass- and tree-dominated landscapes (grass savanna) to less biologically productive shrub-dominated ones (woodland). This modification has been observed throughout southern Africa [23–25] and the causal factor to w ...
Climate Change Riparian Restoration
... and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change. Because riparian systems and the projected impacts of climate change are highly variable geographically, there is a pressing need to develop a plac ...
... and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change. Because riparian systems and the projected impacts of climate change are highly variable geographically, there is a pressing need to develop a plac ...
Working Paper 9: Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier for Human
... level of coordinated action required to solve it, this statement seems only adequate. After the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) published its first assessment report in 1990, it was accused of dramatizing the anthropogenic (man-made) causes as well as the potential effects of globa ...
... level of coordinated action required to solve it, this statement seems only adequate. After the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) published its first assessment report in 1990, it was accused of dramatizing the anthropogenic (man-made) causes as well as the potential effects of globa ...
CHAPTER 6: Tropical Marine
... planned for in any contemporary conservation efforts. A variety of emergent stressors associated with climate variability and change, reviewed below, are of increasing concern to scientists and mangers. INCREASING SEA TEMPERATURES ...
... planned for in any contemporary conservation efforts. A variety of emergent stressors associated with climate variability and change, reviewed below, are of increasing concern to scientists and mangers. INCREASING SEA TEMPERATURES ...