Governing climate change: the politics of risk society?
... the one hand, some hold the belief that, changes will be gradual, incremental and within societal control. On the other hand, the IPCC suggest that significant changes in global average temperatures and regional climatic conditions are to be expected, and that there are possibilities for unpredictab ...
... the one hand, some hold the belief that, changes will be gradual, incremental and within societal control. On the other hand, the IPCC suggest that significant changes in global average temperatures and regional climatic conditions are to be expected, and that there are possibilities for unpredictab ...
Temperature Change in New England: 1895-2012
... highest they have been in at least 800,000 years (Luthi, et al., 2008). According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) human emissions of greenhouse gases have risen 70% from 1970 to 2004. The IPCC states that the rise of global ...
... highest they have been in at least 800,000 years (Luthi, et al., 2008). According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) human emissions of greenhouse gases have risen 70% from 1970 to 2004. The IPCC states that the rise of global ...
Indigenous knowledge about climate change
... precipitation and flash floods, sea level rise, etc. It is very likely that such extreme events will continue to become more frequent, posing potential threat to ecosystems especially agricultural production and productivity throughout the world. Adding to the misery, non-climatic stresses such as p ...
... precipitation and flash floods, sea level rise, etc. It is very likely that such extreme events will continue to become more frequent, posing potential threat to ecosystems especially agricultural production and productivity throughout the world. Adding to the misery, non-climatic stresses such as p ...
The American Environmental Values Survey: American Views on the
... Kollmuss, A. & Agyeman, J. (2002). Mind the gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior? Environmental Education Research, 8(3), 239-260. Kurz, T. (2002). The psychology of environmentally sustainable behavior: Fitting together pieces of the puzzle. ...
... Kollmuss, A. & Agyeman, J. (2002). Mind the gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior? Environmental Education Research, 8(3), 239-260. Kurz, T. (2002). The psychology of environmentally sustainable behavior: Fitting together pieces of the puzzle. ...
Hardening Australia: Climate change and
... spread of disease, and increase potential for property damage, (for example, through more flooding, coastal erosion, storm surges and extreme weather events) and disrupt critical infrastructure. Current design criteria and building codes may be inadequate for the future climate. Increased heat, pest ...
... spread of disease, and increase potential for property damage, (for example, through more flooding, coastal erosion, storm surges and extreme weather events) and disrupt critical infrastructure. Current design criteria and building codes may be inadequate for the future climate. Increased heat, pest ...
151725 Public Policy Text - A Convention For Persons Displaced By
... when Kyoto’s first commitment period, which runs from 2008 to 2012, comes to an end. The result of the Copenhagen conference was a non-binding agreement which, while it contains emissions reduction pledges by all major economies (including China), ‘charts no clear path toward a treaty with binding c ...
... when Kyoto’s first commitment period, which runs from 2008 to 2012, comes to an end. The result of the Copenhagen conference was a non-binding agreement which, while it contains emissions reduction pledges by all major economies (including China), ‘charts no clear path toward a treaty with binding c ...
INTERREG IIIB ASTRA PROJECT Report on Generation, Use and
... nesting (dynamical) and regression based (statistical) downscaling. The latter is mainly based on empirical relationships between local-scale variables and their large scale predictors. These relationships can be based on a range of mathematical functions and fitting routines (cf. Wilby et al. 2002, ...
... nesting (dynamical) and regression based (statistical) downscaling. The latter is mainly based on empirical relationships between local-scale variables and their large scale predictors. These relationships can be based on a range of mathematical functions and fitting routines (cf. Wilby et al. 2002, ...
Rapid Climate Change
... enough to have extensive impacts on our society have occurred in less than 10 years. Now I know that our climate could change significantly in my lifetime. We are still a long way from being able to predict such a change, but we are getting closer to understanding how it might take place. A pressing ...
... enough to have extensive impacts on our society have occurred in less than 10 years. Now I know that our climate could change significantly in my lifetime. We are still a long way from being able to predict such a change, but we are getting closer to understanding how it might take place. A pressing ...
Population, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development in
... below the age of 15 years grew by 150 percent in the region between 1970 and 2005. In countries like Niger, it increased by 200 percent4. Such young age structures mean that populations will continue to grow for some time, even after attaining replacement level fertility, as the current generation o ...
... below the age of 15 years grew by 150 percent in the region between 1970 and 2005. In countries like Niger, it increased by 200 percent4. Such young age structures mean that populations will continue to grow for some time, even after attaining replacement level fertility, as the current generation o ...
Physical and ecological impacts of climate change relevant to
... of the Americas, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, small-island regions, Asian megadeltas and other low-lying coastal urban areas. Ocean acidification has decreased seawater pH by 0.1 units in the last 200 years and models predict a further reduction of 0.3-0.5 pH units over the next 100 years. The imp ...
... of the Americas, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, small-island regions, Asian megadeltas and other low-lying coastal urban areas. Ocean acidification has decreased seawater pH by 0.1 units in the last 200 years and models predict a further reduction of 0.3-0.5 pH units over the next 100 years. The imp ...
Forced displacement in the context of climate change
... Experience of the past years indicates that natural disasters not only displace an increasing number of persons but that all too often insufficient attention is paid to the multiple human rights challenges they may face during displacement. More often than not, these situations also have human right ...
... Experience of the past years indicates that natural disasters not only displace an increasing number of persons but that all too often insufficient attention is paid to the multiple human rights challenges they may face during displacement. More often than not, these situations also have human right ...
Expansion of the Hadley cell under global warming
... tropical tropopause height (TTH), we plot for each model the change in TTH during the 21st century against that of the HC extent, the former being estimated as the negative of the pressure anomalies at the tropopause and averaged within 20° to the equator, and the latter defined as the distance betw ...
... tropical tropopause height (TTH), we plot for each model the change in TTH during the 21st century against that of the HC extent, the former being estimated as the negative of the pressure anomalies at the tropopause and averaged within 20° to the equator, and the latter defined as the distance betw ...
Time for action? Options to address climate change Bert Metz
... • Energy infrastructure investment decisions, (20 trillion US$ till 2030; 50% in developing countries) will have long term impacts on GHG emissions. • The widespread diffusion of low-carbon technologies may take many decades, even if early investments in these technologies are made attractive. • Ret ...
... • Energy infrastructure investment decisions, (20 trillion US$ till 2030; 50% in developing countries) will have long term impacts on GHG emissions. • The widespread diffusion of low-carbon technologies may take many decades, even if early investments in these technologies are made attractive. • Ret ...
UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, and the WTO – Brewing Conflicts or
... migration and lead to greater competition for the earth’s resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world’s most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states. 3 ...
... migration and lead to greater competition for the earth’s resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world’s most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states. 3 ...
NSW and ACT Regional Climate Model: Project scope
... rainfall and a large number of other meteorological variables. WRF was jointly developed by a number of major United States weather and research centres and is widely used among the international research community. It has a demonstrated ability to simulate temperature and rainfall in NSW. As its na ...
... rainfall and a large number of other meteorological variables. WRF was jointly developed by a number of major United States weather and research centres and is widely used among the international research community. It has a demonstrated ability to simulate temperature and rainfall in NSW. As its na ...
Download country chapter
... International co-operation on climate change and environment issues is at the core of Uganda’s approach to tackle climate change. Yet, despite being rather active at the international level, domestic legislation and policy are still underdeveloped; Uganda lacks a comprehensive and overarching legisl ...
... International co-operation on climate change and environment issues is at the core of Uganda’s approach to tackle climate change. Yet, despite being rather active at the international level, domestic legislation and policy are still underdeveloped; Uganda lacks a comprehensive and overarching legisl ...
Biogeophysical Effects of Sea Level Rise
... the mean of the median model of the latest Assessment Report of the IPCC Working Group (currently, the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC Working Group, January 2001). The vertical change predicted by the current model between the years of 2000 and 2100 is 0.38 m. A multiplier of 100, based on the ...
... the mean of the median model of the latest Assessment Report of the IPCC Working Group (currently, the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC Working Group, January 2001). The vertical change predicted by the current model between the years of 2000 and 2100 is 0.38 m. A multiplier of 100, based on the ...
Trend Analysis of the Mean Annual Temperature in
... the Great Lakes region of Africa. Bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda, it is located at 02˚00 Latitude South and 30˚00 Longitude East. Total land area is about 24,950 km2, and inland lakes cover about 1390 km2. Because of the high altitude of the coun ...
... the Great Lakes region of Africa. Bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda, it is located at 02˚00 Latitude South and 30˚00 Longitude East. Total land area is about 24,950 km2, and inland lakes cover about 1390 km2. Because of the high altitude of the coun ...
Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy and Strategies for Overcoming
... renovation of its infrastructure without using the most cost-efficient products from a longterm perspective (Bazerman, Baron, and Shonk, 2001). Due to capital constraints on construction, the university implicitly placed a very high discount rate on construction decisions, emphasizing reduction of c ...
... renovation of its infrastructure without using the most cost-efficient products from a longterm perspective (Bazerman, Baron, and Shonk, 2001). Due to capital constraints on construction, the university implicitly placed a very high discount rate on construction decisions, emphasizing reduction of c ...
The Challenge of Climate Change Adaptation:
... toward adaptation planning. This section first examines the need for adaptation globally, and then focuses on the situations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. Although this section sets the stage for the recommendations in Part III, it should also be useful because up-to-date cros ...
... toward adaptation planning. This section first examines the need for adaptation globally, and then focuses on the situations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. Although this section sets the stage for the recommendations in Part III, it should also be useful because up-to-date cros ...
S1_Ammann_WIPS_Modeling – ppt
... Thou shalt know the model's biases and remember that model biases may lead to biased sensitivity estimates. Thou shalt run the same experiment with different models and compare the results. Thou shalt worship good observations of the spatial and temporal behavior of the earth system. Good models fol ...
... Thou shalt know the model's biases and remember that model biases may lead to biased sensitivity estimates. Thou shalt run the same experiment with different models and compare the results. Thou shalt worship good observations of the spatial and temporal behavior of the earth system. Good models fol ...
Vol.3, No.1, 2003
... the California Current surface temperature varies differently from salinity. Temperature varies mostly in association with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and shows a warming since the 1980s, which has already been noted by others. Salinity, in contrast, v ...
... the California Current surface temperature varies differently from salinity. Temperature varies mostly in association with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and shows a warming since the 1980s, which has already been noted by others. Salinity, in contrast, v ...
D1.1.2_Deliverable_Snow_Depth - MONARCH-A
... We have used passive microwave data set from the SSM/I (Special Sensor Microwave/Imager) instrument onboard the DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program) series (since 1987). These radiometers with incidence angle from 50.2 to 52.8 degrees provided measurements of brightness temperature at dif ...
... We have used passive microwave data set from the SSM/I (Special Sensor Microwave/Imager) instrument onboard the DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program) series (since 1987). These radiometers with incidence angle from 50.2 to 52.8 degrees provided measurements of brightness temperature at dif ...
The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship
... et al. 2011) is undoubtedly caused by a number of human activities (MA 2005). Of the top six panels, increases in the three well-known greenhouse gases can be unequivocally linked to anthropogenic sources (IPCC 2007), and the role of human-made chemicals in the reduction of stratospheric ozone has b ...
... et al. 2011) is undoubtedly caused by a number of human activities (MA 2005). Of the top six panels, increases in the three well-known greenhouse gases can be unequivocally linked to anthropogenic sources (IPCC 2007), and the role of human-made chemicals in the reduction of stratospheric ozone has b ...
The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship
... et al. 2011) is undoubtedly caused by a number of human activities (MA 2005). Of the top six panels, increases in the three well-known greenhouse gases can be unequivocally linked to anthropogenic sources (IPCC 2007), and the role of human-made chemicals in the reduction of stratospheric ozone has b ...
... et al. 2011) is undoubtedly caused by a number of human activities (MA 2005). Of the top six panels, increases in the three well-known greenhouse gases can be unequivocally linked to anthropogenic sources (IPCC 2007), and the role of human-made chemicals in the reduction of stratospheric ozone has b ...