Warm Words II
... officers give public statements on television news. Typical terms such as ‘offenders’, ‘victims’ and ‘the occupants of the premises’ are set into a distinctive structuring of speech that might sound odd in any other context. Repertoires are a mix of content (such as ‘typical’ topics or lines of argu ...
... officers give public statements on television news. Typical terms such as ‘offenders’, ‘victims’ and ‘the occupants of the premises’ are set into a distinctive structuring of speech that might sound odd in any other context. Repertoires are a mix of content (such as ‘typical’ topics or lines of argu ...
Find some land, build a house?
... The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution proposed by the Maldives to hold a panel discussion on the relationship between human rights and climate change. The resolution states that “Global warming violates human rights of millions of people, especially in countries vulnerable to climate ...
... The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution proposed by the Maldives to hold a panel discussion on the relationship between human rights and climate change. The resolution states that “Global warming violates human rights of millions of people, especially in countries vulnerable to climate ...
- White Rose Research Online
... environmental communication because its main cause, greenhouse gas emissions, is invisible. The predominant approach of making climate change visible is the use of iconic, often affective, imagery. Literature on the iconography of climate change shows that global iconic motifs, such as polar bears, ...
... environmental communication because its main cause, greenhouse gas emissions, is invisible. The predominant approach of making climate change visible is the use of iconic, often affective, imagery. Literature on the iconography of climate change shows that global iconic motifs, such as polar bears, ...
The Ethics of Inquiry, Scientific Belief, and Public Discourse.
... Without a clear sense of what constitutes warranted belief, and clarification regarding the type of belief being discussed, Clifford’s bold condemnation of unwarranted belief under all circumstances is insufficiently helpful.20 By way of building on Clifford, and of increasing the relevance of his t ...
... Without a clear sense of what constitutes warranted belief, and clarification regarding the type of belief being discussed, Clifford’s bold condemnation of unwarranted belief under all circumstances is insufficiently helpful.20 By way of building on Clifford, and of increasing the relevance of his t ...
Rodent's rambles
... was all-party, and its report was unanimous. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the body mainly responsible for putting out very strong views to the effect that climate change is a major problem. Yet the House of Lords Committee attacked, as recently as 2004, the IPCC in extreme ...
... was all-party, and its report was unanimous. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the body mainly responsible for putting out very strong views to the effect that climate change is a major problem. Yet the House of Lords Committee attacked, as recently as 2004, the IPCC in extreme ...
Enhancing Climate Change Mitigation Efforts
... continuing to support the UNFCCC process as it now stands is being debated perhaps even more vociferously. This is due to accelerated concerns that the absence of substantive progress in curtailing GHG emissions is pushing the problem past a point of resolution. Advocates for continuing the process ...
... continuing to support the UNFCCC process as it now stands is being debated perhaps even more vociferously. This is due to accelerated concerns that the absence of substantive progress in curtailing GHG emissions is pushing the problem past a point of resolution. Advocates for continuing the process ...
A Summary of Climate Change Risks for the East of England
... The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment has highlighted three areas that are particulary pertinient to the East of England, these are water scarcity, sea level rise and ...
... The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment has highlighted three areas that are particulary pertinient to the East of England, these are water scarcity, sea level rise and ...
2015 End-user workshop report (1.4 MB, pdf)
... increasing temperature will decrease snow depths. Moreover, with high flows there comes an increased risk of flooding in the region in the future. The CORDEX project generates a number of key conclusions about climate change impacts in the Uttarakhand region where most workshop participants are acti ...
... increasing temperature will decrease snow depths. Moreover, with high flows there comes an increased risk of flooding in the region in the future. The CORDEX project generates a number of key conclusions about climate change impacts in the Uttarakhand region where most workshop participants are acti ...
Changing Climate: Pre-visit lesson 2
... Other things that will help is less fracking or deep sea drilling, smoke or emissions from industrial places or factories, using chemical solvents and cutting back on anything that creates smoke or ...
... Other things that will help is less fracking or deep sea drilling, smoke or emissions from industrial places or factories, using chemical solvents and cutting back on anything that creates smoke or ...
Climate Change and its Implications for the Nile Region
... changes associated with global climate, and the man-made factors that have caused these changes. It reviews the efforts to understand and predict the future climate in the Nile Basin, and discusses the reasons why the basin is so sensitive to a changing climate. This is followed by an analysis of ho ...
... changes associated with global climate, and the man-made factors that have caused these changes. It reviews the efforts to understand and predict the future climate in the Nile Basin, and discusses the reasons why the basin is so sensitive to a changing climate. This is followed by an analysis of ho ...
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... performance and the respective provisioning of ecosystem goods and services. More recently, accompanying studies on the assessment of the role of ecosystems with respect to their contribution to the economy and human wellbeing were made well-known by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA). Howeve ...
... performance and the respective provisioning of ecosystem goods and services. More recently, accompanying studies on the assessment of the role of ecosystems with respect to their contribution to the economy and human wellbeing were made well-known by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA). Howeve ...
Review of Climate Change Adaptation Plan and Policies in Nepal
... We chose global warming, sometimes known as the “greenhouse effect” or as “global climate change”, it is widely recognized as one of the most important issues on the current international environmental agenda. IPCC (2007) concluded that the evidence for warming of the global climate is ‘unequivocal’ ...
... We chose global warming, sometimes known as the “greenhouse effect” or as “global climate change”, it is widely recognized as one of the most important issues on the current international environmental agenda. IPCC (2007) concluded that the evidence for warming of the global climate is ‘unequivocal’ ...
3.47 MB - Asian Development Bank
... Water allocation model analyzes the changing needs for water for different purposes in each river section were undertaken using the W EAP framework. It demonstrates well that at the same time when water is more and more needed, the reality is that river discharges will radically go down. ASSESSING T ...
... Water allocation model analyzes the changing needs for water for different purposes in each river section were undertaken using the W EAP framework. It demonstrates well that at the same time when water is more and more needed, the reality is that river discharges will radically go down. ASSESSING T ...
Paving_the_Road_to_Paris_v2
... initiative and the US Clean Energy Plan show an unprecedented willingness to action on climate change from countries usually opposed. At the same time, European Commission officials find their hands tied as the Euro and the increasing refugee influx dominate European public debates. Reflecting its m ...
... initiative and the US Clean Energy Plan show an unprecedented willingness to action on climate change from countries usually opposed. At the same time, European Commission officials find their hands tied as the Euro and the increasing refugee influx dominate European public debates. Reflecting its m ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... to small areas, with communities, flora, and fauna highly adapted to subsist within them. Yemen faces multiple ...
... to small areas, with communities, flora, and fauna highly adapted to subsist within them. Yemen faces multiple ...
Adaptation to changing water resources in the Ganges basin
... outstanding task for modelling future runoff in Himalayan tributaries of the Ganges. Rees and Collins (2006) used hypothetical glacier geometries in an attempt to model the impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers. Summer monsoonal snowfall appears so to offset icemelt that reduction of meltwa ...
... outstanding task for modelling future runoff in Himalayan tributaries of the Ganges. Rees and Collins (2006) used hypothetical glacier geometries in an attempt to model the impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers. Summer monsoonal snowfall appears so to offset icemelt that reduction of meltwa ...
Word - Council of Europe
... biodiversity/ecosystems in climate change adaptation, and the role of biodiversity and ecosystems in climate change mitigation. Their current work includes a project on the impacts of climate change on Natura 2000 sites; work for the CBD AHTEG on Biodiversity and Climate Change, including scientific ...
... biodiversity/ecosystems in climate change adaptation, and the role of biodiversity and ecosystems in climate change mitigation. Their current work includes a project on the impacts of climate change on Natura 2000 sites; work for the CBD AHTEG on Biodiversity and Climate Change, including scientific ...
Indonesia`s Rainforests and the Climate Crisis
... warmer will change life as we know it. Predicted consequences include more severe and frequent floods, drought and famine as well as the breakdown of ecosystems such as the Amazon rainforest, the likely extinction of between 20-50% of all species, and rising sea levels as glaciers and ice sheets mel ...
... warmer will change life as we know it. Predicted consequences include more severe and frequent floods, drought and famine as well as the breakdown of ecosystems such as the Amazon rainforest, the likely extinction of between 20-50% of all species, and rising sea levels as glaciers and ice sheets mel ...
18 – 19 June 2014, Hôtel De Mille Collines Kigali - CDM
... are on-going to transform them into what is legally robust. Questions remain on what forms it shall eventually take. Challenges exist on limited capacity within the ministry to implement the interventions though; there are plans to build capacity. There also exists the need to update the national en ...
... are on-going to transform them into what is legally robust. Questions remain on what forms it shall eventually take. Challenges exist on limited capacity within the ministry to implement the interventions though; there are plans to build capacity. There also exists the need to update the national en ...
Philosophy of Climate Science Part I: Observing
... the climate is the finite distribution over time of the climate variables arising under a certain regime of varying external conditions ( given the initial states). Spelling out in detail what a regime of varying external conditions amounts to is not easy, but a reasonable requirement is that the me ...
... the climate is the finite distribution over time of the climate variables arising under a certain regime of varying external conditions ( given the initial states). Spelling out in detail what a regime of varying external conditions amounts to is not easy, but a reasonable requirement is that the me ...
Understanding complexity in savannas: climate, biodiversity and
... important in maintaining open savanna, in this case from Amboseli National Park. (c) The importance of excluding wildlife can be seen by these exclosure plots set up by the African Conservation Centre in the Amboseli National Park. (d) Wildlife maintains the open nature of savannas by resource shari ...
... important in maintaining open savanna, in this case from Amboseli National Park. (c) The importance of excluding wildlife can be seen by these exclosure plots set up by the African Conservation Centre in the Amboseli National Park. (d) Wildlife maintains the open nature of savannas by resource shari ...
watersketch - Astra
... Developed by the UNDP, mainly used in developing countries Provides guidance on designing and implementing projects that reduce vulnerability to climate change and seeks to integrate national policy making efforts with a “bottom-up” movement ...
... Developed by the UNDP, mainly used in developing countries Provides guidance on designing and implementing projects that reduce vulnerability to climate change and seeks to integrate national policy making efforts with a “bottom-up” movement ...
Climate change adaptation in arable land use, and impact on
... Storylines for future crop production were based on two potential drivers causing changes to cropping systems: climate change and agricultural policy. For assessing the crop plant species and land use allocations, the “worstcase” IPCC SRES (Nakicenovic et al. 2000) scenario, namely A2 (i.e., no mark ...
... Storylines for future crop production were based on two potential drivers causing changes to cropping systems: climate change and agricultural policy. For assessing the crop plant species and land use allocations, the “worstcase” IPCC SRES (Nakicenovic et al. 2000) scenario, namely A2 (i.e., no mark ...
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND EQUITY IMPACTS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE AND
... on vulnerable and socially marginalized populations. Community vulnerability to climate change is determined by its ability to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from the impact of major weather events. Climate change will affect industrial and agricultural sectors, as well as transportation ...
... on vulnerable and socially marginalized populations. Community vulnerability to climate change is determined by its ability to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from the impact of major weather events. Climate change will affect industrial and agricultural sectors, as well as transportation ...
Impact of Climate Change on Irrigation Demand and Crop Growth in a Mediterranean Environment of Turkey
... particularly suited to quantify the combined effect of changes in CO2, temperature, rainfall and solar radiation on crop development and growth, and crop water use, as all the relevant processes are simulated separately while taking into account of their interactions. More detailed information on th ...
... particularly suited to quantify the combined effect of changes in CO2, temperature, rainfall and solar radiation on crop development and growth, and crop water use, as all the relevant processes are simulated separately while taking into account of their interactions. More detailed information on th ...