All Climate Change is Local: Understanding and Predicting the
... Importantly, there are likely to be “winners” and “losers” in organismal responses to climate change, depending on how close organisms are living to their environmental limits and their thermal optima. Which species or populations are “winners” or “losers” may be determined by comparing the performa ...
... Importantly, there are likely to be “winners” and “losers” in organismal responses to climate change, depending on how close organisms are living to their environmental limits and their thermal optima. Which species or populations are “winners” or “losers” may be determined by comparing the performa ...
Key concepts
... Flu is a global pandemic that impacts people in many different countries. Recognise that although Swine Flu is of major international concern, it affects far fewer people than many other diseases or disasters. Recognise that some media reports were sensationalist and exaggerated. Develop a more bala ...
... Flu is a global pandemic that impacts people in many different countries. Recognise that although Swine Flu is of major international concern, it affects far fewer people than many other diseases or disasters. Recognise that some media reports were sensationalist and exaggerated. Develop a more bala ...
The Influence of Climate Variability and Change on the Science and
... 0.85°C globally with much of the increase occurring due to increases in minimum temperature (Hansen et al. 2010; IPCC 2014b). Similar changes have affected other properties of the Earth’s climate system, including spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation, sea ice extent, mean sea level, freque ...
... 0.85°C globally with much of the increase occurring due to increases in minimum temperature (Hansen et al. 2010; IPCC 2014b). Similar changes have affected other properties of the Earth’s climate system, including spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation, sea ice extent, mean sea level, freque ...
Full Paper - Agronomy 2015
... Wheat is a staple crop, and in Australia it is primarily produced in rainfed environments. Climate change projections indicate an increase in future rainfall variability and in temperature across the Australian wheatbelt. Coupled with the continued increase in demand for this crop due to rising popu ...
... Wheat is a staple crop, and in Australia it is primarily produced in rainfed environments. Climate change projections indicate an increase in future rainfall variability and in temperature across the Australian wheatbelt. Coupled with the continued increase in demand for this crop due to rising popu ...
Hansen et al Climate change
... from the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, which reduced sunlight reaching Earth's surface as much as 2%. The long-term global warming trend is predominately a forced climate change caused by increased human-made atmospheric gases, mainly CO2 (1). The basic physics underlying this global warming, t ...
... from the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, which reduced sunlight reaching Earth's surface as much as 2%. The long-term global warming trend is predominately a forced climate change caused by increased human-made atmospheric gases, mainly CO2 (1). The basic physics underlying this global warming, t ...
Scientific Case for Avoiding Dangerous Climate
... from the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, which reduced sunlight reaching Earth's surface as much as 2%. The long-term global warming trend is predominately a forced climate change caused by increased human-made atmospheric gases, mainly CO2 (1). The basic physics underlying this global warming, t ...
... from the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, which reduced sunlight reaching Earth's surface as much as 2%. The long-term global warming trend is predominately a forced climate change caused by increased human-made atmospheric gases, mainly CO2 (1). The basic physics underlying this global warming, t ...
S2 Climate Change Unit - Calderglen High School
... since 1990. Greenhouse gas emissions from road transport now make up 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions compared with 14% in 1990. In 2015 Volkswagen became embroiled in one of the biggest corporate scandals of recent years. The German car maker had been installing "defeat devices" software that a ...
... since 1990. Greenhouse gas emissions from road transport now make up 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions compared with 14% in 1990. In 2015 Volkswagen became embroiled in one of the biggest corporate scandals of recent years. The German car maker had been installing "defeat devices" software that a ...
“Smart Climate Change” for Professional Societies Workshop WORKSHOP REPORT
... take long to fulfill, for example emission targets; Sector provisions; these are sector-based legislations - the danger in these is that there is no connection among sectors for example the Environment Management Coordination Act does not connect with climate change issues. The legislation will ne ...
... take long to fulfill, for example emission targets; Sector provisions; these are sector-based legislations - the danger in these is that there is no connection among sectors for example the Environment Management Coordination Act does not connect with climate change issues. The legislation will ne ...
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... and Economic Model Evaluate policy alternatives: Impact of introducing conservation practices Impact of introducing incentives ...
... and Economic Model Evaluate policy alternatives: Impact of introducing conservation practices Impact of introducing incentives ...
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... Environment and ecosystems Accelerated glacier melting is likely to increase the number and severity of glacial melting-related floods, increase slope destabilisation and decrease river flows as glaciers recede. Freshwater availability in Central, South, East and Southeast Asia, particularly in larg ...
... Environment and ecosystems Accelerated glacier melting is likely to increase the number and severity of glacial melting-related floods, increase slope destabilisation and decrease river flows as glaciers recede. Freshwater availability in Central, South, East and Southeast Asia, particularly in larg ...
Appetite for Change - Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
... climate, high temperatures in summer but much lower temperatures in winter, low rainfall and high evaporation. It has a highly variable climate with some very wet years leading to large-scale flooding, such as in 2010-11 and 1974-75. Temperatures in the region have increased significantly over th ...
... climate, high temperatures in summer but much lower temperatures in winter, low rainfall and high evaporation. It has a highly variable climate with some very wet years leading to large-scale flooding, such as in 2010-11 and 1974-75. Temperatures in the region have increased significantly over th ...
Sustainable Enterprise
... or without regulation, the company is integrating related concerns into its underwriting practices. Notable in this regard are insurance packages for Directors’ & Officers (D&O) and Business Interruption (BI). Moreover, the company now channels considerable investments into a number of environmental ...
... or without regulation, the company is integrating related concerns into its underwriting practices. Notable in this regard are insurance packages for Directors’ & Officers (D&O) and Business Interruption (BI). Moreover, the company now channels considerable investments into a number of environmental ...
Emergence of polycentric climate governance and
... But if this blame-avoidance motivation is really as common as Howlett suggests, what is driving the new policy activity noted above? Are politicians engaging in complex forms of political risk management, for example by emulating and learning from what other countries are doing60 – a form of diffusi ...
... But if this blame-avoidance motivation is really as common as Howlett suggests, what is driving the new policy activity noted above? Are politicians engaging in complex forms of political risk management, for example by emulating and learning from what other countries are doing60 – a form of diffusi ...
eSoGE News - School of Geography and the Environment
... the current generation of climate models over 50- to 100year timescales are looking less likely, according to the paper published online by Nature Geoscience. Their findings, resulting from a broad international collaboration of scientists, are significant because they use ...
... the current generation of climate models over 50- to 100year timescales are looking less likely, according to the paper published online by Nature Geoscience. Their findings, resulting from a broad international collaboration of scientists, are significant because they use ...
Corporate ppt template - Global Carbon Project
... Vegetation dynamics in simulations of radiatively-forced climate change ...
... Vegetation dynamics in simulations of radiatively-forced climate change ...
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... has not, up to now, been any systematic exploration of what it amounts to or what effect it may be having. This report aims to begin to fill that gap. The report sets out the results of research into how climate change is being communicated and discussed in the UK, how it might be connecting or fail ...
... has not, up to now, been any systematic exploration of what it amounts to or what effect it may be having. This report aims to begin to fill that gap. The report sets out the results of research into how climate change is being communicated and discussed in the UK, how it might be connecting or fail ...
Cooperation Studies of Catastrophe Avoidance: Implications for
... many countries, international climate negotiations are crucial so that emission reduction targets can be set and countries can establish that they are not acting in isolation. However, despite more than twenty years of international climate negotiations following the establishment of the United Nati ...
... many countries, international climate negotiations are crucial so that emission reduction targets can be set and countries can establish that they are not acting in isolation. However, despite more than twenty years of international climate negotiations following the establishment of the United Nati ...
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... however, macro-economic adjustment effects of climate change due to changing relative prices. There is vast evidence that economic sectors, in particular the agricultural and the industrial sector, are exposed to climate change and the resulting damages to a different extent: Analyzing global temper ...
... however, macro-economic adjustment effects of climate change due to changing relative prices. There is vast evidence that economic sectors, in particular the agricultural and the industrial sector, are exposed to climate change and the resulting damages to a different extent: Analyzing global temper ...
Phenomenological solar signature in 400 years of reconstructed N. Scafetta
... 0.7 K during the solar Maunder Minimum (1645 – 1715) and a minimum of T 0.6 K during the solar Dalton Minimum (1795– 1825). In recent years NH temperature reached a maximum of T 0.5 K. [7] We adopt three different TSI proxy reconstructions [Lean et al., 1995; Lean, 2000; Wang et al., 2005]; se ...
... 0.7 K during the solar Maunder Minimum (1645 – 1715) and a minimum of T 0.6 K during the solar Dalton Minimum (1795– 1825). In recent years NH temperature reached a maximum of T 0.5 K. [7] We adopt three different TSI proxy reconstructions [Lean et al., 1995; Lean, 2000; Wang et al., 2005]; se ...
Adapting to drought in the Sahel: Lessons for
... The Sahel experience has a wider than regional relevance for the following reasons: 1. Adaptation strategies and policies are usually framed by the conventional paradigm of climate change defined in terms of more frequent and intense extreme events. Such is the challenge of drought in the Sahel. Les ...
... The Sahel experience has a wider than regional relevance for the following reasons: 1. Adaptation strategies and policies are usually framed by the conventional paradigm of climate change defined in terms of more frequent and intense extreme events. Such is the challenge of drought in the Sahel. Les ...
elninocyclones - Global Change System for Analysis, Research
... Should we believe in estimates of climate change and impacts on tropical ...
... Should we believe in estimates of climate change and impacts on tropical ...
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... Vulnerability Scenarios and Development Pathways: Advancing Key Components for Comprehensive Climate Change Risk and Adaptation Science Matthias Garschagen & Joern Birkmann • To date strong focus on bio-geo-physical scenarios for climate change hazards • However scenarios for societal development, ...
... Vulnerability Scenarios and Development Pathways: Advancing Key Components for Comprehensive Climate Change Risk and Adaptation Science Matthias Garschagen & Joern Birkmann • To date strong focus on bio-geo-physical scenarios for climate change hazards • However scenarios for societal development, ...
Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements
... The effects of urbanization and climate change are converging in dangerous ways that seriously threaten the world’s environmental, economic and social stability. Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements 2011 seeks to improve knowledge, among governments and all those interested ...
... The effects of urbanization and climate change are converging in dangerous ways that seriously threaten the world’s environmental, economic and social stability. Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements 2011 seeks to improve knowledge, among governments and all those interested ...
Vol.11, No.2, 2011
... simulated wind oscillation has the observed downward propagation, roughly the right amplitude, and a mean period only somewhat shorter than observed (24 months vs the observed 27 – 28 months). The simulated oscillation, however, is more regular than that observed, the period of almost every cycle lo ...
... simulated wind oscillation has the observed downward propagation, roughly the right amplitude, and a mean period only somewhat shorter than observed (24 months vs the observed 27 – 28 months). The simulated oscillation, however, is more regular than that observed, the period of almost every cycle lo ...