PERCEPTIONS OF MAPLE PRODUCERS TOWARDS CLIMATE CHANGE
... Because maple producers depend on the health of sugar maples for their economic well-being and as the foundation of family traditions and community life, adapting to changes in maple production will likely be necessary in the future and will require planning. Understanding all factors that affect th ...
... Because maple producers depend on the health of sugar maples for their economic well-being and as the foundation of family traditions and community life, adapting to changes in maple production will likely be necessary in the future and will require planning. Understanding all factors that affect th ...
shaping our future
... of world we want to live in, and has been the engine of progressive change. We secured the right to vote for women, and have won many battles in the struggle for equality and human rights, and against poverty and injustice. Climate change is now the most pressing of the challenges facing humanity. I ...
... of world we want to live in, and has been the engine of progressive change. We secured the right to vote for women, and have won many battles in the struggle for equality and human rights, and against poverty and injustice. Climate change is now the most pressing of the challenges facing humanity. I ...
Low Emissions Diet
... Appendix 3: Greenhouse gases and black carbon ........................................................37 ...
... Appendix 3: Greenhouse gases and black carbon ........................................................37 ...
explaining extreme events of 2013
... and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that occurred in 2013. The findings indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased the risk for the extreme heat waves assessed in this rep ...
... and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that occurred in 2013. The findings indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased the risk for the extreme heat waves assessed in this rep ...
The use of the aridity index to assess climate change effect on
... Available energy (often expressed in terms of potential evaporation) and precipitation largely determine annual evapotranspiration and runoff rates in a region. The ratio of annual potential evaporation to precipitation, referred to as the aridity index by Budyko, has been shown to describe the evap ...
... Available energy (often expressed in terms of potential evaporation) and precipitation largely determine annual evapotranspiration and runoff rates in a region. The ratio of annual potential evaporation to precipitation, referred to as the aridity index by Budyko, has been shown to describe the evap ...
download: - IMPRESSIONS project
... • IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios. (IPCC SRES; Nakićenović et al., 2000). Focus: climate and greenhouse gas emissions. This is the most used and most well-known of all scenario sets in existence. It is global but has been used as the starting point for many continental and national scenari ...
... • IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios. (IPCC SRES; Nakićenović et al., 2000). Focus: climate and greenhouse gas emissions. This is the most used and most well-known of all scenario sets in existence. It is global but has been used as the starting point for many continental and national scenari ...
The use of the aridity index to assess climate
... Available energy (often expressed in terms of potential evaporation) and precipitation largely determine annual evapotranspiration and runoff rates in a region. The ratio of annual potential evaporation to precipitation, referred to as the aridity index by Budyko, has been shown to describe the evap ...
... Available energy (often expressed in terms of potential evaporation) and precipitation largely determine annual evapotranspiration and runoff rates in a region. The ratio of annual potential evaporation to precipitation, referred to as the aridity index by Budyko, has been shown to describe the evap ...
Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate
... Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that occurred in 2013. The findings indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased t ...
... Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that occurred in 2013. The findings indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased t ...
Forests and Climate Change in Latin America: Linking Adaptation
... conservation and sustainable management of ecosystems and their services can generate multiple socio-ecological benefits and promote long-term approaches to climate change adaptation [31]. Under the UNFCCC, least-developed countries are required to produce a National Adaptation Programme of Action ( ...
... conservation and sustainable management of ecosystems and their services can generate multiple socio-ecological benefits and promote long-term approaches to climate change adaptation [31]. Under the UNFCCC, least-developed countries are required to produce a National Adaptation Programme of Action ( ...
Climate Change Adaptation by Federal Agencies: An Analysis Jane A. Leggett, Coordinator
... Agency adaptation plans are available from many agencies via the following web page at performance.gov (http://www.performance.gov/node/3406?view=public#supporting-info). Links to agencies’ adaptation web pages are also available in Table 1. ...
... Agency adaptation plans are available from many agencies via the following web page at performance.gov (http://www.performance.gov/node/3406?view=public#supporting-info). Links to agencies’ adaptation web pages are also available in Table 1. ...
HENRY N. POLLACK, PhD Professor of Geophysics
... Keynote address, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab conference on the Great Lakes (2008) 3rd Annual Carolina Climate Lecturer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2008) Mary and Richard Holland Lecturer, Omaha, Nebraska (2007) Purdue Sinai Forum Lecturer, Michigan City, Indiana (2006 ...
... Keynote address, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab conference on the Great Lakes (2008) 3rd Annual Carolina Climate Lecturer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2008) Mary and Richard Holland Lecturer, Omaha, Nebraska (2007) Purdue Sinai Forum Lecturer, Michigan City, Indiana (2006 ...
Modelling the Miocene climatic optimum, Part 1: land and atmosphere
... areas such as the Tibetan Plateau and Andean Cordillera (see Herold et al. (2008) for details). ...
... areas such as the Tibetan Plateau and Andean Cordillera (see Herold et al. (2008) for details). ...
Nisbet_Web CV Jan 2016
... fact checking? The role of contextual cues and naïve theory. Journal of Communication. 63(4), 617-637 doi: 10.1111/jcom.12038 Hart, P.S. & Nisbet, E.C. (2012). Boomerang effects in science communication: How motivated reasoning and identity cues amplify opinion polarization about climate mitigation ...
... fact checking? The role of contextual cues and naïve theory. Journal of Communication. 63(4), 617-637 doi: 10.1111/jcom.12038 Hart, P.S. & Nisbet, E.C. (2012). Boomerang effects in science communication: How motivated reasoning and identity cues amplify opinion polarization about climate mitigation ...
G. NAPA Team - Global Environment Facility
... growing fast at 6-7% per year. The country is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world with a 1999 GNP/capita of US$370 (compared to US$ 581 in South Asia). Agriculture, which accounts for 25.3% of GDP, is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Several studies have been made ...
... growing fast at 6-7% per year. The country is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world with a 1999 GNP/capita of US$370 (compared to US$ 581 in South Asia). Agriculture, which accounts for 25.3% of GDP, is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Several studies have been made ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AMBIGUITY AND CLIMATE POLICY Antony Millner Simon Dietz
... that violate the sure-thing principle in Ellsberg’s choice experiments, even when this violation is pointed out to them. This is in stark contrast to other decision theoretic ‘paradoxes’, such as the Allais paradox, where people often revert to the prescriptions of expected utility once their violat ...
... that violate the sure-thing principle in Ellsberg’s choice experiments, even when this violation is pointed out to them. This is in stark contrast to other decision theoretic ‘paradoxes’, such as the Allais paradox, where people often revert to the prescriptions of expected utility once their violat ...
Potential future fisheries yields in shelf waters: a model study of the
... combined effects of direct (species level) and indirect (abiotic environment level) changes due to ocean acidification across the food web remain unknown. However, these relative impacts need to be understood in order to support effective and targeted environmental management. This study applies a m ...
... combined effects of direct (species level) and indirect (abiotic environment level) changes due to ocean acidification across the food web remain unknown. However, these relative impacts need to be understood in order to support effective and targeted environmental management. This study applies a m ...
Climate change in Strategic Environmental Assessment
... leading to a general consensus that climate change is actually happening today. Climate change, in its broadest sense, is thereby also beginning to play an increasingly important role in spatial planning globally. The issue is now landing in the area of interplay between spatial planning and environ ...
... leading to a general consensus that climate change is actually happening today. Climate change, in its broadest sense, is thereby also beginning to play an increasingly important role in spatial planning globally. The issue is now landing in the area of interplay between spatial planning and environ ...
Zimbabwe`s National Climate Change Response Strategy
... and is also of the view that climate change has the potential to undermine many of the positive developments made in its meeting the country’s development goals. Both climate change and policies to minimize its effects have enormous socio-economic and environmental implications. The challenge for th ...
... and is also of the view that climate change has the potential to undermine many of the positive developments made in its meeting the country’s development goals. Both climate change and policies to minimize its effects have enormous socio-economic and environmental implications. The challenge for th ...
Permafrost_breakout
... equivalent calculated assuming 2.7% of total emissions is methane (Schuur et al. 2011) and a global warming potential of 33 (Shindell et al. 2009) b calculated from emission rates in the paper c not available ...
... equivalent calculated assuming 2.7% of total emissions is methane (Schuur et al. 2011) and a global warming potential of 33 (Shindell et al. 2009) b calculated from emission rates in the paper c not available ...
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... larger at Xiehela Hydrological Station than that at the Aksu Meteorological Station. Although precipitation is generally much different between high mountains and low elevations, the overall long-term trend should be similar. In view of the significant recession of this and other glaciers in the Tom ...
... larger at Xiehela Hydrological Station than that at the Aksu Meteorological Station. Although precipitation is generally much different between high mountains and low elevations, the overall long-term trend should be similar. In view of the significant recession of this and other glaciers in the Tom ...
Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report The Core Writing Team Rajendra K. Pachauri
... Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The IPCC is now 95 percent certain that humans are the main cause of current global warming. In addition, the SYR finds that the more human activities disrupt the climate, the greater the risks of severe, perva ...
... Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The IPCC is now 95 percent certain that humans are the main cause of current global warming. In addition, the SYR finds that the more human activities disrupt the climate, the greater the risks of severe, perva ...
Best practices and available tools for the use of indigenous
... This includes adaptive capacity in the form of indigenous and local knowledge, which may also be gender specific, reflecting women and men’s different but complementary roles, for instance in environment and natural resource management. In fact, according to Mearns and Norton (2009), gender and indi ...
... This includes adaptive capacity in the form of indigenous and local knowledge, which may also be gender specific, reflecting women and men’s different but complementary roles, for instance in environment and natural resource management. In fact, according to Mearns and Norton (2009), gender and indi ...
The Role of Methane in Climate (Change)
... There's actually no good evidence of shallow hydrate on the Siberian shelves, even though there are substantial quantities of subsea permafrost. Hydrate may exist deeper down however, more than 50 meters below the seafloor. The stability of these hydrates is sustained by the existence of permafrost, ...
... There's actually no good evidence of shallow hydrate on the Siberian shelves, even though there are substantial quantities of subsea permafrost. Hydrate may exist deeper down however, more than 50 meters below the seafloor. The stability of these hydrates is sustained by the existence of permafrost, ...
International Council on Human Rights Policy (Stephen Humphreys), Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide (ICHRP, 2008) - FULL TEXT
... Thinking about climate change from a human rights perspective is not only a fundamental necessity in terms of guiding our international development policy framework, but also offers us an invaluable opportunity to reappraise the most pressing needs of a highly inequitable global society, with greatl ...
... Thinking about climate change from a human rights perspective is not only a fundamental necessity in terms of guiding our international development policy framework, but also offers us an invaluable opportunity to reappraise the most pressing needs of a highly inequitable global society, with greatl ...
Development Aid and Climate Finance: Working Paper 123 (397 kB) (opens in new window)
... The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to bring together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy to create ...
... The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to bring together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy to create ...