Samford Spending DA Ups
... Job growth has been improving, but not enough to quickly lower unemployment. Since early 2010, the U.S. has added 3.7 million jobs. Payrolls have made average monthly gains of 85,000 in 2010, 153,000 in 2011 and 164,000 so far this year. Yet the nation still has 5 million fewer jobs than it did when ...
... Job growth has been improving, but not enough to quickly lower unemployment. Since early 2010, the U.S. has added 3.7 million jobs. Payrolls have made average monthly gains of 85,000 in 2010, 153,000 in 2011 and 164,000 so far this year. Yet the nation still has 5 million fewer jobs than it did when ...
Detection of intensification of the global water cycle: the potential
... calculated using low values for the probability of making type I and II errors (i.e. α = 0.05, β = 0.10). These conservative criteria equate to a “low risk” of: (a) detecting intensification when it is not occurring, and (b) not detecting intensification when it is occurring. If we allow α and β to ...
... calculated using low values for the probability of making type I and II errors (i.e. α = 0.05, β = 0.10). These conservative criteria equate to a “low risk” of: (a) detecting intensification when it is not occurring, and (b) not detecting intensification when it is occurring. If we allow α and β to ...
Downscaling Tools - University of Victoria
... determining sensible combinations of predictors • Daily precipitation amount at individual stations is the most problematic variable to downscale • The plausibility of all SDSM scenarios depends on the realism of the climate model forcing • Try to apply multiple forcing scenarios (via different GCMs ...
... determining sensible combinations of predictors • Daily precipitation amount at individual stations is the most problematic variable to downscale • The plausibility of all SDSM scenarios depends on the realism of the climate model forcing • Try to apply multiple forcing scenarios (via different GCMs ...
www.ssoar.info How earth science has become a social science
... time rather scant, so our sample was small. However, for those systems for which we could find sufficient information to permit post hoc analysis, we found a striking result: that it was common for system behavior to diverge substantially from model predictions, and the most common cause of that di ...
... time rather scant, so our sample was small. However, for those systems for which we could find sufficient information to permit post hoc analysis, we found a striking result: that it was common for system behavior to diverge substantially from model predictions, and the most common cause of that di ...
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... framework and upscaled to the landscape level. They also allowed for an integration of alternative policy solutions and institutional reforms to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change and thus the feedback between ecological impacts of climate change, land-use changes and policy could be cl ...
... framework and upscaled to the landscape level. They also allowed for an integration of alternative policy solutions and institutional reforms to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change and thus the feedback between ecological impacts of climate change, land-use changes and policy could be cl ...
Climate change and sustainable water resources: placing the threat
... Key sources of demand The trend to urbanization further aggravates the problem by increasing per capita demand. Between 1990 and 2025, the percentage of the world population living in urban areas could rise by 50%, accounting for nearly two thirds of the total world population in 2025. Whereas most ...
... Key sources of demand The trend to urbanization further aggravates the problem by increasing per capita demand. Between 1990 and 2025, the percentage of the world population living in urban areas could rise by 50%, accounting for nearly two thirds of the total world population in 2025. Whereas most ...
quantifying the impact of climate change on
... and concluded that “…anthropogenic climate change played an important role in the record Australian maximum temperatures in September 2013”. King et al. (2014) also explored the role of severe drought along with climate change in driving the extreme heat of 2013 (Figure 5). They found that the extre ...
... and concluded that “…anthropogenic climate change played an important role in the record Australian maximum temperatures in September 2013”. King et al. (2014) also explored the role of severe drought along with climate change in driving the extreme heat of 2013 (Figure 5). They found that the extre ...
Status Description Total Funding Pacific iCLIM Completed
... Carry out agrobiodiversity case study in Pukapuka to record baseline agrobiodiveristy as well Completed as community observations regarding the climate and crop perfromamce Management techniques that prevent Combatting Coral Bleaching and bleaching of limited reef areas are the Completed Ocean Acidi ...
... Carry out agrobiodiversity case study in Pukapuka to record baseline agrobiodiveristy as well Completed as community observations regarding the climate and crop perfromamce Management techniques that prevent Combatting Coral Bleaching and bleaching of limited reef areas are the Completed Ocean Acidi ...
Restorative Land Use as Appropriate Technology: a System Account
... available in the light of current trends or are more resilient options needed? In addition to impact minimisation, Appropriate Technology assesses resource availability and its sustainability over time and the context in which technology is to be used and repaired. In addition these approaches to AT ...
... available in the light of current trends or are more resilient options needed? In addition to impact minimisation, Appropriate Technology assesses resource availability and its sustainability over time and the context in which technology is to be used and repaired. In addition these approaches to AT ...
Choice, Not Control: Why Limiting the Fertility of Poor Populations
... billions of people, the vast majority of whom are living in poverty. However, people living in poverty bear little historical responsibility for the greenhouse gas emissions that have set global warming in motion. Perversely, the poorest communities are the hardest hit by climate change impacts – fo ...
... billions of people, the vast majority of whom are living in poverty. However, people living in poverty bear little historical responsibility for the greenhouse gas emissions that have set global warming in motion. Perversely, the poorest communities are the hardest hit by climate change impacts – fo ...
Forced migration: a new challenge
... already triggering displacement and migration, as a result of increasingly intense weather events, rising sea levels, and accelerated environmental degradation. In the future, we may be facing an increase in population flows that the world is presently ill-equipped to tackle effectively. While clima ...
... already triggering displacement and migration, as a result of increasingly intense weather events, rising sea levels, and accelerated environmental degradation. In the future, we may be facing an increase in population flows that the world is presently ill-equipped to tackle effectively. While clima ...
Biodiversity, climate change, and ecosystem services
... example of this documenting the consequences of declines in populations of great sharks in the coastal northwest Atlantic ecosystem. The decline resulted in increases in the population of rays, skates and small sharks. The increase in cownose ray was sufficient to reduce their scallop prey to a leve ...
... example of this documenting the consequences of declines in populations of great sharks in the coastal northwest Atlantic ecosystem. The decline resulted in increases in the population of rays, skates and small sharks. The increase in cownose ray was sufficient to reduce their scallop prey to a leve ...
07_CC_Causes_I_Sahlmann - Potsdam Institute for Climate
... atmospheric carbon dioxide is fixed in the process of weathering of silicates and transported to inner parts of the earth carbon dioxide is released through: drifting of the continents (formation of mountains) ...
... atmospheric carbon dioxide is fixed in the process of weathering of silicates and transported to inner parts of the earth carbon dioxide is released through: drifting of the continents (formation of mountains) ...
Changing US Extreme Temperature Statistics
... For example, the length of a growing season is often defined as the interval between the last vernal and first autumnal frosts. Heat stress on plants and animals, including people, is determined by peak temperatures rather than the mean temperature. Extreme temperatures can change independently of t ...
... For example, the length of a growing season is often defined as the interval between the last vernal and first autumnal frosts. Heat stress on plants and animals, including people, is determined by peak temperatures rather than the mean temperature. Extreme temperatures can change independently of t ...
responding to changes in nature
... major emitters including the USA and China, and that this agreement has the backing of the majority of countries. It is also positive that the Copenhagen Accord will list the commitments of both developed and developing countries in tackling greenhouse gas emissions (the latest commitments can be se ...
... major emitters including the USA and China, and that this agreement has the backing of the majority of countries. It is also positive that the Copenhagen Accord will list the commitments of both developed and developing countries in tackling greenhouse gas emissions (the latest commitments can be se ...
Whales in Hot Water? - Whale and Dolphin Conservation
... potentially benefit some top predators. However several cetacean species are permanently resident in the arctic and dependent to varying extents on the productive sea ice edge for foraging, in addition to using ice cover to avoid predation. These ice-associated arctic cetaceans are likely to be nega ...
... potentially benefit some top predators. However several cetacean species are permanently resident in the arctic and dependent to varying extents on the productive sea ice edge for foraging, in addition to using ice cover to avoid predation. These ice-associated arctic cetaceans are likely to be nega ...
Whales in Hot Water?
... potentially benefit some top predators. However several cetacean species are permanently resident in the arctic and dependent to varying extents on the productive sea ice edge for foraging, in addition to using ice cover to avoid predation. These ice-associated arctic cetaceans are likely to be nega ...
... potentially benefit some top predators. However several cetacean species are permanently resident in the arctic and dependent to varying extents on the productive sea ice edge for foraging, in addition to using ice cover to avoid predation. These ice-associated arctic cetaceans are likely to be nega ...
Nine Facts About Climate Change
... 2. Carbon dioxide is necessary for all life on earth and increasing atmospheric concentrations are beneficial to plant growth, particularly in arid conditions. Because the radiation properties of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are already saturated, increasing atmospheric concentrations beyond cur ...
... 2. Carbon dioxide is necessary for all life on earth and increasing atmospheric concentrations are beneficial to plant growth, particularly in arid conditions. Because the radiation properties of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are already saturated, increasing atmospheric concentrations beyond cur ...
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... concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased.” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, AR5 WGI September 2013 ...
... concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased.” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, AR5 WGI September 2013 ...
Aalborg Universitet Rasmussen, Torben Valdbjørn
... Buildings play a vital economic and social role in society and are vulnerable to climate change. This paper suggests a strategic approach for existing buildings to withstand climate change. It emphasises the most likely climate impacts, including the change in mean year values as well as the extent ...
... Buildings play a vital economic and social role in society and are vulnerable to climate change. This paper suggests a strategic approach for existing buildings to withstand climate change. It emphasises the most likely climate impacts, including the change in mean year values as well as the extent ...
Using the NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index
... species, natural history information (e.g., habitat relationships, key relationaships with other species), and literature documenting the species’ response to climate change or predicting future distribution (if available). When preparing to apply the Index to a group of species, the required spatia ...
... species, natural history information (e.g., habitat relationships, key relationaships with other species), and literature documenting the species’ response to climate change or predicting future distribution (if available). When preparing to apply the Index to a group of species, the required spatia ...
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... difficult to calibrate their temperature against the instrumental record which introduces substantial uncertainties (e.g. Rhodes et al. (2012)). An interesting aspect to discuss here would be the magnitude of the Antarctic temperature departure, or in how far ice/ocean feedbacks may kick in after st ...
... difficult to calibrate their temperature against the instrumental record which introduces substantial uncertainties (e.g. Rhodes et al. (2012)). An interesting aspect to discuss here would be the magnitude of the Antarctic temperature departure, or in how far ice/ocean feedbacks may kick in after st ...
Global Warming and Polar Bears
... causing it and it will have devastating consequences: False •Glaciers and Ice Caps are melting and are the main contributor to sea-level rise: False •Global warming is causing Polar Bears to starve and drown: False • Polar Bear populations won't be able to adapt to rapid climate change: False, clima ...
... causing it and it will have devastating consequences: False •Glaciers and Ice Caps are melting and are the main contributor to sea-level rise: False •Global warming is causing Polar Bears to starve and drown: False • Polar Bear populations won't be able to adapt to rapid climate change: False, clima ...
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... Copyright 2011 by Phouphet KYOPHILAVONG and Shinya TAKAMATSU. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. ...
... Copyright 2011 by Phouphet KYOPHILAVONG and Shinya TAKAMATSU. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. ...
The influence of climate change on Western Australian agriculture
... with the maxima increasing by almost as much as the minima. Winter and spring have experienced the most warming and summer the least (IOCI 2005). The increase in temperature since 1950 has involved relatively large increases in the frequency of extreme heat, which has the potential to significantly ...
... with the maxima increasing by almost as much as the minima. Winter and spring have experienced the most warming and summer the least (IOCI 2005). The increase in temperature since 1950 has involved relatively large increases in the frequency of extreme heat, which has the potential to significantly ...