A Climate in Crisis: How climate change is making drought and
... during this and other droughts in the region is less definitive than the link to higher temperatures. But what is clear is that the decline in the long rains over the last three decades is ‘unprecedented in its persistence and intensity from at least 1874’.13 And it is easy to see in the data that d ...
... during this and other droughts in the region is less definitive than the link to higher temperatures. But what is clear is that the decline in the long rains over the last three decades is ‘unprecedented in its persistence and intensity from at least 1874’.13 And it is easy to see in the data that d ...
A Climate in Crisis: How climate change is
... they normally recover in the years that follow. But this relentless drought has left exceptional numbers of people without most or all of their livestock, and the risk of no rain or heavy downpours killing those animals that have survived now looms. Ismail, a pastoralist in Gashamo woreda, or distri ...
... they normally recover in the years that follow. But this relentless drought has left exceptional numbers of people without most or all of their livestock, and the risk of no rain or heavy downpours killing those animals that have survived now looms. Ismail, a pastoralist in Gashamo woreda, or distri ...
Implications of the response to Climate change for women`s
... involves developing activities around at least four important pillars: 1) improving women ‘s role in climate governance, through gender balance in representation and improved capacity building for climate negotiations for women; 2) programs and training for enhancing the skill set of women to undert ...
... involves developing activities around at least four important pillars: 1) improving women ‘s role in climate governance, through gender balance in representation and improved capacity building for climate negotiations for women; 2) programs and training for enhancing the skill set of women to undert ...
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... rainfed farms may be quite different from the response function of irrigated farms. It is also true that livestock is an important component of agriculture. Livestock accounts for a sizeable fraction of agriculture in every country and it is an important tool for adapting to dry conditions. This pap ...
... rainfed farms may be quite different from the response function of irrigated farms. It is also true that livestock is an important component of agriculture. Livestock accounts for a sizeable fraction of agriculture in every country and it is an important tool for adapting to dry conditions. This pap ...
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... in these areas are largely unexplored. To fill this empirical gap, this study evaluates the potential impacts from climate change on the agricultural sector of an economy located in the semi-tropical area-Taiwan. The results illustrate not only the sensitivity of agriculture to climate change in thi ...
... in these areas are largely unexplored. To fill this empirical gap, this study evaluates the potential impacts from climate change on the agricultural sector of an economy located in the semi-tropical area-Taiwan. The results illustrate not only the sensitivity of agriculture to climate change in thi ...
Public Perception of Climate Risk: The Case of Greece
... property [26]. Other researchers [28] associate the term public perception with certain risk characteristics and their level like awareness, preparedness and worry. In another research work [23] it is mentioned that individual behavior could be dependent on people’s anxiety and insecurity rather tha ...
... property [26]. Other researchers [28] associate the term public perception with certain risk characteristics and their level like awareness, preparedness and worry. In another research work [23] it is mentioned that individual behavior could be dependent on people’s anxiety and insecurity rather tha ...
Aug 14, 2010 - Science and Environmental Policy Project
... presumed trajectory of the global climate within which it is embedded. Yet the Report goes on to describe six such extreme events that occurred in the "particular year" of 2009, which would have to have been done for no other reason than to imply that these weather extremes were caused by global wa ...
... presumed trajectory of the global climate within which it is embedded. Yet the Report goes on to describe six such extreme events that occurred in the "particular year" of 2009, which would have to have been done for no other reason than to imply that these weather extremes were caused by global wa ...
Homo Sapiens And The Sixth Mass Extinction Of Species
... There is nowhere the 6.5 billion of contemporary humans can go, not even the barren planets into the study of which space agencies have been pouring more funding than governments allocate for environmental mitigation to date. At 460 ppm CO2-equivalent, the climate is tracking close to the upper sta ...
... There is nowhere the 6.5 billion of contemporary humans can go, not even the barren planets into the study of which space agencies have been pouring more funding than governments allocate for environmental mitigation to date. At 460 ppm CO2-equivalent, the climate is tracking close to the upper sta ...
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... methodology, more than half of the estimated damages “now and forever” occur after 2800. Using a more standard discount rate, leads to the social costs of carbon declining by a factor of 10 (Nordhaus 2007a). Illustrating the importance of assumptions about the discount rate is the fact that Stern id ...
... methodology, more than half of the estimated damages “now and forever” occur after 2800. Using a more standard discount rate, leads to the social costs of carbon declining by a factor of 10 (Nordhaus 2007a). Illustrating the importance of assumptions about the discount rate is the fact that Stern id ...
Projected temperature changes along the American cordillera and
... and control runs, averaged for the 7 models (for results from individual models, see auxiliary material1). The solid white line shows the maximum 50 50 elevation in each grid box. The black triangles show some of the highest mountains in each country along the transect. Thus the area between the w ...
... and control runs, averaged for the 7 models (for results from individual models, see auxiliary material1). The solid white line shows the maximum 50 50 elevation in each grid box. The black triangles show some of the highest mountains in each country along the transect. Thus the area between the w ...
Reconfiguring the Contours of Statehood and the Rights of Peoples
... the nation are important bonding mechanisms for their seven million inhabitants, many of whom have been living in the region for more than 10,000 years. How will the logic of the nation state fare in such regions in the future as more and more of their territories are lost due to the effects of clim ...
... the nation are important bonding mechanisms for their seven million inhabitants, many of whom have been living in the region for more than 10,000 years. How will the logic of the nation state fare in such regions in the future as more and more of their territories are lost due to the effects of clim ...
PowerPoint プレゼンテーション
... warming below 2000 m depth in the global ocean. An adjoint sensitivity analysis implies that changes in the water temperature in the local areas in the Southern Ocean can have subtle influence on the water warming in the pentadal/decadal time-scale. We are deploying several Deep float around the k ...
... warming below 2000 m depth in the global ocean. An adjoint sensitivity analysis implies that changes in the water temperature in the local areas in the Southern Ocean can have subtle influence on the water warming in the pentadal/decadal time-scale. We are deploying several Deep float around the k ...
Joint Declaration between the Government of the Federal Republic
... is considered as the frame of reference for German-Mexican cooperation in the field of climate action and beyond. The Paris agreement aims at implementing NDCs, with the ultimate goal of reaching climate resilient and low carbon growth and closely links this to the Agenda 2030 as both processes shou ...
... is considered as the frame of reference for German-Mexican cooperation in the field of climate action and beyond. The Paris agreement aims at implementing NDCs, with the ultimate goal of reaching climate resilient and low carbon growth and closely links this to the Agenda 2030 as both processes shou ...
Interactive comment on “Relationship between climate
... al(2006) who include civil warfare in their verifying the relationship between climate change and warfare in northern China, these authors only accounts for wars between the nomadic groups and agrarian societies. They focused their attention on the period from the Western Han Dynasty to the Tang Dy ...
... al(2006) who include civil warfare in their verifying the relationship between climate change and warfare in northern China, these authors only accounts for wars between the nomadic groups and agrarian societies. They focused their attention on the period from the Western Han Dynasty to the Tang Dy ...
Addressing climate change in Latin America and the
... have led to the loss of 45 per cent of Mexico’s original forest cover since 1950. From 1990 to 2000 alone, an average of 348,000 hectares was lost each year. If deforestation continues at this rate, approximately 70 per cent of Mexico’s forests are in danger of disappearing over the next 20 years. A ...
... have led to the loss of 45 per cent of Mexico’s original forest cover since 1950. From 1990 to 2000 alone, an average of 348,000 hectares was lost each year. If deforestation continues at this rate, approximately 70 per cent of Mexico’s forests are in danger of disappearing over the next 20 years. A ...
Abrupt Climate Change
... feedback process in which a warming event causes a change which leads to further warming this can also apply to, abrupt climate change union of concerned scientists - the term abrupt climate change describes changes in climate that occur over the span of years to decades compared to the human caused ...
... feedback process in which a warming event causes a change which leads to further warming this can also apply to, abrupt climate change union of concerned scientists - the term abrupt climate change describes changes in climate that occur over the span of years to decades compared to the human caused ...
Earth`s Climate - UW Courses Web Server
... • Scientific questions - What can we learn about future climate change from past climate change? - How accurately can we separate current and future climate change into natural and anthropogenic causes? ...
... • Scientific questions - What can we learn about future climate change from past climate change? - How accurately can we separate current and future climate change into natural and anthropogenic causes? ...
Running rings around climate change
... chronology extending back to 1724 BC. This record, one of a handful of multi-millennial-length chronologies in the world, is the second longest in the southern hemisphere. The kauri chronology is iconic due to its length and the sheer size of the trees it comes from. In addition, a pilot study funde ...
... chronology extending back to 1724 BC. This record, one of a handful of multi-millennial-length chronologies in the world, is the second longest in the southern hemisphere. The kauri chronology is iconic due to its length and the sheer size of the trees it comes from. In addition, a pilot study funde ...
Global Environmental Change Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2017 1
... these complex, multi-scale issues, we held a series of day-long deliberation workshops (two in the US and two in the UK) designed and facilitated for diverse groups of people to discuss a range of possible consequences and meanings of shale development. Amid nuanced differences between and within na ...
... these complex, multi-scale issues, we held a series of day-long deliberation workshops (two in the US and two in the UK) designed and facilitated for diverse groups of people to discuss a range of possible consequences and meanings of shale development. Amid nuanced differences between and within na ...
The Paleozoic Era - Grass Range Science
... During the Cambrian there were no polar or high altitude glaciers. Cambrian raised oxygen levels in Earth's atmosphere to approximately 10% of that found in the modern atmosphere. The Cambrian Earth likely had more equitable climates than present because of the large amount of surficial seawater The ...
... During the Cambrian there were no polar or high altitude glaciers. Cambrian raised oxygen levels in Earth's atmosphere to approximately 10% of that found in the modern atmosphere. The Cambrian Earth likely had more equitable climates than present because of the large amount of surficial seawater The ...
“CLIMATE CHANGE AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS,” (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance
... Depicting the World Order Challenges The two greatest world order challenges of a structural character over the course of the past seventy-five years have been, first, nuclear weaponry and, more recently, global climate change.6 On nuclear weaponry it can be argued that the challenge has been succes ...
... Depicting the World Order Challenges The two greatest world order challenges of a structural character over the course of the past seventy-five years have been, first, nuclear weaponry and, more recently, global climate change.6 On nuclear weaponry it can be argued that the challenge has been succes ...
Rapid climate change did not cause population collapse at
... BC to 400 cal. AD (14, Supplementary Table 2). For the period 1200 cal. BC to 500 cal. BC the results (Fig. 3) demonstrate clear patterns in relative levels of human activity that appear to reflect demographic fluctuations (14). There appears to be a distinct peak in human activity in Ireland at aro ...
... BC to 400 cal. AD (14, Supplementary Table 2). For the period 1200 cal. BC to 500 cal. BC the results (Fig. 3) demonstrate clear patterns in relative levels of human activity that appear to reflect demographic fluctuations (14). There appears to be a distinct peak in human activity in Ireland at aro ...
Planning in the face of uncertainty: weather and water
... So we have a range of choices here that range from some increase—modest ones like that greenand-red dashed line—all the way up through huge increases, depending on the choices people make. All of these scenarios would bring us up to a CO2 level that’s on the order of double what it was before the In ...
... So we have a range of choices here that range from some increase—modest ones like that greenand-red dashed line—all the way up through huge increases, depending on the choices people make. All of these scenarios would bring us up to a CO2 level that’s on the order of double what it was before the In ...
Zero Deforestation and the future of Brazil
... Because of this, in December 2015, representatives from 196 countries will meet, in Paris, for the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21). It is a crucial moment for setting up a new agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions starting in ...
... Because of this, in December 2015, representatives from 196 countries will meet, in Paris, for the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21). It is a crucial moment for setting up a new agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions starting in ...