Vulnerability of Infrastructure to Climate Variability: How Does This
... Increases in average (or mean) surface temperature will influence the normal range of weather patterns for major areas of the globe (IPCC 2001a). The normal range of weather patterns will be influenced in two ways. First, there will be gradual changes in weather patterns. Incremental changes in prec ...
... Increases in average (or mean) surface temperature will influence the normal range of weather patterns for major areas of the globe (IPCC 2001a). The normal range of weather patterns will be influenced in two ways. First, there will be gradual changes in weather patterns. Incremental changes in prec ...
Environmentally induced migration and displacement: a
... Guiding Principles), the Assembly observes that no legal framework or defined policy exists that would cover the full scope of environmentally induced migration in the widest sense of the term. It therefore calls upon international organisations active in this field to consider the elaboration of a ...
... Guiding Principles), the Assembly observes that no legal framework or defined policy exists that would cover the full scope of environmentally induced migration in the widest sense of the term. It therefore calls upon international organisations active in this field to consider the elaboration of a ...
Ireland in a Warmer World
... (2001a), and AR4 (2007). However, even for AR4 the horizontal resolutions are typically ~200km for the century-long simulations. Vertical resolutions (atmosphere and ocean) have increased in line with the horizontal resolution (typically about thirty levels in both cases for AR4). In contrast, globa ...
... (2001a), and AR4 (2007). However, even for AR4 the horizontal resolutions are typically ~200km for the century-long simulations. Vertical resolutions (atmosphere and ocean) have increased in line with the horizontal resolution (typically about thirty levels in both cases for AR4). In contrast, globa ...
Surviving climate change in small islands
... experiencing wide-spread severe environmental change and it has always adapted to these changes. Since human beings have lived on this planet they have coped with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, droughts, floods, heat waves and mini-ice ages as well as numerous other forms of environmental ...
... experiencing wide-spread severe environmental change and it has always adapted to these changes. Since human beings have lived on this planet they have coped with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, droughts, floods, heat waves and mini-ice ages as well as numerous other forms of environmental ...
SECOND-ORDER DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 24 Do Not Cite
... Warming trends and increasing temperature extremes have been observed across most of the Asian region (high confidence) [24.3]. Increasing trends in annual mean temperatures and numbers of warm days, and a decreasing trend in cold days, have been observed across most of the Asian region, including t ...
... Warming trends and increasing temperature extremes have been observed across most of the Asian region (high confidence) [24.3]. Increasing trends in annual mean temperatures and numbers of warm days, and a decreasing trend in cold days, have been observed across most of the Asian region, including t ...
The economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
... Climate change poses one of the most formidable challenges of the twenty-first century. Its planet-wide causes and consequences are coupled with uneven, asymmetrical impacts on different regions, countries and socioeconomic groups, with those that have contributed the least to global warming often b ...
... Climate change poses one of the most formidable challenges of the twenty-first century. Its planet-wide causes and consequences are coupled with uneven, asymmetrical impacts on different regions, countries and socioeconomic groups, with those that have contributed the least to global warming often b ...
About this Sourcebook - Stockholm Environment Institute
... Part 2 of this Sourcebook provides basic background material on the science of climate change. Climate-proofing ongoing and future projects and policies requires a strong understanding of climate science. This Part reviews the science of climate change summarized in the most recent IPCC Fourth Asses ...
... Part 2 of this Sourcebook provides basic background material on the science of climate change. Climate-proofing ongoing and future projects and policies requires a strong understanding of climate science. This Part reviews the science of climate change summarized in the most recent IPCC Fourth Asses ...
(2012), Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide
... The covariation of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and temperature in Antarctic ice-core records suggests a close link between CO2 and climate during the Pleistocene ice ages. The role and relative importance of CO2 in producing these climate changes remains unclear, however, in part because the ...
... The covariation of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and temperature in Antarctic ice-core records suggests a close link between CO2 and climate during the Pleistocene ice ages. The role and relative importance of CO2 in producing these climate changes remains unclear, however, in part because the ...
Planning for Climate Change Effects on Coastal Margins
... this proportion is expected to rise rapidly (IPCC, 2001b). This social pressure for coastal development is largely oblivious to the reality of global warming due to the enhanced greenhouse effect from human activities, and to resulting long-term changes to coastal hazards that will impinge on coasta ...
... this proportion is expected to rise rapidly (IPCC, 2001b). This social pressure for coastal development is largely oblivious to the reality of global warming due to the enhanced greenhouse effect from human activities, and to resulting long-term changes to coastal hazards that will impinge on coasta ...
9 IEAGHG Information Paper 2014-19: Report on London Convention meeting LC-36... Very slow progress on Export of CO
... In terms of CCS, its importance cannot be hidden, both for reducing emissions from fossil fuels and also for combining with bioenergy to take CO2 out of the atmosphere (BECCS or BioCCS). The importance of CCS jumps out of table SPM2 (Table 3.2 in full report) where their analysis shows that removing ...
... In terms of CCS, its importance cannot be hidden, both for reducing emissions from fossil fuels and also for combining with bioenergy to take CO2 out of the atmosphere (BECCS or BioCCS). The importance of CCS jumps out of table SPM2 (Table 3.2 in full report) where their analysis shows that removing ...
Jul 16, 2016 - Science and Environmental Policy Project
... Other things being equal, increasing CO2 will cause warming, not cooling. The question is what influence does an increase in CO2 have on the world’s temperatures? Other issues such as unusual weather, unusual sea level rise, etc. may follow from increased temperatures. Tasked by the National Academy ...
... Other things being equal, increasing CO2 will cause warming, not cooling. The question is what influence does an increase in CO2 have on the world’s temperatures? Other issues such as unusual weather, unusual sea level rise, etc. may follow from increased temperatures. Tasked by the National Academy ...
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... Greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere for centuries and the decay of most greenhouse gases takes more than fifty years. Therefore, the global warming problem will persist for at least the next century. Climate change is expected to do damages to the economy, with estimates of, on avera ...
... Greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere for centuries and the decay of most greenhouse gases takes more than fifty years. Therefore, the global warming problem will persist for at least the next century. Climate change is expected to do damages to the economy, with estimates of, on avera ...
North American megadroughts in the Common Era
... broader spatial context, demonstrating for the first time that megadroughts afflicted nearly every area of the West. These foundational studies helped launch an entire body of megadrought research using a diversity of paleoclimate proxies, including tree rings,16,21,22 lake sediments,23 and pollen rec ...
... broader spatial context, demonstrating for the first time that megadroughts afflicted nearly every area of the West. These foundational studies helped launch an entire body of megadrought research using a diversity of paleoclimate proxies, including tree rings,16,21,22 lake sediments,23 and pollen rec ...
Agreeing to disagree: Uncertainty management in assessing climate
... makers and other stakeholders are critical for the robustness of findings (e.g., Craye et al., 2005). Hence, frameworks other than the IPCC may lead to different results. However, in this paper, we take the position and procedures of the IPCC as an intermediary between science and policy as a given, ...
... makers and other stakeholders are critical for the robustness of findings (e.g., Craye et al., 2005). Hence, frameworks other than the IPCC may lead to different results. However, in this paper, we take the position and procedures of the IPCC as an intermediary between science and policy as a given, ...
“Duck Factory” of North America - American Meteorological Society
... The response of wetland habitat to climate variation can be complex, and the PPR may also be quite sensitive to future changes in precipitation and temperature. Prairie pothole wetlands go through a so-called vegetation cover cycle whereby ponds within the basin go from extensive open water with lit ...
... The response of wetland habitat to climate variation can be complex, and the PPR may also be quite sensitive to future changes in precipitation and temperature. Prairie pothole wetlands go through a so-called vegetation cover cycle whereby ponds within the basin go from extensive open water with lit ...
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... reducing poverty and food insecurity in arid and semi-arid regions of developing countries. Conversely, agriculture is a major contributor to climate variability and change by emitting greenhouse gases and reducing the agroecology’s potential for carbon sequestration. What however, is the empirical ...
... reducing poverty and food insecurity in arid and semi-arid regions of developing countries. Conversely, agriculture is a major contributor to climate variability and change by emitting greenhouse gases and reducing the agroecology’s potential for carbon sequestration. What however, is the empirical ...
Draft African Union Strategy on Climate Change (2015)
... The fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) explicitly shows the world is warming faster than estimated before and that humans caused most of that change over the last decades. It is also clear that climate change will continue, at a pace determined by past, p ...
... The fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) explicitly shows the world is warming faster than estimated before and that humans caused most of that change over the last decades. It is also clear that climate change will continue, at a pace determined by past, p ...
STRIVE Ireland in a Warmer Report Series No.27
... Renewable energy sources are of growing importance. The impact of climate change on available wind energy is considered in Chapter 9. The simulations show an increase of about 10% in available wind power in future winter months in the middle of the century and a decrease of a comparable magnitude in ...
... Renewable energy sources are of growing importance. The impact of climate change on available wind energy is considered in Chapter 9. The simulations show an increase of about 10% in available wind power in future winter months in the middle of the century and a decrease of a comparable magnitude in ...
GDI 12 – Warming Core
... eruptions, as well as a look at what happened thousands or even millions of years ago, when atmospheric CO2 levels were much higher due to natural causes. As this handy chart from New Scientist shows, most of these studies have been converging around the same range of answers: Doubling the amount of ...
... eruptions, as well as a look at what happened thousands or even millions of years ago, when atmospheric CO2 levels were much higher due to natural causes. As this handy chart from New Scientist shows, most of these studies have been converging around the same range of answers: Doubling the amount of ...
English
... developed by the Expert Group on the Impacts of Climate-related Geoengineering on Biological Diversity (“deliberate intervention in the planetary environment of a nature and scale intended to counteract anthropogenic climate change and its impacts”) Reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, e.g. by at ...
... developed by the Expert Group on the Impacts of Climate-related Geoengineering on Biological Diversity (“deliberate intervention in the planetary environment of a nature and scale intended to counteract anthropogenic climate change and its impacts”) Reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, e.g. by at ...
Enhancing Agricultural Yields Sierra Leone
... climate change mitigation and adaptation interventions and research. They lack the coping capacity to tackle climate change problems. This situation is likely to have negative repercussions on developing countries like Sierra Leone. It is estimated that any 2-30C rise in temperature will potentially ...
... climate change mitigation and adaptation interventions and research. They lack the coping capacity to tackle climate change problems. This situation is likely to have negative repercussions on developing countries like Sierra Leone. It is estimated that any 2-30C rise in temperature will potentially ...
Dynamics of the coupled human-climate system resulting from
... to maintain a target temperature despite time-varying GHG forcing) will always result in an increased response to any disturbance or variability at other frequencies. This trade-off is evident here in the amplification of natural variability. In addition to the desired ability to maintain some targe ...
... to maintain a target temperature despite time-varying GHG forcing) will always result in an increased response to any disturbance or variability at other frequencies. This trade-off is evident here in the amplification of natural variability. In addition to the desired ability to maintain some targe ...
the schmidt family foundation
... realization of a future where a new energy economy can lift millions out of poverty. Green For All engages lower-income communities, a constituency that has been left behind in past environmental movements. ...
... realization of a future where a new energy economy can lift millions out of poverty. Green For All engages lower-income communities, a constituency that has been left behind in past environmental movements. ...
Yukon Climate Change Indicators and Key
... The Yukon Climate Change Indicators and Key Findings 2015 is the product of an ongoing collaboration between the Northern Climate ExChange at the Yukon Research Centre, Yukon College, and the Government of Yukon’s Climate Change Secretariat. Together we recognized a need for easy-to-access climate c ...
... The Yukon Climate Change Indicators and Key Findings 2015 is the product of an ongoing collaboration between the Northern Climate ExChange at the Yukon Research Centre, Yukon College, and the Government of Yukon’s Climate Change Secretariat. Together we recognized a need for easy-to-access climate c ...
Climate Change and Alberta`s Forests
... Aspen forests in the southern boreal region particularly are expected to decline, shift northward, and suffer reduced productivity due to periods of drought and recurring insect defoliations. Some tree species such as Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, western larch, Scots pine and Siberian larch may gai ...
... Aspen forests in the southern boreal region particularly are expected to decline, shift northward, and suffer reduced productivity due to periods of drought and recurring insect defoliations. Some tree species such as Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, western larch, Scots pine and Siberian larch may gai ...