CONFRONTING THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
... international actors seeking to prevent, react to, and rebuild after mass atrocities. Second, with each successive report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the need to take extraordinary and decisive action addressing the causes and impact of climate change becomes more eviden ...
... international actors seeking to prevent, react to, and rebuild after mass atrocities. Second, with each successive report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the need to take extraordinary and decisive action addressing the causes and impact of climate change becomes more eviden ...
Climate Change in the Northern Rivers Catchment
... According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.” These activities – mainly the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas – have released vast quantities of greenhouse ...
... According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.” These activities – mainly the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas – have released vast quantities of greenhouse ...
Spatially distributed surface energy balance and ablation modelling
... George Island ice cap including the operation of three automatic weather stations and ablation measurements at different altitudes. These data were used to drive a spatially distributed energy balance model to investigate melt during the period from 2 December 1997 to 12 January 1998. Averaged over ...
... George Island ice cap including the operation of three automatic weather stations and ablation measurements at different altitudes. These data were used to drive a spatially distributed energy balance model to investigate melt during the period from 2 December 1997 to 12 January 1998. Averaged over ...
Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Food Security in
... global food production is unlikely to keep up with the demand given adverse climatic conditions that affect harvests, degrade soils, and cause water scarcity for irrigation with increasing population and rapid urbanisation. If climate change projections are included, most of today’s key agriculture ...
... global food production is unlikely to keep up with the demand given adverse climatic conditions that affect harvests, degrade soils, and cause water scarcity for irrigation with increasing population and rapid urbanisation. If climate change projections are included, most of today’s key agriculture ...
Snowshoe Hare and Canada Lynx Populations - G-WOW
... Dr. Grossnickle Bio 171 Animal Biology Lab 2 ...
... Dr. Grossnickle Bio 171 Animal Biology Lab 2 ...
quantifying the impact of climate change on
... has occurred three times more frequently than the number of record cold days. ›› The annual occurrence of very hot days across Australia has increased strongly since 1950 and particularly sharply in the last 20 years. ›› Over the 1950-2013 period many characteristics of heatwaves have changed across ...
... has occurred three times more frequently than the number of record cold days. ›› The annual occurrence of very hot days across Australia has increased strongly since 1950 and particularly sharply in the last 20 years. ›› Over the 1950-2013 period many characteristics of heatwaves have changed across ...
Marine Organism Population Dynamics
... – Affecting how NAO influences ecological communities – Small changes can produce large scale effects at various trophic levels (Post et al, 1999) ...
... – Affecting how NAO influences ecological communities – Small changes can produce large scale effects at various trophic levels (Post et al, 1999) ...
PALIMMN in the classroom Lesson Plan Author: Marie
... changes the atmosphere composition and the land surface (deforestation etc). Global warming refers to an average increase in the Earth's temperature, which in turn causes changes in climate. A warmer Earth may lead to a wide range of impacts on plants, wildlife, and humans, such as a change in preci ...
... changes the atmosphere composition and the land surface (deforestation etc). Global warming refers to an average increase in the Earth's temperature, which in turn causes changes in climate. A warmer Earth may lead to a wide range of impacts on plants, wildlife, and humans, such as a change in preci ...
August 2013 News
... Mail Online Aug 5 2013 By Sarah Griffiths Global warming is happening is '10 times faster than at any time in the Earth's history', climate experts claim American scientists said if temperatures keep rising at the current rapid pace, significant stress will be places on terrestrial ecosystems. Anima ...
... Mail Online Aug 5 2013 By Sarah Griffiths Global warming is happening is '10 times faster than at any time in the Earth's history', climate experts claim American scientists said if temperatures keep rising at the current rapid pace, significant stress will be places on terrestrial ecosystems. Anima ...
Which of the following gases do not Melting sea ice could
... Climate sensitivity is the equilibrium temperature change in response to changes of the radiative forcing (or CO2 concentrations). The climate sensitivity depends on the initial climate state. It can be inferred from palaeo-climate data, observed temperature change and climate models. Slow feedbacks ...
... Climate sensitivity is the equilibrium temperature change in response to changes of the radiative forcing (or CO2 concentrations). The climate sensitivity depends on the initial climate state. It can be inferred from palaeo-climate data, observed temperature change and climate models. Slow feedbacks ...
Assessing climate change and climate variability impacts in Burkina
... model outputs. During the workshop, emphasis was placed upon capacity building for installation and use of regional climate change scenarios generation model (PRECIS). The training programme included an introduction to climate models from the first generation to the current complex coupled climate s ...
... model outputs. During the workshop, emphasis was placed upon capacity building for installation and use of regional climate change scenarios generation model (PRECIS). The training programme included an introduction to climate models from the first generation to the current complex coupled climate s ...
Results
... Introduction In addition, livestock may be affected by the decline in pasture productivity due to climate change induced degradation, through overgrazing for example (MEHU, 2011) Now, livestock contribution to GDP in West Africa is estimated between 8 et 15% (Kamuanga et al., 2004) In Benin, ...
... Introduction In addition, livestock may be affected by the decline in pasture productivity due to climate change induced degradation, through overgrazing for example (MEHU, 2011) Now, livestock contribution to GDP in West Africa is estimated between 8 et 15% (Kamuanga et al., 2004) In Benin, ...
Peatlands and Their Role in the Global Carbon Cycle
... Fig. 2. Holocene peatland C dynamics and the global C cycle. (a) Net global peatland C sequestration rates per millennium (gigatons C per kiloyear) modeled from observed peat core data [Yu, 2011]. (b) True instantaneous C accumulation rates from northern peatlands as derived from net carbon balance ...
... Fig. 2. Holocene peatland C dynamics and the global C cycle. (a) Net global peatland C sequestration rates per millennium (gigatons C per kiloyear) modeled from observed peat core data [Yu, 2011]. (b) True instantaneous C accumulation rates from northern peatlands as derived from net carbon balance ...
Climate change and the Antarctic marine ecosystem: an essay on
... potentially introduces a greater level of ecosystem uncertainty, successful ecosystem outcomes potentially mean that management practices may need to be more conservative. A recent synthesis of Antarctic climate change (Turner et al. 2009a) summarizes some of the most important physical effects and ...
... potentially introduces a greater level of ecosystem uncertainty, successful ecosystem outcomes potentially mean that management practices may need to be more conservative. A recent synthesis of Antarctic climate change (Turner et al. 2009a) summarizes some of the most important physical effects and ...
The effects of large-scale afforestation and climate change on water
... Widespread afforestation has been proposed as one means of addressing the increasing dryland and stream salinity problem in Australia. However, modelling results presented here suggest that large-scale tree planting will substantially reduce river ¯ows and impose costs on downstream water users if p ...
... Widespread afforestation has been proposed as one means of addressing the increasing dryland and stream salinity problem in Australia. However, modelling results presented here suggest that large-scale tree planting will substantially reduce river ¯ows and impose costs on downstream water users if p ...
Heat Turn Down the 74455
... This report provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a 4° Celsius warming within this century. It is a rigorous attempt to outline a range of risks, focusing on developing countries and especially the poor. A 4°C w ...
... This report provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a 4° Celsius warming within this century. It is a rigorous attempt to outline a range of risks, focusing on developing countries and especially the poor. A 4°C w ...
Royal Society
... colder-than-average winter in the UK does not mean that colder-than-average conditions are experienced globally. Similarly, observed variations in global temperature over a period of just a few years could be a misleading guide to underlying longer-term trends in global temperature. ...
... colder-than-average winter in the UK does not mean that colder-than-average conditions are experienced globally. Similarly, observed variations in global temperature over a period of just a few years could be a misleading guide to underlying longer-term trends in global temperature. ...
Turn Down The heaT: why a 4°C warmer worlD musT Be avoiDeD
... This report provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a 4° Celsius warming within this century. It is a rigorous attempt to outline a range of risks, focusing on developing countries and especially the poor. A 4°C w ...
... This report provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a 4° Celsius warming within this century. It is a rigorous attempt to outline a range of risks, focusing on developing countries and especially the poor. A 4°C w ...
Unchecked Climate Change Migration V Ramanathan F Forman
... projected for the 21st century compared with the past 1000 years. The main inference to be drawn is that, studies based on past climate changes to derive the link between climate change and mass migration, may not be adequate to assess the likely migration during the 21st century because: the pace o ...
... projected for the 21st century compared with the past 1000 years. The main inference to be drawn is that, studies based on past climate changes to derive the link between climate change and mass migration, may not be adequate to assess the likely migration during the 21st century because: the pace o ...
toward a new generation of world climate research and
... answered. What if society is unable to substantially reduce CO2 emissions? What are the consequences of radical measures to offset global warming? Answering such questions will require detailed, quantitative predictions of climate change for the coming century on both global and regional scales, and ...
... answered. What if society is unable to substantially reduce CO2 emissions? What are the consequences of radical measures to offset global warming? Answering such questions will require detailed, quantitative predictions of climate change for the coming century on both global and regional scales, and ...
Presentation PDF - Climate Generation
... Alaska warmest since records began in 1918 (National Weather Service) Globally the hottest year on record ...
... Alaska warmest since records began in 1918 (National Weather Service) Globally the hottest year on record ...
Role of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation in the Tropical
... the tropics by means of changes in the shallow subtropical overturning circulation (Kleeman et al. 1999), or by anomalies in the temperature of the upwelled equatorial waters (Gu and Philander 1997). The latter can be caused by an anomalous deep thermocline or by changes in the temperature on the is ...
... the tropics by means of changes in the shallow subtropical overturning circulation (Kleeman et al. 1999), or by anomalies in the temperature of the upwelled equatorial waters (Gu and Philander 1997). The latter can be caused by an anomalous deep thermocline or by changes in the temperature on the is ...
The Changing Himalayas
... mountains act as a barrier to atmospheric circulation for both the summer monsoon and the winter westerlies. The summer monsoon dominates the climate, lasting eight months (March–October) in the Eastern Himalayas, four months (June–September) in the Central Himalayas, and two months (July–August) in ...
... mountains act as a barrier to atmospheric circulation for both the summer monsoon and the winter westerlies. The summer monsoon dominates the climate, lasting eight months (March–October) in the Eastern Himalayas, four months (June–September) in the Central Himalayas, and two months (July–August) in ...
Global warming hiatus
A global warming hiatus, also sometimes referred to as a global warming pause or a global warming slowdown, is a period of relatively little change in globally averaged surface temperatures. In the current episode of global warming many such periods are evident in the surface temperature record, along with robust evidence of the long term warming trend.The exceptionally warm El Niño year of 1998 was an outlier from the continuing temperature trend, and so gave the appearance of a hiatus: by January 2006 assertions had been made that this showed that global warming had stopped. A 2009 study showed that decades without warming were not exceptional, and in 2011 a study showed that if allowances were made for known variability, the rising temperature trend continued unabated. There was increased public interest in 2013 in the run-up to publication of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, and despite concerns that a 15-year period was too short to determine a meaningful trend, the IPCC included a section on a hiatus, which it defined as a much smaller increasing linear trend over the 15 years from 1998 to 2012, than over the 60 years from 1951 to 2012. Various studies examined possible causes of the short term slowdown. Even though the overall climate system had continued to accumulate energy due to Earth's positive energy budget, the available temperature readings at the earth's surface indicated slower rates of increase in surface warming than in the prior decade. Since measurements at the top of the atmosphere show that Earth is receiving more energy than it is radiating back into space, the retained energy should be producing warming in at least one of the five parts of Earth's climate system.A July 2015 paper on the updated NOAA dataset cast doubt on the existence of this supposed hiatus, and found no indication of a slowdown. This analysis incorporated the latest corrections for known biases in ocean temperature measurements, and new land temperature data. Scientists working on other datasets welcomed this study, though the view was expressed that the short term warming trend had been slower than in previous periods of the same length.