Phys. 102: Introduction to Astronomy
... Mandate “The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socioeconomic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and ...
... Mandate “The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socioeconomic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and ...
Non-Aerospace Research Quests of a Designer/Flight Test
... • Drop CCC (Climate Change Crisis) and Cap & Trade legislation. It is naive, non-scientific, irrelevant, hopeless and oxymoronic. Its alarmists can use it to destroy US global competitiveness through Cap and Trade taxes. – As proposed, most new jobs are for Government regulation/oversight bureaucrac ...
... • Drop CCC (Climate Change Crisis) and Cap & Trade legislation. It is naive, non-scientific, irrelevant, hopeless and oxymoronic. Its alarmists can use it to destroy US global competitiveness through Cap and Trade taxes. – As proposed, most new jobs are for Government regulation/oversight bureaucrac ...
Power Point Summary
... emissions it lowers the temperature. To determine whether it is dangerous or not to the environment affects the rate, timing, and scale of emission reductions required regionally and globally. If the global average temperature exceeds 4 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level then there will b ...
... emissions it lowers the temperature. To determine whether it is dangerous or not to the environment affects the rate, timing, and scale of emission reductions required regionally and globally. If the global average temperature exceeds 4 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level then there will b ...
Il-Professur John Schellnhuber bl-Inglż
... change impacts. Rising gauges, for example, are on the one hand caused by the expansion of sea water as it warms, on the other hand by the extra amount of water in our ocean basins stemming from melting glaciers and ice caps. Since most of the Earth’s ice – inherited from many ice ages over countles ...
... change impacts. Rising gauges, for example, are on the one hand caused by the expansion of sea water as it warms, on the other hand by the extra amount of water in our ocean basins stemming from melting glaciers and ice caps. Since most of the Earth’s ice – inherited from many ice ages over countles ...
Introduction: the evidence for anthropogenic climate change
... extent and rate of this influx is a subject of much research. In addition to the increasing amount of water flowing into the oceans, the sea level is likely to rise due to thermal expansion. Simulations predict that ultimate levels could reach as much as an additional 2m at equilibrium. ...
... extent and rate of this influx is a subject of much research. In addition to the increasing amount of water flowing into the oceans, the sea level is likely to rise due to thermal expansion. Simulations predict that ultimate levels could reach as much as an additional 2m at equilibrium. ...
Climate variability and change - Pacific Climate Change Science
... average sea level rose at a rate of about 3.2 mm/year since 1993. Tide gauge data indicate a slightly smaller rate of rise over the same period. But sea level has not risen uniformly (Figure 5). Since 1993, the largest rise was over 10 mm/year in the western Pacific Ocean near latitudes 10°S and 10° ...
... average sea level rose at a rate of about 3.2 mm/year since 1993. Tide gauge data indicate a slightly smaller rate of rise over the same period. But sea level has not risen uniformly (Figure 5). Since 1993, the largest rise was over 10 mm/year in the western Pacific Ocean near latitudes 10°S and 10° ...
Geological and Man-Made Climate and Sea Level Changes
... and rifts are very important too because they determine how strong or weak the ice shelf is”. ...
... and rifts are very important too because they determine how strong or weak the ice shelf is”. ...
Future sea level
The rate of global mean sea-level rise (~3 mm/yr; SLR) has accelerated compared to the mean of the 20th century (~2 mm/yr), but the rate of rise is locally variable. Factors contributing to SLR include decreased global ice volume and warming of the ocean. On Greenland, the deficiency between annual ice gained and lost tripled between 1996 and 2007. On Antarctica the deficiency increased by 75%. Mountain glaciers are retreating and the cumulative mean thickness change has accelerated from about −1.8 to −4 m in 1965 to 1970 to about −12 to −14 m in the first decade of the 21st century. From 1961 to 2003, ocean temperatures to a depth of 700 m increased and portions of the deeper ocean are warming.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) projected sea level would reach 0.18 to 0.59 m above present by the end of the 21st century but lacked an estimate of ice flow dynamics calving. Calving was added by Pfeffer et al. (2008) indicating 0.8 to 2 m of SLR by 2100 (favouring the low end of this range). Rahmstorf (2007) estimated SLR will reach 0.5 to 1.4 m by the end of the century. Pielke (2008) points out that observed SLR has exceeded the best case projections thus far. These approximations and others indicate that global mean SLR may reach 1 m by the end of this century. However, sea level is highly variable and planners considering local impacts must take this variability into account.