Climate change
... Climate Challenge – Get the facts on the world’s hottest topic” to attract visitors to study the exhibition panels. This activity is designed to provide the facts on climate change science as they are currently understood by the world’s best scientists. Consider the following statement about climate ...
... Climate Challenge – Get the facts on the world’s hottest topic” to attract visitors to study the exhibition panels. This activity is designed to provide the facts on climate change science as they are currently understood by the world’s best scientists. Consider the following statement about climate ...
Adaptation to climate change in the developing world
... using annual average temperature at a country level as an indicator. We do this for Brazil, Tanzania and Bangladesh in Figure 1. All three countries have experienced a warming of their climate over the last 100 years – between 0.4°C and 0.8°C – and this warming is likely to continue, if not accelera ...
... using annual average temperature at a country level as an indicator. We do this for Brazil, Tanzania and Bangladesh in Figure 1. All three countries have experienced a warming of their climate over the last 100 years – between 0.4°C and 0.8°C – and this warming is likely to continue, if not accelera ...
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... GTAP-AEZ-GHG (Golub et al., 2010), with the recently developed poverty module, GTAPPOV (Hertel et al., 2011) The new model, GTAP-AEZ-GHG-POV, incorporates detailed non-CO2 GHG (Rose and Lee, 2008) and CO2 emissions mapped to specific countries and economic sectors. Climate change impacts are modeled ...
... GTAP-AEZ-GHG (Golub et al., 2010), with the recently developed poverty module, GTAPPOV (Hertel et al., 2011) The new model, GTAP-AEZ-GHG-POV, incorporates detailed non-CO2 GHG (Rose and Lee, 2008) and CO2 emissions mapped to specific countries and economic sectors. Climate change impacts are modeled ...
Chapter 2 of Stern Review: approach to discounting
... Understanding the market failures that lead to climate change ...
... Understanding the market failures that lead to climate change ...
Climate Change in the Midwest - Union of Concerned Scientists
... In the IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenario’s A1fi “higher” emission scenario, the world continues to depend on fossil fuels as the primary energy source, and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise from their present-day levels of 385 parts per million (ppm) to almost 1000 ppm by the end of the ...
... In the IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenario’s A1fi “higher” emission scenario, the world continues to depend on fossil fuels as the primary energy source, and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise from their present-day levels of 385 parts per million (ppm) to almost 1000 ppm by the end of the ...
Impacts of climate variability and future climate change on harmful
... general oceanic responses to future climate change, while acknowledging the impacts that these changes will have on human societies [3-5]. Likewise, over the past decade, several studies have suggested possible relationships between climate and the magnitude, frequency, and duration of harmful algal ...
... general oceanic responses to future climate change, while acknowledging the impacts that these changes will have on human societies [3-5]. Likewise, over the past decade, several studies have suggested possible relationships between climate and the magnitude, frequency, and duration of harmful algal ...
Adapting to climate change: A perspective from evolutionary
... Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Waszkiewicza 1c, 17-230 Bia8owieza, ...
... Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Waszkiewicza 1c, 17-230 Bia8owieza, ...
Climate Change and International Relations Theory: Northeast Asia as a Case Study
... theory. A general assumption holds that the anarchic international system of competing sovereign states who are unitary, rational actors. This view, however, disregards the fact that the anarchic system of sovereign states is itself housed within the wider structure of the Earth’s biosphere. How the ...
... theory. A general assumption holds that the anarchic international system of competing sovereign states who are unitary, rational actors. This view, however, disregards the fact that the anarchic system of sovereign states is itself housed within the wider structure of the Earth’s biosphere. How the ...
Conclusions and recommendations for action
... threats. Thus, the Earth Summit not only gave rise to a plan of action for sustainable development towards the twenty-first century (Agenda 21, which included both well known and newer global threats) but also opened for signature the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Important ...
... threats. Thus, the Earth Summit not only gave rise to a plan of action for sustainable development towards the twenty-first century (Agenda 21, which included both well known and newer global threats) but also opened for signature the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Important ...
Future climate warming and changes to mountain permafrost in the
... mountain cryosphere such as snow, glaciers, permafrost and thawing permafrost are especially sensitive to temperature changes because of their close proximity to melting and thawing conditions (Haeberli and Beniston 1998; Kääb et al. 2007). Here, the cryosphere acts as an important hydrological buff ...
... mountain cryosphere such as snow, glaciers, permafrost and thawing permafrost are especially sensitive to temperature changes because of their close proximity to melting and thawing conditions (Haeberli and Beniston 1998; Kääb et al. 2007). Here, the cryosphere acts as an important hydrological buff ...
The Met Office Hadley Centre climate modelling capability: the
... this by providing direct evidence of considerable low-top cloud responses in areas which contribute most to inter-model differences in global cloud feedback and climate sensitivity. Uncertainties in cloud feedbacks are also discussed in §4. Another major improvement in HadGEM1 is in the representati ...
... this by providing direct evidence of considerable low-top cloud responses in areas which contribute most to inter-model differences in global cloud feedback and climate sensitivity. Uncertainties in cloud feedbacks are also discussed in §4. Another major improvement in HadGEM1 is in the representati ...
Will Amazonia Dry Out? Magnitude and Causes of Change from
... different emission scenarios conducted by the IPCC and it is close to the current pace of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Raupach et al. 2007). Scholze et al. (Scholze et al. 2006) showed that the degree of warming is important to ecosystem response because of the nonlinearity and pote ...
... different emission scenarios conducted by the IPCC and it is close to the current pace of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Raupach et al. 2007). Scholze et al. (Scholze et al. 2006) showed that the degree of warming is important to ecosystem response because of the nonlinearity and pote ...
Climate vulnerability of biophysical systems in
... 20–40% for the period between 1931–60 and 1968–90. The same declining trends were observed in mean annual precipitations in the tropical moist forests by 4% in West Africa, 3% in North Congo and 2% in South Congo for the period 1960–98 (Malhi and Wright 2004). On the other hand, tropical moist fores ...
... 20–40% for the period between 1931–60 and 1968–90. The same declining trends were observed in mean annual precipitations in the tropical moist forests by 4% in West Africa, 3% in North Congo and 2% in South Congo for the period 1960–98 (Malhi and Wright 2004). On the other hand, tropical moist fores ...
Adapting_to_Climate_Change_ - MDG-F
... Climatic Drivers: Climatic changes increase the area and number of disease vectors and more frequent heavy rainfall and drought events could disrupt water supply and sanitation Non-climatic drivers: Severely degraded health care system; declining immunity, nutritional and health status of popula ...
... Climatic Drivers: Climatic changes increase the area and number of disease vectors and more frequent heavy rainfall and drought events could disrupt water supply and sanitation Non-climatic drivers: Severely degraded health care system; declining immunity, nutritional and health status of popula ...
The impact of climate change on seasonal floods of a southern
... despite different parameterization and GHG concentration estimates, all GCMs predict an average global temperature increase from 1 to 3Ð5 ° C over the next 100 years (Koshida and Avis, 1998). For the southern Quebec region, GCMs predict an increase of 1 to 5 ° C and a 10% augmentation in precipitati ...
... despite different parameterization and GHG concentration estimates, all GCMs predict an average global temperature increase from 1 to 3Ð5 ° C over the next 100 years (Koshida and Avis, 1998). For the southern Quebec region, GCMs predict an increase of 1 to 5 ° C and a 10% augmentation in precipitati ...
June 2012 - International Association for Urban Climate
... The report also includes some case studies of public works and policy decisions that have had a positive impact on public health. In Mumbai, India, the Slum Sanitation Program (SSP) aims to provide access to one public toilet per 50 people living in slums or low income areas by 2025 through the cons ...
... The report also includes some case studies of public works and policy decisions that have had a positive impact on public health. In Mumbai, India, the Slum Sanitation Program (SSP) aims to provide access to one public toilet per 50 people living in slums or low income areas by 2025 through the cons ...
Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries
... 38) indicates that most peaks in reconstructed atmospheric volcanic sulfate loading correspond to mean circum-Arctic cooling (Fig. 3). The repeated coincidence of high sulfate loading with the onset of Arctic cold events suggests that eruptions entrain positive ocean feedbacks capable of enhancing a ...
... 38) indicates that most peaks in reconstructed atmospheric volcanic sulfate loading correspond to mean circum-Arctic cooling (Fig. 3). The repeated coincidence of high sulfate loading with the onset of Arctic cold events suggests that eruptions entrain positive ocean feedbacks capable of enhancing a ...
Abrupt Climate Change
... abrupt climate change is here counterpunch - is abrupt climate change already here there are some serious scientists who believe it is already here if their analysis is correct the world could turn nearly, abrupt climate change wikipedia - one source of abrupt climate change effects is a feedback pr ...
... abrupt climate change is here counterpunch - is abrupt climate change already here there are some serious scientists who believe it is already here if their analysis is correct the world could turn nearly, abrupt climate change wikipedia - one source of abrupt climate change effects is a feedback pr ...
Mechanisms of change in fish populations
... for postings have their roots in studies I and my colleagues have been a part of in the Rocky Mountain region, but attempts will be made to present topics & tools in ways that highlight their broader, global relevance. Moreover, I acknowledge that the studies, tools, and techniques highlighted in th ...
... for postings have their roots in studies I and my colleagues have been a part of in the Rocky Mountain region, but attempts will be made to present topics & tools in ways that highlight their broader, global relevance. Moreover, I acknowledge that the studies, tools, and techniques highlighted in th ...
Climate Change: An Agenda for Global Collective Action
... and cause other changes to the global climate. Since 1750, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has increased by more than 30 percent (from 280 parts per million, or ppm, to 365 ppm), while methane has increased by more than 150 percent and nitrous oxide has increased by more than 15 percent ...
... and cause other changes to the global climate. Since 1750, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has increased by more than 30 percent (from 280 parts per million, or ppm, to 365 ppm), while methane has increased by more than 150 percent and nitrous oxide has increased by more than 15 percent ...
Now more than ever: The need for more societally
... scientific capacity, technical expertise and widespread, [decision] scale-relevant climate change and vulnerability information,’’ thus producing a situation where the US at this time is rapidly entering ‘‘into an era of climate change consequences for which the country is ill-equipped’’ (Moser, 2009 ...
... scientific capacity, technical expertise and widespread, [decision] scale-relevant climate change and vulnerability information,’’ thus producing a situation where the US at this time is rapidly entering ‘‘into an era of climate change consequences for which the country is ill-equipped’’ (Moser, 2009 ...
Global warming controversy
The global warming controversy concerns the public debate over whether global warming is occurring, how much has occurred in modern times, what has caused it, what its effects will be, whether any action should be taken to curb it, and if so what that action should be. In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused primarily by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view, though a few organizations with members in extractive industries hold non-committal positions. Disputes over the key scientific facts of global warming are now more prevalent in the popular media than in the scientific literature, where such issues are treated as resolved, and more in the United States than globally.Political and popular debate concerning the existence and cause of climate change includes the reasons for the increase seen in the instrumental temperature record, whether the warming trend exceeds normal climatic variations, and whether human activities have contributed significantly to it. Scientists have resolved many of these questions decisively in favour of the view that the current warming trend exists and is ongoing, that human activity is the primary cause, and that it is without precedent in at least 2000 years. Disputes that also reflect scientific debate include estimates of how responsive the climate system might be to any given level of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), and what the consequences of global warming will be.Global warming remains an issue of widespread political debate, often split along party political lines, especially in the United States. Many of the largely settled scientific issues, such as the human responsibility for global warming, remain the subject of politically or economically motivated attempts to downplay, dismiss or deny them – an ideological phenomenon categorised by academics and scientists as climate change denial. The sources of funding for those involved with climate science – both supporting and opposing mainstream scientific positions – have been questioned by both sides. There are debates about the best policy responses to the science, their cost-effectiveness and their urgency. Climate scientists, especially in the United States, have reported official and oil-industry pressure to censor or suppress their work and hide scientific data, with directives not to discuss the subject in public communications. Legal cases regarding global warming, its effects, and measures to reduce it have reached American courts. The fossil fuels lobby and free market think tanks have often been identified as overtly or covertly supporting efforts to undermine or discredit the scientific consensus on global warming.