The anti-politics of the Green Climate Fund: what is left to
... spent in its name, and the environmental impact of those projects and programmes is really that weak. This is not to say that biomass energy generators, wind farms, solar panels and so forth do not work to reduce carbon emissions. It is rather that these types of investments are being added as a sid ...
... spent in its name, and the environmental impact of those projects and programmes is really that weak. This is not to say that biomass energy generators, wind farms, solar panels and so forth do not work to reduce carbon emissions. It is rather that these types of investments are being added as a sid ...
Global Climate Change - Vanderbilt University
... the trendline, due to random variations called system "noise." All natural processes have a random element, which is why scientists must always state the uncertainty in their measurements and predictions. Some years just turn out to be hotter than expected, and some cooler. This variation is roughly ...
... the trendline, due to random variations called system "noise." All natural processes have a random element, which is why scientists must always state the uncertainty in their measurements and predictions. Some years just turn out to be hotter than expected, and some cooler. This variation is roughly ...
BMJ 1997 - University of Western Cape
... assessment. We were involved in the detailed review of published studies needed for the chapter on health impact in the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.10 Preparation of the report was subject to wide ranging international peer review with contributions, cor ...
... assessment. We were involved in the detailed review of published studies needed for the chapter on health impact in the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.10 Preparation of the report was subject to wide ranging international peer review with contributions, cor ...
global action to address climate change
... The EU has been at the forefront of environmental policy and climate action in recent decades, but this was not always a top priority for the EU. It was not until the 1970’s when the European community began to truly focus on environmental policy, which came about through political and public intere ...
... The EU has been at the forefront of environmental policy and climate action in recent decades, but this was not always a top priority for the EU. It was not until the 1970’s when the European community began to truly focus on environmental policy, which came about through political and public intere ...
1 - QUBES Hub
... Climate change as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is clear in both climatological and biological data. Global temperatures have increased by 0.74°C ± 0.18°C over the past 100 years (1906-2005), although some regions experience locally greater warming (IPCC 2007). Along with ...
... Climate change as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is clear in both climatological and biological data. Global temperatures have increased by 0.74°C ± 0.18°C over the past 100 years (1906-2005), although some regions experience locally greater warming (IPCC 2007). Along with ...
AISL poster 8-22-14 - Geological Society of America
... Television news broadcasts are a primary source of information for the public on recent and ongoing climate changes. Broadcast meteorologists, who also serve as science correspondents for many news stations, are well positioned to communicate climate science to the public. However, despite position ...
... Television news broadcasts are a primary source of information for the public on recent and ongoing climate changes. Broadcast meteorologists, who also serve as science correspondents for many news stations, are well positioned to communicate climate science to the public. However, despite position ...
Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Diseases
... Climate and Pathogens The most important environmental factors affecting the pathogens are temperature, humidity, and CO2 level. It was found that the fungi causing plant diseases show better growth at moderate temperature ranges. In temperate climates characterized by seasonally low average tempera ...
... Climate and Pathogens The most important environmental factors affecting the pathogens are temperature, humidity, and CO2 level. It was found that the fungi causing plant diseases show better growth at moderate temperature ranges. In temperate climates characterized by seasonally low average tempera ...
Climate_Change_CARDS-2011 - Willits Economic Localization
... Is the climate changing and are humans causing it? Main Point • Yes, as much as a scientific theory can be proven. It has been confirmed by the International Panel for Climate Change is a worldwide group of scientists who have reviewed all available scientific research. Detail • The 4th IPCC report ...
... Is the climate changing and are humans causing it? Main Point • Yes, as much as a scientific theory can be proven. It has been confirmed by the International Panel for Climate Change is a worldwide group of scientists who have reviewed all available scientific research. Detail • The 4th IPCC report ...
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... The booklet is broken into multiple sections around climate science, climate policy, ecosystems and human security. Each section includes links to further information and keywords to facilitate easier searching. The climate science section provides an overview of the key facts around climate science ...
... The booklet is broken into multiple sections around climate science, climate policy, ecosystems and human security. Each section includes links to further information and keywords to facilitate easier searching. The climate science section provides an overview of the key facts around climate science ...
Causes of the Global Warming Observed since the 19th Century
... Americans who say they understand the issue “very well” or “fairly well” has increased from 69 percent in 2001 to 80 percent in the 2011 survey [5]. While the recognition of humanity’s role in climate change has become stronger within the scientific community in the past decade, the opposite has hap ...
... Americans who say they understand the issue “very well” or “fairly well” has increased from 69 percent in 2001 to 80 percent in the 2011 survey [5]. While the recognition of humanity’s role in climate change has become stronger within the scientific community in the past decade, the opposite has hap ...
1 Lecture Aims Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) Feedbacks
... Solar activity (sunspots etc) & irradiance (total radiation) changes with 11year solar cycle. There are long term changes in solar activity – the Maunder Minimum being one example. Converting this to changes in solar irradiance can be done though very uncertain. “Sun-like” starts which show activity ...
... Solar activity (sunspots etc) & irradiance (total radiation) changes with 11year solar cycle. There are long term changes in solar activity – the Maunder Minimum being one example. Converting this to changes in solar irradiance can be done though very uncertain. “Sun-like” starts which show activity ...
Earth System Modeling—An Integrated Assessment Tool for Environmental Studies R. A. P
... involves much more than accurate knowledge of the level of carbon dioxide (or any other subset of climate forcing) in the future and its influence on the atmospheric radiative budget. This perspective has received confirmation even from proponents of the IPCC perspective. Trenberth (1999) stated tha ...
... involves much more than accurate knowledge of the level of carbon dioxide (or any other subset of climate forcing) in the future and its influence on the atmospheric radiative budget. This perspective has received confirmation even from proponents of the IPCC perspective. Trenberth (1999) stated tha ...
the heat marches on
... and heatwaves, is driving up the likelihood of very high fire danger weather. After a record breaking dry spring and a dry, hot summer, in January 2016 bushfires ran rampant across Tasmania’s ancient forests and World Heritage wilderness. Tasmania is no stranger to bushfires, especially after the ar ...
... and heatwaves, is driving up the likelihood of very high fire danger weather. After a record breaking dry spring and a dry, hot summer, in January 2016 bushfires ran rampant across Tasmania’s ancient forests and World Heritage wilderness. Tasmania is no stranger to bushfires, especially after the ar ...
Role and functioning of national and sub
... and research and development. The law does not include legal enforcement mechanisms. Instead, the government is accountable to Parliament to explain its policy decisions. Furthermore, the UK has an independent committee to advise the government. The Finnish law is inspired by UK climate change legis ...
... and research and development. The law does not include legal enforcement mechanisms. Instead, the government is accountable to Parliament to explain its policy decisions. Furthermore, the UK has an independent committee to advise the government. The Finnish law is inspired by UK climate change legis ...
- OpenKnowledge@NAU
... gases have increased”. The conclusions of the IPCC along with many other scientists are that climate change is real and well advanced. It is not just a future possibility. Evidence for climate change is observational as well as predictive (IPCC, 2013a). The IPCC concludes it is extremely likely (>95 ...
... gases have increased”. The conclusions of the IPCC along with many other scientists are that climate change is real and well advanced. It is not just a future possibility. Evidence for climate change is observational as well as predictive (IPCC, 2013a). The IPCC concludes it is extremely likely (>95 ...
Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth`s
... radiative forcing supplied by CO2 and the other noncondensing greenhouse gases, the terrestrial greenhouse would collapse, plunging the global climate into an icebound Earth state. t often is stated that water vapor is the chief greenhouse gas (GHG) in the atmosphere. For example, it has been assert ...
... radiative forcing supplied by CO2 and the other noncondensing greenhouse gases, the terrestrial greenhouse would collapse, plunging the global climate into an icebound Earth state. t often is stated that water vapor is the chief greenhouse gas (GHG) in the atmosphere. For example, it has been assert ...
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... Economic analyses that focus on state or multistate regions of the US include studies by Dudek (1988), Kaiser et al. (1991) and Easterling, Parry and Crosson (1989). A common finding of the studies which measure aggregate welfare effects is that climate change does not appear to be a food security i ...
... Economic analyses that focus on state or multistate regions of the US include studies by Dudek (1988), Kaiser et al. (1991) and Easterling, Parry and Crosson (1989). A common finding of the studies which measure aggregate welfare effects is that climate change does not appear to be a food security i ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... this action), the IAMs produce illogical results that indicate a misleading disconnect between a climate change and the SCC value. And we show that the sea level rise projections (and thus SCC) of at least one of the IAMs (DICE 2010) cannot be supported by the mainstream climate science. ...
... this action), the IAMs produce illogical results that indicate a misleading disconnect between a climate change and the SCC value. And we show that the sea level rise projections (and thus SCC) of at least one of the IAMs (DICE 2010) cannot be supported by the mainstream climate science. ...
OSWER`s Climate Change Adaptation Plan December 4 - CLU-IN
... Image credit: U.S. Global Change Research Program (www.globalchange.gov). ...
... Image credit: U.S. Global Change Research Program (www.globalchange.gov). ...
slide showing 30 new emerging disease and then
... destruction. The rhino was hunted especially intensively for its enormously valuable horn (in 1981, up to US$17,000 kg-1; Martin, 1981). Until the 1950’s the malaria-infested belt of thick tropical jungle of the Terai was an effective barrier to marauders from the south, and forest cover was actuall ...
... destruction. The rhino was hunted especially intensively for its enormously valuable horn (in 1981, up to US$17,000 kg-1; Martin, 1981). Until the 1950’s the malaria-infested belt of thick tropical jungle of the Terai was an effective barrier to marauders from the south, and forest cover was actuall ...
New Coupled Climate-carbon Simulations from the
... Monfray (2002), Effects of climate change due to CO2 increase on land and ocean carbon uptake. ...
... Monfray (2002), Effects of climate change due to CO2 increase on land and ocean carbon uptake. ...
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.