Session 3: who is affected?
... Learners could investigate one of the consequences of climate change in more detail. This might be one of the impacts mentioned in the session or something else. Learners could use secondary sources of information such as the Internet to find scientific evidence for this climate change consequence. ...
... Learners could investigate one of the consequences of climate change in more detail. This might be one of the impacts mentioned in the session or something else. Learners could use secondary sources of information such as the Internet to find scientific evidence for this climate change consequence. ...
Key NGO Priorities in Energy and Climate Change
... • Concerns include fuel poverty (UK), inflation (Spain) and competitiveness (everybody) • Tackling subsidies is even harder, but possibly more important Rob Bradley, Climate Action Network Europe ...
... • Concerns include fuel poverty (UK), inflation (Spain) and competitiveness (everybody) • Tackling subsidies is even harder, but possibly more important Rob Bradley, Climate Action Network Europe ...
GEOENGINEERING AND THE NEW CLIMATE DENIALISM
... to "debate" taxes) and on geoengineering as "strategic measures" to "block political momentum toward a return to the Kyoto system." He continues to put forward geoengineering as an alternative to real emissions reductions anytime in the near future. As he said at AEI's recent geoengineering conferen ...
... to "debate" taxes) and on geoengineering as "strategic measures" to "block political momentum toward a return to the Kyoto system." He continues to put forward geoengineering as an alternative to real emissions reductions anytime in the near future. As he said at AEI's recent geoengineering conferen ...
speaking out on global warming: public attitudes toward the papal
... Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and researchers at Yale University finds that fewer than 1 in 3 Americans, and 40 percent of Catholics, are aware of Pope Francis’s efforts to emphasize global warming as a priority issue for the Catholic Church. Among those Americans who have attended r ...
... Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and researchers at Yale University finds that fewer than 1 in 3 Americans, and 40 percent of Catholics, are aware of Pope Francis’s efforts to emphasize global warming as a priority issue for the Catholic Church. Among those Americans who have attended r ...
An Analysis of Knowledge Gaps in Climate Change Research
... goes to some extent beyond national boundaries in fulfillment of accepted international agreements and obligations which include, among other things, the collection and rebroadcast of meteorological data. Apart from meteorology, the department is also concerned with Agrometeorology, Hydrology, Astro ...
... goes to some extent beyond national boundaries in fulfillment of accepted international agreements and obligations which include, among other things, the collection and rebroadcast of meteorological data. Apart from meteorology, the department is also concerned with Agrometeorology, Hydrology, Astro ...
East Africa Climate Impacts
... (Hansen et al., 2006), in large part because of human activities (IPCC, 2001). A recent report produced by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences confirms that the last few decades of the 20th century were in fact the warmest in the past 400 years (National Research Council, 2006). The Intergovernmen ...
... (Hansen et al., 2006), in large part because of human activities (IPCC, 2001). A recent report produced by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences confirms that the last few decades of the 20th century were in fact the warmest in the past 400 years (National Research Council, 2006). The Intergovernmen ...
China - Ny-Ålesund Symposium
... regard. In recent years, energy conservation, emission reduction and climate change have captured wide attention among the Chinese public and the whole society is now committed to tackling this important issue. Let me cite one example here: in March this year, the Ministry of Science ...
... regard. In recent years, energy conservation, emission reduction and climate change have captured wide attention among the Chinese public and the whole society is now committed to tackling this important issue. Let me cite one example here: in March this year, the Ministry of Science ...
Document
... Since AR4, there has been an increased focus on policies designed to integrate multiple objectives, increase cobenefits and reduce adverse side-effects. ...
... Since AR4, there has been an increased focus on policies designed to integrate multiple objectives, increase cobenefits and reduce adverse side-effects. ...
Jim LaGro UW-Madison - Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change
... Change in rate of GHG emissions* = Very little = Minor = Major *Scenarios from IPCC 2007 ...
... Change in rate of GHG emissions* = Very little = Minor = Major *Scenarios from IPCC 2007 ...
Long-term natural variability and 20th century climate change
... fingerprints with internal variability. Linear discriminant analysis, an exploratory data analysis pattern recognition technique, provides a way to distinguish forced from internal RASST variability when applied in an identical fashion to modelled and observed RASST fields (17). This analysis lifts ...
... fingerprints with internal variability. Linear discriminant analysis, an exploratory data analysis pattern recognition technique, provides a way to distinguish forced from internal RASST variability when applied in an identical fashion to modelled and observed RASST fields (17). This analysis lifts ...
Adapting Aviation to a Changing Climate
... separations a little and sustain aircraft flow. We’re undertaking more work and analysis in this area as wind is a key issue at Heathrow. Heathrow’s climate change risk assessment also examines how more extreme temperatures might affect the airport pavements. We checked our standards and the risk fr ...
... separations a little and sustain aircraft flow. We’re undertaking more work and analysis in this area as wind is a key issue at Heathrow. Heathrow’s climate change risk assessment also examines how more extreme temperatures might affect the airport pavements. We checked our standards and the risk fr ...
Teacher`s Notes . Unit 1 Level 2 - Understandi ng Climate Chan ge
... Suggestions- Activity 8.1- Warming Up Our Earth This activity is designed so students can fill in the gaps by directly copying across the missing words. However, to increase difficulty, encourage students to cover up the completed sentences on the left and fill in the missing words without copying t ...
... Suggestions- Activity 8.1- Warming Up Our Earth This activity is designed so students can fill in the gaps by directly copying across the missing words. However, to increase difficulty, encourage students to cover up the completed sentences on the left and fill in the missing words without copying t ...
IMPACT2C – Policy Brief 3
... reduce global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to consider lowering the goal to 1.5°C in the near future. However, there has already been an increase of about 0.85°C over the period 1880–2012 (IPCC, 2013), an ...
... reduce global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to consider lowering the goal to 1.5°C in the near future. However, there has already been an increase of about 0.85°C over the period 1880–2012 (IPCC, 2013), an ...
Optimal Global Dynamic Carbon Abatement
... It is almost a commonplace in the economics of climate change that a good response to the challenges posed by global warming would be a harmonized, global tax on greenhouse gas emissions that increases over time, roughly with the discount rate (e.g. Nordhaus, 2007). Many details of such a proposal a ...
... It is almost a commonplace in the economics of climate change that a good response to the challenges posed by global warming would be a harmonized, global tax on greenhouse gas emissions that increases over time, roughly with the discount rate (e.g. Nordhaus, 2007). Many details of such a proposal a ...
Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors
... gaseous species, including carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4 ), nonmethane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), nitrogen oxides (NOx ), water vapor, as well as aerosols and sunlight. Sulfate and nitrate aerosols are also intimately linked to O3 photochemistry because they are formed from the precur ...
... gaseous species, including carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4 ), nonmethane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), nitrogen oxides (NOx ), water vapor, as well as aerosols and sunlight. Sulfate and nitrate aerosols are also intimately linked to O3 photochemistry because they are formed from the precur ...
The terrestrial Arctic response to (and role in) local and global
... Sea ice loss leads to substantial warming over land, peaking in autumn and winter. In CCSM3, the sea ice loss induced warming extends over 1500km inland. ...
... Sea ice loss leads to substantial warming over land, peaking in autumn and winter. In CCSM3, the sea ice loss induced warming extends over 1500km inland. ...
Where Is the North Pole? An Election
... realize that their country is an Arctic nation. More than 3 million square miles of Alaska lie north of the Arctic circle, including North Slope oilfields along with the predominantly Inuit towns of Barrow (population 4,500), Kotzebue (3,200), and many smaller communities such as the coastal village ...
... realize that their country is an Arctic nation. More than 3 million square miles of Alaska lie north of the Arctic circle, including North Slope oilfields along with the predominantly Inuit towns of Barrow (population 4,500), Kotzebue (3,200), and many smaller communities such as the coastal village ...
Climate Deception Dossier #7: Global Climate Coalition Primer on
... Assessment Report, Working Group I stated: .,.the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discemable human influence on global climate. The Global Climate Coalition's Science and Technical Advisory Committee believes that the IPCC statement goes beyond what can be justified by current scientifi ...
... Assessment Report, Working Group I stated: .,.the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discemable human influence on global climate. The Global Climate Coalition's Science and Technical Advisory Committee believes that the IPCC statement goes beyond what can be justified by current scientifi ...
climate change: changing oceans
... over a century ago (in 1896) by the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius, who worked out that the burning of fossil fuels could cause a greenhouse effect that would warm up the climate. He made a series of simple calculations which showed that the temperature in the Arctic regions would rise by about ...
... over a century ago (in 1896) by the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius, who worked out that the burning of fossil fuels could cause a greenhouse effect that would warm up the climate. He made a series of simple calculations which showed that the temperature in the Arctic regions would rise by about ...
Challenges for management of freshwater ecosystems
... • Can the different indicator types be linked to provide a common framework for rivers, lakes and wetlands? • Can existing assessment and prediction methods for European freshwater systems be expanded and modified to address climate change? ...
... • Can the different indicator types be linked to provide a common framework for rivers, lakes and wetlands? • Can existing assessment and prediction methods for European freshwater systems be expanded and modified to address climate change? ...
Terrestrial biogeochemical feedbacks in the climate system
... and lightning NOx emissions yield lower pre-industrial O3 levels than previously thought, implying a larger present-day anthropogenic O3 burden of up to 25% (ref. 30). Estimates in Fig. 1 are for 2100, based on enhanced BVOC emissions in response to warmer temperatures31 (Supplementary Information), ...
... and lightning NOx emissions yield lower pre-industrial O3 levels than previously thought, implying a larger present-day anthropogenic O3 burden of up to 25% (ref. 30). Estimates in Fig. 1 are for 2100, based on enhanced BVOC emissions in response to warmer temperatures31 (Supplementary Information), ...
Statement of witness James E. Hansen
... although climate inertia slows the response. If humanity is so foolish as to burn all fossil fuels, thus more than doubling atmospheric CO2 from its pre-industrial level of 280 ppm, we will have set the planet on an inexorable course to an ice-free state, with all the disasters that such a course mu ...
... although climate inertia slows the response. If humanity is so foolish as to burn all fossil fuels, thus more than doubling atmospheric CO2 from its pre-industrial level of 280 ppm, we will have set the planet on an inexorable course to an ice-free state, with all the disasters that such a course mu ...
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.