Submission to inquiry on ‘Climate: public understanding and policy implications’ by the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology (158 kB) (opens in new window)
... European Union policies to mitigate climate change, has attacked climate scientists for a lack of transparency, yet refuses to reveal the sources of more than £1 million in donations which it has received (Ward, 2013a). 16. The primary way in which climate change ‘sceptics’ damage the public interes ...
... European Union policies to mitigate climate change, has attacked climate scientists for a lack of transparency, yet refuses to reveal the sources of more than £1 million in donations which it has received (Ward, 2013a). 16. The primary way in which climate change ‘sceptics’ damage the public interes ...
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vector
... relationships provides the first indication that seasonal climate forecasts might be useful in the development of early warning systems. It has been noted that despite an extensive literature for some diseases, very little research has been conducted in countries with the highest number of child dea ...
... relationships provides the first indication that seasonal climate forecasts might be useful in the development of early warning systems. It has been noted that despite an extensive literature for some diseases, very little research has been conducted in countries with the highest number of child dea ...
Exposure of global mountain systems to climate warming during the
... We provide an assessment of surface temperature changes in mountainous areas of the world using a set of climate projections at a 0.51 resolution for two 30-year periods (2040–2069 and 2070–2099), using four Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) emission scenarios and five AOGCM. Projecte ...
... We provide an assessment of surface temperature changes in mountainous areas of the world using a set of climate projections at a 0.51 resolution for two 30-year periods (2040–2069 and 2070–2099), using four Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) emission scenarios and five AOGCM. Projecte ...
The Myth of Dangerous Human
... discussed in more detail later, it is noteworthy that this large expenditure, and the extended efforts of the many talented scientists supported by it, have in 2007 still not provided convincing evidence for a measurable human effect on global climate. There are many subdisciplines of research relev ...
... discussed in more detail later, it is noteworthy that this large expenditure, and the extended efforts of the many talented scientists supported by it, have in 2007 still not provided convincing evidence for a measurable human effect on global climate. There are many subdisciplines of research relev ...
... In our study around 47.5% of students were male and rest 52.5% were female. Around 48% belonged to class IX (age < = 15 years) and rest were in class XI (> 15 years). On Initial assessment, 96% of students obtained a score below 50% which implied a serious gap in knowledge level. Knowledge level was ...
Climate change variables in relation to direct
... Further examples: respondents’ reported experiences of environmental changes and events “Well during the 50s 60s and 70s gully buster storms came from the sw every afternoon 3pm 5pm and dump 1-2 inch rain and disappear they only occasionally happen now” (Ballina, NSW). “I live in bushland and h ...
... Further examples: respondents’ reported experiences of environmental changes and events “Well during the 50s 60s and 70s gully buster storms came from the sw every afternoon 3pm 5pm and dump 1-2 inch rain and disappear they only occasionally happen now” (Ballina, NSW). “I live in bushland and h ...
Projected temperature changes along the American cordillera and
... montane regions that may be impacted by the projected temperature changes. Several models use either sigma (or hybrid sigma) levels, which follow terrain near the surface. For those models there are no data in the lower levels at many grid boxes in the transect. In Figure 2, data are displayed only ...
... montane regions that may be impacted by the projected temperature changes. Several models use either sigma (or hybrid sigma) levels, which follow terrain near the surface. For those models there are no data in the lower levels at many grid boxes in the transect. In Figure 2, data are displayed only ...
Evaluating Washington`s Future in a Changing Climate
... In Washington, climate change will lead to larger numbers of heat-related deaths due mainly to hotter summers and population growth. For example in Seattle a medium climate change scenario projects 101 additional deaths for people over 45 by 2025 and another 50% increase by 2045 ...
... In Washington, climate change will lead to larger numbers of heat-related deaths due mainly to hotter summers and population growth. For example in Seattle a medium climate change scenario projects 101 additional deaths for people over 45 by 2025 and another 50% increase by 2045 ...
Southwest Reigon.indd - USA National Phenology Network
... This is one in a series of eight, geographic region-focused information sheets that summarizes documented changes in plant and animal phenology over the past century across the United States. This summary is based on long-term studies (10 years or more) published in the primary scientific literature ...
... This is one in a series of eight, geographic region-focused information sheets that summarizes documented changes in plant and animal phenology over the past century across the United States. This summary is based on long-term studies (10 years or more) published in the primary scientific literature ...
awareness of both type 1 and 2 errors in climate science and
... “Larger values cannot be excluded, but understanding of these effects is too limited to assess their likelihood or provide a best estimate or an upper bound for sea level rise” (Alley et al. 2007, p. 14); and they provided a footnote to explain why. We highlight this example as an instance of how ty ...
... “Larger values cannot be excluded, but understanding of these effects is too limited to assess their likelihood or provide a best estimate or an upper bound for sea level rise” (Alley et al. 2007, p. 14); and they provided a footnote to explain why. We highlight this example as an instance of how ty ...
space and climate change
... GCOS takes advantage of Earth observation satellites as a vital means to observe the climate system from a global perspective. This global perspective allows experts to compare Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) in diverse regions of the globe. Satellite observations differ from ground-based and air ...
... GCOS takes advantage of Earth observation satellites as a vital means to observe the climate system from a global perspective. This global perspective allows experts to compare Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) in diverse regions of the globe. Satellite observations differ from ground-based and air ...
Mankind at the Turning Point slides
... • New efforts to mediate political conflicts since early 1980s: UN envoys, Carter Center, Martti Ahtisaari’s CMI, Elders – some results • At the same time UN climate change talks badly needs an effective mediator, facilitator, pressure group as so far no real results at talks due short-term national ...
... • New efforts to mediate political conflicts since early 1980s: UN envoys, Carter Center, Martti Ahtisaari’s CMI, Elders – some results • At the same time UN climate change talks badly needs an effective mediator, facilitator, pressure group as so far no real results at talks due short-term national ...
Climate Topline Mess.. - The Regeneration Project
... Congress can pass legislation this year that gives Americans what they want: a clean energy future, or Congress can continue to support the failed energy policies of the past. ...
... Congress can pass legislation this year that gives Americans what they want: a clean energy future, or Congress can continue to support the failed energy policies of the past. ...
National Climate Change Stakeholder Consultations
... • Each country will be expected to report in future on progress made against its INDC. • South Africa subscribes to the idea of a multilateral rules based regime, presenting an INDC is a testament to this idea. • Implementing the INDC will require an effort across sectors of the economy. ...
... • Each country will be expected to report in future on progress made against its INDC. • South Africa subscribes to the idea of a multilateral rules based regime, presenting an INDC is a testament to this idea. • Implementing the INDC will require an effort across sectors of the economy. ...
Climate change: The Need to Consider g Human Forcings in Addition to h
... climate change, it is happening now and in the future for a much more complex set of reasons than in previous human history.” I’m confident too that none of my climate science colleagues would find anything to challenge in this statement. y p two different framings of climate change – g g open up ...
... climate change, it is happening now and in the future for a much more complex set of reasons than in previous human history.” I’m confident too that none of my climate science colleagues would find anything to challenge in this statement. y p two different framings of climate change – g g open up ...
CLIMATE AND CLEAN AIR COALITION TO REDUCE SHORT
... The UNEP/WMO Assessment (UNEP/WMO, 2011) and subsequent publications have highlighted the considerable multiple benefits for climate and air quality impacts that would result from the implementation of identified measures that address Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). SLCPs are defined as thos ...
... The UNEP/WMO Assessment (UNEP/WMO, 2011) and subsequent publications have highlighted the considerable multiple benefits for climate and air quality impacts that would result from the implementation of identified measures that address Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). SLCPs are defined as thos ...
2015_06_24_ppt03_DEA Gauteng INDC Stakeholder Consultations
... • Each country will be expected to report in future on progress made against its INDC. • South Africa subscribes to the idea of a multilateral rules based regime, presenting an INDC is a testament to this idea. • Implementing the INDC will require an effort across sectors of the economy. ...
... • Each country will be expected to report in future on progress made against its INDC. • South Africa subscribes to the idea of a multilateral rules based regime, presenting an INDC is a testament to this idea. • Implementing the INDC will require an effort across sectors of the economy. ...
National Plan on Climate Change
... present day. The National Climate Change Plan intends to encourage the undertaking of actions in Brazil that can collaborate with global attempts to face the problem and create internal conditions to confront its consequences. Global warming due to human interference, despite uncertainty about its m ...
... present day. The National Climate Change Plan intends to encourage the undertaking of actions in Brazil that can collaborate with global attempts to face the problem and create internal conditions to confront its consequences. Global warming due to human interference, despite uncertainty about its m ...
SC/2008/xxx - asian parliamentary assembly
... Recognizing the responsibility of developed countries and international institutions to special needs of Asian countries, particularly Asian developing countries, in their strive to deal with negative consequences of climate change effectively and reiterating the importance of devising a proper mech ...
... Recognizing the responsibility of developed countries and international institutions to special needs of Asian countries, particularly Asian developing countries, in their strive to deal with negative consequences of climate change effectively and reiterating the importance of devising a proper mech ...
JOURNEY TO PLANET EARTH Extreme Realities: Severe Weather
... extreme flooding and 20 million homeless in one of the most destructive climate change events yet recorded. People went from having very little to having nothing as they watched the countryʼs infrastructure collapse around them. The government did not effectively meet peopleʼs needs, so desperate pe ...
... extreme flooding and 20 million homeless in one of the most destructive climate change events yet recorded. People went from having very little to having nothing as they watched the countryʼs infrastructure collapse around them. The government did not effectively meet peopleʼs needs, so desperate pe ...
Features
... realistic sea surface temperature, and came up with the 1974 paper.4 That paper has a very successful simulation of global rainfall, both geographical and seasonal. The contents are still not outdated, in my opinion. I’m very proud of this paper. I was really amazed at how good the simulation is. N ...
... realistic sea surface temperature, and came up with the 1974 paper.4 That paper has a very successful simulation of global rainfall, both geographical and seasonal. The contents are still not outdated, in my opinion. I’m very proud of this paper. I was really amazed at how good the simulation is. N ...
the report
... greenhouse gas emissions nationwide, many states have chosen to take matters into their own hands. At least 15 states have passed laws that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including policies that limit or cap CO2 emissions and others that require a specific portion of their state’s electricity ...
... greenhouse gas emissions nationwide, many states have chosen to take matters into their own hands. At least 15 states have passed laws that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including policies that limit or cap CO2 emissions and others that require a specific portion of their state’s electricity ...
Teaching material - Climate Change
... The Earth as a whole also experiences a greenhouse effect. Our planet is surrounded by a protective layer of gases and some of them – the best known is carbon dioxide (CO2), but water vapour is another – act just like the glass of a greenhouse. They allow the Sun’s rays to penetrate through to Earth ...
... The Earth as a whole also experiences a greenhouse effect. Our planet is surrounded by a protective layer of gases and some of them – the best known is carbon dioxide (CO2), but water vapour is another – act just like the glass of a greenhouse. They allow the Sun’s rays to penetrate through to Earth ...
Climate Change Research Programme
... change challenges and to maximise economic opportunities in the transition to a low emissions economy. Research is focused on achievement of 2020 emission reductions targets and identification of pathways for achievement of longer term mitigation goals to 2050. The overall vision is of a GHG neutral ...
... change challenges and to maximise economic opportunities in the transition to a low emissions economy. Research is focused on achievement of 2020 emission reductions targets and identification of pathways for achievement of longer term mitigation goals to 2050. The overall vision is of a GHG neutral ...
OVERVIEW OF CLIMATE SCIENCE
... • 1 degree of latitude per million years (100 km/million years) • Slow changes in solar heating • Average temperature over the continent keeps pace with average changes in solar radiation because of the short response time of land and water ...
... • 1 degree of latitude per million years (100 km/million years) • Slow changes in solar heating • Average temperature over the continent keeps pace with average changes in solar radiation because of the short response time of land and water ...
Fred Singer
Siegfried Fred Singer (born September 27, 1924) is an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia. Singer trained as an atmospheric physicist and is known for his work in space research, atmospheric pollution, rocket and satellite technology, his questioning of the link between UV-B and melanoma rates, and that between CFCs and stratospheric ozone loss, his public denial of the health risks of passive smoking, and as an advocate for climate change denial. He is the author or editor of several books including Global Effects of Environmental Pollution (1970), The Ocean in Human Affairs (1989), Global Climate Change (1989), The Greenhouse Debate Continued (1992), and Hot Talk, Cold Science (1997). He has also co-authored Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years (2007) with Dennis Avery, and Climate Change Reconsidered (2009) with Craig Idso.Singer has had a varied career, serving in the armed forces, government, and academia. He designed mines for the U.S. Navy during World War II, before obtaining his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1948 and working as a scientific liaison officer in the U.S. Embassy in London. He became a leading figure in early space research, was involved in the development of earth observation satellites, and in 1962 established the National Weather Bureau's Satellite Service Center. He was the founding dean of the University of Miami School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences in 1964, and held several government positions, including deputy assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, and chief scientist for the Department of Transportation. He held a professorship with the University of Virginia from 1971 until 1994, and with George Mason University until 2000.In 1990 Singer founded the Science & Environmental Policy Project to advocate for climate change denial, and in 2006 was named by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as one of a minority of scientists said to be creating a stand-off on a consensus on climate change. Singer argues there is no evidence that global warming is attributable to human-caused increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and that humanity would benefit if temperatures do rise.He is an opponent of the Kyoto Protocol, and has claimed climate models as not based on reality, and not evidence. Singer has been accused of rejecting peer-reviewed and independently confirmed scientific evidence in his claims concerning public health and environmental issues.