Interannual variability and expected regional climate change over
... emerges from interannual variability. In our climate models, the only source of external change is the variation in greenhouse gases and aerosols, and so attribution of changes is not in question (for issues related to climate change attribution see The International Ad Hoc Detection and Attribution ...
... emerges from interannual variability. In our climate models, the only source of external change is the variation in greenhouse gases and aerosols, and so attribution of changes is not in question (for issues related to climate change attribution see The International Ad Hoc Detection and Attribution ...
Meeting the needs of Future Generations
... Young people hold a legitimate interest in the outcome of ongoing negotiations in both the climate and development processes. Their concerns extend beyond the lifetimes of the negotiators, yet the climate and development negotiations will ultimately determine whether the world in which they live out ...
... Young people hold a legitimate interest in the outcome of ongoing negotiations in both the climate and development processes. Their concerns extend beyond the lifetimes of the negotiators, yet the climate and development negotiations will ultimately determine whether the world in which they live out ...
Pacific Islands Framework for Action on Climate Change
... deep concern over this serious and growing threat to the economic, social and environmental well being of Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs), their communities, peoples and cultures. They have been calling on the international community to take concerted action to reduce emissions of g ...
... deep concern over this serious and growing threat to the economic, social and environmental well being of Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs), their communities, peoples and cultures. They have been calling on the international community to take concerted action to reduce emissions of g ...
A fair climate deal in Paris means adequate finance to deliver INDCs
... Box 1. INDCs in short The idea of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) dates back to 2013. At COP19, in Warsaw, Poland, parties to the UNFCCC agreed to use these documents to set out their proposed individual efforts and plans — above and beyond their current activities — to achievin ...
... Box 1. INDCs in short The idea of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) dates back to 2013. At COP19, in Warsaw, Poland, parties to the UNFCCC agreed to use these documents to set out their proposed individual efforts and plans — above and beyond their current activities — to achievin ...
Lea - Harvard University
... Vostok ice core is striking (Petit et al. 1999; Cuffey and Vimeux 2001) and suggests that CO 2 is playing a direct role in forcing the observed climate variations over the ice sheet. Such past relationships between temperature and greenhouse forcing can be used to determine climate sensitivity—the s ...
... Vostok ice core is striking (Petit et al. 1999; Cuffey and Vimeux 2001) and suggests that CO 2 is playing a direct role in forcing the observed climate variations over the ice sheet. Such past relationships between temperature and greenhouse forcing can be used to determine climate sensitivity—the s ...
mobilising climate finance
... direct risks to insurance companies from extreme weather events, liability claims for losses caused by climate change and transition risks, primarily from stranded assets. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had estimated that two-thirds of fossil fuel assets should not be sold if w ...
... direct risks to insurance companies from extreme weather events, liability claims for losses caused by climate change and transition risks, primarily from stranded assets. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had estimated that two-thirds of fossil fuel assets should not be sold if w ...
Environmental refugees: The impact of climate change on emigration
... Migration pertains to people leaving their home (“origin”) to live elsewhere. In general, scholars have focused on push factors to explain this phenomenon. Among the socio-political factors (i.e., unemployment, war, or human rights violations), the literature increasingly acknowledges the importance ...
... Migration pertains to people leaving their home (“origin”) to live elsewhere. In general, scholars have focused on push factors to explain this phenomenon. Among the socio-political factors (i.e., unemployment, war, or human rights violations), the literature increasingly acknowledges the importance ...
Federal Climate Change Funding from FY2008 to FY2014
... 2008 through 2013 for climate change activities. The large majority—more than 75%—funded technology development and deployment, mostly through the Department of Energy (DOE). More than one-third of the identified funding during this period was appropriated in the American Recovery and Reinvestment A ...
... 2008 through 2013 for climate change activities. The large majority—more than 75%—funded technology development and deployment, mostly through the Department of Energy (DOE). More than one-third of the identified funding during this period was appropriated in the American Recovery and Reinvestment A ...
Claiming and adjudicating on Mt Kilimanjaro`s
... climate change at home, in commuting, and even nationally and internationally. ...
... climate change at home, in commuting, and even nationally and internationally. ...
Where We Are Now - Edinburgh Research Explorer
... The collection is heavily weighted towards Parts III and IV: “Global Justice and Future Generations” and “Policy Responses to Climate Change”. Within the former, frameworks are outlined for climate justice in a global and intergenerational context. Rival principles for assigning responsibility (poll ...
... The collection is heavily weighted towards Parts III and IV: “Global Justice and Future Generations” and “Policy Responses to Climate Change”. Within the former, frameworks are outlined for climate justice in a global and intergenerational context. Rival principles for assigning responsibility (poll ...
Assessment of impact of climate change on water resources: a long
... aerodynamic techniques have been used to estimate evaporation, and studies conducted by Cohen (1986, 1990), Sanderson (1987), and Croley (1990, 2004) have found that evaporation would be significantly increased under climate change scenarios. Sanderson and Smith (1990, 1993) used the Thornthwaite mo ...
... aerodynamic techniques have been used to estimate evaporation, and studies conducted by Cohen (1986, 1990), Sanderson (1987), and Croley (1990, 2004) have found that evaporation would be significantly increased under climate change scenarios. Sanderson and Smith (1990, 1993) used the Thornthwaite mo ...
Global warming and changes in drought
... we make an assessment of the issues with the PDSI in which several other sources of discrepancy emerge not the least of which is how precipitation has changed and is analyzed. As well as an imp ...
... we make an assessment of the issues with the PDSI in which several other sources of discrepancy emerge not the least of which is how precipitation has changed and is analyzed. As well as an imp ...
Statistical downscaling of daily mean temperature, pan evaporation
... migration of rain belts, as well as the change of tempospatial distribution and intensity of precipitation, has a direct influence on the total amount of water resources, while temperature and pan evaporation can indirectly affect the hydrologic trend due to the interaction with land surface process ...
... migration of rain belts, as well as the change of tempospatial distribution and intensity of precipitation, has a direct influence on the total amount of water resources, while temperature and pan evaporation can indirectly affect the hydrologic trend due to the interaction with land surface process ...
Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements
... The effects of urbanization and climate change are converging in dangerous ways that seriously threaten the world’s environmental, economic and social stability. Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements 2011 seeks to improve knowledge, among governments and all those interested ...
... The effects of urbanization and climate change are converging in dangerous ways that seriously threaten the world’s environmental, economic and social stability. Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements 2011 seeks to improve knowledge, among governments and all those interested ...
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... state-of-the-art technologies. Thirdly, a panel of detailed bundle-acreage data on both regional and annual bases is accessible from official sources. Finally, daily weather data are available from a high spatial-resolution model (Krichak et al., 2010), which reproduces past climate conditions and s ...
... state-of-the-art technologies. Thirdly, a panel of detailed bundle-acreage data on both regional and annual bases is accessible from official sources. Finally, daily weather data are available from a high spatial-resolution model (Krichak et al., 2010), which reproduces past climate conditions and s ...
Executive Summary - Climate Change Action Plan
... Tourism, an important source of foreign exchange earnings, depends on a wide range of environmental resources, such as the abundance and diversity of wildlife, which will be adversely impacted by climate change. ...
... Tourism, an important source of foreign exchange earnings, depends on a wide range of environmental resources, such as the abundance and diversity of wildlife, which will be adversely impacted by climate change. ...
PDF Full Publication in PDF Format
... autonomous energy efficiency improvements, and decarbonization of energy use (autonomous carbon efficiency improvements), as well as by emissions of carbon dioxide from land use change, methane emissions, and nitrous oxide emissions. The scenarios of economic and population growth are perturbed by t ...
... autonomous energy efficiency improvements, and decarbonization of energy use (autonomous carbon efficiency improvements), as well as by emissions of carbon dioxide from land use change, methane emissions, and nitrous oxide emissions. The scenarios of economic and population growth are perturbed by t ...
Empirical analysis of the solar contribution to global mean air
... simple low pass RC-like filter with appropriate relaxation time responses. The relaxation time response of a thermodynamic system is related to the heat capacity of the system itself. For example, I found that the EBM used by Crowley [2000], where the output is averaged on the entire globe, is appro ...
... simple low pass RC-like filter with appropriate relaxation time responses. The relaxation time response of a thermodynamic system is related to the heat capacity of the system itself. For example, I found that the EBM used by Crowley [2000], where the output is averaged on the entire globe, is appro ...
Causes of the Global Warming Observed since the 19th Century
... 19th century. It is critically important to determine whether this global warming is due to natural causes, as contended by climate contrarians, or by human activities, as argued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This study updates our earlier calculations which showed that the obser ...
... 19th century. It is critically important to determine whether this global warming is due to natural causes, as contended by climate contrarians, or by human activities, as argued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This study updates our earlier calculations which showed that the obser ...
Climate Change Negative - St. Louis Urban Debate League
... weather balloons. As has been shown repeatedly by University of Alabama climate scientist John Christy, since late 1978 (when the satellite record begins), the rate of warming in the satellite-sensed data is barely a third of what it was supposed to have been, according to the large family of global ...
... weather balloons. As has been shown repeatedly by University of Alabama climate scientist John Christy, since late 1978 (when the satellite record begins), the rate of warming in the satellite-sensed data is barely a third of what it was supposed to have been, according to the large family of global ...
Climate Change Impact on Agricultural Water Resources Variability
... Basically, there are two main approaches available for the downscaling of large spatial resolution GCM outputs to a finer spatial resolution, termed dynamical and statistical downscaling. In dynamical downscaling, a higher resolution climate model or regional climate model is forced using a GCM. The ...
... Basically, there are two main approaches available for the downscaling of large spatial resolution GCM outputs to a finer spatial resolution, termed dynamical and statistical downscaling. In dynamical downscaling, a higher resolution climate model or regional climate model is forced using a GCM. The ...
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... The resulting additional moisture flux can enhance the moist static energy within the convective boundary layer (CBL) and consequently become thermodynamically more conducive to an increase in rainfall (Betts et al., 1994; Segal et al., 1998). In Nebraska, as in much of the U.S. high plains, corn is ...
... The resulting additional moisture flux can enhance the moist static energy within the convective boundary layer (CBL) and consequently become thermodynamically more conducive to an increase in rainfall (Betts et al., 1994; Segal et al., 1998). In Nebraska, as in much of the U.S. high plains, corn is ...
Testing the robustness of the anthropogenic climate change detection statements using different empirical models
... [Allen et al. 2006; Hegerl and Zwiers, 2011]. [21] In this paper, the regression in equation (1) is performed using the globally averaged temperature time series. This is a limitation of this analysis, because spatial information can be important for detecting climate response signals [Hegerl and Zw ...
... [Allen et al. 2006; Hegerl and Zwiers, 2011]. [21] In this paper, the regression in equation (1) is performed using the globally averaged temperature time series. This is a limitation of this analysis, because spatial information can be important for detecting climate response signals [Hegerl and Zw ...
Climate finance briefing: the global climate finance architecture
... Income Countries (SREP) with 0.74 billion. While the CIFs had a sunset clause that would come into effect when a global architecture was in place, commonly understood to be the operationalisation of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), it was decided in 2016 that its operations would be extended through 20 ...
... Income Countries (SREP) with 0.74 billion. While the CIFs had a sunset clause that would come into effect when a global architecture was in place, commonly understood to be the operationalisation of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), it was decided in 2016 that its operations would be extended through 20 ...
Iyigun et al._2013_Clustering climate regions of
... Solar and wind energy-related strategies or policies on regional water management planning can be developed; areas appropriate for farming and type of animals inhabiting in that area can be identified. Also, understanding the current climate zones can give valuable information about the changes in t ...
... Solar and wind energy-related strategies or policies on regional water management planning can be developed; areas appropriate for farming and type of animals inhabiting in that area can be identified. Also, understanding the current climate zones can give valuable information about the changes in t ...
Michael E. Mann
Michael E. Mann (born 1965) is an American climatologist and geophysicist, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, who has contributed to the scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the temperature record of the past thousand years. He has pioneered techniques to find patterns in past climate change, and to isolate climate signals from ""noisy data"".As lead author of a paper produced in 1998 with co-authors Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes, Mann introduced innovative statistical techniques to find regional variations in a hemispherical climate reconstruction covering the past 600 years. In 1999 the same team used these techniques to produce a reconstruction over the past 1,000 years (MBH99) which was dubbed the ""hockey stick graph"" because of its shape. He was one of 8 lead authors of the ""Observed Climate Variability and Change"" chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report published in 2001. A graph based on the MBH99 paper was highlighted in several parts of the report, and was given wide publicity. The IPCC acknowledged that his work, along with that of the many other lead authors and review editors, contributed to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which was won jointly by the IPCC and Al Gore.He was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003 and has received a number of honors and awards including selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. In 2012 he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and awarded the status of distinguished professor in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.Mann is author of more than 160 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and has published two books: Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, published in early 2012. In 2013 the European Geosciences Union described his publication record as ""outstanding for a scientist of his relatively young age"". He is also a co-founder and contributor to the climatology blog RealClimate.