Mission Report Downscalling - Global Climate Change Alliance
... RCM results with respect to understanding the impacts of the projected changes and what they actually mean for the communities in the study area. Perhaps an area that could be looked at in future in this regard is “Community disaster risk management”, given that projected climate change is indeed go ...
... RCM results with respect to understanding the impacts of the projected changes and what they actually mean for the communities in the study area. Perhaps an area that could be looked at in future in this regard is “Community disaster risk management”, given that projected climate change is indeed go ...
The likelihood and potential impact of future change in
... categories and includes over 110,000 proceedings from the most significant conferences worldwide (WoS, 2012). Keyword searches were conducted for each component of the large-scale climate-earth system considered, using various combinations of the words included in Table 1. Searches were limited to p ...
... categories and includes over 110,000 proceedings from the most significant conferences worldwide (WoS, 2012). Keyword searches were conducted for each component of the large-scale climate-earth system considered, using various combinations of the words included in Table 1. Searches were limited to p ...
Noel L. Bankston - Old Dominion University
... an insulator in 1824 (National Research Council, 2012). His proposal led to the term greenhouse effects. In 1850, Irish-born physicist John Tyndall, demonstrated the greenhouse effect by showing that water vapor and other atmospheric gases absorbed the Earth’s radiant heat. Swedish scientist Svante ...
... an insulator in 1824 (National Research Council, 2012). His proposal led to the term greenhouse effects. In 1850, Irish-born physicist John Tyndall, demonstrated the greenhouse effect by showing that water vapor and other atmospheric gases absorbed the Earth’s radiant heat. Swedish scientist Svante ...
climate change and the hydrological cycle
... observing, understanding and modelling the five interconnected components that comprise the climate system: atmosphere, oceans, land surface, cryosphere, and biosphere. Feedbacks at a variety of spatial and temporal scales shape the system’s overall behaviour, and the hydrological cycle plays a crit ...
... observing, understanding and modelling the five interconnected components that comprise the climate system: atmosphere, oceans, land surface, cryosphere, and biosphere. Feedbacks at a variety of spatial and temporal scales shape the system’s overall behaviour, and the hydrological cycle plays a crit ...
Why Hasn`t Earth Warmed as Much as Expected?
... JOHN A. OGREN NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado ...
... JOHN A. OGREN NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado ...
What do stakeholders need to manage for climate change
... focused on needs from a non-researcher stakeholder perspective, researchers were present in some of the workshops that generated documents. Thus, the needs as compiled are not completely free of potential influence from researchers (as an aside, the authors of this paper were not involved in generat ...
... focused on needs from a non-researcher stakeholder perspective, researchers were present in some of the workshops that generated documents. Thus, the needs as compiled are not completely free of potential influence from researchers (as an aside, the authors of this paper were not involved in generat ...
Impact of Climate Change on Wetland Functions
... wetland management plan, accurate assessment is experiencing difficulties. Climate change will also change the environment of wetland, causing changes in the environment of habitats of living things and the numbers of individuals or species, and the studies for influence of climate change on wetland ...
... wetland management plan, accurate assessment is experiencing difficulties. Climate change will also change the environment of wetland, causing changes in the environment of habitats of living things and the numbers of individuals or species, and the studies for influence of climate change on wetland ...
EXAMINING THE UNINTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE
... On the heels of these catastrophic predictions, the President plans to announce next Monday his most costly climate regulations – new climate standards for power plants. The Administration’s regulatory agenda will hit workers and families hard but have no discernable impact on global temperature. On ...
... On the heels of these catastrophic predictions, the President plans to announce next Monday his most costly climate regulations – new climate standards for power plants. The Administration’s regulatory agenda will hit workers and families hard but have no discernable impact on global temperature. On ...
LLoyd's Science of Risk Conference Booklet 2012
... Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability Losses from weather related risks are preconditioned by slowly evolving changes in ocean temperatures. Not only do these changes influence how active Atlantic Hurricanes will be over a given decade they are ...
... Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability Losses from weather related risks are preconditioned by slowly evolving changes in ocean temperatures. Not only do these changes influence how active Atlantic Hurricanes will be over a given decade they are ...
Climate Change: what do we know about the IPCC?
... goal: to change the terms of Revelle’s experiment by bringing the worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases under directed management. We do not know the outcome of either experiment, but what connects them together is predictive knowledge ... putative knowledge about how future climate may evolve ov ...
... goal: to change the terms of Revelle’s experiment by bringing the worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases under directed management. We do not know the outcome of either experiment, but what connects them together is predictive knowledge ... putative knowledge about how future climate may evolve ov ...
Exploring the behaviour of atmospheric temperatures under dry
... and seasonality. It is, thus, of interest to explore the manner in which atmospheric temperatures during summer months are linked to the amount of precipitation, or lack thereof, and the possible spatial dependency in the temperature–precipitation relation for a number of European locations. Benisto ...
... and seasonality. It is, thus, of interest to explore the manner in which atmospheric temperatures during summer months are linked to the amount of precipitation, or lack thereof, and the possible spatial dependency in the temperature–precipitation relation for a number of European locations. Benisto ...
Scientific aspects - Wageningen UR E
... be written at the start of the project and towards the end synthesizing publications will be produced, in the form of a special issue, two international books and a number of articles. ...
... be written at the start of the project and towards the end synthesizing publications will be produced, in the form of a special issue, two international books and a number of articles. ...
Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation
... decisions about responses, and means of implementation are all mediated by culture. Cultures are dynamic and reflexive and so are in turn shaped by the idea of climate change. Hence culture, and its analysis, is central to understanding the causes and meaning of, and human responses to climate chang ...
... decisions about responses, and means of implementation are all mediated by culture. Cultures are dynamic and reflexive and so are in turn shaped by the idea of climate change. Hence culture, and its analysis, is central to understanding the causes and meaning of, and human responses to climate chang ...
Sustainability and Risk: Climate Change and Fiduciary Duty WORKSHOP REPORT
... No alternative “culprit” identified so far – no potential cause of climate change other than human emissions of greenhouse gases – yields this “fingerprint” match. A credible skeptic would need to explain both what the alternative cause of the observed changes is and how it could be that greenhouse ga ...
... No alternative “culprit” identified so far – no potential cause of climate change other than human emissions of greenhouse gases – yields this “fingerprint” match. A credible skeptic would need to explain both what the alternative cause of the observed changes is and how it could be that greenhouse ga ...
Executive Summary - Overseas Development Institute
... compiles data on how much finance climate funds have raised, where it is spent, and what the projects funded seek to achieve. CFU is the world’s leading source of information on climate funds: our data is updated quarterly and available at www.climatefundsupdate. org. The report also draws on ODI's ...
... compiles data on how much finance climate funds have raised, where it is spent, and what the projects funded seek to achieve. CFU is the world’s leading source of information on climate funds: our data is updated quarterly and available at www.climatefundsupdate. org. The report also draws on ODI's ...
Have disaster losses increased due to anthropogenic climate change?
... often not accurate (Downton and Pielke 2005; Gall et al. 2009), and most studies have focused on average losses, while changes and volatility of the greatest losses are not addressed. The scale of analysis is also an issue, as aggregating to regional or global level may have the advantage that local ...
... often not accurate (Downton and Pielke 2005; Gall et al. 2009), and most studies have focused on average losses, while changes and volatility of the greatest losses are not addressed. The scale of analysis is also an issue, as aggregating to regional or global level may have the advantage that local ...
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... are important adaptation measures under different climate scenarios. This paper provides evidence on how anthropogenic systems utilizing nature such as crop management, animal husbandry, and forestry would react to the natural climate which is expected to be disequilibrated by centuries of industrial ...
... are important adaptation measures under different climate scenarios. This paper provides evidence on how anthropogenic systems utilizing nature such as crop management, animal husbandry, and forestry would react to the natural climate which is expected to be disequilibrated by centuries of industrial ...
Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... Scientists predict that by 2050, the average annual temperature in Ontario will increase by 2.5°C to 3.7°C from the1961-1990 baseline average. This change, along with predictions that the number of “hot” days (over 30 °C/86 °F) in Windsor could almost quadruple by 2071-2100, is cause for concern. He ...
... Scientists predict that by 2050, the average annual temperature in Ontario will increase by 2.5°C to 3.7°C from the1961-1990 baseline average. This change, along with predictions that the number of “hot” days (over 30 °C/86 °F) in Windsor could almost quadruple by 2071-2100, is cause for concern. He ...
How the UN System Supports Ambitious Action on Climate Change
... Under the auspices of UN-Energy, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs have worked with the Energy Commission of Ghana to explore policy options for increasing the use of low-carbon energy. The study used the IAEA energy planni ...
... Under the auspices of UN-Energy, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs have worked with the Energy Commission of Ghana to explore policy options for increasing the use of low-carbon energy. The study used the IAEA energy planni ...
Senate Environmental Quality Committee
... and ARCCA has been as a convener bringing stakeholders together. As communities around California are just beginning to understand the adaptation narrative and examine their risks and vulnerabilities, this conversation and exchange between stakeholders has been critical in each of the regions. Some ...
... and ARCCA has been as a convener bringing stakeholders together. As communities around California are just beginning to understand the adaptation narrative and examine their risks and vulnerabilities, this conversation and exchange between stakeholders has been critical in each of the regions. Some ...
Towards a typology for constrained climate model forecasts
... Optimal fingerprinting can be thought of as equivalent to generating a large “pseudo-ensemble” simply by taking the mean space-time pattern of response to a given external forcing as simulated by a small ensemble and scaling it up and down by an arbitrary parameter representing uncertainty in the re ...
... Optimal fingerprinting can be thought of as equivalent to generating a large “pseudo-ensemble” simply by taking the mean space-time pattern of response to a given external forcing as simulated by a small ensemble and scaling it up and down by an arbitrary parameter representing uncertainty in the re ...
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... utilised in assessing the magnitude and extent of climate change for the 25 selected districts of Gujarat. These districts were selected as representating of various agroclimatic zones of Gujarat based on the availability of data. The results revealed that the Northwest arid zone was the most vulner ...
... utilised in assessing the magnitude and extent of climate change for the 25 selected districts of Gujarat. These districts were selected as representating of various agroclimatic zones of Gujarat based on the availability of data. The results revealed that the Northwest arid zone was the most vulner ...
How the United Nations System Supports Ambitious Action
... Under the auspices of UN-Energy, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs have worked with the Energy Commission A village shop in Sri Lanka at dusk lit by solar lamps. © Dominic Sansoni/The World Bank ...
... Under the auspices of UN-Energy, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs have worked with the Energy Commission A village shop in Sri Lanka at dusk lit by solar lamps. © Dominic Sansoni/The World Bank ...
Climate Change: Addressing the Major Skeptic Arguments
... hot spot) is missing. measurements in the tropics suggest greater warming in the upper troposphere than at the surface, as predicted by the models. Although the tropospheric hot spot (signature) is not unique to greenhouse gas forcing, the new observational data lend support to climate simulations. ...
... hot spot) is missing. measurements in the tropics suggest greater warming in the upper troposphere than at the surface, as predicted by the models. Although the tropospheric hot spot (signature) is not unique to greenhouse gas forcing, the new observational data lend support to climate simulations. ...
Report - UNHCR
... Climate change is often viewed as a “threat multiplier”, exacerbating threats caused by persistent poverty, weak institutions for resource management and conflict resolution, fault lines and a history of mistrust between communities and nations, and inadequate access to information or resources. The ...
... Climate change is often viewed as a “threat multiplier”, exacerbating threats caused by persistent poverty, weak institutions for resource management and conflict resolution, fault lines and a history of mistrust between communities and nations, and inadequate access to information or resources. The ...
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.