Climate Change Action Plan
... die-offs of seabird chicks have been recorded during periods of unusually high sea temperatures. These nesting failures are now known to be due to provisioning failure, resulting when parent birds have difficulty obtaining prey fish because of changes in the location of productivity zones. Sea turtl ...
... die-offs of seabird chicks have been recorded during periods of unusually high sea temperatures. These nesting failures are now known to be due to provisioning failure, resulting when parent birds have difficulty obtaining prey fish because of changes in the location of productivity zones. Sea turtl ...
adaptation
... – Availability of financial resources and enabling investment conditions. Governments expressed strong support for building blocks of such a response. There are differences among countries but not fundamental disagreements. Strong support for the continuation of the Dialogue. Dialogue has cont ...
... – Availability of financial resources and enabling investment conditions. Governments expressed strong support for building blocks of such a response. There are differences among countries but not fundamental disagreements. Strong support for the continuation of the Dialogue. Dialogue has cont ...
Microsoft Word
... CASE STUDY: Global Warming – the forest from the trees 3. Measuring the daily maximum and minimum air temperature. Air temperatures over land are usually measured at a height of between 1.2 and 2.0 m above ground in a Stevenson Screen. Liquid-in-glass thermometers are the traditional instruments us ...
... CASE STUDY: Global Warming – the forest from the trees 3. Measuring the daily maximum and minimum air temperature. Air temperatures over land are usually measured at a height of between 1.2 and 2.0 m above ground in a Stevenson Screen. Liquid-in-glass thermometers are the traditional instruments us ...
View/Open - University College Cork
... certain observations are under continuous threat of termination and no mechanism currently exists to assure their funding support over time scales relevant for climate studies. Complete and regular detailed analysis should be carried out and reported on all ECV observations, including satellite data ...
... certain observations are under continuous threat of termination and no mechanism currently exists to assure their funding support over time scales relevant for climate studies. Complete and regular detailed analysis should be carried out and reported on all ECV observations, including satellite data ...
The paradox of Anthony Giddens
... climate change is certainly ‘accessible’ (to the point of being yawn-inducing, it must be said). But his insights are entirely second-hand and derivative: they do not arise out of original scholarly work or deep, sustained thinking. Giddens is a late-comer as well as a new-comer to the subject of c ...
... climate change is certainly ‘accessible’ (to the point of being yawn-inducing, it must be said). But his insights are entirely second-hand and derivative: they do not arise out of original scholarly work or deep, sustained thinking. Giddens is a late-comer as well as a new-comer to the subject of c ...
2. Vulnerability and Adaptation Frameworks
... The reason is that different frameworks have different strengths. In some cases, the interest may lie in long-term impacts of climate change, and thus the impacts framework might be more appropriate. In other cases, the concern may be more near term and more on vulnerability to climate variability a ...
... The reason is that different frameworks have different strengths. In some cases, the interest may lie in long-term impacts of climate change, and thus the impacts framework might be more appropriate. In other cases, the concern may be more near term and more on vulnerability to climate variability a ...
The Role of Landscape Processes within the Climate System
... • Undertake research to characterize the dependence of climate response on the vertical structure of radiative forcing. • Report global mean radiative forcing at both the surface and the top of the atmosphere in climate change assessments. • Use climate records to investigate relationships between r ...
... • Undertake research to characterize the dependence of climate response on the vertical structure of radiative forcing. • Report global mean radiative forcing at both the surface and the top of the atmosphere in climate change assessments. • Use climate records to investigate relationships between r ...
Chapter 2 Citizens` voices in environmental policy
... Citizen participation is thus of increasing interest among the integrated assessment community (Jäger, 1998). Integrated assessment can be seen as the culmination of confluence and evolution of several disciplines that have dealt with the perception, assessment, and management of risks during the la ...
... Citizen participation is thus of increasing interest among the integrated assessment community (Jäger, 1998). Integrated assessment can be seen as the culmination of confluence and evolution of several disciplines that have dealt with the perception, assessment, and management of risks during the la ...
Global air temperature variability independent of sea
... The PCA of the SST data produced two principal components (PCs) that explained approximately 34% of the variance in global SST variability (Figure 1). PC1 explains 20% of the SST variability and PC2 explains 14% of the SST variability. Subsequent PCs explained 6% or less of the variability in the SS ...
... The PCA of the SST data produced two principal components (PCs) that explained approximately 34% of the variance in global SST variability (Figure 1). PC1 explains 20% of the SST variability and PC2 explains 14% of the SST variability. Subsequent PCs explained 6% or less of the variability in the SS ...
Aasprang.Brita.Envir..
... Paper for the 26th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association 15-18 August 2012, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. Working group: Environment, risk and expertise . ...
... Paper for the 26th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association 15-18 August 2012, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. Working group: Environment, risk and expertise . ...
... The outcomes from investigating the agriculture sector indicate that for the sugar-cane subsector the harvests under both the A2 and B2 scenarios decrease at first and then increase as the mid-century mark is approached. With respect to the yam subsector the results indicate that the yield of yam wi ...
Demographic Amplification of Climate Change Experienced by the
... Finally, because human population size and distribution have been previously argued to be strongly associated with coastal zones and navigable rivers and only weakly with climate conditions [19] we included distance from waterway (calculated as the shortest distance between the centroid of each coun ...
... Finally, because human population size and distribution have been previously argued to be strongly associated with coastal zones and navigable rivers and only weakly with climate conditions [19] we included distance from waterway (calculated as the shortest distance between the centroid of each coun ...
Proposal for a poverty-adaptation-mitigation window - HAL
... Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. This could in turn entice industrialized countries to act similarly. In the end, it could pave the way to an ambitious climate agreement in Paris at COP21. ...
... Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. This could in turn entice industrialized countries to act similarly. In the end, it could pave the way to an ambitious climate agreement in Paris at COP21. ...
Proposal for the creation of a poverty-adaptation - Hal-SHS
... Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. This could in turn entice industrialized countries to act similarly. In the end, it could pave the way to an ambitious climate agreement in Paris at COP21. ...
... Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. This could in turn entice industrialized countries to act similarly. In the end, it could pave the way to an ambitious climate agreement in Paris at COP21. ...
Time series analyses reveal possible responses by the lichen
... adjustment of its parameters by empirical data. Yet, if we would like to find out how the ...
... adjustment of its parameters by empirical data. Yet, if we would like to find out how the ...
Responding to Climate Change: The Three Spheres of
... Transformational adaptation Humans have been transforming the Earth for millennia, but it is only over the past centuries that the impacts have become visible at a global scale (Turner et al., 1990; Steffen et al., 2011). Climate change, in combination with other environmental changes, is now ...
... Transformational adaptation Humans have been transforming the Earth for millennia, but it is only over the past centuries that the impacts have become visible at a global scale (Turner et al., 1990; Steffen et al., 2011). Climate change, in combination with other environmental changes, is now ...
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... More and more individuals and organizations recognize that business-as-usual is an insufficient response to today’s climate challenges. As a result, the concept of transformation is moving to the forefront of debates about responses to climate change (WBGU, 2011; O’Brien, 2012; Park et al., 2012). N ...
... More and more individuals and organizations recognize that business-as-usual is an insufficient response to today’s climate challenges. As a result, the concept of transformation is moving to the forefront of debates about responses to climate change (WBGU, 2011; O’Brien, 2012; Park et al., 2012). N ...
Sahelian climate
... al. (2002) reveals that the intraseasonal migration of rainfall maxima is a discontinuous and nonlinear process with three main phases: (i) the preonset or arrival of the intertropical front (ITF) at 15ºN in May, bringing enough moisture for isolated convective system to develop over the Sahel; (ii) ...
... al. (2002) reveals that the intraseasonal migration of rainfall maxima is a discontinuous and nonlinear process with three main phases: (i) the preonset or arrival of the intertropical front (ITF) at 15ºN in May, bringing enough moisture for isolated convective system to develop over the Sahel; (ii) ...
IFAD - unfccc
... named IFAD a GEF executing agency in recognition of its expertise in land degradation. IFAD’s flexible programme approach and long-term lending framework are conducive to close collaboration with the GEF in addressing global environmental concerns while meeting local development needs. In June 2007, ...
... named IFAD a GEF executing agency in recognition of its expertise in land degradation. IFAD’s flexible programme approach and long-term lending framework are conducive to close collaboration with the GEF in addressing global environmental concerns while meeting local development needs. In June 2007, ...
Probabilistic projections of climate change over China - HAL-Insu
... of climate change impact and change mitigation. In the present study, a simple yet effective approach is proposed with the purpose of producing probabilistic results of climate change over China for the middle and end of the twenty-first century under the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios A1B (S ...
... of climate change impact and change mitigation. In the present study, a simple yet effective approach is proposed with the purpose of producing probabilistic results of climate change over China for the middle and end of the twenty-first century under the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios A1B (S ...
ahead of the storm
... • Toronto’s Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan, which was unanimously endorsed by Council in July 2007, set in motion Toronto’s bold and ambitious climate change agenda. • The action plan – which targets an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – introdu ...
... • Toronto’s Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan, which was unanimously endorsed by Council in July 2007, set in motion Toronto’s bold and ambitious climate change agenda. • The action plan – which targets an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – introdu ...
The Abrahamic Religions and Climate Change - e
... faith and point to the activities in which the members engage that are most pertinent to addressing climate change. The discussion concludes with encouragement to Earth scientists to recognize that these leaders and organizations value scientific findings and essentially function as allies in the go ...
... faith and point to the activities in which the members engage that are most pertinent to addressing climate change. The discussion concludes with encouragement to Earth scientists to recognize that these leaders and organizations value scientific findings and essentially function as allies in the go ...
Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science
... Acceleration of melting of ice-sheets, glaciers and ice-caps: A wide array of satellite and ice measurements now demonstrate beyond doubt that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate. Melting of glaciers and ice-caps in other parts of the world has also acce ...
... Acceleration of melting of ice-sheets, glaciers and ice-caps: A wide array of satellite and ice measurements now demonstrate beyond doubt that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate. Melting of glaciers and ice-caps in other parts of the world has also acce ...
Framing Climate: Implications for Local Government Policy
... Climate Change: Framing the Policy Issue Climate change is a relatively new area of policy development characterised by considerable uncertainties. These uncertainties were once dominated by questions over whether anthropogenic or natural factors are the root cause of climate change. However, the fo ...
... Climate Change: Framing the Policy Issue Climate change is a relatively new area of policy development characterised by considerable uncertainties. These uncertainties were once dominated by questions over whether anthropogenic or natural factors are the root cause of climate change. However, the fo ...
The Heat Is On - Climate Central
... less, and some not much at all. Natural variability explains some of the differences, and air pollution with fine aerosols screening incoming solar radiation could also be a factor. Our state-by-state analysis of warming over the past 100 years shows where it warmed the most and where it warmed the ...
... less, and some not much at all. Natural variability explains some of the differences, and air pollution with fine aerosols screening incoming solar radiation could also be a factor. Our state-by-state analysis of warming over the past 100 years shows where it warmed the most and where it warmed 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.