Current Extreme Weather and Climate Change
... In contrast, the observed trends fit well with our understanding of how climate change drives changes in weather. Computer models of the climate that include both natural forces as well as human influences are consistent with observed global trends in heat waves, warm days and nights, and frost days ...
... In contrast, the observed trends fit well with our understanding of how climate change drives changes in weather. Computer models of the climate that include both natural forces as well as human influences are consistent with observed global trends in heat waves, warm days and nights, and frost days ...
Climate Change: The 21st Century`s Most Urgent Environmental
... communist countries, not because of climate change, but because of increasing poverty, AIDS, and malaria.8 ...
... communist countries, not because of climate change, but because of increasing poverty, AIDS, and malaria.8 ...
Sustainability at - Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
... Yet the people profiled in this short survey of sustainability work at Melbourne believe in the power of ideas and the possibility of action. Each combines a commitment to critical inquiry with a practical program to make a difference. So colleagues are charting temperatures and mapping past climate ...
... Yet the people profiled in this short survey of sustainability work at Melbourne believe in the power of ideas and the possibility of action. Each combines a commitment to critical inquiry with a practical program to make a difference. So colleagues are charting temperatures and mapping past climate ...
Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Systems into Climate Change
... change. The most widely relied-upon indicators are the timing, intensity and duration of cold temperatures during the early part of the dry season, timing of fruiting by certain local trees, the water level in streams and ponds, the nesting behaviour of some birds, and insect behaviour in rubbish he ...
... change. The most widely relied-upon indicators are the timing, intensity and duration of cold temperatures during the early part of the dry season, timing of fruiting by certain local trees, the water level in streams and ponds, the nesting behaviour of some birds, and insect behaviour in rubbish he ...
Unit 12 : Earth`s Changing Climate
... dynamics like temperature increase and climate feedbacks. The more closely a model can replicate past climate conditions, the more accurate its future predictions are likely to be. ...
... dynamics like temperature increase and climate feedbacks. The more closely a model can replicate past climate conditions, the more accurate its future predictions are likely to be. ...
The Global Climate Observing System, GCOS
... GCOS‘ objectives To support all components of the World Climate Programme. the assessment role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). the international policy development role of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). To provide comprehensive ...
... GCOS‘ objectives To support all components of the World Climate Programme. the assessment role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). the international policy development role of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). To provide comprehensive ...
GCOS – Global Climate Observing System
... What is GCOS doing? System Improvement Programme: GCOS provides support needed from the scientific, donor and host communities to implement selected improvements, especially for GUAN and GSN stations; GCOS Cooperation Mechanism Identify and make most effective use of available resources; ...
... What is GCOS doing? System Improvement Programme: GCOS provides support needed from the scientific, donor and host communities to implement selected improvements, especially for GUAN and GSN stations; GCOS Cooperation Mechanism Identify and make most effective use of available resources; ...
climate change impacts, vulnerabilities, and adaption in northwest
... further over the next 50 to 100 years. As emphasized in the workshop, this mix of diverse impacts and high uncertainty means that cumulative impacts are difficult to predict. This adds to the case for developing flexible adaptation plans at the local level. It also adds to the urgency for other grou ...
... further over the next 50 to 100 years. As emphasized in the workshop, this mix of diverse impacts and high uncertainty means that cumulative impacts are difficult to predict. This adds to the case for developing flexible adaptation plans at the local level. It also adds to the urgency for other grou ...
Template - FIG Congress 2010
... The global scientific community has a clear consensus view that the earth’s climate system is being impacted by human influence (IPCC, 2013). The average temperature of the Earth has been increasing more than natural climatic cycles would explain. This episode of “global warming” is due to human act ...
... The global scientific community has a clear consensus view that the earth’s climate system is being impacted by human influence (IPCC, 2013). The average temperature of the Earth has been increasing more than natural climatic cycles would explain. This episode of “global warming” is due to human act ...
Canada`s Marine Coasts in a Changing Climate – Chapter 1
... Derived predominantly from fisheries management and international marine law, the coast is often described as a zone or area along a shoreline, largely marine in focus, whose landward boundary is either determined by the highest anticipated inland intrusion of seawater or designated as a specified d ...
... Derived predominantly from fisheries management and international marine law, the coast is often described as a zone or area along a shoreline, largely marine in focus, whose landward boundary is either determined by the highest anticipated inland intrusion of seawater or designated as a specified d ...
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... • Use O2 (or other proxy) as an imprint of convection/climate variability and change Need data mining Need to setup new JGOFS or ARGO long time surveys • Develop lab experiments to evaluate biological responses to dissolved CO2 Need diverse planktonic assemblages, but how to jump in open condi ...
... • Use O2 (or other proxy) as an imprint of convection/climate variability and change Need data mining Need to setup new JGOFS or ARGO long time surveys • Develop lab experiments to evaluate biological responses to dissolved CO2 Need diverse planktonic assemblages, but how to jump in open condi ...
Multidecadal Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability and
... The NAOI spectrum is almost white, but there is multidecadal variability ...
... The NAOI spectrum is almost white, but there is multidecadal variability ...
Sensitivity of Potato Yield to Climate Change
... have been developed by human activity over a long period of time. Accordance of plant demands with the given climatic and environmental conditions for agricultural crops is the most important precondition for high productivity if climatic changes as projected by atmospheric scientists (IPCC) [6 ] ad ...
... have been developed by human activity over a long period of time. Accordance of plant demands with the given climatic and environmental conditions for agricultural crops is the most important precondition for high productivity if climatic changes as projected by atmospheric scientists (IPCC) [6 ] ad ...
Introduction - San Jose State University
... Albedo effect - COOLING Clouds reflect incoming solar radiation. The cloud droplet size and total water content determine the overall reflectivity. ...
... Albedo effect - COOLING Clouds reflect incoming solar radiation. The cloud droplet size and total water content determine the overall reflectivity. ...
American Risk Perceptions: Is Climate Change Dangerous?
... said “no,” and 4% said “don’t know” (PIPA, 2003). Throughout the 1990s, the fossil fuel industry, represented by lobby groups like the Global Climate Coalition, spearheaded a public relations effort to cast doubt on the science and reality of anthropogenic climate change (see Gelbspan, 1997; Leggett ...
... said “no,” and 4% said “don’t know” (PIPA, 2003). Throughout the 1990s, the fossil fuel industry, represented by lobby groups like the Global Climate Coalition, spearheaded a public relations effort to cast doubt on the science and reality of anthropogenic climate change (see Gelbspan, 1997; Leggett ...
‘Ye Olde Hot Aire’*: reporting on human tabloid press
... natural variation, significantly contribute to climate changes (most accurately communicating the dominant view from climate science), (3) gave ‘a balanced account’ surrounding existence and non-existence of anthropogenic climate change, and (4) presented multiple viewpoints but emphasized the claim ...
... natural variation, significantly contribute to climate changes (most accurately communicating the dominant view from climate science), (3) gave ‘a balanced account’ surrounding existence and non-existence of anthropogenic climate change, and (4) presented multiple viewpoints but emphasized the claim ...
Equivalence and Issue Framing Effects
... focus on these considerations when constructing their opinions (Druckman 2001a). A concrete example of issue framing effects is demonstrated by Nelson et al. (1997) in a study where individuals were presented with information and expressed their preferences regarding a rally by the Ku Klux Klan. Whe ...
... focus on these considerations when constructing their opinions (Druckman 2001a). A concrete example of issue framing effects is demonstrated by Nelson et al. (1997) in a study where individuals were presented with information and expressed their preferences regarding a rally by the Ku Klux Klan. Whe ...
Are cultures endangered by climate change? Yes, but
... on a local level. The jackpot certainly goes to whoever figures this one out. To empower ‘them’ to do something, however, suggests that we know how climate will actually change at a local level, and can convey this information effectively. The reality of the state of climate modeling at this point i ...
... on a local level. The jackpot certainly goes to whoever figures this one out. To empower ‘them’ to do something, however, suggests that we know how climate will actually change at a local level, and can convey this information effectively. The reality of the state of climate modeling at this point i ...
DrieD up, DrowneD out - TILZ
... agenda and formed writing groups in which we argued loud and long about all the data and what it meant. Our work was refereed by other scientists and by governments, and our final summaries were agreed, sentence by sentence, at very tough intergovernmental meetings. The scientific evidence as presen ...
... agenda and formed writing groups in which we argued loud and long about all the data and what it meant. Our work was refereed by other scientists and by governments, and our final summaries were agreed, sentence by sentence, at very tough intergovernmental meetings. The scientific evidence as presen ...
Native Communities and Climate Change
... occasions where rights to both damages and injunctive relief have been recognized. Furthermore, judicial caution in enforcing the trust obligation does not lessen the federal government’s legal and moral responsibility to take action when tribal land and resources, which form the basis for tribal so ...
... occasions where rights to both damages and injunctive relief have been recognized. Furthermore, judicial caution in enforcing the trust obligation does not lessen the federal government’s legal and moral responsibility to take action when tribal land and resources, which form the basis for tribal so ...
- The Kresge Foundation
... And we will increasingly be forced to anticipate heightened social disruption and humanely embrace those affected. One study found that even four years after Hurricane Katrina, one-third of New Orleans’ lowincome mothers were still suffering psychological distress or post-traumatic stress symptoms. ...
... And we will increasingly be forced to anticipate heightened social disruption and humanely embrace those affected. One study found that even four years after Hurricane Katrina, one-third of New Orleans’ lowincome mothers were still suffering psychological distress or post-traumatic stress symptoms. ...
The Holocene
... with climatic and ecological records from northeastern North America (Kurek et al., 2004; Lutz et al., 2007; Shuman et al., 2002). Ellison et al. (2006) suggest the presence of two distinct cooling events centered at 8.5 and 8.1 kyr BP, respectively, in the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean (Ellison et ...
... with climatic and ecological records from northeastern North America (Kurek et al., 2004; Lutz et al., 2007; Shuman et al., 2002). Ellison et al. (2006) suggest the presence of two distinct cooling events centered at 8.5 and 8.1 kyr BP, respectively, in the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean (Ellison et ...
The European climate under a 2 °C global warming
... value with a snapshot approach. Here we use the ENSEMBLES regional simulations of the A1B scenario (Nakićenović et al 2000), which are now well studied (Kjellström et al 2013, Déqué et al 2012). The GCMs driving these regional simulations have different sensitivities to natural and anthropogeni ...
... value with a snapshot approach. Here we use the ENSEMBLES regional simulations of the A1B scenario (Nakićenović et al 2000), which are now well studied (Kjellström et al 2013, Déqué et al 2012). The GCMs driving these regional simulations have different sensitivities to natural and anthropogeni ...
Which early works are cited most frequently in climate change
... Climate change has gained strongly increasing attention in the natural sciences and more recently also in the social and political sciences. Scientists actively work to understand past climate and to predict future climate by using observations and theoretical models. Various subfields from physics, ...
... Climate change has gained strongly increasing attention in the natural sciences and more recently also in the social and political sciences. Scientists actively work to understand past climate and to predict future climate by using observations and theoretical models. Various subfields from physics, ...
The Need To Assess Spatial Variations In Climate Forcings - Suggestions For
... Washington, DC December 8, 2008 ...
... Washington, DC December 8, 2008 ...
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.