Abstract - biodiversity
... the society and nature; of which, the infrastructure is an important factor. Within this report, the infrastructure is understood as all the civil and industrial construction works in these sectors: Construction, Energy, Transportation, Industry, Agriculture, and Tourism – Service…There sectors have ...
... the society and nature; of which, the infrastructure is an important factor. Within this report, the infrastructure is understood as all the civil and industrial construction works in these sectors: Construction, Energy, Transportation, Industry, Agriculture, and Tourism – Service…There sectors have ...
OVERVIEW:
... B–Water supply: Water supply in the NRB is being affected by a large number of factors including decreasing snowfall, increasing total winter precipitation (i.e., more winter rain), decreasing soil moisture, forest pests outbreaks and warming temperatures. These have led to a change in the annual d ...
... B–Water supply: Water supply in the NRB is being affected by a large number of factors including decreasing snowfall, increasing total winter precipitation (i.e., more winter rain), decreasing soil moisture, forest pests outbreaks and warming temperatures. These have led to a change in the annual d ...
Sensitivity of tree growth to the atmospheric vertical profile in the
... results also indicated that Northern Hemisphere stratospheric circulation (e.g., between 200hPa to 10hPa or 12km to 31km above sea level) had a highly significant influence on tree growth for eight of the sixteen months under study (Fig. 5). The sensitivity of tree growth in the Duck Mountain to lar ...
... results also indicated that Northern Hemisphere stratospheric circulation (e.g., between 200hPa to 10hPa or 12km to 31km above sea level) had a highly significant influence on tree growth for eight of the sixteen months under study (Fig. 5). The sensitivity of tree growth in the Duck Mountain to lar ...
Tracking Climate Change Opinions from Twitter Data Xiaoran An Auroop R. Ganguly
... the New York Times claimed: “Here’s a scary fact about America: We’re much more likely to believe that there are signs that aliens have visited Earth (77 percent) than that humans are causing climate change (44 percent).” The IPCC’s Special Report on Extremes [4] and the Fifth Assessment Report [14] ...
... the New York Times claimed: “Here’s a scary fact about America: We’re much more likely to believe that there are signs that aliens have visited Earth (77 percent) than that humans are causing climate change (44 percent).” The IPCC’s Special Report on Extremes [4] and the Fifth Assessment Report [14] ...
Mainstreaming Climate Change in Colombia
... inequalities and social gaps, including a high percentage of vulnerable populations that may suffer serious setbacks in their human development due precisely to climate change. ...
... inequalities and social gaps, including a high percentage of vulnerable populations that may suffer serious setbacks in their human development due precisely to climate change. ...
The climate of the United Kingdom and recent trends
... UKCP09, planned for launch in late 2008, and these are shown in Section 1 of this report. In addition, following the success of A handbook of climate trends across Scotland published by SNIFFER (Barnett et al., 2006), its was suggested that similar detailed graphics of climatology and trends be incl ...
... UKCP09, planned for launch in late 2008, and these are shown in Section 1 of this report. In addition, following the success of A handbook of climate trends across Scotland published by SNIFFER (Barnett et al., 2006), its was suggested that similar detailed graphics of climatology and trends be incl ...
Maintaining ecosystem services for human well
... rainfall region, along the coast, and a large area of summer rainfall Nama Karoo and small patches of the Mediterranean climate Fynbos are found in the extreme south west of the District. Impressively the NDM contains 105 distinct vegetation types. The Succulent Karoo biodiversity hotspot alone is h ...
... rainfall region, along the coast, and a large area of summer rainfall Nama Karoo and small patches of the Mediterranean climate Fynbos are found in the extreme south west of the District. Impressively the NDM contains 105 distinct vegetation types. The Succulent Karoo biodiversity hotspot alone is h ...
1 Conflict and Accommodation in International Environmental
... Concerns about the impact of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on the global climate system presented industry with the threat of coordinated international action that could cause serious disruption to markets (Levy, 1997a; Rowlands, 1995). Although scientific interest in the response of the climate system to ...
... Concerns about the impact of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on the global climate system presented industry with the threat of coordinated international action that could cause serious disruption to markets (Levy, 1997a; Rowlands, 1995). Although scientific interest in the response of the climate system to ...
On the Contrary: How to Think About Climate
... (1) and (2), but suggest that the impacts are mostly positive. As one example, one might argue that southern Canada would be capable of increased agriculture which is beneficial and generalize considerations like these. Regulation doubters agree with (1) - (3) but deny that mitigation could do anythi ...
... (1) and (2), but suggest that the impacts are mostly positive. As one example, one might argue that southern Canada would be capable of increased agriculture which is beneficial and generalize considerations like these. Regulation doubters agree with (1) - (3) but deny that mitigation could do anythi ...
Creation and Stewardship A unit for post-16 General RE
... is also lost. unexpected no seeds environment, then I think we can look after the they environment so it I right – when cut down a had never heard about climate left or were scared to plant them. begin to have create a world like the one that we fewer disasters here tree they had to ask the earth... ...
... is also lost. unexpected no seeds environment, then I think we can look after the they environment so it I right – when cut down a had never heard about climate left or were scared to plant them. begin to have create a world like the one that we fewer disasters here tree they had to ask the earth... ...
The Decline and Fall of Global Warming
... Five years later, the IPCC produced its second assessment of climate change (IPCC I 1996). It contains a remarkable sentence that I have never seen quoted in the mainstream media: When increases in greenhouse gases only are taken into account . . . most [general circulation models] produce a greater ...
... Five years later, the IPCC produced its second assessment of climate change (IPCC I 1996). It contains a remarkable sentence that I have never seen quoted in the mainstream media: When increases in greenhouse gases only are taken into account . . . most [general circulation models] produce a greater ...
Adapting to Climate Change
... severity and timing of climate-change impacts and with limits to the effectiveness of adaptation (high confidence). Risk management provides a useful framework for most climate change decision making. Iterative risk management is most suitable in situations characterised by large uncertainties, long ...
... severity and timing of climate-change impacts and with limits to the effectiveness of adaptation (high confidence). Risk management provides a useful framework for most climate change decision making. Iterative risk management is most suitable in situations characterised by large uncertainties, long ...
UNFCCC Workshop on the preparation of national communications
... description of approaches, methodologies and tools used, including scenarios for the assessment of impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, as well as any uncertainties inherent in these methodologies ...
... description of approaches, methodologies and tools used, including scenarios for the assessment of impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, as well as any uncertainties inherent in these methodologies ...
A safe climate scenario
... emissions by 2050, in order to have a 50:50 chance of halting warming at or under +2ºC1 with the final CO2 level in the atmosphere being no more than 450 parts per million (compared to the current level of 395 ppm2) Under this hoped-for scenario developed countries would cut emissions hard, but poor ...
... emissions by 2050, in order to have a 50:50 chance of halting warming at or under +2ºC1 with the final CO2 level in the atmosphere being no more than 450 parts per million (compared to the current level of 395 ppm2) Under this hoped-for scenario developed countries would cut emissions hard, but poor ...
A Guide to Understanding Global Temperature Data
... have either not been invited to continue their participation, or have resigned in protest of the IPCC’s biased treatment of the science. 2) Can global temperatures go up naturally, even without rising CO2 levels? This is a fascinating question, because of the wholesale change in scientific attitudes ...
... have either not been invited to continue their participation, or have resigned in protest of the IPCC’s biased treatment of the science. 2) Can global temperatures go up naturally, even without rising CO2 levels? This is a fascinating question, because of the wholesale change in scientific attitudes ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... in the IAMs. This was not done, despite there having been, since January 1, 2011, at least 11 new studies and 17 experiments (involving more than 44 researchers) examining the ECS, each lowering the best estimate and tightening the error distribution about that estimate. Instead, the ...
... in the IAMs. This was not done, despite there having been, since January 1, 2011, at least 11 new studies and 17 experiments (involving more than 44 researchers) examining the ECS, each lowering the best estimate and tightening the error distribution about that estimate. Instead, the ...
Climate Change and Mountain Areas - circle-2
... Through the linkage of a dense and highly resolved database of debris flows with meteorological records dating back to AD 1864, 150 years of rainstorms that triggered debris flows have been reconstructed. Results show that the debris-flow season at these high-altitude sites now is much longer (May t ...
... Through the linkage of a dense and highly resolved database of debris flows with meteorological records dating back to AD 1864, 150 years of rainstorms that triggered debris flows have been reconstructed. Results show that the debris-flow season at these high-altitude sites now is much longer (May t ...
Cooperation in higher education, Environment and climate
... “Norway’s double standards” “..Norway’s policy is not consistent with the goal of only two degrees increase (by 2100). Our emissions are several times higher than what the world can sustain to reach this goal. We are even claiming a right to continue doing the same in future. The media give the impr ...
... “Norway’s double standards” “..Norway’s policy is not consistent with the goal of only two degrees increase (by 2100). Our emissions are several times higher than what the world can sustain to reach this goal. We are even claiming a right to continue doing the same in future. The media give the impr ...
Writing Sample Kimiko Nygaard – Technical Narrative (5 pages, Appendix)
... spatial arena where climate change impacts materialize to acutely affect individuals, households, and communities. In doing so, this approach utilizes spatial geoprocessing techniques and GISbased mapping applications to examine the interface between locally observed climate change impacts, physical ...
... spatial arena where climate change impacts materialize to acutely affect individuals, households, and communities. In doing so, this approach utilizes spatial geoprocessing techniques and GISbased mapping applications to examine the interface between locally observed climate change impacts, physical ...
Ideological cultures and media discourses on
... An American meteorologist, Kerry Emanuel, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes that the rise in temperature due to the greenhouse effect in tropical latitudes will make hurricanes and cyclones much more destructive even than they are today. … So Dr Emanuel calculates that the maximum d ...
... An American meteorologist, Kerry Emanuel, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes that the rise in temperature due to the greenhouse effect in tropical latitudes will make hurricanes and cyclones much more destructive even than they are today. … So Dr Emanuel calculates that the maximum d ...
Three views of two degrees - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
... dioxide should be kept within the normal range of long-term climatic variation. According to most sources the range of variation between distinct climatic regimes is in the order of ±5C, and at the present time the global climate is at the high end of this range. If there were global temperatures m ...
... dioxide should be kept within the normal range of long-term climatic variation. According to most sources the range of variation between distinct climatic regimes is in the order of ±5C, and at the present time the global climate is at the high end of this range. If there were global temperatures m ...
CLIMAP builds on ongoing and recently completed adaptation
... A 3.2 km portion of the road section has ready been constructed, including the drainage works. The design for these was also based on an hourly rainfall of 178 mm for a 25 year recurrence interval. Analyses show that it is more costly to “climate proof” retroactively US$776,184 for a 3.2 km section ...
... A 3.2 km portion of the road section has ready been constructed, including the drainage works. The design for these was also based on an hourly rainfall of 178 mm for a 25 year recurrence interval. Analyses show that it is more costly to “climate proof” retroactively US$776,184 for a 3.2 km section ...
Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and
... interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within for ...
... interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within for ...
Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
... interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within for ...
... interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within for ...
Draft Resolution X - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
... ensure that adaptation interventions to climate change would not lead to serious damage to the ecological character of wetlands; ...
... ensure that adaptation interventions to climate change would not lead to serious damage to the ecological character of wetlands; ...
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.