Understanding Climate Change: Lesson Plans for the Classroom
... asserting that climate alarmism is unsupported by science. They wrote: Observational evidence does not support today’s computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future … Significant [scientific] advances have been made since the [Kyoto] Protocol was created ...
... asserting that climate alarmism is unsupported by science. They wrote: Observational evidence does not support today’s computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future … Significant [scientific] advances have been made since the [Kyoto] Protocol was created ...
modern climate science - American Meteorological Society
... climate system is a complex energy flow system, as alluded to by animations of visible and IR full-disk views of Earth. The observable impacts of the energy flows (and associated mass flows) are embodied in the descriptions of weather and climate. Weather is concerned with the state of (i.e., condit ...
... climate system is a complex energy flow system, as alluded to by animations of visible and IR full-disk views of Earth. The observable impacts of the energy flows (and associated mass flows) are embodied in the descriptions of weather and climate. Weather is concerned with the state of (i.e., condit ...
Corporate ppt template - Global Carbon Project
... – direct effects of CO2 on vegetation – biogeophysical feedbacks (through water cycle) – biogeochemical feedbacks (through carbon cycle) ...
... – direct effects of CO2 on vegetation – biogeophysical feedbacks (through water cycle) – biogeochemical feedbacks (through carbon cycle) ...
SG-RFC-2009-doc 8-6
... One major concern is that rising sea levels may inundate coastal regions throughout the world, and in particular may completely submerge low islands. While this effect is expected to be significant over a relatively large time-scale (decades to centuries), topography derived from satellite observati ...
... One major concern is that rising sea levels may inundate coastal regions throughout the world, and in particular may completely submerge low islands. While this effect is expected to be significant over a relatively large time-scale (decades to centuries), topography derived from satellite observati ...
The scientific consensus on climate change: How do we know we`re
... Scientists glean their colleagues’ conclusions by reading their results in published scientific literature, listening to presentations at scientific conferences, and discussing data and ideas in the hallways of conference centers, university departments, research institutes, and government agencies. ...
... Scientists glean their colleagues’ conclusions by reading their results in published scientific literature, listening to presentations at scientific conferences, and discussing data and ideas in the hallways of conference centers, university departments, research institutes, and government agencies. ...
1AC – BIT – “Tear down that wall” edition
... fueled by government-led investment and the export of manufactured goods, many of them to the American market. China’s leadership is now navigating a difficult transition from an investment-led to a consumer-driven model. In a nation of 1.4bn people with a $10tn economy, this transition is a signifi ...
... fueled by government-led investment and the export of manufactured goods, many of them to the American market. China’s leadership is now navigating a difficult transition from an investment-led to a consumer-driven model. In a nation of 1.4bn people with a $10tn economy, this transition is a signifi ...
Harnessing Synergies Between Climate Change Adaptation and
... • Generates ownership among a wide range of stakeholders • Lead to robust risk reduction ...
... • Generates ownership among a wide range of stakeholders • Lead to robust risk reduction ...
"Climate Change: Moonshine, Millions of Models, Billions of Data - New Ways to Sort Fact from Fiction"
... NASA Langley Research Center ...
... NASA Langley Research Center ...
02_Lunch_BWielicki Economic Value - A
... – SW CRF decadal change signal varies more directly with climate sensitivity and over a wider range of signal – CLARREO reflected solar calibration advance is larger (factor of 5 to 10) than infrared (factor of 3 to 5) – Shorter autocorrelation time for natural variability of SW CRF: not related to ...
... – SW CRF decadal change signal varies more directly with climate sensitivity and over a wider range of signal – CLARREO reflected solar calibration advance is larger (factor of 5 to 10) than infrared (factor of 3 to 5) – Shorter autocorrelation time for natural variability of SW CRF: not related to ...
Where Is the North Pole? An Election
... A final polar question explored whether Americans realize that their country is an Arctic nation. More than 3 million square miles of Alaska lie north of the Arctic circle, including North Slope oilfields along with the predominantly Inuit towns of Barrow (population 4,500), Kotzebue (3,200), and ma ...
... A final polar question explored whether Americans realize that their country is an Arctic nation. More than 3 million square miles of Alaska lie north of the Arctic circle, including North Slope oilfields along with the predominantly Inuit towns of Barrow (population 4,500), Kotzebue (3,200), and ma ...
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... Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming, by Amy Seidl, confronts the growing fatalism of climate science with pragmatic thinking and optimistic opportunities for change. Seidl acknowledges the importance of taking steps towards reversing the causes of global warming, such as carbon m ...
... Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming, by Amy Seidl, confronts the growing fatalism of climate science with pragmatic thinking and optimistic opportunities for change. Seidl acknowledges the importance of taking steps towards reversing the causes of global warming, such as carbon m ...
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... However, the range of estimates for mean global surface temperatures produced from a subset of 16 of these models said to be among the most reliable is from 11.5 to 16.5ºC. None from that subset of most reliable models actually produced the result of 14°C. The point of this being that the baseline o ...
... However, the range of estimates for mean global surface temperatures produced from a subset of 16 of these models said to be among the most reliable is from 11.5 to 16.5ºC. None from that subset of most reliable models actually produced the result of 14°C. The point of this being that the baseline o ...
to a copy of the media release
... PARIS 4 December 2015 - As government representatives continue negotiations to hammer out a global climate deal at COP21 in Paris, institutional investors assemble to highlight their contributions in a number of areas. The last week has delivered significant milestones in four key areas of investor ...
... PARIS 4 December 2015 - As government representatives continue negotiations to hammer out a global climate deal at COP21 in Paris, institutional investors assemble to highlight their contributions in a number of areas. The last week has delivered significant milestones in four key areas of investor ...
Improving Public Engagement With Climate Change: Five “Best
... living in social groups, and it is through social comparison with referent others that people validate the correctness of their opinions and decisions (Festinger, 1954). In fact, imitating the behavior of the majority (i.e., following the norm) is a common heuristic in group-living species because i ...
... living in social groups, and it is through social comparison with referent others that people validate the correctness of their opinions and decisions (Festinger, 1954). In fact, imitating the behavior of the majority (i.e., following the norm) is a common heuristic in group-living species because i ...
Changing Northern Hemisphere Storm Tracks in an Ensemble of
... DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1992.1 © 2008 American Meteorological Society ...
... DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1992.1 © 2008 American Meteorological Society ...
Chapter 6: Agriculture - Oregon Climate Change Research Institute
... drought tolerance through increasing water use efficiency of some crops, but this benefit is largely constrained to the next several decades (Eigenbrode et al., 2013). Higher CO2 in the air can also lower the nutritional value of some staple foods, such as wheat, by reducing protein and essential mi ...
... drought tolerance through increasing water use efficiency of some crops, but this benefit is largely constrained to the next several decades (Eigenbrode et al., 2013). Higher CO2 in the air can also lower the nutritional value of some staple foods, such as wheat, by reducing protein and essential mi ...
A 400-year Tree-ring Chronology from the Tropical Treeline of North
... dramatic (3), to the point that a number of major political upheavals in Mexican history have been directly linked to droughtrelated social instability (4). Despite its social relevance, scientific investigation of interdecadal climate dynamics in tropical North America has been hindered by a lack o ...
... dramatic (3), to the point that a number of major political upheavals in Mexican history have been directly linked to droughtrelated social instability (4). Despite its social relevance, scientific investigation of interdecadal climate dynamics in tropical North America has been hindered by a lack o ...
Adaptation to climate change in the countries of the Lower Mekong
... to increased storm intensity and frequency; land degradation and soil erosion from increased precipitation and a higher prevalence of infectious diseases. In Thailand, an increase in mean annual temperature is predicted together with an increase in the length of the hot season, with a higher number ...
... to increased storm intensity and frequency; land degradation and soil erosion from increased precipitation and a higher prevalence of infectious diseases. In Thailand, an increase in mean annual temperature is predicted together with an increase in the length of the hot season, with a higher number ...
Lecture 12: Natural Climate Forcing
... A Big Argument on Climate Change Is the current warming a natural variation caused by natural forcing or a human-induced change related to greenhouse gases? ...
... A Big Argument on Climate Change Is the current warming a natural variation caused by natural forcing or a human-induced change related to greenhouse gases? ...
Climatic changes (Franck Roux) - Severe Weather Information Centre
... aircraft reconnaissance data provide a nearly complete record back to the mid-1940s. The North-Western Pacific basin also has had extensive aircraft surveillance giving valid records going back to at least the late 1950s, until 1987. Thus, it is difficult to make analyses of trends and of the physic ...
... aircraft reconnaissance data provide a nearly complete record back to the mid-1940s. The North-Western Pacific basin also has had extensive aircraft surveillance giving valid records going back to at least the late 1950s, until 1987. Thus, it is difficult to make analyses of trends and of the physic ...
East Africa Climate Impacts
... thought to be responsible for the recent droughts in equatorial and subtropical Eastern Africa during the 1980s to the 2000s (Funk et al., 2005). According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2004), the number of African food crises per year has tripled from the 1980s to 2000s. Droug ...
... thought to be responsible for the recent droughts in equatorial and subtropical Eastern Africa during the 1980s to the 2000s (Funk et al., 2005). According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2004), the number of African food crises per year has tripled from the 1980s to 2000s. Droug ...
Economics and the Environment_ What are the limits of
... temporal preferences and discounting is a complex one. Although Caney defends a zero discount rate for human rights, the possibility for discount rates to be applied to other values still remains. Stern also suggests that different discount rates should be applied to distinct inter-temporal outcome ...
... temporal preferences and discounting is a complex one. Although Caney defends a zero discount rate for human rights, the possibility for discount rates to be applied to other values still remains. Stern also suggests that different discount rates should be applied to distinct inter-temporal outcome ...
Guidebook 2 Vfinal.1.FH11 - Centre for Indigenous Environmental
... Working Group where you think about the different seasons and how things have changed over time. You can use some of the observations from other First Nations in Canada to help get you started. People may want to start talking about how these changes have impacted what people do in the community. Yo ...
... Working Group where you think about the different seasons and how things have changed over time. You can use some of the observations from other First Nations in Canada to help get you started. People may want to start talking about how these changes have impacted what people do in the community. Yo ...
Adaptation Cost Estimation - Asia Pacific Adaptation Network
... 2. Aggregate Estimates of Costs of Adaptation • Many studies have used integrated assessment models to estimate the impacts of climate change under “Business as Usual” (BAU) assumptions, and the cost to mitigate these impacts. • For example, the Stern Report (2006) estimated that BAU climate change ...
... 2. Aggregate Estimates of Costs of Adaptation • Many studies have used integrated assessment models to estimate the impacts of climate change under “Business as Usual” (BAU) assumptions, and the cost to mitigate these impacts. • For example, the Stern Report (2006) estimated that BAU climate change ...
A call to insect scientists: challenges and opportunities of managing
... climate response predictions on physiological processes such as lethal temperature limits can produce more detailed and realistic responses [6]. With some careful attention, these models can be readily parameterized for many insect species (e.g. [34,35]). The diversity of insects also allows for com ...
... climate response predictions on physiological processes such as lethal temperature limits can produce more detailed and realistic responses [6]. With some careful attention, these models can be readily parameterized for many insect species (e.g. [34,35]). The diversity of insects also allows for com ...
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.