
Impacts of climate change on disadvantaged UK coastal communities
... Coastal areas are likely to be more vulnerable to climate change than inland areas because, in addition to changes in flooding, temperature and precipitation, they will also be affected by a rise in sea level and wave heights. Both direct effects (such as accelerated coastal erosion and more powerfu ...
... Coastal areas are likely to be more vulnerable to climate change than inland areas because, in addition to changes in flooding, temperature and precipitation, they will also be affected by a rise in sea level and wave heights. Both direct effects (such as accelerated coastal erosion and more powerfu ...
assessment of the vulnerability of rural livelihoods in the Pacific to
... Whilst the EVI climate change sub-index provides a comprehensive assessment of environmental vulnerability, it fails to take into account the broader economic and social capitals and interactions that are reflected in the broad range of livelihood strategies operating in the Pacific. The EVI also pr ...
... Whilst the EVI climate change sub-index provides a comprehensive assessment of environmental vulnerability, it fails to take into account the broader economic and social capitals and interactions that are reflected in the broad range of livelihood strategies operating in the Pacific. The EVI also pr ...
development and climate change in bangladesh
... This report presents the integrated case study for Bangladesh carried out under an OECD project on Development and Climate Change. The report is structured around a three-tiered framework. First, recent climate trends and climate change scenarios for Bangladesh are assessed and key sectoral impacts ...
... This report presents the integrated case study for Bangladesh carried out under an OECD project on Development and Climate Change. The report is structured around a three-tiered framework. First, recent climate trends and climate change scenarios for Bangladesh are assessed and key sectoral impacts ...
ADB-40253-012_Final
... CSIRO advises that the information contained in this publication comprises general statements based on scientific research. The reader is advised and needs to be aware that such information may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be mad ...
... CSIRO advises that the information contained in this publication comprises general statements based on scientific research. The reader is advised and needs to be aware that such information may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be mad ...
Lecture 3 CIP Module Montreal Conference Draft
... In response to concerns about the increasing complexity of urban problems and political disagreement, the planning process becomes rationalized and more technical. Under this model, planning problems are first to be defined and a common goal articulated. The merits of various means to solve the prob ...
... In response to concerns about the increasing complexity of urban problems and political disagreement, the planning process becomes rationalized and more technical. Under this model, planning problems are first to be defined and a common goal articulated. The merits of various means to solve the prob ...
The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy
... that many of the estimates considered most probable have been too conservative. When building climate scenarios in order to anticipate the future, therefore, there is a very strong case for looking at the full range of what is plausible. Such scenario planning is more than a creative writing exercis ...
... that many of the estimates considered most probable have been too conservative. When building climate scenarios in order to anticipate the future, therefore, there is a very strong case for looking at the full range of what is plausible. Such scenario planning is more than a creative writing exercis ...
The age of consequences—the foreign policy and national security
... that many of the estimates considered most probable have been too conservative. When building climate scenarios in order to anticipate the future, therefore, there is a very strong case for looking at the full range of what is plausible. Such scenario planning is more than a creative writing exercis ...
... that many of the estimates considered most probable have been too conservative. When building climate scenarios in order to anticipate the future, therefore, there is a very strong case for looking at the full range of what is plausible. Such scenario planning is more than a creative writing exercis ...
The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict
... future outcomes. For example, Hornbeck (2012) finds that the Dust Bowl reduced property values for several decades in the United States. Similarly, Hsiang and Jina (2014) find that the occurrence of tropical cyclones reduces growth for at least two decades into the future. Since cyclones are believe ...
... future outcomes. For example, Hornbeck (2012) finds that the Dust Bowl reduced property values for several decades in the United States. Similarly, Hsiang and Jina (2014) find that the occurrence of tropical cyclones reduces growth for at least two decades into the future. Since cyclones are believe ...
Climate Change in Queensland
... Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, the only state-based climate science research centre in Australia. I commend the scientists for their expertise and commitment to world class climate change research. Clearly, there is plenty of new data showing we have some serious issues ahead of us ...
... Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, the only state-based climate science research centre in Australia. I commend the scientists for their expertise and commitment to world class climate change research. Clearly, there is plenty of new data showing we have some serious issues ahead of us ...
The Age of Consequences - The Web site cannot be found
... that many of the estimates considered most probable have been too conservative. When building climate scenarios in order to anticipate the future, therefore, there is a very strong case for looking at the full range of what is plausible. Such scenario planning is more than a creative writing exercis ...
... that many of the estimates considered most probable have been too conservative. When building climate scenarios in order to anticipate the future, therefore, there is a very strong case for looking at the full range of what is plausible. Such scenario planning is more than a creative writing exercis ...
The Longest Conflict - Centre for Policy Development
... Australia’s longest conflict is our struggle to deal with our climate vulnerabilities at home and abroad. As we enter this conflict we currently do so with at least one eye shut. The Australian Government is to release a new Defence White Paper in late 2015 or early 2016. On current expectations, it ...
... Australia’s longest conflict is our struggle to deal with our climate vulnerabilities at home and abroad. As we enter this conflict we currently do so with at least one eye shut. The Australian Government is to release a new Defence White Paper in late 2015 or early 2016. On current expectations, it ...
V0.17 (February 12, 2015) - Mitigation and Adaptation Research
... communities in Hampton Roads and beyond need to cope with the unprecedented challenges posed by changing climate and rising sea levels as well as the threats of extreme weather events. Hampton Roads is experiencing one of the highest sea-level rise rates in the U.S. This implies that problems will ...
... communities in Hampton Roads and beyond need to cope with the unprecedented challenges posed by changing climate and rising sea levels as well as the threats of extreme weather events. Hampton Roads is experiencing one of the highest sea-level rise rates in the U.S. This implies that problems will ...
Lecture 3 FINAL DRAFT
... including changes in average weather conditions, in the frequency and severity of extremes, in the range of variability and in the state of water cycles, snow and ice cover, coasts and oceans. Lecture 2 examined constraints and drivers of climate policy and principles and theories guiding policy dev ...
... including changes in average weather conditions, in the frequency and severity of extremes, in the range of variability and in the state of water cycles, snow and ice cover, coasts and oceans. Lecture 2 examined constraints and drivers of climate policy and principles and theories guiding policy dev ...
THE MIGHTY OPERATIONS OF NATURE
... Perhaps most surprising to modern-day observers, the events of 1816’s cold summer became a significant issue in an ongoing debate then occurring in America about climate change and the extent of man’s responsibility for it. Lengthy arguments raged in newspapers that summer over whether the Earth’s c ...
... Perhaps most surprising to modern-day observers, the events of 1816’s cold summer became a significant issue in an ongoing debate then occurring in America about climate change and the extent of man’s responsibility for it. Lengthy arguments raged in newspapers that summer over whether the Earth’s c ...
O'Reilly et al (2010)
... some approaches to uncertainty in scientific assessments relating to global change. Our cases are: (1) stratospheric ozone depletion as discussed in international ozone assessments and (2) the response of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) to warming, as discussed by the Intergovernmental Panel on ...
... some approaches to uncertainty in scientific assessments relating to global change. Our cases are: (1) stratospheric ozone depletion as discussed in international ozone assessments and (2) the response of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) to warming, as discussed by the Intergovernmental Panel on ...
Queensland Climate Change Centre of
... is part of a specialist whole-of-government work unit, the Office of Climate Change, based within the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency. ...
... is part of a specialist whole-of-government work unit, the Office of Climate Change, based within the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency. ...
Climate Change and Agriculture in Jamaica
... Jamaica is already experiencing the impact of climate variability – most significantly in terms of the frequent occurrence of drought, the frequency and magnitude of hurricanes, and associated secondary events such as floods, landslides and seawater intrusion. The agriculture sector is also prone to ...
... Jamaica is already experiencing the impact of climate variability – most significantly in terms of the frequent occurrence of drought, the frequency and magnitude of hurricanes, and associated secondary events such as floods, landslides and seawater intrusion. The agriculture sector is also prone to ...
Local climate change adaptation planning A guide for
... The purpose of this document is to provide local and state government officials with guidance on the process of effectively considering climate change impacts in policy development and delivery, with an emphasis on place-based adaptation. The guide is an introduction to a suite of widely applicable ...
... The purpose of this document is to provide local and state government officials with guidance on the process of effectively considering climate change impacts in policy development and delivery, with an emphasis on place-based adaptation. The guide is an introduction to a suite of widely applicable ...
Australian horticulture`s response to climate change and
... To date there has been limited research into climate change and climate variability in the Australian horticulture sector, in comparison with the extensive R&D conducted in broad-acre agriculture and the grazing industries. In 2005/06 HAL funded the project – “VG05051: Scoping Study - Climate Change ...
... To date there has been limited research into climate change and climate variability in the Australian horticulture sector, in comparison with the extensive R&D conducted in broad-acre agriculture and the grazing industries. In 2005/06 HAL funded the project – “VG05051: Scoping Study - Climate Change ...
climate variability and change in canada
... ◆ Some crops would benefit from modest warming accompanied by increasing CO2, but effects would vary among crops and regions (high confidence)*, including declines due to drought in some areas of Canada’s Prairies and the US Great Plains, potential increased food production in areas of Canada north ...
... ◆ Some crops would benefit from modest warming accompanied by increasing CO2, but effects would vary among crops and regions (high confidence)*, including declines due to drought in some areas of Canada’s Prairies and the US Great Plains, potential increased food production in areas of Canada north ...
Mexico`s Climate Change Mid-Century Strategy
... This is a pivotal moment in our history. The Paris Agreement is the foundation for a new paradigm of global action on climate change. We are in the middle of a transformative era of technology, demographics, and human behavior. And we face energy, economic, and environmental challenges that are grea ...
... This is a pivotal moment in our history. The Paris Agreement is the foundation for a new paradigm of global action on climate change. We are in the middle of a transformative era of technology, demographics, and human behavior. And we face energy, economic, and environmental challenges that are grea ...
Ch4 Pre-release version - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
... Synthetic scenarios are based on incremental changes in climatic variables, particularly air temperature (e.g., +1, +2, +3 ºC) and precipitation (e.g., +5, +10, +15%). Such scenarios often assume a uniform annual change in the variables over the region under consideration; however, some temporal and ...
... Synthetic scenarios are based on incremental changes in climatic variables, particularly air temperature (e.g., +1, +2, +3 ºC) and precipitation (e.g., +5, +10, +15%). Such scenarios often assume a uniform annual change in the variables over the region under consideration; however, some temporal and ...
health perspectives
... Hampshire Climate and Health Workgroup has tentatively developed the following definition: Resilience is the ability and capacity to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from significant threats with minimum damage to human health and well-being, the economy, and the environment.4 The im ...
... Hampshire Climate and Health Workgroup has tentatively developed the following definition: Resilience is the ability and capacity to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from significant threats with minimum damage to human health and well-being, the economy, and the environment.4 The im ...
National Climate Change Adaptation Framework
... gas (GHG) emission reduction targets under the Climate and Energy Package agreed by the EU in December 2008. Even if the world succeeds in limiting and then reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a safe level, our planet will continue to respond to the historic accumulation of GHG in the atmosp ...
... gas (GHG) emission reduction targets under the Climate and Energy Package agreed by the EU in December 2008. Even if the world succeeds in limiting and then reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a safe level, our planet will continue to respond to the historic accumulation of GHG in the atmosp ...
Climate Change and Agricultural Vulnerability
... The challenge of agriculture in the 21st century requires a systemic integration of the environmental, social, and economic pillars of development to meet the needs of present generations without sacrificing the livelihoods of future generations. Over the next 50 years, the world population is proje ...
... The challenge of agriculture in the 21st century requires a systemic integration of the environmental, social, and economic pillars of development to meet the needs of present generations without sacrificing the livelihoods of future generations. Over the next 50 years, the world population is proje ...
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.