Choosing Environmental Policy Area
... "The Earth's climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming. Many components of the climate system—including the temperatures of the atmosphere, land and ocean, the extent of sea ice and mountain glaciers, the sea level, the distribution of precipitation, and the length of seasons—are now chan ...
... "The Earth's climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming. Many components of the climate system—including the temperatures of the atmosphere, land and ocean, the extent of sea ice and mountain glaciers, the sea level, the distribution of precipitation, and the length of seasons—are now chan ...
Climate Service - Hans von Storch
... market“ with other forms of knowledge. Scientific(ally constructed) knowledge does not necessarily “win” this competition. As a consequence, we built a cooperation with social scientists, set up the dialogue platform „Norddeutsches Klimabüro“ in 2006, established Mini-IPCC reports for mapping the av ...
... market“ with other forms of knowledge. Scientific(ally constructed) knowledge does not necessarily “win” this competition. As a consequence, we built a cooperation with social scientists, set up the dialogue platform „Norddeutsches Klimabüro“ in 2006, established Mini-IPCC reports for mapping the av ...
IntellBldgPart1_2009fin - University of Reading, Department of
... Although it’s really about global change… some places have seen very large warming, other regions have actually cooled. Linear trends in annual temperature (degC per century) Grey areas – insufficient data Trends significant at 5% level indicated by + marks. ...
... Although it’s really about global change… some places have seen very large warming, other regions have actually cooled. Linear trends in annual temperature (degC per century) Grey areas – insufficient data Trends significant at 5% level indicated by + marks. ...
Unit 1 - Climate and Change
... Temperatures in the UK have risen by about one degree since the 1970s and, given the levels of greenhouse gas already in the atmosphere, further warming is inevitable over the next three decades or so. The government's latest climate change risk assessment identifies flood risk, and particularly flo ...
... Temperatures in the UK have risen by about one degree since the 1970s and, given the levels of greenhouse gas already in the atmosphere, further warming is inevitable over the next three decades or so. The government's latest climate change risk assessment identifies flood risk, and particularly flo ...
1 Testimony of Richard S. Lindzen before the Senate
... Predictions of greater warming due to doubling CO2 are based on positive feedbacks from poorly handled water vapor and clouds (the atmosphere’s main greenhouse substances) in current computer models. Such positive feedbacks have neither empirical nor theoretical foundations. Their existence, however ...
... Predictions of greater warming due to doubling CO2 are based on positive feedbacks from poorly handled water vapor and clouds (the atmosphere’s main greenhouse substances) in current computer models. Such positive feedbacks have neither empirical nor theoretical foundations. Their existence, however ...
Scott Pruitt, Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
... Dear Administrator Pruitt, As scientists who study the Earth's climate system, we are deeply troubled by your recent statement that there is “tremendous disagreement” about whether carbon dioxide from human activities is “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.” This statement is in ...
... Dear Administrator Pruitt, As scientists who study the Earth's climate system, we are deeply troubled by your recent statement that there is “tremendous disagreement” about whether carbon dioxide from human activities is “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.” This statement is in ...
Climate change and Africa
... “New studies confirm that Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents because of the range of projected impacts, multiple stresses and low adaptive capacity.” (IPCC, 2007) ...
... “New studies confirm that Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents because of the range of projected impacts, multiple stresses and low adaptive capacity.” (IPCC, 2007) ...
Climate Change: Responses
... dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such level should be achieved within a timeframe sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner ...
... dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such level should be achieved within a timeframe sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner ...
Scientists detail climate change, poles to tropics
... species, water supplies, ice sheets and regional climate conditions are already responding to the global buildup of heat. While the report said that assessing the causes of regional climate and biological changes was particularly difficult, the authors concluded with “high confidence” — about an 8 i ...
... species, water supplies, ice sheets and regional climate conditions are already responding to the global buildup of heat. While the report said that assessing the causes of regional climate and biological changes was particularly difficult, the authors concluded with “high confidence” — about an 8 i ...
Ad Campaign Takes on Global Warming Myths
... of Cato Sponsors, that statement appeared as a full-page ad in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, and Los Angeles Times on March 30. In conjunction with the ad, the Cato Institute launched Climate Change Reality (www.cato.org/special/climatechange) to ensure that ...
... of Cato Sponsors, that statement appeared as a full-page ad in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, and Los Angeles Times on March 30. In conjunction with the ad, the Cato Institute launched Climate Change Reality (www.cato.org/special/climatechange) to ensure that ...
This Challenge will enable New Zealanders to adapt
... This Challenge will enable New Zealanders to adapt, manage risk, and thrive in a changing climate. … Working with our communities and industry, we will guide planning and policy to enhance resilience and exploit opportunities. This will be built on improved predictions of future climate, supported b ...
... This Challenge will enable New Zealanders to adapt, manage risk, and thrive in a changing climate. … Working with our communities and industry, we will guide planning and policy to enhance resilience and exploit opportunities. This will be built on improved predictions of future climate, supported b ...
Global surface temperatures over the past two millennia
... instrumental data, (b) reliability of the low-frequency information so that millennial-scale variability can be faithfully reconstructed, and (c) adequate spatial distribution of data so that the regionally-variable nature of past climate variability [e.g., Bradley and Jones, 1993] is appropriately ...
... instrumental data, (b) reliability of the low-frequency information so that millennial-scale variability can be faithfully reconstructed, and (c) adequate spatial distribution of data so that the regionally-variable nature of past climate variability [e.g., Bradley and Jones, 1993] is appropriately ...
Mathematical Excursions on the Data of Global Climate Destabilization
... is happening, it’s only one piece. The climate, more generally, is the issue: “Biodiversity will also be confronted with changing rainfall patterns, declining water balances, increased extreme climate events, and changes in oscillations such as El Nino.” [Hannah, et. al, Conservation of Biodiversity ...
... is happening, it’s only one piece. The climate, more generally, is the issue: “Biodiversity will also be confronted with changing rainfall patterns, declining water balances, increased extreme climate events, and changes in oscillations such as El Nino.” [Hannah, et. al, Conservation of Biodiversity ...
Final_studyguide
... review questions. At the end of this guide, I’ve also included some ‘overview’ type of questions. Of course, this list is not intended to be comprehensive, rather some good points to focus your studies. ...
... review questions. At the end of this guide, I’ve also included some ‘overview’ type of questions. Of course, this list is not intended to be comprehensive, rather some good points to focus your studies. ...
High Level Segment of the eleventh session of the United
... breakthrough for meaningful climate change action. This was a turning point that began a new phase for REDD+ and countries moved forward with this guidance. It is now time for developed countries to demonstrate their engagement with REDD+ by scaling up financial support for results-based actions. To ...
... breakthrough for meaningful climate change action. This was a turning point that began a new phase for REDD+ and countries moved forward with this guidance. It is now time for developed countries to demonstrate their engagement with REDD+ by scaling up financial support for results-based actions. To ...
Climate Change
... V.5. Revise federal agencies BCA methods to include projected impacts of climate change over the life of the project. As info becomes available Is this covered in P? ...
... V.5. Revise federal agencies BCA methods to include projected impacts of climate change over the life of the project. As info becomes available Is this covered in P? ...
Met 112: Final Exam Study Notes Part I: Climate Change: Natural
... review questions. At the end of this guide, I’ve also included some ‘overview’ type of questions. Of course, this list is not intended to be comprehensive, rather some good points to focus your studies. ...
... review questions. At the end of this guide, I’ve also included some ‘overview’ type of questions. Of course, this list is not intended to be comprehensive, rather some good points to focus your studies. ...
New York Review of Books - Yale Economics
... the ten-year change would be negative. Short-term movements in such volatile series do not provide information about long-term trends. 1 The second point in CHL’s response involves climate modeling. I noted that the climate models reviewed by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...
... the ten-year change would be negative. Short-term movements in such volatile series do not provide information about long-term trends. 1 The second point in CHL’s response involves climate modeling. I noted that the climate models reviewed by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...
SEARCH_SLV_Public_Talk_part_2
... Knowledge of past climate variability is critical for improving estimates of the range of natural climate variability and how future climate change will influence Australian prosperity in an ...
... Knowledge of past climate variability is critical for improving estimates of the range of natural climate variability and how future climate change will influence Australian prosperity in an ...
Jeffery Spooner (Climate Branch Head)
... the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. This is an advance since the TAR’s conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to o ...
... the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. This is an advance since the TAR’s conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to o ...
History of the big ask
... • A month of lobbying by constituents means 620 (out of 646) MPs have been asked to support the campaign for a strong climate change law. • 15 September 2006 Low carbon economy roadmap produced • We team up with the Coop bank to commission new research from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Rese ...
... • A month of lobbying by constituents means 620 (out of 646) MPs have been asked to support the campaign for a strong climate change law. • 15 September 2006 Low carbon economy roadmap produced • We team up with the Coop bank to commission new research from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Rese ...
Case Studies: Planning and Adaptation
... help them interpret the data. These are all helpful and proactive steps, but most local municipalities can’t afford to have dedicated staff or hire consultants. ...
... help them interpret the data. These are all helpful and proactive steps, but most local municipalities can’t afford to have dedicated staff or hire consultants. ...
Climate-Change Challenge Today
... increase above the pre-industrial value the world should aim not to exceed, is not “safe”. It cannot be safe if we are already experiencing danger at 1°C. The 2° figure is merely a round number on which many experts reached consensus, in the early 2000s, as the best the world could plausibly do. 4th ...
... increase above the pre-industrial value the world should aim not to exceed, is not “safe”. It cannot be safe if we are already experiencing danger at 1°C. The 2° figure is merely a round number on which many experts reached consensus, in the early 2000s, as the best the world could plausibly do. 4th ...
Submission DR93 - Ian Sarah - Barriers to Effective Climate Change
... about HALF, which may be only 10C! Point 3. The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK, the chief source of data used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was exposed in November 2009 for destroying raw temperature data that conflicted wit ...
... about HALF, which may be only 10C! Point 3. The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK, the chief source of data used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was exposed in November 2009 for destroying raw temperature data that conflicted wit ...
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.