The Psychological Distance of Climate Change
... climate change, in particular alongside debate over scepticism.(49) Indeed, many commentators have been using the terms “scepticism” and “uncertainty” interchangeably and, to compound confusion, there is also uncertainty over scepticism, for example, perceived agreement amongst scientists, and scept ...
... climate change, in particular alongside debate over scepticism.(49) Indeed, many commentators have been using the terms “scepticism” and “uncertainty” interchangeably and, to compound confusion, there is also uncertainty over scepticism, for example, perceived agreement amongst scientists, and scept ...
Chapter 19 Climate Change Effects on Watershed Processes in
... however, vary with the time period of analysis (i.e., 30, 50, 00 years), and in particular with the starting point of any trend calculation. Climate variability from atmosphere-ocean oscillations, such as El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Arctic Oscillation (AO) ...
... however, vary with the time period of analysis (i.e., 30, 50, 00 years), and in particular with the starting point of any trend calculation. Climate variability from atmosphere-ocean oscillations, such as El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Arctic Oscillation (AO) ...
English - Stockholm Convention
... Convention using the criteria in the annexes D -F to the Convention. The initial review is a screening of the chemical properties against the criteria in Annex D, if considered fulfilled the POPRC proceeds to the second stage and develops a global risk profile according to the criteria in Annex E an ...
... Convention using the criteria in the annexes D -F to the Convention. The initial review is a screening of the chemical properties against the criteria in Annex D, if considered fulfilled the POPRC proceeds to the second stage and develops a global risk profile according to the criteria in Annex E an ...
Climate Change and Extreme Events
... events need to be understood and alternative methods explored to deal with environmental change. This volume includes a selection of papers which were presented at the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) symposium on Climate and Land Surface Changes in Hydrology, conducted in G ...
... events need to be understood and alternative methods explored to deal with environmental change. This volume includes a selection of papers which were presented at the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) symposium on Climate and Land Surface Changes in Hydrology, conducted in G ...
Building bridges: Supporting adaptation in industry VCCAR think
... Recent reports conclude that the impacts of increasing temperature rises on productivity are likely to be substantial. Heat stress is a significant risk to exposed businesses such as construction, heavy industry and defence. Extreme heat can also increase the rate of equipment failure and maintenanc ...
... Recent reports conclude that the impacts of increasing temperature rises on productivity are likely to be substantial. Heat stress is a significant risk to exposed businesses such as construction, heavy industry and defence. Extreme heat can also increase the rate of equipment failure and maintenanc ...
Guidance to the interaction between POPs and climate change and
... Convention using the criteria in the annexes D -F to the Convention. The initial review is a screening of the chemical properties against the criteria in Annex D, if considered fulfilled the POPRC proceeds to the second stage and develops a global risk profile according to the criteria in Annex E an ...
... Convention using the criteria in the annexes D -F to the Convention. The initial review is a screening of the chemical properties against the criteria in Annex D, if considered fulfilled the POPRC proceeds to the second stage and develops a global risk profile according to the criteria in Annex E an ...
US Virgin Islands Climate Change Ecosystem
... There is a growing volume of evidence that suggests in some situations, the most successful and cost-effective actions to protect people from the impacts of climate change is to preserve, enhance and restore natural systems that provide critical protection from the elements, or that provide food, wa ...
... There is a growing volume of evidence that suggests in some situations, the most successful and cost-effective actions to protect people from the impacts of climate change is to preserve, enhance and restore natural systems that provide critical protection from the elements, or that provide food, wa ...
Towards indicators for resilient architecture and infrastructure
... and water bodies, and even public space, are designed to last for decades and are expensive to renovate ...
... and water bodies, and even public space, are designed to last for decades and are expensive to renovate ...
The Economics of Climate Change in the Caribbean
... Table 3.1: Climate change and related factors relevant to global agricultural production ........................ 18 Table 3.2: Share of agricultural employment in total employment (2000)............................................... 19 Table 3.3: Summary of Caribbean agricultural exports by countr ...
... Table 3.1: Climate change and related factors relevant to global agricultural production ........................ 18 Table 3.2: Share of agricultural employment in total employment (2000)............................................... 19 Table 3.3: Summary of Caribbean agricultural exports by countr ...
Inter-hemispheric linkages in climate change
... The focus for much of this work has centred on the termination of the last ice-age. The primary reason for this is that the warming associated with this termination is of similar or even larger magnitude than the human-induced climate modification expected under future greenhouse-gas scenarios (Wats ...
... The focus for much of this work has centred on the termination of the last ice-age. The primary reason for this is that the warming associated with this termination is of similar or even larger magnitude than the human-induced climate modification expected under future greenhouse-gas scenarios (Wats ...
successful adaptation implementation
... Cities around the world are preparing for a changing climate. There is no shortage of ideas concerning how cities might reduce the production of greenhouse gases or adapt to a warming planet. There are, though, significant challenges associated with making such ideas actionable. What does it take to ...
... Cities around the world are preparing for a changing climate. There is no shortage of ideas concerning how cities might reduce the production of greenhouse gases or adapt to a warming planet. There are, though, significant challenges associated with making such ideas actionable. What does it take to ...
Link to PDF of publication
... assessment, ranging from qualitative and participatory methodologies to quantitative modelling approaches, taking not solely into account a pure economic damage and loss assessment approach but rather a wide consideration of social, environmental and physical risk factors (e.g. ICRC and Internationa ...
... assessment, ranging from qualitative and participatory methodologies to quantitative modelling approaches, taking not solely into account a pure economic damage and loss assessment approach but rather a wide consideration of social, environmental and physical risk factors (e.g. ICRC and Internationa ...
Communicating climate change – Learning from business
... As individuals ”do not have a set of socially accepted beliefs on climate change” (Hoffman 2012: 32), any attempt to understand and interpret climate change knowledge requires a thorough ”political, economic, social, and legal debate over values and beliefs” through which social consensus emerges (H ...
... As individuals ”do not have a set of socially accepted beliefs on climate change” (Hoffman 2012: 32), any attempt to understand and interpret climate change knowledge requires a thorough ”political, economic, social, and legal debate over values and beliefs” through which social consensus emerges (H ...
France`s adaptation to global climate change
... communities and representatives of economic, social and environmental actors, with support from experts. Specific work needs to be conducted with the insurance sector. yy Health. Adaptation will need to be taken into account in the National HealthEnvironment Plan and in national health and research ...
... communities and representatives of economic, social and environmental actors, with support from experts. Specific work needs to be conducted with the insurance sector. yy Health. Adaptation will need to be taken into account in the National HealthEnvironment Plan and in national health and research ...
Understanding Climate Change: Lesson Plans for
... hypothesis rather than prove it as true because an infinite number of alternate hypotheses would have to be tested to prove the absolute truth of any single hypothesis. Disproving a hypothesis decreases our confidence in its accuracy and expands our understanding of observed ...
... hypothesis rather than prove it as true because an infinite number of alternate hypotheses would have to be tested to prove the absolute truth of any single hypothesis. Disproving a hypothesis decreases our confidence in its accuracy and expands our understanding of observed ...
Introducing the Transnational Climate Impacts Index
... There are also some early attempts to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding transnational impacts of climate change. For example, building on the ecology literature, Liu et al. (2013) introduce the concept of “telecoupling” as socioeconomic and environmental interactions, over distances, b ...
... There are also some early attempts to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding transnational impacts of climate change. For example, building on the ecology literature, Liu et al. (2013) introduce the concept of “telecoupling” as socioeconomic and environmental interactions, over distances, b ...
Tropospheric adjustment induces a cloud component in
... effects which are considered to be part of the forcing. This is done partly because the resulting values for F are more nearly model-independent and hence useful for comparative studies of the climatic effects of different forcings (e.g. Shine et al., 2003; Hansen et al., 2005). The arbitrariness of ...
... effects which are considered to be part of the forcing. This is done partly because the resulting values for F are more nearly model-independent and hence useful for comparative studies of the climatic effects of different forcings (e.g. Shine et al., 2003; Hansen et al., 2005). The arbitrariness of ...
Can actuaries really afford to ignore climate
... Our goal has been to make use of the most reliable and most up to date climate science available, and to avoid conclusions that are not supported by the majority of climate scientists. In order to achieve this, we have collaborated with Professor Andy Pitman, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence ...
... Our goal has been to make use of the most reliable and most up to date climate science available, and to avoid conclusions that are not supported by the majority of climate scientists. In order to achieve this, we have collaborated with Professor Andy Pitman, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence ...
Climate Change Adaptation for Smallholder Farmers in Southeast Asia
... Climate change, defined as any change in the average daily weather pattern over an extended period of time (typically decades or longer) whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity (Easterling et al. 2007, IPCC 2007a), is happening now, and is already affecting many natural sy ...
... Climate change, defined as any change in the average daily weather pattern over an extended period of time (typically decades or longer) whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity (Easterling et al. 2007, IPCC 2007a), is happening now, and is already affecting many natural sy ...
Curriculum vitae PDF
... Research Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering (INE) School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (joint appointment) International Arctic Research Center (joint appointment with INE) ...
... Research Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering (INE) School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (joint appointment) International Arctic Research Center (joint appointment with INE) ...
Increasing the influence of LDC climate diplomacy
... Addressing a special session of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) — the dialogue initiated by President Barak Obama in 2009 to facilitate discussion among the world’s largest economies — Kerry stated: “[L]ast year, I invited many of you and your counterparts to join me for a spec ...
... Addressing a special session of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) — the dialogue initiated by President Barak Obama in 2009 to facilitate discussion among the world’s largest economies — Kerry stated: “[L]ast year, I invited many of you and your counterparts to join me for a spec ...
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... Focus on sectors and components that have impacts on human well-being, including biophysical impacts of climate change on a country's society, and the socioeconomic factors that either amplify or reduce such impacts. ...
... Focus on sectors and components that have impacts on human well-being, including biophysical impacts of climate change on a country's society, and the socioeconomic factors that either amplify or reduce such impacts. ...
Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of
... first two categories – particularly from humanitarian actors and migration specialists – the third form of movement has received much less attention. This paper begins by explaining why it is important to begin thinking about the issue of planned relocations as a response (or adaptation strategy) to ...
... first two categories – particularly from humanitarian actors and migration specialists – the third form of movement has received much less attention. This paper begins by explaining why it is important to begin thinking about the issue of planned relocations as a response (or adaptation strategy) to ...
Preparing for climate change guide for local government
... edition of Preparing for Climate Change supersedes the first edition published in 2004. The guide summarises the main elements of a comprehensive technical report Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment (‘the source report’). Its first edition was updated in May 2008 following the release of t ...
... edition of Preparing for Climate Change supersedes the first edition published in 2004. The guide summarises the main elements of a comprehensive technical report Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment (‘the source report’). Its first edition was updated in May 2008 following the release of t ...
Ensemble projections of future streamflow droughts in Europe
... circulation patterns within RCMs largely depend on the lateral boundary conditions from their driving GCM, influencing not only the mean precipitation changes but also the extremes. Considering uncertainties in low precipitation extremes, Blenkinsop and Fowler (2007) demonstrated considerable depend ...
... circulation patterns within RCMs largely depend on the lateral boundary conditions from their driving GCM, influencing not only the mean precipitation changes but also the extremes. Considering uncertainties in low precipitation extremes, Blenkinsop and Fowler (2007) demonstrated considerable depend ...
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.