3 Climate change and the Law of the Sea Convention
... The fact that our planet has witnessed 4.5 billion years of climate change could lead one to wonder why the sudden commotion about it. In order to understand what is happening and why the issue of climate change requires urgent attention, a brief summary of the history of the Earth is helpful. When ...
... The fact that our planet has witnessed 4.5 billion years of climate change could lead one to wonder why the sudden commotion about it. In order to understand what is happening and why the issue of climate change requires urgent attention, a brief summary of the history of the Earth is helpful. When ...
The psychology of climate change communication - UvA-DARE
... changes it should. Addressing all of them goes beyond the scope of this guide. What this guide does provide are principles derived from the social sciences concerning how to communicate effectively about a topic that is complex, confusing, uncertain, sometimes overwhelming, and often emotionally and ...
... changes it should. Addressing all of them goes beyond the scope of this guide. What this guide does provide are principles derived from the social sciences concerning how to communicate effectively about a topic that is complex, confusing, uncertain, sometimes overwhelming, and often emotionally and ...
2014, a climate emergency
... What appears to be happening is best described as the development of a more “energetic” climate, with increasingly intense weather activity stemming from more energy in the atmosphere due to carbon emissions. It follows the almost unnoticed report from the World Meteorological Organisation [8] (WMO) ...
... What appears to be happening is best described as the development of a more “energetic” climate, with increasingly intense weather activity stemming from more energy in the atmosphere due to carbon emissions. It follows the almost unnoticed report from the World Meteorological Organisation [8] (WMO) ...
CURRICULUM VITAE Personal data Academic background
... Ecology; Thesis title: “Impact of extractive activities over biomass and vegetation biodiversity in a Monsoon forest of Tamil Nadu (India)”. •! Master of Science in Environmental Economics, School of Post-graduate of the Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE) Costa Rica. R ...
... Ecology; Thesis title: “Impact of extractive activities over biomass and vegetation biodiversity in a Monsoon forest of Tamil Nadu (India)”. •! Master of Science in Environmental Economics, School of Post-graduate of the Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE) Costa Rica. R ...
A Stitch in Time: Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation from the
... your clothing in the original context) can avoid the necessity to do much more later on, as much as nine times more. The expression captures one of the main findings of the AIACC program of studies. It can simply be stated as the injunction to adapt now. Climatic variations and extremes cause substa ...
... your clothing in the original context) can avoid the necessity to do much more later on, as much as nine times more. The expression captures one of the main findings of the AIACC program of studies. It can simply be stated as the injunction to adapt now. Climatic variations and extremes cause substa ...
Global Warming and Science
... Fig. 6. Climate reconstructions over the last two centuries [SIC : millennia]. Medieval warm period missing – Little Ice Age ??? ...
... Fig. 6. Climate reconstructions over the last two centuries [SIC : millennia]. Medieval warm period missing – Little Ice Age ??? ...
Impact of the global warming hiatus on Andean temperature
... South Pacific anticyclone (SPA) and related enhanced upwelling of cold water from below the thermocline will help cool the region in the future. Despite this offshore cooling, however, Andean glaciers continue to retreat faster than at any time since they reached their neoglacial maximum extent [Raba ...
... South Pacific anticyclone (SPA) and related enhanced upwelling of cold water from below the thermocline will help cool the region in the future. Despite this offshore cooling, however, Andean glaciers continue to retreat faster than at any time since they reached their neoglacial maximum extent [Raba ...
Using expert knowledge to assess uncertainties in future polar bear
... performed in order to quantify the trends and variance surrounding possible impacts of climate change on polar bear populations. 2. Polar bears have become an iconic species in the communication of climate change. Negative impacts of climatic warming on polar bears have been suggested, but cannot be ...
... performed in order to quantify the trends and variance surrounding possible impacts of climate change on polar bear populations. 2. Polar bears have become an iconic species in the communication of climate change. Negative impacts of climatic warming on polar bears have been suggested, but cannot be ...
European atmosphere in 2050, a regional
... in order to derive an envelope of projections, as being done in the widely documented IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) framework (IPCC, 2007). When it comes to atmospheric chemistry there is still a gap between research communities working on global and regional scales. Global chemis ...
... in order to derive an envelope of projections, as being done in the widely documented IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) framework (IPCC, 2007). When it comes to atmospheric chemistry there is still a gap between research communities working on global and regional scales. Global chemis ...
Nunavut`s Natural Environment - Nunavut Climate Change Centre
... widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global sea levels.1 In Nunavut the annual average temperature is rising twice as fast as the rest of the world.2 In Nunavut specifically, many aspects of the natural environment are currently experiencing or expected to experience acute impacts of clima ...
... widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global sea levels.1 In Nunavut the annual average temperature is rising twice as fast as the rest of the world.2 In Nunavut specifically, many aspects of the natural environment are currently experiencing or expected to experience acute impacts of clima ...
Tuvalu and Climate Change in the Sydney Morning
... Tuvalu and climate change discourse Various discourses relate to the uptake of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies with which Tuvaluans are most concerned. Connell (2003, 98) identifies a ‘garbage can’ discourse by which diverse environmental changes on Tuvalu are attributed to clima ...
... Tuvalu and climate change discourse Various discourses relate to the uptake of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies with which Tuvaluans are most concerned. Connell (2003, 98) identifies a ‘garbage can’ discourse by which diverse environmental changes on Tuvalu are attributed to clima ...
Feeling the Heat - Development and Peace
... As the case studies demonstrate, some inevitable impacts of climate change will be felt in the coming decades even with effective action to reduce emissions. It is therefore vital that the most vulnerable people and communities around the world are supported so that they can adapt to these inevitabl ...
... As the case studies demonstrate, some inevitable impacts of climate change will be felt in the coming decades even with effective action to reduce emissions. It is therefore vital that the most vulnerable people and communities around the world are supported so that they can adapt to these inevitabl ...
Public health and climate change in the Republic of Kiribati
... new weather patterns and higher tides by the time the nation had gained UN membership. He briefly touched upon this issue in his address: Globalization is advocated as the order of today, however there are adverse effects that can cause irreparable damage if no corrective action is taken immediately ...
... new weather patterns and higher tides by the time the nation had gained UN membership. He briefly touched upon this issue in his address: Globalization is advocated as the order of today, however there are adverse effects that can cause irreparable damage if no corrective action is taken immediately ...
Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming – the Harvard Forest Project
... ARM data – step-by-step demo first Progression of Leaf Fall in One Tree Over Time ...
... ARM data – step-by-step demo first Progression of Leaf Fall in One Tree Over Time ...
1 Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches in Climate Change and
... together the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, irrespective of their GDP. The Kyoto Protocol’s stipulation that only Annex I countries reduce their GHG emissions does not reflect today’s or tomorrow’s climate change reality. Major developing countries that are major GHG emitters should also be as ...
... together the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, irrespective of their GDP. The Kyoto Protocol’s stipulation that only Annex I countries reduce their GHG emissions does not reflect today’s or tomorrow’s climate change reality. Major developing countries that are major GHG emitters should also be as ...
Expert meeting on assessing the risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change (opens in new window)
... risk 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. International Fed ...
... risk 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. International Fed ...
Climate Change Knows No Borders
... China attempt to navigate these trans-boundary water flows through a series of treaties and on-going negotiations. However power dynamics between countries mean that implementation is regularly contested, and new dam or hydropower developments constantly bring new dimensions to the debate. India’s F ...
... China attempt to navigate these trans-boundary water flows through a series of treaties and on-going negotiations. However power dynamics between countries mean that implementation is regularly contested, and new dam or hydropower developments constantly bring new dimensions to the debate. India’s F ...
Climate Change Impacts on Australia and the Benefits of Early
... flooding. Global large-scale singularities, such as a slowing or collapse of the ocean’s thermohaline circulation or the collapse of the ice sheets of West Antarctica or Greenland, would also have important long-term implications for Australia’s climate and coastline. Avoiding, or at the very least ...
... flooding. Global large-scale singularities, such as a slowing or collapse of the ocean’s thermohaline circulation or the collapse of the ice sheets of West Antarctica or Greenland, would also have important long-term implications for Australia’s climate and coastline. Avoiding, or at the very least ...
anthropology and climate change - North Atlantic Biocultural
... From an anthropological perspective, climate change is ultimately about culture, for in its wake, more and more of the intimate human-environment relations, integral to the world’s cultural diversity, lose place. For indigenous peoples around the world, climate change brings different kinds of risks ...
... From an anthropological perspective, climate change is ultimately about culture, for in its wake, more and more of the intimate human-environment relations, integral to the world’s cultural diversity, lose place. For indigenous peoples around the world, climate change brings different kinds of risks ...
Agriculture and Climate Change in Kenya: Climate Chaos, Policy
... linkages are framed, how different actors cluster around these narratives, and why. Finally, the paper addresses the implications of this for the future. This is so far an under-researched area, but one that will be increasingly important in understanding how climate funding is governed and whether ...
... linkages are framed, how different actors cluster around these narratives, and why. Finally, the paper addresses the implications of this for the future. This is so far an under-researched area, but one that will be increasingly important in understanding how climate funding is governed and whether ...
Better Predictions, Better Allocations: Scientific Advances and
... particular quality will arrive that updates the information held about the probability of the severe state arising. The signal will either be ’good’ or ’bad’ in the sense of lowering or raising the probability of the severe state compared to previously held beliefs. With the signal in hand, the agen ...
... particular quality will arrive that updates the information held about the probability of the severe state arising. The signal will either be ’good’ or ’bad’ in the sense of lowering or raising the probability of the severe state compared to previously held beliefs. With the signal in hand, the agen ...
IPCC. 2001. Tech Summary of Physical Science Basis
... could be reversed only slowly. The past century had, at that time, seen a surface warming of nearly 0.5°C, which was broadly consistent with that predicted by climate models for the greenhouse gas increases, but was also comparable to what was then known about natural variation. Lastly, it was point ...
... could be reversed only slowly. The past century had, at that time, seen a surface warming of nearly 0.5°C, which was broadly consistent with that predicted by climate models for the greenhouse gas increases, but was also comparable to what was then known about natural variation. Lastly, it was point ...
Attribution of extreme weather and climate
... event occurs. This approach has been applied to annual and seasonal mean temperature extremes in subcontinental regions around the world by using an improved representation of the regional temperature distributions and introducing observational constraints from a global optimal fingerprinting analysi ...
... event occurs. This approach has been applied to annual and seasonal mean temperature extremes in subcontinental regions around the world by using an improved representation of the regional temperature distributions and introducing observational constraints from a global optimal fingerprinting analysi ...
Climate change impacts on the livestock sector
... Economic damage estimates are then derived for these impacts under a business as usual scenario, which assumes that animal numbers remain stable and that autonomous adaptation does not occur. While there is potential for under-estimating autonomous adaptation, and therefore over-estimating damage co ...
... Economic damage estimates are then derived for these impacts under a business as usual scenario, which assumes that animal numbers remain stable and that autonomous adaptation does not occur. While there is potential for under-estimating autonomous adaptation, and therefore over-estimating damage co ...
Working Paper - University of Sussex
... confidence interval at face value, the impact of climate change does not significantly deviate from zero until 3.5°C warming. The uncertainty is right-skewed. Negative surprises are more likely than positive surprises of similar magnitude. This is true for the greenhouse gas emissions: It is easier ...
... confidence interval at face value, the impact of climate change does not significantly deviate from zero until 3.5°C warming. The uncertainty is right-skewed. Negative surprises are more likely than positive surprises of similar magnitude. This is true for the greenhouse gas emissions: It is easier ...
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.