The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons
... Controversy over climate change is commonly attributed to a deficit in public comprehension of scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account pu ...
... Controversy over climate change is commonly attributed to a deficit in public comprehension of scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account pu ...
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... policy implications. Climate Change: What is the Evidence? There is now little doubt that the climate is changing; carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere are rising, as are temperatures (IPCC 2007). Yet detection of climate change and the attribution of its causes are distinct problem ...
... policy implications. Climate Change: What is the Evidence? There is now little doubt that the climate is changing; carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere are rising, as are temperatures (IPCC 2007). Yet detection of climate change and the attribution of its causes are distinct problem ...
THE COST OF DELAYING ACTION TO STEM CLIMATE CHANGE
... permafrost and the consequent release of the potent GHG methane, which would accelerate global warming. These and other potential large-scale changes are irreversible on relevant time ...
... permafrost and the consequent release of the potent GHG methane, which would accelerate global warming. These and other potential large-scale changes are irreversible on relevant time ...
Telling the Weather Story - IBC Public Assets
... the differences among the most likely scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions remain small, although the rate of global warming is projected to increase slightly as the accumulating emissions have more effect. There is a scientific basis for extrapolating potential changes in climate from past records ...
... the differences among the most likely scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions remain small, although the rate of global warming is projected to increase slightly as the accumulating emissions have more effect. There is a scientific basis for extrapolating potential changes in climate from past records ...
Telling the Weather Story - Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
... the differences among the most likely scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions remain small, although the rate of global warming is projected to increase slightly as the accumulating emissions have more effect. There is a scientific basis for extrapolating potential changes in climate from past records ...
... the differences among the most likely scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions remain small, although the rate of global warming is projected to increase slightly as the accumulating emissions have more effect. There is a scientific basis for extrapolating potential changes in climate from past records ...
The Tragedy of the Risk
... Controversy over climate change is commonly attributed to a deficit in public comprehension of scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account pu ...
... Controversy over climate change is commonly attributed to a deficit in public comprehension of scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account pu ...
How Climate Change Will Affect People Around the World
... sheet or loss of the Amazon forest. Few studies have examined the shape of the damage function at higher temperatures, even though the latest science suggests that temperatures are 5 or 6°C or higher are plausible because of feedbacks that amplify warming (Chapter 1). For some sectors, damages may i ...
... sheet or loss of the Amazon forest. Few studies have examined the shape of the damage function at higher temperatures, even though the latest science suggests that temperatures are 5 or 6°C or higher are plausible because of feedbacks that amplify warming (Chapter 1). For some sectors, damages may i ...
FORTY-FOURTH SESSION OF THE IPCC Bangkok, Thailand, 17
... In paragraph 21 of its Decision 1/CP/21, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) invited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “to provide a special report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industria ...
... In paragraph 21 of its Decision 1/CP/21, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) invited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “to provide a special report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industria ...
Climate Action Plan
... As Chair of the Broward County Climate Change Task Force, I am pleased to present the 2015 Broward County Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP). The CCAP is an update to the original Broward Climate Change Action Plan (2010), and it builds upon the 2010 CCAP’s recommendations for a progressive countywid ...
... As Chair of the Broward County Climate Change Task Force, I am pleased to present the 2015 Broward County Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP). The CCAP is an update to the original Broward Climate Change Action Plan (2010), and it builds upon the 2010 CCAP’s recommendations for a progressive countywid ...
loss and damage
... planet undergoes 2°-3°C of warming, which is a possibility with current national climate pledges – known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) - on the table, the scale of loss and damage will be catastrophic. As past greenhouse gas emissions are the main driver of climate change a ...
... planet undergoes 2°-3°C of warming, which is a possibility with current national climate pledges – known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) - on the table, the scale of loss and damage will be catastrophic. As past greenhouse gas emissions are the main driver of climate change a ...
showing AIT - Department for Education
... hypotheses are regarded as valid by the great majority of scientific opinion worldwide. However, in parts of the film, Gore presents evidence and arguments which do not accord with mainstream scientific opinion. This guidance points out, on a scene by scene basis, the areas where further input will ...
... hypotheses are regarded as valid by the great majority of scientific opinion worldwide. However, in parts of the film, Gore presents evidence and arguments which do not accord with mainstream scientific opinion. This guidance points out, on a scene by scene basis, the areas where further input will ...
Reducing the Future to Climate: a Story of Climate Determinism and
... nations 22. And to emphasise the message and the mood, the New Economics Foundation and its partners have wound up the climate clock which is now ticking, second-by-second, until 1 December 2016 when human fate is handed over to the winds, ocean currents and drifting icefloes of a de-stabilised glob ...
... nations 22. And to emphasise the message and the mood, the New Economics Foundation and its partners have wound up the climate clock which is now ticking, second-by-second, until 1 December 2016 when human fate is handed over to the winds, ocean currents and drifting icefloes of a de-stabilised glob ...
IMPACT OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON COFFEE PRODUCTION
... selected and five villages from both wards were selected purposively. In each selected village, 24 households producing coffee were randomly selected from the village register to make a total number of 120 respondents. Correlation analysis was used to examine the relationship of rainfall variability ...
... selected and five villages from both wards were selected purposively. In each selected village, 24 households producing coffee were randomly selected from the village register to make a total number of 120 respondents. Correlation analysis was used to examine the relationship of rainfall variability ...
Project Document for CEO Approval
... 14. The reliance on fuel wood and charcoal presents significant vulnerability. The continued and widespread inefficient use of fuel wood and charcoal may intensify deforestation problems in the country. The resultant scarcity of biomass fuels would affect rural women, since they would have to travel ...
... 14. The reliance on fuel wood and charcoal presents significant vulnerability. The continued and widespread inefficient use of fuel wood and charcoal may intensify deforestation problems in the country. The resultant scarcity of biomass fuels would affect rural women, since they would have to travel ...
Climate Justice in Rural Southeastern United States: A Review of
... populations, such as those inhabiting the Southeastern U.S., represent some of the most vulnerable of demographic and occupational groups. 1.3. Regional Context and Review Framework This review consists of three primary sections. The first addresses evidence of existing and projected climate change ...
... populations, such as those inhabiting the Southeastern U.S., represent some of the most vulnerable of demographic and occupational groups. 1.3. Regional Context and Review Framework This review consists of three primary sections. The first addresses evidence of existing and projected climate change ...
Preliminary Analysis of Climate Change in the Cariboo
... sections address potential climate change impacts and recommended next steps. This report will contribute to discussions that have already started on how to adapt planning and management for the resource values included in the Cariboo-Chilcotin Land Use Plan to a changing climate. The Quesnel weathe ...
... sections address potential climate change impacts and recommended next steps. This report will contribute to discussions that have already started on how to adapt planning and management for the resource values included in the Cariboo-Chilcotin Land Use Plan to a changing climate. The Quesnel weathe ...
Grade 9: Climate Change
... patterns) in a specific location, region, or of the entire planet. This change in weather patterns persists for a long period of time ranging from decades to millions of years. Climate change may be caused by a variety of factors including natural processes; however, scientific evidence shows that t ...
... patterns) in a specific location, region, or of the entire planet. This change in weather patterns persists for a long period of time ranging from decades to millions of years. Climate change may be caused by a variety of factors including natural processes; however, scientific evidence shows that t ...
PDF-B Document - Global Environment Facility
... The UNFCCC and Systematic Observation. The potential problems associated with global climate change are now widely recognized. The UNFCCC was negotiated in 1992 because countries were "concerned that human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas ...
... The UNFCCC and Systematic Observation. The potential problems associated with global climate change are now widely recognized. The UNFCCC was negotiated in 1992 because countries were "concerned that human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas ...
Climate Change - cloudfront.net
... results, ensuring that anything published in a scientific journal has been reviewed and approved by other independent experts in the field and that the authors of the original study have adequately responded to any criticisms or questions they received. However, peer review is only the first step in ...
... results, ensuring that anything published in a scientific journal has been reviewed and approved by other independent experts in the field and that the authors of the original study have adequately responded to any criticisms or questions they received. However, peer review is only the first step in ...
The Emergence of Climate Change Mitigation Action by Society: An
... limited attention has been given in the literature to the consequences of uncertainties influencing society’s response to climate (Gerst et al. 2013b). In this research, we contribute to both challenges simultaneously by developing scenarios for the emergence of climate mitigation. The main rational ...
... limited attention has been given in the literature to the consequences of uncertainties influencing society’s response to climate (Gerst et al. 2013b). In this research, we contribute to both challenges simultaneously by developing scenarios for the emergence of climate mitigation. The main rational ...
Dissipating the fuzziness around interdisciplinarity: The
... pluridisciplinarity encourages several disciplines to coexist within the same entity (e.g., a university), without necessarily requiring exchanges among them. Cross-fertilisation does not exist. Multidisciplinarity is the meeting of distinct disciplines around a common study theme, although each is ...
... pluridisciplinarity encourages several disciplines to coexist within the same entity (e.g., a university), without necessarily requiring exchanges among them. Cross-fertilisation does not exist. Multidisciplinarity is the meeting of distinct disciplines around a common study theme, although each is ...
Revisiting the urban - Durham Research Online
... grounded in what Marvin and Guy (1997, p. 312) refer to as a ‘new localism’, a framework within which the ‘locale is seen as a socio-spatial container in which the sum of institutional, social and physical relations necessary to achieve a more sustainable future can be found’. This framing, we argue ...
... grounded in what Marvin and Guy (1997, p. 312) refer to as a ‘new localism’, a framework within which the ‘locale is seen as a socio-spatial container in which the sum of institutional, social and physical relations necessary to achieve a more sustainable future can be found’. This framing, we argue ...
High Resolution - Responses to Climate Change
... The study by Kunkel et al. (2008) in support of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program evaluated weather and climate extremes, specifically for Hawaii, in a synthesis and assessment study. The study concluded that the number of very warm nights has increased by 10 or more per year for Hawaii from 1 ...
... The study by Kunkel et al. (2008) in support of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program evaluated weather and climate extremes, specifically for Hawaii, in a synthesis and assessment study. The study concluded that the number of very warm nights has increased by 10 or more per year for Hawaii from 1 ...
full text - MODUL University Vienna
... I hereby affirm that this Bachelor’s Thesis represents my own written work and that I have used no sources and aids other than those indicated. All passages quoted from publications or paraphrased from these sources are properly cited and attributed. The thesis was not submitted in the same or in a ...
... I hereby affirm that this Bachelor’s Thesis represents my own written work and that I have used no sources and aids other than those indicated. All passages quoted from publications or paraphrased from these sources are properly cited and attributed. The thesis was not submitted in the same or in a ...
Adaptation investments
... understanding of climate change impacts is steadily improving, there are still substantial ...
... understanding of climate change impacts is steadily improving, there are still substantial ...
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.