LINKS BETWEEN RELIGION, EVOLUTION, AND CLIMATE
... Ellison, 2007). Evans and Feng (2013) specifically find that while conservative Protestantism does not directly lead to suspicion of climate change that it does lead to some religious individuals being less trusting of scientists’ policy recommendations. This is reinforced by the fact that conservat ...
... Ellison, 2007). Evans and Feng (2013) specifically find that while conservative Protestantism does not directly lead to suspicion of climate change that it does lead to some religious individuals being less trusting of scientists’ policy recommendations. This is reinforced by the fact that conservat ...
Addressing Climate Change through a Risk Management Lens
... inform such an approach. Here we contrast conventional benefit‐cost techniques designed to determine the “optimal” policy with broader risk‐management techniques designed to hedge against uncertain but potentially high‐consequence outcomes and allow for mid‐ course adjustments as needed. Beginni ...
... inform such an approach. Here we contrast conventional benefit‐cost techniques designed to determine the “optimal” policy with broader risk‐management techniques designed to hedge against uncertain but potentially high‐consequence outcomes and allow for mid‐ course adjustments as needed. Beginni ...
Climate Choices for a Sustainable Southwest
... to climate change—rather than make more incremental adjustments to climate risks— in the event it becomes necessary to make significant changes in resource allocation or technology, or to relocate people, ecosystems and infrastructure. The co-benefits and trade-offs in linking mitigation and adaptat ...
... to climate change—rather than make more incremental adjustments to climate risks— in the event it becomes necessary to make significant changes in resource allocation or technology, or to relocate people, ecosystems and infrastructure. The co-benefits and trade-offs in linking mitigation and adaptat ...
nota di lavoro - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
... Note that an implicit assumption of uncertainty propagation is that the decision maker is unaware of the multiplicity of future contingencies and does not adjust his or her decisions according to her risk preferences. In fact, a major problem with uncertainty propagation is that it is generally una ...
... Note that an implicit assumption of uncertainty propagation is that the decision maker is unaware of the multiplicity of future contingencies and does not adjust his or her decisions according to her risk preferences. In fact, a major problem with uncertainty propagation is that it is generally una ...
The Rules of the Game
... These reports have already drawn together the majority of the evidence base on behaviour change and the communication of sustainable development issues. Rather than duplicate the effort and insight of these experts, we have stood upon their shoulders to create this applicable set of principles for ...
... These reports have already drawn together the majority of the evidence base on behaviour change and the communication of sustainable development issues. Rather than duplicate the effort and insight of these experts, we have stood upon their shoulders to create this applicable set of principles for ...
The Climate Deception Dossiers - Union of Concerned Scientists
... scientific data had confirmed humans’ role in climate change (Figure 2). It was also in 1988 that the United Nations formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the U.S. Congress introduced the National Energy Policy Act of 1988 in an effort to reduce emissions of heat-trapping g ...
... scientific data had confirmed humans’ role in climate change (Figure 2). It was also in 1988 that the United Nations formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the U.S. Congress introduced the National Energy Policy Act of 1988 in an effort to reduce emissions of heat-trapping g ...
From adaptation to climate-resilient development: the costs of climate-proofing the Millennium Development Goals in Africa (388 kB ) (opens in new window)
... 1.1 The consequences from separating adaptation and development The separation between “development” and “adaptation” has understandable political reasons since negotiators aim to distinguish (baseline) development finance from (additional) adaptation finance. Raising adaptation and development fina ...
... 1.1 The consequences from separating adaptation and development The separation between “development” and “adaptation” has understandable political reasons since negotiators aim to distinguish (baseline) development finance from (additional) adaptation finance. Raising adaptation and development fina ...
- White Rose Research Online
... educational game that aims to foster communication, motivate action, and promote behaviour change among its players (Dulic et al., 2011). Future Delta localized the impacts of climate change by situating the imagery of the game in a recognizable neighbourhood of the flood-prone municipality of Delta ...
... educational game that aims to foster communication, motivate action, and promote behaviour change among its players (Dulic et al., 2011). Future Delta localized the impacts of climate change by situating the imagery of the game in a recognizable neighbourhood of the flood-prone municipality of Delta ...
Greening of the Earth and its drivers
... elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration (eCO2 ), regional climate change (temperature, precipitation and radiation), and varying rates of nitrogen deposition. Land-use-related drivers involve changes in land cover and in land management intensity, including fertilization, irrigation, forestry and gra ...
... elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration (eCO2 ), regional climate change (temperature, precipitation and radiation), and varying rates of nitrogen deposition. Land-use-related drivers involve changes in land cover and in land management intensity, including fertilization, irrigation, forestry and gra ...
Potential Vegetation and Carbon Redistribution in Northern North
... necessary to drive ED was chosen. The climate attributes that drive ED are specific humidity, surface temperature, precipitation, and photosynthetically active radiation. Though new climate change datasets are constantly produced they often do not contain the specific humidity data ED requires. For ...
... necessary to drive ED was chosen. The climate attributes that drive ED are specific humidity, surface temperature, precipitation, and photosynthetically active radiation. Though new climate change datasets are constantly produced they often do not contain the specific humidity data ED requires. For ...
Earth`s Climate
... might also exist at high elevations far from the poles, such as on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania today, which sits only 3° south of the equator. Because ice sheets currently rest on Antarctica and Greenland, Earth is still considered to be in an ice age. This ice age is called the Quaternary glaciatio ...
... might also exist at high elevations far from the poles, such as on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania today, which sits only 3° south of the equator. Because ice sheets currently rest on Antarctica and Greenland, Earth is still considered to be in an ice age. This ice age is called the Quaternary glaciatio ...
VSO and Climate Change
... climate change has the potential to undermine progress in each of them. For example, climate change hazards add further complexity to the range of factors that create vulnerability for poor people’s livelihoods, particularly those dependent upon agriculture and natural resources. Higher and more var ...
... climate change has the potential to undermine progress in each of them. For example, climate change hazards add further complexity to the range of factors that create vulnerability for poor people’s livelihoods, particularly those dependent upon agriculture and natural resources. Higher and more var ...
Governing climate change: the politics of risk society?
... time, stretching social and natural relations of cause, effect and responsibility, and transcending ‘the spatial, social and temporal limits of industrial risks of the past’ (Gandy 1999, 60–1). While developed countries are responsible for the vast amount of emissions of greenhouse gases to date, th ...
... time, stretching social and natural relations of cause, effect and responsibility, and transcending ‘the spatial, social and temporal limits of industrial risks of the past’ (Gandy 1999, 60–1). While developed countries are responsible for the vast amount of emissions of greenhouse gases to date, th ...
Climate Change in Zambia
... countries to develop Bio-Carbon programmes and projects. Zambia is one of the countries earmarked for such activities and has compiled significant evidence base that is highlighted in this report. The report is based on extensive review of existing published and unpublished literature, policy docume ...
... countries to develop Bio-Carbon programmes and projects. Zambia is one of the countries earmarked for such activities and has compiled significant evidence base that is highlighted in this report. The report is based on extensive review of existing published and unpublished literature, policy docume ...
Human Impacts on Weather and Climate - Recent Research Results
... FIGURE SPM-2. Global-average radiative forcing (RF) estimates and ranges in 2005 for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and other important agents and mechanisms, together with the typical geographical extent (spatial scale) of the forcing and the assessed level ...
... FIGURE SPM-2. Global-average radiative forcing (RF) estimates and ranges in 2005 for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and other important agents and mechanisms, together with the typical geographical extent (spatial scale) of the forcing and the assessed level ...
Towards Adaptive Spatial Planning for Climate Change
... or supports the realization of climate adaptation. In this paper we explore the challenges climate change poses for the way western societies organize their spatial planning, with a special focus on the implications for the legal principles that structure spatial planning, the governance of actual p ...
... or supports the realization of climate adaptation. In this paper we explore the challenges climate change poses for the way western societies organize their spatial planning, with a special focus on the implications for the legal principles that structure spatial planning, the governance of actual p ...
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... government (Gregoire, 2009). However, this weather event was not an isolated case. During the previous winter, a similar storm created crippling conditions in the same areas. The costs of freight delays alone were estimated around 75 million dollars for the winter storm and flooding that closed I-5 ...
... government (Gregoire, 2009). However, this weather event was not an isolated case. During the previous winter, a similar storm created crippling conditions in the same areas. The costs of freight delays alone were estimated around 75 million dollars for the winter storm and flooding that closed I-5 ...
Farming in a Changing Climate
... (for instance, temperature, crops, adaptive strategies) and location, with some areas in Canada receiving more attention than others. Notwithstanding the interconnections among research focus and region, there has been little opportunity to compare different research perspectives, analytical methods ...
... (for instance, temperature, crops, adaptive strategies) and location, with some areas in Canada receiving more attention than others. Notwithstanding the interconnections among research focus and region, there has been little opportunity to compare different research perspectives, analytical methods ...
Submission DR134 - Chairman of the Australian Building Codes
... 1. That the draft report is amended to specifically address which authority is responsible for certain recommendations/observations to avoid confusion over where action is required particularly in the area of building and planning, and between the various levels of government. 2. That additional res ...
... 1. That the draft report is amended to specifically address which authority is responsible for certain recommendations/observations to avoid confusion over where action is required particularly in the area of building and planning, and between the various levels of government. 2. That additional res ...
State of the Jamaican Climate 2012:Information for
... This, then, makes Jamaica vulnerable to climate variations. The country is highly susceptible whenever the climate changes irrespective of whether the change is on short (seasonal, year to year, or every few years) or longer (decadal) timescales. Because climate sensitivity pervades Jamaican existen ...
... This, then, makes Jamaica vulnerable to climate variations. The country is highly susceptible whenever the climate changes irrespective of whether the change is on short (seasonal, year to year, or every few years) or longer (decadal) timescales. Because climate sensitivity pervades Jamaican existen ...
Is there a role for power relations in climate vulnerability and
... which are vigorously being mainstreamed in global academia and policy-making to address sustainability issues. Research on both changing climate and degrading ecosystems has concluded that the global environmental crisis will directly and concretely affect human well-being, and exacerbate poverty an ...
... which are vigorously being mainstreamed in global academia and policy-making to address sustainability issues. Research on both changing climate and degrading ecosystems has concluded that the global environmental crisis will directly and concretely affect human well-being, and exacerbate poverty an ...
Use of general circulation model output in the creation of climate
... variability of climate, including the effects of volcanic eruptions, E1 Nifio/Southern Oscillations (ENSOs), internal atmospheric and oceanic circulation variations, and possible solar variations, and all agree that surface air temperatures will rise, precipitation patterns will change, and sea leve ...
... variability of climate, including the effects of volcanic eruptions, E1 Nifio/Southern Oscillations (ENSOs), internal atmospheric and oceanic circulation variations, and possible solar variations, and all agree that surface air temperatures will rise, precipitation patterns will change, and sea leve ...
Climate Change Risks and Supply Chain Responsibility
... Increasingly, more definitive statements about attribution are becoming possible. According to Kevin Trenberth, Head of Climate Analysis at the US-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), scientists can now say that particular events would not ...
... Increasingly, more definitive statements about attribution are becoming possible. According to Kevin Trenberth, Head of Climate Analysis at the US-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), scientists can now say that particular events would not ...
Climate Change in Japanese History and Prehistory
... Gastone Demarée, “Some XVII-th and XVIII-th Centuries Dutch Meteorological Observations at Deshima, Nagasaki (Japan), Seen as a Complement to Japanese Climatological Historical Documents,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change and Variability – Past, Present and Future –, ...
... Gastone Demarée, “Some XVII-th and XVIII-th Centuries Dutch Meteorological Observations at Deshima, Nagasaki (Japan), Seen as a Complement to Japanese Climatological Historical Documents,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change and Variability – Past, Present and Future –, ...
Global Climate Change and Wetlands: Issues and Awareness by
... changes are the result of anthropogenic activities . It is important to assess to the best of our ability to what extent such changes are natural and/or anthropogenic - as this will shape how society will deal with the issue. For example, if it were assumed that global change is a cyclical phenomena ...
... changes are the result of anthropogenic activities . It is important to assess to the best of our ability to what extent such changes are natural and/or anthropogenic - as this will shape how society will deal with the issue. For example, if it were assumed that global change is a cyclical phenomena ...
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.