Climate and Culture - George Mason University
... To date much is known about the physical changes, both ongoing and projected, resulting from contemporary climate change (ACIA 2005, IPCC 2007). Natural scientists have generated more than sufficient proof to show the world that (a) contemporary global climate change is happening; (b) it is unprecede ...
... To date much is known about the physical changes, both ongoing and projected, resulting from contemporary climate change (ACIA 2005, IPCC 2007). Natural scientists have generated more than sufficient proof to show the world that (a) contemporary global climate change is happening; (b) it is unprecede ...
Climate Policy
... Drawing on this discussion, I now review in detail the strategic choices for Europe in the global context.3 The text is structured around the three key levels of analysis in political science: climate polity, that is, the larger institutional and legal context of policy making; climate policy, the a ...
... Drawing on this discussion, I now review in detail the strategic choices for Europe in the global context.3 The text is structured around the three key levels of analysis in political science: climate polity, that is, the larger institutional and legal context of policy making; climate policy, the a ...
Climate Change Adaptation Plan – City of Red Deer Part One
... to improve local adaptation and resilience. “It is a holistic process for how local communities can address the array of impacts likely to occur as a result of climate change.”10 Red Deer is still part of the ICLEI Adaptation (now BARC) program as we wrap up our final milestones completing our plan ...
... to improve local adaptation and resilience. “It is a holistic process for how local communities can address the array of impacts likely to occur as a result of climate change.”10 Red Deer is still part of the ICLEI Adaptation (now BARC) program as we wrap up our final milestones completing our plan ...
Climate finance additionality - Overseas Development Institute
... the tracking of ODA flows is important to ensure that we know how much money is going to climate change and what may be considered additional. However, this raises issues around the validity of the current ODA tracking system. Currently, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC), which is ...
... the tracking of ODA flows is important to ensure that we know how much money is going to climate change and what may be considered additional. However, this raises issues around the validity of the current ODA tracking system. Currently, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC), which is ...
Not a Problem, Someone Else`s Problem, My Problem or Our
... Drawing on literature from the fields of psychology and social science, as well practical case studies, the paper examines psychological barriers to mitigation action, models for pro-environmental behaviour change, and two examples of applied approaches to behaviour change (community-based social ma ...
... Drawing on literature from the fields of psychology and social science, as well practical case studies, the paper examines psychological barriers to mitigation action, models for pro-environmental behaviour change, and two examples of applied approaches to behaviour change (community-based social ma ...
EU cities and regions leading the way against climate change
... Local and sub-national governments need support, empowerment and stable policy frameworks to optimize their engagement and leadership. They can also inspire national-level policymaking to raise and complement pre-2020 ambitions at the national and global level. The partnership between government lev ...
... Local and sub-national governments need support, empowerment and stable policy frameworks to optimize their engagement and leadership. They can also inspire national-level policymaking to raise and complement pre-2020 ambitions at the national and global level. The partnership between government lev ...
Climate change - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
... statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years. The classical period is 30 years, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). These relevant quantities are most often surfa ...
... statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years. The classical period is 30 years, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). These relevant quantities are most often surfa ...
Ville Kumpu A climate for reduction? Futures imagined in
... includes all kinds of divine foreordaining and other forms of determinism, highlighting the role of destiny, fate, cosmic forces, and the laws of nature in determining what the future will be. To imagine such a predestined future one must consult whatever is posited as in control of the future which ...
... includes all kinds of divine foreordaining and other forms of determinism, highlighting the role of destiny, fate, cosmic forces, and the laws of nature in determining what the future will be. To imagine such a predestined future one must consult whatever is posited as in control of the future which ...
On the use of imagery for climate change engagement
... promotes feelings of salience, but undermines self-efficacy; that imagery of energy futures imagery promotes self-efficacy; and that images of politicians and celebrities strongly undermine saliency, and undermine self-efficacy for the Australian cohort. These results, if widely replicable, have implic ...
... promotes feelings of salience, but undermines self-efficacy; that imagery of energy futures imagery promotes self-efficacy; and that images of politicians and celebrities strongly undermine saliency, and undermine self-efficacy for the Australian cohort. These results, if widely replicable, have implic ...
Investigation - Earthjustice
... The White House played a major role in crafting the August 2003 EPA legal opinion disavowing authority to regulate greenhouse gases. CEQ Chairman James Connaughton personally edited the draft legal opinion. When an EPA draft quoted the National Academy of Science conclusion that “the changes observe ...
... The White House played a major role in crafting the August 2003 EPA legal opinion disavowing authority to regulate greenhouse gases. CEQ Chairman James Connaughton personally edited the draft legal opinion. When an EPA draft quoted the National Academy of Science conclusion that “the changes observe ...
How limiting factors drive agricultural adaptation to
... on other agronomic and socio-economic limiting factors. For example, a farmer’s debt load may have a profound effect on their ability to implement irrigation, which may help them respond to water as a limiting factor. We hope that future work can assess the interaction of these potential factors and ...
... on other agronomic and socio-economic limiting factors. For example, a farmer’s debt load may have a profound effect on their ability to implement irrigation, which may help them respond to water as a limiting factor. We hope that future work can assess the interaction of these potential factors and ...
Climate Change and Mortality: Feedback from Populations Issues
... described as a “complex emergency”. 800,000 people were displaced, and therefore impacts were felt in a wide number of cities, not just restricted to New Orleans. Thus, climate impacts are mediated by other physical, environmental and socio-economic factors. Any approach to modelling will therefore ...
... described as a “complex emergency”. 800,000 people were displaced, and therefore impacts were felt in a wide number of cities, not just restricted to New Orleans. Thus, climate impacts are mediated by other physical, environmental and socio-economic factors. Any approach to modelling will therefore ...
Slide 1
... – Need to simplify radiation calculations into relatively small number of broad bands and assume radiation only goes up and down. Can verify calculations through comparison with line-by-line calculations. – Friction… ...
... – Need to simplify radiation calculations into relatively small number of broad bands and assume radiation only goes up and down. Can verify calculations through comparison with line-by-line calculations. – Friction… ...
Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Indian Policy Planning
... Climate change is now recognised as one of the most pressing global issues of our planet (El Sioufi (2010). A review of climate science by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS, 2010) concludes that “the Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities” ...
... Climate change is now recognised as one of the most pressing global issues of our planet (El Sioufi (2010). A review of climate science by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS, 2010) concludes that “the Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities” ...
Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Secondary Activities: A
... and precipitation over 50 years (1950-2003) on 136 panel of world countries reported that there is deleterious effect by climate change on economic growth (in poor countries particularly). Accordingly, there was significant loss in industrial output too. They found that +1˚C increase in temperature ...
... and precipitation over 50 years (1950-2003) on 136 panel of world countries reported that there is deleterious effect by climate change on economic growth (in poor countries particularly). Accordingly, there was significant loss in industrial output too. They found that +1˚C increase in temperature ...
Research paper: Improving Communication of Uncertainty in the
... the respondents had access to these guidelines. These results suggest that the method used by the IPCC is likely to convey levels of imprecision that are too high. We propose an alternative form of communicating uncertainty, illustrate its effectiveness, and suggest several additional ways to improv ...
... the respondents had access to these guidelines. These results suggest that the method used by the IPCC is likely to convey levels of imprecision that are too high. We propose an alternative form of communicating uncertainty, illustrate its effectiveness, and suggest several additional ways to improv ...
Oceanic Influences on Recent Continental
... (Fig. 1b, 1c). How large are these direct effects? Fig. 5 provides one possible answer. In it, we compare the lower-resolution NASA/NSIPP simulations using only prescribed observed SSTs with simulations that also include the direct effects of prescribed time-varying CO2 (Fig. 5a and 5c). Evidently, ...
... (Fig. 1b, 1c). How large are these direct effects? Fig. 5 provides one possible answer. In it, we compare the lower-resolution NASA/NSIPP simulations using only prescribed observed SSTs with simulations that also include the direct effects of prescribed time-varying CO2 (Fig. 5a and 5c). Evidently, ...
Here - MtnClim 2016
... those that are coupled to free atmosphere. We studied temperature data from fifty hobo-enabled sites over an annual cycle (2014). The sites were spread across a large area of mixed evergreendeciduous woodland in Northern California. The area is topographically diverse and houses vegetation represent ...
... those that are coupled to free atmosphere. We studied temperature data from fifty hobo-enabled sites over an annual cycle (2014). The sites were spread across a large area of mixed evergreendeciduous woodland in Northern California. The area is topographically diverse and houses vegetation represent ...
global climate change and presidential leadership
... elites as well as the general public have made global climate change particularly difficult to resolve. Much of the confrontation has come in rhetorical exchanges among politicians, scientists, policy makers, and media spokespersons. Intense feelings on both sides of the issue have been heard. In th ...
... elites as well as the general public have made global climate change particularly difficult to resolve. Much of the confrontation has come in rhetorical exchanges among politicians, scientists, policy makers, and media spokespersons. Intense feelings on both sides of the issue have been heard. In th ...
Perceptions of Obvious and Disruptive Climate Change: Community
... climate change risks [41], is an emerging field that begins with assessment of risk. Mercer et al. [6] develop a four-step process “for integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge” for risk reduction—community engagement, identification of vulnerabilities, identifying indigenous and scientific s ...
... climate change risks [41], is an emerging field that begins with assessment of risk. Mercer et al. [6] develop a four-step process “for integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge” for risk reduction—community engagement, identification of vulnerabilities, identifying indigenous and scientific s ...
4b. GCOS-indicators_WDAC6 - World Climate Research Programme
... 1. Is a common baseline possible and if yes, which? 2. Land use/vegetation: Is there a more suitable indicator for deforestation? 3. Extremes: What indicators should cover heatwaves, droughts and heavy precipitation? Are the proposed ones the best available for the global approach • Heatwaves: Heat ...
... 1. Is a common baseline possible and if yes, which? 2. Land use/vegetation: Is there a more suitable indicator for deforestation? 3. Extremes: What indicators should cover heatwaves, droughts and heavy precipitation? Are the proposed ones the best available for the global approach • Heatwaves: Heat ...
'Sensitivity of climate change detection and attribution to the characterization of internal climate variability'
... terize the global mean internal variability u explicitly as a stationary stochastic process. In ...
... terize the global mean internal variability u explicitly as a stationary stochastic process. In ...
Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
... capacity, much of which may be attributed to a combination of spatial fixity and sunk costs. Accommodations, food and beverage outlets, and built attractions and facilities such as theme parks and marinas are all fixed entities with considerable capital investments that are not easily liquidated or ...
... capacity, much of which may be attributed to a combination of spatial fixity and sunk costs. Accommodations, food and beverage outlets, and built attractions and facilities such as theme parks and marinas are all fixed entities with considerable capital investments that are not easily liquidated or ...
- Wiley Online Library
... The socioeconomic value of better understanding the ECS is well documented. If the ECS were well below 1.5 K, climate change would be a less serious problem. The stakes are much higher for the upper bound. If the ECS were above 4.5 K, immediate and severe reductions of greenhouse gas emissions would ...
... The socioeconomic value of better understanding the ECS is well documented. If the ECS were well below 1.5 K, climate change would be a less serious problem. The stakes are much higher for the upper bound. If the ECS were above 4.5 K, immediate and severe reductions of greenhouse gas emissions would ...
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.