Climate change implications for the glaciers of the Hindu Kush
... balance data available and the variation in glaciological conditions. Other non-climatic drivers such as deposition of dust and soot may also play a role, with some evidence that this may already be having an effect on some Tibetan glaciers (Xu et al., 2009). There are relatively few studies that ai ...
... balance data available and the variation in glaciological conditions. Other non-climatic drivers such as deposition of dust and soot may also play a role, with some evidence that this may already be having an effect on some Tibetan glaciers (Xu et al., 2009). There are relatively few studies that ai ...
Defining loss and damage: The science and politics around one of
... When it comes to extreme events, the IPCC is even more cautious. It finds it likely that the frequency of heat waves has increased in large parts of Europe, Asia and Australia, and very likely that human influence has contributed to changes in the frequency and intensity of daily temperature extreme ...
... When it comes to extreme events, the IPCC is even more cautious. It finds it likely that the frequency of heat waves has increased in large parts of Europe, Asia and Australia, and very likely that human influence has contributed to changes in the frequency and intensity of daily temperature extreme ...
Regional climate model data used within the SWURVE project
... SWURVE, estimates of uncertainty in climate model data need to be developed. This paper compares two methods for estimating uncertainty in annual surface temperature and precipitation for the period 20702099. Both combine probability distribution functions for global temperature increase and for sc ...
... SWURVE, estimates of uncertainty in climate model data need to be developed. This paper compares two methods for estimating uncertainty in annual surface temperature and precipitation for the period 20702099. Both combine probability distribution functions for global temperature increase and for sc ...
Vulnerability to climate change and adaptation strategies of local
... have they been affected by it? To what extent do local climate change adaptation projects increase the women’s adaptive capacity? Evidence is drawn from a case study of the Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme (LCBCCAP) and its women fish-processing groups (WFPGs). Most important, t ...
... have they been affected by it? To what extent do local climate change adaptation projects increase the women’s adaptive capacity? Evidence is drawn from a case study of the Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme (LCBCCAP) and its women fish-processing groups (WFPGs). Most important, t ...
Pattern scaled climate change scenarios: are these useful for adaptation? - Working Paper 71 (699 kB) (opens in new window)
... 5. Management of forests and ecosystems More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham. ...
... 5. Management of forests and ecosystems More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham. ...
The Changes - Climate Change and Me
... examples of human effect on the environment. Mainstream scientists believe that ‘global warming’ is a recent event and that millions of years before humans walked this Earth, the atmosphere stayed pretty much the same. What does a more rapid change in atmosphere mean for us humans? It should be note ...
... examples of human effect on the environment. Mainstream scientists believe that ‘global warming’ is a recent event and that millions of years before humans walked this Earth, the atmosphere stayed pretty much the same. What does a more rapid change in atmosphere mean for us humans? It should be note ...
Climate Change Awareness - Minnesota Department of Health
... Available online at: http://www.apa.org/science/resources/grand-challenges.aspx Berry HL, Kelly BJ, Hanigan IC, Coates JH, McMichael AJ, Welsh JA, Kjellstrom T. 2008. Garnaut climate change review: rural mental health impacts of climate change. National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ...
... Available online at: http://www.apa.org/science/resources/grand-challenges.aspx Berry HL, Kelly BJ, Hanigan IC, Coates JH, McMichael AJ, Welsh JA, Kjellstrom T. 2008. Garnaut climate change review: rural mental health impacts of climate change. National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ...
Climate Change: Overview and Implications for Wildlife
... transient (that is, time-evolving) dynamics of the ecological system. Furthermore, because the forecasted global average rate of temperature increase over the next century or two exceeds those typical of the sustained average rates experienced during the last 120,000 years, it is unlikely that paleo ...
... transient (that is, time-evolving) dynamics of the ecological system. Furthermore, because the forecasted global average rate of temperature increase over the next century or two exceeds those typical of the sustained average rates experienced during the last 120,000 years, it is unlikely that paleo ...
Final Programme
... that affects them and – as such- needs to be taken seriously, the more rapidly the required mitigation and adaptation measures may be implemented. In this context, communication on climate change can play a key role. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has, in connection with its 5t ...
... that affects them and – as such- needs to be taken seriously, the more rapidly the required mitigation and adaptation measures may be implemented. In this context, communication on climate change can play a key role. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has, in connection with its 5t ...
A recurring anarchy? The emergence of climate change as a threat
... constituted ‘state security’ expanded beyond the risk of direct military aggression from hostile states to more nuanced concerns about the regional instability that could affect economic security and draw Western governments into regional conflicts. Research of this type included studies that worrie ...
... constituted ‘state security’ expanded beyond the risk of direct military aggression from hostile states to more nuanced concerns about the regional instability that could affect economic security and draw Western governments into regional conflicts. Research of this type included studies that worrie ...
Jack, Jill, and Jane in a Perfect Moral Storm
... increasingly to impose, a serious risk on many people in the area that their houses will catch on fire. George and his buddies are aware of this risk, keep saying that they will cut back, buy safer fireworks, contribute funds to the fire department in the poorer neighborhoods, and so on. But they do ...
... increasingly to impose, a serious risk on many people in the area that their houses will catch on fire. George and his buddies are aware of this risk, keep saying that they will cut back, buy safer fireworks, contribute funds to the fire department in the poorer neighborhoods, and so on. But they do ...
Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions
... the repeated glacial advances and retreats that occurred over the course of the past million years. It is more difficult to estimate the natural variability of global mean temperature because of the sparse spatial coverage of existing data and difficulties in inferring temperatures from various prox ...
... the repeated glacial advances and retreats that occurred over the course of the past million years. It is more difficult to estimate the natural variability of global mean temperature because of the sparse spatial coverage of existing data and difficulties in inferring temperatures from various prox ...
Global Climate Risk Index 2015
... long heatwave with temperatures continuously above 38°C, causing damage in all realms of society. 13 The situation was significantly worsened by extensive flooding that plagued the country in August. 14 Pakistan is again affected after having been among the three highest ranked countries in the inde ...
... long heatwave with temperatures continuously above 38°C, causing damage in all realms of society. 13 The situation was significantly worsened by extensive flooding that plagued the country in August. 14 Pakistan is again affected after having been among the three highest ranked countries in the inde ...
Chapter 4 Climate change and its implications for catastrophe
... level of expected insured loss, as a ratio to the total insured value. This component will also describe how this damage will vary for different types of property or other asset. • Exposure – this component will describe the geographical and physical property characteristics, for example its locati ...
... level of expected insured loss, as a ratio to the total insured value. This component will also describe how this damage will vary for different types of property or other asset. • Exposure – this component will describe the geographical and physical property characteristics, for example its locati ...
13_02 Unstable Climates
... on shorter periods would not capture the full climatic cycle; normals based on longer periods were not necessary since climate was believed to repeat itself. Brückner’s cycles did not long survive the twentieth century; neither the statistical evidence for them nor any understanding of their cause ...
... on shorter periods would not capture the full climatic cycle; normals based on longer periods were not necessary since climate was believed to repeat itself. Brückner’s cycles did not long survive the twentieth century; neither the statistical evidence for them nor any understanding of their cause ...
Climate Change Science - Stephen Schneider
... the repeated glacial advances and retreats that occurred over the course of the past million years. It is more difficult to estimate the natural variability of global mean temperature because of the sparse spatial coverage of existing data and difficulties in inferring temperatures from various prox ...
... the repeated glacial advances and retreats that occurred over the course of the past million years. It is more difficult to estimate the natural variability of global mean temperature because of the sparse spatial coverage of existing data and difficulties in inferring temperatures from various prox ...
Comparative Climate Change Governance: Lessons from European
... This paper specifically focuses on an aspect that has been lacking in the discussion of these networks: multi-level network management guiding the collaborative climate change process. We argue that while TMNs are the institutional foundation for a concerted effort in climate change within and betwee ...
... This paper specifically focuses on an aspect that has been lacking in the discussion of these networks: multi-level network management guiding the collaborative climate change process. We argue that while TMNs are the institutional foundation for a concerted effort in climate change within and betwee ...
Communicating the Impacts of Potential Future Climate Change on
... Understanding the interaction of the climate with the built environment is paramount to ensuring resilient communities and mitigating exposure to risk. In their Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) discussed the science behind the warming of the clima ...
... Understanding the interaction of the climate with the built environment is paramount to ensuring resilient communities and mitigating exposure to risk. In their Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) discussed the science behind the warming of the clima ...
Multi-hazard Risks and Vulnerable Populations in the Caribbean
... and robust assessments are needed at regional and subnational scales (Lerner-Lam 2007). This study takes a step towards meeting this challenge by examining climate-related multi-hazard risks and human vulnerability within the coupled human-environment systems of the Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico Region. ...
... and robust assessments are needed at regional and subnational scales (Lerner-Lam 2007). This study takes a step towards meeting this challenge by examining climate-related multi-hazard risks and human vulnerability within the coupled human-environment systems of the Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico Region. ...
off the charts: 2013 was australia`s hottest year
... and November experienced its second highest average SST on record. For the year through to November (December SST data are not yet available), 2013 is on track to be the third highest for SSTs since 1910, about 0.51°C above the longterm average. Over the past century, SSTs for the seas surrounding A ...
... and November experienced its second highest average SST on record. For the year through to November (December SST data are not yet available), 2013 is on track to be the third highest for SSTs since 1910, about 0.51°C above the longterm average. Over the past century, SSTs for the seas surrounding A ...
NCEP’s Climate Forecast System as a National Model Dr. Louis W. Uccellini
... 1. Cristiana Stan - Estimation of the limit of predictability in stratosphere vs troposphere using CFS 2. Ben Kirtman - Multi-model ensemble ENSO prediction with CCSM and CFS 3. Kathy Pegion - Potential predictability of tropical intraseasonal variability in the NCEP CFS 4. Bohua Huang - Evolution o ...
... 1. Cristiana Stan - Estimation of the limit of predictability in stratosphere vs troposphere using CFS 2. Ben Kirtman - Multi-model ensemble ENSO prediction with CCSM and CFS 3. Kathy Pegion - Potential predictability of tropical intraseasonal variability in the NCEP CFS 4. Bohua Huang - Evolution o ...
litreview12forword_wm_review_9feb2012
... The climate has many internal modes of variability, arising from natural cycles such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation, which has a period of 2-7 years. The global weather experienced in any particular year therefore depends not only on the long-term trend in the climate, such as greenhouse gas-in ...
... The climate has many internal modes of variability, arising from natural cycles such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation, which has a period of 2-7 years. The global weather experienced in any particular year therefore depends not only on the long-term trend in the climate, such as greenhouse gas-in ...
Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap
... and we will need to ensure our critical equipment works under more extreme weather conditions. Weather has always affected military operations, and as the climate changes, the way we execute operations may be altered or constrained. While scientists are converging toward consensus on future climate ...
... and we will need to ensure our critical equipment works under more extreme weather conditions. Weather has always affected military operations, and as the climate changes, the way we execute operations may be altered or constrained. While scientists are converging toward consensus on future climate ...
Lost in the problem: the role of boundary organisations in the
... work: they indicate that scientists and policymakers in their coordination efforts have ignored relevant demarcation issues. The evidence of dual participation, dual accountability and use of boundary objects can also be used to assess conditions under which creating credible, legitimate and salient ...
... work: they indicate that scientists and policymakers in their coordination efforts have ignored relevant demarcation issues. The evidence of dual participation, dual accountability and use of boundary objects can also be used to assess conditions under which creating credible, legitimate and salient ...
Survey Experiment - RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community
... While advocacy groups may employ a single dominant frame, they may also be strategically ambiguous in their framing in an effort to say the same thing with different meanings for different groups.7 Advocates may also employ multiple messages to appeal to different groups. For example, climate change ...
... While advocacy groups may employ a single dominant frame, they may also be strategically ambiguous in their framing in an effort to say the same thing with different meanings for different groups.7 Advocates may also employ multiple messages to appeal to different groups. For example, climate change ...
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.