The Science of Climate Change - Bren School of Environmental
... To: Chris Folland [UK Met Office]; Phil Jones [CRU]; Michael E. Mann [University of Virginia] Cc: Tom Karl [National Climatic Data Center – NOAA] September 22, 1999 ...
... To: Chris Folland [UK Met Office]; Phil Jones [CRU]; Michael E. Mann [University of Virginia] Cc: Tom Karl [National Climatic Data Center – NOAA] September 22, 1999 ...
Geographies of Race and Food
... sustains the global populace is still grown or sourced without need of fossil fuels or fossil fuelbased supplements (ETC Group 2009). It depends, as food provisioning has for nearly of the time we have been human, on ‘renewable’ resources – sunlight, soil, water, biological life. The cruel irony is ...
... sustains the global populace is still grown or sourced without need of fossil fuels or fossil fuelbased supplements (ETC Group 2009). It depends, as food provisioning has for nearly of the time we have been human, on ‘renewable’ resources – sunlight, soil, water, biological life. The cruel irony is ...
declined to renounce
... byproduct of energy generation. The President made clear his opposition to the unreasonable demands the Kyoto Protocol places on the United States. “We will not do anything that harms our economy,” he said then. However, over three years later, the Clinton-era signature remains on this potentially v ...
... byproduct of energy generation. The President made clear his opposition to the unreasonable demands the Kyoto Protocol places on the United States. “We will not do anything that harms our economy,” he said then. However, over three years later, the Clinton-era signature remains on this potentially v ...
ANNEX 1 A JPI CLIMATE First joint call 2013, call topic 1: Societal
... Research in this thematic area addresses issues of justice, equity, democracy, participation, legitimacy, welfare, quality of life as well as intergenerational climate policies and response measures. Special emphasis should be given to the questions of which groups in society are particularly vulner ...
... Research in this thematic area addresses issues of justice, equity, democracy, participation, legitimacy, welfare, quality of life as well as intergenerational climate policies and response measures. Special emphasis should be given to the questions of which groups in society are particularly vulner ...
Session 3: who is affected?
... the ball to a learner with their hand up and ask them to give their impact. Now ask learners to put their hand up if they can think of something that may follow as a result of this impact. Keep repeating this with learners passing the ball to others with their hands up. Carry on until they cannot th ...
... the ball to a learner with their hand up and ask them to give their impact. Now ask learners to put their hand up if they can think of something that may follow as a result of this impact. Keep repeating this with learners passing the ball to others with their hands up. Carry on until they cannot th ...
climate change, conflict and cooperation in southern africa
... gained great momentum over the past years. The adoption of the Presidential Statement by the Security Council during its debate on climate change and security at the 20th of July 2011 is the most recent and a powerful example in this regard. Today, there is little doubt that climate change poses one ...
... gained great momentum over the past years. The adoption of the Presidential Statement by the Security Council during its debate on climate change and security at the 20th of July 2011 is the most recent and a powerful example in this regard. Today, there is little doubt that climate change poses one ...
Executive Summary (PDF)
... vulnerabilities are similar to those of the broader Pacific Northwest region, results for Washington State are expected to generally align with those provided for the Pacific Northwest, with potential for some variation at any specific location. Research since 2007 is emphasized in order to capture ...
... vulnerabilities are similar to those of the broader Pacific Northwest region, results for Washington State are expected to generally align with those provided for the Pacific Northwest, with potential for some variation at any specific location. Research since 2007 is emphasized in order to capture ...
Reconsidering the Climate Change Act
... personal hope is that we will return to normative science, and try to understand how the climate actually behaves. Our present approach of dealing with climate as completely specified by a single number, globally averaged surface temperature anomaly, that is forced by another single number, atmosphe ...
... personal hope is that we will return to normative science, and try to understand how the climate actually behaves. Our present approach of dealing with climate as completely specified by a single number, globally averaged surface temperature anomaly, that is forced by another single number, atmosphe ...
Seminar Bibliography/Literature List
... Liverman, D., 2001. Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change. In: J.X. Kasperson and R.E. Kasperson (Editors), Global Environmental Risk. United Nations University Press, Tokyo, pp. 201-216. Downing, T.E., 1991. Vulnerability to Hunger in Africa: A Climate Change Perspective. Global Environmenta ...
... Liverman, D., 2001. Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change. In: J.X. Kasperson and R.E. Kasperson (Editors), Global Environmental Risk. United Nations University Press, Tokyo, pp. 201-216. Downing, T.E., 1991. Vulnerability to Hunger in Africa: A Climate Change Perspective. Global Environmenta ...
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... School of Economics and School of Political Science and International Studies University of Queensland ...
... School of Economics and School of Political Science and International Studies University of Queensland ...
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A Burning Question [Transcript]
... Prof. John Sweeney: And perhaps the best way of explaining it is to actually look at some of these processes in terms of what the earth's atmosphere is composed of. Well, you can see here that ...
... Prof. John Sweeney: And perhaps the best way of explaining it is to actually look at some of these processes in terms of what the earth's atmosphere is composed of. Well, you can see here that ...
Predicting Climate Change Impacts: Regional
... Montréal, seeks to improve our climate modelling capabilities and our understanding of climate change through the use of Regional Climate Modelling (RCM). He is widely regarded as the father of RCM in Canada, and he served as a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th ...
... Montréal, seeks to improve our climate modelling capabilities and our understanding of climate change through the use of Regional Climate Modelling (RCM). He is widely regarded as the father of RCM in Canada, and he served as a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th ...
Assessing the Risk of Climate Change on the Water Resources of
... samples from 2030 and 2070. Monte Carlo sampling has then allowed PDFs for these outputs for 2030 and 2070 to be established. Uncertainty analysis on the range of outcomes in terms of flow changes are 25% for global warming, 64% in terms of δP per °C global warming and 12% of δEp per °C global warmi ...
... samples from 2030 and 2070. Monte Carlo sampling has then allowed PDFs for these outputs for 2030 and 2070 to be established. Uncertainty analysis on the range of outcomes in terms of flow changes are 25% for global warming, 64% in terms of δP per °C global warming and 12% of δEp per °C global warmi ...
The Semantics of Climate Change and Global Warming
... consensus about issues relating to climate science is unlikely to happen when there isn’t a clear public consensus about which name is more appropriate, “climate change,” or “global warming,” and what those terms mean. Previous research has shown that perceptions of these terms varies, depending on ...
... consensus about issues relating to climate science is unlikely to happen when there isn’t a clear public consensus about which name is more appropriate, “climate change,” or “global warming,” and what those terms mean. Previous research has shown that perceptions of these terms varies, depending on ...
IPCC Factsheet: Timeline – highlights of IPCC history
... greater knowledge of man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. 2009 - The IPCC approves the outlines of the three Working Group contributions to the Fifth Assessment ...
... greater knowledge of man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. 2009 - The IPCC approves the outlines of the three Working Group contributions to the Fifth Assessment ...
An Example - Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
... Key priorities for improving our understanding of climate and weather extremes in a changing climate: 1. The continued development and maintenance of high quality climate observing systems will improve our ability to monitor and detect future changes in climate extremes. 2. Efforts to digitize, hom ...
... Key priorities for improving our understanding of climate and weather extremes in a changing climate: 1. The continued development and maintenance of high quality climate observing systems will improve our ability to monitor and detect future changes in climate extremes. 2. Efforts to digitize, hom ...
Ocean surface warming: The North Atlantic remains within the
... analysis in the North Atlantic to show that present warm conditions are currently no more persistent than those encountered in the last 150 years. We show that the position of various isotherms, which play a central role in influencing the distribution of marine taxa ranging from plankton to fish and ...
... analysis in the North Atlantic to show that present warm conditions are currently no more persistent than those encountered in the last 150 years. We show that the position of various isotherms, which play a central role in influencing the distribution of marine taxa ranging from plankton to fish and ...
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... or models. Elsewhere they extend the analysis in various directions: construction and use of climate variables tied more closely to agronomic findings; development of more accurate measures of both climate and soil conditions; adjustment for spatial correlation of the error terms in a hedonic regre ...
... or models. Elsewhere they extend the analysis in various directions: construction and use of climate variables tied more closely to agronomic findings; development of more accurate measures of both climate and soil conditions; adjustment for spatial correlation of the error terms in a hedonic regre ...
Fuelling America`s Climatic Apocalypse
... few decades even scientists, the epitome of rationality, have become alarmed by the potential impact significant increases in fossil fuel production since the Industrial Revolution has had on the climate due to corresponding rises in atmospheric CO2 concentrations that trap the heat of the sun’s rays ...
... few decades even scientists, the epitome of rationality, have become alarmed by the potential impact significant increases in fossil fuel production since the Industrial Revolution has had on the climate due to corresponding rises in atmospheric CO2 concentrations that trap the heat of the sun’s rays ...
Richenda Connell Presentation - Is Climate Change a Risk
... “The firms that will prosper in a climate-changed world will tend to be those that are: early to recognise its importance and its inexorability; foresee at least some of the implications for their industry; and take appropriate steps well in advance. The pace of a firm’s adaptation to climate change ...
... “The firms that will prosper in a climate-changed world will tend to be those that are: early to recognise its importance and its inexorability; foresee at least some of the implications for their industry; and take appropriate steps well in advance. The pace of a firm’s adaptation to climate change ...
Survival Guide: Abrupt Climate Change
... will or won’t occur within the next century. Because the possible consequences are severe both for societies and ecosystems, it is important to develop a better understanding of the probabilities associated with abrupt climate change. As we speak, climate modelers and paleoclimatologists are improvi ...
... will or won’t occur within the next century. Because the possible consequences are severe both for societies and ecosystems, it is important to develop a better understanding of the probabilities associated with abrupt climate change. As we speak, climate modelers and paleoclimatologists are improvi ...
palcomms201727-s1
... pre-industrial. We thus interpret T2 such that the risk of dangerous climate change decreases linearly from 90% to zero as mitigation increases from 2 °C to 3 °C. In T3 we consider the case where loss probability decreases linearly with the sum collected for any sum up to €120. Again we interpret th ...
... pre-industrial. We thus interpret T2 such that the risk of dangerous climate change decreases linearly from 90% to zero as mitigation increases from 2 °C to 3 °C. In T3 we consider the case where loss probability decreases linearly with the sum collected for any sum up to €120. Again we interpret th ...
NRDC: Killer Summer Heat - Projected Death Toll from Rising
... Plus the additional EHE days climate change will cause annually by the end of the century... ...
... Plus the additional EHE days climate change will cause annually by the end of the century... ...