Proposed NSF Center on Climate Decision Making Carnegie Mellon
... to create a set of decision support tools that are appropriate given the limitations on the predictive information that we are likely to be able to acquire. As results become available from the work in Part 3 of the Center's research, these tools will be modified to incorporate additional informatio ...
... to create a set of decision support tools that are appropriate given the limitations on the predictive information that we are likely to be able to acquire. As results become available from the work in Part 3 of the Center's research, these tools will be modified to incorporate additional informatio ...
Exhaustible resource consumption and lessons for
... the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) region account for a major portion of cumulative GHG emissions. However, their share is projected to decrease over time because some of the low- and middle-income countries (such as Brazil, India, and China) are rapidly growing and ex ...
... the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) region account for a major portion of cumulative GHG emissions. However, their share is projected to decrease over time because some of the low- and middle-income countries (such as Brazil, India, and China) are rapidly growing and ex ...
National Climate Change Strategy
... demonstrated and more than 70% of all natural disasters in Tanzania are hydrometeorological, and are linked to droughts and floods. The environmental and ecological impacts of these on agriculture, livestock, wildlife, infrastructure, industry, human settlement and social services such as, energy an ...
... demonstrated and more than 70% of all natural disasters in Tanzania are hydrometeorological, and are linked to droughts and floods. The environmental and ecological impacts of these on agriculture, livestock, wildlife, infrastructure, industry, human settlement and social services such as, energy an ...
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
... Human interference with the climate system is occurring,1 and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems (Figure SPM.1). The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns ...
... Human interference with the climate system is occurring,1 and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems (Figure SPM.1). The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns ...
Bill McKibben on NY Attorney General`s Exxon Investigation
... commitments, or just apply to a particular fossil fuel, such as coal or tar sands. At many institutions on the list, activists are still pushing for more action. The top line number refers to the number of assets under management by the institutions that have made a commitment, not the amount of mon ...
... commitments, or just apply to a particular fossil fuel, such as coal or tar sands. At many institutions on the list, activists are still pushing for more action. The top line number refers to the number of assets under management by the institutions that have made a commitment, not the amount of mon ...
IPCC 5-2014 WG-2 Summary.pdf
... Human interference with the climate system is occurring,1 and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems (Figure SPM.1). The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns ...
... Human interference with the climate system is occurring,1 and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems (Figure SPM.1). The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns ...
Why Climate Demands Change Michael A. Taylor
... modelling, sustainable water management, and incorporating climate change into agricultural planning. Of special interest is his work on the link between climate change and dengue, through the vector mosquito. Although dengue seemed to be under control in the 1980s, increased incidence since then m ...
... modelling, sustainable water management, and incorporating climate change into agricultural planning. Of special interest is his work on the link between climate change and dengue, through the vector mosquito. Although dengue seemed to be under control in the 1980s, increased incidence since then m ...
www.permafrostcarbon.org - Arctic Research Consortium of the
... projects both the response of permafrost carbon and the offsetting response of plant carbon uptake across a range of land surface models under scenarios of global change. These highest-level synthesis papers are followed by an example of using expert assessment, made possible by the development of t ...
... projects both the response of permafrost carbon and the offsetting response of plant carbon uptake across a range of land surface models under scenarios of global change. These highest-level synthesis papers are followed by an example of using expert assessment, made possible by the development of t ...
I Agree - CLEo - Whitman College
... fuel combustion, a host of other human activities propagates climate change—our penchant for mass livestock raising leads to high methane emissions from digestion; clear-cutting removes the carbon sequestration ability of forests; creation of concrete puts out 5% of the world’s CO2 emissions. The ac ...
... fuel combustion, a host of other human activities propagates climate change—our penchant for mass livestock raising leads to high methane emissions from digestion; clear-cutting removes the carbon sequestration ability of forests; creation of concrete puts out 5% of the world’s CO2 emissions. The ac ...
The ocean carbon sink – impacts, vulnerabilities and challenges
... Revised: 30 April 2015 – Accepted: 14 May 2015 – Published: 9 June 2015 ...
... Revised: 30 April 2015 – Accepted: 14 May 2015 – Published: 9 June 2015 ...
Changes in ecosystem services and their drivers across the scenarios
... areas. TechnoGarden and Adapting Mosaic, in contrast, are the most landconserving scenarios because of increasingly efficient agricultural production, lower meat consumption, and lower population increases. Existing wetlands and the services they provide (such as water purification) are faced with i ...
... areas. TechnoGarden and Adapting Mosaic, in contrast, are the most landconserving scenarios because of increasingly efficient agricultural production, lower meat consumption, and lower population increases. Existing wetlands and the services they provide (such as water purification) are faced with i ...
Climate change response strategies for agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the 21st century
... especially in areas at low to mid-latitudes already at risk today, but they also may lead to positive impacts such as an extension of the growing season in currently cold-limited high-latitude regions. Overall, current studies project that climate change will increase the gap between developed and d ...
... especially in areas at low to mid-latitudes already at risk today, but they also may lead to positive impacts such as an extension of the growing season in currently cold-limited high-latitude regions. Overall, current studies project that climate change will increase the gap between developed and d ...
Chapter 13 - Clean Air Act
... Air Act may be the most relevant regulatory scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from various sources, the appropriateness of using the Clean Air Act to address climate change remains an issue of vigorous debate and contention. It is hard to understand the current relationship of the Clean Air ...
... Air Act may be the most relevant regulatory scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from various sources, the appropriateness of using the Clean Air Act to address climate change remains an issue of vigorous debate and contention. It is hard to understand the current relationship of the Clean Air ...
Biomes - SPS186.org
... • WorldBiomes.com (http://www.worldbiomes.com/) is a site covering the 5 principal world biome types: aquatic, desert, forest, grasslands, and tundra. • UWSP's online textbook The Physical Environment: - Earth Biomes (http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/ geog101/textbook/biomes/outline.html) • Pa ...
... • WorldBiomes.com (http://www.worldbiomes.com/) is a site covering the 5 principal world biome types: aquatic, desert, forest, grasslands, and tundra. • UWSP's online textbook The Physical Environment: - Earth Biomes (http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/ geog101/textbook/biomes/outline.html) • Pa ...
Course on review of higher tiers non
... Consider whether existing metrics are appropriate to account for geo-engineering proposals, particularly in the context of climate protection at the regional scale. ...
... Consider whether existing metrics are appropriate to account for geo-engineering proposals, particularly in the context of climate protection at the regional scale. ...
Draft Discussion Paper Ilaria Carrozza ESCAP/FfD/04/2015
... economies has led to an increasing need and demand for energy, especially from currently cheap and readily available fossil fuels. Estimates suggest that the Asia-Pacific, with a 6% annual growth rate, has the potential to produce 44% of global GDP by 2035.11 In this “Asian Century” scenario, the r ...
... economies has led to an increasing need and demand for energy, especially from currently cheap and readily available fossil fuels. Estimates suggest that the Asia-Pacific, with a 6% annual growth rate, has the potential to produce 44% of global GDP by 2035.11 In this “Asian Century” scenario, the r ...
North America
... Athabasca River have declined 20% since 1958 (Schindler and Donahue, 2006). Streamflow peaks in the snowmelt-dominated western mountains of the U.S. occurred 1 to 4 weeks earlier in 2002 than in 1948 (Stewart et al., 2005). Break up of river and lake ice across North America has advanced by 0.2 to 1 ...
... Athabasca River have declined 20% since 1958 (Schindler and Donahue, 2006). Streamflow peaks in the snowmelt-dominated western mountains of the U.S. occurred 1 to 4 weeks earlier in 2002 than in 1948 (Stewart et al., 2005). Break up of river and lake ice across North America has advanced by 0.2 to 1 ...
An Inconvenient Trial - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... no court has authority to enforce remedies, then there is little motivation to expend resources to support this effort. If climate-change proponents are able to prove their case, but the court does not have the authority to enforce remedies, then you might ask why even bother with this proposal. The ...
... no court has authority to enforce remedies, then there is little motivation to expend resources to support this effort. If climate-change proponents are able to prove their case, but the court does not have the authority to enforce remedies, then you might ask why even bother with this proposal. The ...
The Third Oregon Climate Assessment Report
... change and adapt to climate change. That is, we must try to reduce or even eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, and we must make preparations and adjustments that will be needed to meet new environmental conditions, doing so at all levels of government and society, from the highest international agre ...
... change and adapt to climate change. That is, we must try to reduce or even eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, and we must make preparations and adjustments that will be needed to meet new environmental conditions, doing so at all levels of government and society, from the highest international agre ...
For submission to Global Change Biology
... water content by applying a detailed soil-plant-atmosphere model. Through this model we show that CO2 enrichment with decreased or increased D and photosynthetic acclimation, results in decreased canopy water use because of reduced gs. The decline in water use coupled with increased photosynthesis, ...
... water content by applying a detailed soil-plant-atmosphere model. Through this model we show that CO2 enrichment with decreased or increased D and photosynthetic acclimation, results in decreased canopy water use because of reduced gs. The decline in water use coupled with increased photosynthesis, ...
The Third Oregon Climate Assessment Report
... change and adapt to climate change. That is, we must try to reduce or even eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, and we must make preparations and adjustments that will be needed to meet new environmental conditions, doing so at all levels of government and society, from the highest international agre ...
... change and adapt to climate change. That is, we must try to reduce or even eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, and we must make preparations and adjustments that will be needed to meet new environmental conditions, doing so at all levels of government and society, from the highest international agre ...
arctic climate feedbacks: global implications
... by policymakers. Recent observations strongly suggest that climate change may soon push some systems past tipping points, with global implications. For example, the additional heat absorbed by an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer is already accelerating local and regional warming and prev ...
... by policymakers. Recent observations strongly suggest that climate change may soon push some systems past tipping points, with global implications. For example, the additional heat absorbed by an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer is already accelerating local and regional warming and prev ...
arctic climate feedbacks: global implications
... by policymakers. Recent observations strongly suggest that climate change may soon push some systems past tipping points, with global implications. For example, the additional heat absorbed by an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer is already accelerating local and regional warming and prev ...
... by policymakers. Recent observations strongly suggest that climate change may soon push some systems past tipping points, with global implications. For example, the additional heat absorbed by an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer is already accelerating local and regional warming and prev ...
Climate Change and Variability in California - NCEAS
... The writing of this White Paper has provided a wonderful opportunity to develop a snapshot of California and to consider the potential impacts of climate change and variability for the state. When we set forth on this project, I assumed that there was a basic state document that summarized the state ...
... The writing of this White Paper has provided a wonderful opportunity to develop a snapshot of California and to consider the potential impacts of climate change and variability for the state. When we set forth on this project, I assumed that there was a basic state document that summarized the state ...