Why is geoengineering so tempting?
... the response to climate change can take the form of mitigation, proactive and reactive adaptation, and SRM. They conclude that unless damages associated with it are low, SRM is part of the optimal policy mix in only a minority of cases. Using a simple two period model of learning, Moreno-Cruz and Ke ...
... the response to climate change can take the form of mitigation, proactive and reactive adaptation, and SRM. They conclude that unless damages associated with it are low, SRM is part of the optimal policy mix in only a minority of cases. Using a simple two period model of learning, Moreno-Cruz and Ke ...
TowARD ReSiLienCe
... manage and reduce the risks associated with changes in the climate. Varying technical and scientific definitions exist to best serve the purposes of different actors involved in the climate change sphere. For the purposes of this guide the following simplified working definition of climate change ad ...
... manage and reduce the risks associated with changes in the climate. Varying technical and scientific definitions exist to best serve the purposes of different actors involved in the climate change sphere. For the purposes of this guide the following simplified working definition of climate change ad ...
South Asia - International Institute for Sustainable Development
... biased toward identification of large-scale projects funded by international development assistance organizations, and those projects about which information is available online. As such, small-scale projects that meet the review’s definition of adaptation action, particularly those occurring at the ...
... biased toward identification of large-scale projects funded by international development assistance organizations, and those projects about which information is available online. As such, small-scale projects that meet the review’s definition of adaptation action, particularly those occurring at the ...
Climate Change Adaptation in Clayoquot Sound
... whole in Clayoquot Sound the large areas of intact forest buffer historic forestry effects and will continue to buffer the effects of increased amount and severity of rainfall as climate changes progresses (assuming precautionary management continues). The state of the marine system today is more co ...
... whole in Clayoquot Sound the large areas of intact forest buffer historic forestry effects and will continue to buffer the effects of increased amount and severity of rainfall as climate changes progresses (assuming precautionary management continues). The state of the marine system today is more co ...
The Impacts of Climate Change on London
... The London Climate Change Partnership, a group of stakeholders originally convened by the Government Office for London in July 2001, commissioned this work to take a first look at the impacts that climate change will have on our capital city. The members of the partnership are: The Greater London Au ...
... The London Climate Change Partnership, a group of stakeholders originally convened by the Government Office for London in July 2001, commissioned this work to take a first look at the impacts that climate change will have on our capital city. The members of the partnership are: The Greater London Au ...
Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries
... assistance to provide analytical and technical inputs that address the critical challenges facing development in a changing climate. Based on these requests, the World Bank is producing this Flagship report in partnership with the League of Arab States (LAS) with the objective of providing informati ...
... assistance to provide analytical and technical inputs that address the critical challenges facing development in a changing climate. Based on these requests, the World Bank is producing this Flagship report in partnership with the League of Arab States (LAS) with the objective of providing informati ...
The rise and fall of the kyoto protocol: climate change as a political
... Title: The Rise and Fall of the Kyoto Protocol – Climate Change as a political process Abstract: This research focuses on climate change as a political process: it describes the Kyoto Protocol, its origins and ratification process in the international climate-diplomatic arena, as well as the climate ...
... Title: The Rise and Fall of the Kyoto Protocol – Climate Change as a political process Abstract: This research focuses on climate change as a political process: it describes the Kyoto Protocol, its origins and ratification process in the international climate-diplomatic arena, as well as the climate ...
Vulnerability Does Not Fall From the Sky
... people most at risk, climate change is a crisis today. The rights, interests, and needs of those affected must take center stage as an issue of global social justice. This volume brings together the final versions of papers that were presented first at an international workshop on the social dimensi ...
... people most at risk, climate change is a crisis today. The rights, interests, and needs of those affected must take center stage as an issue of global social justice. This volume brings together the final versions of papers that were presented first at an international workshop on the social dimensi ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector
... processes on climate change. The WMO collects and assesses information on the world’s weather, climate and water resources and related environmental issues, and aims to predict these for societal benefit, including to mitigate the impacts of natural disasters on climate-sensitive socio-economic sect ...
... processes on climate change. The WMO collects and assesses information on the world’s weather, climate and water resources and related environmental issues, and aims to predict these for societal benefit, including to mitigate the impacts of natural disasters on climate-sensitive socio-economic sect ...
Climate Change in the Northwest: Implications for Our Landscapes
... About This Series This report is published as one of a series of technical inputs to the Third National Climate Assessment (NCA) report. The NCA is being conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and Congress every four years on ...
... About This Series This report is published as one of a series of technical inputs to the Third National Climate Assessment (NCA) report. The NCA is being conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and Congress every four years on ...
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... first stage. Moreover, GE will be more likely to be used if the climate sensitivity is going to be higher. This illustrates the insurance effect of geoengineering. Their results, however, are purely numerically based on a simple integrated assessment model. Moreover, they do not investigate the impa ...
... first stage. Moreover, GE will be more likely to be used if the climate sensitivity is going to be higher. This illustrates the insurance effect of geoengineering. Their results, however, are purely numerically based on a simple integrated assessment model. Moreover, they do not investigate the impa ...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND TOURISM
... Traveling for tourism and recreation is not a new phenomenon. From ancient Greece to the European Grand Tour in the 20th century and the development of the first coastal resorts in Europe and America, people have been traveling for recreation, culture, religion or health. These first phases of the t ...
... Traveling for tourism and recreation is not a new phenomenon. From ancient Greece to the European Grand Tour in the 20th century and the development of the first coastal resorts in Europe and America, people have been traveling for recreation, culture, religion or health. These first phases of the t ...
FARM-LEVEL VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE EASTERN BAY OF PLENTY,
... This thesis examines farm-level vulnerability to climate change of agricultural producers from the Eastern Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. The study area has a diverse agricultural economy, founded upon pastoral farming (dairy and drystock) and kiwifruit. This dependence on agricultural production, and ...
... This thesis examines farm-level vulnerability to climate change of agricultural producers from the Eastern Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. The study area has a diverse agricultural economy, founded upon pastoral farming (dairy and drystock) and kiwifruit. This dependence on agricultural production, and ...
Vulnerability Index to climate change in the Latin
... vulnerability is a multi-dimensional issue which can be influenced by a wider range of underlying factors. It is possible to lower vulnerability by reducing the sensitivity of the affected population and by improving society’s capacity to adapt to the changing climate. This requires understanding of ...
... vulnerability is a multi-dimensional issue which can be influenced by a wider range of underlying factors. It is possible to lower vulnerability by reducing the sensitivity of the affected population and by improving society’s capacity to adapt to the changing climate. This requires understanding of ...
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... biodiversity from a changing climate; report on predictive models and decision support tools to guide the design and selection of adaptation strategies from local to regional scales; and establish a framework for future collaborative research on climate change and biodiversity. The symposium brought ...
... biodiversity from a changing climate; report on predictive models and decision support tools to guide the design and selection of adaptation strategies from local to regional scales; and establish a framework for future collaborative research on climate change and biodiversity. The symposium brought ...
Floating Houses and Mosquito Nets: Emerging Climate
... governmental affairs has made MCG a leader in the rapidly expanding sustainability field. By leveraging our international network of more than 100 consultants, we help our clients anticipate and adapt to the shifting global landscape. MCG specializes in alternative energy, environmental sustainabili ...
... governmental affairs has made MCG a leader in the rapidly expanding sustainability field. By leveraging our international network of more than 100 consultants, we help our clients anticipate and adapt to the shifting global landscape. MCG specializes in alternative energy, environmental sustainabili ...
“Fakery 2: Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances
... relationships and obscured money flows. Readers unused to studying financial reports should avoid those sections, especially §A, §H, §K.1, as their eyes will glaze quickly. It is very hard to make those simple. Skim Front Matter for background, mostly to see the Topics for later reference. Readers ...
... relationships and obscured money flows. Readers unused to studying financial reports should avoid those sections, especially §A, §H, §K.1, as their eyes will glaze quickly. It is very hard to make those simple. Skim Front Matter for background, mostly to see the Topics for later reference. Readers ...
The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on US Transportation
... eading scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change published their fourth assessment of the state of knowledge about climate change and its impacts in spring 2007. They reached consensus that human activity is responsible for many observed climate changes, particularly the warming t ...
... eading scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change published their fourth assessment of the state of knowledge about climate change and its impacts in spring 2007. They reached consensus that human activity is responsible for many observed climate changes, particularly the warming t ...
Climate Proofing: A Risk-based Approach to Adaptation
... decommissioning. Climate variability – Variations in climatic conditions (average, extreme events, etc.) on time and space scales beyond that of individual weather events, but not persisting for extended periods of, typically, decades or longer (i.e., shorter term). Variability may be due to natural ...
... decommissioning. Climate variability – Variations in climatic conditions (average, extreme events, etc.) on time and space scales beyond that of individual weather events, but not persisting for extended periods of, typically, decades or longer (i.e., shorter term). Variability may be due to natural ...
Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the
... Climate change is increasingly becoming an important driver of biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services. The Paris Agreement, which strengthened international support for limiting global warming, will enter into force on November 2016 and is a positive step, especially from the point ...
... Climate change is increasingly becoming an important driver of biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services. The Paris Agreement, which strengthened international support for limiting global warming, will enter into force on November 2016 and is a positive step, especially from the point ...
Climate Change Effects and Adaptation Approaches in Freshwater
... these species, habitats, and ecosystems are already experiencing the effects of a changing climate. Carbon Dioxide Concentrations, Temperature, and Precipitation Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) contributes to the earth‘s greenhouse effect, leading to increased air temperature, altered pre ...
... these species, habitats, and ecosystems are already experiencing the effects of a changing climate. Carbon Dioxide Concentrations, Temperature, and Precipitation Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) contributes to the earth‘s greenhouse effect, leading to increased air temperature, altered pre ...
Impact Assessment Part 2 - European Commission
... High-temperature extremes (hot days, tropical nights, and heat waves) have become more frequent, while low temperature extremes (cold spells, frost days) have become less frequent in Europe (EEA, 2011) based on Climate Research Unit (CRU) gridded datasets HadCrut3 (land and ocean) and CruTemp3 (land ...
... High-temperature extremes (hot days, tropical nights, and heat waves) have become more frequent, while low temperature extremes (cold spells, frost days) have become less frequent in Europe (EEA, 2011) based on Climate Research Unit (CRU) gridded datasets HadCrut3 (land and ocean) and CruTemp3 (land ...
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
... Program is to reduce Canada’s vulnerability to climate change. The research program supports cost shared research to address gaps in our knowledge of Canada’s vulnerability to climate change and to provide information for adaptation decision-making. The program also supports the Canadian Climate Imp ...
... Program is to reduce Canada’s vulnerability to climate change. The research program supports cost shared research to address gaps in our knowledge of Canada’s vulnerability to climate change and to provide information for adaptation decision-making. The program also supports the Canadian Climate Imp ...
Bill McKibben on NY Attorney General`s Exxon Investigation
... letter amongst colleagues that they plan on sending to other fossil fuel companies to request information on how they too may have misled and deceived the public. “The matter of an urgent response to climate change is so important and the allegations made against ExxonMobil are so startling, that a ...
... letter amongst colleagues that they plan on sending to other fossil fuel companies to request information on how they too may have misled and deceived the public. “The matter of an urgent response to climate change is so important and the allegations made against ExxonMobil are so startling, that a ...
Climate Change in the Midwest - Climate Adaptation Knowledge
... About This Series This report is published as one of a series of technical inputs to the Third National Climate Assessment (NCA) report. The NCA is being conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and Congress every four years on ...
... About This Series This report is published as one of a series of technical inputs to the Third National Climate Assessment (NCA) report. The NCA is being conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and Congress every four years on ...
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.