UNHEALTHY EXAGGERATION Indur M Goklany The WHO report on climate change
... overestimated five-fold. Applying a similar methodology for extreme weather events would lead to a twenty-fold overestimate if one used the 1940s mortality rate as the baseline. Unfortunately few, if any, assessments of the impacts of global warming fully consider adaptation and improvements in adap ...
... overestimated five-fold. Applying a similar methodology for extreme weather events would lead to a twenty-fold overestimate if one used the 1940s mortality rate as the baseline. Unfortunately few, if any, assessments of the impacts of global warming fully consider adaptation and improvements in adap ...
Comment fonctionne le GIEC et que dit
... scenarios (SRES= Special Report on Emission Scenarios, 2000) • Special effort to provide regional information when available • Sustainable development & equity aspects • More comprehensive treatment of economic aspects, and of cross-cutting issues • Emerging issues handled (geo-engineering, …) • ...
... scenarios (SRES= Special Report on Emission Scenarios, 2000) • Special effort to provide regional information when available • Sustainable development & equity aspects • More comprehensive treatment of economic aspects, and of cross-cutting issues • Emerging issues handled (geo-engineering, …) • ...
Slide 1 - climateknowledge.org
... – Physical understanding of the climate system and the heat-trapping properties of greenhouse gases 2. Circumstantial evidence – Qualitative agreement between observed climate changes and model predictions of human-caused climate changes (warming of oceans, land surface, and troposphere, stratospher ...
... – Physical understanding of the climate system and the heat-trapping properties of greenhouse gases 2. Circumstantial evidence – Qualitative agreement between observed climate changes and model predictions of human-caused climate changes (warming of oceans, land surface, and troposphere, stratospher ...
Climate-change-answer-sheet
... the information seems reliable. However, the exact models used to develop the simulated temperature data are not explained. Thus, I am not convinced that they are correct. 8) Which claim do you support (base your position solely on the information provided in this worksheet)? Justify your position b ...
... the information seems reliable. However, the exact models used to develop the simulated temperature data are not explained. Thus, I am not convinced that they are correct. 8) Which claim do you support (base your position solely on the information provided in this worksheet)? Justify your position b ...
Climate change and food production: Pakistan (Arif Goheer)
... Climate and Food Production • Weather and Climate are the key factors in food productivity • Being open to vagaries of nature, food production are highly vulnerable to climate change phenomena ...
... Climate and Food Production • Weather and Climate are the key factors in food productivity • Being open to vagaries of nature, food production are highly vulnerable to climate change phenomena ...
PowerPoint プレゼンテーション
... An adjoint sensitivity analysis were applied to identify key regions for the bottom-water warming below 2000 m depth in the global ocean. An adjoint sensitivity analysis implies that changes in the water temperature in the local areas in the Southern Ocean can have subtle influence on the water war ...
... An adjoint sensitivity analysis were applied to identify key regions for the bottom-water warming below 2000 m depth in the global ocean. An adjoint sensitivity analysis implies that changes in the water temperature in the local areas in the Southern Ocean can have subtle influence on the water war ...
Slide 1 - climateknowledge.org
... – Physical understanding of the climate system and the heat-trapping properties of greenhouse gases 2. Circumstantial evidence – Qualitative agreement between observed climate changes and model predictions of human-caused climate changes (warming of oceans, land surface, and troposphere, stratospher ...
... – Physical understanding of the climate system and the heat-trapping properties of greenhouse gases 2. Circumstantial evidence – Qualitative agreement between observed climate changes and model predictions of human-caused climate changes (warming of oceans, land surface, and troposphere, stratospher ...
Assessing and predicting regional climate change
... projections. (Bhend and von Storch, 2008) • Predicting – not really possible at this time (except for first examples), almost all cases are descriptions of possible, plausible, internally consistent futures (scenarios). ...
... projections. (Bhend and von Storch, 2008) • Predicting – not really possible at this time (except for first examples), almost all cases are descriptions of possible, plausible, internally consistent futures (scenarios). ...
Climate Science is Not Settled
... Rather, the crucial, unsettled scientific question for policy is, "How will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?" Answers to that question at the global and regional levels, as well as to equally complex questions of how ecosystems and human activities wi ...
... Rather, the crucial, unsettled scientific question for policy is, "How will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?" Answers to that question at the global and regional levels, as well as to equally complex questions of how ecosystems and human activities wi ...
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) (David Goodrich, GCOS
... – Coordination Group for Meteorological ...
... – Coordination Group for Meteorological ...
Exploring Climate Change - Education Scotland
... covering the period from 1998 back to the year 1400. It became known as the ‘hockey stick’ because it resembles the shape of an ice-hockey stick. Controversy around this graph has been one of the longest and most detailed in climate change science. Much of the controversy is about the reliability of ...
... covering the period from 1998 back to the year 1400. It became known as the ‘hockey stick’ because it resembles the shape of an ice-hockey stick. Controversy around this graph has been one of the longest and most detailed in climate change science. Much of the controversy is about the reliability of ...
SINERGEE - University of Reading, Meteorology
... Thermal: less cooling to space 236 Wm-2 Efficiency ...
... Thermal: less cooling to space 236 Wm-2 Efficiency ...
The Way of Warming
... The planetary average surface temperature is warmer than it was 100 years ago. But what does that warming mean? If that warming were in the coldest air of winter rather than in the heat of summer the effect might be beneficial. Most mathematical simulations of climate change predict an overall i ...
... The planetary average surface temperature is warmer than it was 100 years ago. But what does that warming mean? If that warming were in the coldest air of winter rather than in the heat of summer the effect might be beneficial. Most mathematical simulations of climate change predict an overall i ...
Oxygen isotopes
... Temperature effect only • 1.5‰ x 4.2°C ‰-1 = 6°C Evidence of ice on Earth at 35 mya ...
... Temperature effect only • 1.5‰ x 4.2°C ‰-1 = 6°C Evidence of ice on Earth at 35 mya ...
... Weather dynamics often affect regional temperatures, so not every region on Earth experienced record average temperatures last year. For example, NASA and NOAA found that the 2015 annual mean temperature for the contiguous 48 United States was the second warmest on record. On 3 March, it was reporte ...
Agenda for the twentieth session of the Conference of the Parties
... Parties may recall that at COP 4 it “proved impossible to reach any agreed conclusions or decisions” on this matter (FCCC/CP/1998/16, para. 64). The item was therefore included on the provisional agenda of COP 5 in accordance with rules 10(c) and 16 of the draft rules of procedure being applied. COP ...
... Parties may recall that at COP 4 it “proved impossible to reach any agreed conclusions or decisions” on this matter (FCCC/CP/1998/16, para. 64). The item was therefore included on the provisional agenda of COP 5 in accordance with rules 10(c) and 16 of the draft rules of procedure being applied. COP ...
Rahmstorf2012-ComparingClimateProjections-to-Obse+
... detailed analysis of anthropogenic climate forcing, which also includes other greenhouse gases, aerosols and surface albedo changes, is beyond the scope of this letter. Here we focus on two prime indicators of climate change: the evolution of global-mean temperature and sea level. ...
... detailed analysis of anthropogenic climate forcing, which also includes other greenhouse gases, aerosols and surface albedo changes, is beyond the scope of this letter. Here we focus on two prime indicators of climate change: the evolution of global-mean temperature and sea level. ...
Likelihood of rapidly increasing surface temperatures unaccompanied by strong warming
... time and give some indication of natural climate variability in the absence of other influences. Control simulations were available for CGCM1, GISS and GFDL, and we examined these for signs that accelerated trends at the surface relative to at 500 mb are possible or become more likely under naturall ...
... time and give some indication of natural climate variability in the absence of other influences. Control simulations were available for CGCM1, GISS and GFDL, and we examined these for signs that accelerated trends at the surface relative to at 500 mb are possible or become more likely under naturall ...
CO2: The Thermostat that Controls Earth`s
... There is a close analogy to be drawn between the way an ordinary thermostat maintains the temperature of a house, and the way that atmospheric carbon dioxide (and the other minor non-condensing greenhouse gases) control the global temperature of Earth. The ordinary thermostat produces no heat of its ...
... There is a close analogy to be drawn between the way an ordinary thermostat maintains the temperature of a house, and the way that atmospheric carbon dioxide (and the other minor non-condensing greenhouse gases) control the global temperature of Earth. The ordinary thermostat produces no heat of its ...
public misperceptions of human
... as increasing carbon dioxide, volcanic eruptions and other aerosols. After many years of trials, the IPCC in 2001 reported simulations that mimicked the historic temperature record if and only if human emissions were included in the forcings. These results have later been widely misrepresented as be ...
... as increasing carbon dioxide, volcanic eruptions and other aerosols. After many years of trials, the IPCC in 2001 reported simulations that mimicked the historic temperature record if and only if human emissions were included in the forcings. These results have later been widely misrepresented as be ...
27. Global Warming
... increased mean global temperature 6.1.4: Discuss the feedback mechanisms that would be associated with an increase in mean global temperature 6.1.5: describe and evaluate pollution management strategies to address the issue of global warming 6.1.6: Outline the arguments surrounding global warming 6. ...
... increased mean global temperature 6.1.4: Discuss the feedback mechanisms that would be associated with an increase in mean global temperature 6.1.5: describe and evaluate pollution management strategies to address the issue of global warming 6.1.6: Outline the arguments surrounding global warming 6. ...
Lesson Plan Outline
... to compare graphs with a computer simulation. Specifically, students will make observations of patterns within time-series visualizations of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrates, and phosphates. They will discover evidence between these ocean graphs and the initial visual simulation to ...
... to compare graphs with a computer simulation. Specifically, students will make observations of patterns within time-series visualizations of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrates, and phosphates. They will discover evidence between these ocean graphs and the initial visual simulation to ...
Review National Climate Assessment First Draft 2013 Report
... (USGCRP) and discusses the scientific uncertainties associated with such findings; • analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological dive ...
... (USGCRP) and discusses the scientific uncertainties associated with such findings; • analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological dive ...
Evidence for Warming
... This 1988 thermal image of the Hudson River highlights temperature changes caused by discharge of 2.5 billion gallons of water each day from the Indian Point power plant. The plant sits in the upper right of the photo — hot water in the discharge canal is visible in yellow and red, spreading and co ...
... This 1988 thermal image of the Hudson River highlights temperature changes caused by discharge of 2.5 billion gallons of water each day from the Indian Point power plant. The plant sits in the upper right of the photo — hot water in the discharge canal is visible in yellow and red, spreading and co ...
the environment of the world as we know it is slowly, but
... Some scientists argue that it does not provide evidence for global warming. In his anti-environmental blog, John O'Sullivan criticizes the graph by saying, "Note that it is calibrated in tenths of a degree Celsius and that even that tiny amount of warming started long before the late 20th century. T ...
... Some scientists argue that it does not provide evidence for global warming. In his anti-environmental blog, John O'Sullivan criticizes the graph by saying, "Note that it is calibrated in tenths of a degree Celsius and that even that tiny amount of warming started long before the late 20th century. T ...