47. Global Warming Background
... Washington University, said, ‘‘ Torrential rains have increased in the summer in agricultural regions.’’ He was referring to a then-unpublished paper by climatologist Tom Karl. Karl examined U.S. precipitation records and found that the percentage of annual rain falling during two-to-three-inchper-2 ...
... Washington University, said, ‘‘ Torrential rains have increased in the summer in agricultural regions.’’ He was referring to a then-unpublished paper by climatologist Tom Karl. Karl examined U.S. precipitation records and found that the percentage of annual rain falling during two-to-three-inchper-2 ...
Climate change and grasslands through the ages
... calculation of principal components and other quality control defects". They found in fact that global average temperatures peaked in the fifteenth century, and not in the twentieth. Von Storch et al. (2004) worked around the problem of data unavailability using a climate model that is able to reaso ...
... calculation of principal components and other quality control defects". They found in fact that global average temperatures peaked in the fifteenth century, and not in the twentieth. Von Storch et al. (2004) worked around the problem of data unavailability using a climate model that is able to reaso ...
extreme_weather_climate_change
... normal range of intensity that a region experiences. This would include variations in temperature, wind speed, rainfall and other precipitation. The number of storms can also be outside the normal range. Weather normally changes sporadically in any given area, but trends can gradually change over ti ...
... normal range of intensity that a region experiences. This would include variations in temperature, wind speed, rainfall and other precipitation. The number of storms can also be outside the normal range. Weather normally changes sporadically in any given area, but trends can gradually change over ti ...
Ruggiero Golden JSE March 2017 Future Casting Issue PDF
... Figure 2: Parts of lesson connections to NGSS it, not as a matter of political identity, or of simple belief in (or not). After breaking the students into groups of 3-4, the lesson is introduced with an engaging question: “What do you know about global climate change?”. Ask the students to brainstor ...
... Figure 2: Parts of lesson connections to NGSS it, not as a matter of political identity, or of simple belief in (or not). After breaking the students into groups of 3-4, the lesson is introduced with an engaging question: “What do you know about global climate change?”. Ask the students to brainstor ...
Keeling Curve (Mauna Loa)
... last 14 years • Q: What do skeptics say? • A: They point out that if you start counting in 1998, there has been little or no net warming since that time • Is this significant? ...
... last 14 years • Q: What do skeptics say? • A: They point out that if you start counting in 1998, there has been little or no net warming since that time • Is this significant? ...
Realities VS Misconceptions About the Science of Climate Change
... forces shaping Earth's climate on human time scales. T. Peterson et al., 2008 ...
... forces shaping Earth's climate on human time scales. T. Peterson et al., 2008 ...
Realities vs. Misconceptions about Climate Change Science
... began to cool in recent years (e.g., after 1998 or 2002). By definition, climate is determined by long-term averages, not by the ups and downs that occur over a decade or so. For example, weather forecasters define “normal” daily temperatures as the 30-year average for a given date. Similarly, clima ...
... began to cool in recent years (e.g., after 1998 or 2002). By definition, climate is determined by long-term averages, not by the ups and downs that occur over a decade or so. For example, weather forecasters define “normal” daily temperatures as the 30-year average for a given date. Similarly, clima ...
Testing the hypothesis of dangerous human
... today’s computer models cannot predict climate. Consistent with this, and despite computer projections of temperature rises, there has been no net global warming since 1998. That the current temperature plateau follows a late 20th century period of warming is consistent with the continuation today o ...
... today’s computer models cannot predict climate. Consistent with this, and despite computer projections of temperature rises, there has been no net global warming since 1998. That the current temperature plateau follows a late 20th century period of warming is consistent with the continuation today o ...
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... Deci, 2000; Ryan, Huta, & Deci, 2008). These needs are understood to be innate and universal, essential for an individual’s psychological health, and when satisfied, allow optimal functioning and growth (Grouzet et al., 2005; Ryan, 1995). While selfdetermined individuals fulfill these basic needs as ...
... Deci, 2000; Ryan, Huta, & Deci, 2008). These needs are understood to be innate and universal, essential for an individual’s psychological health, and when satisfied, allow optimal functioning and growth (Grouzet et al., 2005; Ryan, 1995). While selfdetermined individuals fulfill these basic needs as ...
IWRM as a Tool for Adaptation to Climate Change - Cap-Net
... All activities that lead to rapid recovery from the consequences of accidents and disasters, and ensuring that all those affected can return to the ‘normal’ situation and recover their equilibrium. ...
... All activities that lead to rapid recovery from the consequences of accidents and disasters, and ensuring that all those affected can return to the ‘normal’ situation and recover their equilibrium. ...
Climate of the Past
... model driven by both natural and anthropogenic forcings (Fig. 1 and Table 1). An existing ensemble of 115 simulations (Goosse et al., 2005b, 2006), covering at least the period 1001 AD-2000AD, is first presented (35 simulations starting in 1 AD, 30 starting in 851 AD and 50 starting in 1001 AD). The ...
... model driven by both natural and anthropogenic forcings (Fig. 1 and Table 1). An existing ensemble of 115 simulations (Goosse et al., 2005b, 2006), covering at least the period 1001 AD-2000AD, is first presented (35 simulations starting in 1 AD, 30 starting in 851 AD and 50 starting in 1001 AD). The ...
The Serengeti strategy: How special interests try to intimidate
... appearance of a debate where none should exist. In fact, there is broad agreement among climate scientists not only that climate change is real (a survey and a review of the scientific literature published say about 97 percent agree), but that we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet. If o ...
... appearance of a debate where none should exist. In fact, there is broad agreement among climate scientists not only that climate change is real (a survey and a review of the scientific literature published say about 97 percent agree), but that we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet. If o ...
1 - QUBES Hub
... areas, U.S. EPA) and latitudinal/altitudinal effects. Changes in the location of weather stations can cause apparent increases or decreases in temperature as a result of moving to a generally warmer or cooler location. These possible altitudinal or latitudinal effects are eliminated in the USHCN cli ...
... areas, U.S. EPA) and latitudinal/altitudinal effects. Changes in the location of weather stations can cause apparent increases or decreases in temperature as a result of moving to a generally warmer or cooler location. These possible altitudinal or latitudinal effects are eliminated in the USHCN cli ...
presentation - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
... Tropical Atmosphere: Convective adjustment scheme with water vapor feedback (Manabe and Weatherald, 1967) with 18 vertical layers (2 hPa ≈ 43 km) Set Cloud Fraction = 0.0, tune Horizontal Flux to get T(Sfc) = 300 K Ocean: Heat diffusion with 4 layers, coupled with atmosphere through energy exchange ...
... Tropical Atmosphere: Convective adjustment scheme with water vapor feedback (Manabe and Weatherald, 1967) with 18 vertical layers (2 hPa ≈ 43 km) Set Cloud Fraction = 0.0, tune Horizontal Flux to get T(Sfc) = 300 K Ocean: Heat diffusion with 4 layers, coupled with atmosphere through energy exchange ...
European summer temperatures since Roman times
... SUNNARROW (see SOM for more details). On hemispheric scales, the highest estimates of solar forcing seems to yield a discrepancy between forced simulations and reconstructions (Schurer et al 2014). Regionally and seasonally the effect of solar forcing may be enhanced due to dynamic feedbacks that ar ...
... SUNNARROW (see SOM for more details). On hemispheric scales, the highest estimates of solar forcing seems to yield a discrepancy between forced simulations and reconstructions (Schurer et al 2014). Regionally and seasonally the effect of solar forcing may be enhanced due to dynamic feedbacks that ar ...
At first I accepted that increases in human caused additions of
... the perceived threat of the human-caused climate change resulting from a build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The Kyoto Protocol proposed by the United Nations in 1997 calls for OECD countries and former USSR to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5% from 1990 levels by the year 2012. Despite ...
... the perceived threat of the human-caused climate change resulting from a build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The Kyoto Protocol proposed by the United Nations in 1997 calls for OECD countries and former USSR to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5% from 1990 levels by the year 2012. Despite ...
26 K - arcus
... level organisms, with an emphasis on commercial/subsistence fish species; (2) quantitative changes of these processes under various natural- and human-induced scenarios; (3) the resultant economic and sociological impacts; and (4) the interaction between management decisions and ecosystem processes. ...
... level organisms, with an emphasis on commercial/subsistence fish species; (2) quantitative changes of these processes under various natural- and human-induced scenarios; (3) the resultant economic and sociological impacts; and (4) the interaction between management decisions and ecosystem processes. ...
Slide 1
... output underestimates the measurements), although in all cases, the temporal evolution is captured satisfactorily. ...
... output underestimates the measurements), although in all cases, the temporal evolution is captured satisfactorily. ...
Projected temperature changes along the American cordillera and
... access to the stations and instrument maintenance, without compromising station quality. Without such revisions to the current GCOS plan, areas that will be significantly affected by temperature change (and where changes already appear to be large) will not be adequately observed. [12] These results ...
... access to the stations and instrument maintenance, without compromising station quality. Without such revisions to the current GCOS plan, areas that will be significantly affected by temperature change (and where changes already appear to be large) will not be adequately observed. [12] These results ...
Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years
... despite much effort over recent decades, the uncertainty in the estimated climate sensitivity (that is, the long-term response of global mean temperature to a doubling of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere) has not noticeably decreased1. Nevertheless, policymakers need more accurate uncertainty ...
... despite much effort over recent decades, the uncertainty in the estimated climate sensitivity (that is, the long-term response of global mean temperature to a doubling of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere) has not noticeably decreased1. Nevertheless, policymakers need more accurate uncertainty ...
Climate Change Impacts and Responses
... up to about 50,000 years old but dating can only be accurate to a few percent of the age of the material ...
... up to about 50,000 years old but dating can only be accurate to a few percent of the age of the material ...
IS GLOBAL WARMING A THREAT?
... GLOBAL COOLING DOOM AND GLOOM CIRCA 1975 “There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically…with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth.” - Newsweek April 28, 1975 Present climate is “highly abnormal…[There is] a finite possibil ...
... GLOBAL COOLING DOOM AND GLOOM CIRCA 1975 “There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically…with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth.” - Newsweek April 28, 1975 Present climate is “highly abnormal…[There is] a finite possibil ...
The Evidence Against Human Causation in Global Warming
... 7) Several thousand scientists contributed to the IPCC report. How can they all be wrong? Just because a large number of people hold a particular view does not make it correct. The world’s leading scientists at one time were firmly of the opinion that the Earth was flat, and that the Sun revolved ar ...
... 7) Several thousand scientists contributed to the IPCC report. How can they all be wrong? Just because a large number of people hold a particular view does not make it correct. The world’s leading scientists at one time were firmly of the opinion that the Earth was flat, and that the Sun revolved ar ...