Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis
... Wisconsin is already experiencing the effects of climate change, and impacts are expected to increase in the future. Data gathered from weather stations across Wisconsin indicate that the state has been warming since at least 1950. The length of the growing season has increased by at least 5 days st ...
... Wisconsin is already experiencing the effects of climate change, and impacts are expected to increase in the future. Data gathered from weather stations across Wisconsin indicate that the state has been warming since at least 1950. The length of the growing season has increased by at least 5 days st ...
DEA Annual Report presentation
... Biodiversity sector financing Financing model for biodiversity Policy and institutional review undertaken as part of a process to develop the cost assessment and the model developed and sector developed model. implemented Challenges: Delays in accessing funds from the donor (United Nations Developme ...
... Biodiversity sector financing Financing model for biodiversity Policy and institutional review undertaken as part of a process to develop the cost assessment and the model developed and sector developed model. implemented Challenges: Delays in accessing funds from the donor (United Nations Developme ...
Global water cycle amplifying at less than the
... All observational datasets indicate that the volumetric distribution shifts toward lower salinities, i.e. on average, fresh regions become fresher at a higher rate than saline regions become more saline (see Fig. 2 and supplementary Fig. 1). This suggests a global net freshwater input. Considering t ...
... All observational datasets indicate that the volumetric distribution shifts toward lower salinities, i.e. on average, fresh regions become fresher at a higher rate than saline regions become more saline (see Fig. 2 and supplementary Fig. 1). This suggests a global net freshwater input. Considering t ...
Technical note on science- based targets
... leadership (see CDP’s 2016 Climate Change Scoring Methodology for more details). To submit a target for official evaluation, please fill out the target quality check form and send it to [email protected] by 15 April 2016. Be sure to tick the box indicating it is an official check and fill ...
... leadership (see CDP’s 2016 Climate Change Scoring Methodology for more details). To submit a target for official evaluation, please fill out the target quality check form and send it to [email protected] by 15 April 2016. Be sure to tick the box indicating it is an official check and fill ...
Greenland Ice Core Records and Rapid Climate Change Author(s
... The GRIP and GISP2 ice cores were drilled at or close to Summit, in central Greenland, in the early 1990s. The surface elevation at these sites is about 3200 m and the ice is over 3000 m thick. The GRIP core site is at the modern ice divide, whereas the GISP2 site is 28 km to the west. Optimal ice c ...
... The GRIP and GISP2 ice cores were drilled at or close to Summit, in central Greenland, in the early 1990s. The surface elevation at these sites is about 3200 m and the ice is over 3000 m thick. The GRIP core site is at the modern ice divide, whereas the GISP2 site is 28 km to the west. Optimal ice c ...
RSM-ASCC_conceptpape..
... professionals and skilled workers will outpace the region’s requirements for lower skilled labor. The report, however, is limited to the ASEAN region and does not touch on the increasing demand from outside the region where the strength of an integrated ASEAN community could and should exert more in ...
... professionals and skilled workers will outpace the region’s requirements for lower skilled labor. The report, however, is limited to the ASEAN region and does not touch on the increasing demand from outside the region where the strength of an integrated ASEAN community could and should exert more in ...
Report on the Activities of the Working Group on Climate Change
... It is difficult to pick up newspaper nowadays without reading something about global warming. It’s also hard to pick up a professional climate journal without realizing that some of the best scientific minds in the world are working on climate change detection and its attribution. So what can a smal ...
... It is difficult to pick up newspaper nowadays without reading something about global warming. It’s also hard to pick up a professional climate journal without realizing that some of the best scientific minds in the world are working on climate change detection and its attribution. So what can a smal ...
Report on the Activities of the Working Group on Climate
... It is difficult to pick up newspaper nowadays without reading something about global warming. It’s also hard to pick up a professional climate journal without realizing that some of the best scientific minds in the world are working on climate change detection and its attribution. So what can a smal ...
... It is difficult to pick up newspaper nowadays without reading something about global warming. It’s also hard to pick up a professional climate journal without realizing that some of the best scientific minds in the world are working on climate change detection and its attribution. So what can a smal ...
Drought in the Sahel - Lund University Publications
... (Hulme et al., 2001). The climate is characterized by pronounced seasonality, with a rainy season is in the summer. It starts in June or July and lasts until September, with peak values in August. The rest of the year is dry (Herrmann et al., 2005). This is associated with the seasonal movement of t ...
... (Hulme et al., 2001). The climate is characterized by pronounced seasonality, with a rainy season is in the summer. It starts in June or July and lasts until September, with peak values in August. The rest of the year is dry (Herrmann et al., 2005). This is associated with the seasonal movement of t ...
Enabling the Transition report
... Explore and implement the most efficient policy vehicles (e.g. energy-efficiency standards, feed-in tariffs and tax incentives) as a key government contribution towards accelerated domestic and foreign direct investments in climate innovations. Institutionalize support for climate innovations ...
... Explore and implement the most efficient policy vehicles (e.g. energy-efficiency standards, feed-in tariffs and tax incentives) as a key government contribution towards accelerated domestic and foreign direct investments in climate innovations. Institutionalize support for climate innovations ...
Extreme Weather Events in Europe: preparing for climate change
... by the 5th percentile for December– February mean temperature 3.6 Observed trends, in % per decade for 1951–2003, in the contribution to total annual precipitation from very wet days (95th percentile) 3.7 Changes in spatial patterns of precipitation intensity (defined as the annual total precipitati ...
... by the 5th percentile for December– February mean temperature 3.6 Observed trends, in % per decade for 1951–2003, in the contribution to total annual precipitation from very wet days (95th percentile) 3.7 Changes in spatial patterns of precipitation intensity (defined as the annual total precipitati ...
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Nature’s Prophet:
... For knowledge journalists like McKibben, Friedman, and Revkin, several qualities enable their work to stand out among the many competing voices, narratives, and stories that are told about a wicked problem. In particular, relative to climate change, the prominence of these three writers has been esp ...
... For knowledge journalists like McKibben, Friedman, and Revkin, several qualities enable their work to stand out among the many competing voices, narratives, and stories that are told about a wicked problem. In particular, relative to climate change, the prominence of these three writers has been esp ...
The Carbon Cycle : Feature Articles
... Changes in the Carbon Cycle Left unperturbed, the fast and slow carbon cycles maintain a relatively steady concentration of carbon in the atmosphere, land, plants, and ocean. But when anything changes the amount of carbon in one reservoir, the effect ripples through the others. In Earth’s past, the ...
... Changes in the Carbon Cycle Left unperturbed, the fast and slow carbon cycles maintain a relatively steady concentration of carbon in the atmosphere, land, plants, and ocean. But when anything changes the amount of carbon in one reservoir, the effect ripples through the others. In Earth’s past, the ...
Seasonal versus transient snow and the elevation dependence of
... summer discharge. Two of three SSZ‐dominated streams with shorter records also exhibited significant decreasing trends of similar magnitude. Watersheds with less than 50% of their land area in the SSZ have not experienced warming‐ driven change in summer discharge distributions. Watershed area in th ...
... summer discharge. Two of three SSZ‐dominated streams with shorter records also exhibited significant decreasing trends of similar magnitude. Watersheds with less than 50% of their land area in the SSZ have not experienced warming‐ driven change in summer discharge distributions. Watershed area in th ...
U. S. Senate Minority Report:
... saying precisely the opposite of what the scientists said,” explained South Afican Nuclear Physicist and Chemical Engineer Dr. Philip Lloyd, a UN IPCC co-coordinating lead author who has authored over 150 refereed publications. Proponents of man-made global warming like to note how the National Acad ...
... saying precisely the opposite of what the scientists said,” explained South Afican Nuclear Physicist and Chemical Engineer Dr. Philip Lloyd, a UN IPCC co-coordinating lead author who has authored over 150 refereed publications. Proponents of man-made global warming like to note how the National Acad ...
Questions and Answers about the Environmental Effects of the
... Assessment Panel. Each panel covers a designated area with a natural degree of overlap. The main reports of the Panels are published every four years, as required by the Meeting of the Parties. All three reports have an executive summary that is distributed more widely than the entire reports. It ha ...
... Assessment Panel. Each panel covers a designated area with a natural degree of overlap. The main reports of the Panels are published every four years, as required by the Meeting of the Parties. All three reports have an executive summary that is distributed more widely than the entire reports. It ha ...
Plantations for People - New Generation Plantations
... with UNFCCC guidance to ensure they have a net positive impact on the climate. For example, they must not replace natural forests, and should only be planted on degraded land with a lower carbon density. The species planted should not be invasive or have a negative impact on surrounding ecosystem go ...
... with UNFCCC guidance to ensure they have a net positive impact on the climate. For example, they must not replace natural forests, and should only be planted on degraded land with a lower carbon density. The species planted should not be invasive or have a negative impact on surrounding ecosystem go ...
Intensification of winter transatlantic aviation turbulence in response
... climate model simulations that clear-air turbulence changes significantly within the transatlantic flight corridor when the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is doubled. At cruise altitudes within 50–75◦ N and 10–60◦ W in winter, most clear-air turbulence measures show a 10–40% incre ...
... climate model simulations that clear-air turbulence changes significantly within the transatlantic flight corridor when the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is doubled. At cruise altitudes within 50–75◦ N and 10–60◦ W in winter, most clear-air turbulence measures show a 10–40% incre ...
Adaptation at the negotiations
... could not be adopted as a COP decision and was only taken note of • The Accord recognized the critical impacts of climate change and the need for adaptation by countries but mixed up adaptation to adverse effects of climate change to the potential impacts of response measures • It stresses the need ...
... could not be adopted as a COP decision and was only taken note of • The Accord recognized the critical impacts of climate change and the need for adaptation by countries but mixed up adaptation to adverse effects of climate change to the potential impacts of response measures • It stresses the need ...
A Review of Drought in the Middle East and Southwest Asia
... to an array of indirect impacts associated with sanitation, nutrition, loss of livelihood, displaced ...
... to an array of indirect impacts associated with sanitation, nutrition, loss of livelihood, displaced ...
Discounting China`s CDM Dams
... desertification can affect the climate as well.5 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in 2007 that human activity has “very likely” caused most of the rise in temperatures since 1950.6 The effects of climate change could include flooding in coastal areas, droughts, heat wav ...
... desertification can affect the climate as well.5 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in 2007 that human activity has “very likely” caused most of the rise in temperatures since 1950.6 The effects of climate change could include flooding in coastal areas, droughts, heat wav ...