MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
... The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is an organization for research, independent policy analysis, and public education in global environmental change. It seeks to provide leadership in understanding scientific, economic, and ecological aspects of this difficult issue, a ...
... The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is an organization for research, independent policy analysis, and public education in global environmental change. It seeks to provide leadership in understanding scientific, economic, and ecological aspects of this difficult issue, a ...
Drainage basin responses to climate change
... stabilizes the hillslopes, reducing runoff, peak discharge, and sediment supply. On the other hand, Bryan [1928, 1940] argued that greater storm runoff due to a loss of vegetation during arid periods should lead to channel entrenchment rather than to aggradation. Aggradation, in Bryan’s view, would ...
... stabilizes the hillslopes, reducing runoff, peak discharge, and sediment supply. On the other hand, Bryan [1928, 1940] argued that greater storm runoff due to a loss of vegetation during arid periods should lead to channel entrenchment rather than to aggradation. Aggradation, in Bryan’s view, would ...
Climate change impacts on mass movements
... part of the record (2000–2009) when only 13 events have been recorded in the valley (Stoffel and Beniston, 2006; Bollschweiler and Stoffel, 2010c; Stoffel et al., 2011). At the meteorological station of Grächen, where daily precipitation measurements extend back to 1864, heavy precipitation events ( ...
... part of the record (2000–2009) when only 13 events have been recorded in the valley (Stoffel and Beniston, 2006; Bollschweiler and Stoffel, 2010c; Stoffel et al., 2011). At the meteorological station of Grächen, where daily precipitation measurements extend back to 1864, heavy precipitation events ( ...
Kamloops Future Forest Strategy
... and ultimately understanding of not only the impacts of climate change but of our actions in this changing world. Enhanced understanding, however, can only be realized if the information produced is put to use in an adaptive management fashion such that learning leads to action and action leads to l ...
... and ultimately understanding of not only the impacts of climate change but of our actions in this changing world. Enhanced understanding, however, can only be realized if the information produced is put to use in an adaptive management fashion such that learning leads to action and action leads to l ...
Energy Supply and the Sustainability of Endogenous Growth
... The models introduced in this subsection can be distinguished along different lines. First, we can differentiate according to the engines that drive growth. These may include the accumulation of physical and/or human capital, learning by doing and technological progress. Second, models differ with r ...
... The models introduced in this subsection can be distinguished along different lines. First, we can differentiate according to the engines that drive growth. These may include the accumulation of physical and/or human capital, learning by doing and technological progress. Second, models differ with r ...
md. mohosin ali
... Natural disaster occurs almost every year in Bangladesh due to climate change. Crop agriculture is often constrained by different hazards and disasters such as floods, droughts, soil and water salinity, cyclones and storm surges (MoEF 2009b). It is very common phenomenon in coastal regions of this c ...
... Natural disaster occurs almost every year in Bangladesh due to climate change. Crop agriculture is often constrained by different hazards and disasters such as floods, droughts, soil and water salinity, cyclones and storm surges (MoEF 2009b). It is very common phenomenon in coastal regions of this c ...
Identifying adaptation options - South Florida Regional Planning
... In the case of adaptation, there are often trade-offs and/or a number of different adaptive strategies or measures that could be taken. Stakeholders are expected to bring to the assessment process their different perspectives, including those related to values and expectations. Consideration of thes ...
... In the case of adaptation, there are often trade-offs and/or a number of different adaptive strategies or measures that could be taken. Stakeholders are expected to bring to the assessment process their different perspectives, including those related to values and expectations. Consideration of thes ...
A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States
... The creation of a U.S. Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force (ICCATF) that led to the development of national principles for adaptation and is leading to crosscutting and government-wide adaptation policies; The development of three crosscutting national adaptation strategies focused on i ...
... The creation of a U.S. Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force (ICCATF) that led to the development of national principles for adaptation and is leading to crosscutting and government-wide adaptation policies; The development of three crosscutting national adaptation strategies focused on i ...
Panama and the Specter of Climate Change
... 3. The most prominent is the IPCC, a scientific intergovernmental organization founded by the World Meteorological Organization ("WMO") and the United Nations Environmental Programme ("UNEP"). IPCC, IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.cblorganizationlorganization.htm (l ...
... 3. The most prominent is the IPCC, a scientific intergovernmental organization founded by the World Meteorological Organization ("WMO") and the United Nations Environmental Programme ("UNEP"). IPCC, IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.cblorganizationlorganization.htm (l ...
https://www.environment.gov.za/sites/default/files/reports/sa1stbiennialupdatereport.pdf
... Mrs B E E Molewa ...
... Mrs B E E Molewa ...
Why the United States did not become a party to the Kyoto Protocol
... an unfair and ineffective means of addressing global climate change concerns’.3 Yet on closer inspection, this apparently plausible explanation for US non-participation is less than fully satisfactory. According to the oft-cited theory of two-level games (Putnam, 1988), negotiators will look ahead a ...
... an unfair and ineffective means of addressing global climate change concerns’.3 Yet on closer inspection, this apparently plausible explanation for US non-participation is less than fully satisfactory. According to the oft-cited theory of two-level games (Putnam, 1988), negotiators will look ahead a ...
Using the past to understand the future
... over geologic time114, calcite is the more stable of the two and has typically been better preserved. The Phanerozoic Eon can be divided into three intervals of ‘aragonite seas’ and two intervals of ‘calcite seas’ based on which mineral phase was predominant (Figure 22.2). ‘Aragonite I,’ ‘Calcite I’ ...
... over geologic time114, calcite is the more stable of the two and has typically been better preserved. The Phanerozoic Eon can be divided into three intervals of ‘aragonite seas’ and two intervals of ‘calcite seas’ based on which mineral phase was predominant (Figure 22.2). ‘Aragonite I,’ ‘Calcite I’ ...
canadian pulp and paper association
... operations - the emissions resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels. All plans show a reduction in GHG emissions on a per tonne basis, and most companies will either stabilize or reduce their GHG emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000. ...
... operations - the emissions resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels. All plans show a reduction in GHG emissions on a per tonne basis, and most companies will either stabilize or reduce their GHG emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000. ...
Chapter 30: The Ocean
... distribution and abundance of marine organisms and ecosystems. Responses of species and ecosystems to climate change have been observed from every ocean sub-region (high confidence). Marine organisms are moving to higher latitudes consistent with warming trends (high confidence), with fish and zoopl ...
... distribution and abundance of marine organisms and ecosystems. Responses of species and ecosystems to climate change have been observed from every ocean sub-region (high confidence). Marine organisms are moving to higher latitudes consistent with warming trends (high confidence), with fish and zoopl ...
- Student Organizations
... elaborate on the relationship between environmental change and human mobility based on El-Hinnawi’s literature and to provide new definitions further contributing to current environmental migration discourse. 36 His broad definition contains many elements from which they pick and choose. For example ...
... elaborate on the relationship between environmental change and human mobility based on El-Hinnawi’s literature and to provide new definitions further contributing to current environmental migration discourse. 36 His broad definition contains many elements from which they pick and choose. For example ...
The Indian monsoon and climate change
... Fig 10.91: some consistency in the JJA response of precipitation over India to A1B forcing with 2xCO2 result (but within intermodel spread). Fig 10.121: less than 80% of models agree on annual mean change in precip over India. ...
... Fig 10.91: some consistency in the JJA response of precipitation over India to A1B forcing with 2xCO2 result (but within intermodel spread). Fig 10.121: less than 80% of models agree on annual mean change in precip over India. ...
Climate Change and European Agriculture - EDOC HU
... derived from two potential emission scenarios. In this modelling framework, crop simulation results of crop productivity changes from the dynamic vegetation model LPJmL, which are based on five individual climate projections, serve as inputs which are administered as a supply shock to the European S ...
... derived from two potential emission scenarios. In this modelling framework, crop simulation results of crop productivity changes from the dynamic vegetation model LPJmL, which are based on five individual climate projections, serve as inputs which are administered as a supply shock to the European S ...
Paper - Department of Economics
... to a cointegrated system, both making them directly testable, and providing a physical justification for econometric methods that account for data non-stationarity. This makes it possible to estimate a complete system model of global mean-climate model using econometric methods. Doing so opens the d ...
... to a cointegrated system, both making them directly testable, and providing a physical justification for econometric methods that account for data non-stationarity. This makes it possible to estimate a complete system model of global mean-climate model using econometric methods. Doing so opens the d ...
Protecting People and the Environment by the Stroke of a
... The 2012 presidential campaigns were disturbingly quiet on the issue of climate change; for the first time since 1984, the televised debates did not even broach the subject. This lack of political attention formed a sharp contrast with the year’s record heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and severe we ...
... The 2012 presidential campaigns were disturbingly quiet on the issue of climate change; for the first time since 1984, the televised debates did not even broach the subject. This lack of political attention formed a sharp contrast with the year’s record heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and severe we ...
Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health
... action to reduce the vulnerability of the poorest people on the planet to threats they played little role in generating. Mitigation and adaptation are the two key strategies we need to follow. First, we must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to a minimum in order to limit climatic disruption. A m ...
... action to reduce the vulnerability of the poorest people on the planet to threats they played little role in generating. Mitigation and adaptation are the two key strategies we need to follow. First, we must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to a minimum in order to limit climatic disruption. A m ...
An ensemble analysis to predict future habitats of striped marlin
... from the website of the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI; http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/) for three warming scenarios: lower (SRES B1), medium (SRES A1B), and higher (SRES A2) greenhouse gas emissions. The scenarios represent combinations of different rates of change in eco ...
... from the website of the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI; http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/) for three warming scenarios: lower (SRES B1), medium (SRES A1B), and higher (SRES A2) greenhouse gas emissions. The scenarios represent combinations of different rates of change in eco ...
Geoengineering Governance
... an 80% reduction in U.S. GHG emissions from 2005 levels by the year 2050,1 and according to widely accepted estimates, GHG emissions must decrease by at least 50% worldwide within the same period if the most serious climate change impacts are to be avoided.2 Global and national-level efforts to redu ...
... an 80% reduction in U.S. GHG emissions from 2005 levels by the year 2050,1 and according to widely accepted estimates, GHG emissions must decrease by at least 50% worldwide within the same period if the most serious climate change impacts are to be avoided.2 Global and national-level efforts to redu ...