here - University of Malta
... Co-ordinator Dr Mark Harwood, Senior Lecturer, Institute for European Studies The main issues of this working group are: (a) governance; (b) elections and (c) the Constitutions that are being written as of now and linked to it (d) the role of religions. It is too early to speak of an “Arab Spring” a ...
... Co-ordinator Dr Mark Harwood, Senior Lecturer, Institute for European Studies The main issues of this working group are: (a) governance; (b) elections and (c) the Constitutions that are being written as of now and linked to it (d) the role of religions. It is too early to speak of an “Arab Spring” a ...
Working Paper 219 - Kessler (opens in new window)
... locked in permafrost and in ocean shallow clathrates are mobilized by warming by an increase of the equilibrium climate sensitivity parameter from 3 ◦ C to 5 ◦ C. The third line of research has focused on exploring economic and physical uncertainties in IAMs through the use of Monte Carlo methods: A ...
... locked in permafrost and in ocean shallow clathrates are mobilized by warming by an increase of the equilibrium climate sensitivity parameter from 3 ◦ C to 5 ◦ C. The third line of research has focused on exploring economic and physical uncertainties in IAMs through the use of Monte Carlo methods: A ...
Technical Summary
... Core concepts defined in the glossary and used throughout the report include: Climate change: A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typi ...
... Core concepts defined in the glossary and used throughout the report include: Climate change: A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typi ...
Environmental Change and Migration: State of the
... Rising sea levels and glacier melt that cause massive and repeated flooding and render coastal and low-lying areas uninhabitable in the longer-term. Increased frequency and magnitude of weather-related acute natural hazards, such as hurricanes and cyclones, which already destroy infrastructure and l ...
... Rising sea levels and glacier melt that cause massive and repeated flooding and render coastal and low-lying areas uninhabitable in the longer-term. Increased frequency and magnitude of weather-related acute natural hazards, such as hurricanes and cyclones, which already destroy infrastructure and l ...
dispersal, adaptation and the response of spatially structured
... otherwise specified. This generated a moderately high level of selection against maladaptive climate alleles (see sensitivity analysis in electronic supplementary material, appendix S1). Individual dispersal rates d were varied between 0 and 0.2, and the level of linkage pC varied between 0 and 0.5. ...
... otherwise specified. This generated a moderately high level of selection against maladaptive climate alleles (see sensitivity analysis in electronic supplementary material, appendix S1). Individual dispersal rates d were varied between 0 and 0.2, and the level of linkage pC varied between 0 and 0.5. ...
Scientific Facts on Arctic Climate Change
... 2.3.1 While most analyses of climate impacts focus on scenarios of steady gradual warming, there is a possibility that the warming could trigger abrupt changes in climate. The mechanisms that underlie such potential abrupt changes are not adequately taken into account by current climate models, whic ...
... 2.3.1 While most analyses of climate impacts focus on scenarios of steady gradual warming, there is a possibility that the warming could trigger abrupt changes in climate. The mechanisms that underlie such potential abrupt changes are not adequately taken into account by current climate models, whic ...
Climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in
... Recent reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2001, 2007, 2012) conclude not only that green-house gas emissions are already beginning to change the global climate, but also that Africa will experience increased water stress, decreased yields from rain-fed agricult ...
... Recent reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2001, 2007, 2012) conclude not only that green-house gas emissions are already beginning to change the global climate, but also that Africa will experience increased water stress, decreased yields from rain-fed agricult ...
part 3. technical summary
... methods using the concept of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) are also presented. In summary: ...
... methods using the concept of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) are also presented. In summary: ...
Peru-Chile upwelling dynamics under climate change - HAL-Insu
... IPSL-CM4 surface winds along the Peru and Chile coasts under idealized preindustrial (PI), doubling and quadrupling CO2 scenarios. Their results confirmed the wind strengthening off Chile, whereas they show a decrease in the annual mean off Peru, consequence of an austral summer decrease and a modera ...
... IPSL-CM4 surface winds along the Peru and Chile coasts under idealized preindustrial (PI), doubling and quadrupling CO2 scenarios. Their results confirmed the wind strengthening off Chile, whereas they show a decrease in the annual mean off Peru, consequence of an austral summer decrease and a modera ...
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... planners will design the carbon tax that is best in its eyes. The policy making process becomes a dynamic game where each planner chooses the best carbon policies that he can design, taking as given the policies that future planners will implement. The outcome of this game is typically not optimal ...
... planners will design the carbon tax that is best in its eyes. The policy making process becomes a dynamic game where each planner chooses the best carbon policies that he can design, taking as given the policies that future planners will implement. The outcome of this game is typically not optimal ...
2. Reconciling adaptation and migration
... 69 percent given a +3-meter inundation depth and by 14 percent given a +1-meter inundation depth.”4 Migration can result from sudden disasters that push large populations on the road or on the sea at once. It can also be caused by slow-onset environmental degradations that gradually reduce economic ...
... 69 percent given a +3-meter inundation depth and by 14 percent given a +1-meter inundation depth.”4 Migration can result from sudden disasters that push large populations on the road or on the sea at once. It can also be caused by slow-onset environmental degradations that gradually reduce economic ...
An Inconvenient Trial - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... no court has authority to enforce remedies, then there is little motivation to expend resources to support this effort. If climate-change proponents are able to prove their case, but the court does not have the authority to enforce remedies, then you might ask why even bother with this proposal. The ...
... no court has authority to enforce remedies, then there is little motivation to expend resources to support this effort. If climate-change proponents are able to prove their case, but the court does not have the authority to enforce remedies, then you might ask why even bother with this proposal. The ...
Implication of Climate Change on Crop Yield and Food Accessibility
... one of the regions that would have the most severe impacts of climatic change. The increasing climatic variability brought about by the increase in the extreme whether events, global warming, sea water rise and deficit in rainfall would obviously have serious implication ...
... one of the regions that would have the most severe impacts of climatic change. The increasing climatic variability brought about by the increase in the extreme whether events, global warming, sea water rise and deficit in rainfall would obviously have serious implication ...
Climate change and land suitability for potato production in England
... map current and future land suitability for potato production in England and Wales. The outputs identify regions where rainfed production is likely to become limiting and where future irrigated production would be constrained due to shortages in water availability. The results suggest that by the 20 ...
... map current and future land suitability for potato production in England and Wales. The outputs identify regions where rainfed production is likely to become limiting and where future irrigated production would be constrained due to shortages in water availability. The results suggest that by the 20 ...
Migration as a sustainable adaptation strategy
... 69 percent given a +3-meter inundation depth and by 14 percent given a +1-meter inundation depth.”4 Migration can result from sudden disasters that push large populations on the road or on the sea at once. It can also be caused by slow-onset environmental degradations that gradually reduce economic ...
... 69 percent given a +3-meter inundation depth and by 14 percent given a +1-meter inundation depth.”4 Migration can result from sudden disasters that push large populations on the road or on the sea at once. It can also be caused by slow-onset environmental degradations that gradually reduce economic ...
Atlases Give Global Snapshot of Oceans in the 1990s
... images in Figure 1) give the scientific community a graphical representation of global distributions of many chemical species and nutrients that were present within the ocean during the last decade of the last millennium. Armed with these, scientists can see at a glance the regional and vertical var ...
... images in Figure 1) give the scientific community a graphical representation of global distributions of many chemical species and nutrients that were present within the ocean during the last decade of the last millennium. Armed with these, scientists can see at a glance the regional and vertical var ...
Will climate change increase ozone depletion from low
... change scenario, the SRES A2 scenario (IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Nakicenovic et al., 2000) was chosen. This is the most drastic scenario, with a near doubling of CO2 resulting in a surface temperature increase of approx. 4 K depending on the model (IPCC, 2007). We expect that this ...
... change scenario, the SRES A2 scenario (IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Nakicenovic et al., 2000) was chosen. This is the most drastic scenario, with a near doubling of CO2 resulting in a surface temperature increase of approx. 4 K depending on the model (IPCC, 2007). We expect that this ...
Presentation pack - The Global Calculator
... •the global mean temperature could increase by 6°C in the long term. •sea levels could rise, changing coastlines worldwide •precipitation patterns are likely to change so that dry parts of the world will get drier and the rainy parts will get wetter •fragile ecosystems will be put at risk •some extr ...
... •the global mean temperature could increase by 6°C in the long term. •sea levels could rise, changing coastlines worldwide •precipitation patterns are likely to change so that dry parts of the world will get drier and the rainy parts will get wetter •fragile ecosystems will be put at risk •some extr ...
(1.5 MB pdf) - Torres Strait Regional Authority
... This report presents a Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Methodology for Torres Strait Communities and considers Ngurupai (Horn) Island as an example Pilot Study. The purpose is to provide a tool to assist in decision making. The specific examples in this study are not necessarily the “answers”, but ...
... This report presents a Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Methodology for Torres Strait Communities and considers Ngurupai (Horn) Island as an example Pilot Study. The purpose is to provide a tool to assist in decision making. The specific examples in this study are not necessarily the “answers”, but ...
Coastal Processes and Climate Change Predictions
... shelf. Some have been accumulating over a period of thousands of years as the postglacial rise in sea level increasingly drowned the continental shelf around the modern landmass. As sea level has risen, earlier coastal deposits may have been driven landwards. In some areas extensive intertidal flat ...
... shelf. Some have been accumulating over a period of thousands of years as the postglacial rise in sea level increasingly drowned the continental shelf around the modern landmass. As sea level has risen, earlier coastal deposits may have been driven landwards. In some areas extensive intertidal flat ...
Linkages between the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols
... (IPCC) in 1995 that serve as the basis of calculations under the Kyoto Protocol.17 The revised Global Warming Potentials indicate that HFCs might actually contribute about a quarter more to the climate change problematique than thought previously (see Table). Technically, it is possible to reconcile ...
... (IPCC) in 1995 that serve as the basis of calculations under the Kyoto Protocol.17 The revised Global Warming Potentials indicate that HFCs might actually contribute about a quarter more to the climate change problematique than thought previously (see Table). Technically, it is possible to reconcile ...
ON ThE RELATIONShIP bETWEEN bRYOPhYTE COVER ANd ThE
... change. Lepanthes is a large genus of primarily epiphytic orchids that is prominent in the Costa Rican flora. Generally, these orchids are very small and often occur in highly exposed habitats, thus leading to the theory that they are dependent on bryophyte cover to prevent desiccation. Accordingly, ...
... change. Lepanthes is a large genus of primarily epiphytic orchids that is prominent in the Costa Rican flora. Generally, these orchids are very small and often occur in highly exposed habitats, thus leading to the theory that they are dependent on bryophyte cover to prevent desiccation. Accordingly, ...
Natural and Human Environment
... environmental quality are priorities of the Commonwealth’s transportation agencies. A sound transportation system must address the relationship between the movement of people and goods, and the impact upon the environment. The Commonwealth’s transportation agencies work closely with federal, state, ...
... environmental quality are priorities of the Commonwealth’s transportation agencies. A sound transportation system must address the relationship between the movement of people and goods, and the impact upon the environment. The Commonwealth’s transportation agencies work closely with federal, state, ...
REPORT CARD Sea-Level Rise 2012
... Increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere during and since the 19th century, caused primarily by human-induced emissions, have contributed substantially to warming of the atmosphere, especially since 1950 (IPCC 2007). Global atmospheric temperature increased by 0.76°C from 1850– 1899 to 2001–2 ...
... Increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere during and since the 19th century, caused primarily by human-induced emissions, have contributed substantially to warming of the atmosphere, especially since 1950 (IPCC 2007). Global atmospheric temperature increased by 0.76°C from 1850– 1899 to 2001–2 ...