Handbook for Local Elected Officials on Climate Change
... have a responsibility to become informed and to take appropriate action within their mandates to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change. ...
... have a responsibility to become informed and to take appropriate action within their mandates to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change. ...
Sample pages 1 PDF
... amounts of aerosols into the atmosphere create short-lived negative forcing [6]. Human activities have greatly contributed to the changes in radiative forcings since the Industrial Revolution. As can be seen in Fig. 2.3, CO2 has the greatest increase in the RF values compared to other GHG (all of wh ...
... amounts of aerosols into the atmosphere create short-lived negative forcing [6]. Human activities have greatly contributed to the changes in radiative forcings since the Industrial Revolution. As can be seen in Fig. 2.3, CO2 has the greatest increase in the RF values compared to other GHG (all of wh ...
SDSM-a decision support tool for the assessment of regional
... sub-GCM grid-scale climate features dynamically using time-varying atmospheric conditions supplied by a GCM bounding a specified domain. Both approaches will continue to play a significant role in the assessment of potential climate change impacts arising from future increases in greenhouse-gas conc ...
... sub-GCM grid-scale climate features dynamically using time-varying atmospheric conditions supplied by a GCM bounding a specified domain. Both approaches will continue to play a significant role in the assessment of potential climate change impacts arising from future increases in greenhouse-gas conc ...
NRDC: Rising Tide of Illness - How Global Warming Could Increase
... The risk of waterborne illness is likely to increase with climate change. Climate models project that the average temperature could climb by more than 4°C (7.2°F) by the end of the 21st century, and many models also suggest that extreme rainfall events will increase in frequency.7,8 These changes ca ...
... The risk of waterborne illness is likely to increase with climate change. Climate models project that the average temperature could climb by more than 4°C (7.2°F) by the end of the 21st century, and many models also suggest that extreme rainfall events will increase in frequency.7,8 These changes ca ...
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... Intent: Develop alternatives with strategies to meet region’s needs: Integrate transportation and land use decisions by implementing VISION 2040 Support the Regional Economic Strategy Reduce congestion for all types of freight and person travel Make transportation investments across the region and i ...
... Intent: Develop alternatives with strategies to meet region’s needs: Integrate transportation and land use decisions by implementing VISION 2040 Support the Regional Economic Strategy Reduce congestion for all types of freight and person travel Make transportation investments across the region and i ...
Strengthening of the hydrological cycle in future scenarios
... diffusion parameterization is performed through the boundary layer. To obtain flux conservation at the interface, in the C-ESM model the coupling between SILVA and ECHAM5 is achieved by means of a fully implicit coupling numerical scheme for the energy and water fluxes. This scheme has been implemen ...
... diffusion parameterization is performed through the boundary layer. To obtain flux conservation at the interface, in the C-ESM model the coupling between SILVA and ECHAM5 is achieved by means of a fully implicit coupling numerical scheme for the energy and water fluxes. This scheme has been implemen ...
Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation
... ● Bio-diversity: Bolivia is one of the most bio-diverse countries in the world. It covers a huge area of more than one million square kilometres (roughly the size of France, Germany and the UK combined) across a great variety of eco-systems including Andean mountains, the Chaco desert, humid and ari ...
... ● Bio-diversity: Bolivia is one of the most bio-diverse countries in the world. It covers a huge area of more than one million square kilometres (roughly the size of France, Germany and the UK combined) across a great variety of eco-systems including Andean mountains, the Chaco desert, humid and ari ...
DICE 2013R - Yale Economics
... Fossil fuel use generates CO2 emissions Carbon cycle: redistributes around atmosphere, oceans, etc. Climate system: change in radiative warming, precipitation, ocean currents, sea level rise,… Impacts on ecosystems, agriculture, diseases, skiing, golfing, … Measures to control emissions (limits, ta ...
... Fossil fuel use generates CO2 emissions Carbon cycle: redistributes around atmosphere, oceans, etc. Climate system: change in radiative warming, precipitation, ocean currents, sea level rise,… Impacts on ecosystems, agriculture, diseases, skiing, golfing, … Measures to control emissions (limits, ta ...
Chapter 4
... possible agreement are narrowed, and the slow process of building international consensus begins. This process of informal exchange may continue for years before a conference of plenipotentiaries (representatives with the authority to approve an international agreement on behalf of their respective ...
... possible agreement are narrowed, and the slow process of building international consensus begins. This process of informal exchange may continue for years before a conference of plenipotentiaries (representatives with the authority to approve an international agreement on behalf of their respective ...
Tribal Response to Climate Change and the Evolving Ecosystem of
... the environmental adaptations included abundant resources. Not only were these natural resources that would become important to the economy of the people allowed to adapt to the changing climate but the people had time to change their culture enabling them to utilize the new environmental resources ...
... the environmental adaptations included abundant resources. Not only were these natural resources that would become important to the economy of the people allowed to adapt to the changing climate but the people had time to change their culture enabling them to utilize the new environmental resources ...
Aviation`s Contribution to Climate Change
... The ICAO Environmental Report – 2007, provided detailed background information on the issues of aircraft emissions and climate change. This article provides a high-level overview as well as an update on the science of climate change as it relates to aircraft emissions. According to the Intergovernme ...
... The ICAO Environmental Report – 2007, provided detailed background information on the issues of aircraft emissions and climate change. This article provides a high-level overview as well as an update on the science of climate change as it relates to aircraft emissions. According to the Intergovernme ...
Enhanced weathering strategies for stabilizing climate and averting
... sensitivity, are summarized in Table 1. For high application rates, warming averted ranges from 0.9 to 2.2 ◦ C for RCP4.5 and from 0.7 to 1.6 ◦ C for RCP8.5 (Table 1). At low application rates, corresponding ranges of warming averted are 0.2–0.7 ◦ C for both RCPs (Table 1). These numbers suggest tha ...
... sensitivity, are summarized in Table 1. For high application rates, warming averted ranges from 0.9 to 2.2 ◦ C for RCP4.5 and from 0.7 to 1.6 ◦ C for RCP8.5 (Table 1). At low application rates, corresponding ranges of warming averted are 0.2–0.7 ◦ C for both RCPs (Table 1). These numbers suggest tha ...
Allergies and Asthma - The Medical Society Consortium on Climate
... Average temperatures are higher Precipitation is greater in many places ...
... Average temperatures are higher Precipitation is greater in many places ...
Agricultural adaptation to climatic variation
... attempt to reduce expenditures, the public costs of compensating property owners, farmers and transportation businesses exposed to variable climatic conditions are becoming an important political issue (Smit, 1993, 1994). Hence, understanding socio-economic sensitivities and adaptations to climatic ...
... attempt to reduce expenditures, the public costs of compensating property owners, farmers and transportation businesses exposed to variable climatic conditions are becoming an important political issue (Smit, 1993, 1994). Hence, understanding socio-economic sensitivities and adaptations to climatic ...
Climate change, Health, and General Practice in
... movement towards sustainable systems. The responsibility of doctors in climate action is increasingly being acknowledged by the sector and the College supports this stance. Some key health institutions that have engaged in climate action to ...
... movement towards sustainable systems. The responsibility of doctors in climate action is increasingly being acknowledged by the sector and the College supports this stance. Some key health institutions that have engaged in climate action to ...
BSR Creating an Action Agenda for Private
... This report presents BSR’s strategy to mobilize our formidable business network, global reach, industry insights, and issue expertise in support of sustained business action on climate change. Business and society face unprecedented risks as a consequence of climate-related impacts, including increa ...
... This report presents BSR’s strategy to mobilize our formidable business network, global reach, industry insights, and issue expertise in support of sustained business action on climate change. Business and society face unprecedented risks as a consequence of climate-related impacts, including increa ...
Climate Predictions and Projections Program
... • Coastal Zone Management Act: Requires understanding and predicting long-term climate change which may have large impacts in the coastal zone (such as global warming and associated sea level rise) • Strategic plan for the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP): requires reduced uncertainty in projec ...
... • Coastal Zone Management Act: Requires understanding and predicting long-term climate change which may have large impacts in the coastal zone (such as global warming and associated sea level rise) • Strategic plan for the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP): requires reduced uncertainty in projec ...
Changing agricultural fiscal policies to stimulate sustainable
... Indonesia’s peat fires and related haze in 2015 have resulted in one of the worst environmental catastrophes in recent memory. At least 19 deaths have been reported, 550,000 people suffer acute respiratory infections, and daily greenhouse gas emissions have been greater than from the entire US econ ...
... Indonesia’s peat fires and related haze in 2015 have resulted in one of the worst environmental catastrophes in recent memory. At least 19 deaths have been reported, 550,000 people suffer acute respiratory infections, and daily greenhouse gas emissions have been greater than from the entire US econ ...
Melting the Ice – receding glaciers in the American Cordillera
... Exceptions are very few glaciers in the far South which are actually growing. Glaciers are only part of the larger hydrological system, and in many cases changes in snowfall, which are also temperature dependent, may be more significant to future water supplies. The implications of these changes var ...
... Exceptions are very few glaciers in the far South which are actually growing. Glaciers are only part of the larger hydrological system, and in many cases changes in snowfall, which are also temperature dependent, may be more significant to future water supplies. The implications of these changes var ...
Student Pages
... realize that your sense of what is “normal” weather at any particular time of the year may actually be very different from someone living elsewhere. Whether the days are cold or warm, rainy or dry, sunny or partly cloudy, you become used to the conditions you expect in your home place. But what if t ...
... realize that your sense of what is “normal” weather at any particular time of the year may actually be very different from someone living elsewhere. Whether the days are cold or warm, rainy or dry, sunny or partly cloudy, you become used to the conditions you expect in your home place. But what if t ...
