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... The distributed lag non-linear module in R [26] was used to model the summer heat-mortality relationships. Models for each city were developed using natural cubic splines with four degrees of freedom for the temperature and the lag. We also fitted models with splines ranging from three to five degre ...
... The distributed lag non-linear module in R [26] was used to model the summer heat-mortality relationships. Models for each city were developed using natural cubic splines with four degrees of freedom for the temperature and the lag. We also fitted models with splines ranging from three to five degre ...
Mayors Adapt - EN Political Commitment
... at improving the quality of our living environment or reducing energy consumption, will lead the way towards a more sustainable and resilient future for the citizens, the economy and the environment. Soft, low-cost and ‘no-regrets’ actions could be considered first, and kept flexible enough to integ ...
... at improving the quality of our living environment or reducing energy consumption, will lead the way towards a more sustainable and resilient future for the citizens, the economy and the environment. Soft, low-cost and ‘no-regrets’ actions could be considered first, and kept flexible enough to integ ...
Warm Words II
... highlighted the huge and at times comic disparity of scale between these two – but also their prevalence alongside each other in many climate change communications. We drew implications and recommendations for the development of communications in a way that would avoid this problem, some of which ha ...
... highlighted the huge and at times comic disparity of scale between these two – but also their prevalence alongside each other in many climate change communications. We drew implications and recommendations for the development of communications in a way that would avoid this problem, some of which ha ...
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... only recently recognized the urgency of the problem. Now resource managers are increasingly asked to identify which of the species on the lands and waters they oversee are most vulnerable to climate change-induced declines. Knowing which species are vulnerable and why is a critical input for develop ...
... only recently recognized the urgency of the problem. Now resource managers are increasingly asked to identify which of the species on the lands and waters they oversee are most vulnerable to climate change-induced declines. Knowing which species are vulnerable and why is a critical input for develop ...
Relative Sea Level Rise Scenarios
... plus storm surge) relevant for the planning horizon of the interventions may be developed. For example, if the design lifetime of a planned flood protection measure is until 2100, then develop two separate designs to accommodate RSLR values of 0.87m and 0.29m, plus at least the 1 in 100 yr storm sur ...
... plus storm surge) relevant for the planning horizon of the interventions may be developed. For example, if the design lifetime of a planned flood protection measure is until 2100, then develop two separate designs to accommodate RSLR values of 0.87m and 0.29m, plus at least the 1 in 100 yr storm sur ...
Projected Heat-Related Mortality in the US Urban Northeast
... The distributed lag non-linear module in R [26] was used to model the summer heat-mortality relationships. Models for each city were developed using natural cubic splines with four degrees of freedom for the temperature and the lag. We also fitted models with splines ranging from three to five degre ...
... The distributed lag non-linear module in R [26] was used to model the summer heat-mortality relationships. Models for each city were developed using natural cubic splines with four degrees of freedom for the temperature and the lag. We also fitted models with splines ranging from three to five degre ...
key developments activities events scientific studies
... History in Washington, D.C. This first installment in the series UNEP RONA’s Carla Friedrich, Amy Fraenkel and Monika focuses on “Blue Carbon”, highlighting the role oceans and Thiele and Jim Toomey and his children at the launch coastal ecosystems play in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. Over ...
... History in Washington, D.C. This first installment in the series UNEP RONA’s Carla Friedrich, Amy Fraenkel and Monika focuses on “Blue Carbon”, highlighting the role oceans and Thiele and Jim Toomey and his children at the launch coastal ecosystems play in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. Over ...
When Islands Drown: The Plight Of "Climate Change Refugees" And
... prepare for a future harm caused by past, current, and future emissions around the globe. The fact that the harm has not yet happened means that victim-states will have to prove not only causation, but some degree of certainty about exactly how much land will be flooded, how severe a tropical storm ...
... prepare for a future harm caused by past, current, and future emissions around the globe. The fact that the harm has not yet happened means that victim-states will have to prove not only causation, but some degree of certainty about exactly how much land will be flooded, how severe a tropical storm ...
Phenology as an Integrative Science for Assessment of Global
... of organisms, their inter-specific interactions, their ecological functions, and their effects on fluxes in water, energy, and chemical elements at various scales. Phenological data and models are useful in agriculture, drought monitoring, and wildfire risk assessment, as well as management of invas ...
... of organisms, their inter-specific interactions, their ecological functions, and their effects on fluxes in water, energy, and chemical elements at various scales. Phenological data and models are useful in agriculture, drought monitoring, and wildfire risk assessment, as well as management of invas ...
Are we ready to build health systems that consider the climate?
... change debate has shifted from focusing on establishing the truth of the claim that climate change is a reality to warming public opinion to the cause and acknowledging that climate change will have far-reaching effects on how we build, organize and manage climate-responsive social systems including ...
... change debate has shifted from focusing on establishing the truth of the claim that climate change is a reality to warming public opinion to the cause and acknowledging that climate change will have far-reaching effects on how we build, organize and manage climate-responsive social systems including ...
the greater mekong and climate change
... Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – from various sources including combustion of fossil fuels, forest destruction, and unsustainable agriculture practices – are causing the planet to warm, altering its overall climate. Observed increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting ...
... Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – from various sources including combustion of fossil fuels, forest destruction, and unsustainable agriculture practices – are causing the planet to warm, altering its overall climate. Observed increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting ...
Climate Change Presentation
... Documented observed trends in surface temperature, precipitation patterns, snow and ice cover, sea levels, storm intensity, etc. Predicted impacts of current and future climate change on wildlife, ecosystems, and human societies Discussed strategies to pursue in response to climate change ...
... Documented observed trends in surface temperature, precipitation patterns, snow and ice cover, sea levels, storm intensity, etc. Predicted impacts of current and future climate change on wildlife, ecosystems, and human societies Discussed strategies to pursue in response to climate change ...
Human Development Report 2007/2008 Climate Change and the
... Western China could see temperature rise of 1.0-2.5° C by 2050 (relative to 1961-1990 figures), with Western China likely to see higher increases than the national average trends, and greatest increases seen in the northern reaches of the Tibetan Plateau. 27 At the same time, rainfall over Western C ...
... Western China could see temperature rise of 1.0-2.5° C by 2050 (relative to 1961-1990 figures), with Western China likely to see higher increases than the national average trends, and greatest increases seen in the northern reaches of the Tibetan Plateau. 27 At the same time, rainfall over Western C ...
A Valuable Reference Area to Assess the Effects of Climate Change
... unparalleled reference to climate-related change, beginning with the >400 types specimens logged since the 1840s,12 the earlier Ross Sea-wide survey work reported in Bullivant13 and Barry14, but most recently results from the latitudinal gradient project led by New Zealand.15 These data series have ...
... unparalleled reference to climate-related change, beginning with the >400 types specimens logged since the 1840s,12 the earlier Ross Sea-wide survey work reported in Bullivant13 and Barry14, but most recently results from the latitudinal gradient project led by New Zealand.15 These data series have ...
Adaptation and Food Security
... Goal (MDG) to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger by 20152 will be met.3 A recent study on the future of food and farming identified six key drivers of change affecting the global food system: a growing global population; changing diets, notably an increase in demand for resource-in ...
... Goal (MDG) to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger by 20152 will be met.3 A recent study on the future of food and farming identified six key drivers of change affecting the global food system: a growing global population; changing diets, notably an increase in demand for resource-in ...
Assessment of impacts of agricultural and climate change scenarios
... plant respiration and nutrient uptake, which were developed by Trybula et al. (2015) and ported to standard SWAT versions starting with SWAT2012/release 615. A watershed is typically delineated into subbasins in SWAT, based on topography, and each subbasin is then divided into multiple hydrological ...
... plant respiration and nutrient uptake, which were developed by Trybula et al. (2015) and ported to standard SWAT versions starting with SWAT2012/release 615. A watershed is typically delineated into subbasins in SWAT, based on topography, and each subbasin is then divided into multiple hydrological ...
Presentación de PowerPoint
... ProÁrbol helps to preserve Carbon in forests, tropical forests and other kind of vegetation, it also helps to capture CO2 from the atmosphere. Mexico has assumed a voluntary commitment to reduce and mitigate its emissions, and also to undertake actions of mitigation/adaptation in view of the Cli ...
... ProÁrbol helps to preserve Carbon in forests, tropical forests and other kind of vegetation, it also helps to capture CO2 from the atmosphere. Mexico has assumed a voluntary commitment to reduce and mitigate its emissions, and also to undertake actions of mitigation/adaptation in view of the Cli ...
Soil and Climate Change - Maharishi University of Management
... higher amounts can be sequestered. Work done by scientists at Texas A&M and New Mexico State University show that between 4 and 7 tons of carbon dioxide can be sequestered per acre per year, when improved practices are used. It is highly probable, however, that even higher levels of sequestration ca ...
... higher amounts can be sequestered. Work done by scientists at Texas A&M and New Mexico State University show that between 4 and 7 tons of carbon dioxide can be sequestered per acre per year, when improved practices are used. It is highly probable, however, that even higher levels of sequestration ca ...
Climate Change Effects on North American Inland Fish Populations
... Earth’s climate system is changing with widespread impacts on inland aquatic systems. Climate change effects with the greatest significance for North American aquatic ecosystems include warming of the atmosphere and oceans, reduced snow and ice, and rising sea levels (IPCC 2014). Dramatic changes in ...
... Earth’s climate system is changing with widespread impacts on inland aquatic systems. Climate change effects with the greatest significance for North American aquatic ecosystems include warming of the atmosphere and oceans, reduced snow and ice, and rising sea levels (IPCC 2014). Dramatic changes in ...
Governing Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Fragmentation in
... The article analyses the challenges of interregional cooperation for the two regional secretariats in the Mediterranean – the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean and the Secretariat of the Mediterranean Action Plan – in the policy fields of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Medite ...
... The article analyses the challenges of interregional cooperation for the two regional secretariats in the Mediterranean – the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean and the Secretariat of the Mediterranean Action Plan – in the policy fields of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Medite ...
06SORCE - Academic Program Pages at Evergreen
... would be about 279 K, or 9º C too cold. • In Q1, we found that an Earth with reflective clouds but no greenhouse gas trapping was about 255 K, or 33º C too cold. • In Q2, we found that an Earth with reflective clouds and an insulating layer of greenhouse gas atmosphere was about 15º C too warm. (One ...
... would be about 279 K, or 9º C too cold. • In Q1, we found that an Earth with reflective clouds but no greenhouse gas trapping was about 255 K, or 33º C too cold. • In Q2, we found that an Earth with reflective clouds and an insulating layer of greenhouse gas atmosphere was about 15º C too warm. (One ...