world development report 2010: Development and Climate Change
... Note: Estimates are based on 40 million SUVs (sports utility vehicles) in the United States traveling a total of 480 billion miles (assuming 12,000 miles a car) a year. With average fuel efficiency of 18 miles a gallon, the SUV fleet consumes 27 billion gallons of gasoline annually with emissions of ...
... Note: Estimates are based on 40 million SUVs (sports utility vehicles) in the United States traveling a total of 480 billion miles (assuming 12,000 miles a car) a year. With average fuel efficiency of 18 miles a gallon, the SUV fleet consumes 27 billion gallons of gasoline annually with emissions of ...
abstracts - Swedish Institute at Athens
... deleterious impact of deforestation, scholars agree that the ancient empire committed ecological suicide by consuming too many trees. This paper confronts some new evidence for surprising equilibrium in the woodlands just north of the city of Rome during late Antiquity. These findings suggest that w ...
... deleterious impact of deforestation, scholars agree that the ancient empire committed ecological suicide by consuming too many trees. This paper confronts some new evidence for surprising equilibrium in the woodlands just north of the city of Rome during late Antiquity. These findings suggest that w ...
Over-leased: How Production Horizons of Already Leased Federal
... carbon budget by several decades, and the 2°C budget by years to decades. Importantly, every new lease would extend production horizons even further into the future. As previous studies suggest, federal fossil fuel leasing policy should be aligned with U.S. climate policy goals. The analysis strongl ...
... carbon budget by several decades, and the 2°C budget by years to decades. Importantly, every new lease would extend production horizons even further into the future. As previous studies suggest, federal fossil fuel leasing policy should be aligned with U.S. climate policy goals. The analysis strongl ...
Climate Change and Respiratory Health
... conditions, including heavy snow and ice, which can make it difficult for individuals with impaired mobility to leave the house or reach medical attention, will continue to persist. iii. Flooding Floods in the Midwest are likely to become more common in the future, as anthropogenic (originating in h ...
... conditions, including heavy snow and ice, which can make it difficult for individuals with impaired mobility to leave the house or reach medical attention, will continue to persist. iii. Flooding Floods in the Midwest are likely to become more common in the future, as anthropogenic (originating in h ...
The likelihood and potential impact of future change in
... Further research is needed to quantity the likelihood of GIS and WAIS rapid melting under climate change, and whetter if they occured, the melting would be reversible. Detection and attribution studies are needed to quantify the effect that climate change has had on changes in ecosystem services his ...
... Further research is needed to quantity the likelihood of GIS and WAIS rapid melting under climate change, and whetter if they occured, the melting would be reversible. Detection and attribution studies are needed to quantify the effect that climate change has had on changes in ecosystem services his ...
Thailand_1 - Georgia Institute of Technology
... *Performance relies on quality of inputs. US has spent decades on emissions inventory development. Meteorological modeling also contributes significantly to errors ...
... *Performance relies on quality of inputs. US has spent decades on emissions inventory development. Meteorological modeling also contributes significantly to errors ...
Extended Abstract
... ocean-atmosphere global climate model data from the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis (PCMDI), which have been used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment, are employed. The models were required to have relatively long preindustrial control runs with no changes in ext ...
... ocean-atmosphere global climate model data from the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis (PCMDI), which have been used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment, are employed. The models were required to have relatively long preindustrial control runs with no changes in ext ...
Template
... mitigation and adaptation strategies. Mitigation refers to the reduction of climate change impacts via broad scale behaviour change. Mitigation strategies principally rely on impacts of climate change being reducible via the contribution to collective global implementation of ‘greenhouse gas’ emissi ...
... mitigation and adaptation strategies. Mitigation refers to the reduction of climate change impacts via broad scale behaviour change. Mitigation strategies principally rely on impacts of climate change being reducible via the contribution to collective global implementation of ‘greenhouse gas’ emissi ...
Case Study Presentation - Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and
... mode (Flake) • Reduced ice cover on Great Lakes by 2050s; • Reduced average snowfall in general except… • Small increases in historical snowbelt regions by 2050-60. ...
... mode (Flake) • Reduced ice cover on Great Lakes by 2050s; • Reduced average snowfall in general except… • Small increases in historical snowbelt regions by 2050-60. ...
Link
... The African Development Bank has called for US$40 billion per year over the coming decades to be provided to African countries to address development issues directly related to climate change (Kaberuka 2009). These costs are required to assist in the adaptation to and the mitigation from the effects ...
... The African Development Bank has called for US$40 billion per year over the coming decades to be provided to African countries to address development issues directly related to climate change (Kaberuka 2009). These costs are required to assist in the adaptation to and the mitigation from the effects ...
P7 Ideas in Context “Climate `fix` could deplete ozone”
... The evidence given that sulfate particles might help to cool the planet was that when the volcano at Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991 it emitted vast amounts of sulfur containing compounds which then seemed to cool the planet significantly. 13. Some people think that ‘ozone depletion’ is a naturally o ...
... The evidence given that sulfate particles might help to cool the planet was that when the volcano at Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991 it emitted vast amounts of sulfur containing compounds which then seemed to cool the planet significantly. 13. Some people think that ‘ozone depletion’ is a naturally o ...
Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Glacier Melt and
... which is projected to increase flooding and rock avalanches, will affect water resources in the next two to three decades. As glaciers recede, river flows will decrease. Coastal areas, especially heavily populated mega-delta regions, will be at greatest risk due to increased flooding from the sea an ...
... which is projected to increase flooding and rock avalanches, will affect water resources in the next two to three decades. As glaciers recede, river flows will decrease. Coastal areas, especially heavily populated mega-delta regions, will be at greatest risk due to increased flooding from the sea an ...
CLIMSAVE_Socio-economic_Scenarios_Presentation
... Source: Gramberger et al. (2013) Stakeholder Integrated Research (STIR): A new approach tested in climate change adaptation research. Climatic Change (under review). ...
... Source: Gramberger et al. (2013) Stakeholder Integrated Research (STIR): A new approach tested in climate change adaptation research. Climatic Change (under review). ...
A glacier is a slow-moving, extended mass of ice
... state of the earth’s climate hundreds of thousands of years ago. The composition of these air bubbles, particularly the presence of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes, gives information including data on temperature, precipitation, chemistry and gas composition of the lower atmosphere, volcanic eruptions, ...
... state of the earth’s climate hundreds of thousands of years ago. The composition of these air bubbles, particularly the presence of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes, gives information including data on temperature, precipitation, chemistry and gas composition of the lower atmosphere, volcanic eruptions, ...
The Resurrection Initiative: Storing Ancestral Genotypes to Capture
... a finding that the authors interpreted as consistent with lifegrew plants from seeds of graminoids drawn from soil cores history theory predicting evolution of early flowering as an at different depths in arctic tundra; seeds from deeper strata adaptation to seasonal drought conditions. represent ol ...
... a finding that the authors interpreted as consistent with lifegrew plants from seeds of graminoids drawn from soil cores history theory predicting evolution of early flowering as an at different depths in arctic tundra; seeds from deeper strata adaptation to seasonal drought conditions. represent ol ...
Words
... Climate change is the term used to describe the warming of the earth’s temperature (also called global warming) and the severe and unusual weather conditions which result. What causes climate change? Climate change is caused by excessive greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The most common gas is car ...
... Climate change is the term used to describe the warming of the earth’s temperature (also called global warming) and the severe and unusual weather conditions which result. What causes climate change? Climate change is caused by excessive greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The most common gas is car ...
Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Midwest: Michigan
... atmosphere and warms our climate; oceans, forests, and land can absorb some of this carbon, but not as fast as we are creating it. As a result, heat-trapping emissions are building up in our atmosphere to levels that could produce severe effects including extreme heat, prolonged droughts, intense st ...
... atmosphere and warms our climate; oceans, forests, and land can absorb some of this carbon, but not as fast as we are creating it. As a result, heat-trapping emissions are building up in our atmosphere to levels that could produce severe effects including extreme heat, prolonged droughts, intense st ...
Climate change impact in a shallow coastal Mediterranean
... scenarios. 3. Estimate changes in recharge. 4. Sea level rise and changes in recharge applied in the groundwater numerical model to make predictions. ...
... scenarios. 3. Estimate changes in recharge. 4. Sea level rise and changes in recharge applied in the groundwater numerical model to make predictions. ...
Slide 1
... later (e.g., twenty minutes for the atmosphere, hour for ocean). •equations for each box depend on the values in neighboring boxes. •computation is done for a million or so grid boxes over the globe. •repeated for the next time step, and so on until the desired length of ...
... later (e.g., twenty minutes for the atmosphere, hour for ocean). •equations for each box depend on the values in neighboring boxes. •computation is done for a million or so grid boxes over the globe. •repeated for the next time step, and so on until the desired length of ...
RUPES Goal and Objectives - World Agroforestry Centre
... Can reduce poverty (eg. additional income up to $100/ household / year; access to sustainable practices and diverse income sources; potential for more secure land rights) but more evidence needed. Spillovers can be: ...
... Can reduce poverty (eg. additional income up to $100/ household / year; access to sustainable practices and diverse income sources; potential for more secure land rights) but more evidence needed. Spillovers can be: ...
WHO | Global climate change: implications for international
... Introduction The evidence for anthropogenic climate change is now clear and convincing. The Earth’s surface has warmed by more than 0.8 °C over the past century, and by approximately 0.6 °C in the past three decades. This warming has been linked to more extreme weather conditions such as intense flo ...
... Introduction The evidence for anthropogenic climate change is now clear and convincing. The Earth’s surface has warmed by more than 0.8 °C over the past century, and by approximately 0.6 °C in the past three decades. This warming has been linked to more extreme weather conditions such as intense flo ...