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... extraordinary case, the pineosaur as it is now called was discovered alive in a small gully just north-west of Sydney, but known from similar fossils of Cretaceous age more than 70 million years old. It has been able to easily grow this year through the worst winter that London has had for some time ...
... extraordinary case, the pineosaur as it is now called was discovered alive in a small gully just north-west of Sydney, but known from similar fossils of Cretaceous age more than 70 million years old. It has been able to easily grow this year through the worst winter that London has had for some time ...
Crossing the Chasm - Power-Under: Trauma and Nonviolent Social
... to...reverse course. Here's the Indian scientist and economist Rajendra Pachauri, who accepted the Nobel Prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year...: 'If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our fut ...
... to...reverse course. Here's the Indian scientist and economist Rajendra Pachauri, who accepted the Nobel Prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year...: 'If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our fut ...
Effects of Climate Change on Lakes
... wide-ranging ecological and societal implications. The increasing accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activities has begun to affect the structure, functioning, and stability of lake ecosystems throughout the world, and much greater impacts are likely in the futur ...
... wide-ranging ecological and societal implications. The increasing accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activities has begun to affect the structure, functioning, and stability of lake ecosystems throughout the world, and much greater impacts are likely in the futur ...
- Open Research Online
... ferocity that could only have come as shock to those who had experienced thousands of years of much less intense El Niño events – even if, like the Aboriginal people of the Sydney basin, they had already been working with fire for many millennia. But the charcoal and pollen record hints at a further ...
... ferocity that could only have come as shock to those who had experienced thousands of years of much less intense El Niño events – even if, like the Aboriginal people of the Sydney basin, they had already been working with fire for many millennia. But the charcoal and pollen record hints at a further ...
Climate Solutions based on advanced scienti c discoveries of Allatra
... Recently, at the end of the 20th century, scientists put forward various hypotheses and theories about gradual climate change. But in practice everything turned out to be somewhat different. A thorough analysis of the growing number of natural disasters and extreme weather events around the world, i ...
... Recently, at the end of the 20th century, scientists put forward various hypotheses and theories about gradual climate change. But in practice everything turned out to be somewhat different. A thorough analysis of the growing number of natural disasters and extreme weather events around the world, i ...
the Earths radiation budget
... In 1859, John Tyndall's laboratory experiments showed that water vapour and carbon dioxide absorb infra-red radiation and that they could therefore affect the climate of the Earth. In fact, greenhouse gases absorb much of the long-wave radiation emitted by the surface of the Earth. These gases inclu ...
... In 1859, John Tyndall's laboratory experiments showed that water vapour and carbon dioxide absorb infra-red radiation and that they could therefore affect the climate of the Earth. In fact, greenhouse gases absorb much of the long-wave radiation emitted by the surface of the Earth. These gases inclu ...
Aerosol exposure versus aerosol cooling of climate
... Aerosols do not influence the climate system only by direct reflection of radiation. They also have a substantial impact on cloud reflectivity, precipitation pattern, atmospheric circulation system, heat distribution and melting of ice. Most important for RF is the indirect effect, which involves th ...
... Aerosols do not influence the climate system only by direct reflection of radiation. They also have a substantial impact on cloud reflectivity, precipitation pattern, atmospheric circulation system, heat distribution and melting of ice. Most important for RF is the indirect effect, which involves th ...
Smurfit-Stone Container Enterprises, Inc
... are still largely under development, the specific impacts to Smurfit-Stone and the pulp and paper industry are difficult to predict as any single variable can vastly alter the scope of such impacts considerably. For example, a study done by National Economic Research Associates (“NERA”) suggests tha ...
... are still largely under development, the specific impacts to Smurfit-Stone and the pulp and paper industry are difficult to predict as any single variable can vastly alter the scope of such impacts considerably. For example, a study done by National Economic Research Associates (“NERA”) suggests tha ...
Climate remains an important driver of post
... 2010; Hubeny et al., 2011; McEwan et al., 2011; Pederson et al., 2013; Newby et al., 2014). The long-term trend of increased moisture has persisted to the present in most areas (Fig. 1b); for example, regional-scale water table levels in the northeastern United States are at their highest since the ...
... 2010; Hubeny et al., 2011; McEwan et al., 2011; Pederson et al., 2013; Newby et al., 2014). The long-term trend of increased moisture has persisted to the present in most areas (Fig. 1b); for example, regional-scale water table levels in the northeastern United States are at their highest since the ...
NAFTA and Climate Change - Peterson Institute for International
... target. It committed C$500 million to a list of measures to reduce emissions, but this spending did not successfully slow the growth in Canada’s GHG emissions. Subsequent plans were likewise unsuccessful, and proposals to enact a cap-and-trade system for large emitters were never implemented. Unlike ...
... target. It committed C$500 million to a list of measures to reduce emissions, but this spending did not successfully slow the growth in Canada’s GHG emissions. Subsequent plans were likewise unsuccessful, and proposals to enact a cap-and-trade system for large emitters were never implemented. Unlike ...
Building up for Paris - Green European Foundation
... This causes problems as slow onset events such as ocean acidification and extreme weather events like typhoons are consequences of climate change, which do not allow adequate adaptation. The stakes are very high for the Conference in Paris, because as a result it must the first time have an internat ...
... This causes problems as slow onset events such as ocean acidification and extreme weather events like typhoons are consequences of climate change, which do not allow adequate adaptation. The stakes are very high for the Conference in Paris, because as a result it must the first time have an internat ...
Climate changes of the twentieth through twenty-first
... (deepening of the polar low pressure) (e.g., Thompson et al., 2000; Marshall, 2003) in the past few decades, resulting in a significant influence on climate changes in the twentieth century. Thompson et al. (2000) suggested that a large part of the climate trends in the last 30 years of the twentiet ...
... (deepening of the polar low pressure) (e.g., Thompson et al., 2000; Marshall, 2003) in the past few decades, resulting in a significant influence on climate changes in the twentieth century. Thompson et al. (2000) suggested that a large part of the climate trends in the last 30 years of the twentiet ...
The Influence on Climate Change of Differing Scenarios for Future
... The literature on future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and resultant climate changes is populated by hundreds of scenarios of future development. These scenarios are dependent on many underlying assumptions about future human activity, the pace and shape of political and technological change, and t ...
... The literature on future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and resultant climate changes is populated by hundreds of scenarios of future development. These scenarios are dependent on many underlying assumptions about future human activity, the pace and shape of political and technological change, and t ...
Seminar “Sustainable Development, Consumption, Production and
... sectorial and macroeconomic levels Typical environmental assessment (EA) procedures CASE STUDY: SD assessment of a tropical rainforest in Madagascar ...
... sectorial and macroeconomic levels Typical environmental assessment (EA) procedures CASE STUDY: SD assessment of a tropical rainforest in Madagascar ...
Climatic Change in the Built Environment in Temperate Climates
... 4. How cities grow and operate matters for energy demand and thus for GHG emissions. Urban density and spatial planning and organization are key factors that influence energy consumption, especially in the transportation and building sectors. The acceleration of urbanization since 1950 has been acc ...
... 4. How cities grow and operate matters for energy demand and thus for GHG emissions. Urban density and spatial planning and organization are key factors that influence energy consumption, especially in the transportation and building sectors. The acceleration of urbanization since 1950 has been acc ...
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... The technological advances made in solar power were derived through private investment and occurred without legal assistance. 22 Nevertheless, the fact that clean technologies are able to develop without government influence does not mean that there is no role for lawmakers. 23 There is substantial ...
... The technological advances made in solar power were derived through private investment and occurred without legal assistance. 22 Nevertheless, the fact that clean technologies are able to develop without government influence does not mean that there is no role for lawmakers. 23 There is substantial ...
Adapted from a Public Briefing
... storms (6 inches or more) and ice storms. • There has been a northward shift in snow storm occurrence, and this shift, combined with higher temperature, is consistent with a decrease in snow cover extent over the U.S. • In northern Canada, there has also been an observed increase in heavy snow over ...
... storms (6 inches or more) and ice storms. • There has been a northward shift in snow storm occurrence, and this shift, combined with higher temperature, is consistent with a decrease in snow cover extent over the U.S. • In northern Canada, there has also been an observed increase in heavy snow over ...
New Zealand`s
... research delivers results that can be commercialised within the time period covered by this contribution. New Zealand will communicate its final NDC following agreement on the rules to apply in the above areas. ...
... research delivers results that can be commercialised within the time period covered by this contribution. New Zealand will communicate its final NDC following agreement on the rules to apply in the above areas. ...
legal approaches to promote technological solutions to climate change
... The technological advances made in solar power were derived through private investment and occurred without legal assistance. 22 Nevertheless, the fact that clean technologies are able to develop without government influence does not mean that there is no role for lawmakers. 23 There is substantial ...
... The technological advances made in solar power were derived through private investment and occurred without legal assistance. 22 Nevertheless, the fact that clean technologies are able to develop without government influence does not mean that there is no role for lawmakers. 23 There is substantial ...
Adaptive cycle and Panarchy
... Potential: the number and kinds of future options available (e.g. high levels of biodiversity provide more future options than low levels) Connectedness: the degree to which a system can control its own destiny through internal controls, as distinct from being influenced by external variables Resili ...
... Potential: the number and kinds of future options available (e.g. high levels of biodiversity provide more future options than low levels) Connectedness: the degree to which a system can control its own destiny through internal controls, as distinct from being influenced by external variables Resili ...
draft proposal - Stockholm Environment Institute
... programme and hold a major international conference on the co-benefits of controlling air pollution and greenhouse gases. The conference will be held in the autumn of 2008. The location of the conference has yet to be determined. The conference and Forum programme will focus on three major themes: 1 ...
... programme and hold a major international conference on the co-benefits of controlling air pollution and greenhouse gases. The conference will be held in the autumn of 2008. The location of the conference has yet to be determined. The conference and Forum programme will focus on three major themes: 1 ...
SEARCH Science Brief: Effects of the Arctic Meltdown on U.S.
... The linkage between amplified Arctic warming and mid-latitude weather is a rapidly evolving field of research. New evidence suggests that diminished sea ice in particular regions and seasons has distinct effects on weather extremes.6 Ice loss and warming north of Alaska, for example, allows extra summ ...
... The linkage between amplified Arctic warming and mid-latitude weather is a rapidly evolving field of research. New evidence suggests that diminished sea ice in particular regions and seasons has distinct effects on weather extremes.6 Ice loss and warming north of Alaska, for example, allows extra summ ...
Engagement, Learning, and Achievement A Lasting Agenda for
... opportunities or reduces negative effects. ...
... opportunities or reduces negative effects. ...
Climate change and family planning: least
... least one of three ways in which demographic trends interact with the effects of climate change: (i) faster degradation of the sources of natural resources; (ii) increased demand for scarce resources; and (iii) heightened human vulnerability to extreme weather events. These findings suggest that vol ...
... least one of three ways in which demographic trends interact with the effects of climate change: (i) faster degradation of the sources of natural resources; (ii) increased demand for scarce resources; and (iii) heightened human vulnerability to extreme weather events. These findings suggest that vol ...