release draft federal methane rules
... carbon dioxide per year.iv To avoid catastrophic climate change, we need to reduce both carbon dioxide and methane. The adjacent chart from a study by Shoemaker et al, published in 2013 in Science, shows how efforts to reduce CO2 (the green line) have particularly strong impacts on temperature in th ...
... carbon dioxide per year.iv To avoid catastrophic climate change, we need to reduce both carbon dioxide and methane. The adjacent chart from a study by Shoemaker et al, published in 2013 in Science, shows how efforts to reduce CO2 (the green line) have particularly strong impacts on temperature in th ...
The science of climate change - Australian Academy of Science
... have been linked to rising greenhouse gas concentrations. ...
... have been linked to rising greenhouse gas concentrations. ...
White Paper
... Indonesia is a prime example, as the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases due to logging; they have failed to enforce anti-logging laws that were passed as a result of international and regional pressure. On the whole, this region will not accept any agreement that has binding clauses about cur ...
... Indonesia is a prime example, as the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases due to logging; they have failed to enforce anti-logging laws that were passed as a result of international and regional pressure. On the whole, this region will not accept any agreement that has binding clauses about cur ...
Post-2012 Issues under the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol
... • How to select a level of ambition for Kyoto Parties? • How can the Convention also drive reductions and ...
... • How to select a level of ambition for Kyoto Parties? • How can the Convention also drive reductions and ...
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... Infant Mortality and Nutrition: Poorest Quintiles in India ‘92-‘93 Source: Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition, and Population, The World Bank, 2000 ...
... Infant Mortality and Nutrition: Poorest Quintiles in India ‘92-‘93 Source: Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition, and Population, The World Bank, 2000 ...
Global warming and the acceleration of the hydrological cycle
... great floods increased substantially during the twentieth century, and that this trend will continue into the 21st century. However, the frequency of floods with shorter return periods did not increase significantly. Groisman et al. (2004) report that total and base streamflow in the US has increase ...
... great floods increased substantially during the twentieth century, and that this trend will continue into the 21st century. However, the frequency of floods with shorter return periods did not increase significantly. Groisman et al. (2004) report that total and base streamflow in the US has increase ...
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... The Programme will produce, year on year, a clear roadmap of the scientific breakthroughs required at each stage to maintain the pace of cost reduction. There will be a Commission consisting of one representative of each member country and, under it, a Roadmap Committee of some 20 senior technologis ...
... The Programme will produce, year on year, a clear roadmap of the scientific breakthroughs required at each stage to maintain the pace of cost reduction. There will be a Commission consisting of one representative of each member country and, under it, a Roadmap Committee of some 20 senior technologis ...
The Future of the Winter Olympics in a Warmer World
... A previous Olympic Winter Games host location was deemed climatically reliable for future winter games if both indicators were achieved in 9 out of 10 winters (90% or greater probability). If one or both indicators were achieved less than 75% of winters, the location was considered unreliable for el ...
... A previous Olympic Winter Games host location was deemed climatically reliable for future winter games if both indicators were achieved in 9 out of 10 winters (90% or greater probability). If one or both indicators were achieved less than 75% of winters, the location was considered unreliable for el ...
Accurate Answers to Professor Plimer`s 101 Climate Change
... Historical records reveal that the Earth has experienced significant past changes in its climate such as the changes between glacial and interglacial periods. However, none of the previous drivers of change in the Earth’s climate are responsible for all the current temperature increases. ...
... Historical records reveal that the Earth has experienced significant past changes in its climate such as the changes between glacial and interglacial periods. However, none of the previous drivers of change in the Earth’s climate are responsible for all the current temperature increases. ...
our submission - Southern Oregon Climate Action Now
... There is much about the universe that we do not know. On the other hand, there is much that we do know. The arena of climate science tells us, with as high a confidence as science ever tells us anything, that our planet is warming rapidly, and that human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases, from a ...
... There is much about the universe that we do not know. On the other hand, there is much that we do know. The arena of climate science tells us, with as high a confidence as science ever tells us anything, that our planet is warming rapidly, and that human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases, from a ...
FINAL EXAM: MONDAY MARCH 17 3-6PM
... However, still not sure about future hurricanes since upper level winds may change as well ...
... However, still not sure about future hurricanes since upper level winds may change as well ...
climate change: health impacts and opportunities
... stressor on freshwater ecosystems in the second half of the 21st century, especially under high-warming scenarios (Ch3). This will add to other stressors, including land-use change, pollution and water extraction, with important that people have access to. Climate change is forecast to pose risks to ...
... stressor on freshwater ecosystems in the second half of the 21st century, especially under high-warming scenarios (Ch3). This will add to other stressors, including land-use change, pollution and water extraction, with important that people have access to. Climate change is forecast to pose risks to ...
Summary of the ideas 2015 cut-off
... phase of this oscillation, El Niño, is associated with a band of warm water that develops over the eastern central equatorial Pacific. El Niño has environmental, societal, economic and political consequences that are immediate for countries bordering the tropical Pacific (agriculture and fishing ove ...
... phase of this oscillation, El Niño, is associated with a band of warm water that develops over the eastern central equatorial Pacific. El Niño has environmental, societal, economic and political consequences that are immediate for countries bordering the tropical Pacific (agriculture and fishing ove ...
Are cultures endangered by climate change? Yes, but
... still quite dramatic. Readers of this journal are likely to be familiar with some of the best known stories of climate change impacts, such as those of Kivalina and Shishmaref, Alaska, where melting permafrost and reduced icepack have left coastal regions devastated by accelerated erosion, to the po ...
... still quite dramatic. Readers of this journal are likely to be familiar with some of the best known stories of climate change impacts, such as those of Kivalina and Shishmaref, Alaska, where melting permafrost and reduced icepack have left coastal regions devastated by accelerated erosion, to the po ...
particularly vulnerable
... The agronomic literature (which includes the agricultural components of the agronomic-economic approaches and the agroecological zone analyses) addresses adaptation by simulating changes in the growth parameters of various crops according to the latest scientific advances. This approach does not tak ...
... The agronomic literature (which includes the agricultural components of the agronomic-economic approaches and the agroecological zone analyses) addresses adaptation by simulating changes in the growth parameters of various crops according to the latest scientific advances. This approach does not tak ...
Decision 1/CMP.6 The Cancun Agreements: Outcome of the work of
... Recognizing that Parties included in Annex I (Annex I Parties) should continue to take the lead in combating climate change, Also recognizing that the contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation o ...
... Recognizing that Parties included in Annex I (Annex I Parties) should continue to take the lead in combating climate change, Also recognizing that the contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation o ...
Energy - powerful Solutions for getting off oil
... generators for buildings. They can improve air quality and typically reduce CO2 emissions by 78 percent for biodiesel, and 68 percent for ethanol, compared to conventional fuels. 9. One of the main consumers of oil and emitters of greenhouse emissions is transport (particular cars, trucks, buses and ...
... generators for buildings. They can improve air quality and typically reduce CO2 emissions by 78 percent for biodiesel, and 68 percent for ethanol, compared to conventional fuels. 9. One of the main consumers of oil and emitters of greenhouse emissions is transport (particular cars, trucks, buses and ...
Pacific Coast Climate Leadership Action Plan, June 1, 2016
... Pacific Coast to create a low carbon future that is the model for the world. 3) Establish a consistent approach for monitoring and reporting on emissions of the powerful climate-forcing pollutants methane, black carbon, ground-level ozone, and fluorinated gases with the ambition of establishing tar ...
... Pacific Coast to create a low carbon future that is the model for the world. 3) Establish a consistent approach for monitoring and reporting on emissions of the powerful climate-forcing pollutants methane, black carbon, ground-level ozone, and fluorinated gases with the ambition of establishing tar ...
The Joint Policy Committee
... Economic Impacts in Bay Area In California, climate risk—the damage that will occur if no action is taken—would include tens of billions per year in direct economic costs for public health, agriculture, tourism and other sectors.” Source: Roland-Holst, 2008 ...
... Economic Impacts in Bay Area In California, climate risk—the damage that will occur if no action is taken—would include tens of billions per year in direct economic costs for public health, agriculture, tourism and other sectors.” Source: Roland-Holst, 2008 ...
Stephen Schneider 1945–2010 A Biographical Memoir by B. D. Santer
... future climates. He saw that the power of modeling could lead to real scientific breakthroughs: to a better understanding of the key drivers of climate change, and of fundamental properties of the climate system. Steve also understood that, despite their imperfections, these models, which he once ca ...
... future climates. He saw that the power of modeling could lead to real scientific breakthroughs: to a better understanding of the key drivers of climate change, and of fundamental properties of the climate system. Steve also understood that, despite their imperfections, these models, which he once ca ...
Renewable Energy and Marine Spatial Planning: Scientific and
... continental shelves mirror the acceleration of human resource use globally they are also often subject to most rapid global environmental change shelf seas provide the majority of global ecosystem goods and services and reflect multiple transition efforts to adapt to global and climate change, ...
... continental shelves mirror the acceleration of human resource use globally they are also often subject to most rapid global environmental change shelf seas provide the majority of global ecosystem goods and services and reflect multiple transition efforts to adapt to global and climate change, ...