Likelihood of rapidly increasing surface temperatures unaccompanied by strong warming
... 1979–2000. However, in a test of model predictive skill, a comparison with observations shows no warming of the free troposphere over this period. We assessed the likelihood that such a disparity between model projection and observations could be generated by forcing uncertainties or chance model fl ...
... 1979–2000. However, in a test of model predictive skill, a comparison with observations shows no warming of the free troposphere over this period. We assessed the likelihood that such a disparity between model projection and observations could be generated by forcing uncertainties or chance model fl ...
Harnessing Synergies Between Climate Change Adaptation and
... • Generates ownership among a wide range of stakeholders • Lead to robust risk reduction ...
... • Generates ownership among a wide range of stakeholders • Lead to robust risk reduction ...
1 Lecture Aims Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) Feedbacks
... Solar activity (sunspots etc) & irradiance (total radiation) changes with 11year solar cycle. There are long term changes in solar activity – the Maunder Minimum being one example. Converting this to changes in solar irradiance can be done though very uncertain. “Sun-like” starts which show activity ...
... Solar activity (sunspots etc) & irradiance (total radiation) changes with 11year solar cycle. There are long term changes in solar activity – the Maunder Minimum being one example. Converting this to changes in solar irradiance can be done though very uncertain. “Sun-like” starts which show activity ...
Interactive comment on “Northern high
... The authors provide a reconstruction of mid-Holocene temperature change from different proxies for the Northern Hemisphere high latitudes >60N. The paper is intended as a companion to another CPD paper that uses the described reconstruction in a datamodel comparison. Probably the most important aspe ...
... The authors provide a reconstruction of mid-Holocene temperature change from different proxies for the Northern Hemisphere high latitudes >60N. The paper is intended as a companion to another CPD paper that uses the described reconstruction in a datamodel comparison. Probably the most important aspe ...
Financial engineering, including investment approaches for
... 1. Source: School’s own budget+ contribution from the local community+ UNDP SEED funding+ crowdfunding+ co-financing from the Fund for Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency; 2. Leverage finance through crowdfunding: Within two month, the project raised $10,001 from 189 funders which enables ...
... 1. Source: School’s own budget+ contribution from the local community+ UNDP SEED funding+ crowdfunding+ co-financing from the Fund for Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency; 2. Leverage finance through crowdfunding: Within two month, the project raised $10,001 from 189 funders which enables ...
Health Implications of Climate Change 3.54 MB | Posted 13
... • A well-prepared line of defense: health providers and systems need to prepare for adverse impacts of climate change & know which populations are most at risk for negative health impacts; • A reliable tracking system to monitor effects of climate change & ...
... • A well-prepared line of defense: health providers and systems need to prepare for adverse impacts of climate change & know which populations are most at risk for negative health impacts; • A reliable tracking system to monitor effects of climate change & ...
The Semantics of Climate Change and Global Warming
... ple co-locations of words by recruiting a more sophisticated model of word relationships. The Hyperspace Analogue to Language model (HAL) attempts to transform local co-occurrences between words into richer representations of meaning by encoding the contextual history of a word into a vector within ...
... ple co-locations of words by recruiting a more sophisticated model of word relationships. The Hyperspace Analogue to Language model (HAL) attempts to transform local co-occurrences between words into richer representations of meaning by encoding the contextual history of a word into a vector within ...
Global Responsibilities: Ethics, Public Health, and Global
... of institutional authority. 8 This approach is common and is not necessarily undesirable. The fact that an issue has promoters does not, however, fully explain why it succeeds in capturing public attention. A wide range of issues with influential and able promoters is lost in the cacophony of compet ...
... of institutional authority. 8 This approach is common and is not necessarily undesirable. The fact that an issue has promoters does not, however, fully explain why it succeeds in capturing public attention. A wide range of issues with influential and able promoters is lost in the cacophony of compet ...
Climate Impacts on the Newport News Shipyard
... statistics. These statistics generally follow the form of the single largest value out of an observed set of values – i.e., the extreme value of the set, such as the highest tide of the month or year. ...
... statistics. These statistics generally follow the form of the single largest value out of an observed set of values – i.e., the extreme value of the set, such as the highest tide of the month or year. ...
Investing to Curb Climate Change: A Guide for the Institutional Investor
... severe weather events of all kinds, from wildfires and droughts to hurricanes and floods—has been more severe than many scientists had predicted. The global warming of the last several decades has been caused largely by human activities—in particular the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and ...
... severe weather events of all kinds, from wildfires and droughts to hurricanes and floods—has been more severe than many scientists had predicted. The global warming of the last several decades has been caused largely by human activities—in particular the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and ...
Introductions PowerPoint
... rate of Arctic ice melt may have been too conservative (Than). Julianne Stroeve, a scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, reports that ice melt patterns are “about 30 years ahead of where the climate models say we should be” (qtd. in Thompson). ...
... rate of Arctic ice melt may have been too conservative (Than). Julianne Stroeve, a scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, reports that ice melt patterns are “about 30 years ahead of where the climate models say we should be” (qtd. in Thompson). ...
Center for Policy Research
... question 5, where 74.6% disagreed and 17.8% agreed, was there anything resembling a ...
... question 5, where 74.6% disagreed and 17.8% agreed, was there anything resembling a ...
Neil Bird - Tracking climate finance in budgetary systems
... according to whether the purpose and/or the effect of the expenditure was related to climate change. This resulted in climate change activity being identified within 26,774 line items. ...
... according to whether the purpose and/or the effect of the expenditure was related to climate change. This resulted in climate change activity being identified within 26,774 line items. ...
Climate change and invasive animals
... them, to forage more widely. This makes them more vulnerable to predation by foxes, which also eat bogong moths.9 However, some invasive species will suffer. Higher temperatures will disadvantage rabbits because they need cool weather for breeding.10 ...
... them, to forage more widely. This makes them more vulnerable to predation by foxes, which also eat bogong moths.9 However, some invasive species will suffer. Higher temperatures will disadvantage rabbits because they need cool weather for breeding.10 ...
A balance of bottom-up and top-down in linking climate policies
... addition to potentially catalysing reductions, they also create incentives for weaker emissions targets that need to be anticipated and managed. ‘Abatement’ is unlike many other goods. The supply of emissions allowances depends on government policy to create and enforce property rights and willingne ...
... addition to potentially catalysing reductions, they also create incentives for weaker emissions targets that need to be anticipated and managed. ‘Abatement’ is unlike many other goods. The supply of emissions allowances depends on government policy to create and enforce property rights and willingne ...
Communicating climate change to mass public audiences
... 5. Promote pro-environmental social norms and harness the power of social networks One way of bridging the gap between private-sphere behaviour changes and collective action is the promotion of pro-environmental social norms. Pictures and videos of ordinary people (‘like me’) engaging in significan ...
... 5. Promote pro-environmental social norms and harness the power of social networks One way of bridging the gap between private-sphere behaviour changes and collective action is the promotion of pro-environmental social norms. Pictures and videos of ordinary people (‘like me’) engaging in significan ...
Challenge 4 How can footfall and transport be used innovatively to
... 2.Transport - getting about from A to B by motorised transport modes such as a car, vans or motorcycle or by more sustainable modes such as walking, cycling, buses and trains; 3.Income- attracting, saving or generating money in the city to help the local economy thrive; and 4.Environmental Sustainab ...
... 2.Transport - getting about from A to B by motorised transport modes such as a car, vans or motorcycle or by more sustainable modes such as walking, cycling, buses and trains; 3.Income- attracting, saving or generating money in the city to help the local economy thrive; and 4.Environmental Sustainab ...
Climate change and extreme weather events
... Vinnikov et al. show that the Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent has decreased during the past 46 years. The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) model and the Hadley Centre model, both forced with greenhouse gases and tropospheric sulfate aerosols, simulate the observed trend in sea ice ex ...
... Vinnikov et al. show that the Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent has decreased during the past 46 years. The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) model and the Hadley Centre model, both forced with greenhouse gases and tropospheric sulfate aerosols, simulate the observed trend in sea ice ex ...
carbon dioxide emission and maximum warming
... decrease of ocean heat uptake; and the equilibrium climate sensitivity which also controls the response timescale of the system. R&C take these uncertainties into account and show that uncertainty in the temperature response timescale can only be narrowed if uncertainty in all three contributing fac ...
... decrease of ocean heat uptake; and the equilibrium climate sensitivity which also controls the response timescale of the system. R&C take these uncertainties into account and show that uncertainty in the temperature response timescale can only be narrowed if uncertainty in all three contributing fac ...
The Climate Change Act (2008) - The Institute for Government
... But, after two years of interdepartmental haggling, the final outcome fell well short of that goal. Carbon reductions had effectively stopped after 2000 and the measures scraped together in the CCPR were projected to only achieve a 10.6% reduction by 2010 – of which 5.6% had been achieved between 19 ...
... But, after two years of interdepartmental haggling, the final outcome fell well short of that goal. Carbon reductions had effectively stopped after 2000 and the measures scraped together in the CCPR were projected to only achieve a 10.6% reduction by 2010 – of which 5.6% had been achieved between 19 ...
English 9
... atmospheric conditions observed over the past 200 years. They then use those results to predict where climate conditions may be going in the years ahead. The computer models use data about greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide and methane, combined with weather patterns, average temperatures, ...
... atmospheric conditions observed over the past 200 years. They then use those results to predict where climate conditions may be going in the years ahead. The computer models use data about greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide and methane, combined with weather patterns, average temperatures, ...
Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Transition to Sustainability:
... emissions of carbon dioxide must fall by 50-85 percent from 2000 to 2050 to prevent global warming by 2-2.4 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial times, widely considered to be the threshold required to prevent climate catastrophes that could threaten the survival of humanity and civilization. Since t ...
... emissions of carbon dioxide must fall by 50-85 percent from 2000 to 2050 to prevent global warming by 2-2.4 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial times, widely considered to be the threshold required to prevent climate catastrophes that could threaten the survival of humanity and civilization. Since t ...