Michael Dettinger - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
... [Total numbers of publications: >130 journal articles & book chapters, >30 government reports & >80 other technical publications. Impact: GoogleScholar lists >16,000 citations to my work in the scientific literature, with 42 of my publications cited >100 (many indicated below by **). My work has bee ...
... [Total numbers of publications: >130 journal articles & book chapters, >30 government reports & >80 other technical publications. Impact: GoogleScholar lists >16,000 citations to my work in the scientific literature, with 42 of my publications cited >100 (many indicated below by **). My work has bee ...
BCC Syllabus
... • Describe how sea level has changed throughout Earth’s history • Explain current observations, projections of future sea levels, and their respective uncertainties • Explain the mechanisms underlying potential risks and vulnerabilities and their geographic distribution • Describe and evaluate poten ...
... • Describe how sea level has changed throughout Earth’s history • Explain current observations, projections of future sea levels, and their respective uncertainties • Explain the mechanisms underlying potential risks and vulnerabilities and their geographic distribution • Describe and evaluate poten ...
Energy efficiency support programs in the residential buildings sector
... Novikova, J. Rilling, H. Yoshino, 2007: Residential and commercial buildings. In Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave, L.A.Meyer (eds)], Cambrid ...
... Novikova, J. Rilling, H. Yoshino, 2007: Residential and commercial buildings. In Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave, L.A.Meyer (eds)], Cambrid ...
The UN International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) at IDRC Davos 2008
... at IDRC Davos 2008 Wolfgang Eder, former UNESCO-Director “Earth Sciences” IYPE Representative of Europe Davos, 26 August 2008 ...
... at IDRC Davos 2008 Wolfgang Eder, former UNESCO-Director “Earth Sciences” IYPE Representative of Europe Davos, 26 August 2008 ...
high level forum on aid effectiveness
... • Climate Change Finance Aid Effectiveness principles and commitments for climate change Agreement on monitoring framework Providing input to Durban negotiations and beyond ...
... • Climate Change Finance Aid Effectiveness principles and commitments for climate change Agreement on monitoring framework Providing input to Durban negotiations and beyond ...
The Physics of Climate and Climate Change
... a range of emissions scenarios, which are based on assumptions about technological changes and economic decisions. The main focus is usually on what used to be called the business-as-usual scenario. ...
... a range of emissions scenarios, which are based on assumptions about technological changes and economic decisions. The main focus is usually on what used to be called the business-as-usual scenario. ...
Reaching professionals and ordinary citizens
... willing to act, and that the small actions taken by many ordinary people seem to be making a difference,” says Industrial Counsellor Sirkka Vilkamo of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, who chaired the steering group of the communications programme. ...
... willing to act, and that the small actions taken by many ordinary people seem to be making a difference,” says Industrial Counsellor Sirkka Vilkamo of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, who chaired the steering group of the communications programme. ...
June 2013 ISSN 2070-4593
... der Hoeven said in London in June at the launch of a World Energy Outlook Special Report, Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map, which highlights the need for intensive action before 2020. Noting that the energy sector accounts for around two-thirds of global greenhouse-gas emissions, she added: “This re ...
... der Hoeven said in London in June at the launch of a World Energy Outlook Special Report, Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map, which highlights the need for intensive action before 2020. Noting that the energy sector accounts for around two-thirds of global greenhouse-gas emissions, she added: “This re ...
Hobday and Pecl_Global Marine Hotspots
... have moved beyond correlation-based inference to demonstrate mechanistic links between warming and biological responses, particularly in regions experiencing rapid change. However, the assessment of climate change impacts and development of adaptation options that humans can undertake are at the ear ...
... have moved beyond correlation-based inference to demonstrate mechanistic links between warming and biological responses, particularly in regions experiencing rapid change. However, the assessment of climate change impacts and development of adaptation options that humans can undertake are at the ear ...
Long Range Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
... Latest IPCC report confirms “temperatures averaged over all habitable continents … will very likely rise at greater than the global average rate in the next 50 years and by an amount substantially in excess of natural variability.” (IPCC WR1, 2007) ...
... Latest IPCC report confirms “temperatures averaged over all habitable continents … will very likely rise at greater than the global average rate in the next 50 years and by an amount substantially in excess of natural variability.” (IPCC WR1, 2007) ...
Carbon Storage: A permafrost carbon bomb?
... The largest source of bottom water — the Weddell Sea — has freshened the least 2. This pattern of change is entirely consistent with glacier melt causing the freshening — the largest sources of melt water are the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers1 located west of the Antarctic Peninsula, and the kno ...
... The largest source of bottom water — the Weddell Sea — has freshened the least 2. This pattern of change is entirely consistent with glacier melt causing the freshening — the largest sources of melt water are the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers1 located west of the Antarctic Peninsula, and the kno ...
ACCOMMODATING GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: A RADICAL WORLD ORDER CHALLENGE Globalization in Crisis
... --United States. In both circumstances it is impossible to contemplate a solution that does not rest upon U.S. leadership. And in both instances the U.S. government, despite espousing lofty rhetorical commitments from time to time, has blocked progress toward more ambitious goals. The United States ...
... --United States. In both circumstances it is impossible to contemplate a solution that does not rest upon U.S. leadership. And in both instances the U.S. government, despite espousing lofty rhetorical commitments from time to time, has blocked progress toward more ambitious goals. The United States ...
chasing ice
... People are experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, which include changing weather patterns, rising sea level and more extreme weather events. The greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are driving climate change and continue to rise. They are now at their highest levels in hi ...
... People are experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, which include changing weather patterns, rising sea level and more extreme weather events. The greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are driving climate change and continue to rise. They are now at their highest levels in hi ...
Continuum Mechanics in the Earth Sciences Orogenesis
... On a first and superficial glimpse a landscape covered by ice and snow appears barren and devoid of life. But if you study more carefully the pockets of liquid water forming on, in, or below this cover, a fascinating microcosm emerges. An extreme environment, characterized by low temperatures, low n ...
... On a first and superficial glimpse a landscape covered by ice and snow appears barren and devoid of life. But if you study more carefully the pockets of liquid water forming on, in, or below this cover, a fascinating microcosm emerges. An extreme environment, characterized by low temperatures, low n ...
WMO Integrated Global Observing System WIGOS
... • Improved protection of life, and property (related to impacts of hazardous weather, climate, water and other environmental events and increased safety of circulation and transport on land, at sea and in the air) • Poverty alleviation, sustained livelihoods and economic growth (in connection with t ...
... • Improved protection of life, and property (related to impacts of hazardous weather, climate, water and other environmental events and increased safety of circulation and transport on land, at sea and in the air) • Poverty alleviation, sustained livelihoods and economic growth (in connection with t ...
Urban heat island effect, climate change, and potential adaptations
... heat island effect. It is possible that a synergistic relationship will develop between the urban heat island effect and global climate change in the 21st Century. In the New York Metropolitan Area, analysis of National Climatic Data Center data at 23 weather stations revealed a warming trend of 0.1 ...
... heat island effect. It is possible that a synergistic relationship will develop between the urban heat island effect and global climate change in the 21st Century. In the New York Metropolitan Area, analysis of National Climatic Data Center data at 23 weather stations revealed a warming trend of 0.1 ...
CATF releases
... achieve its goal of reducing methane pollution from the oil and gas industry by 40-45 percent over the next decade without nationwide standards on oil and gas equipment in use today, according to new research released today by Clean Air Task Force. The research, entitled “Mind the Gap,” found that t ...
... achieve its goal of reducing methane pollution from the oil and gas industry by 40-45 percent over the next decade without nationwide standards on oil and gas equipment in use today, according to new research released today by Clean Air Task Force. The research, entitled “Mind the Gap,” found that t ...
Towards Local Costing of Climate Change Impacts for Decision
... – At least as important for planning for current vulnerability as for future vulnerability under CC ...
... – At least as important for planning for current vulnerability as for future vulnerability under CC ...
Download country chapter
... energy, industrial processes, agriculture, forestry, land use and waste. Beyond that, education, awareness rising and investigation actions are being conducted. A Climate Action Plan, which should follow the Strategy, was not yet prepared. The Ministry of Environment, with support from the UNDP, is ...
... energy, industrial processes, agriculture, forestry, land use and waste. Beyond that, education, awareness rising and investigation actions are being conducted. A Climate Action Plan, which should follow the Strategy, was not yet prepared. The Ministry of Environment, with support from the UNDP, is ...
Rapid evolution of thermal tolerance in the water flea Daphnia
... Global climate is changing rapidly, and the degree to which natural populations respond genetically to these changes is key to predicting ecological responses1–3 . So far, no study has documented evolutionary changes in the thermal tolerance of natural populations as a response to recent temperature ...
... Global climate is changing rapidly, and the degree to which natural populations respond genetically to these changes is key to predicting ecological responses1–3 . So far, no study has documented evolutionary changes in the thermal tolerance of natural populations as a response to recent temperature ...
8-Impacts_climate_variabilitychange
... integrated assessments that will need to be based on earth observation data providing the spatial continuum to be complemented with in-situ observations. (a) Knowledge and methods: Pijanowski, B.C.. et al. (2007), describe very well the need and requirements of integrating climate-land change intera ...
... integrated assessments that will need to be based on earth observation data providing the spatial continuum to be complemented with in-situ observations. (a) Knowledge and methods: Pijanowski, B.C.. et al. (2007), describe very well the need and requirements of integrating climate-land change intera ...
Clues of Climates of the Past
... y This x-ray of a coral core shows the change in 18O concentration corresponding to the coral’s growth. NASA figure by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by Cole et. al. 2000, archived at the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology ...
... y This x-ray of a coral core shows the change in 18O concentration corresponding to the coral’s growth. NASA figure by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by Cole et. al. 2000, archived at the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology ...
