Creating a better climate future for BC
... 1. Get Serious: B.C. needs to commit to emitting a lot less greenhouse gases. How much less? By 2030, our use of greenhouse gases should be almost half of what we used in 1990. ........................................... 3 2. Make Polluters Pay: When people and businesses use fossil fuels they pay a ...
... 1. Get Serious: B.C. needs to commit to emitting a lot less greenhouse gases. How much less? By 2030, our use of greenhouse gases should be almost half of what we used in 1990. ........................................... 3 2. Make Polluters Pay: When people and businesses use fossil fuels they pay a ...
Using the IPCC`s Assessment Report data and climate change
... • Increase in heavy precipitation events (regional inequalities) • Likely more land regions where number of heavy precipitation events has increased than those where it has decreased. ...
... • Increase in heavy precipitation events (regional inequalities) • Likely more land regions where number of heavy precipitation events has increased than those where it has decreased. ...
HOW CAN I HELP? - Siemens Science Day
... Steps taken to heat and cool the building efficiently: _________Installed a programmable thermostat _________Adjusted the temperature lower for heating and higher for cooling _________Reduced the drafts from windows and doors _________Properly insulated the roof and walls _________Used ceiling fans ...
... Steps taken to heat and cool the building efficiently: _________Installed a programmable thermostat _________Adjusted the temperature lower for heating and higher for cooling _________Reduced the drafts from windows and doors _________Properly insulated the roof and walls _________Used ceiling fans ...
Response of hydrological processes to climate change in
... In this study, the future regional precipitation and temperature projected by the ensemble of 16 GCMs under the A1B emissions scenario were derived from the Climate Wizard dataset (available at: http://www.climatewizard.org/index.html) for the 2050s (2040–2069). The seasonal precipitation relative c ...
... In this study, the future regional precipitation and temperature projected by the ensemble of 16 GCMs under the A1B emissions scenario were derived from the Climate Wizard dataset (available at: http://www.climatewizard.org/index.html) for the 2050s (2040–2069). The seasonal precipitation relative c ...
Climate Change Education and the Ecological Footprint
... ments (p < 0.05) between the pre- and postquestion- energy use and their EF. The activity was given to naire occur in all but one question, the percentage of approximately half the Meteorology 112 students (n correct answers is still not very impressive. Previous = 123) and included the following co ...
... ments (p < 0.05) between the pre- and postquestion- energy use and their EF. The activity was given to naire occur in all but one question, the percentage of approximately half the Meteorology 112 students (n correct answers is still not very impressive. Previous = 123) and included the following co ...
Causes of the northern high-latitude land surface
... the NHL land surface temperature variability. Similarly, the correlation between the AL and NHL land SAT is 0.45 for the period 1958 – 2004, only accounting for 21% of the shared variance. However, for the cooling period (during the 1960s and 1970s), the AL had a larger correlation (r = 0.65) with ...
... the NHL land surface temperature variability. Similarly, the correlation between the AL and NHL land SAT is 0.45 for the period 1958 – 2004, only accounting for 21% of the shared variance. However, for the cooling period (during the 1960s and 1970s), the AL had a larger correlation (r = 0.65) with ...
DOC - World bank documents
... equilibrium forcing sea water into the boundary layer of freshwater. Anticipated modifications in precipitation patterns in the North of Mexico will affect natural drainage systems, further deteriorating the natural water balance of these systems. Further, weakened marshlands and mangroves will be l ...
... equilibrium forcing sea water into the boundary layer of freshwater. Anticipated modifications in precipitation patterns in the North of Mexico will affect natural drainage systems, further deteriorating the natural water balance of these systems. Further, weakened marshlands and mangroves will be l ...
Overview - Ensembles
... Predictions of natural climate variability and the human impact on climate are inherently probabilistic due to uncertainties in: initial conditions representation of key processes within models climatic forcing factors Reliable estimates of climatic risk can only be made through ensemble integ ...
... Predictions of natural climate variability and the human impact on climate are inherently probabilistic due to uncertainties in: initial conditions representation of key processes within models climatic forcing factors Reliable estimates of climatic risk can only be made through ensemble integ ...
Carbon sequestration
... amusing oxymoron. All fossil fuels contain carbon, but coal is by far the most carbon-intensive. This is troubling, since global warming seems to be driven by an increase in the level of atmospheric greenhouse gases, of which carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most worrisome. Coal is also the most abundant ...
... amusing oxymoron. All fossil fuels contain carbon, but coal is by far the most carbon-intensive. This is troubling, since global warming seems to be driven by an increase in the level of atmospheric greenhouse gases, of which carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most worrisome. Coal is also the most abundant ...
Outlook 2013 PowerPoint Presentation
... Natural Gas Availability: Increased estimates of shale gas resources and domestic policies in China to promote natural gas are represented. Global natural gas consumption is 8% higher in 2050 than in the 2012 Outlook. Natural gas usage in China more than triples in 2050 compared to the 2012 Outlook. ...
... Natural Gas Availability: Increased estimates of shale gas resources and domestic policies in China to promote natural gas are represented. Global natural gas consumption is 8% higher in 2050 than in the 2012 Outlook. Natural gas usage in China more than triples in 2050 compared to the 2012 Outlook. ...
Federated States of Micronesia - Pacific Climate Change Science
... climate varies considerably from year to year due to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. This is a natural climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean and affects weather around the world. There are two extreme phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation: El Niño and La Niña. There is ...
... climate varies considerably from year to year due to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. This is a natural climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean and affects weather around the world. There are two extreme phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation: El Niño and La Niña. There is ...
Please indicate if Student Paper Future changes in Extreme East
... al. (2013a) presented an alternative method (here referred to as ULGV) of identifying ECL-favorable conditions that has been optimized for studies using low-resolution global climate models, described above. Rather than seeking to identify an ECL in the pressure field, Dowdy's approach calculates th ...
... al. (2013a) presented an alternative method (here referred to as ULGV) of identifying ECL-favorable conditions that has been optimized for studies using low-resolution global climate models, described above. Rather than seeking to identify an ECL in the pressure field, Dowdy's approach calculates th ...
Blowin` in the wind: Short-term weather and belief in anthropogenic
... (USHCN) station records. The surveys carry a question designed around scientific consensus statements that climate change is happening now, caused mainly by human activities. Alternatively, respondents can state that climate change is not happening, or that it is happening but mainly for natural rea ...
... (USHCN) station records. The surveys carry a question designed around scientific consensus statements that climate change is happening now, caused mainly by human activities. Alternatively, respondents can state that climate change is not happening, or that it is happening but mainly for natural rea ...
Sustainable water management in the tropics and subtropics
... (PLATA HVDROGRAPHIC BASIN) This work provides a summary of various estimates based on projections of future climate for South America, using the outputs generated for the five models AOGCMs (Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models) of the IPCC-TAR (Third Report of the Intergovernmental Panel Cli ...
... (PLATA HVDROGRAPHIC BASIN) This work provides a summary of various estimates based on projections of future climate for South America, using the outputs generated for the five models AOGCMs (Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models) of the IPCC-TAR (Third Report of the Intergovernmental Panel Cli ...
Collaboration for Change
... Ethics, the public interest and a shared code of conduct All institutions claim adherence to a code of ethics and an obligation to serve the public interest as a special quality that differentiates their members from those lacking a professional designation. There is, however, confusion between ethi ...
... Ethics, the public interest and a shared code of conduct All institutions claim adherence to a code of ethics and an obligation to serve the public interest as a special quality that differentiates their members from those lacking a professional designation. There is, however, confusion between ethi ...
Germany - Climate Transparency
... emissions target as “medium”, meaning the INDC is inconsistent with limiting warming below 2°C. It would require other countries to make a comparably greater effort, and much deeper emissions reductions. The overall level of GHG emissions reductions proposed in the EU28 INDC does not fall within the ...
... emissions target as “medium”, meaning the INDC is inconsistent with limiting warming below 2°C. It would require other countries to make a comparably greater effort, and much deeper emissions reductions. The overall level of GHG emissions reductions proposed in the EU28 INDC does not fall within the ...
Senzer - An Analysis of the Impact of Global Warming on Hurricane
... While there is always some degree of uncertainty about the future, and modelbased results are often fickle, the state of current understanding is such that we should expect hurricane frequencies in the future to have a great deal of year-to-year and decadeto-decade variation as has been observed in ...
... While there is always some degree of uncertainty about the future, and modelbased results are often fickle, the state of current understanding is such that we should expect hurricane frequencies in the future to have a great deal of year-to-year and decadeto-decade variation as has been observed in ...
CEQA - Sierra Water Workgroup
... confidently determine that anticipated future water sources will be available, CEQA requires some discussion of possible replacement sources or alternatives, and of the environmental consequences of those contingencies. * The Madera Oversight Coalition court concluded that the nondisclosure of infor ...
... confidently determine that anticipated future water sources will be available, CEQA requires some discussion of possible replacement sources or alternatives, and of the environmental consequences of those contingencies. * The Madera Oversight Coalition court concluded that the nondisclosure of infor ...
Weathering Global Warming in Agriculture
... successfully to environmental flux and fall if agricultural productivity suffers. In one study, modest warming was projected to have limited effects on the prices of agricultural real estate in the United States.12 A more recent study focused on the eastern two-thirds of the U.S., where agriculture ...
... successfully to environmental flux and fall if agricultural productivity suffers. In one study, modest warming was projected to have limited effects on the prices of agricultural real estate in the United States.12 A more recent study focused on the eastern two-thirds of the U.S., where agriculture ...
Advent Light/”Light for Lima” - Christian Concern for One World
... There are multiple mitigation pathways that are likely to limit warming to below 2°C relative to preindustrial levels. These pathways would require substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades and near zero emissions of carbon dioxide and other long-lived greenhouse gases by the end of ...
... There are multiple mitigation pathways that are likely to limit warming to below 2°C relative to preindustrial levels. These pathways would require substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades and near zero emissions of carbon dioxide and other long-lived greenhouse gases by the end of ...
Energy Studies Spring 2017 Information Session
... Topics will range from the use of high-resolution regional climate models to better quantify the effects of global warming on local communities, to the global prospects for public and private finance in decarbonizing the world energy systems. We will look at examples from around the world, includi ...
... Topics will range from the use of high-resolution regional climate models to better quantify the effects of global warming on local communities, to the global prospects for public and private finance in decarbonizing the world energy systems. We will look at examples from around the world, includi ...