SENSITIVITY OF TUNDRA CARBON BALANCE TO AMBIENT
... Soil cover is usually represented by tundra peaty humus-surface-gleyic, peatygleyic, or sandy and loamy sand soddy-alluvial soils. Severe temperature conditions fully determine pedogenesis in Vorkuta region, but in comparison with eastern Russian tundra regions the winter is not so cold here and the ...
... Soil cover is usually represented by tundra peaty humus-surface-gleyic, peatygleyic, or sandy and loamy sand soddy-alluvial soils. Severe temperature conditions fully determine pedogenesis in Vorkuta region, but in comparison with eastern Russian tundra regions the winter is not so cold here and the ...
U. S. Senate Minority Report:
... opposition challenging significant aspects of the claims of the UN IPCC and Al Gore. Scientific meetings are now being dominated by a growing number of skeptical scientists. The prestigious International Geological Congress, dubbed the geologists' equivalent of the Olympic Games, was held in Norway ...
... opposition challenging significant aspects of the claims of the UN IPCC and Al Gore. Scientific meetings are now being dominated by a growing number of skeptical scientists. The prestigious International Geological Congress, dubbed the geologists' equivalent of the Olympic Games, was held in Norway ...
Program of the Climate Engineering Conference 2014
... We are extremely pleased to extend a warm welcome to you as one of the over 300 professionals from academia, civil society and the policy community that have gathered in Berlin this August to discuss, over a period of four days, the many complex and interlinked issues that arise when considering the ...
... We are extremely pleased to extend a warm welcome to you as one of the over 300 professionals from academia, civil society and the policy community that have gathered in Berlin this August to discuss, over a period of four days, the many complex and interlinked issues that arise when considering the ...
Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern
... Understanding the causes of recent climatic trends and variability in the high-latitude Southern Hemisphere is hampered by a short instrumental record. Here, we analyse recent atmosphere, surface ocean and sea-ice observations in this region and assess their trends in the context of palaeoclimate re ...
... Understanding the causes of recent climatic trends and variability in the high-latitude Southern Hemisphere is hampered by a short instrumental record. Here, we analyse recent atmosphere, surface ocean and sea-ice observations in this region and assess their trends in the context of palaeoclimate re ...
McAdam - Climate Change Displacement
... development, pollution and so on.6 He did this in much the same way that environmental lobby groups today use the language of ‘climate refugees’ to draw attention to the most deleterious aspects of carbon emissions.7 During the 1980s and 1990s, climate change was predominantly conceived as a scienti ...
... development, pollution and so on.6 He did this in much the same way that environmental lobby groups today use the language of ‘climate refugees’ to draw attention to the most deleterious aspects of carbon emissions.7 During the 1980s and 1990s, climate change was predominantly conceived as a scienti ...
Climate change and labour: The need for a “just transition”
... limited concern about the fate of workers, and that far greater efforts were directed at measuring the environmental rather than the social impacts of climate change. This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research is meant as a modest contribution to start to fill that gap. In the afterm ...
... limited concern about the fate of workers, and that far greater efforts were directed at measuring the environmental rather than the social impacts of climate change. This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research is meant as a modest contribution to start to fill that gap. In the afterm ...
16 - 2nd Africa Food Security Conference
... on ecosystem services over multiple spatial and temporal scales 4. Find out how the levels of direct and indirect contributions of ecosystem services to local food security and nutritional health outcomes for the rural poor likely to change under future land use and climate change scenarios 2nd Afri ...
... on ecosystem services over multiple spatial and temporal scales 4. Find out how the levels of direct and indirect contributions of ecosystem services to local food security and nutritional health outcomes for the rural poor likely to change under future land use and climate change scenarios 2nd Afri ...
III. THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT A. Introduction to the ESA
... Sea ice is melting. Since 1978, scientists have documented an overall downward trend in Arctic sea ice extent (the area of the ocean with at least 15 percent ice coverage) and area (the sum of areas actually covered by sea ice). They also report that sea ice is melting more rapidly than before. For ...
... Sea ice is melting. Since 1978, scientists have documented an overall downward trend in Arctic sea ice extent (the area of the ocean with at least 15 percent ice coverage) and area (the sum of areas actually covered by sea ice). They also report that sea ice is melting more rapidly than before. For ...
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... annual flow in the basin will pass by the Azad Pattan site one week earlier than it does now. On the whole, the Jhelum basin would face more temporal and magnitudinal variations in high, low, and mean flows relative to present conditions. This shows that without a consideration of climate change imp ...
... annual flow in the basin will pass by the Azad Pattan site one week earlier than it does now. On the whole, the Jhelum basin would face more temporal and magnitudinal variations in high, low, and mean flows relative to present conditions. This shows that without a consideration of climate change imp ...
Comments Congress and Chaos: Reexamining the Role of Congress in
... principles add depth to the challenge of creating environmental legislation; not only do legislators—the group currently responsible for crafting climate change policy in the United States—have to grapple with scientific issues which fall outside their areas of expertise, but any legislative change ...
... principles add depth to the challenge of creating environmental legislation; not only do legislators—the group currently responsible for crafting climate change policy in the United States—have to grapple with scientific issues which fall outside their areas of expertise, but any legislative change ...
FoE Australia annual report 2008
... uranium mining and its dangerous consequences. The kit has been funded by the JB Seed arts grant with the support of FoEB Anti-Nuclear Collective and the Frontline Film Foundation and is available for individuals and community groups. The kits are free, ...
... uranium mining and its dangerous consequences. The kit has been funded by the JB Seed arts grant with the support of FoEB Anti-Nuclear Collective and the Frontline Film Foundation and is available for individuals and community groups. The kits are free, ...
Equity and Cost-Effectiveness of adaptation funding_CLEAN_woENx
... Horstmann, 2011; Klein and Möhner, 2011).67 We shall see below that the operationalisation and measurement of level of vulnerability is the most common problem when applying equity principles and has challenged the AFB. It should also be emphasised that perceived fairness of a particular distributio ...
... Horstmann, 2011; Klein and Möhner, 2011).67 We shall see below that the operationalisation and measurement of level of vulnerability is the most common problem when applying equity principles and has challenged the AFB. It should also be emphasised that perceived fairness of a particular distributio ...
Final Consultants Report
... the global average, with economy-wide costs of climate change for Thailand and Viet Nam of 6.7% of GDP per year by 2100 (ADB 2009). Likewise, a recent World Bank study suggests that the East Asia and Pacific Region would have the highest cost of adaptation in both wetter and drier scenarios (World B ...
... the global average, with economy-wide costs of climate change for Thailand and Viet Nam of 6.7% of GDP per year by 2100 (ADB 2009). Likewise, a recent World Bank study suggests that the East Asia and Pacific Region would have the highest cost of adaptation in both wetter and drier scenarios (World B ...
recent study
... Paris agreed to an ambitious goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2C above pre-industrial levels,” aiming for 1.5C,2 and for net zero emissions in the second half of the century.3 The Parties also agreed to “ensure the highest possible efforts” for pre-2020 mitigation, which puts further ...
... Paris agreed to an ambitious goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2C above pre-industrial levels,” aiming for 1.5C,2 and for net zero emissions in the second half of the century.3 The Parties also agreed to “ensure the highest possible efforts” for pre-2020 mitigation, which puts further ...
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... The Scheldt and the Meuse are the two main rivers of Belgium affecting many human activities in the country. Their discharge depends exclusively on precipitation, which today is rather evenly distributed and supplies them with water thoughout the year. Changes in meterological variables playing a ma ...
... The Scheldt and the Meuse are the two main rivers of Belgium affecting many human activities in the country. Their discharge depends exclusively on precipitation, which today is rather evenly distributed and supplies them with water thoughout the year. Changes in meterological variables playing a ma ...
Implications of Climate Change for Biodiversity
... depends on understanding what the nature of the change might be and where the potential for future persistence of biodiversity may be greatest. The scope of the challenge of adapting biodiversity management to climate change is shaped by the magnitude and extent of future climate change across Austr ...
... depends on understanding what the nature of the change might be and where the potential for future persistence of biodiversity may be greatest. The scope of the challenge of adapting biodiversity management to climate change is shaped by the magnitude and extent of future climate change across Austr ...
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... metabolites, such as tannins. The combined effect of these factors can severely increase the mortality rates of insect herbivores during severe drought periods (29) and even truncate multiyear insect outbreak dynamics (32). Similarly, drought can significantly reduce the rate of fungal infection and ...
... metabolites, such as tannins. The combined effect of these factors can severely increase the mortality rates of insect herbivores during severe drought periods (29) and even truncate multiyear insect outbreak dynamics (32). Similarly, drought can significantly reduce the rate of fungal infection and ...
Carbon Disclosure Project
... 1. The subject of climate change mitigation strategies and the impact of carbon cap and trade legislation is a topic of discussion at quarterly executive strategy meetings where corporate executives discuss long-term objectives and appropriate steps to be taken over each fiscal quarter to achieve th ...
... 1. The subject of climate change mitigation strategies and the impact of carbon cap and trade legislation is a topic of discussion at quarterly executive strategy meetings where corporate executives discuss long-term objectives and appropriate steps to be taken over each fiscal quarter to achieve th ...
Appendix A. Statistical Issues Regarding Trends. From Synthesis
... start to the end of the record (see Figure 2 in the Executive Summary). In Figure 1 here, the data shown span January Alternatively, there may be some physical process that 1979 through December 2004 (312 months or 2.6 decades). causes a rapid switch or change from one mode of behavior The total cha ...
... start to the end of the record (see Figure 2 in the Executive Summary). In Figure 1 here, the data shown span January Alternatively, there may be some physical process that 1979 through December 2004 (312 months or 2.6 decades). causes a rapid switch or change from one mode of behavior The total cha ...
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... as role models for their surrounding communities and in educating the people who will develop the social, economic, and technological solutions to address global warming and help create a ...
... as role models for their surrounding communities and in educating the people who will develop the social, economic, and technological solutions to address global warming and help create a ...
Ocean Acidification and the Southern Ocean
... with respect to calcium carbonate,2 CaCO3, used by calcium carbonate-dependent organisms (also called calcifying organisms or calcifiers) to form their shells. Calcifying organisms play critical roles in marine ecosystems, including the Southern Ocean, and changing populations of such organisms coul ...
... with respect to calcium carbonate,2 CaCO3, used by calcium carbonate-dependent organisms (also called calcifying organisms or calcifiers) to form their shells. Calcifying organisms play critical roles in marine ecosystems, including the Southern Ocean, and changing populations of such organisms coul ...
Deep South Challenge Research and Business Plan
... To ensure this Challenge benefits all New Zealanders, we will incorporate and develop innovative engagement practices to connect our science with Māori, industry, regulators and planners and communities. This will give New Zealanders a greater level of certainty in their planning and decision making ...
... To ensure this Challenge benefits all New Zealanders, we will incorporate and develop innovative engagement practices to connect our science with Māori, industry, regulators and planners and communities. This will give New Zealanders a greater level of certainty in their planning and decision making ...