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... about the environment, especially their vulnerability to the adverse effects of global climate change,”24 Jamaica has a relatively small population and land area compared to the United States and other large, highly developed nations.25 The Commonwealth of Virginia, for instance, has an area nearly ...
... about the environment, especially their vulnerability to the adverse effects of global climate change,”24 Jamaica has a relatively small population and land area compared to the United States and other large, highly developed nations.25 The Commonwealth of Virginia, for instance, has an area nearly ...
Quantifying the contribution of land use change to surface
... and the urban heat island effect increases Ts by 1.25◦ . They have opposite impacts but are both significant in this region. Various changes in surface factors affect radiation and energy distribution and eventually modify Ts . It is the evaporative cooling effect that plays the most important role ...
... and the urban heat island effect increases Ts by 1.25◦ . They have opposite impacts but are both significant in this region. Various changes in surface factors affect radiation and energy distribution and eventually modify Ts . It is the evaporative cooling effect that plays the most important role ...
EWPIP022 - ACT Peak Oil
... is a closed system with respect to its physical matter. Given that many emerging nations are scaling back their predictions of growth, while many highly developed countries struggle to achieve any, setting up strong growth as a unitary goal seems unwise. The leaked report from the Intergovernmental ...
... is a closed system with respect to its physical matter. Given that many emerging nations are scaling back their predictions of growth, while many highly developed countries struggle to achieve any, setting up strong growth as a unitary goal seems unwise. The leaked report from the Intergovernmental ...
Link to full document - Joint Program on the Science and Policy of
... limit global GHG emissions such that total radiative forcing levels in 2100 are stabilized at 4.5 W/m2 (Policy 4.5) or 3.7 W/m2 (Policy 3.7). The REF scenario has a total radiative forcing of 10.0 W/m2 in 2100. Using the IPCC simplified equations, the REF has a total radiative forcing of 8.8 W/m2, a ...
... limit global GHG emissions such that total radiative forcing levels in 2100 are stabilized at 4.5 W/m2 (Policy 4.5) or 3.7 W/m2 (Policy 3.7). The REF scenario has a total radiative forcing of 10.0 W/m2 in 2100. Using the IPCC simplified equations, the REF has a total radiative forcing of 8.8 W/m2, a ...
3. IPCC`s evaluation of evidence and treatment of uncertainty
... ‘Current Knowledge About Future Impacts’ section of the Working Group II Summary for Policymakers are based on unpublished or non-peerreviewed literature. For example, the following conclusions, each of which was based on a small number of unpublished studies, have been questioned (e.g., PBL, 2010): ...
... ‘Current Knowledge About Future Impacts’ section of the Working Group II Summary for Policymakers are based on unpublished or non-peerreviewed literature. For example, the following conclusions, each of which was based on a small number of unpublished studies, have been questioned (e.g., PBL, 2010): ...
FAQ Sustainable Development Summit (English)
... (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. What are the elements underpinning the Sustainable Development Goals? The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next 15 years in areas of critical importance: people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership. ...
... (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. What are the elements underpinning the Sustainable Development Goals? The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next 15 years in areas of critical importance: people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership. ...
GHG-non-CO2-Clapp
... Methane mitigation has the largest potential across all the non-CO2 greenhouse gases. – At a cost-effective level, the potential for methane mitigation is greater than 500 MtCO2eq. – The potential for reducing methane emissions grows three-fold as the breakeven price rises from $0 to $20/tCO2eq. – W ...
... Methane mitigation has the largest potential across all the non-CO2 greenhouse gases. – At a cost-effective level, the potential for methane mitigation is greater than 500 MtCO2eq. – The potential for reducing methane emissions grows three-fold as the breakeven price rises from $0 to $20/tCO2eq. – W ...
CAP Executive Summary, Introduction, GHG, Vision
... occurrence of severe weather events, food shortages, changing patterns of disease, severe water shortages and the loss of tropical forests. Most experts agree that over the next few decades, the world will undergo potentially dangerous changes in climate, which will have a significant impact on almo ...
... occurrence of severe weather events, food shortages, changing patterns of disease, severe water shortages and the loss of tropical forests. Most experts agree that over the next few decades, the world will undergo potentially dangerous changes in climate, which will have a significant impact on almo ...
Observed climate - Climatic Research Unit
... Why is this important? The Mediterranean coast is highly vulnerable to variations in sea level. Rising sea level increases the likelihood of storm surges, landward intrusion of salt water and endangers coastal ecosystems and wetlands. Decreasing sea level may impact port operations and coastal struc ...
... Why is this important? The Mediterranean coast is highly vulnerable to variations in sea level. Rising sea level increases the likelihood of storm surges, landward intrusion of salt water and endangers coastal ecosystems and wetlands. Decreasing sea level may impact port operations and coastal struc ...
Abatement of Nitrous Oxide, Methane, and the Other Non
... (Metz et al. 2001)-there are few direct points of intersection with either fossil-fuel use or engineered sinks for CO2. Rather, many halogen fluxes intersect with efforts to reduce the production of the stratospheric ozone-depleting compounds (chloro- and bromocarbons) and provide good examples of p ...
... (Metz et al. 2001)-there are few direct points of intersection with either fossil-fuel use or engineered sinks for CO2. Rather, many halogen fluxes intersect with efforts to reduce the production of the stratospheric ozone-depleting compounds (chloro- and bromocarbons) and provide good examples of p ...
Presentation ()
... Expect phenotypic changes that depart from the historical condition, for example More resident fish Smaller fish Different out-migration timing Different return timing ...
... Expect phenotypic changes that depart from the historical condition, for example More resident fish Smaller fish Different out-migration timing Different return timing ...
... benthic, pelagic, polar oceans, sea ice, sea mounts). Chapter 4, on “Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems”, assesses economically important areas, including forestry, biomass energy, and opportunities for carbon trading. For all chapters in this section, but especially for Chapters 4 and 6, it will ...
The Cool Surfaces Opportunity in Los Angeles
... • A study of Los Angeles found that cooler surfaces and shade trees could cut unhealthy air by up to 12 percent – a $104M opportunity. ...
... • A study of Los Angeles found that cooler surfaces and shade trees could cut unhealthy air by up to 12 percent – a $104M opportunity. ...
Ranking of the World`s Cities Most Exposed to Coastal Flooding
... city estimates of protection standard. However, at a global level, it can be expected that economic growth will allow a general improvement in protection levels in coastal cities around the globe. The cost-effectiveness and institutional challenges of implementing such protection, however, requires ...
... city estimates of protection standard. However, at a global level, it can be expected that economic growth will allow a general improvement in protection levels in coastal cities around the globe. The cost-effectiveness and institutional challenges of implementing such protection, however, requires ...
title header
... Objective is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system ...
... Objective is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system ...
Climate Change, Influencing the Health of Urban Populations
... poor communities is often attributed to perceptions of safety and the fear of violence and crime25. Social housing is often found in neighbourhoods of high crime, which perpetuates fear and forces people to stay inside26. Collectively and separately, all of the afore mentioned determinants have nega ...
... poor communities is often attributed to perceptions of safety and the fear of violence and crime25. Social housing is often found in neighbourhoods of high crime, which perpetuates fear and forces people to stay inside26. Collectively and separately, all of the afore mentioned determinants have nega ...
Stand alone and web based decision support systems for climate
... Socio-cultural, institutional and political capacity to implement CCA measure(s) might be problematic in Europe Knowledge exchange and network building is important, and shared conceptual frameworks developed upon the main policy references may help Integrated assessment frameworks can provide signi ...
... Socio-cultural, institutional and political capacity to implement CCA measure(s) might be problematic in Europe Knowledge exchange and network building is important, and shared conceptual frameworks developed upon the main policy references may help Integrated assessment frameworks can provide signi ...
Powerpoint Presentation
... policy) on these vague senses and unanalyzable feelings of doubt, which may be crucial for the prediction of ...
... policy) on these vague senses and unanalyzable feelings of doubt, which may be crucial for the prediction of ...
Ecosystem-based adaptation: An approach for building
... watershed vegetation as a cost-effective means for reducing vulnerability to storm surge, rising sea levels and changing precipitation patterns; Protecting and restoring natural areas of cultural or religious significance, including areas critical for the cultural survival of indigenous groups; Enha ...
... watershed vegetation as a cost-effective means for reducing vulnerability to storm surge, rising sea levels and changing precipitation patterns; Protecting and restoring natural areas of cultural or religious significance, including areas critical for the cultural survival of indigenous groups; Enha ...
AllanRP_PAGODA2013Nov - University of Reading, Meteorology
... • Erroneous precipitation variability & trends in reanalyses and some satellite datasets over the ocean [Liu & Allan 2012; Liu et al. 2012; Allan et al. 2013] • AMIP simulations reproduce observed land P variability (land/ocean P anticorrelated ENSO) [Liu et al. 2012; Liu and Allan 2013] – Little ...
... • Erroneous precipitation variability & trends in reanalyses and some satellite datasets over the ocean [Liu & Allan 2012; Liu et al. 2012; Allan et al. 2013] • AMIP simulations reproduce observed land P variability (land/ocean P anticorrelated ENSO) [Liu et al. 2012; Liu and Allan 2013] – Little ...
Targeting deforestation rates in climate change policy: a
... considered deforestation and/or cannot be assessed from remote sensing platforms – remains a challenge for this and all current proposed methodologies. Degradation can raise difficulties if a country has a declining deforestation rate but is simultaneously increasing forest degradation. In order to ...
... considered deforestation and/or cannot be assessed from remote sensing platforms – remains a challenge for this and all current proposed methodologies. Degradation can raise difficulties if a country has a declining deforestation rate but is simultaneously increasing forest degradation. In order to ...
the Resource ()
... High School, Worcestershire, but at the moment we have got a slight technical hitch, so while we get that sorted out I would like to start off with a question please for you Peter. Can you tell us please what are bio fuels and in what way are they renewable? That’s because I am sure many people ...
... High School, Worcestershire, but at the moment we have got a slight technical hitch, so while we get that sorted out I would like to start off with a question please for you Peter. Can you tell us please what are bio fuels and in what way are they renewable? That’s because I am sure many people ...
european society for ecologial economics 2015: transformations
... To address this challenge, statistical analysis and econometric modeling were applied using a database developed for 27 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The database development started with an extensive literature review of over 80 peer‐reviewed articles that considered drivers ...
... To address this challenge, statistical analysis and econometric modeling were applied using a database developed for 27 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The database development started with an extensive literature review of over 80 peer‐reviewed articles that considered drivers ...
doc - WMnet
... High School, Worcestershire, but at the moment we have got a slight technical hitch, so while we get that sorted out I would like to start off with a question please for you Peter. Can you tell us please what are bio fuels and in what way are they renewable? That’s because I am sure many people want ...
... High School, Worcestershire, but at the moment we have got a slight technical hitch, so while we get that sorted out I would like to start off with a question please for you Peter. Can you tell us please what are bio fuels and in what way are they renewable? That’s because I am sure many people want ...
Years of Living Dangerously
Years of Living Dangerously is a documentary television series focusing on global warming. The first season premiered on April 13, 2014, consisted of 9 episodes, and ran on Showtime. It won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The second season, consisting of 8 episodes, is expected to air on the National Geographic Channel in late 2016, with broader distribution than the first season. James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and clean energy investor and environmental activist Daniel Abbasi are executive producers of the series, as was the late Jerry Weintraub for the first season. Joel Bach and David Gelber, former 60 Minutes producers, are co-creators of the series as well as executive producers. Joseph Romm and Heidi Cullen are the chief science advisors.The weekly episodes feature celebrity investigators, who each have a history of environmental activism, and well-known journalists, each of whom have a background in environmental reportage. These ""correspondents"" travel to areas around the world and throughout the U.S. affected by global warming to interview experts and ordinary people affected by, and seeking solutions to, the effects of global warming. They act as proxies for the audience, asking questions to find out people's opinions and to discover the scientific evidence. The celebrities in season 1 included Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Ian Somerhalder, Jessica Alba, Don Cheadle, America Ferrera, Michael C. Hall, Olivia Munn and Schwarzenegger. The journalists include Lesley Stahl, Thomas Friedman, Chris Hayes and Mark Bittman. The final episode of season 1 featured an interview by Friedman of President Barack Obama. In season 2, David Letterman has agreed to travel to India to interview the prime minister and examine how the country plans to distribute solar power to its entire population over the next decade. The show will send Schwarzenegger as a correspondent to China. Other hosts for season 2 include Cameron, Somerhalder, Munn, Friedman, Cheadle, and newcomers Jack Black, Joshua Jackson, Aasif Mandvi, Cecily Strong and Ty Burrell in an episode about electric cars. Season 2 is expected to cover more impacts of climate change, like hurricanes, historic droughts and the rapidly increasing extinction rate of species, but Bach noted that the season will ""focus much more ... on solutions that individuals, communities, companies and even governments can use to address worldwide climate change.""Schwarzenegger reflected on how the series tries to make the issue of climate change resonate with the public: ""I think the environmental movement only can be successful if we are simple and clear and make it a human story. We will tell human stories in this project. The scientists would never get the kind of attention that someone in show business gets."" Cameron elaborated: ""We didn’t use our celebrities as talking head experts, because they’re not climate experts. They were concerned, intelligent, curious citizens who were out to find answers. They were functioning as journalists."" Newsweek said that the celebrity reporters ""lend sparks to an issue that sends most viewers for the exits"".