Climate Change: Costs and Benefits of the
... context and the desire to engage the developing world in the reduction effort. When the United States and other developed countries ratified the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), they agreed both to reduce their own emissions to help stabilize atmospheric concentra ...
... context and the desire to engage the developing world in the reduction effort. When the United States and other developed countries ratified the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), they agreed both to reduce their own emissions to help stabilize atmospheric concentra ...
Hymns for Creation - Citizens for Public Justice
... accepted that the massive increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are largely the result of human activity. And, as the concentration of GHGs continues to grow, climate change is causing the rising of sea levels, species extinction, and glacial melting. Agrarian and fisheries-based livelihoods ar ...
... accepted that the massive increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are largely the result of human activity. And, as the concentration of GHGs continues to grow, climate change is causing the rising of sea levels, species extinction, and glacial melting. Agrarian and fisheries-based livelihoods ar ...
Global Climate Change and Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
... Collectively, the various zones and depths of the reefs of the Great Barrier Reef are colonized by diverse local assemblages of corals. Those on reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef, for example, have been classified into 17 coral ‘community types’ (Done 1982), each comprised of subsets of around ...
... Collectively, the various zones and depths of the reefs of the Great Barrier Reef are colonized by diverse local assemblages of corals. Those on reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef, for example, have been classified into 17 coral ‘community types’ (Done 1982), each comprised of subsets of around ...
Influence of dynamic vegetation on climate change and terrestrial
... Thus in MIROC-LPJ, MATSIRO is able to work if a vegetation type is given in a grid cell whether it is from LPJ-DGVM or not. We can also choose a specific prescribed vegetation distribution instead of coupling LPJ-DGVM (this kind of experiment is noted as fixed vegetation in Sect. 3.1). The original ...
... Thus in MIROC-LPJ, MATSIRO is able to work if a vegetation type is given in a grid cell whether it is from LPJ-DGVM or not. We can also choose a specific prescribed vegetation distribution instead of coupling LPJ-DGVM (this kind of experiment is noted as fixed vegetation in Sect. 3.1). The original ...
Argentinean soy based biodiesel - Tyndall°Centre for Climate
... production in the tropics. Biofuels therefore have potential to provide opportunities for economic development and improved energy access for developing countries. However, the negative impacts of increased global demand for biofuels are of increasing concern a ...
... production in the tropics. Biofuels therefore have potential to provide opportunities for economic development and improved energy access for developing countries. However, the negative impacts of increased global demand for biofuels are of increasing concern a ...
full report - Royal Society of New Zealand
... supported by 195 countries, gave us a timely reminder that all New Zealanders need to understand the need for meaningful action on climate change. New Zealand must contribute effectively to the global effort to avoid dangerous climate change. New Zealand is already experiencing, for example, more fr ...
... supported by 195 countries, gave us a timely reminder that all New Zealanders need to understand the need for meaningful action on climate change. New Zealand must contribute effectively to the global effort to avoid dangerous climate change. New Zealand is already experiencing, for example, more fr ...
Simulating the winter North Atlantic Oscillation: the roles of internal
... acknowledged for allowing their data to be distributed for research use. For each model, data were taken from control integrations with unchanging external forcing, varying in length from 200 to 1400 years (Table 1). Winter SLP was also taken from integrations with increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) co ...
... acknowledged for allowing their data to be distributed for research use. For each model, data were taken from control integrations with unchanging external forcing, varying in length from 200 to 1400 years (Table 1). Winter SLP was also taken from integrations with increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) co ...
Drought over East Asia: A Review - American Meteorological Society
... by using daily precipitation and can measure drought onset and end dates, is a widely used drought index over the Korea Peninsula and Japan. Since different climatic zones dominate East Asia, the topography and vegetation types differ greatly among these climatic zones, the distribution of precipita ...
... by using daily precipitation and can measure drought onset and end dates, is a widely used drought index over the Korea Peninsula and Japan. Since different climatic zones dominate East Asia, the topography and vegetation types differ greatly among these climatic zones, the distribution of precipita ...
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... in the area of provision and/ or facilitate the provision of input-based adaptation strategies in the study area. Again, intensive use of already proven adaptation strategies at farm-level by the farmers at their present resource technology will still make them to reduce technical and profit ineffic ...
... in the area of provision and/ or facilitate the provision of input-based adaptation strategies in the study area. Again, intensive use of already proven adaptation strategies at farm-level by the farmers at their present resource technology will still make them to reduce technical and profit ineffic ...
National Mission for Sustaining Himalayan Ecosystem
... trends of global warming of earth’s atmosphere caused by anthropogenic emissions. . The IPCC also estimates that global average surface temperatures o would increase in the range of 1-6.3 C over the next 100 years. It is widely acknowledged that climate change is not just about averages, but also of ...
... trends of global warming of earth’s atmosphere caused by anthropogenic emissions. . The IPCC also estimates that global average surface temperatures o would increase in the range of 1-6.3 C over the next 100 years. It is widely acknowledged that climate change is not just about averages, but also of ...
Interaction of impacts of doubling CO2 and changing regional land
... A further set of simulations assumes 710 ppm CO2 conditions without and with these land-cover changes. Impacts of (1) doubled CO2 , (2) changed land-cover, and (3) the interaction between doubled CO2 and changed land-cover on the four regional water cycles are elucidated using analysis of variance p ...
... A further set of simulations assumes 710 ppm CO2 conditions without and with these land-cover changes. Impacts of (1) doubled CO2 , (2) changed land-cover, and (3) the interaction between doubled CO2 and changed land-cover on the four regional water cycles are elucidated using analysis of variance p ...
Eastern Africa Climate-Smart Agriculture Scoping Study: Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
... different CSA practices are being used in various parts of these countries, these CSA systems are not widely spread across the sub-region, partly because of limited financial resources, capacity, knowledge and policy support. However, various CSA interventions have been implemented and continue to b ...
... different CSA practices are being used in various parts of these countries, these CSA systems are not widely spread across the sub-region, partly because of limited financial resources, capacity, knowledge and policy support. However, various CSA interventions have been implemented and continue to b ...
Camels and Climate Resilience: Adaptation in Northern Kenya
... 2011). Adaptation operates in the context of multiple uncertainties and unknowns: we don’t know exactly what the impact of global climate change at the local level is or will be, or how stresses associated with it will intersect with other dynamic processes operating across multiple scales (Vincent ...
... 2011). Adaptation operates in the context of multiple uncertainties and unknowns: we don’t know exactly what the impact of global climate change at the local level is or will be, or how stresses associated with it will intersect with other dynamic processes operating across multiple scales (Vincent ...
Climate change, water and food security
... availability in regions that are already water-stressed. In Asia, the large contiguous areas of irrigated land that rely on snowmelt and high mountain glaciers for water will be affected by changes in runoff patterns, while highly populated deltas are at risk from a combination of reduced inflows, i ...
... availability in regions that are already water-stressed. In Asia, the large contiguous areas of irrigated land that rely on snowmelt and high mountain glaciers for water will be affected by changes in runoff patterns, while highly populated deltas are at risk from a combination of reduced inflows, i ...
On the Economics of Happiness and Climate Change Filka Sekulova
... events for happiness. The chapter takes floods as a proxy for extreme events which occur as a result of climate change. Floods are considered the most commonly distributed natural hazard, associated with substantial social and economic damages. Data was collected in fifteen Bulgarian villages and to ...
... events for happiness. The chapter takes floods as a proxy for extreme events which occur as a result of climate change. Floods are considered the most commonly distributed natural hazard, associated with substantial social and economic damages. Data was collected in fifteen Bulgarian villages and to ...
Climate Change, Carbon, and Forestry in Northwestern North America:
... more recently, the burning of fossil fuels has made an even greater contribution, with 75 percent of anthropogenic emissions of CO2 over the last 20 years being from fossil fuels. Land-use change is responsible for the release of between 1 and 2 Gt of carbon annually. This is about 25 percent of tot ...
... more recently, the burning of fossil fuels has made an even greater contribution, with 75 percent of anthropogenic emissions of CO2 over the last 20 years being from fossil fuels. Land-use change is responsible for the release of between 1 and 2 Gt of carbon annually. This is about 25 percent of tot ...
Florida and Climate Change
... decades to come, and — because carbon dioxide persists in the atmosphere for a century or more — on the impacts of accumulated past emissions. We compare two scenarios: an optimistic rapid stabilization case and a pessimistic business-as-usual case. Neither, of course, is absolutely certain to occur ...
... decades to come, and — because carbon dioxide persists in the atmosphere for a century or more — on the impacts of accumulated past emissions. We compare two scenarios: an optimistic rapid stabilization case and a pessimistic business-as-usual case. Neither, of course, is absolutely certain to occur ...
Arctic air pollution: Challenges and opportunities for the next decade
... uncertainties still surround quantification of these effects. Arctic air pollution includes harmful trace ...
... uncertainties still surround quantification of these effects. Arctic air pollution includes harmful trace ...
Annex 3: Key Figures Showing Climatic Trends for Guinea Bissau
... The proposed project is based on the priority adaptation option identified in Guinea-Bissau’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA). The impacts of climate change on Guinea-Bissau’s agricultural water resources will affect human health, agricultural production and food security. Predicted c ...
... The proposed project is based on the priority adaptation option identified in Guinea-Bissau’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA). The impacts of climate change on Guinea-Bissau’s agricultural water resources will affect human health, agricultural production and food security. Predicted c ...
Supplement to the 2006 Annual Report
... Dynamic Systems Inc. (DSI) will develop and demonstrate a transmission-less hybrid drive system (THDS) incorporating a Multistage Switched Reluctance Motor and energy management system to replace current mechanical transmissions in Class 4-6 and Class 7-8 commercial transport vehicles. The problem o ...
... Dynamic Systems Inc. (DSI) will develop and demonstrate a transmission-less hybrid drive system (THDS) incorporating a Multistage Switched Reluctance Motor and energy management system to replace current mechanical transmissions in Class 4-6 and Class 7-8 commercial transport vehicles. The problem o ...
Marine extinction risk shaped by trait–environment
... conditions, including conditions that are predicted to change over the next few decades (Rockstr€ om et al., 2009). These include proxies that are influenced by average climate state, carbon cycling, oxygenation, and pH of the global oceans. ...
... conditions, including conditions that are predicted to change over the next few decades (Rockstr€ om et al., 2009). These include proxies that are influenced by average climate state, carbon cycling, oxygenation, and pH of the global oceans. ...
Coastal climate change vulnerability and adaptation
... Historical and future emissions of greenhouse gases are projected to contribute to increases in global mean temperatures of about 2‐4°C (relative to 1980‐1999) by the end of the century. This In turn is projected to affect coastal and marine environments through elevated sea levels, changes in coa ...
... Historical and future emissions of greenhouse gases are projected to contribute to increases in global mean temperatures of about 2‐4°C (relative to 1980‐1999) by the end of the century. This In turn is projected to affect coastal and marine environments through elevated sea levels, changes in coa ...
Climate Change, Humidity, and Mortality in the United States
... crosswalk file. Robinson Negron Juarez at Tulane University provided valuable assistance with the Hadley CM3 data. Also, this project was greatly enabled by support from the University of California, Davis Dissertation Year Fellowship. I would also like to thank the Committee on Research at Tulane U ...
... crosswalk file. Robinson Negron Juarez at Tulane University provided valuable assistance with the Hadley CM3 data. Also, this project was greatly enabled by support from the University of California, Davis Dissertation Year Fellowship. I would also like to thank the Committee on Research at Tulane U ...
Climate Change, Humidity, and Mortality in the United States
... crosswalk file. Robinson Negron Juarez at Tulane University provided valuable assistance with the Hadley CM3 data. Also, this project was greatly enabled by support from the University of California, Davis Dissertation Year Fellowship. I would also like to thank the Committee on Research at Tulane U ...
... crosswalk file. Robinson Negron Juarez at Tulane University provided valuable assistance with the Hadley CM3 data. Also, this project was greatly enabled by support from the University of California, Davis Dissertation Year Fellowship. I would also like to thank the Committee on Research at Tulane U ...
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"".