PARCC Project Training Manual 2014 Protected Areas Resilient to Climate Change,
... UNEP, contributory organisations or editors. The designations employed and the presentations of material in this report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNEP or contributory organisations, editors or publishers concerning the legal status of any country, territory ...
... UNEP, contributory organisations or editors. The designations employed and the presentations of material in this report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNEP or contributory organisations, editors or publishers concerning the legal status of any country, territory ...
Regional Climate Projections
... this century. The warming is likely to be somewhat smaller than the global annual mean. Summer rainfall in the Caribbean is likely to decrease in the vicinity of the Greater Antilles but changes elsewhere and in winter are uncertain. Annual rainfall is likely to increase in the northern Indian Ocean ...
... this century. The warming is likely to be somewhat smaller than the global annual mean. Summer rainfall in the Caribbean is likely to decrease in the vicinity of the Greater Antilles but changes elsewhere and in winter are uncertain. Annual rainfall is likely to increase in the northern Indian Ocean ...
a fact sheet - Friends of the Earth
... At a benefit to cost ratio of nearly 8:1 programmes that seek to change travel behaviour can be extremely cost effective http://www.sustrans.org.uk/assets/files/travelsmart/behaviour_change_ff36.pdf The STDT cost approximately £15.6million over 5 years (2004-8) this equates to approximately £5.65 pe ...
... At a benefit to cost ratio of nearly 8:1 programmes that seek to change travel behaviour can be extremely cost effective http://www.sustrans.org.uk/assets/files/travelsmart/behaviour_change_ff36.pdf The STDT cost approximately £15.6million over 5 years (2004-8) this equates to approximately £5.65 pe ...
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Sustainability Science Projected land
... Relative to changes under the 1990s Trend scenario, the three policies result in modest changes in food production, and more substantial changes in carbon storage, timber production, and habitat. The Forest Incentives policy has the largest positive effect on biomass carbon (1.7 billion Mg increase ...
... Relative to changes under the 1990s Trend scenario, the three policies result in modest changes in food production, and more substantial changes in carbon storage, timber production, and habitat. The Forest Incentives policy has the largest positive effect on biomass carbon (1.7 billion Mg increase ...
PARCC Project Training Manual Module 2. Climate data
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... UNEP, contributory organisations or editors. The designations employed and the presentations of material in this report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNEP or contributory organisations, editors or publishers concerning the legal status of any country, territory ...
Submission DR134 - Chairman of the Australian Building Codes
... research and collect data of a nature that predicts future weather events. Any research used as a basis for future regulation needs to be robust, peer-reviewed and have the support of the scientific community. Modelling techniques can be used to assess the potential range of climate outcomes based o ...
... research and collect data of a nature that predicts future weather events. Any research used as a basis for future regulation needs to be robust, peer-reviewed and have the support of the scientific community. Modelling techniques can be used to assess the potential range of climate outcomes based o ...
Rohr et al. 2013 physiology
... Controversy persists regarding the contributions of climate change to biodiversity losses, through its effects on the spread and emergence of infectious diseases. One of the reasons for this controversy is that there are few mechanistic studies that explore the links among climate change, infectious ...
... Controversy persists regarding the contributions of climate change to biodiversity losses, through its effects on the spread and emergence of infectious diseases. One of the reasons for this controversy is that there are few mechanistic studies that explore the links among climate change, infectious ...
Vienna Convention Trust Fund Advisory Committee
... surface UV radiation are back to their original states ...
... surface UV radiation are back to their original states ...
Environmental Impacts—Marine Ecosystems
... are responding to these strong signals. Changes in advection and mixing may also be driving changes in ocean chemistry that in turn affect biota. Abrupt changes in many components of the biota, sometimes called ‘regime shifts’, have been ...
... are responding to these strong signals. Changes in advection and mixing may also be driving changes in ocean chemistry that in turn affect biota. Abrupt changes in many components of the biota, sometimes called ‘regime shifts’, have been ...
Global changes in seasonal means and extremes of precipitation
... ensemble of climate change simulations in response to the SRES A1b scenario has been carried out using the ECHAM5/MPI-OM climate model. The large size of the data set gives the opportunity to detect the changes of climate extremes and means with high statistical confidence. Daily precipitation data ...
... ensemble of climate change simulations in response to the SRES A1b scenario has been carried out using the ECHAM5/MPI-OM climate model. The large size of the data set gives the opportunity to detect the changes of climate extremes and means with high statistical confidence. Daily precipitation data ...
Climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion Early effects on
... with the advent of climate change. However, further research is needed to clarify these and future relationships. Climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion are anticipated to have a range of health effects. Some will be direct effects, such as deaths related to heat waves and skin cancer indu ...
... with the advent of climate change. However, further research is needed to clarify these and future relationships. Climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion are anticipated to have a range of health effects. Some will be direct effects, such as deaths related to heat waves and skin cancer indu ...
Proceedings - The UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
... Global Energy and Climate Change, the 2006 UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on The Transportation, Land Use, Environment Connection, brought together scientists, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the complex relationships between transportation and climate change. No topic is more ...
... Global Energy and Climate Change, the 2006 UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on The Transportation, Land Use, Environment Connection, brought together scientists, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the complex relationships between transportation and climate change. No topic is more ...
van Hooidonk et al. 2013. Opposite latitudinal gradients in projected
... calcification to estimate the overall mean response of coral calcification to a decrease in Ωarag. Our projections are the first showing spatial variability in declines in calcification based on the meta-analysis these authors present. Global projections of the effects of OA on Ωarag and calcificati ...
... calcification to estimate the overall mean response of coral calcification to a decrease in Ωarag. Our projections are the first showing spatial variability in declines in calcification based on the meta-analysis these authors present. Global projections of the effects of OA on Ωarag and calcificati ...
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... There is near undisputed scientific consensus that the rising atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases owing to human activities will cause warming (and other climatic changes) at Earth’s surface. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) revealed an increase in world average tempera ...
... There is near undisputed scientific consensus that the rising atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases owing to human activities will cause warming (and other climatic changes) at Earth’s surface. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) revealed an increase in world average tempera ...
Climate change and the South Asian summer monsoon
... and east–west asymmetry in the seasonal mean monsoon precipitation seen in Fig. 1? As the maximum in solar insolation and the positive net flux of energy into the atmospheric column14 that is expected to lead to rising motion are strong well north of the precipitation extent shown in Fig. 1, why doe ...
... and east–west asymmetry in the seasonal mean monsoon precipitation seen in Fig. 1? As the maximum in solar insolation and the positive net flux of energy into the atmospheric column14 that is expected to lead to rising motion are strong well north of the precipitation extent shown in Fig. 1, why doe ...
WP83: The emerging geographies of climate justice
... among users of research, and its content may have been submitted for publication in academic journals. It has been reviewed by at least one internal referee before publication. The views expressed in this paper represent those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the host insti ...
... among users of research, and its content may have been submitted for publication in academic journals. It has been reviewed by at least one internal referee before publication. The views expressed in this paper represent those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the host insti ...
... (2005, 2006), and concludes that ‘models and observations disagree to a statistically significant extent.’ This contradicts the findings of both Santer et al. (2005) and the previously mentioned CCSP and IPCC reports (Karl et al., 2006; IPCC, 2007). As DCPS07 note, their conclusions were reached ‘ba ...
Explaining Public Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policies
... the carbon tax was finally abolished in July 2014. A similar trend was also found in the US where consumers opposed energy taxes (Leiserowitz 2006). Nevertheless, the public‟s engagement in climate change mitigation is important as they contribute to two of the largest sources of carbon emission eit ...
... the carbon tax was finally abolished in July 2014. A similar trend was also found in the US where consumers opposed energy taxes (Leiserowitz 2006). Nevertheless, the public‟s engagement in climate change mitigation is important as they contribute to two of the largest sources of carbon emission eit ...
Final Report of the Select Committee on Climate Change
... consultations, informed by a climate change discussion guide, Building a Stronger New Brunswick Response to Climate Change, and reporting to the House with recommendations. The Committee was fortunate to hear from a wide diversity of New Brunswickers who shared their opinions about how New Brunswick ...
... consultations, informed by a climate change discussion guide, Building a Stronger New Brunswick Response to Climate Change, and reporting to the House with recommendations. The Committee was fortunate to hear from a wide diversity of New Brunswickers who shared their opinions about how New Brunswick ...
Forests and climate change in Latin America : linking
... Ecosystem-based adaptation projects can directly benefit climate change mitigation, through either increasing or maintaining carbon stocks. This is the case of the adaptation project in Honduras accepted by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund and described above (‘Addressing Climate Change Risks on Water Res ...
... Ecosystem-based adaptation projects can directly benefit climate change mitigation, through either increasing or maintaining carbon stocks. This is the case of the adaptation project in Honduras accepted by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund and described above (‘Addressing Climate Change Risks on Water Res ...
Climate Change in Levelock, Alaska
... from climate change and communities seek adaptive strategies that encourage wellness and sustainability. This report documents climate change impacts as described by community residents and climate change effects or potential effects as interpreted through the lens of public health. It is the sevent ...
... from climate change and communities seek adaptive strategies that encourage wellness and sustainability. This report documents climate change impacts as described by community residents and climate change effects or potential effects as interpreted through the lens of public health. It is the sevent ...
This paper offers a unifying conceptual framework for examining the
... been riveted on polar bears, Antarctic penguins, and other endangered inhabitants of the Earth’s shrinking ice caps, relatively few researchers have turned serious attention – until recent years – to quantify the prospective long-term effects of climate change on human welfare.” 2.2 Discussion of ef ...
... been riveted on polar bears, Antarctic penguins, and other endangered inhabitants of the Earth’s shrinking ice caps, relatively few researchers have turned serious attention – until recent years – to quantify the prospective long-term effects of climate change on human welfare.” 2.2 Discussion of ef ...
Climate change and eastern Africa: a review of impact on major crops
... increase in temperature, frequency of cold days, cold nights, and frost have decreased, while frequency of hot days, hot nights, and heat waves have increased. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) projects a continuous increase in global temperature if g ...
... increase in temperature, frequency of cold days, cold nights, and frost have decreased, while frequency of hot days, hot nights, and heat waves have increased. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) projects a continuous increase in global temperature if g ...
Climate change feedback
Climate change feedback is important in the understanding of global warming because feedback processes may amplify or diminish the effect of each climate forcing, and so play an important part in determining the climate sensitivity and future climate state. Feedback in general is the process in which changing one quantity changes a second quantity, and the change in the second quantity in turn changes the first. Positive feedback amplifies the change in the first quantity while negative feedback reduces it.The term ""forcing"" means a change which may ""push"" the climate system in the direction of warming or cooling. An example of a climate forcing is increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. By definition, forcings are external to the climate system while feedbacks are internal; in essence, feedbacks represent the internal processes of the system. Some feedbacks may act in relative isolation to the rest of the climate system; others may be tightly coupled; hence it may be difficult to tell just how much a particular process contributes. Forcings, feedbacks and the dynamics of the climate system determine how much and how fast the climate changes. The main positive feedback in global warming is the tendency of warming to increase the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, which in turn leads to further warming. The main negative feedback comes from the Stefan–Boltzmann law, the amount of heat radiated from the Earth into space changes with the fourth power of the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere.Some observed and potential effects of global warming are positive feedbacks, which contribute directly to further global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report states that ""Anthropogenic warming could lead to some effects that are abrupt or irreversible, depending upon the rate and magnitude of the climate change.""