the nansen conference
... Every year, millions of people are forced on the move due to natural hazards in their environments, many of which relate to extreme weather situations. It appears that climate change is making matters worse by increasing the frequency and intensity of such natural hazards. In the future, we may witn ...
... Every year, millions of people are forced on the move due to natural hazards in their environments, many of which relate to extreme weather situations. It appears that climate change is making matters worse by increasing the frequency and intensity of such natural hazards. In the future, we may witn ...
Climate Change and Wetlands: Impacts and Mitigation
... Sulfur gases exist in the atmosphere mostly as sulfate aerosols (i.e., microscopic airborne particles; Carter & La Rovere 2000). Anthropogenic sources of sulfur, particularly sulfur dioxide (SO2) from industrial emissions, are the greatest contributors to atmospheric sulfate aerosols (Watson et al 1 ...
... Sulfur gases exist in the atmosphere mostly as sulfate aerosols (i.e., microscopic airborne particles; Carter & La Rovere 2000). Anthropogenic sources of sulfur, particularly sulfur dioxide (SO2) from industrial emissions, are the greatest contributors to atmospheric sulfate aerosols (Watson et al 1 ...
Climate modelling in Bangladesh
... The Met Office Hadley Centre’s regional climate modelling system (PRECIS) can be easily applied anywhere on Earth. It is used to generate detailed regional climate change projections at either 50 km or 25 km horizontal resolution. It is an ideal tool for capacity building in developing countries suc ...
... The Met Office Hadley Centre’s regional climate modelling system (PRECIS) can be easily applied anywhere on Earth. It is used to generate detailed regional climate change projections at either 50 km or 25 km horizontal resolution. It is an ideal tool for capacity building in developing countries suc ...
FutureMap - Committee for Melbourne
... The future health of Melburnians is also discussed. Changes in climate may mean more skin cancers, and increased injuries and mortality from associated storms and heat stress. There may be an increase in the distribution and abundance of disease transmitting insects, but there will potentially be a ...
... The future health of Melburnians is also discussed. Changes in climate may mean more skin cancers, and increased injuries and mortality from associated storms and heat stress. There may be an increase in the distribution and abundance of disease transmitting insects, but there will potentially be a ...
Chapter 3: U.S. Legal Developments: Legislative, Executive, and
... Higher sea levels and storm surges will threaten coastal areas. Climate change may exacerbate other social and environmental stresses and threaten human health. Moreover, “[f]uture climate change and its impacts depend on choices made today,” both to reduce emissions and to adapt to unavoidable chan ...
... Higher sea levels and storm surges will threaten coastal areas. Climate change may exacerbate other social and environmental stresses and threaten human health. Moreover, “[f]uture climate change and its impacts depend on choices made today,” both to reduce emissions and to adapt to unavoidable chan ...
Ms. Cassandra Carter Climate Change Intern Ministry of Natural
... Indigenous peoples and the impacts that they are also experiencing due to climate change receives attention in the strategy which is encouraging. However, this needs more thought. The causes of human‐induced climate change are at the core of western societies and industrial economies and our ever ...
... Indigenous peoples and the impacts that they are also experiencing due to climate change receives attention in the strategy which is encouraging. However, this needs more thought. The causes of human‐induced climate change are at the core of western societies and industrial economies and our ever ...
Make YorkU a Climate Leader: The Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment
... Nations climate negotiations, the world’s governments agreed to constrain globally averaged temperature rise to “well below 2˚C” relative to preindustrial times with an aspirational goal of 1.5˚C. Only a very limited amount of carbon can still be emitted into the atmosphere for any realistic chan ...
... Nations climate negotiations, the world’s governments agreed to constrain globally averaged temperature rise to “well below 2˚C” relative to preindustrial times with an aspirational goal of 1.5˚C. Only a very limited amount of carbon can still be emitted into the atmosphere for any realistic chan ...
Climate change and evolution: disentangling environmental and
... shifts, density and community changes in which the possible role of microevolution is hard to assess, we found that only three out of 105 studies in Parmesan & Yohe (2003) and Root et al. (2003) provide genetic evidence for observed population responses. While neither of the meta-analyses mentioned ...
... shifts, density and community changes in which the possible role of microevolution is hard to assess, we found that only three out of 105 studies in Parmesan & Yohe (2003) and Root et al. (2003) provide genetic evidence for observed population responses. While neither of the meta-analyses mentioned ...
Quantification of hydrologic impacts of climate change in a
... indicate the Mediterranean area as one of the regions of the world to be most severely affected by global changes. This area has in fact been classified by Giorgi (2006) as a primary hot spot most sensitive to climate change based on an index that combines variations in precipitation and air tempera ...
... indicate the Mediterranean area as one of the regions of the world to be most severely affected by global changes. This area has in fact been classified by Giorgi (2006) as a primary hot spot most sensitive to climate change based on an index that combines variations in precipitation and air tempera ...
Climate change: hydrological impact studies
... Water balance models essentially keep track of the components in the water balance equation, thereby describing the storage components in varying degree of complexity. These models calculate the water balance components for consecutive time steps, varying from daily to annual, but mostly monthly. ...
... Water balance models essentially keep track of the components in the water balance equation, thereby describing the storage components in varying degree of complexity. These models calculate the water balance components for consecutive time steps, varying from daily to annual, but mostly monthly. ...
The Impacts of Climate Change on the Coral Reefs of the Caribbean
... Global climate change has emerged over the past decade as one of the major environmental issues facing countries worldwide. The Caribbean, with its small islands and lowlying states, is facing serious challenges as they seek to grapple with the impacts of a changing climate. Global temperatures hav ...
... Global climate change has emerged over the past decade as one of the major environmental issues facing countries worldwide. The Caribbean, with its small islands and lowlying states, is facing serious challenges as they seek to grapple with the impacts of a changing climate. Global temperatures hav ...
Framing the flood: a media analysis of themes of resilience in the
... important aspect of building resilience to recurring events such as floods (Whittle et al. 2010). We consider community resilience to disasters as the ‘‘ability to learn from extreme events and institute individual and institutional adjustments’’ (Colten and Sumpter 2009). Communities can be describ ...
... important aspect of building resilience to recurring events such as floods (Whittle et al. 2010). We consider community resilience to disasters as the ‘‘ability to learn from extreme events and institute individual and institutional adjustments’’ (Colten and Sumpter 2009). Communities can be describ ...
The Perils of Modelling How Migration Responds to Climate Change
... understanding of how to measure climatic attractiveness to business and households is typically based on prior climate behavior; yet climate change will produce negative events outside of the range of previous experience, making it hard to model without knowing how people respond. Current migration ...
... understanding of how to measure climatic attractiveness to business and households is typically based on prior climate behavior; yet climate change will produce negative events outside of the range of previous experience, making it hard to model without knowing how people respond. Current migration ...
Preparing for and managing change: climate adaptation for
... adaptation literature is the need to move from a paradigm of preserving current conditions or designing restoration for “historical fidelity” to one of being open to managing for future systems that may differ in composition, structure, and/or function (Cole and Yung 2010). Given the rate and magnit ...
... adaptation literature is the need to move from a paradigm of preserving current conditions or designing restoration for “historical fidelity” to one of being open to managing for future systems that may differ in composition, structure, and/or function (Cole and Yung 2010). Given the rate and magnit ...
pdf Antarctic Research Centre File size
... scientists are increasingly looking back to the future to gain insights into the likely response of Earth’s climate. Ice sheets and oceans are some of the slowest responding elements of the climate system to an atmospheric CO2 perturbation taking centuries to millennia to play out, and are therefore ...
... scientists are increasingly looking back to the future to gain insights into the likely response of Earth’s climate. Ice sheets and oceans are some of the slowest responding elements of the climate system to an atmospheric CO2 perturbation taking centuries to millennia to play out, and are therefore ...
Factors Affecting Global Tourism
... The global forces taxonomy categorizes those global forces impacting on tourism into three layers. 3 Why is it important to consider both these global forces’ importance (the degree to which they affect competitiveness) and their stability? Provide examples to demonstrate your understanding. The lev ...
... The global forces taxonomy categorizes those global forces impacting on tourism into three layers. 3 Why is it important to consider both these global forces’ importance (the degree to which they affect competitiveness) and their stability? Provide examples to demonstrate your understanding. The lev ...
Ecosystem services - International Risk Governance Council
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... Copyright © 2003 World Resources Institute. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C.) ...
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... - Joachim Faber, Allianz SE board member and CEO of Allianz Global Investors © Copyright Allianz ...
www.permafrostcarbon.org - Arctic Research Consortium of the
... predominantly anaerobic (oxygen limited) soil conditions. Across the permafrost region, there is a gradient of water saturation that ranges from mostly aerobic upland ecosystems to mostly anaerobic lowland lakes and wetlands. In aerobic soils, CO2 is released by microbial decomposition of soil organ ...
... predominantly anaerobic (oxygen limited) soil conditions. Across the permafrost region, there is a gradient of water saturation that ranges from mostly aerobic upland ecosystems to mostly anaerobic lowland lakes and wetlands. In aerobic soils, CO2 is released by microbial decomposition of soil organ ...
IOC and COP21 - UNESDOC
... Covering 71% of the globe, the ocean provides essential services for maintaining life on Earth and is as important as forests in the supply of world oxygen. As a natural regulator of the Earth’s climate and cornerstone of the global climate system, its importance can no longer be underestimated. Oce ...
... Covering 71% of the globe, the ocean provides essential services for maintaining life on Earth and is as important as forests in the supply of world oxygen. As a natural regulator of the Earth’s climate and cornerstone of the global climate system, its importance can no longer be underestimated. Oce ...
"Climate Change and Agriculture: Agriculture's Role in Cap-and-Trade"
... Cap-and-Trade…and Opportunities for Agriculture Q: What is the role of Agricultural Offsets in Cap-and-Trade? A: Offsets are a cost-containment measure (keep costs of cap-&-trade system lower for society, for capped entities); and, A: Soil sinks, other ag reductions have multiple ancillary benefits ...
... Cap-and-Trade…and Opportunities for Agriculture Q: What is the role of Agricultural Offsets in Cap-and-Trade? A: Offsets are a cost-containment measure (keep costs of cap-&-trade system lower for society, for capped entities); and, A: Soil sinks, other ag reductions have multiple ancillary benefits ...
ISSN 1392-2785 Inzinerine Ekonomika
... being experienced in the most parts of the world. Europe has seen an increase in the number of adverse weather related events in the past decade (Stern, 2006). The EU‟s climate policy is in keeping with the target of limiting the global temperature rise to 2°C in relation to its preindustrial level ...
... being experienced in the most parts of the world. Europe has seen an increase in the number of adverse weather related events in the past decade (Stern, 2006). The EU‟s climate policy is in keeping with the target of limiting the global temperature rise to 2°C in relation to its preindustrial level ...
use of regional climate for hydrological simulations for the
... One field of application of hydrological models is the creation of runoff scenarios for different climate and glaciation conditions. However glacier storage is not handled well by current conceptual or physically-based hydrological models. Hence, holistic approaches to study and model glacier storag ...
... One field of application of hydrological models is the creation of runoff scenarios for different climate and glaciation conditions. However glacier storage is not handled well by current conceptual or physically-based hydrological models. Hence, holistic approaches to study and model glacier storag ...
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.""