Ville Kumpu A climate for reduction? Futures imagined in
... the effort of the MediaClimate network to explore and compare the coverage of climate summits across the world [29,20,30,31]. Connected to this effort the coverage of HS and IS was analyzed using a coding scheme that classified the genre, size, location of the stories and people quoted in the storie ...
... the effort of the MediaClimate network to explore and compare the coverage of climate summits across the world [29,20,30,31]. Connected to this effort the coverage of HS and IS was analyzed using a coding scheme that classified the genre, size, location of the stories and people quoted in the storie ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Growth, Ecosystem Services
... processes are ongoing in earth and human systems. These processes can be affected by change in climate, causing an effect on natural resources (water resources, forest products, etc.), on biodiversity, ecosystem services and on plants in general, some positive and on others negative effects, such as ...
... processes are ongoing in earth and human systems. These processes can be affected by change in climate, causing an effect on natural resources (water resources, forest products, etc.), on biodiversity, ecosystem services and on plants in general, some positive and on others negative effects, such as ...
China`s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change (White
... — A complex climate and a fragile eco-environment determine that China's task of adapting itself to climate change is arduous. China is characterized by a continental monsoon climate, and most parts of China have a wider range of seasonal temperature change compared with other continental areas at ...
... — A complex climate and a fragile eco-environment determine that China's task of adapting itself to climate change is arduous. China is characterized by a continental monsoon climate, and most parts of China have a wider range of seasonal temperature change compared with other continental areas at ...
Chapter 5
... mainland in 2071-2100 will, compared to now, have some 35-40 more days with a maximum daily temperature of 35ºC or more, while even greater will be the increase (by around 50 at the national level) in the number of tropical nights (when minimum temperatures do not fall below 20ºC). On the other hand ...
... mainland in 2071-2100 will, compared to now, have some 35-40 more days with a maximum daily temperature of 35ºC or more, while even greater will be the increase (by around 50 at the national level) in the number of tropical nights (when minimum temperatures do not fall below 20ºC). On the other hand ...
Experiences of host communities with carbon market projects
... Ensuring justice for communities hosting CDM, VCM and REDD+ projects is important for at least three reasons. First, all these initiatives have dual objectives of generating low-cost emission reductions and contributing towards sustainable development in the host communities (UNFCCC, 1997; Forest Tr ...
... Ensuring justice for communities hosting CDM, VCM and REDD+ projects is important for at least three reasons. First, all these initiatives have dual objectives of generating low-cost emission reductions and contributing towards sustainable development in the host communities (UNFCCC, 1997; Forest Tr ...
World Bank Document - Arab Trade Union Confederation
... The impacts of climate change on agricultural activities in terms of yield losses and increasing water needs have been studied for the last decade in Egypt. The results have shown Egypt to be particularly vulnerable to climate change because of its dependence on the Nile River as the primary water s ...
... The impacts of climate change on agricultural activities in terms of yield losses and increasing water needs have been studied for the last decade in Egypt. The results have shown Egypt to be particularly vulnerable to climate change because of its dependence on the Nile River as the primary water s ...
Climate Change Adaptation Guideline
... In planning stages of a project, consider the potential impacts of a changing climate generating exacerbated flood, storm surge, inundation, heat, extreme storm and weather events. Use climate change projections to analyse the impact on people, the environment and the physical infrastructure. Build ...
... In planning stages of a project, consider the potential impacts of a changing climate generating exacerbated flood, storm surge, inundation, heat, extreme storm and weather events. Use climate change projections to analyse the impact on people, the environment and the physical infrastructure. Build ...
- White Rose Research Online
... Olaf Schroth, Jeannette Angel, Stephen Sheppard and Aleksandra Dulic Climate change is an urgent problem with implications registered not only globally, but also on national and local scales. It is a particularly challenging case of environmental communication because its main cause, greenhouse gas ...
... Olaf Schroth, Jeannette Angel, Stephen Sheppard and Aleksandra Dulic Climate change is an urgent problem with implications registered not only globally, but also on national and local scales. It is a particularly challenging case of environmental communication because its main cause, greenhouse gas ...
1 1 Final Project Climate Change Part One: pg. 1
... There are three major drivers of climate change on post industrial revolution Earth. Long-lived greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide increase surface temperature by absorbing radiant heat energy from the sun and reflect it back to the Earth’s surface. Ozone, a short-li ...
... There are three major drivers of climate change on post industrial revolution Earth. Long-lived greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide increase surface temperature by absorbing radiant heat energy from the sun and reflect it back to the Earth’s surface. Ozone, a short-li ...
Consequences of elevated temperature on prairie plants: legumes, nitrogen, and phenology
... important role in the N cycle because they have the ability through their symbiosis with N2-fixing bacteria to add N to their surroundings. It has been estimated that prairie legumes contribute only ~5% of added N to the system (Woodmansee et al. 1981), most likely because of their relative low abun ...
... important role in the N cycle because they have the ability through their symbiosis with N2-fixing bacteria to add N to their surroundings. It has been estimated that prairie legumes contribute only ~5% of added N to the system (Woodmansee et al. 1981), most likely because of their relative low abun ...
paper - user"s empty page at IIASA / 2013
... CO2 emissions. We calculate the ‘total carbon equivalent’ of all GHGs from the CO2-only scenario (using 100-year GWPs 1 ) and apply this to the multigas scenario to obtain the same radiative forcing, but using all six GHGs. In addition, in the multigas scenario, mitigation from forest sinks is also ...
... CO2 emissions. We calculate the ‘total carbon equivalent’ of all GHGs from the CO2-only scenario (using 100-year GWPs 1 ) and apply this to the multigas scenario to obtain the same radiative forcing, but using all six GHGs. In addition, in the multigas scenario, mitigation from forest sinks is also ...
Official PDF , 39 pages
... The impacts of climate change on agricultural activities in terms of yield losses and increasing water needs have been studied for the last decade in Egypt. The results have shown Egypt to be particularly vulnerable to climate change because of its dependence on the Nile River as the primary water s ...
... The impacts of climate change on agricultural activities in terms of yield losses and increasing water needs have been studied for the last decade in Egypt. The results have shown Egypt to be particularly vulnerable to climate change because of its dependence on the Nile River as the primary water s ...
Good practice for the usage of climate model simulation results
... radiative forcing due to GHG emissions as they occurred during that time. Comparing Reanalyses and 20C data is necessary to assess the climate models’ offset (bias) with respect to what actually occurred (Christensen et al., 2008). When a cascade (cf. Section Model cascades) of GCM→RCM is used, addit ...
... radiative forcing due to GHG emissions as they occurred during that time. Comparing Reanalyses and 20C data is necessary to assess the climate models’ offset (bias) with respect to what actually occurred (Christensen et al., 2008). When a cascade (cf. Section Model cascades) of GCM→RCM is used, addit ...
Predicting survival, reproduction and abundance of polar bears
... abundance (Amstrup et al., 2007; Hunter et al., 2007), and each of these studies had to rely on some form of extrapolation or expert judgment to parameterize suggested population models due to the lack of data relating present to future conditions. These analyses are important steps, and they provid ...
... abundance (Amstrup et al., 2007; Hunter et al., 2007), and each of these studies had to rely on some form of extrapolation or expert judgment to parameterize suggested population models due to the lack of data relating present to future conditions. These analyses are important steps, and they provid ...
Northern African climate at the end of the twenty
... the heat stoke risk increases across the Sahel. Wetter This paper is a contribution to the special issue on West African Climate, consisting of papers from the African Multidisciplinary Monsoon Analysis (AMMA) and West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation (WAMME) projects, and coordinated by Y. X ...
... the heat stoke risk increases across the Sahel. Wetter This paper is a contribution to the special issue on West African Climate, consisting of papers from the African Multidisciplinary Monsoon Analysis (AMMA) and West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation (WAMME) projects, and coordinated by Y. X ...
The American Environmental Values Survey: American Views on the
... setting, and tailored feedback on household energy use, energy-related behaviors, and behavioral antecedents. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 27, 265-276. Adger, W.N., Dessai, S., Goulden, M., Hulme, M., Lorenzoni, I., Nelson, D.R., Naess, L.O., Wolf, J., Wreford, A. (2009). Are there social li ...
... setting, and tailored feedback on household energy use, energy-related behaviors, and behavioral antecedents. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 27, 265-276. Adger, W.N., Dessai, S., Goulden, M., Hulme, M., Lorenzoni, I., Nelson, D.R., Naess, L.O., Wolf, J., Wreford, A. (2009). Are there social li ...
Chapter 4 Impact of Climate Change on Low Islands The Tarawa
... further depletion of reef fisheries, failure of the reef to act as an effective buffer of wave energy, and increased island instability as sediment resources decline. The economic losses of coral reef degradation attributed to climate change would be in the order of US$200,000– $500,000 a year prima ...
... further depletion of reef fisheries, failure of the reef to act as an effective buffer of wave energy, and increased island instability as sediment resources decline. The economic losses of coral reef degradation attributed to climate change would be in the order of US$200,000– $500,000 a year prima ...
Financing Climate Chaos
... Permafrost, which sequesters twice the amount of carbon as is currently in our atmosphere, is beginning to melt. As the permafrost melts, this carbon will be released as methane, a potent greenhouse gas, leading to the very real threat of runaway climate change. Sea levels have begun to rise, an ...
... Permafrost, which sequesters twice the amount of carbon as is currently in our atmosphere, is beginning to melt. As the permafrost melts, this carbon will be released as methane, a potent greenhouse gas, leading to the very real threat of runaway climate change. Sea levels have begun to rise, an ...
Climate change and livestock production in Ethiopia
... country. It is the source of many social and economic values such as food, draught power, fuel, cash income, security and investment in both the highlands and the lowlands/pastoral farming systems (FDRE, 2001). The recent livestock population of Ethiopia estimates that the country has about 52.1 mil ...
... country. It is the source of many social and economic values such as food, draught power, fuel, cash income, security and investment in both the highlands and the lowlands/pastoral farming systems (FDRE, 2001). The recent livestock population of Ethiopia estimates that the country has about 52.1 mil ...
Task 4.2 Calculation of metrics - Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
... Task 3.2 Simulations for idealised forcing perturbations ........................................................... 12 Task 3.3 Simulations for realistic forcings ................................................................................. 15 WP 4 Existing metrics ............................. ...
... Task 3.2 Simulations for idealised forcing perturbations ........................................................... 12 Task 3.3 Simulations for realistic forcings ................................................................................. 15 WP 4 Existing metrics ............................. ...
Dubuque, Iowa Greenhouse Gas Inventory
... 90,577 tonnes CO2e in 2010, an increase of 13% over 2003 emissions (Fig. ES1). If those trends continue, City operations will emit 98,072 tonnes in 2015, 113,062 tonnes in 2025, and 150,537 tonnes in 2050, which would represent an 88% increase over 2003 levels. ...
... 90,577 tonnes CO2e in 2010, an increase of 13% over 2003 emissions (Fig. ES1). If those trends continue, City operations will emit 98,072 tonnes in 2015, 113,062 tonnes in 2025, and 150,537 tonnes in 2050, which would represent an 88% increase over 2003 levels. ...
Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Change
... immediate, extensive action. Policymakers are thus confronted with a wide range of recommendations about how to address the risks posed by a changing climate—in particular, whether, how, and how much to limit emissions of greenhouse gases. (CBO 2005) ...
... immediate, extensive action. Policymakers are thus confronted with a wide range of recommendations about how to address the risks posed by a changing climate—in particular, whether, how, and how much to limit emissions of greenhouse gases. (CBO 2005) ...
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... The anthropogenic release of greenhouse gases, most notably carbon dioxide, methane, clorofluorocarbons, and nitrous oxide, has been scientifically shown to trap radiant energy from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, raising the planet’s average temperature. [IPCC (1995a)] International concern over ...
... The anthropogenic release of greenhouse gases, most notably carbon dioxide, methane, clorofluorocarbons, and nitrous oxide, has been scientifically shown to trap radiant energy from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, raising the planet’s average temperature. [IPCC (1995a)] International concern over ...
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.""