2014—2015 Annual Report
... and solutions efforts not only because I’ve seen its effects; more importantly, because I believe it is our moral imperative to address this issue. It will predominately impact those who had the least to do with causing it: vulnerable lowincome populations, low-lying coastal nations with negligible ...
... and solutions efforts not only because I’ve seen its effects; more importantly, because I believe it is our moral imperative to address this issue. It will predominately impact those who had the least to do with causing it: vulnerable lowincome populations, low-lying coastal nations with negligible ...
Introduction The Public Trust Doctrine, Climate Change and Future Generations Table of Contents
... At a very simple level, each jurisdiction must carry out reduction of carbon pollution through a “budget” for carbon reduction over time that sets forth quantifiable mileposts. The jurisdiction must also develop an asset recovery plan containing measures calibrated to bring about such reduction. Sea ...
... At a very simple level, each jurisdiction must carry out reduction of carbon pollution through a “budget” for carbon reduction over time that sets forth quantifiable mileposts. The jurisdiction must also develop an asset recovery plan containing measures calibrated to bring about such reduction. Sea ...
Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change
... climate change is having on people’s lives. Section I thus introduces some preliminary methodological observations on normative theorizing about global climate change. In addition, it outlines some basic background scientific claims about the impacts of climate change. Section 2 examines one common ...
... climate change is having on people’s lives. Section I thus introduces some preliminary methodological observations on normative theorizing about global climate change. In addition, it outlines some basic background scientific claims about the impacts of climate change. Section 2 examines one common ...
Stockholm University
... EC-Earth simulates ice conditions similar to the observed conditions around 2010. Adding this 115 ppm to today’s CO2 concentration, the real world threshold, if existing, for an ice-free September would be around 500 ppm. This level is reached around 2040 and 2055 in RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively. ...
... EC-Earth simulates ice conditions similar to the observed conditions around 2010. Adding this 115 ppm to today’s CO2 concentration, the real world threshold, if existing, for an ice-free September would be around 500 ppm. This level is reached around 2040 and 2055 in RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively. ...
Energy Makeovers Pty Ltd - Department of Environment, Land
... target for the VEET scheme going forward. EM recommends that the 2017 target be set at 10 million tonnes, with subsequent targets being open to upward adjustments as needed to assist Victoria to meet its future carbon abatement targets. "Energy efficiency will be a critical element of Victoria's cli ...
... target for the VEET scheme going forward. EM recommends that the 2017 target be set at 10 million tonnes, with subsequent targets being open to upward adjustments as needed to assist Victoria to meet its future carbon abatement targets. "Energy efficiency will be a critical element of Victoria's cli ...
Sensitivity of Potato Yield to Climate Change
... Central Laboratory for Agricultural Climate (CLAC), Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt. Abstract: One significant impact of climate change is the effect upon agriculture. As many evidences indicated that some remarkable changes could happen in cli ...
... Central Laboratory for Agricultural Climate (CLAC), Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt. Abstract: One significant impact of climate change is the effect upon agriculture. As many evidences indicated that some remarkable changes could happen in cli ...
Open resource
... meteorology, fisheries, ice-extent, and climatic trends. This is important because the IPCC refresh rate is too long to meet the budget POM cycle, so this assessment will periodically synthesize existing scientific reports to inform POMs, specifically POM-14; this allows the Navy‘s decisions to be b ...
... meteorology, fisheries, ice-extent, and climatic trends. This is important because the IPCC refresh rate is too long to meet the budget POM cycle, so this assessment will periodically synthesize existing scientific reports to inform POMs, specifically POM-14; this allows the Navy‘s decisions to be b ...
- Guyana`s Low Carbon Development Strategy
... The payments that will accrue to Guyana through REDD+ will not approach the true EVW that Guyana’s forests provide, since REDD+ deals with carbon storage and does not capture the value of other ecosystem services. REDD+ does not, therefore, fully rectify the market failure that exists in the discrep ...
... The payments that will accrue to Guyana through REDD+ will not approach the true EVW that Guyana’s forests provide, since REDD+ deals with carbon storage and does not capture the value of other ecosystem services. REDD+ does not, therefore, fully rectify the market failure that exists in the discrep ...
Assessments of moisture fluxes east of the Andes in South America
... A2 and B2 of IPCC, respectively. However, these studies do not analyze the behaviour of the meridional moisture transport on the east side of the Andes in South America, associated with possible changes in the SALLJ activity. Marengo et al. (2007), using dynamic downscaling, showed an increase in th ...
... A2 and B2 of IPCC, respectively. However, these studies do not analyze the behaviour of the meridional moisture transport on the east side of the Andes in South America, associated with possible changes in the SALLJ activity. Marengo et al. (2007), using dynamic downscaling, showed an increase in th ...
PandanusOctober2016 PDF
... accuracy matters in news reporting started the website Climate Feedback in order to allow scientists to evaluate the accuracy of media coverage on climate science. A scale on the website enables scientists to rate the scientific credibility of any given climate change article, and in this way allows ...
... accuracy matters in news reporting started the website Climate Feedback in order to allow scientists to evaluate the accuracy of media coverage on climate science. A scale on the website enables scientists to rate the scientific credibility of any given climate change article, and in this way allows ...
Modeling Earth`s future
... systems to simulate the earth’s atmosphere, land surfaces, and oceans. These models indicate that as humans release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, converting forests to agricultural land, and other activities, the world will warm. This warming ...
... systems to simulate the earth’s atmosphere, land surfaces, and oceans. These models indicate that as humans release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, converting forests to agricultural land, and other activities, the world will warm. This warming ...
climate change and emissions pathways
... Finally, an important geopolitical stakeholder in the climate policy debate is the European Union (EU). With the withdrawal of the United States from the Kyoto Protocol, the EU now ranks as the largest current and historical emitter of greenhouse gases involved in negotiating binding international m ...
... Finally, an important geopolitical stakeholder in the climate policy debate is the European Union (EU). With the withdrawal of the United States from the Kyoto Protocol, the EU now ranks as the largest current and historical emitter of greenhouse gases involved in negotiating binding international m ...
Silvicultural Challenges and Options in the Context of Global Change
... quite a bit faster than a forest’s response to manipulations. Additionally, there is no single source of information about the prediction of global change and the uncertainties associated with it. This makes it difficult for silviculturists to operationally assess what specific challenges and uncert ...
... quite a bit faster than a forest’s response to manipulations. Additionally, there is no single source of information about the prediction of global change and the uncertainties associated with it. This makes it difficult for silviculturists to operationally assess what specific challenges and uncert ...
The Obama Administration`s Clean Air Act Legacy and the UNFCC
... legislation would be imminently forthcoming in his first term after the House of Representatives passed a comprehensive climate bill; but it did not pass in the Senate.16 In 2009, on the international stage, President Obama pledged the U.S. would cut GHG emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by ...
... legislation would be imminently forthcoming in his first term after the House of Representatives passed a comprehensive climate bill; but it did not pass in the Senate.16 In 2009, on the international stage, President Obama pledged the U.S. would cut GHG emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by ...
Climate Change Legislation in the 110 Congress
... storage (or sequestration). Within the legislative proposals, there are different methods of promoting technology deployment. One deployment strategy may involve tax incentives for investment in technologies to improve efficiency and/or lower emissions. Other deployment strategies would provide gran ...
... storage (or sequestration). Within the legislative proposals, there are different methods of promoting technology deployment. One deployment strategy may involve tax incentives for investment in technologies to improve efficiency and/or lower emissions. Other deployment strategies would provide gran ...
Climate Change and Marine Turtles in the Wider Caribbean
... to account for uncertainty surrounding future emissions by considering projections for both high and low emissions scenarios. However, understanding of some processes in the carbon cycle is imperfect, which creates uncertainty when converting emissions into concentrations. Models also do not take in ...
... to account for uncertainty surrounding future emissions by considering projections for both high and low emissions scenarios. However, understanding of some processes in the carbon cycle is imperfect, which creates uncertainty when converting emissions into concentrations. Models also do not take in ...
How limiting factors drive agricultural adaptation to climate change.
... on other agronomic and socio-economic limiting factors. For example, a farmer’s debt load may have a profound effect on their ability to implement irrigation, which may help them respond to water as a limiting factor. We hope that future work can assess the interaction of these potential factors and ...
... on other agronomic and socio-economic limiting factors. For example, a farmer’s debt load may have a profound effect on their ability to implement irrigation, which may help them respond to water as a limiting factor. We hope that future work can assess the interaction of these potential factors and ...
Measurements on Carbon Sink Benefits of Coastal Shelterbelt and the
... features of global climate change and is breaking the heat balance of the Earth's surface, changing the structure and function of land ecosystems, threatening human survival and health. So, how to prevent further warming of global climate and resolve a series of serious ecological problems have beco ...
... features of global climate change and is breaking the heat balance of the Earth's surface, changing the structure and function of land ecosystems, threatening human survival and health. So, how to prevent further warming of global climate and resolve a series of serious ecological problems have beco ...
The Short-Term Temptations and Long
... From a modern perspective, however, some of the outcomes of Carson’s work were less successful. Carson’s broader claims with regard to pesticide use have largely been seen as exaggerated: in particular, claims of chemicals destroying nature and entire ecosystems and the desire to ban bad actors outr ...
... From a modern perspective, however, some of the outcomes of Carson’s work were less successful. Carson’s broader claims with regard to pesticide use have largely been seen as exaggerated: in particular, claims of chemicals destroying nature and entire ecosystems and the desire to ban bad actors outr ...
File - The Atmospheric Vortex Engine
... But cyclones are reportedly reducing in frequency: “There are a number of modelling studies that suggest the frequency or total number of cyclones in some ocean basins, including the South Indian and South Pacific, will decrease as a function of global warming.” “One recent study examining the freq ...
... But cyclones are reportedly reducing in frequency: “There are a number of modelling studies that suggest the frequency or total number of cyclones in some ocean basins, including the South Indian and South Pacific, will decrease as a function of global warming.” “One recent study examining the freq ...
NPS Climate Change Scenario Planning (CCSP) Workshop
... Each group started by considering potential drivers in the context of their certainty and importance (Table 1). These critical forces were initially termed “climate drivers,” but when this caused confusion regarding cause and effect – given that these forces do not drive climate, but are driven by i ...
... Each group started by considering potential drivers in the context of their certainty and importance (Table 1). These critical forces were initially termed “climate drivers,” but when this caused confusion regarding cause and effect – given that these forces do not drive climate, but are driven by i ...
activist kit - Climate Reality Project
... dangerous and costly effects right now. Average temperatures have risen in most states since 1901, with 14 of the 15 hottest years on record occurring in the twenty-first century. Climate and weather disasters in 2012 alone cost the American economy more than $100 billion. Climate change, once consi ...
... dangerous and costly effects right now. Average temperatures have risen in most states since 1901, with 14 of the 15 hottest years on record occurring in the twenty-first century. Climate and weather disasters in 2012 alone cost the American economy more than $100 billion. Climate change, once consi ...
Deliverable 2F3 Full Costs of Climate Change WP 2F
... types (MA 2005). Naturally, these biomes not only differ in their primary production (e.g. low productivity in tundras vs. high productivity in tropical rainforests), but also provide different ecosystem services. For example, water regulation functions of forests differ greatly from those of grassl ...
... types (MA 2005). Naturally, these biomes not only differ in their primary production (e.g. low productivity in tundras vs. high productivity in tropical rainforests), but also provide different ecosystem services. For example, water regulation functions of forests differ greatly from those of grassl ...
View/Open
... a collapse of the ground, by which water-filled thermokarst ponds are formed. These ponds are first colonised by sedges and later by mosses (Jorgenson et al., 2006). Due to thaw pond formation, changes in northern permafrost landscapes from dry birch forests or shrub-dominated vegetation towards pon ...
... a collapse of the ground, by which water-filled thermokarst ponds are formed. These ponds are first colonised by sedges and later by mosses (Jorgenson et al., 2006). Due to thaw pond formation, changes in northern permafrost landscapes from dry birch forests or shrub-dominated vegetation towards pon ...
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.""