Climate Change in Tibet and Asia
... seen on the Tibetan Plateau due to permafrost degradation. Permafrost degradation has changed the regime of water retention and regulation by producing more runoff in areas of permafrost, leading to more evaporation. It has also prolonged the thawing period significantly leading to many interconnect ...
... seen on the Tibetan Plateau due to permafrost degradation. Permafrost degradation has changed the regime of water retention and regulation by producing more runoff in areas of permafrost, leading to more evaporation. It has also prolonged the thawing period significantly leading to many interconnect ...
Newsletter number 3
... planning unit that was covered by CCRAs and the number of bird species predicted to be present. Some planning units with a high coverage of CCRAs had high species richness whereas others had low species richness. The high species richness suggests that conserving these site ...
... planning unit that was covered by CCRAs and the number of bird species predicted to be present. Some planning units with a high coverage of CCRAs had high species richness whereas others had low species richness. The high species richness suggests that conserving these site ...
Impact of Climate Change on Irrigation Demand and Crop Growth in a Mediterranean Environment of Turkey
... irrigation in Çukurova plain, one of the most productive regions of Turkey, as a consequence of climate change may have serious implications for the country’s food security and economy. The studies under the model projections of both global and regional climate change are needed to assess the full r ...
... irrigation in Çukurova plain, one of the most productive regions of Turkey, as a consequence of climate change may have serious implications for the country’s food security and economy. The studies under the model projections of both global and regional climate change are needed to assess the full r ...
Economic, political, and sociological barriers and solutions for
... ~ Just because we can adapt doesn’t mean we do • Create legal structures and administrative processes that promote principled adaptation ...
... ~ Just because we can adapt doesn’t mean we do • Create legal structures and administrative processes that promote principled adaptation ...
Anthropogenic modification of the oceans
... The most well known of the effects of elevated CO2 and other greenhouse gases is the increased interception of outgoing (potentially planet-leaving) infrared radiation. This understanding was originally underpinned by measurements of the amounts of heat radiation penetrating through tubes with diffe ...
... The most well known of the effects of elevated CO2 and other greenhouse gases is the increased interception of outgoing (potentially planet-leaving) infrared radiation. This understanding was originally underpinned by measurements of the amounts of heat radiation penetrating through tubes with diffe ...
How Companies Think About Climate Change: A Global Survey.
... has not already been enacted, executives in the developed Asia-Pacific region anticipate regulation soonest, with one-third of respondents saying they expect it within one to two years. ...
... has not already been enacted, executives in the developed Asia-Pacific region anticipate regulation soonest, with one-third of respondents saying they expect it within one to two years. ...
Using Carbon Sequestration Projects to Offset
... This article addresses: (1) methods by which agriculture and forestry sectors in the United States can increase carbon reservoirs by sequestering carbon in forests, grazing, and croplands, and engaging in best management practices (BMPs) to limit carbon emissions; and (2) emerging business opportuni ...
... This article addresses: (1) methods by which agriculture and forestry sectors in the United States can increase carbon reservoirs by sequestering carbon in forests, grazing, and croplands, and engaging in best management practices (BMPs) to limit carbon emissions; and (2) emerging business opportuni ...
Comparison of Monthly Temperature Extremes Simulated by CMIP3
... Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) are evaluated and compared with those from 24 models in the third phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3). Comparisons with observations and reanalyses indicate that the models from both CMIP3 and CMIP5 perform well in simulating temperature extreme ...
... Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) are evaluated and compared with those from 24 models in the third phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3). Comparisons with observations and reanalyses indicate that the models from both CMIP3 and CMIP5 perform well in simulating temperature extreme ...
Climate Change Climate Justice 3 - Primary Resource
... In December 2015 world leaders came together in Paris to discuss the global response to climate change. Governments agreed to act together to keep further global warming of the earth’s surface temperature ‘well below’ a 2oC rise from pre-industrial times, and to aim for a safer limit of 1.5oC. Over ...
... In December 2015 world leaders came together in Paris to discuss the global response to climate change. Governments agreed to act together to keep further global warming of the earth’s surface temperature ‘well below’ a 2oC rise from pre-industrial times, and to aim for a safer limit of 1.5oC. Over ...
As a defining human development challenge of the 21st century [UN
... Tropical Cyclone Bangladesh India Philippines Honduras Vietnam China ...
... Tropical Cyclone Bangladesh India Philippines Honduras Vietnam China ...
Powerpoint - Steven J Phipps
... • There is evidence that the period a.d. 900–1200 was warm in the North Atlantic. This Medieval Warm Period,coincides with the Viking settlement of Greenland. • The so-called Little Ice Age, from 1400 to 1850,was a cold period for western Europe as alpine glaciers advanced and temperatures fell by a ...
... • There is evidence that the period a.d. 900–1200 was warm in the North Atlantic. This Medieval Warm Period,coincides with the Viking settlement of Greenland. • The so-called Little Ice Age, from 1400 to 1850,was a cold period for western Europe as alpine glaciers advanced and temperatures fell by a ...
Climate change and Arctic ecosystems II
... to overcome some of the limitations of current treatments of tundra vegetation types, the Pan-Arctic Initiative (PAIN) has taken a comprehensive approach to describing and modeling terrestrial ecosystems of the northern high latitudes. The philosophy of PAIN has been to develop a model based on mode ...
... to overcome some of the limitations of current treatments of tundra vegetation types, the Pan-Arctic Initiative (PAIN) has taken a comprehensive approach to describing and modeling terrestrial ecosystems of the northern high latitudes. The philosophy of PAIN has been to develop a model based on mode ...
Climate Change and Doom Tourism
... technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of human induced climate change, potential impacts of climate change and options for mitigation and adaptation. Four Assessment Reports have been released by the IPCC in 1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007. The most recent report, the Fou ...
... technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of human induced climate change, potential impacts of climate change and options for mitigation and adaptation. Four Assessment Reports have been released by the IPCC in 1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007. The most recent report, the Fou ...
Standard PDF - Wiley Online Library
... the shortest route between the U.S. and USSR, during the Cold War. In April 1951, the U.S. and Denmark signed the Defense of Greenland Agreement. Three air bases, including Thule Air Base (AB) in northwestern Greenland, opened later that same year. In 1959, after several years of intensive ice sheet ...
... the shortest route between the U.S. and USSR, during the Cold War. In April 1951, the U.S. and Denmark signed the Defense of Greenland Agreement. Three air bases, including Thule Air Base (AB) in northwestern Greenland, opened later that same year. In 1959, after several years of intensive ice sheet ...
Burlando-Rosso_Extreme storm rainfall and climatic change
... geologic shifts over geologic time may differ considerably from the anthropogenetic change now anticipated; past changes predate human activity, so that there is no evidence of how they might affect society), the use of GCMs and the analysis of recent climate changes provide the most promising route ...
... geologic shifts over geologic time may differ considerably from the anthropogenetic change now anticipated; past changes predate human activity, so that there is no evidence of how they might affect society), the use of GCMs and the analysis of recent climate changes provide the most promising route ...
Implications of Climate Changes in the Wider Caribbean Region
... information is given on the subject. To illustrate what is thought to be known about temperature change, Figure 2 shows the temperature record for the last 1,000 years (upper panel), and for the last 100 years (lower panel). Although the records are from different sources, they show that Earth's tem ...
... information is given on the subject. To illustrate what is thought to be known about temperature change, Figure 2 shows the temperature record for the last 1,000 years (upper panel), and for the last 100 years (lower panel). Although the records are from different sources, they show that Earth's tem ...
Word - war changes climate
... For the last 150 years, two areas of modern science have been concerned with the climate: meteorology and the scientists who have studied questions of geophysics in its widest sense. These include among their number the physicist Svante Arrhenius, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 190 ...
... For the last 150 years, two areas of modern science have been concerned with the climate: meteorology and the scientists who have studied questions of geophysics in its widest sense. These include among their number the physicist Svante Arrhenius, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 190 ...
Monitoring - Australian Institute of Alpine Studies
... impacts of climate change on natural and managed systems in Australia. The alpine regions of Australia are considered by the IPCC to be highly vulnerable to climate change. The Australian Greenhouse Office is developing a work plan dealing with climate change impacts and adaptation which, among othe ...
... impacts of climate change on natural and managed systems in Australia. The alpine regions of Australia are considered by the IPCC to be highly vulnerable to climate change. The Australian Greenhouse Office is developing a work plan dealing with climate change impacts and adaptation which, among othe ...
The abandoned ice sheet base at Camp Century, Greenland, in a
... the shortest route between the U.S. and USSR, during the Cold War. In April 1951, the U.S. and Denmark signed the Defense of Greenland Agreement. Three air bases, including Thule Air Base (AB) in northwestern Greenland, opened later that same year. In 1959, after several years of intensive ice sheet ...
... the shortest route between the U.S. and USSR, during the Cold War. In April 1951, the U.S. and Denmark signed the Defense of Greenland Agreement. Three air bases, including Thule Air Base (AB) in northwestern Greenland, opened later that same year. In 1959, after several years of intensive ice sheet ...
The Republic of China (Taiwan) Bids for
... are much more ambitious compared to the scale of reduction of similarly sized economies, and are higher than the BAU-based 15%-30% reduction target by 2020 for developing countries proposed by the IPCC. Taiwan is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change Taiwan is vulnerable to the ...
... are much more ambitious compared to the scale of reduction of similarly sized economies, and are higher than the BAU-based 15%-30% reduction target by 2020 for developing countries proposed by the IPCC. Taiwan is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change Taiwan is vulnerable to the ...
- NERC Open Research Archive
... the ranges of natural climate and environmental variability on timescales from decades to millennia over the past million years, and at coarser resolution across deep geological timescales. Knowing this natural variability, researchers can identify when present day changes exceed the natural range. ...
... the ranges of natural climate and environmental variability on timescales from decades to millennia over the past million years, and at coarser resolution across deep geological timescales. Knowing this natural variability, researchers can identify when present day changes exceed the natural range. ...
A climatic basis for microrefugia: the influence of terrain on climate
... basis for explaining their existence. Investigators commonly attribute their subsistence to the presence of ‘microclimates,’ and implicit assumption that spatial variation in climate can support microrefugia. Beyond this assumption, there is little explicit understanding of the climatic processes th ...
... basis for explaining their existence. Investigators commonly attribute their subsistence to the presence of ‘microclimates,’ and implicit assumption that spatial variation in climate can support microrefugia. Beyond this assumption, there is little explicit understanding of the climatic processes th ...
A blind expert test of contrarian claims about climate data
... representative of contrarian discourse: nearly two-thirds of all mentions of temperature on the three top contrarian blogs included a claim of ‘‘cooling’’; and likewise more than a quarter of all mentions of arctic ice alluded to its ‘‘recovery’’, and so on. Those numbers represent a lower bound on ...
... representative of contrarian discourse: nearly two-thirds of all mentions of temperature on the three top contrarian blogs included a claim of ‘‘cooling’’; and likewise more than a quarter of all mentions of arctic ice alluded to its ‘‘recovery’’, and so on. Those numbers represent a lower bound on ...
Issue 04 Autumn 2006
... The total CO2 uptake, computed by integrating the excess DIC down to 150 m relative to the average DIC concentration in the top 50 m of the profile was about 9 g C m-2. If this entire signal was attributed to the winter season of 2001-2002, the CO2 uptake is about 25% of that estimated into the Bare ...
... The total CO2 uptake, computed by integrating the excess DIC down to 150 m relative to the average DIC concentration in the top 50 m of the profile was about 9 g C m-2. If this entire signal was attributed to the winter season of 2001-2002, the CO2 uptake is about 25% of that estimated into the Bare ...
Lindene E. Patton
... Increased litigation relating to climate change and GHG emissions could result in costs to commercial and corporate entities. These costs will most likely take the form of defence costs as litigation proceeds, but may ultimately result in significant court awards to plaintiffs. The key issue is whet ...
... Increased litigation relating to climate change and GHG emissions could result in costs to commercial and corporate entities. These costs will most likely take the form of defence costs as litigation proceeds, but may ultimately result in significant court awards to plaintiffs. The key issue is whet ...
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.""