Probabilistic projections of climate change over China - HAL-Insu
... of 17 AOGCMs for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), ...
... of 17 AOGCMs for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), ...
Explaining Human Influences on Carbon Dioxide Emissions across
... consequences of this phenomenon are already becoming visible. In 2003, extreme heat waves caused over 20,000 deaths in Europe and over 1,500 deaths in India (Global Warming). It is estimated that the Arctic's polar ice cap is declining at a rate of 9 percent per decade, causing changes in sea levels ...
... consequences of this phenomenon are already becoming visible. In 2003, extreme heat waves caused over 20,000 deaths in Europe and over 1,500 deaths in India (Global Warming). It is estimated that the Arctic's polar ice cap is declining at a rate of 9 percent per decade, causing changes in sea levels ...
Endnotes - CSIRO Publishing
... changes in the Australian region. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 89: 57–67. 5. Alexander L, Hope P, Collins D, Trewin B, Lynch A et al. (2007) Trends in Australia’s climate means and extremes: a global context. Australian Meteorological Magazine 56: 1–18. 6. Trewin B and Vermont H (2010) Change ...
... changes in the Australian region. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 89: 57–67. 5. Alexander L, Hope P, Collins D, Trewin B, Lynch A et al. (2007) Trends in Australia’s climate means and extremes: a global context. Australian Meteorological Magazine 56: 1–18. 6. Trewin B and Vermont H (2010) Change ...
By Slowing Population Growth, Family Planning Can Help Address
... family planning in countries with low contraceptive use, like in the DRC, tends to lead to even greater demand for these services, as ideas and norms about family planning are spread. Countries like DRC have great potential for decreased family size with better family planning programs, but this wou ...
... family planning in countries with low contraceptive use, like in the DRC, tends to lead to even greater demand for these services, as ideas and norms about family planning are spread. Countries like DRC have great potential for decreased family size with better family planning programs, but this wou ...
Climate change and the Antarctic marine ecosystem: an essay on
... et al. 2009a) summarizes some of the most important physical effects and produces limits on the anticipated temperature increase. This summary highlights i) how the ozone hole has delayed the impact of greenhouse gas increases on the climate of the continent (Turner et al. 2009b), ii) how the Antarc ...
... et al. 2009a) summarizes some of the most important physical effects and produces limits on the anticipated temperature increase. This summary highlights i) how the ozone hole has delayed the impact of greenhouse gas increases on the climate of the continent (Turner et al. 2009b), ii) how the Antarc ...
Climate Change Quarterly: Fall 2016
... protected areas world-wide, and managers need information about future climate conditions within protected areas. Prior studies of climate change effects in protected areas have largely focused on average climatic conditions. However, extreme weather may have stronger effects on wildlife populations ...
... protected areas world-wide, and managers need information about future climate conditions within protected areas. Prior studies of climate change effects in protected areas have largely focused on average climatic conditions. However, extreme weather may have stronger effects on wildlife populations ...
Financial Institutions: Preparing the Market for adapting to Climate
... assess how businesses are affected by climate change and how they can adapt. This service, which is provided for free to the bank's clients, is of value for the thousands of small businesses that cannot afford to pay consultancies in order to understand their risks from climate change. The develope ...
... assess how businesses are affected by climate change and how they can adapt. This service, which is provided for free to the bank's clients, is of value for the thousands of small businesses that cannot afford to pay consultancies in order to understand their risks from climate change. The develope ...
Full Paper - Agronomy 2015
... Wheat is a staple crop, and in Australia it is primarily produced in rainfed environments. Climate change projections indicate an increase in future rainfall variability and in temperature across the Australian wheatbelt. Coupled with the continued increase in demand for this crop due to rising popu ...
... Wheat is a staple crop, and in Australia it is primarily produced in rainfed environments. Climate change projections indicate an increase in future rainfall variability and in temperature across the Australian wheatbelt. Coupled with the continued increase in demand for this crop due to rising popu ...
Global warming in the public sphere
... Much of the scientific knowledge needed to understand global warming has been in place since the early 1960s (Weart 2003; Maslin 2004). Following early scientific discoveries on the ‘greenhouse effect’ at the end of the nineteenth century, the basic physical science underlying the theory and empirical ...
... Much of the scientific knowledge needed to understand global warming has been in place since the early 1960s (Weart 2003; Maslin 2004). Following early scientific discoveries on the ‘greenhouse effect’ at the end of the nineteenth century, the basic physical science underlying the theory and empirical ...
Abstract - biodiversity
... 2007) caused the Sea level to rise from 15 – 20 cm, the activities of natural disasters were intensified in many areas…the casualty and the material damage were increased rapidly. The annual damage caused by the natural disasters increased from below 10 billion USD (In 1950s) to 50 – 60 billion USD ...
... 2007) caused the Sea level to rise from 15 – 20 cm, the activities of natural disasters were intensified in many areas…the casualty and the material damage were increased rapidly. The annual damage caused by the natural disasters increased from below 10 billion USD (In 1950s) to 50 – 60 billion USD ...
Will Geoengineering With Solar Radiation Management Ever Be
... Keith, Caldeira and Shin (2011) propose periodic forcing of the climate system to conduct in situ testing at less than the full scale of implementation, but their proposal calls for large-scale manipulation of the climate system for multiple decades, which I think would also be found unacceptable. L ...
... Keith, Caldeira and Shin (2011) propose periodic forcing of the climate system to conduct in situ testing at less than the full scale of implementation, but their proposal calls for large-scale manipulation of the climate system for multiple decades, which I think would also be found unacceptable. L ...
Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Scientific
... rainfall and shifts in rainfall patterns mean both increased likelihood of flash flooding and drought. There may not be a change in large scale flooding. Storminess in Europe may not have increased over the past century; hurricane intensity has increased by 70% in the last 50 years. Evidence for the ...
... rainfall and shifts in rainfall patterns mean both increased likelihood of flash flooding and drought. There may not be a change in large scale flooding. Storminess in Europe may not have increased over the past century; hurricane intensity has increased by 70% in the last 50 years. Evidence for the ...
Working out the Russian Federation sustainable development
... rienced in the late 20th and early 21st century cannot be attributed only to natural processes. The fur ther increase of the anthropogenic factor should therefore be expected as far as the ongoing climate change is concerned. For the moment the main hypothesis remains unchanged. It holds that the ...
... rienced in the late 20th and early 21st century cannot be attributed only to natural processes. The fur ther increase of the anthropogenic factor should therefore be expected as far as the ongoing climate change is concerned. For the moment the main hypothesis remains unchanged. It holds that the ...
Global Ecological Crisis and Modes of Resistance
... The depth and scale of anthropogenic impacts on global ecosystems and the overlapping crises these pressures are precipitating present humanity with the grave and urgent need to radically reconstitute society as a whole in order to reconfigure our relationship with the planet on which we depend. Sci ...
... The depth and scale of anthropogenic impacts on global ecosystems and the overlapping crises these pressures are precipitating present humanity with the grave and urgent need to radically reconstitute society as a whole in order to reconfigure our relationship with the planet on which we depend. Sci ...
Presentation by Rita van Dingenen, joint IES/JRC
... • Local and short term co-benefits for non-annex 1 countries issue in climate negotiations • Kyoto flexible mechanisms: implications location of emission reductions (Climate forcing/AQ)? • Hemispheric transport of pollution • Increasing contribution ship/aviation emissions • Difference with NEC-GP ...
... • Local and short term co-benefits for non-annex 1 countries issue in climate negotiations • Kyoto flexible mechanisms: implications location of emission reductions (Climate forcing/AQ)? • Hemispheric transport of pollution • Increasing contribution ship/aviation emissions • Difference with NEC-GP ...
Climate Changes, Impacts and Implications for New Zealand to
... designed to be extended to regional and sectoral scenarios but make no assumptions about global or national-level climate change policy. In addition, Shared climate Policy Assumptions (SPAs) describe potential climate change mitigation and/ or adaptation policies specific to New Zealand, which enabl ...
... designed to be extended to regional and sectoral scenarios but make no assumptions about global or national-level climate change policy. In addition, Shared climate Policy Assumptions (SPAs) describe potential climate change mitigation and/ or adaptation policies specific to New Zealand, which enabl ...
Attachment 2
... as how to treat uncertain projections of the economic costs of mitigation or of the benefits of increased energy efficiency. Yet, however intense these debates, they still involve choices among options and might therefore lead to actions that avoid ‘dangerous climate change’, the goal enshrined in t ...
... as how to treat uncertain projections of the economic costs of mitigation or of the benefits of increased energy efficiency. Yet, however intense these debates, they still involve choices among options and might therefore lead to actions that avoid ‘dangerous climate change’, the goal enshrined in t ...
Adaptation to climate change in the countries of the Lower Mekong
... severity, duration and frequency of floods; most probable in plain areas adjacent to Mekong River. The impacts of climate change are predicted to include agricultural and infrastructure losses due to increased storm intensity and frequency; land degradation and soil erosion from increased precipitat ...
... severity, duration and frequency of floods; most probable in plain areas adjacent to Mekong River. The impacts of climate change are predicted to include agricultural and infrastructure losses due to increased storm intensity and frequency; land degradation and soil erosion from increased precipitat ...
climate change and action - Center for urban disaster risk reduction
... are over 400 cities with populations of one million or more, and a large proportion of them are located in low- and middle-income nations and in hazard-prone areas particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America, a trend which is expected to continue within the next decade14 (see Table 2). Among the ...
... are over 400 cities with populations of one million or more, and a large proportion of them are located in low- and middle-income nations and in hazard-prone areas particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America, a trend which is expected to continue within the next decade14 (see Table 2). Among the ...
Vulnerability Assessment
... • Outcome vulnerability: a linear result of the projected impacts of climate change on a particular exposure unit (biophysical or social), offset by adaptation measures. • Contextual vulnerability: both climate variability and change are considered to occur in the context of political, institutiona ...
... • Outcome vulnerability: a linear result of the projected impacts of climate change on a particular exposure unit (biophysical or social), offset by adaptation measures. • Contextual vulnerability: both climate variability and change are considered to occur in the context of political, institutiona ...
eSoGE News - School of Geography and the Environment
... 2012, and a member of the Competition Commission from 2001–2009. She specialises in competition analysis and the economics of new technologies and globalisation, including extensive work on the impacts of mobile telephony in developing countries. Diane is also a member of the stakeholder advisory pa ...
... 2012, and a member of the Competition Commission from 2001–2009. She specialises in competition analysis and the economics of new technologies and globalisation, including extensive work on the impacts of mobile telephony in developing countries. Diane is also a member of the stakeholder advisory pa ...
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.""