Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events
... While there are various levels of certainty associated with the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events, decision-makers should take each of them into account when calculating the costs of climate change. Changing levels of precipitation, more severe El Niños or tropical cyclones, ...
... While there are various levels of certainty associated with the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events, decision-makers should take each of them into account when calculating the costs of climate change. Changing levels of precipitation, more severe El Niños or tropical cyclones, ...
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... The Earth’s climate has changed in the past due to natural factors and these factors will also change the Earth’s climate in the future. Significant natural factors are, for example, volcanic activity and the activity of the sun. It has been generally accepted that human activities also contribute t ...
... The Earth’s climate has changed in the past due to natural factors and these factors will also change the Earth’s climate in the future. Significant natural factors are, for example, volcanic activity and the activity of the sun. It has been generally accepted that human activities also contribute t ...
DCNR and Climate Change – Planning for the Future
... The incidence of heavy precipitation events has also increased significantly. According to the 2014 National Climate Assessment,3 the heaviest downpours, which are the number of days where the total precipitation exceeded the top 1 percent of all rain and snow days, have increased by 71% in the Nort ...
... The incidence of heavy precipitation events has also increased significantly. According to the 2014 National Climate Assessment,3 the heaviest downpours, which are the number of days where the total precipitation exceeded the top 1 percent of all rain and snow days, have increased by 71% in the Nort ...
Combating Climate Change – A Role for UK
... assessment of UK forestry and climate change. The independent assessment was commissioned by the Forestry Commission to examine the potential of the UK’s trees and woodlands to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate. It forms part of the UK response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan ...
... assessment of UK forestry and climate change. The independent assessment was commissioned by the Forestry Commission to examine the potential of the UK’s trees and woodlands to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate. It forms part of the UK response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan ...
Potential Impact of Climate Change on Rare Precipitation Jan 6, 2014 Geoff Bonnin
... “Management and mission-oriented agencies with public-sector responsibilities have been provided with marginally useful scientific information about the likely manifestations of future climate change.” “There are insufficient interactions and knowledge exchange between climate scientists, water scie ...
... “Management and mission-oriented agencies with public-sector responsibilities have been provided with marginally useful scientific information about the likely manifestations of future climate change.” “There are insufficient interactions and knowledge exchange between climate scientists, water scie ...
Carbon footprinting on farms
... so that they are the responsibility of the party involved at any particular level. This means that the farmer at the end of the chain of production does not accumulate responsibility for emissions higher up the chain and is only responsible for emissions associated with their own activities The lack ...
... so that they are the responsibility of the party involved at any particular level. This means that the farmer at the end of the chain of production does not accumulate responsibility for emissions higher up the chain and is only responsible for emissions associated with their own activities The lack ...
Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 associated with
... effect of temperature through the alleviation of temperature limitations to growth in colder regions, and the extension of the growing season, observable as an increase in vegetation cover in satellite observations. A global greening of the Earth’s surface has been reported in satellite observations ...
... effect of temperature through the alleviation of temperature limitations to growth in colder regions, and the extension of the growing season, observable as an increase in vegetation cover in satellite observations. A global greening of the Earth’s surface has been reported in satellite observations ...
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Carbon Tax Design)
... Additional relief will be considered for firms that reduce their carbon intensity during this first phase. The reduction in carbon intensity will be measured with reference to a base year or industry benchmark. Tax-free thresholds will be reduced during the second phase (2020 to 2025) and may be rep ...
... Additional relief will be considered for firms that reduce their carbon intensity during this first phase. The reduction in carbon intensity will be measured with reference to a base year or industry benchmark. Tax-free thresholds will be reduced during the second phase (2020 to 2025) and may be rep ...
Changing probabilities of daily temperature extremes in the UK
... parameter. In order to include the effects of the climate change scenarios considered, the mean of this distribution is increased by the scenario change in temperature. This implies changes to both a and P, which have implications for the variance of this distribution (defi.ned as a p 2 ) .To pertur ...
... parameter. In order to include the effects of the climate change scenarios considered, the mean of this distribution is increased by the scenario change in temperature. This implies changes to both a and P, which have implications for the variance of this distribution (defi.ned as a p 2 ) .To pertur ...
Arctic amplification: can the past constrain the future?
... amplification on Quaternary timescales, and review evidence from four intervals in the past 3 Ma for which sufficient paleoclimate data and model simulations are available to estimate the magnitude of Arctic amplification under climate states both warmer and colder than present. Despite differences in ...
... amplification on Quaternary timescales, and review evidence from four intervals in the past 3 Ma for which sufficient paleoclimate data and model simulations are available to estimate the magnitude of Arctic amplification under climate states both warmer and colder than present. Despite differences in ...
IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science (IOSR-JAVS)
... Effects of Climate Change on the Environment and Agriculture inNigeria The effects of climate change on agricultural production vary from one region to another depending on the prevailing climate of the region hence affects agricultural productivity differently. Nigeria, like all other countries of ...
... Effects of Climate Change on the Environment and Agriculture inNigeria The effects of climate change on agricultural production vary from one region to another depending on the prevailing climate of the region hence affects agricultural productivity differently. Nigeria, like all other countries of ...
Emissions Trading: Dairy industry response
... International trading scheme If the Australian government is serious about reducing emissions - the ETS has to be a global scheme Australian dairy industry, the NFF and the international agricultural community are working together to ensure that international greenhouse gas accounting rules app ...
... International trading scheme If the Australian government is serious about reducing emissions - the ETS has to be a global scheme Australian dairy industry, the NFF and the international agricultural community are working together to ensure that international greenhouse gas accounting rules app ...
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... wild fires were frequently experienced by many countries during the past few decades. These events may be largely attributed to climate change and could possibly lead to irreversible changes in the Earth’s ecosystems. It is thus important to understand several aspects of climate change in order to m ...
... wild fires were frequently experienced by many countries during the past few decades. These events may be largely attributed to climate change and could possibly lead to irreversible changes in the Earth’s ecosystems. It is thus important to understand several aspects of climate change in order to m ...
Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
... (CO2 , CH4 , N2 O, tropospheric ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons) warm the planet’s surface globally, whereas shorter-lived aerosols can either warm or cool regionally. Direct radiative warming is amplified through a series of positive climate feedbacks (e.g., water vapor and sea ice); best estimates of ...
... (CO2 , CH4 , N2 O, tropospheric ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons) warm the planet’s surface globally, whereas shorter-lived aerosols can either warm or cool regionally. Direct radiative warming is amplified through a series of positive climate feedbacks (e.g., water vapor and sea ice); best estimates of ...
Draft Resolution X - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
... in which the importance of climate change for wetland management was recognized and which requested the Ramsar Secretariat, the STRP, and the Co-ordinating Committee for Global Action on Peatlands (CCGAP) to work together with relevant international conventions and agencies, including the CBD, CMS, ...
... in which the importance of climate change for wetland management was recognized and which requested the Ramsar Secretariat, the STRP, and the Co-ordinating Committee for Global Action on Peatlands (CCGAP) to work together with relevant international conventions and agencies, including the CBD, CMS, ...
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... budgets. The increase of 100 ppm translates in roughly 200 additional GtCO2 of budget for each of the four analyzed regions. Although the budgets convey important information about regional climate policy, they lack the temporal dynamics which is more relevant for policy. Figure 2 provides the addit ...
... budgets. The increase of 100 ppm translates in roughly 200 additional GtCO2 of budget for each of the four analyzed regions. Although the budgets convey important information about regional climate policy, they lack the temporal dynamics which is more relevant for policy. Figure 2 provides the addit ...
Projected increases in near‑surface air temperature over Ontario
... the harmful effects of climate change (MoE 2011b). The realization of such an adaptation initiative mainly depends upon how well we know and how confident we are about the potential impacts of a changing climate in the context of Ontario. Therefore, as an extension of the previous work of Wang et al ...
... the harmful effects of climate change (MoE 2011b). The realization of such an adaptation initiative mainly depends upon how well we know and how confident we are about the potential impacts of a changing climate in the context of Ontario. Therefore, as an extension of the previous work of Wang et al ...
american meteorological society
... Global climate change is influencing the weather in every region of the United States, often in ...
... Global climate change is influencing the weather in every region of the United States, often in ...
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... uncertainties remain on the amplitude. For a given scenario, we show that the uncertainty is related to the dispersion in (i) the response of the North-Atlantic atmospheric dynamics and (ii) the amplitude of local thermodynamical responses such as the soil drying and the cloudiness decline. Then we ...
... uncertainties remain on the amplitude. For a given scenario, we show that the uncertainty is related to the dispersion in (i) the response of the North-Atlantic atmospheric dynamics and (ii) the amplitude of local thermodynamical responses such as the soil drying and the cloudiness decline. Then we ...
Can Green Growth Really Work and what are the True
... In the run-up to the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012 and the United Nations Climate Summit on 23 September 2014 virtually everyone (from multilateral agencies to politicians, to businessmen, and to NGOs) advocated a fundamental shift towards “green and inclusive growth”1 as the new, qualitativelydiff ...
... In the run-up to the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012 and the United Nations Climate Summit on 23 September 2014 virtually everyone (from multilateral agencies to politicians, to businessmen, and to NGOs) advocated a fundamental shift towards “green and inclusive growth”1 as the new, qualitativelydiff ...
LETTERS
... Here we estimate that the cumulative impact of the beetle outbreak in the affected region during 2000–2020 will be 270 megatonnes (Mt) carbon (or 36 g carbon m22 yr21 on average over 374,000 km2 of forest). This impact converted the forest from a small net carbon sink to a large net carbon source bo ...
... Here we estimate that the cumulative impact of the beetle outbreak in the affected region during 2000–2020 will be 270 megatonnes (Mt) carbon (or 36 g carbon m22 yr21 on average over 374,000 km2 of forest). This impact converted the forest from a small net carbon sink to a large net carbon source bo ...
Carbon impact - Electricity North West
... Capacity to Customers (C2C) is one of the projects supported by the OfGEM Low Carbon Networks Fund to explore new ways of delivering a secure and affordable low carbon electricity system. Extending the use of electricity in our energy system, to heating and transport for instance, is judged to be an ...
... Capacity to Customers (C2C) is one of the projects supported by the OfGEM Low Carbon Networks Fund to explore new ways of delivering a secure and affordable low carbon electricity system. Extending the use of electricity in our energy system, to heating and transport for instance, is judged to be an ...
Researching Climate Change
... How would an information specialist approach creating a resource on the web which would integrate on- and off-line materials, legal research, scientific data gathering and analysis (reports), and policy information? ...
... How would an information specialist approach creating a resource on the web which would integrate on- and off-line materials, legal research, scientific data gathering and analysis (reports), and policy information? ...
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.""