Spring 2008
... applying predictive models of climate the physics backbone of the ESM. Ranked among the world’s best, GFDL’s climate models have been successful in representing the observed dynamics of El Niño and drying in the African Sahel, and providing good seasonal predictive skill, however, current models sim ...
... applying predictive models of climate the physics backbone of the ESM. Ranked among the world’s best, GFDL’s climate models have been successful in representing the observed dynamics of El Niño and drying in the African Sahel, and providing good seasonal predictive skill, however, current models sim ...
MS Climate 1AC Jiao-Taori Tournament
... re-emit some of the heat radiation given off by the Earth’s surface and warm the lower atmosphere. The most important greenhouse gas is water vapour, followed by carbon dioxide and methane, and without their warming presence in the atmosphere the Earth’s average surface temperature would be approxim ...
... re-emit some of the heat radiation given off by the Earth’s surface and warm the lower atmosphere. The most important greenhouse gas is water vapour, followed by carbon dioxide and methane, and without their warming presence in the atmosphere the Earth’s average surface temperature would be approxim ...
Assessing vulnerability of fisheries in the Philippines to
... Image credits: www.stormsurge.noaa.gov| www.pmel.noaa.gov| www.nasa.gov| www.scienceblogs.com ...
... Image credits: www.stormsurge.noaa.gov| www.pmel.noaa.gov| www.nasa.gov| www.scienceblogs.com ...
Manifesto for Clean Shipping
... Ports can play a crucial role in catalysing measures in the shipping industry to improve air quality and cut down CO2 emissions by ships. By implementing incentives in the port management for ships with a good environmental performance, ports can influence the international operating shipping busine ...
... Ports can play a crucial role in catalysing measures in the shipping industry to improve air quality and cut down CO2 emissions by ships. By implementing incentives in the port management for ships with a good environmental performance, ports can influence the international operating shipping busine ...
question proforma (Word) - Committee on Climate Change
... Multi-year targets, such as five-year budgets under the UK-wide Climate Change Act, provide greater smoothing of these annual fluctuations, while allowing for monitoring of progress towards longer-term emission reduction targets. Targets on an absolute basis allow for assessment towards total cumula ...
... Multi-year targets, such as five-year budgets under the UK-wide Climate Change Act, provide greater smoothing of these annual fluctuations, while allowing for monitoring of progress towards longer-term emission reduction targets. Targets on an absolute basis allow for assessment towards total cumula ...
Climate change impacts on Australian Rangelands
... water-limited rangelands, the dominant means by which CO2 will affect plant growth will be through changing patterns of plant water use. Indeed, experiments that have separated the components of C3 pasture responses to CO2 have demonstrated that stimulated plant production was almost entirely attrib ...
... water-limited rangelands, the dominant means by which CO2 will affect plant growth will be through changing patterns of plant water use. Indeed, experiments that have separated the components of C3 pasture responses to CO2 have demonstrated that stimulated plant production was almost entirely attrib ...
Feedback Dynamics, Sensitivity - Apollo-Gaia
... concentration at the temperature minimum of the ice ages, namely 180 ppm. The second represents the concentration of 440 ppm commonly put forward as the threshold beyond which there is a heightened risk of precipitating dangerous climate change. Scale-data used in the construction of the Graphic Sim ...
... concentration at the temperature minimum of the ice ages, namely 180 ppm. The second represents the concentration of 440 ppm commonly put forward as the threshold beyond which there is a heightened risk of precipitating dangerous climate change. Scale-data used in the construction of the Graphic Sim ...
How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War
... While at Dartmouth, Jastrow also took up another cause: the defense of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Proposed in March 1983, the SDI concept was to develop a missile shield through the use of space-based lasers to defend the United States from incoming inter-continental ballist ...
... While at Dartmouth, Jastrow also took up another cause: the defense of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Proposed in March 1983, the SDI concept was to develop a missile shield through the use of space-based lasers to defend the United States from incoming inter-continental ballist ...
energy policies…
... to ‘achieving of emission limitation and reduction, and protection and enhancement of GHG sinks and reservoirs’ ...
... to ‘achieving of emission limitation and reduction, and protection and enhancement of GHG sinks and reservoirs’ ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... greatly diminished under the new ECS findings. The average 95th percentile value of the new literature survey is only 3.5°C indicating a very low probability of a warming reaching 3-5°C by 2100 as indicated in the 3rd column of the above Table and thus a significantly lower probability that such tip ...
... greatly diminished under the new ECS findings. The average 95th percentile value of the new literature survey is only 3.5°C indicating a very low probability of a warming reaching 3-5°C by 2100 as indicated in the 3rd column of the above Table and thus a significantly lower probability that such tip ...
Presentation
... Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change Quito, 8-10 July 2009 International Telecommunication Union The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the ITU or its Membership. ...
... Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change Quito, 8-10 July 2009 International Telecommunication Union The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the ITU or its Membership. ...
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... Over the last 30 years, the world has experienced significant temperature increases, particularly in the northern high latitudes (IPCC, 2001). The research results of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show that the average temperature in Europe will increase from 2.1 to 4.4°C by 2050, ...
... Over the last 30 years, the world has experienced significant temperature increases, particularly in the northern high latitudes (IPCC, 2001). The research results of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show that the average temperature in Europe will increase from 2.1 to 4.4°C by 2050, ...
The Geography of Climate - Mary Robinson Foundation
... Case Study 2: The multiple benefits of supporting responses to climate change in Uganda National strategies in Uganda for both climate change adaptation and mitigation identify reducing deforestation and increasing reforestation as top priorities. Since 1990, Uganda has lost more than 25% of its for ...
... Case Study 2: The multiple benefits of supporting responses to climate change in Uganda National strategies in Uganda for both climate change adaptation and mitigation identify reducing deforestation and increasing reforestation as top priorities. Since 1990, Uganda has lost more than 25% of its for ...
The Future of Freshwater - cpaws-bc
... 3.12 Lakes Climate change will affect lakes by increasing water temperature and reducing the number of days per year that ice cover is present (Jensen et al. 2007). Reduced ice cover will increase surface water temperatures as more sunlight is absorbed by open water as opposed to ice covered water ( ...
... 3.12 Lakes Climate change will affect lakes by increasing water temperature and reducing the number of days per year that ice cover is present (Jensen et al. 2007). Reduced ice cover will increase surface water temperatures as more sunlight is absorbed by open water as opposed to ice covered water ( ...
12 March 2012
... the Asia-Pacific region were announced last night at opening of the Second Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in Bangkok, Thailand. The winners were: • Hard Rain by Rohini Kohli, UNDP Asia-pacific Regional Centre • Habol Hinga (Catch a Breath) by Juan Miguel Ocampo, University of Philippin ...
... the Asia-Pacific region were announced last night at opening of the Second Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in Bangkok, Thailand. The winners were: • Hard Rain by Rohini Kohli, UNDP Asia-pacific Regional Centre • Habol Hinga (Catch a Breath) by Juan Miguel Ocampo, University of Philippin ...
Role of CDM in the UK - Capacity Development for the CDM
... • Natsource Europe (based in London) have helped create the GG-CAP carbon asset management tool • GG-CAP is the world's first large-scale privately run "buyers pool" designed for companies to purchase compliance-ready reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. • Targeted for launch later this yea ...
... • Natsource Europe (based in London) have helped create the GG-CAP carbon asset management tool • GG-CAP is the world's first large-scale privately run "buyers pool" designed for companies to purchase compliance-ready reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. • Targeted for launch later this yea ...
Section 4: Investigating the changing environment
... Levels of GHGs have gone up and down over the Earth's history, but they have been fairly constant for the past few thousand years. Global average temperatures have stayed fairly constant over that time as well, until recently. Through the burning of fossil fuels and other GHG emissions, humans are e ...
... Levels of GHGs have gone up and down over the Earth's history, but they have been fairly constant for the past few thousand years. Global average temperatures have stayed fairly constant over that time as well, until recently. Through the burning of fossil fuels and other GHG emissions, humans are e ...
Climate Change
... Main (man-made) greenhouse gases Carbon dioxide is not the only greenhouse gas, but it is the main contributor to warming. Other important greenhouse gases include nitrous oxide and methane, both of which have increased in the last century. • The concentration of carbon dioxide has increased primari ...
... Main (man-made) greenhouse gases Carbon dioxide is not the only greenhouse gas, but it is the main contributor to warming. Other important greenhouse gases include nitrous oxide and methane, both of which have increased in the last century. • The concentration of carbon dioxide has increased primari ...
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... present an opportunity for retailers to realise a new market opportunity (Hoffman, 2005). Retailers can attempt to appeal to these consumers by way of promoting the climate-friendly characteristics of their own operations and by offering consumers products that are perceived as being climate-friendl ...
... present an opportunity for retailers to realise a new market opportunity (Hoffman, 2005). Retailers can attempt to appeal to these consumers by way of promoting the climate-friendly characteristics of their own operations and by offering consumers products that are perceived as being climate-friendl ...
climate change brochure
... shellfish poisoning—are affected by weather. Over a 14-year period in Florida, a higher number of Vibrio-related illnesses and deaths occurred during summer, when water temperature is higher. (Adapted from Lipp and Rose, 1997). ...
... shellfish poisoning—are affected by weather. Over a 14-year period in Florida, a higher number of Vibrio-related illnesses and deaths occurred during summer, when water temperature is higher. (Adapted from Lipp and Rose, 1997). ...
Challenge of Weather and Climate
... Highest sunshine hours are recorded over Snowdonia. There is generally more sunshine in the east than the west. The North Atlantic Drift has a warming effect in winter. The prevailing winds blow from the east. Built up areas such as London produce a heat island effect. Upland areas tend to record lo ...
... Highest sunshine hours are recorded over Snowdonia. There is generally more sunshine in the east than the west. The North Atlantic Drift has a warming effect in winter. The prevailing winds blow from the east. Built up areas such as London produce a heat island effect. Upland areas tend to record lo ...
Biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate
... the face of climate change. For example, if a conservation area is affected by two fires within a short period, making the reestablishment of the previous habitat and values unlikely, then a program to actively manage the transition to an alternative ecosystem structure should be implemented. • Int ...
... the face of climate change. For example, if a conservation area is affected by two fires within a short period, making the reestablishment of the previous habitat and values unlikely, then a program to actively manage the transition to an alternative ecosystem structure should be implemented. • Int ...
OVERVIEW:
... Climate change refers to shifts in patterns of weather (such as increases temperature, precipitation and/or the number of events or extremes) over a period of time of at least 30 years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released their fifth assessment report from Working ...
... Climate change refers to shifts in patterns of weather (such as increases temperature, precipitation and/or the number of events or extremes) over a period of time of at least 30 years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released their fifth assessment report from Working ...
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.""