The two limits debates: "Limits to Growth" and climate change
... The policy implications of LtG rested on its assumptions. First, people have the capacity to restrict their resource use to sustainable levels. Second, both governmental interventions and individual self-restraint can drive the necessary changes in consumption. Third, the speed with which these chan ...
... The policy implications of LtG rested on its assumptions. First, people have the capacity to restrict their resource use to sustainable levels. Second, both governmental interventions and individual self-restraint can drive the necessary changes in consumption. Third, the speed with which these chan ...
Attribution of climate extreme events
... moisture convergence in the atmosphere, increased water vapour in the environment leads to more intense rains and a risk of flooding 12,13, even if the total amount does not change much. Moreover, it is during droughts that the extra heat from increased greenhouse gas concentrations accumulates, whe ...
... moisture convergence in the atmosphere, increased water vapour in the environment leads to more intense rains and a risk of flooding 12,13, even if the total amount does not change much. Moreover, it is during droughts that the extra heat from increased greenhouse gas concentrations accumulates, whe ...
1 - essea
... between 25 and 30 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere and stratosphere more specifically. In the stratosphere they form minute sulfuric acid droplets that can lower temperatures in the troposphere because the actually can absorb the radiation coming from the sun and scatter it back in ...
... between 25 and 30 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere and stratosphere more specifically. In the stratosphere they form minute sulfuric acid droplets that can lower temperatures in the troposphere because the actually can absorb the radiation coming from the sun and scatter it back in ...
Climate change and the impact of aerosol
... Aerosol particles affect the climate directly by scattering and absorbing of solar radiation and indirectly by modifying the properties of clouds. Black carbon causes warming, whereas all other aerosol causes cooling. The short lifetime of aerosols (days/weeks) means that their effects are more regi ...
... Aerosol particles affect the climate directly by scattering and absorbing of solar radiation and indirectly by modifying the properties of clouds. Black carbon causes warming, whereas all other aerosol causes cooling. The short lifetime of aerosols (days/weeks) means that their effects are more regi ...
Global Carbon Policy Handbook 2010 - Policies Driving the Growth... Trading Markets Brochure
... information on the value, volume and price of the emissions traded in project-based mechanisms, such as CDM, JI and Secondary CDM, and allowance markets such as the European Union’s (EU) Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), New South Wales, Chicago Climate, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and As ...
... information on the value, volume and price of the emissions traded in project-based mechanisms, such as CDM, JI and Secondary CDM, and allowance markets such as the European Union’s (EU) Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), New South Wales, Chicago Climate, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and As ...
Meeting the climate challenge
... programme portal and associated database of courses available to grain producers and industry participants so that they can self assess their requirements for improved knowledge, skills development or training to increase their capacity to respond to the challenges that will arise from climate chang ...
... programme portal and associated database of courses available to grain producers and industry participants so that they can self assess their requirements for improved knowledge, skills development or training to increase their capacity to respond to the challenges that will arise from climate chang ...
1 - Naturvernforbundet
... In August this year, the secretariat of the UNFCCC published an estimate of total emission reductions in the industrialized countries that have so far indicated a specific reduction target for 2020. According to the UNFCCC secretariat, total emission reductions with current targets will be somewher ...
... In August this year, the secretariat of the UNFCCC published an estimate of total emission reductions in the industrialized countries that have so far indicated a specific reduction target for 2020. According to the UNFCCC secretariat, total emission reductions with current targets will be somewher ...
Forecasting a Sea of Change
... Forecasting Future Coastal Floods Flood projections on long time scales need to take into account atmospheric conditions and long-term sea level changes—not in the next ten days, but over the next ten decades. These measurements are more uncertain because they have a greater ‘lead time’—they are mad ...
... Forecasting Future Coastal Floods Flood projections on long time scales need to take into account atmospheric conditions and long-term sea level changes—not in the next ten days, but over the next ten decades. These measurements are more uncertain because they have a greater ‘lead time’—they are mad ...
A critical assessment of George Monbiot`s scheme for a 90 per cent
... Monbiot has decided that his task in Heat is to achieve emission reductions that might prevent the globe warming by more than two degrees: a more ambitious target than most. That this target requires stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions at the equivalent of 440ppm of carbon dioxide is suggested to M ...
... Monbiot has decided that his task in Heat is to achieve emission reductions that might prevent the globe warming by more than two degrees: a more ambitious target than most. That this target requires stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions at the equivalent of 440ppm of carbon dioxide is suggested to M ...
Fostering Environmental Stewardship through Outdoor Recreation
... resources. Climate change is driven by the greenhouse effect, a process by which atmospheric gases trap reflected heat near the earth’s surface, causing incremental warming over time. Although this is a natural process, its effects are exacerbated by the emissions released into the atmosphere by hum ...
... resources. Climate change is driven by the greenhouse effect, a process by which atmospheric gases trap reflected heat near the earth’s surface, causing incremental warming over time. Although this is a natural process, its effects are exacerbated by the emissions released into the atmosphere by hum ...
UN General Assembly thematic debate on climate change
... Harvard University scientist John Holdren said that the most important cause of climate change was carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels and tropical deforestation. Climate disruptions were already causing serious harm, including increased floods, droughts, heat waves, wildfires and severe ...
... Harvard University scientist John Holdren said that the most important cause of climate change was carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels and tropical deforestation. Climate disruptions were already causing serious harm, including increased floods, droughts, heat waves, wildfires and severe ...
The Yin and Yang of Climate Change
... work of more than 2500 scientific expert reviewers, over 800 contributing authors and more than 450 lead authors from over 130 countries. It found that there is almost universal scientific consensus (greater than 99 per cent) that the planet is warming significantly and rapidly due to the actions of ...
... work of more than 2500 scientific expert reviewers, over 800 contributing authors and more than 450 lead authors from over 130 countries. It found that there is almost universal scientific consensus (greater than 99 per cent) that the planet is warming significantly and rapidly due to the actions of ...
The Price of Climate Change
... } Global average surface temperatures (land and ocean) have risen 0.88° Celsius (1.6° Fahrenheit) since records began in 1880, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. } Seventeen of the past 18 years have been the hottest on record globally. See the chart below. } Pos ...
... } Global average surface temperatures (land and ocean) have risen 0.88° Celsius (1.6° Fahrenheit) since records began in 1880, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. } Seventeen of the past 18 years have been the hottest on record globally. See the chart below. } Pos ...
An Examination of Carbon Sequestration via Global Reforestation
... In this section, I will examine the idea of humans as the dominant force on the planet. Using evidence of changes to the natural landscape, I will demonstrate that we have entered a new geologic era. Forests are emblematic of the system-wide health of an ecological region and the planet as a whole. ...
... In this section, I will examine the idea of humans as the dominant force on the planet. Using evidence of changes to the natural landscape, I will demonstrate that we have entered a new geologic era. Forests are emblematic of the system-wide health of an ecological region and the planet as a whole. ...
Threatened Arctic Lakes: Pressures from
... from 89.1 mm to 248.7 mm. The ten year running average of MAP confirms that precipitation decreased during the period of record. Average winter snow cover was 189.5, ranging from 75 cm in 1985 to 377.7 cm in 1981. Ten year running averages show snow cover has also decreased. IPCC global climate proj ...
... from 89.1 mm to 248.7 mm. The ten year running average of MAP confirms that precipitation decreased during the period of record. Average winter snow cover was 189.5, ranging from 75 cm in 1985 to 377.7 cm in 1981. Ten year running averages show snow cover has also decreased. IPCC global climate proj ...
Optimal Global Dynamic Carbon Abatement
... other policy tools are at her disposal. In particular, if there are income inequalities between different world regions and the global planner cannot redistribute wealth between regions via some mechanism other than emission taxes, she would set emission taxes higher in high-income countries and low ...
... other policy tools are at her disposal. In particular, if there are income inequalities between different world regions and the global planner cannot redistribute wealth between regions via some mechanism other than emission taxes, she would set emission taxes higher in high-income countries and low ...
ethics and climate change
... proved in recent years allowing the accurate outlining of the problem, not just in its primary effects on temperature, but also identifying those sectors that will suffer the most from these changes. The possible scenarios for a future evolution, which have been confirmed by the Fourth Assessment Re ...
... proved in recent years allowing the accurate outlining of the problem, not just in its primary effects on temperature, but also identifying those sectors that will suffer the most from these changes. The possible scenarios for a future evolution, which have been confirmed by the Fourth Assessment Re ...
Transcript
... lows have warmed by roughly 5 degrees since 1970, and we aren’t seeing as many recordbreaking cold days. ED: And the warming trend gets more pronounced as you travel north. "Northern Minnesota is definitely bearing the brunt of that." ED: University of Minnesota climate scientist Peter Snyder says o ...
... lows have warmed by roughly 5 degrees since 1970, and we aren’t seeing as many recordbreaking cold days. ED: And the warming trend gets more pronounced as you travel north. "Northern Minnesota is definitely bearing the brunt of that." ED: University of Minnesota climate scientist Peter Snyder says o ...
Carbon Budget and Trends
... compared to the 1990s and is exceeding the predictions of the highest IPCC emission scenarios. • Atmospheric CO2 has grown at 1.9 ppm per year (compared to about 1.5 ppm during the previous 30 years) ...
... compared to the 1990s and is exceeding the predictions of the highest IPCC emission scenarios. • Atmospheric CO2 has grown at 1.9 ppm per year (compared to about 1.5 ppm during the previous 30 years) ...
the wcrp cmip3 multimodel dataset
... simulate future changes. In this case, the overall agreement in the basic pattern of variability between the models and the observations builds confidence that sea ice variability in a future warmer climate can be usefully studied. The CMIP3 multimodel dataset has also been used to help understand c ...
... simulate future changes. In this case, the overall agreement in the basic pattern of variability between the models and the observations builds confidence that sea ice variability in a future warmer climate can be usefully studied. The CMIP3 multimodel dataset has also been used to help understand c ...
Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels and Forest Management
... foreseeable future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2001) estimates that carbon dioxide is responsible for about 60 percent of the current warming. Mean global temperature is projected to rise between 3 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit by end of the century, a rate of up to 1 degree Fahrenhe ...
... foreseeable future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2001) estimates that carbon dioxide is responsible for about 60 percent of the current warming. Mean global temperature is projected to rise between 3 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit by end of the century, a rate of up to 1 degree Fahrenhe ...
HCOL FINAL RESEARCH PAPER!x
... (“Climate Change Facts,” 2012). In recent decades, humans have emitted extreme amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere through fossil fuel consumption, use of electricity, and farming of agriculture. On their website, the EPA explains that CO2 concentrations “have increased by almost 40% since pre-indust ...
... (“Climate Change Facts,” 2012). In recent decades, humans have emitted extreme amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere through fossil fuel consumption, use of electricity, and farming of agriculture. On their website, the EPA explains that CO2 concentrations “have increased by almost 40% since pre-indust ...
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.""