climate change a trade union responsibility in higher education
... involvement of trade unions from a humanitarian perspective. It will also be people in the ‘Global South’ that will be worst affected by these developments. The fact that workplaces are a major source of carbon emissions further emphasises that it is an issue for trade unions to be engage with. But ...
... involvement of trade unions from a humanitarian perspective. It will also be people in the ‘Global South’ that will be worst affected by these developments. The fact that workplaces are a major source of carbon emissions further emphasises that it is an issue for trade unions to be engage with. But ...
Dr Margaret Chan Director-General Keynote address at the Human
... this threat is immense. Agriculture, including smallholder farming, employs around 60% of the workforce in sub-Saharan Africa and accounts for a third of its gross domestic product. In some countries, more than 70% of the population depends on subsistence farming for a livelihood. Outbreaks of chol ...
... this threat is immense. Agriculture, including smallholder farming, employs around 60% of the workforce in sub-Saharan Africa and accounts for a third of its gross domestic product. In some countries, more than 70% of the population depends on subsistence farming for a livelihood. Outbreaks of chol ...
Review Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life Eloise Harding
... While Norgaard’s study is largely focused on a small town in Norway, there are wider implications to be drawn from examining the role of emotion in attitudes to climate change. The fear which drives non-discussion of the topic in Bygdaby is unlikely to be an isolated phenomenon, but rather one which ...
... While Norgaard’s study is largely focused on a small town in Norway, there are wider implications to be drawn from examining the role of emotion in attitudes to climate change. The fear which drives non-discussion of the topic in Bygdaby is unlikely to be an isolated phenomenon, but rather one which ...
Climate Change Education and the Ecological Footprint
... 1998b), and our findings imply that further teaching how they might reduce their overall EF by 30%; and c) innovations are needed in our general education students answered questions (requiring paragraph recourses to change student ideas. sponses) about how their various activities contribute to the ...
... 1998b), and our findings imply that further teaching how they might reduce their overall EF by 30%; and c) innovations are needed in our general education students answered questions (requiring paragraph recourses to change student ideas. sponses) about how their various activities contribute to the ...
Midterm Review
... • The mission of meteorology is to understand and predict weatherrelated disasters (e.g. tornados, hurricanes, winter storms) and climate-related disasters (e.g. El Nino and global warming). • The modern climatology (meteorology) was born in the 1940s (a very young science!), but has been growing ve ...
... • The mission of meteorology is to understand and predict weatherrelated disasters (e.g. tornados, hurricanes, winter storms) and climate-related disasters (e.g. El Nino and global warming). • The modern climatology (meteorology) was born in the 1940s (a very young science!), but has been growing ve ...
Presentation Title – Myriad Pro 44
... Vehicle use in developed countries will grow slightly. 4 times more automobiles will be on the road in other G20 nations by 2050. Vehicle use in the rest of the world is projected to rise moderately to more than double present-day levels by 2050. ...
... Vehicle use in developed countries will grow slightly. 4 times more automobiles will be on the road in other G20 nations by 2050. Vehicle use in the rest of the world is projected to rise moderately to more than double present-day levels by 2050. ...
Nature - MOspace
... – Connects climate change and economic impacts – Economic damages (or opportunities) are calculated as a function of sector composition ...
... – Connects climate change and economic impacts – Economic damages (or opportunities) are calculated as a function of sector composition ...
Getting our arms around “carbon budgets”
... Carbon budgets and the energy transition “Of all the recent ideas climate change campaigners have come up with to convince the world to do more to curb global warming, none has been as potent as stranded fossil fuel assets” – Financial Times ...
... Carbon budgets and the energy transition “Of all the recent ideas climate change campaigners have come up with to convince the world to do more to curb global warming, none has been as potent as stranded fossil fuel assets” – Financial Times ...
Sulfate aerosols in the troposphere and lower stratosphere
... change of 3°C, catastrophic changes such as “reversal of the land carbon sink and possible destabilization of the Antarctic ice sheets” (Bala, 2009). Temperatures would vary between regions, because maximum temperatures are increasing more slowly than minimum temperatures, meaning that there are lon ...
... change of 3°C, catastrophic changes such as “reversal of the land carbon sink and possible destabilization of the Antarctic ice sheets” (Bala, 2009). Temperatures would vary between regions, because maximum temperatures are increasing more slowly than minimum temperatures, meaning that there are lon ...
Chapter 18: Human Impacts on Climate
... tectonics, and the evolution of organisms that use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Earth’s climate is now experiencing changes that cannot be attributed to these natural forces alone. Human activities, primarily the burning of fossils fuels, are changing the chemistry of the atmosphere, which, in ...
... tectonics, and the evolution of organisms that use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Earth’s climate is now experiencing changes that cannot be attributed to these natural forces alone. Human activities, primarily the burning of fossils fuels, are changing the chemistry of the atmosphere, which, in ...
Perth and Kinross pilot project
... Climate change is likely to raise average temperatures, change patterns of rainfall and lead to rising sea levels. These changes will have a direct impact on Perth and Kinross, Dundee, Angus and North and East Fife. Equally important, however, will be the way in which we respond to climate change – ...
... Climate change is likely to raise average temperatures, change patterns of rainfall and lead to rising sea levels. These changes will have a direct impact on Perth and Kinross, Dundee, Angus and North and East Fife. Equally important, however, will be the way in which we respond to climate change – ...
Document
... – Draw ideas and comments from the floor to make the statement representative of the views of this entire workshop (not just the researchers – Two new major points came out of the Friday meetingIWTC-5: Decision made to prepare background material for updated statement ...
... – Draw ideas and comments from the floor to make the statement representative of the views of this entire workshop (not just the researchers – Two new major points came out of the Friday meetingIWTC-5: Decision made to prepare background material for updated statement ...
Climate Change: The Need to Consider Human Forcings in Addition to Greenhouse Gases by
... rate in the last 7 years is at most about ¼ of rate in the last 7 years is, at most, about ¼ of that for the previous decade In other words, global warming over the last few years has been significantly less than that in the previous decade. ...
... rate in the last 7 years is at most about ¼ of rate in the last 7 years is, at most, about ¼ of that for the previous decade In other words, global warming over the last few years has been significantly less than that in the previous decade. ...
2017 Resolution #2 - Rotary Model UN Program
... month a monthly global temperature record has been broken, the longest such streak in NOAA's 137 years of record keeping, and the fifth consecutive month (since December 2015) that the global monthly temperature departure from average has surpassed 1.0°C (1.8°F), Deeply concerned by statistics confi ...
... month a monthly global temperature record has been broken, the longest such streak in NOAA's 137 years of record keeping, and the fifth consecutive month (since December 2015) that the global monthly temperature departure from average has surpassed 1.0°C (1.8°F), Deeply concerned by statistics confi ...
A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the
... ECI’s First Assumption: CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are the main cause of warming. The ECI’s first assumption appears under “Claim 1: Human-Induced Climate Change is Real.” While almost certainly true (since humans have long affected climates in which they live), the claim is too vague to have p ...
... ECI’s First Assumption: CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are the main cause of warming. The ECI’s first assumption appears under “Claim 1: Human-Induced Climate Change is Real.” While almost certainly true (since humans have long affected climates in which they live), the claim is too vague to have p ...
Issue 04 – Dec 2016 - Wicked Weather Watch
... used to take 2-3 years each to complete but due to the recession of Arctic sea ice the number of ice-free months in the Passages have increased, opening them simultaneously and signalling the rapid progress of global warming. It took the POC just 4 months to complete the whole journey. ...
... used to take 2-3 years each to complete but due to the recession of Arctic sea ice the number of ice-free months in the Passages have increased, opening them simultaneously and signalling the rapid progress of global warming. It took the POC just 4 months to complete the whole journey. ...
Elaboration of a strategy for reduction of carbon emissions in
... road, which increased by almost 100% over the same period. ...
... road, which increased by almost 100% over the same period. ...
“CLIMATE EFFECTS” OF EPA`S FINAL CLEAN POWER PLAN On
... emission standards for light-duty vehicles. EPA’s Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) for that rule included annual projections of GHG emission reductions resulting from the vehicle standards, and estimated the effect of those reductions on global average CO 2 concentrations, global average temperatu ...
... emission standards for light-duty vehicles. EPA’s Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) for that rule included annual projections of GHG emission reductions resulting from the vehicle standards, and estimated the effect of those reductions on global average CO 2 concentrations, global average temperatu ...
Link to summer 2013 project descriptions.
... In situ remediation of contaminated groundwater often involves the injection of a treatment solution into a contaminated aquifer to promote reactions to degrade the contaminant. Reactions occur where the contaminant and treatment solution are in contact with each other, or where they are sufficientl ...
... In situ remediation of contaminated groundwater often involves the injection of a treatment solution into a contaminated aquifer to promote reactions to degrade the contaminant. Reactions occur where the contaminant and treatment solution are in contact with each other, or where they are sufficientl ...
GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOIL ORGANIC CARBON, Rome, Italy
... governments are serious about funding rapid action. Failure to do so means runaway climate change (the equilibrium temperature and sea level for today’s CO2 concentration of 400 parts per million is around +17 degrees C and +23 meters higher than today’s levels) that will last for millions of years ...
... governments are serious about funding rapid action. Failure to do so means runaway climate change (the equilibrium temperature and sea level for today’s CO2 concentration of 400 parts per million is around +17 degrees C and +23 meters higher than today’s levels) that will last for millions of years ...
Zoelli Commends Mayors on Climate Change
... World Bank President, Mr. Robert Zoelli, has underscored the role the Mayor’s task force on climate change and poverty eradication. Mr. Zoelli reiterated this during the video conference meeting that brought together the Mayors of Dar es Salam, Mr. Adam Kimbisa, Jakarta- Mr. Fauzi Bowo, Mexico CityM ...
... World Bank President, Mr. Robert Zoelli, has underscored the role the Mayor’s task force on climate change and poverty eradication. Mr. Zoelli reiterated this during the video conference meeting that brought together the Mayors of Dar es Salam, Mr. Adam Kimbisa, Jakarta- Mr. Fauzi Bowo, Mexico CityM ...
Exploring Late Pleistocene climate variations
... Geomagnetic paleo-intensity is a synchronous signal that is employed for global correlation of many geological records. Geomagnetic excursions and events are used as master tie points between separate records. An example is the new high-resolution paleo-intensity record from North Atlantic marine se ...
... Geomagnetic paleo-intensity is a synchronous signal that is employed for global correlation of many geological records. Geomagnetic excursions and events are used as master tie points between separate records. An example is the new high-resolution paleo-intensity record from North Atlantic marine se ...
Global model confirms: Cool roofs can offset carbon
... heat than black ones, buildings with white roofs will surface model from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which contained regional information on stay cooler. If the building is air conditioned, less surface variables, such as topography, evaporation, air conditioning will be required, thus saving ...
... heat than black ones, buildings with white roofs will surface model from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which contained regional information on stay cooler. If the building is air conditioned, less surface variables, such as topography, evaporation, air conditioning will be required, thus saving ...
10-social marketing. abetting drunk driving, anti-global
... A Team of Five Indian Scientists from Four Institute, including Nagpur’s NEERI, discovered a Bacteria that coverts Carbon Dioxide into Calcium Carbonate, a compound found in Limestone and Chalk. Though the Chemical Reaction has been successfully established after a Research of 3Years, its Economic V ...
... A Team of Five Indian Scientists from Four Institute, including Nagpur’s NEERI, discovered a Bacteria that coverts Carbon Dioxide into Calcium Carbonate, a compound found in Limestone and Chalk. Though the Chemical Reaction has been successfully established after a Research of 3Years, its Economic V ...
The Earth—10 Feb • Policy on absences
... The proto solar system was made mostly of hydrogen & helium, like the sun. How did Earth form with such an unusual composition? What makes a planet support life? Earth, Venus, and Mars formed in similar ways. What processes caused them to become so ...
... The proto solar system was made mostly of hydrogen & helium, like the sun. How did Earth form with such an unusual composition? What makes a planet support life? Earth, Venus, and Mars formed in similar ways. What processes caused them to become so ...
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.""