Climate Change Presentation Climate Change - Honors
... • Note: there is no doubt in the scientific community: increased CO2 levels (and other greenhouse gases like methane) are responsible for and will continue to cause an increase in Earth’s temperatures. – Any politician/leader that suggests this issue is not true (or a “hoax”) is either lying to you ...
... • Note: there is no doubt in the scientific community: increased CO2 levels (and other greenhouse gases like methane) are responsible for and will continue to cause an increase in Earth’s temperatures. – Any politician/leader that suggests this issue is not true (or a “hoax”) is either lying to you ...
Less rainfall expected for the Hawaiian Islands
... Department of Geography, UHM, “but it gives us a very good estimate of the number of heavy rain events in a given season based on the large-‐scale atmospheric circulation patterns.” Combining informat ...
... Department of Geography, UHM, “but it gives us a very good estimate of the number of heavy rain events in a given season based on the large-‐scale atmospheric circulation patterns.” Combining informat ...
Coupled Ocean and Atmosphere Climate Dynamics
... • There is substantial evidence that climate is changing: increasing globally averaged temperature, decreasing ice extent, changing precipitation patterns,… • There is also substantial evidence that human activity has increased the levels of ‘greenhouse’ gases in the atmosphere. • There are strong ...
... • There is substantial evidence that climate is changing: increasing globally averaged temperature, decreasing ice extent, changing precipitation patterns,… • There is also substantial evidence that human activity has increased the levels of ‘greenhouse’ gases in the atmosphere. • There are strong ...
Guidance for companies with coal reserves responding to CDP
... oil, natural gas and coal, or having operations that are highly involved with or reliant on fossil fuel extraction. This guidance has been prepared to assist companies with coal reserves to provide investors with information on climate change-related coal demand and stranded asset risk, within their ...
... oil, natural gas and coal, or having operations that are highly involved with or reliant on fossil fuel extraction. This guidance has been prepared to assist companies with coal reserves to provide investors with information on climate change-related coal demand and stranded asset risk, within their ...
US Department of Energy report confirms
... warming over the next two decades even as President Obama announced on June 2nd a new carbon rule intended to reduce coal’s impacts here in America. The DOE greenhouse gas study last week found that U.S. LNG exports offer a climate advantage over coal only when the climate-warming impacts of methane ...
... warming over the next two decades even as President Obama announced on June 2nd a new carbon rule intended to reduce coal’s impacts here in America. The DOE greenhouse gas study last week found that U.S. LNG exports offer a climate advantage over coal only when the climate-warming impacts of methane ...
Aalborg Universitet
... Number of days with frost (days/year with Tmin under 0C) Growth season’s length (days in a row over 5C) Annual longest heat wave (days in a row, Tmax more than 5C over normal) Hot summer nights (% days Tmin over normal 90 percentile) Number of days with >= 10mm rainfall (days/year) Annual largest ...
... Number of days with frost (days/year with Tmin under 0C) Growth season’s length (days in a row over 5C) Annual longest heat wave (days in a row, Tmax more than 5C over normal) Hot summer nights (% days Tmin over normal 90 percentile) Number of days with >= 10mm rainfall (days/year) Annual largest ...
Future changes to river flood flows in England and Wales
... What is the overall aim of the work? Current Defra/EA guidance requires all flood management plans to allow for climate change by incorporating within a sensitivity analysis an increase in river flows of up 20% over the next 100 years. Although the 20% figure is a memorable precautionary target, the ...
... What is the overall aim of the work? Current Defra/EA guidance requires all flood management plans to allow for climate change by incorporating within a sensitivity analysis an increase in river flows of up 20% over the next 100 years. Although the 20% figure is a memorable precautionary target, the ...
Global Warming`s Increasingly Visible Impacts
... keep temperature records, the 25 warmest years have all occurred within the last 28 years.2 Scientists know with absolute certainty that the observed dramatic increase in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases since pre-industrial times (to levels higher than at any other time in at leas ...
... keep temperature records, the 25 warmest years have all occurred within the last 28 years.2 Scientists know with absolute certainty that the observed dramatic increase in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases since pre-industrial times (to levels higher than at any other time in at leas ...
Confronting Climate Change: The Sigma Xi/UN Foundation Report
... have great value even in the absence of climate-driven increases in stress on water systems. • Strengthening public-health and environmental-engineering defenses against climate-linked increases in the geographic extent & virulence of certain diseases will also reduce damage from disease more genera ...
... have great value even in the absence of climate-driven increases in stress on water systems. • Strengthening public-health and environmental-engineering defenses against climate-linked increases in the geographic extent & virulence of certain diseases will also reduce damage from disease more genera ...
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... over the first decade of the 21st century was significantly warmer than any preceding decade in the series of records stretching back over 160 years. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), concluded that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the m ...
... over the first decade of the 21st century was significantly warmer than any preceding decade in the series of records stretching back over 160 years. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), concluded that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the m ...
Drought, Dust Storms, and Wildfire
... mm) of precipitation) under two scenarios. Source: 2014 Warmer and drier conditions have helped increase the number and extent of large wildfires in western U.S. forests since the 1970s. Many National Climate Assessment of the periods of large wildfires have coincided with some of the warmest ...
... mm) of precipitation) under two scenarios. Source: 2014 Warmer and drier conditions have helped increase the number and extent of large wildfires in western U.S. forests since the 1970s. Many National Climate Assessment of the periods of large wildfires have coincided with some of the warmest ...
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... • NZ target under the Kyoto Protocol is to reduce our G G emissions between 2008-2012 GHG 2008 2012 to 1990 levels or take responsibility for them • NZ emissions under BAU scenario projected to be 45.5Mt CO2e over this period • This represents a cost to the NZ economy of $1 ...
... • NZ target under the Kyoto Protocol is to reduce our G G emissions between 2008-2012 GHG 2008 2012 to 1990 levels or take responsibility for them • NZ emissions under BAU scenario projected to be 45.5Mt CO2e over this period • This represents a cost to the NZ economy of $1 ...
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... . Challenges of extending caps to developing countries - Most likely within negotiating groups (exempt LDCs, rest of G77 or subgroups, other groupings) - Need for adapting the system to DCs needs (base year, cap scope, accounting-reporting- review, compliance, flexib. mechs.) . Conclusion: - Procedu ...
... . Challenges of extending caps to developing countries - Most likely within negotiating groups (exempt LDCs, rest of G77 or subgroups, other groupings) - Need for adapting the system to DCs needs (base year, cap scope, accounting-reporting- review, compliance, flexib. mechs.) . Conclusion: - Procedu ...
A North Carolina Citizen`s Guide to Global Warming
... of CO2 is now about 385 parts per million (ppm), or 43 percent above the estimated pre-industrial level of 270 ppm.5 The increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration is due to human CO2 emissions, which come mainly from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas. Total human CO2 emissio ...
... of CO2 is now about 385 parts per million (ppm), or 43 percent above the estimated pre-industrial level of 270 ppm.5 The increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration is due to human CO2 emissions, which come mainly from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas. Total human CO2 emissio ...
... data since the 1950's. The undisturbed air, remote location, and minimal influences of vegetation and human activity at MLO are ideal for monitoring constituents in the atmosphere that can cause climate change. Data from the MLO on CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere can be found on-line http://esr ...
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
... 1. The underlined numbers show the amount of carbon stored in "reservoirs." For example 760 units* of carbon are stored in the atmosphere (predominantly in the form of CO2, but also in small amounts of CH4 (methane), CFCs and other gases; anything that contains carbon). Note that the atmosphere is ...
... 1. The underlined numbers show the amount of carbon stored in "reservoirs." For example 760 units* of carbon are stored in the atmosphere (predominantly in the form of CO2, but also in small amounts of CH4 (methane), CFCs and other gases; anything that contains carbon). Note that the atmosphere is ...
How Do Polar Marine Ecosystems Respond to Rapid Climate
... harvests along the WAP (41). The Fig. 1. Changes observed along the WAP over the past 30 years. Annual average air temperatures at Faraday/ changes along the WAP are just one Vernadsky Station (65°15′S, 64°16′W) and Rothera Station (67°34′S, 68°08′W) have increased. There has example of how rapid cl ...
... harvests along the WAP (41). The Fig. 1. Changes observed along the WAP over the past 30 years. Annual average air temperatures at Faraday/ changes along the WAP are just one Vernadsky Station (65°15′S, 64°16′W) and Rothera Station (67°34′S, 68°08′W) have increased. There has example of how rapid cl ...
Changing US Extreme Temperature Statistics
... null hypothesis of no climate change, that a new measurement will set a record is still 1/L(s, d, t), however many prior data may be missing. These metrics measure the frequency of extreme (defined as record-setting) temperatures without making any assumptions about the distribution functions of dai ...
... null hypothesis of no climate change, that a new measurement will set a record is still 1/L(s, d, t), however many prior data may be missing. These metrics measure the frequency of extreme (defined as record-setting) temperatures without making any assumptions about the distribution functions of dai ...
English - Global Environment Facility
... WORLD BANK (WB) is a potential innovative financing mechanism for carbon sequestration through its Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) and other similar funds; ...
... WORLD BANK (WB) is a potential innovative financing mechanism for carbon sequestration through its Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) and other similar funds; ...
PredicHng hydrologic sensiHviHes to climate and land cover
... retain the support area concept that defines the connectivity of pixels to first order channels. However, impervious surface runoff (and drainage from detention reservoirs) is assumed to be connected to the nearest stream channel directly • Once impervious surface runoff has entered a stream channe ...
... retain the support area concept that defines the connectivity of pixels to first order channels. However, impervious surface runoff (and drainage from detention reservoirs) is assumed to be connected to the nearest stream channel directly • Once impervious surface runoff has entered a stream channe ...
Hot Air in the Orient - Max-Planck
... months June, July and August, when it is already very hot anyway. In that respect, this region differs from many other parts of the world, where global warming is most noticeable in winter. According to the calculations, some regions will see an increase in average summer temperatures of about 4 deg ...
... months June, July and August, when it is already very hot anyway. In that respect, this region differs from many other parts of the world, where global warming is most noticeable in winter. According to the calculations, some regions will see an increase in average summer temperatures of about 4 deg ...
Planning in the face of uncertainty: weather and water
... trend in temperature that definitely seems to have accelerated in the late 20th century. The number that is typically quoted if you want a temperature change for the 21st century in that curve on the left, globally, is something on the order of half a degree Celsius temperature change in the 20th ce ...
... trend in temperature that definitely seems to have accelerated in the late 20th century. The number that is typically quoted if you want a temperature change for the 21st century in that curve on the left, globally, is something on the order of half a degree Celsius temperature change in the 20th ce ...
IWRM as a Tool for Adaptation to Climate Change - Cap-Net
... consistent with each other, e.g. increased precipitation is expected to be associated with increased clouds and humidity. ...
... consistent with each other, e.g. increased precipitation is expected to be associated with increased clouds and humidity. ...
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.""