Democracy as it Should Be
... Environmental Protection Agency standards that are intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 30% by 2030. The world we've known may be coming to an end, but it's not because of EPA regulations to cut carbon. We are presently on course to increase global temperature by 4 degrees C ...
... Environmental Protection Agency standards that are intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 30% by 2030. The world we've known may be coming to an end, but it's not because of EPA regulations to cut carbon. We are presently on course to increase global temperature by 4 degrees C ...
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... While the primary focus of this report is on the impacts of climate change in the United States, it also deals with some of the actions society is already taking or can take to respond to the climate challenge. Responses to climate change fall into two broad categories. The first involves “mitigatio ...
... While the primary focus of this report is on the impacts of climate change in the United States, it also deals with some of the actions society is already taking or can take to respond to the climate challenge. Responses to climate change fall into two broad categories. The first involves “mitigatio ...
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... While the primary focus of this report is on the impacts of climate change in the United States, it also deals with some of the actions society is already taking or can take to respond to the climate challenge. Responses to climate change fall into two broad categories. The first involves “mitigatio ...
... While the primary focus of this report is on the impacts of climate change in the United States, it also deals with some of the actions society is already taking or can take to respond to the climate challenge. Responses to climate change fall into two broad categories. The first involves “mitigatio ...
Climate of the Past Strength of forest
... spring and autumn temperatures may have been considerably higher than in the reconstructed winter and summer temperatures. Higher temperatures during autumn were likely caused by the stronger mid-Holocene insolation at early autumn (Berger, 1978). Higher temperatures during spring, however, cannot b ...
... spring and autumn temperatures may have been considerably higher than in the reconstructed winter and summer temperatures. Higher temperatures during autumn were likely caused by the stronger mid-Holocene insolation at early autumn (Berger, 1978). Higher temperatures during spring, however, cannot b ...
New York City Begins Planning for Climate
... While the primary focus of this report is on the impacts of climate change in the United States, it also deals with some of the actions society is already taking or can take to respond to the climate challenge. Responses to climate change fall into two broad categories. The first involves “mitigatio ...
... While the primary focus of this report is on the impacts of climate change in the United States, it also deals with some of the actions society is already taking or can take to respond to the climate challenge. Responses to climate change fall into two broad categories. The first involves “mitigatio ...
Normative aspects of climate adaptation policies
... particularly troublesome. In acting too eagerly, investments will probably be made which in hindsight might not have been necessary. Waiting too long before implementing measures could mean that important adaptation options are no longer available, the cost of measures increases significantly, and t ...
... particularly troublesome. In acting too eagerly, investments will probably be made which in hindsight might not have been necessary. Waiting too long before implementing measures could mean that important adaptation options are no longer available, the cost of measures increases significantly, and t ...
RI Climate Change Commission 2012 report
... between ocean acidification and carbon dioxide (C02) emissions. Many of these climatological, oceanographic, ecological, and economic changes and transformations are occurring more rapidly than anticipated.5 Climate change may also produce unexpected benign impacts. For example, warm weather tourism ...
... between ocean acidification and carbon dioxide (C02) emissions. Many of these climatological, oceanographic, ecological, and economic changes and transformations are occurring more rapidly than anticipated.5 Climate change may also produce unexpected benign impacts. For example, warm weather tourism ...
Last Updated 4/7/2017 Book Chapters Andresen, J., G
... Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2011. San Francisco, CA. Niyogi, D., and X. Liu. 2012. “Adaptability of the Hybrid-Maize Model and the Development of a Gridded Crop Modeling System for the Midwest US.” ASA, CSSA, and SSSA Interna ...
... Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2011. San Francisco, CA. Niyogi, D., and X. Liu. 2012. “Adaptability of the Hybrid-Maize Model and the Development of a Gridded Crop Modeling System for the Midwest US.” ASA, CSSA, and SSSA Interna ...
climate vulnerability assessment – islands of dhidhdhoo and
... groundwater supply systems. By the year 2100, the total annual precipitation is projected to increase by 175 to 225 mm. Conversely, average precipitation in the dry months, is projected to decrease moderately: by 5 mm in January, 5 mm in February, and 10 mm in March. As a result, the dry season will ...
... groundwater supply systems. By the year 2100, the total annual precipitation is projected to increase by 175 to 225 mm. Conversely, average precipitation in the dry months, is projected to decrease moderately: by 5 mm in January, 5 mm in February, and 10 mm in March. As a result, the dry season will ...
Sarah E. Light
... energy use and climate change. Studies have shown that individuals with certain values or political ideologies are less likely to believe in the existence of scientific consensus about climate change, have positive attitudes toward addressing climate change as an urgent policy matter, and behave in ...
... energy use and climate change. Studies have shown that individuals with certain values or political ideologies are less likely to believe in the existence of scientific consensus about climate change, have positive attitudes toward addressing climate change as an urgent policy matter, and behave in ...
Perspectives on Canada`s West Coast region
... in decades rather than months, repeating every 40–60 years. Sea-surface temperatures in the north Pacific, which alternate from periods of relative warm to periods of relative cool, drive this cycle. These cyclical changes in ocean temperature affect air temperature in BC because the prevailing wind ...
... in decades rather than months, repeating every 40–60 years. Sea-surface temperatures in the north Pacific, which alternate from periods of relative warm to periods of relative cool, drive this cycle. These cyclical changes in ocean temperature affect air temperature in BC because the prevailing wind ...
DECC Adaptation Strategy for Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity
... existing plans for environmental water use, such as the NSW Wetlands Recovery Plan and NSW RiverBank. Undertaking risk assessments of projected climate change impacts, in order to quantify levels of risk and uncertainty, are also important tools to inform planning and management decisions. The dynam ...
... existing plans for environmental water use, such as the NSW Wetlands Recovery Plan and NSW RiverBank. Undertaking risk assessments of projected climate change impacts, in order to quantify levels of risk and uncertainty, are also important tools to inform planning and management decisions. The dynam ...
NAP-GSP Support to Developing Countries
... Phase 1 Evaluation found that: with limited budget, project was designed with a sound regard for the international policy context and for individual countries’ national policy processes. participation of the LEG and the UNFCCC secretariat allowed for a continued maintenance of linkages between t ...
... Phase 1 Evaluation found that: with limited budget, project was designed with a sound regard for the international policy context and for individual countries’ national policy processes. participation of the LEG and the UNFCCC secretariat allowed for a continued maintenance of linkages between t ...
Climate change reduces warming potential of nitrous oxide by an
... To quantify the effect of an enhanced BDC on the atmospheric fate of N2O, we apply ECHAM6 [Stevens et al., 2013], the atmosphere model of the MPI-ESM (Max Planck Institute Earth System Model) in an idealized setup. We conduct two 100 yearlong simulations, one control simulation “CTRL” at preindustri ...
... To quantify the effect of an enhanced BDC on the atmospheric fate of N2O, we apply ECHAM6 [Stevens et al., 2013], the atmosphere model of the MPI-ESM (Max Planck Institute Earth System Model) in an idealized setup. We conduct two 100 yearlong simulations, one control simulation “CTRL” at preindustri ...
Considerations for Addressing Climate Change
... For the purposes of this work, we included analysis of five highway infrastructure risk assessments conducted by BCMoTI and 20 risk assessments of infrastructure systems from across Canada conducted under the auspices of the Engineers Canada PIEVC initiative. Each study included in the analysis was ...
... For the purposes of this work, we included analysis of five highway infrastructure risk assessments conducted by BCMoTI and 20 risk assessments of infrastructure systems from across Canada conducted under the auspices of the Engineers Canada PIEVC initiative. Each study included in the analysis was ...
Understanding Farmers` Perceptions and Adaptations to
... Adaptation is widely recognized as a vital component of any policy response to climate change. Studies show that without adaptation, climate change is generally detrimental to the agriculture sector; but with adaptation, vulnerability can largely be reduced (Easterling et al. 1993; Rosenzweig and Pa ...
... Adaptation is widely recognized as a vital component of any policy response to climate change. Studies show that without adaptation, climate change is generally detrimental to the agriculture sector; but with adaptation, vulnerability can largely be reduced (Easterling et al. 1993; Rosenzweig and Pa ...
American Evangelicals and Domestic Versus International Climate
... In the last decade, evangelical Christians have been a source of both hope and despair for climate activists in the United States. When the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) joined Rick Warren and other religious leaders to endorse the Evangelical Climate Initiative in 2007, there appeared ...
... In the last decade, evangelical Christians have been a source of both hope and despair for climate activists in the United States. When the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) joined Rick Warren and other religious leaders to endorse the Evangelical Climate Initiative in 2007, there appeared ...
Coastal Sea-Level Change Societal Challenge Needs Assessment
... A systematic, well-planned needs assessment is critical for informed product and service development, as well as a powerful force for guiding agency decision-making. The following narrative identifies the systematic sequence used to conduct the needs assessment for the Coasts and Climate Resilience ...
... A systematic, well-planned needs assessment is critical for informed product and service development, as well as a powerful force for guiding agency decision-making. The following narrative identifies the systematic sequence used to conduct the needs assessment for the Coasts and Climate Resilience ...
Climate change science and Victoria
... expressed as a percentage of the mean value for the full available record (1973–2015); number of days per years of severe FFDI (above 50); and the linear trend of that quantity. N.B: FFDI year are reported from 1st of July to end of June (i.e. 2015 FFDI is from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015). ........ ...
... expressed as a percentage of the mean value for the full available record (1973–2015); number of days per years of severe FFDI (above 50); and the linear trend of that quantity. N.B: FFDI year are reported from 1st of July to end of June (i.e. 2015 FFDI is from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015). ........ ...
Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
... and early 1980s, for example, Myers highlighted the impacts of large-scale and rapid deforestation in tropical forests (Myers, 1979), particularly on the loss of species (Myers, 1984). During the next decade, observed high rates of forest conversion were linked to loss of biodiversity, climate chang ...
... and early 1980s, for example, Myers highlighted the impacts of large-scale and rapid deforestation in tropical forests (Myers, 1979), particularly on the loss of species (Myers, 1984). During the next decade, observed high rates of forest conversion were linked to loss of biodiversity, climate chang ...
Adapting to Climate Change: Natural Resource Management and
... ensuring that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable provides a “tool kit” from which both disciplines might collaboratively draw, to diminish the vulnerability of human systems to climate-related hazards. And we suggest that the case for conservation of natural space ...
... ensuring that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable provides a “tool kit” from which both disciplines might collaboratively draw, to diminish the vulnerability of human systems to climate-related hazards. And we suggest that the case for conservation of natural space ...
Adélie penguins coping with environmental change
... and breeding/foraging effort derived from three Adélie penguin colonies that vary in size by multiple orders of magnitude, within a 4-colony metapopulation in the Ross Sea (see Ainley, 2002; LaRue et al., 2013; Lyver et al., 2014; Figure 1). The objectives of this study were to use these data to det ...
... and breeding/foraging effort derived from three Adélie penguin colonies that vary in size by multiple orders of magnitude, within a 4-colony metapopulation in the Ross Sea (see Ainley, 2002; LaRue et al., 2013; Lyver et al., 2014; Figure 1). The objectives of this study were to use these data to det ...
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
... Real Reductions – Activity must be lower aggregate emissions from an agreed-upon baseline emissions level in the past Permanence – Activity cannot be easily undone (efficiency upgrades, reforestation projects) Quantifiability and Verifiability – Detailed monitoring and verification plan specific to ...
... Real Reductions – Activity must be lower aggregate emissions from an agreed-upon baseline emissions level in the past Permanence – Activity cannot be easily undone (efficiency upgrades, reforestation projects) Quantifiability and Verifiability – Detailed monitoring and verification plan specific to ...
Navigating Complexity
... Experts stress that migration in response to climate change is not a “good” or “bad” result; it can be either, or a mix, depending on context. There are likely to be those who benefit, those who do not, and those caught somewhere in between. One conception of this paradigm breaks outcomes into four ...
... Experts stress that migration in response to climate change is not a “good” or “bad” result; it can be either, or a mix, depending on context. There are likely to be those who benefit, those who do not, and those caught somewhere in between. One conception of this paradigm breaks outcomes into four ...
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.""