China - Open Knowledge Repository
... The goal of China’s government is to cut direct economic losses from weather disasters in half by 2020,1 yet this will be no easy feat. China is a rapidly urbanizing middle-income country with a huge economy and a quickly expanding stock of valuable assets such as buildings, roads, and other infrast ...
... The goal of China’s government is to cut direct economic losses from weather disasters in half by 2020,1 yet this will be no easy feat. China is a rapidly urbanizing middle-income country with a huge economy and a quickly expanding stock of valuable assets such as buildings, roads, and other infrast ...
the results of the scientific congress
... and the response options and approaches that are available to tackle this complex issue. To bring this new knowledge together, the International Alliance of Research Universitiesi organised an international scientific congress on climate change, Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions ...
... and the response options and approaches that are available to tackle this complex issue. To bring this new knowledge together, the International Alliance of Research Universitiesi organised an international scientific congress on climate change, Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions ...
View/Open
... Pisarski laments the demise of the census long form and identifies data sources that will be important for transportation planners and analysts in the future. It may be that Pisarski’s work will be too difficult to replicate in the future without the census long form. Pisarski also identifies trends ...
... Pisarski laments the demise of the census long form and identifies data sources that will be important for transportation planners and analysts in the future. It may be that Pisarski’s work will be too difficult to replicate in the future without the census long form. Pisarski also identifies trends ...
Deglacial impact of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet on the North Atlantic climate system Francesco Muschitiello
... The long warming transition from the Last Ice Age into the present Interglacial period, the last deglaciation, holds the key to our understanding of future abrupt climate change. In the last decades, a great effort has been put into deciphering the linkage between freshw ...
... The long warming transition from the Last Ice Age into the present Interglacial period, the last deglaciation, holds the key to our understanding of future abrupt climate change. In the last decades, a great effort has been put into deciphering the linkage between freshw ...
modelling runoff and impact of climate change in
... The low reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers have a history of catastrophic floods. In 1988, large areas of Bangladesh were inundated. The highest flood peak in the Brahmaputra basin reached 99’500 m3s-1. In the Ganges basin, the peak reached 72’300 m3s-1 (Islam and Sado, 2000b). In the stud ...
... The low reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers have a history of catastrophic floods. In 1988, large areas of Bangladesh were inundated. The highest flood peak in the Brahmaputra basin reached 99’500 m3s-1. In the Ganges basin, the peak reached 72’300 m3s-1 (Islam and Sado, 2000b). In the stud ...
Africa
... frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers, whether or not these have been patented, does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended by FAO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. The views expressed in this informa ...
... frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers, whether or not these have been patented, does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended by FAO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. The views expressed in this informa ...
Tuesday 1 December Wednesday 2 December
... AFD & I4CE side event: Climate Change Integration by Public and Private Financial Institutions: What Progress and What Challenges Ahead? (Climate Generations Areas, Room 5) With Anne Paugam, Chief Executive Officer of AFD ...
... AFD & I4CE side event: Climate Change Integration by Public and Private Financial Institutions: What Progress and What Challenges Ahead? (Climate Generations Areas, Room 5) With Anne Paugam, Chief Executive Officer of AFD ...
Horticulture
... Warmer winters are likely to improve survival of plant pathogens and higher average temperatures throughout the year will accelerate pathogen life cycles. (H) Presence of free water is very important for successful completion of the life cycles of many micro-organisms. For fungi, both infection and ...
... Warmer winters are likely to improve survival of plant pathogens and higher average temperatures throughout the year will accelerate pathogen life cycles. (H) Presence of free water is very important for successful completion of the life cycles of many micro-organisms. For fungi, both infection and ...
The coupled atmosphere–chemistry–ocean model SOCOL
... component of the atmosphere, atmospheric chemistry modules needs to be implemented in GCMs. Most of the coupled chemistry–climate model (CCM) simulations so far were performed with prescribed sea surface temperatures (SSTs; e.g. Eyring et al., 2006) or simplified mixed-layer ocean models (e.g. Stenk ...
... component of the atmosphere, atmospheric chemistry modules needs to be implemented in GCMs. Most of the coupled chemistry–climate model (CCM) simulations so far were performed with prescribed sea surface temperatures (SSTs; e.g. Eyring et al., 2006) or simplified mixed-layer ocean models (e.g. Stenk ...
Estimating the impact of traffic on the UTLS QUANTIFY
... CECILIA, EC FP6, 2006-2009, http://www.cecilia-eu.org ...
... CECILIA, EC FP6, 2006-2009, http://www.cecilia-eu.org ...
Clare Palmer, “Does Nature Matter? The Place of the Nonhuman in
... discussed elsewhere. Setting them on one side here will allow me to focus on the less-explored ethical issues in which I’m principally interested. (1) I’ll assume that climate change really is happening and that human beings are largely causally responsible for it. So, I’ll reject general skepticism ...
... discussed elsewhere. Setting them on one side here will allow me to focus on the less-explored ethical issues in which I’m principally interested. (1) I’ll assume that climate change really is happening and that human beings are largely causally responsible for it. So, I’ll reject general skepticism ...
Climate change impacts on coastal fisheries and
... highly productive species (Rijnsdorp et al. 2009). The 2011 marine heatwave in Western Australia, for example, was reportedly responsible for large fish kills and a temporary southward distribution shift of tropical fauna (Pearce and Feng 2013). This type of short-term extreme can have devastating l ...
... highly productive species (Rijnsdorp et al. 2009). The 2011 marine heatwave in Western Australia, for example, was reportedly responsible for large fish kills and a temporary southward distribution shift of tropical fauna (Pearce and Feng 2013). This type of short-term extreme can have devastating l ...
Kyoto and Beyond - European Business Council for Sustainable
... although the process was dealt a significant blow in 2001 by the decision of the US to withdraw from the Protocol. At the time of writing this report, prospects are looking reasonable for the Protocol to be ratified in 2003, although the United Sates remains outside this process. It is widely accept ...
... although the process was dealt a significant blow in 2001 by the decision of the US to withdraw from the Protocol. At the time of writing this report, prospects are looking reasonable for the Protocol to be ratified in 2003, although the United Sates remains outside this process. It is widely accept ...
Changing Risk Perceptions Policy Brief
... agricultural industry could face significant challenges with more frequent summer water shortages and reduced quality and production of valuable goods such as wine grapes and dairy products. These and other climate impacts have the potential to substantially affect key economic sectors and the quali ...
... agricultural industry could face significant challenges with more frequent summer water shortages and reduced quality and production of valuable goods such as wine grapes and dairy products. These and other climate impacts have the potential to substantially affect key economic sectors and the quali ...
April 2013 News - South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy
... Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Boston University have developed the first method to map evaporation globally using weather stations, which will help scientists evaluate water resource management, assess recent trends of evaporation throughout the globe, and validate surface hydrologic model ...
... Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Boston University have developed the first method to map evaporation globally using weather stations, which will help scientists evaluate water resource management, assess recent trends of evaporation throughout the globe, and validate surface hydrologic model ...
Climate Change and Invasive Alien Species
... in line with the expected change for directional climate change (Box 2). The probability that the observed changes in the expected direction (with no reference to magnitude) could occur by chance alone is negligible and there is high confidence that recent changes in temperature are having discernib ...
... in line with the expected change for directional climate change (Box 2). The probability that the observed changes in the expected direction (with no reference to magnitude) could occur by chance alone is negligible and there is high confidence that recent changes in temperature are having discernib ...
Vegetation limits the impact of a warm climate on boreal wildfires
... Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Industrial Chair in Sustainable Forest Management, ...
... Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Industrial Chair in Sustainable Forest Management, ...
Synthesis Report “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges
... and the response options and approaches that are available to tackle this complex issue. To bring this new knowledge together, the International Alliance of Research Universitiesi organised an international scientific congress on climate change, Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions ...
... and the response options and approaches that are available to tackle this complex issue. To bring this new knowledge together, the International Alliance of Research Universitiesi organised an international scientific congress on climate change, Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions ...
Fall 2014
... project that will equip the floats with biooptical sensors intended to gather data about biological processes in the water. In addition to GFDL’s contribution, NOAA is providing funding for floats and support through its Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorol ...
... project that will equip the floats with biooptical sensors intended to gather data about biological processes in the water. In addition to GFDL’s contribution, NOAA is providing funding for floats and support through its Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorol ...
Maryland Commission on Climate Change
... The CAP also included two climate change adaptation strategies that have been utilized to guide state-level adaptation planning efforts. The first strategy (Phase I), released in 2008, seeks to address the impacts associated with sea level rise and coastal storms. The second strategy (Phase II), rel ...
... The CAP also included two climate change adaptation strategies that have been utilized to guide state-level adaptation planning efforts. The first strategy (Phase I), released in 2008, seeks to address the impacts associated with sea level rise and coastal storms. The second strategy (Phase II), rel ...
Reducing climate change impacts on agriculture: Global and
... projections [20]. In A2r, unmitigated GHG emissions reached above 25 GtC/year–and atmospheric CO2 concentrations were above 900 ppm CO2–by 2100. Mitigation of emissions was shown to be possible within this scenario, stabilizing CO2 concentrations at 550 ppm. The overall cost of mitigation was comput ...
... projections [20]. In A2r, unmitigated GHG emissions reached above 25 GtC/year–and atmospheric CO2 concentrations were above 900 ppm CO2–by 2100. Mitigation of emissions was shown to be possible within this scenario, stabilizing CO2 concentrations at 550 ppm. The overall cost of mitigation was comput ...
Climatic Research Unit documents
Climatic Research Unit documents including thousands of e-mails and other computer files were stolen from a server at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in a hacking incident in November 2009. The documents were redistributed first through the blogosphere of global warming skeptics, and allegations were made that they indicated misconduct by leading climate scientists. A series of investigations rejected these allegations, while concluding that CRU scientists should have been more open with distributing data and methods on request. Precisely six committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct. The scientific consensus that global warming is occurring as a result of human activity remained unchanged by the end of the investigations.The incident occurred shortly before the opening December 2009 Copenhagen global climate summit. It has prompted general discussion about increasing the openness of scientific data (though the majority of climate data have always been freely available). Scientists, scientific organisations, and government officials have stated that the incident does not affect the overall scientific case for climate change. Andrew Revkin reported in the New York Times that ""The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument.""