How does climate warming affect plant
... changes, particularly temperature increases (IPCC 2007). A growing number of studies suggest that climate change may be one of the biggest anthropogenic disturbance factors imposed on ecosystems today (Walther et al. 2002; Parmesan 2006). Because of the cumulative evidence of a close relationship be ...
... changes, particularly temperature increases (IPCC 2007). A growing number of studies suggest that climate change may be one of the biggest anthropogenic disturbance factors imposed on ecosystems today (Walther et al. 2002; Parmesan 2006). Because of the cumulative evidence of a close relationship be ...
Variability and Triggering Factors of Observed Global Mean Land
... No trend-like behaviour is found within the 50-year period and thus no indication of an enhanced global water cycle. However, one has to keep in mind that global mean land-surface precipitation is investigated which only accounts for about 25% of the total global precipitation. The other 75% of prec ...
... No trend-like behaviour is found within the 50-year period and thus no indication of an enhanced global water cycle. However, one has to keep in mind that global mean land-surface precipitation is investigated which only accounts for about 25% of the total global precipitation. The other 75% of prec ...
Earth, Climate, and Change: Observing Human Impact
... to explore how they can be citizen scientists and engineers in studying climate change and mitigating its negative effects in their own communities. ...
... to explore how they can be citizen scientists and engineers in studying climate change and mitigating its negative effects in their own communities. ...
Feedbacks and climate sensitivity
... -system will try to adjust via most negative feedback. • Can be used to propagate how uncertainty in one process controls uncertainty in system response. • Puts different mechanisms in the same non-dimensional language. e.g., Gaia is just a number…. fGaia ~ -0.65 (which is pretty absurd) ...
... -system will try to adjust via most negative feedback. • Can be used to propagate how uncertainty in one process controls uncertainty in system response. • Puts different mechanisms in the same non-dimensional language. e.g., Gaia is just a number…. fGaia ~ -0.65 (which is pretty absurd) ...
Extending a Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 1
... important of these traditions are: conceptualizing vulnerability in the context of environmental hazards, understanding the spatial distribution of environmental burdens, and exploring aspects of structure, agency, and adaptation in smallholder agricultural systems of the Global South, particularly ...
... important of these traditions are: conceptualizing vulnerability in the context of environmental hazards, understanding the spatial distribution of environmental burdens, and exploring aspects of structure, agency, and adaptation in smallholder agricultural systems of the Global South, particularly ...
Hydrological Responses to Climate Change in the Water Receiving
... Abstract Climate change will lead to a significant alteration in the temporal and spatial pattern variation in the regional hydrological cycle, and the subsequent lack of water, environmental deterioration, floods and droughts etc. And it is especially remarkable in semi-humid and semi-arid region. ...
... Abstract Climate change will lead to a significant alteration in the temporal and spatial pattern variation in the regional hydrological cycle, and the subsequent lack of water, environmental deterioration, floods and droughts etc. And it is especially remarkable in semi-humid and semi-arid region. ...
The Effect of Climate Change on the Vegetation Cover of the Mujib
... Degree project for Master of Science (60 credits) with a major in Atmospheric Science 60 hec Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Gothenburg ...
... Degree project for Master of Science (60 credits) with a major in Atmospheric Science 60 hec Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Gothenburg ...
FFESCsynthesisJune7 - Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural
... risk. Thus a large part of the scientific and management enterprise involves activities that improve the ability of scientists, managers and others to describe and quantify uncertainty and risk. These methods are somewhat generic and can be applied to all stages of the adaptation process. One import ...
... risk. Thus a large part of the scientific and management enterprise involves activities that improve the ability of scientists, managers and others to describe and quantify uncertainty and risk. These methods are somewhat generic and can be applied to all stages of the adaptation process. One import ...
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... * Senior Fellow and Director, Energy and Natural Resources Division, Resources for the Future. This paper will appear in a forthcoming special issue of Environmental and Resource Economics. I have benefited greatly from comments by Christian Azar, Jean-Charles Hourcade, Ian Parry, Jason Shogran, Ric ...
... * Senior Fellow and Director, Energy and Natural Resources Division, Resources for the Future. This paper will appear in a forthcoming special issue of Environmental and Resource Economics. I have benefited greatly from comments by Christian Azar, Jean-Charles Hourcade, Ian Parry, Jason Shogran, Ric ...
Impact of Climate Change on the Poor in Bolivia
... climate change in ways that not many would expect. In contradistinction with the trend of rising temperatures in the rest of the world, Bolivia’s overall temperatures have dropped, especially in the highlands. Bolivia’s changing climate is also characterized by unexpected impacts mainly on reduced c ...
... climate change in ways that not many would expect. In contradistinction with the trend of rising temperatures in the rest of the world, Bolivia’s overall temperatures have dropped, especially in the highlands. Bolivia’s changing climate is also characterized by unexpected impacts mainly on reduced c ...
KLMC Advocacy Plan - Kenya livestock Marketing Council
... Our PME approach supports learning, steering as well as accountability, and monitoring is an ongoing practise throughout the duration of the project. To allow for project-wide reporting, learning and comparison between countries and themes, a harmonised Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework has ...
... Our PME approach supports learning, steering as well as accountability, and monitoring is an ongoing practise throughout the duration of the project. To allow for project-wide reporting, learning and comparison between countries and themes, a harmonised Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework has ...
IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGES IN THE WIDER
... Climatologists use a variety of means to describe Earth's past climate. In the U.S. National Academy of Science report "Understanding Climatic Change" (NAS, 1975), a wealth of information is given on the subject. To illustrate what is thought to be known about temperature change, Figure 2 shows the ...
... Climatologists use a variety of means to describe Earth's past climate. In the U.S. National Academy of Science report "Understanding Climatic Change" (NAS, 1975), a wealth of information is given on the subject. To illustrate what is thought to be known about temperature change, Figure 2 shows the ...
Redalyc.Climate Change and the Caribbean: Review and Response
... Caribbean population livelihoods and well-being. Both represent majority employers—approximately 30 percent and 13 percent respectively of the regional labour force (Pulwarty, Nurse and Trotz 2010; World Travel & Tourism Council 2008); and separately or in tandem are significant contributors to the ...
... Caribbean population livelihoods and well-being. Both represent majority employers—approximately 30 percent and 13 percent respectively of the regional labour force (Pulwarty, Nurse and Trotz 2010; World Travel & Tourism Council 2008); and separately or in tandem are significant contributors to the ...
Slide 1
... constant. Both the maximum and minimum temperatures have increased at the same rate. The trends are highly variable from one region to another. Antarctic sea ice extent continues to show inter-annual variability and localized changes but no statistically significant average trends, consistent with t ...
... constant. Both the maximum and minimum temperatures have increased at the same rate. The trends are highly variable from one region to another. Antarctic sea ice extent continues to show inter-annual variability and localized changes but no statistically significant average trends, consistent with t ...
Expert meeting on assessing the risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change (opens in new window)
... The DRR community has developed various frameworks for vulnerability and risk assessment, ranging from qualitative and participatory methodologies to quantitative modelling approaches taking not solely into account a pure economic damage and loss assessment approach but rather a wide consideration o ...
... The DRR community has developed various frameworks for vulnerability and risk assessment, ranging from qualitative and participatory methodologies to quantitative modelling approaches taking not solely into account a pure economic damage and loss assessment approach but rather a wide consideration o ...
A Portfolio System of Climate Treaties
... emissions should be reduced 20 percent from the 1988 level by 2005. Through 2004, however, global emissions increased 32 percent. 3 This conception of the challenge has thus not helped. Of course, from the perspective of the climate, only global emissions matter, and so there is a logic to expressin ...
... emissions should be reduced 20 percent from the 1988 level by 2005. Through 2004, however, global emissions increased 32 percent. 3 This conception of the challenge has thus not helped. Of course, from the perspective of the climate, only global emissions matter, and so there is a logic to expressin ...
Training Your People How to Think About Climate Change
... in the past and must be limited by restraining feedback mechanisms. He has confidence in God’s engineering ability and in His providential management of climate dynamics. This is, after all, our Father’s world. His pagan colleague, however, believes that climate processes slowly and without personal ...
... in the past and must be limited by restraining feedback mechanisms. He has confidence in God’s engineering ability and in His providential management of climate dynamics. This is, after all, our Father’s world. His pagan colleague, however, believes that climate processes slowly and without personal ...
Climate Change Vulnerability: Linking Impacts and Adaptation
... Thomas E. Downing Environmental Change Institute Oxford ...
... Thomas E. Downing Environmental Change Institute Oxford ...
Scottish Government Consultation Response
... available online for public sector users to use on a trial basis for the 2014/15 reporting year, and practical support is available from SSN. They highlighted the need for flexibility and proportionality in the reporting requirements to take The data and narrative information collected from the subm ...
... available online for public sector users to use on a trial basis for the 2014/15 reporting year, and practical support is available from SSN. They highlighted the need for flexibility and proportionality in the reporting requirements to take The data and narrative information collected from the subm ...
interspecific interactions exceed climate effects
... such as light intensity and temperature. Such rhythms are important in controlling the energy balance of a species (Aschoff, 1979). In endotherms, temperature can exert a particularly strong influence over the timing of, and allocation of energy reserves to, vital behaviours such as foraging, restin ...
... such as light intensity and temperature. Such rhythms are important in controlling the energy balance of a species (Aschoff, 1979). In endotherms, temperature can exert a particularly strong influence over the timing of, and allocation of energy reserves to, vital behaviours such as foraging, restin ...
The Conditional Nature of the Local Warming Effect
... were the same. Consequently, controlling for other variables (including actual rather than perceived temperature deviations; however, see appendix B) is not necessary since the groups should be comparable, on average, other than exposure to the prompt (see Shadish et al. 2002).3 Any differences betw ...
... were the same. Consequently, controlling for other variables (including actual rather than perceived temperature deviations; however, see appendix B) is not necessary since the groups should be comparable, on average, other than exposure to the prompt (see Shadish et al. 2002).3 Any differences betw ...
Coastal habitats shield people and property from sea
... of vulnerability and so on). Previous efforts have mapped physical vulnerability of coastal areas using data and forecasts for sea-level rise and storm surge16,17 and used social metrics of vulnerability18 to identify where consequences of physical hazards will be greatest for people2,19 . Missing, ...
... of vulnerability and so on). Previous efforts have mapped physical vulnerability of coastal areas using data and forecasts for sea-level rise and storm surge16,17 and used social metrics of vulnerability18 to identify where consequences of physical hazards will be greatest for people2,19 . Missing, ...
Economics, ethics and climate change
... capabilities, as well as outcomes, is relevant to climate-change policy and economics. While we do not pursue the capabilities approach here, we nevertheless consider it to have substantial potential as an ethical framework for climate change policy evaluation. The lists of dimensions of human well- ...
... capabilities, as well as outcomes, is relevant to climate-change policy and economics. While we do not pursue the capabilities approach here, we nevertheless consider it to have substantial potential as an ethical framework for climate change policy evaluation. The lists of dimensions of human well- ...
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.""