coming decades, climate change is expected to exacerbate the risks... disasters, not only from more frequent and intense hazard events,...
... of climate change. We need an international agreement to contain climate change and reduce its widespread suffering.9 This paper does not address the causes of any warming that may have occurred. Instead, it examines whether deaths and death rates due to weather-related extreme events have increased ...
... of climate change. We need an international agreement to contain climate change and reduce its widespread suffering.9 This paper does not address the causes of any warming that may have occurred. Instead, it examines whether deaths and death rates due to weather-related extreme events have increased ...
Development of a Methodology and a Tool for the Assessment of Vulnerability of Roadways to Flood Induced Damage
... topics of climate change, pavement design and performance, and economics into comprehensive studies. ...
... topics of climate change, pavement design and performance, and economics into comprehensive studies. ...
Impact of the global warming hiatus on Andean temperature
... 50–70% of the simulated warming along the Pacific coast is linearly congruent with the Niño 4 index. However, since these results are entirely model based and calculated for a 20 year period which includes the two strongest ENSO events of the century (1982/1983 and 1997/1998), they need to be interpr ...
... 50–70% of the simulated warming along the Pacific coast is linearly congruent with the Niño 4 index. However, since these results are entirely model based and calculated for a 20 year period which includes the two strongest ENSO events of the century (1982/1983 and 1997/1998), they need to be interpr ...
L I V E L I H O O D
... •Local institutions know communities and should have the main responsibility for identifying the poor and vulnerable and supporting them in building safe rural and urban settlements. These institutions should ensure that climate information reaches the poorest and most vulnerable through appropriat ...
... •Local institutions know communities and should have the main responsibility for identifying the poor and vulnerable and supporting them in building safe rural and urban settlements. These institutions should ensure that climate information reaches the poorest and most vulnerable through appropriat ...
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... Two key aspects of the architectures considered in this paper should be pointed out at this stage, in order to make the results of our analysis clear. First, all proposed architectures focus on CO2 mitigation only, excluding other greenhouse gases. Secondly, as climate leaks and free riding incentiv ...
... Two key aspects of the architectures considered in this paper should be pointed out at this stage, in order to make the results of our analysis clear. First, all proposed architectures focus on CO2 mitigation only, excluding other greenhouse gases. Secondly, as climate leaks and free riding incentiv ...
Death by Degrees: New York - Physicians for Social Responsibility
... Climate Change revised its previous temperature projections upwards and now projects average global temperatures to increase by 2.5º to 10.4º F by 2100 (1). Temperatures over landmasses likely will be higher (1). Revisions in local temperature projections for New York are not yet available, but it i ...
... Climate Change revised its previous temperature projections upwards and now projects average global temperatures to increase by 2.5º to 10.4º F by 2100 (1). Temperatures over landmasses likely will be higher (1). Revisions in local temperature projections for New York are not yet available, but it i ...
NATIONAL PARKS|Fall 2009
... COPENHAGEN. 03-Dec-2009 ................................................................................ 21 FINANCING CLIMATE CHANGE: The OECD is ready to assist G20 countries in their efforts to find lasting solutions to finance action on climate change, building on the long-standing work of the or ...
... COPENHAGEN. 03-Dec-2009 ................................................................................ 21 FINANCING CLIMATE CHANGE: The OECD is ready to assist G20 countries in their efforts to find lasting solutions to finance action on climate change, building on the long-standing work of the or ...
Climate and Development Economics: Balancing Science, Politics
... temperature increases; for instance, DICE assumes that less than 2 percent of world output is lost to climate damages at a temperature increase of 2.5oC above 1900 levels (Nordhaus 2008). In contrast to the findings of many IAMs, it is increasingly accepted by climate scientists that there are criti ...
... temperature increases; for instance, DICE assumes that less than 2 percent of world output is lost to climate damages at a temperature increase of 2.5oC above 1900 levels (Nordhaus 2008). In contrast to the findings of many IAMs, it is increasingly accepted by climate scientists that there are criti ...
Novel competitors shape species` responses to climate change
... strongly on the origin of their competitors (Fig. 2). For three of four species, survival was reduced by 52–84% (Fig. 2a), biomass by 48–61% (Fig. 2c; n.s. for A. alpestris) and flowering by over 72% (Fig. 2e) when competing against a novel, low-elevation plant community (scenario 2) compared with t ...
... strongly on the origin of their competitors (Fig. 2). For three of four species, survival was reduced by 52–84% (Fig. 2a), biomass by 48–61% (Fig. 2c; n.s. for A. alpestris) and flowering by over 72% (Fig. 2e) when competing against a novel, low-elevation plant community (scenario 2) compared with t ...
ProClim– Flash - Naturwissenschaften Schweiz
... An international group of scientists – more than 70 scientists from 18 countries – have mapped all of the world’s glaciers. Glaciologists can now study with unprecedented accuracy the impacts of a changing climate on glaciers worldwide and determine their total extent and volume on a glacier-by-glac ...
... An international group of scientists – more than 70 scientists from 18 countries – have mapped all of the world’s glaciers. Glaciologists can now study with unprecedented accuracy the impacts of a changing climate on glaciers worldwide and determine their total extent and volume on a glacier-by-glac ...
Climate Change, Adaptive Strategies and Rural Livelihoods in
... lead to years of prolonged drought or unpredictable excessive rainfall often associated with decreased agricultural productivity. The majority of the respondents (76%) had attained primary education, hence they had a broad understanding of the linkages between climate change and various livelihood i ...
... lead to years of prolonged drought or unpredictable excessive rainfall often associated with decreased agricultural productivity. The majority of the respondents (76%) had attained primary education, hence they had a broad understanding of the linkages between climate change and various livelihood i ...
Samoa
... Climate change and its impacts is inevitably the major environmental problem facing the globe, and the national level is no exception. Trends and assessment of Samoa’s Climate Risk Profile (CRP). Young. W.: 2007 best estimates of long term, systematic changes in the average climate for Samoa indicat ...
... Climate change and its impacts is inevitably the major environmental problem facing the globe, and the national level is no exception. Trends and assessment of Samoa’s Climate Risk Profile (CRP). Young. W.: 2007 best estimates of long term, systematic changes in the average climate for Samoa indicat ...
The CCAM multi-scale variable-resolution modelling system
... atmospheric model (CCAM) of the CSIRO • A cube-based global model; semi-Lagrangian semi-implicit solution of the primitive equations • Includes a wide range of physical parameterizations • Developed by the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research ...
... atmospheric model (CCAM) of the CSIRO • A cube-based global model; semi-Lagrangian semi-implicit solution of the primitive equations • Includes a wide range of physical parameterizations • Developed by the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research ...
A changing climate of skepticism? The factors shaping climate
... by Rahmstorf (2004) or deep skeptics by Hobson and Niemeyer (2012) – or they question the anthropogenic attribution respectively deny that there is sufficient evidence to determine the causes of climate change – labelled attribution skeptics by Rahmstorf (2004) or causal skeptics by Hobson and Nieme ...
... by Rahmstorf (2004) or deep skeptics by Hobson and Niemeyer (2012) – or they question the anthropogenic attribution respectively deny that there is sufficient evidence to determine the causes of climate change – labelled attribution skeptics by Rahmstorf (2004) or causal skeptics by Hobson and Nieme ...
climate, water, and political-economic crises
... fragmentation reigned dominant. In some regions, these oscillations occurred often enough to qualify as highly irregular cycles of order and disorder. Why might this have been the case? Is it possible to generalize ancient cyclical processes of entropy? Or, must we be content with painfully piecing ...
... fragmentation reigned dominant. In some regions, these oscillations occurred often enough to qualify as highly irregular cycles of order and disorder. Why might this have been the case? Is it possible to generalize ancient cyclical processes of entropy? Or, must we be content with painfully piecing ...
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... and introduced Environmental Education for all classes (secondary as well as senior secondary) in its schools. Since the subject is transacted through the activity and the project mode it is evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively through appropriate weightage assigned to these inputs and is ...
... and introduced Environmental Education for all classes (secondary as well as senior secondary) in its schools. Since the subject is transacted through the activity and the project mode it is evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively through appropriate weightage assigned to these inputs and is ...
How the United Nations System Supports Ambitious Action
... and resource depletion to land, air and water pollution. Drawing on the best available science, Governments have recognized that the average global temperature must rise by no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels if dangerous climate change is to be avoided. This can be achieved if global emiss ...
... and resource depletion to land, air and water pollution. Drawing on the best available science, Governments have recognized that the average global temperature must rise by no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels if dangerous climate change is to be avoided. This can be achieved if global emiss ...
The global-scale impacts of climate change on water resources and
... realisation was used for each climate model. The climate data are interpolated from the native climate model resolution (ranging from 1.1×1.1° to 2.8×2.8°: Supplementary Table 1) to 0.5×0.5° using spherical interpolation. The scenarios represent only changes in 30-year mean monthly climate. There is ...
... realisation was used for each climate model. The climate data are interpolated from the native climate model resolution (ranging from 1.1×1.1° to 2.8×2.8°: Supplementary Table 1) to 0.5×0.5° using spherical interpolation. The scenarios represent only changes in 30-year mean monthly climate. There is ...
How the UN System Supports Ambitious Action on Climate Change
... and resource depletion to land, air and water pollution. Drawing on the best available science, Governments have recognized that the average global temperature must rise by no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels if dangerous climate change is to be avoided. This can be achieved if global emiss ...
... and resource depletion to land, air and water pollution. Drawing on the best available science, Governments have recognized that the average global temperature must rise by no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels if dangerous climate change is to be avoided. This can be achieved if global emiss ...
Climate change projections for Greater Manchester
... the potential future climate for the UK. Continued improvements in modelling and understanding of the climate system allow climate projections to be periodically reviewed and refined. This latest set of projections is an improvement on the last suite of UKCIP02 scenarios as they are downscaled to a ...
... the potential future climate for the UK. Continued improvements in modelling and understanding of the climate system allow climate projections to be periodically reviewed and refined. This latest set of projections is an improvement on the last suite of UKCIP02 scenarios as they are downscaled to a ...
Climate change: impacts on electricity markets in Western Europe
... There are science studies examining the impact of climate change on hydropower (e.g., Lehner et al. 2005; Hamlet et al. 2010; Madani and Lund 2010), on thermoelectric power generation (e.g., Forster and Lilliestam 2010) and on wind power (e.g., Sailor et al. 2008; Lucena et al. 2010). These types of ...
... There are science studies examining the impact of climate change on hydropower (e.g., Lehner et al. 2005; Hamlet et al. 2010; Madani and Lund 2010), on thermoelectric power generation (e.g., Forster and Lilliestam 2010) and on wind power (e.g., Sailor et al. 2008; Lucena et al. 2010). These types of ...
alongside the unfccc - Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
... forums for high-level political dialogue and statements; and • The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) is a cooperative public-private initiative that promotes national and international action but establishes no legal obligations or authorities. Many other initiatives—such as the International R ...
... forums for high-level political dialogue and statements; and • The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) is a cooperative public-private initiative that promotes national and international action but establishes no legal obligations or authorities. Many other initiatives—such as the International R ...
Images are courtesy of the National Snow and Ice Data Center
... AP (and decreasing of sea-ice volume in the sea-ice edge region) intensifies. This result suggests that recent observed sea-ice trend around the AP could be associated to anthropogenic forcings. ...
... AP (and decreasing of sea-ice volume in the sea-ice edge region) intensifies. This result suggests that recent observed sea-ice trend around the AP could be associated to anthropogenic forcings. ...
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.""