Philosophy of Climate Science Part II: Modelling
... In the case of climate models, it is important to distinguish between variables we expect to have predictive skill and those we do not; confirmation concerns only the former. That is, model confirmation concerns certain variables of a model but does not extend to others (cf. Parker 2009). For exampl ...
... In the case of climate models, it is important to distinguish between variables we expect to have predictive skill and those we do not; confirmation concerns only the former. That is, model confirmation concerns certain variables of a model but does not extend to others (cf. Parker 2009). For exampl ...
The Heat Is On - Climate Central
... Meteorologists and climatologists have long been aware that global warming doesn’t happen uniformly over time; global temperatures rise more quickly during some decades than in others, and can even decline temporarily. Nor does it affect every place the same way. The Arctic, for example, is warming ...
... Meteorologists and climatologists have long been aware that global warming doesn’t happen uniformly over time; global temperatures rise more quickly during some decades than in others, and can even decline temporarily. Nor does it affect every place the same way. The Arctic, for example, is warming ...
Update on the Carbon Mitigation Initiative Robert Socolow
... John Higgins, Andrei Kurbatove, Elle Chimiak, Nicole Spaulding, Paul Mayewski, and Michael Bender: “Million-year old ice core samples from the Allan Hills, Antarctica” Joseph Majkut: “Historical and Future Changes to Ocean Fluxes of CO2” CAPTURE Robert Williams: “A First Step Toward Understanding th ...
... John Higgins, Andrei Kurbatove, Elle Chimiak, Nicole Spaulding, Paul Mayewski, and Michael Bender: “Million-year old ice core samples from the Allan Hills, Antarctica” Joseph Majkut: “Historical and Future Changes to Ocean Fluxes of CO2” CAPTURE Robert Williams: “A First Step Toward Understanding th ...
Update on the Carbon Mitigation Initiative Robert Socolow Princeton
... John Higgins, Andrei Kurbatove, Elle Chimiak, Nicole Spaulding, Paul Mayewski, and Michael Bender: “Million-year old ice core samples from the Allan Hills, Antarctica” Joseph Majkut: “Historical and Future Changes to Ocean Fluxes of CO2” CAPTURE Robert Williams: “A First Step Toward Understanding th ...
... John Higgins, Andrei Kurbatove, Elle Chimiak, Nicole Spaulding, Paul Mayewski, and Michael Bender: “Million-year old ice core samples from the Allan Hills, Antarctica” Joseph Majkut: “Historical and Future Changes to Ocean Fluxes of CO2” CAPTURE Robert Williams: “A First Step Toward Understanding th ...
Financial engineering, including investment approaches for
... 2. Leverage finance through crowdfunding: Within two month, the project raised $10,001 from 189 funders which enables the school to take up actions planed for step one (small-scale). Crowdfunding was combined with local funding raising events at this stage; 3. Crowdfunding embedded co-financing mode ...
... 2. Leverage finance through crowdfunding: Within two month, the project raised $10,001 from 189 funders which enables the school to take up actions planed for step one (small-scale). Crowdfunding was combined with local funding raising events at this stage; 3. Crowdfunding embedded co-financing mode ...
Module 1 - Background and Overview
... Mainstreaming climate change into national development budgeting Climate-related policies and measures can impact the national budget in multiple ways There are entry points for mainstreaming climate change at practically all stages of the budgetary process including at the stage of ex post eva ...
... Mainstreaming climate change into national development budgeting Climate-related policies and measures can impact the national budget in multiple ways There are entry points for mainstreaming climate change at practically all stages of the budgetary process including at the stage of ex post eva ...
World Meteorological Organization
... CONTENT OF DOCUMENT: This document is only for information on the various symposia, seminars, and workshops in agricultural meteorology and no decisions are based on the material provided herein. Observations/suggestions coming out of its presentation would be recorded under Doc. 3. ...
... CONTENT OF DOCUMENT: This document is only for information on the various symposia, seminars, and workshops in agricultural meteorology and no decisions are based on the material provided herein. Observations/suggestions coming out of its presentation would be recorded under Doc. 3. ...
Peak energy and climate change: the double bind
... industrial society has depleted an indispensable resource such as fossil fuel or overstrained the absorptive capacity of the atmosphere as the ultimate indispensable sink, then the ensuing collapse will only become more abysmal due to a higher population level and a shrinking planetary carrying capa ...
... industrial society has depleted an indispensable resource such as fossil fuel or overstrained the absorptive capacity of the atmosphere as the ultimate indispensable sink, then the ensuing collapse will only become more abysmal due to a higher population level and a shrinking planetary carrying capa ...
An Eco-Feminist Perspective on the Climate Change Regime
... The need for equity and fairness is a recurring theme in the climate regime. Article 3.1 of the UNFCCC begins with the temporal principle of generational equity. It states that: “The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind, on the bas ...
... The need for equity and fairness is a recurring theme in the climate regime. Article 3.1 of the UNFCCC begins with the temporal principle of generational equity. It states that: “The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind, on the bas ...
Th1 Ch4 Weblinks - Dynamic Learning
... http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/13/weather-view-photos-readers-aroundworld ...
... http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/13/weather-view-photos-readers-aroundworld ...
Detection
... internal variability are an adequate representation (i.e. that natural forcing has had little net impact on this diagnostic). Observed residual variability is consistent with this assumption in all but one case (ECHAM3, indicated by the asterisk). We are obliged to make this assumption to include mo ...
... internal variability are an adequate representation (i.e. that natural forcing has had little net impact on this diagnostic). Observed residual variability is consistent with this assumption in all but one case (ECHAM3, indicated by the asterisk). We are obliged to make this assumption to include mo ...
Primary, secondary and tertiary effects of eco
... motivate intense preventive activity. Climate change will also contribute to our grossly unequal global food production and distribution.56e61 The most authoritative prediction of sea level rise by 2100 is now at least 1 m, far ...
... motivate intense preventive activity. Climate change will also contribute to our grossly unequal global food production and distribution.56e61 The most authoritative prediction of sea level rise by 2100 is now at least 1 m, far ...
PDF
... suffer most from flooding mainly concentrate in Midwest and Northeast US. Figure 2 contains two sets of trend plots that show damages since 1980s’. On the top, the frequency of damage due to flooding is plotted. It’s worth to note that a significant jump occurred between year 1992 and 1993. Possibly ...
... suffer most from flooding mainly concentrate in Midwest and Northeast US. Figure 2 contains two sets of trend plots that show damages since 1980s’. On the top, the frequency of damage due to flooding is plotted. It’s worth to note that a significant jump occurred between year 1992 and 1993. Possibly ...
Improving Livelihoods in Semi-arid Regions of Africa Through
... efficiency of these actions, it is important that they are based on accurate spatiotemporal impact diagnosis, and supported by a greater public understanding of these strategies and individual roles. Unfortunately significant gaps of knowledge exist on the most appropriate interventions to use. Many a ...
... efficiency of these actions, it is important that they are based on accurate spatiotemporal impact diagnosis, and supported by a greater public understanding of these strategies and individual roles. Unfortunately significant gaps of knowledge exist on the most appropriate interventions to use. Many a ...
MD/DC Metro Area - GAIA - The Johns Hopkins University Applied
... Alpana Kaushiva ([email protected]), Shadrian Strong, Steven Babin, & Larry Paxton The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States ...
... Alpana Kaushiva ([email protected]), Shadrian Strong, Steven Babin, & Larry Paxton The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States ...
Fuelling America`s Climatic Apocalypse
... When President Bush walked away from the Kyoto Protocol, the polls in the United States indicated that both the majority of Congress and the public supported this move. While many thought “it would be good to do something about global warming,” most also thought the response should not entail “chang ...
... When President Bush walked away from the Kyoto Protocol, the polls in the United States indicated that both the majority of Congress and the public supported this move. While many thought “it would be good to do something about global warming,” most also thought the response should not entail “chang ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES UNCERTAINTY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
... rates for population growth (gJL (0), and δJL in A.5). To calibrate these parameters, we rely on the UN World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision Population Database, which contains country-level population forecasts in five-year intervals up until 2050 in the form of three different scenarios: ...
... rates for population growth (gJL (0), and δJL in A.5). To calibrate these parameters, we rely on the UN World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision Population Database, which contains country-level population forecasts in five-year intervals up until 2050 in the form of three different scenarios: ...
annex i - Covenant of Mayors
... international community to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”; the SDG11 requires to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” and the SDG13 requires to "take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"; The ...
... international community to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”; the SDG11 requires to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” and the SDG13 requires to "take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"; The ...
Wildlife - Province of British Columbia
... plasticity by modifying their behaviour, such as breeding earlier to match food availability. As well, they may be able to genetically adapt, through microevolution selection, if the rate of climate change is slow enough to allow them to become better adapted to novel conditions. Studies of the Nort ...
... plasticity by modifying their behaviour, such as breeding earlier to match food availability. As well, they may be able to genetically adapt, through microevolution selection, if the rate of climate change is slow enough to allow them to become better adapted to novel conditions. Studies of the Nort ...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND VECTOR BORNE DISEASES
... experience any change in TWs when determined based on temperature alone. But TWs based on T and RH show reduced intensity but increase in months of transmission. • East coastal areas are projected to experience reduction in number of months open for transmission (but may not). ...
... experience any change in TWs when determined based on temperature alone. But TWs based on T and RH show reduced intensity but increase in months of transmission. • East coastal areas are projected to experience reduction in number of months open for transmission (but may not). ...
Link to PDF-file
... hand, for high degree of risk aversion or strong concerns about fat-tailed risk the price of carbon today would be higher. Estimated optimal carbon price is quite low with normal discount rate, but catastrophes justify a much higher price without reducing the discount rate (van der Ploeg, 2014). It ...
... hand, for high degree of risk aversion or strong concerns about fat-tailed risk the price of carbon today would be higher. Estimated optimal carbon price is quite low with normal discount rate, but catastrophes justify a much higher price without reducing the discount rate (van der Ploeg, 2014). It ...
Ecosystems
... The legislative & policy framework Global The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up in 1988 to assess and summarise the scientific, technical, and socio-economic information and research that relates to human induced climate change, including options for mitigation and adaptati ...
... The legislative & policy framework Global The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up in 1988 to assess and summarise the scientific, technical, and socio-economic information and research that relates to human induced climate change, including options for mitigation and adaptati ...
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.""