United Nations Environmental Programme The United Nations
... 1. Climate Change As we move further into 2014, it is more critical than ever for countries to reach a consensus on steps toward the Cancun Agreements of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These agreements have set 2100 as the goal year for climate initiatives. This ...
... 1. Climate Change As we move further into 2014, it is more critical than ever for countries to reach a consensus on steps toward the Cancun Agreements of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These agreements have set 2100 as the goal year for climate initiatives. This ...
Summary_of_extremes_SIO_Sasha
... summertime floods will diminish in both frequency and intensity. Drought, as expressed in Colorado River flow, is projected to become more frequent, more intense and longer-lasting, resulting in water deficits not seen during the instrumental record. This is a highconfidence result. The Southern 2/3 ...
... summertime floods will diminish in both frequency and intensity. Drought, as expressed in Colorado River flow, is projected to become more frequent, more intense and longer-lasting, resulting in water deficits not seen during the instrumental record. This is a highconfidence result. The Southern 2/3 ...
Chapter 19 Climate Change and Ozone Depletion
... Melting of Alaska’s Muir Glacier between 1948 and 2004 The Big Melt: Some of the Floating Sea Ice in the Arctic Sea Science Focus: How Valid Are IPCC Conclusions? 2500 scientists working for over two decades to reach consensus on climate change data and likely impact • Unanimity impossible to achiev ...
... Melting of Alaska’s Muir Glacier between 1948 and 2004 The Big Melt: Some of the Floating Sea Ice in the Arctic Sea Science Focus: How Valid Are IPCC Conclusions? 2500 scientists working for over two decades to reach consensus on climate change data and likely impact • Unanimity impossible to achiev ...
Session 5 – Unpicking the SDGs – part 2
... • Development goals that focus on the root causes of sustainability challenges bring people together; they also minimise the risk that goals will interfere with each other. But highlighting a single environmental driving factor such as climate change can be counterproductive. • Climate change action ...
... • Development goals that focus on the root causes of sustainability challenges bring people together; they also minimise the risk that goals will interfere with each other. But highlighting a single environmental driving factor such as climate change can be counterproductive. • Climate change action ...
II. Current Stresses and Future Climate Impacts on Key Economic
... Regions that now contain soils with intermittent permafrost may become permafrost free. This could affect the fragile water balance in areas where precipitation is low. If the temperature rise is extreme, desertification could occur. There is already increasing erosion and loss of organic materials ...
... Regions that now contain soils with intermittent permafrost may become permafrost free. This could affect the fragile water balance in areas where precipitation is low. If the temperature rise is extreme, desertification could occur. There is already increasing erosion and loss of organic materials ...
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... As part of a broader struggle to achieve climate justice, reparations for climate debt and a profound global transformation - we demand from all governments that if international negotiations are to mean anything, they must deliver outcomes that will: Prevent catastrophic climate change and ensure j ...
... As part of a broader struggle to achieve climate justice, reparations for climate debt and a profound global transformation - we demand from all governments that if international negotiations are to mean anything, they must deliver outcomes that will: Prevent catastrophic climate change and ensure j ...
PPT 560 KB - START - SysTem for Analysis Research and Training
... framework to provide the initial guidelines for AR4. This framework re-stated the need to: 1st.- ensure the high quality of IPCC products 2nd.- safeguard the reputation of the IPCC as an intergovernmental body that produces policy-relevant but not policy-prescriptive neither policy driven assessment ...
... framework to provide the initial guidelines for AR4. This framework re-stated the need to: 1st.- ensure the high quality of IPCC products 2nd.- safeguard the reputation of the IPCC as an intergovernmental body that produces policy-relevant but not policy-prescriptive neither policy driven assessment ...
QUESTIONS FOR THE RECORD The Honorable Lamar Smith (R-TX)
... affecting water resources. While these conclusions are based on sound physical meteorology, many of these effects are yet to be quantified. b. Cloud-mediated effects of aerosol Aerosols act mostly as cloud-drop condensation nuclei (CCN), and some of them as ice nuclei (IN), both of which change clou ...
... affecting water resources. While these conclusions are based on sound physical meteorology, many of these effects are yet to be quantified. b. Cloud-mediated effects of aerosol Aerosols act mostly as cloud-drop condensation nuclei (CCN), and some of them as ice nuclei (IN), both of which change clou ...
traditional funding Establish Climate Change (and DRR) Fund
... • The traditional knowledge and practices are inadequate to respond to climate change and its impacts • Need of Early Warning System as one of the strategies to strengthen the capacity of the communities for preparedness and response climate uncertainties ...
... • The traditional knowledge and practices are inadequate to respond to climate change and its impacts • Need of Early Warning System as one of the strategies to strengthen the capacity of the communities for preparedness and response climate uncertainties ...
Sass_BakerInstFeb10
... greenhouse gases and contribute to global warming. The American fossil fuel industry is immensely profitable, politically influential and a large component of the portfolios of many individuals and companies. The American free market approach to economy does not consider the external costs of climat ...
... greenhouse gases and contribute to global warming. The American fossil fuel industry is immensely profitable, politically influential and a large component of the portfolios of many individuals and companies. The American free market approach to economy does not consider the external costs of climat ...
Climate Change Impacts in the Context of Economic Globalization
... improve our understanding of socioeconomic perspectives on climate impacts and policies, and help in identifying and targeting adaptation ...
... improve our understanding of socioeconomic perspectives on climate impacts and policies, and help in identifying and targeting adaptation ...
1 Contrasting Population Responses: Winners and Losers in
... US. PRBO Conservation Science (formerly Point Reyes Bird Observatory) has a well established research program studying the seabirds of the Farallon Islands. For eight of the 12 breeding seabird species long-term (20-35 year) estimates for reproductive success and population abundance are available. ...
... US. PRBO Conservation Science (formerly Point Reyes Bird Observatory) has a well established research program studying the seabirds of the Farallon Islands. For eight of the 12 breeding seabird species long-term (20-35 year) estimates for reproductive success and population abundance are available. ...
Effects of global warming on global water and food
... • Climate change is happening, and will affect food and water supplies • The consequences will vary with the amount of change, and with the vulnerability of the community • Mitigation will not prevent impacts in the short-term – we need to start adapting now ...
... • Climate change is happening, and will affect food and water supplies • The consequences will vary with the amount of change, and with the vulnerability of the community • Mitigation will not prevent impacts in the short-term – we need to start adapting now ...
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... Thank you very much for the kind introduction, and thank you very much for the invitation. It is an honor to introduce this joint SFER/AES workshop on “the challenges for European Agriculture in the context of climate change”; and it is a pleasure to do this at home in AgroParisTech headquarters. Th ...
... Thank you very much for the kind introduction, and thank you very much for the invitation. It is an honor to introduce this joint SFER/AES workshop on “the challenges for European Agriculture in the context of climate change”; and it is a pleasure to do this at home in AgroParisTech headquarters. Th ...
The Futile Quest for Climate Control
... Regrettably, not all scientists within the climate community have maintained the dispassionate, disinterested approach that is necessary for scientific research. The most widely known piece of defective climate science is the famous 1998 hockey-stick paper in Nature by Mann, Bradley and Hughes, whi ...
... Regrettably, not all scientists within the climate community have maintained the dispassionate, disinterested approach that is necessary for scientific research. The most widely known piece of defective climate science is the famous 1998 hockey-stick paper in Nature by Mann, Bradley and Hughes, whi ...
Climate mitigation and climate adaptation
... Human made changes to the climate system is a global environmental problem that challenges humanity to respond like no problem before it. It’s a ‘super wicked’ problem with clear need for strategic research investments in the fields of mitigation and effective adaptation that are based on robust cro ...
... Human made changes to the climate system is a global environmental problem that challenges humanity to respond like no problem before it. It’s a ‘super wicked’ problem with clear need for strategic research investments in the fields of mitigation and effective adaptation that are based on robust cro ...
BUILDING MOMENTUM FOR CANCUN The Necessity of a Global
... Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished audience, On the global scene, conferences have been held to inform, complement and make contributions to successful climate change negotiations framed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) tracks. Global attention is directed to ...
... Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished audience, On the global scene, conferences have been held to inform, complement and make contributions to successful climate change negotiations framed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) tracks. Global attention is directed to ...
The Parallel Climate Model - Computational Information Systems
... University of Texas, Austin Scripps Oceanographic Institute DOE Program on Climate Diagnostics and Intercomparison U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory National Energy Research Supercomputer Center Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Others ...
... University of Texas, Austin Scripps Oceanographic Institute DOE Program on Climate Diagnostics and Intercomparison U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory National Energy Research Supercomputer Center Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Others ...
The Futile Quest for Climate Control
... governments panic because they are afraid the issue will get complicated, and undermine the sense of certainty that justifies their policy choices. So they label alternative views ‘marginal’ and those who hold them ‘dissidents’.” The basic flaw that was incorporated into IPCC methodology from the be ...
... governments panic because they are afraid the issue will get complicated, and undermine the sense of certainty that justifies their policy choices. So they label alternative views ‘marginal’ and those who hold them ‘dissidents’.” The basic flaw that was incorporated into IPCC methodology from the be ...
Does cold weather disprove global warming?
... predicted in the mountains. Such dramatic falls in temperatures provide superficial evidence for those who doubt that the world is threatened by climate change." (Mail Online) Since the mid 1970s, global temperatures have been warming at around 0.2°C per decade. However, weather imposes it's own dra ...
... predicted in the mountains. Such dramatic falls in temperatures provide superficial evidence for those who doubt that the world is threatened by climate change." (Mail Online) Since the mid 1970s, global temperatures have been warming at around 0.2°C per decade. However, weather imposes it's own dra ...
How does climate change affect the landscape?
... Investigation Question: How does climate change affect ocean currents? Claims: Climate change is directly related to the burning of fossil fuels that create greenhouse gases. The melting of glaciers effect the direction of ocean currents. A change in ocean currents can affect storms over land. Just ...
... Investigation Question: How does climate change affect ocean currents? Claims: Climate change is directly related to the burning of fossil fuels that create greenhouse gases. The melting of glaciers effect the direction of ocean currents. A change in ocean currents can affect storms over land. Just ...
Population and climate interactions: demographic perspective.
... economic growth and public health governance. The WHO Report on Climate Change and Human Health explicitly states: “In general, countries with more ‘human capital’ or knowledge have greater adaptive capacity. Illiteracy increases a population’s vulnerability to many problems.” In addition to mortali ...
... economic growth and public health governance. The WHO Report on Climate Change and Human Health explicitly states: “In general, countries with more ‘human capital’ or knowledge have greater adaptive capacity. Illiteracy increases a population’s vulnerability to many problems.” In addition to mortali ...
The Economics of Climate Change Nicholas Stern World Bank
... reducing deforestation is highly cost-effective, and significant in reducing emissions • Large-scale pilot schemes could help explore alternative approaches to provide effective international support ...
... reducing deforestation is highly cost-effective, and significant in reducing emissions • Large-scale pilot schemes could help explore alternative approaches to provide effective international support ...
Peel Climate Change Strategy
... and diminishing natural resources will be observed. It’s where people live, work and play. Peel Region Official Plan Review: Sustainability – Background Paper, 2008 ...
... and diminishing natural resources will be observed. It’s where people live, work and play. Peel Region Official Plan Review: Sustainability – Background Paper, 2008 ...
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.""