Quantifying the relative contribution of the climate and direct human
... equations are used, and both of them are single-parameter Budyko-type curves, as shown in Table 1. 2.2. Decomposition Method for Separating the Climate and Direct Human Impacts on MAS Change [9] In this paper, the direct human impact represents the change of precipitation partitioning given climate ...
... equations are used, and both of them are single-parameter Budyko-type curves, as shown in Table 1. 2.2. Decomposition Method for Separating the Climate and Direct Human Impacts on MAS Change [9] In this paper, the direct human impact represents the change of precipitation partitioning given climate ...
senate rules committee - senate floor analysis
... a) Determine the 1990 statewide GHG emissions level and approve a statewide GHG emissions limit that is equivalent to that level, to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt GHG emissions reductions measures by regulation to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and costeffective reductions in GHG e ...
... a) Determine the 1990 statewide GHG emissions level and approve a statewide GHG emissions limit that is equivalent to that level, to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt GHG emissions reductions measures by regulation to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and costeffective reductions in GHG e ...
Sea Level Rise in BC: mobilizing science into action
... staff were able to better understand the implications and possible responses to projected sea level rise impacts and to communicate the results to elected officials and community members. 2. Clear and specific guidance for decision-making eliminated uncertainty about what to plan for. The developmen ...
... staff were able to better understand the implications and possible responses to projected sea level rise impacts and to communicate the results to elected officials and community members. 2. Clear and specific guidance for decision-making eliminated uncertainty about what to plan for. The developmen ...
Sierra Leone Climate Action Report
... Sierra Leone states that this target will only be achieved with the availability of international support that will come in the form of finance, investment, technology development and transfer, and capacity building. This would require substantial donor support, estimated at approximately $900 milli ...
... Sierra Leone states that this target will only be achieved with the availability of international support that will come in the form of finance, investment, technology development and transfer, and capacity building. This would require substantial donor support, estimated at approximately $900 milli ...
Climate Change - Bermuda National Trust
... in the future; it is happening all around us now, all over the world. We need to understand climate change and its effects so we can make informed decisions about how to slow it down and how we can ADAPT to the changes it brings. Climate change is caused by rising levels of certain gases, known as t ...
... in the future; it is happening all around us now, all over the world. We need to understand climate change and its effects so we can make informed decisions about how to slow it down and how we can ADAPT to the changes it brings. Climate change is caused by rising levels of certain gases, known as t ...
Summary for Policymakers
... In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. Evidence of climate-change impacts is strongest and most comprehensive for natural systems. Some impacts on human systems have also been attributed5 to climate change, with ...
... In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. Evidence of climate-change impacts is strongest and most comprehensive for natural systems. Some impacts on human systems have also been attributed5 to climate change, with ...
The Sky`s Limit - Oil Change International
... permanent and worldwide, and to stop new oil and gas development as well. Ending new fossil fuel construction would bring us much closer to staying within our carbon budgets, but it is still not enough to achieve the Paris goals. To meet them, some early closure of existing operations will be requir ...
... permanent and worldwide, and to stop new oil and gas development as well. Ending new fossil fuel construction would bring us much closer to staying within our carbon budgets, but it is still not enough to achieve the Paris goals. To meet them, some early closure of existing operations will be requir ...
Addendum to Internal Document 336
... of UKCP09 provide climatic information for three emission scenarios; low, medium and high, all decades between the 2020s and 2080s on a 25 km grid resolution8 (5 km for the weather generator, although, there is no further climate change signal other than that of the 25 km square centred on the same ...
... of UKCP09 provide climatic information for three emission scenarios; low, medium and high, all decades between the 2020s and 2080s on a 25 km grid resolution8 (5 km for the weather generator, although, there is no further climate change signal other than that of the 25 km square centred on the same ...
climate change WG II
... In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. Evidence of climate-change impacts is strongest and most comprehensive for natural systems. Some impacts on human systems have also been attributed5 to climate change, with ...
... In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. Evidence of climate-change impacts is strongest and most comprehensive for natural systems. Some impacts on human systems have also been attributed5 to climate change, with ...
Climate Change and the Chugach and Tongass National Forests
... somewhat differently, they generally agree that the region will see increases of about 2oF over the next few decades, 3-4oF in the second half of this century, and 4-7oF by late century. Where precipitation trends are discussed, it is generally agreed that both total precipitation and incidence of h ...
... somewhat differently, they generally agree that the region will see increases of about 2oF over the next few decades, 3-4oF in the second half of this century, and 4-7oF by late century. Where precipitation trends are discussed, it is generally agreed that both total precipitation and incidence of h ...
Advancing Climate Action in Queensland
... that February 2016 was the hottest month ever recorded. Indeed 14 of the 15 hottest years on record have occurred since 2001; March 2016 was the 373rd consecutive month to be warmer than the 20th century average. The fact that the planet is getting warmer is no longer a point of debate on the world ...
... that February 2016 was the hottest month ever recorded. Indeed 14 of the 15 hottest years on record have occurred since 2001; March 2016 was the 373rd consecutive month to be warmer than the 20th century average. The fact that the planet is getting warmer is no longer a point of debate on the world ...
Examining Plant Physiological Responses to Climate Change
... It is clear that long-term changes in the environment spanning millions of years of plant evolution have shaped the major physiological pathways that are present in modern plants (Edwards et al., 2010; Sage et al., 2012), and these pathways will determine the range of physiological tolerances for th ...
... It is clear that long-term changes in the environment spanning millions of years of plant evolution have shaped the major physiological pathways that are present in modern plants (Edwards et al., 2010; Sage et al., 2012), and these pathways will determine the range of physiological tolerances for th ...
Projected poleward shift of king penguins
... Seabird populations of the Southern Ocean have been responding to climate change for the last three decades and demographic models suggest that projected warming will cause dramatic population changes over the next century. Shift in species distribution is likely to be one of the major possible adap ...
... Seabird populations of the Southern Ocean have been responding to climate change for the last three decades and demographic models suggest that projected warming will cause dramatic population changes over the next century. Shift in species distribution is likely to be one of the major possible adap ...
The 2007 Eco Tourism conference held at the Pan
... The climate change campaign in Kenya needs to gain momentum. Crucial to gaining this momentum is coordination. It is therefore important to form private-public-civic sector partnerships as a way to gain momentum and to push for practical actions by all stakeholders. Within the tourism industry, Keny ...
... The climate change campaign in Kenya needs to gain momentum. Crucial to gaining this momentum is coordination. It is therefore important to form private-public-civic sector partnerships as a way to gain momentum and to push for practical actions by all stakeholders. Within the tourism industry, Keny ...
Climate change during the last 150 million years: reconstruction
... both the past 100 Ma [3,4,9,15,16] and the Phanerozoic [5–7]. This indicates a significant role of the carbon cycle on the long-term climate change. The middle to Late Cretaceous is known to have been one of the warmest periods during the Phanerozoic: the average global temperature was probably >6ºC ...
... both the past 100 Ma [3,4,9,15,16] and the Phanerozoic [5–7]. This indicates a significant role of the carbon cycle on the long-term climate change. The middle to Late Cretaceous is known to have been one of the warmest periods during the Phanerozoic: the average global temperature was probably >6ºC ...
Canadian Earth System Model CanESM2
... warms and Antarctica cools (Chylek et al., 2010) the global mean can stay unchanged while changes in polar region may become significant. Since the Arctic region is expected to experience adverse impacts of climate warming (e.g. disappearing summer sea ice, melting of the Greenland ice sheet and ass ...
... warms and Antarctica cools (Chylek et al., 2010) the global mean can stay unchanged while changes in polar region may become significant. Since the Arctic region is expected to experience adverse impacts of climate warming (e.g. disappearing summer sea ice, melting of the Greenland ice sheet and ass ...
Understanding Climate Induced Changes in Arctic Ice
... The size of the polar ice cap varies between seasons, with its greatest extent occurring in March and its smallest areal coverage in September. Scientists have been measuring the extent of the polar ice cap with NASA satellites (Fig. 2). The pictures of the Earth from remote sensing instruments on s ...
... The size of the polar ice cap varies between seasons, with its greatest extent occurring in March and its smallest areal coverage in September. Scientists have been measuring the extent of the polar ice cap with NASA satellites (Fig. 2). The pictures of the Earth from remote sensing instruments on s ...
One Million Climate Jobs - Campaign against Climate Change
... shares, property, bonds, pensions and the like. If the wealthiest one percent, and no one else, paid an annual tax of one pound for every two hundred pounds they own, that would raise £12 billion a year. This tax would be difficult to collect, but it is worth imagining. A very simple way to start on ...
... shares, property, bonds, pensions and the like. If the wealthiest one percent, and no one else, paid an annual tax of one pound for every two hundred pounds they own, that would raise £12 billion a year. This tax would be difficult to collect, but it is worth imagining. A very simple way to start on ...
MTA Adaptations to Climate Change – A Categorical Imperative1
... raising facilities, relocation or operational changes. However, it is important in this step to be more, rather than less, inclusive in providing alternative options, as feasibility criteria can change within the time span of adaptation planning. This feasibility must include time-dependent decision ...
... raising facilities, relocation or operational changes. However, it is important in this step to be more, rather than less, inclusive in providing alternative options, as feasibility criteria can change within the time span of adaptation planning. This feasibility must include time-dependent decision ...
Permafrost-and-Climate
... Vegetation Changes • Predicted climate change would significantly affect terrestrial ecosystems through both direct climatic changes (temp., precipitation & snow cover) and through changes in the permafrost distribution. ...
... Vegetation Changes • Predicted climate change would significantly affect terrestrial ecosystems through both direct climatic changes (temp., precipitation & snow cover) and through changes in the permafrost distribution. ...
Glacier variations and climate change in the central Himalaya over
... Thompson and others (2000) found that over relatively long timescales (decades to century) the trend in d18O from the Dasuopu ice core is similar to that of the Northern Hemisphere temperature history. This leads them to suggest that the d18O profiles from Himalayan ice cores might reflect long-term ...
... Thompson and others (2000) found that over relatively long timescales (decades to century) the trend in d18O from the Dasuopu ice core is similar to that of the Northern Hemisphere temperature history. This leads them to suggest that the d18O profiles from Himalayan ice cores might reflect long-term ...
Gregory et al. (2013) - American Meteorological Society
... (thus the red solid line of corrected V models in Fig. 1 meets the black line of the non-V models at 2000). Solar forcing, also included in the V models, is estimated to have increased over this period (Forster et al. 2007), which will have reduced the size of the correction. Making the correction c ...
... (thus the red solid line of corrected V models in Fig. 1 meets the black line of the non-V models at 2000). Solar forcing, also included in the V models, is estimated to have increased over this period (Forster et al. 2007), which will have reduced the size of the correction. Making the correction c ...
Twentieth-Century Global-Mean Sea Level Rise: Is the Whole
... (thus the red solid line of corrected V models in Fig. 1 meets the black line of the non-V models at 2000). Solar forcing, also included in the V models, is estimated to have increased over this period (Forster et al. 2007), which will have reduced the size of the correction. Making the correction c ...
... (thus the red solid line of corrected V models in Fig. 1 meets the black line of the non-V models at 2000). Solar forcing, also included in the V models, is estimated to have increased over this period (Forster et al. 2007), which will have reduced the size of the correction. Making the correction c ...
2015 - RSA Group
... underwriting prototypes, RSA limits exposure to certain risks by offering restricted cover. However, we will still underwrite the project to a certain extent, e.g. weather damage. RSA can then build its expertise over time as it insures these projects. In December 2014, we presented at the UK Offsho ...
... underwriting prototypes, RSA limits exposure to certain risks by offering restricted cover. However, we will still underwrite the project to a certain extent, e.g. weather damage. RSA can then build its expertise over time as it insures these projects. In December 2014, we presented at the UK Offsho ...
Solar radiation management
Solar radiation management (SRM) projects (proposed and theoretical) are a type of climate engineering which seek to reflect sunlight and thus reduce global warming. Proposed examples include the creation of stratospheric sulfate aerosols. They would not reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and thus do not address problems such as ocean acidification caused by excess carbon dioxide (CO2). Their principal advantages as an approach to climate engineering is the speed with which they can be deployed and become fully active, as well as their potential low financial cost. By comparison, other climate engineering techniques based on greenhouse gas remediation, such as ocean iron fertilization, need to sequester the anthropogenic carbon excess before any reversal of global warming would occur. Solar radiation management projects can therefore be used as a climate engineering ""quick fix"" while levels of greenhouse gases can be brought under control by greenhouse gas remediation techniques.