Report of Inter Experts on Global Change
... extreme weather events like floods and drought, and stressed the need to come up with reliable forecasts for these events. He urged the workshop participants to come up with project proposals that would lead to the formulation of sound policies for mitigation and adaptation. Dr Nyanganyura also disc ...
... extreme weather events like floods and drought, and stressed the need to come up with reliable forecasts for these events. He urged the workshop participants to come up with project proposals that would lead to the formulation of sound policies for mitigation and adaptation. Dr Nyanganyura also disc ...
Climate change effects on human health
... 60th centile of the all-year temperature distribution. This threshold broadly corresponds to the highest temperature value in the four coldest months of the year (December–March), excluding outliers. The 60th centile for London is 13.2°C, and for the North East it is 10.9°C. As cold impacts can be d ...
... 60th centile of the all-year temperature distribution. This threshold broadly corresponds to the highest temperature value in the four coldest months of the year (December–March), excluding outliers. The 60th centile for London is 13.2°C, and for the North East it is 10.9°C. As cold impacts can be d ...
... of Sf ranged between 0 (all rain) and 100% (all snow). We acknowledge the limitation of an empirically derived SFE based on a temperature threshold alone, due primarily to the spatiotemporal variation and sensitivity of the temperature (i.e. TR and TS) for rain to snow transition. For example, based ...
Climate Change and Small Island Developing States
... islands’ inhabitability. Oceanic absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide is leading to ocean acidification (Caldeira and Wickett, 2003; Royal Society, 2005) which is likely to harm coral reefs and to have detrimental effects on coral islands, including shingle beaches. These impacts are not well st ...
... islands’ inhabitability. Oceanic absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide is leading to ocean acidification (Caldeira and Wickett, 2003; Royal Society, 2005) which is likely to harm coral reefs and to have detrimental effects on coral islands, including shingle beaches. These impacts are not well st ...
3.1. Greenhouse gases and climate change
... 3.1. Greenhouse gases and climate change Global and European annual mean air temperatures have increased by 0.3-0.6°C since 1900. 1998 was globally the warmest year on record. There is augmenting evidence that emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs – mainly carbon dioxide (CO2)) are causing air tempera ...
... 3.1. Greenhouse gases and climate change Global and European annual mean air temperatures have increased by 0.3-0.6°C since 1900. 1998 was globally the warmest year on record. There is augmenting evidence that emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs – mainly carbon dioxide (CO2)) are causing air tempera ...
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... The buildup of emissions over time is assumed to cause changes in climate leading to reduced agricultural productivity. As a benchmark, we consider the case where agricultural output per worker falls by the same proportion in both countries, say by 10 percent. In response to the decline in agricultu ...
... The buildup of emissions over time is assumed to cause changes in climate leading to reduced agricultural productivity. As a benchmark, we consider the case where agricultural output per worker falls by the same proportion in both countries, say by 10 percent. In response to the decline in agricultu ...
Here - Pole to Pole campaign
... large amounts of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are coal, oil and natural gas. These are actually fossilized remains of animals and plants and they contain a large amount of CO2. We are using these fuels as an energy source. Coal gets burned in power plants to generate electricity. Oil is turned into pe ...
... large amounts of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are coal, oil and natural gas. These are actually fossilized remains of animals and plants and they contain a large amount of CO2. We are using these fuels as an energy source. Coal gets burned in power plants to generate electricity. Oil is turned into pe ...
A Framework for the Development of New Socio
... Concurrently, the climate impacts community has used the outputs from General Circulation Models (GCMs) as the raw material for climate scenarios, from which studies of potential impacts have been derived. Such climate scenarios may be taken directly from GCMs, or may be downscaled through a wide va ...
... Concurrently, the climate impacts community has used the outputs from General Circulation Models (GCMs) as the raw material for climate scenarios, from which studies of potential impacts have been derived. Such climate scenarios may be taken directly from GCMs, or may be downscaled through a wide va ...
Conference Proceeding
... changes and impacts in the region. Manifestations of climate variability and change included water resources and biophysical systems. The session emphasised the need to design adaptations aimed at enhancing resilience towards the present and future climatic regimes. The second session focused on the ...
... changes and impacts in the region. Manifestations of climate variability and change included water resources and biophysical systems. The session emphasised the need to design adaptations aimed at enhancing resilience towards the present and future climatic regimes. The second session focused on the ...
The costs of adaptation: Working Paper 7 (260 kB) (opens in new window)
... 2. The evidence from sector and country studies Adaptation cost research started in the 1990s as part of early attempts to estimate the economic costs of climate change (Smith and Tirpak 1989, Cline 1992, Nordhaus 1994, Fankhauser 1995, Pearce et al 1995 and Tol 1995. A recent survey is Tol 2005). T ...
... 2. The evidence from sector and country studies Adaptation cost research started in the 1990s as part of early attempts to estimate the economic costs of climate change (Smith and Tirpak 1989, Cline 1992, Nordhaus 1994, Fankhauser 1995, Pearce et al 1995 and Tol 1995. A recent survey is Tol 2005). T ...
Educating for optimism and hope in troubled times
... down their points of origin. These included various websites and lobbying groups, set up to look like grassroots citizens organisations or academic bodies, which had been funded by ExxonMobil. What such groups tend to do, he found, is find a contradictory study on one particular aspect of climate c ...
... down their points of origin. These included various websites and lobbying groups, set up to look like grassroots citizens organisations or academic bodies, which had been funded by ExxonMobil. What such groups tend to do, he found, is find a contradictory study on one particular aspect of climate c ...
Plants and climate change: complexities and
... America (ESA) meeting in Sacramento, California, in August 2014. In this special issue, we bring together studies presented at ESA 2014 with additional manuscripts submitted by researchers from around the globe. We highlight ways in which increased ability to interrogate long-term data sets with sop ...
... America (ESA) meeting in Sacramento, California, in August 2014. In this special issue, we bring together studies presented at ESA 2014 with additional manuscripts submitted by researchers from around the globe. We highlight ways in which increased ability to interrogate long-term data sets with sop ...
Climate Leadership report to minister executive summary
... We also heard from those who were bullish on technology and its ability to solve Alberta’s greenhouse gas challenges. These interventions were as diverse as they were frequent, from large companies looking to deploy proven technologies more rapidly in Alberta all the way to individual entrepreneurs ...
... We also heard from those who were bullish on technology and its ability to solve Alberta’s greenhouse gas challenges. These interventions were as diverse as they were frequent, from large companies looking to deploy proven technologies more rapidly in Alberta all the way to individual entrepreneurs ...
Statistical downscaling of daily mean temperature, pan evaporation
... extreme events could be more intense, and autumn might be the most distinct season among all the changes. ...
... extreme events could be more intense, and autumn might be the most distinct season among all the changes. ...
A district level assessment of vulnerability of
... mean and/or variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer’. Although climate change is global in its occurrence and consequences, it is developing countries like India, that face more adverse consequences. Globally, climate change is seen as a f ...
... mean and/or variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer’. Although climate change is global in its occurrence and consequences, it is developing countries like India, that face more adverse consequences. Globally, climate change is seen as a f ...
Climate Change Riparian Restoration
... anthropogenic climate change. Mitigation describes actions for reducing ...
... anthropogenic climate change. Mitigation describes actions for reducing ...
UK Legislation RTFO (1)
... Fudging climate justice: EU and UK legislation for Agro-biofuels and the emerging campaign to stop biofuel targets ...
... Fudging climate justice: EU and UK legislation for Agro-biofuels and the emerging campaign to stop biofuel targets ...
Why Climate Change Makes Riparian Restoration More Important than Ever:
... anthropogenic climate change. Mitigation describes actions for reducing ...
... anthropogenic climate change. Mitigation describes actions for reducing ...
Successful adaptation to climate change across scales
... Adaptations are not isolated from other decisions, but occur in the context of demographic, cultural and economic change as well as transformations in information technologies, global governance, social conventions and the globalising flows of capital and (to a lesser extent) labour (see O’Brien and ...
... Adaptations are not isolated from other decisions, but occur in the context of demographic, cultural and economic change as well as transformations in information technologies, global governance, social conventions and the globalising flows of capital and (to a lesser extent) labour (see O’Brien and ...
Rapid climate change and no-analog vegetation in lowland Central
... 2006; Wang and Lee, 2007). Weakening (strengthening) of AMOC would be expected to reduce (expand) the geographic extent of the AWP, decreasing (increasing) precipitation and temperature regimes in the Central American lowlands and Caribbean (Hodell et al., 2008). An understanding of the past linkage ...
... 2006; Wang and Lee, 2007). Weakening (strengthening) of AMOC would be expected to reduce (expand) the geographic extent of the AWP, decreasing (increasing) precipitation and temperature regimes in the Central American lowlands and Caribbean (Hodell et al., 2008). An understanding of the past linkage ...
... atmosphere. Even with existing low tech solution such as truck flaps, the company can decrease CO2 emissions by about 40 tons. Train routes exist from the towns of all nine food suppliers to Glen Carbon, IL. , and use of train can significantly decrease CO2 emissions by 490 tons or 89 percent annual ...
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... Spatial autocorrelation. Spatial autocorrelation is an important econometric concern when applying contiguous geographic data for empirical analysis. The cost of not correcting for spatial dependence is inefficient (asymptotically unbiased) estimates if the error structure is correlated over space; ...
... Spatial autocorrelation. Spatial autocorrelation is an important econometric concern when applying contiguous geographic data for empirical analysis. The cost of not correcting for spatial dependence is inefficient (asymptotically unbiased) estimates if the error structure is correlated over space; ...
Climate Narratives: What is Modern about Traditional Ecological
... significant role in this. It is the stories people tell that connect them and others, including non-human parts of the environment, into a coherent whole, and provide meaning. Through these stories, people make sense of the whole and discover how the world fits together. Hence, narratives have been ...
... significant role in this. It is the stories people tell that connect them and others, including non-human parts of the environment, into a coherent whole, and provide meaning. Through these stories, people make sense of the whole and discover how the world fits together. Hence, narratives have been ...
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.