An estimate of equilibrium sensitivity of global terrestrial carbon
... equilibrium uptakes from these two factors using multicentury simulations for an idealized scenario (instantaneous doubling atmospheric CO2 with no dynamic change in vegetation). This bounding exercise in this study reveals the limited storage capacity of the terrestrial biosphere. In addition, prev ...
... equilibrium uptakes from these two factors using multicentury simulations for an idealized scenario (instantaneous doubling atmospheric CO2 with no dynamic change in vegetation). This bounding exercise in this study reveals the limited storage capacity of the terrestrial biosphere. In addition, prev ...
Busting the Carbon Budget: Low Carbon Economy Index.
... would face significant global warming which will have serious and far reaching implications. This year is the fifth anniversary of our LCEI, and it has coincided with the September release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the most comprehensive review of climate science in six years. Histo ...
... would face significant global warming which will have serious and far reaching implications. This year is the fifth anniversary of our LCEI, and it has coincided with the September release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the most comprehensive review of climate science in six years. Histo ...
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and
... resiliency and management of public infrastructure, as well as stress natural shorelines and Sarasota Bay. Storm surge associated with extreme storms and seasonally-high “King Tides” poses an immediate and credible threat to our community as tides surge increasingly higher and extend further inland. ...
... resiliency and management of public infrastructure, as well as stress natural shorelines and Sarasota Bay. Storm surge associated with extreme storms and seasonally-high “King Tides” poses an immediate and credible threat to our community as tides surge increasingly higher and extend further inland. ...
implication of climate change to human rights
... likely to increase as a result of climate change6 and patterns of rainfall are likely to change globally, with both heavy precipitation and drought becoming more frequent events. Recent scientific evidence issued by leading scientists, including an IPCC author, issued subsequent to the 2007 IPCC rep ...
... likely to increase as a result of climate change6 and patterns of rainfall are likely to change globally, with both heavy precipitation and drought becoming more frequent events. Recent scientific evidence issued by leading scientists, including an IPCC author, issued subsequent to the 2007 IPCC rep ...
PDF - AMS Journals - American Meteorological Society
... that this term should be used cautiously and with explicit definition in order to avoid ...
... that this term should be used cautiously and with explicit definition in order to avoid ...
Kein Folientitel
... Project size: The project should generate an expected quantity of at least 500,000 tonnes of ERUs up to and including 2012. We accept bundled smaller scale projects. There are no upper limits to the project size. We could consider smaller projects based on other merits such as sustainability advanta ...
... Project size: The project should generate an expected quantity of at least 500,000 tonnes of ERUs up to and including 2012. We accept bundled smaller scale projects. There are no upper limits to the project size. We could consider smaller projects based on other merits such as sustainability advanta ...
Climate Change and Insecurity in the Global South
... Furthermore, over the last five years or so8, the security policy community have come to regard climate change as part of their brief, as have civil society groups that work on defence, conflict analysis and peacebuilding. Whilst this paper is offered in the hope that the Western defence community m ...
... Furthermore, over the last five years or so8, the security policy community have come to regard climate change as part of their brief, as have civil society groups that work on defence, conflict analysis and peacebuilding. Whilst this paper is offered in the hope that the Western defence community m ...
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... emphases. Given the characteristics of climate change (slow, highly uncertain, small relative to climate variability, spatially heterogeneous), the value of information from research and extension to guide farmers’ decision making about adaptation is likely to be low for decisions about farming prac ...
... emphases. Given the characteristics of climate change (slow, highly uncertain, small relative to climate variability, spatially heterogeneous), the value of information from research and extension to guide farmers’ decision making about adaptation is likely to be low for decisions about farming prac ...
Climate Change and Hazards in San Diego
... Timeframes: The projections for this analysis span from the current year until 2100 with summary statistics for conditions for the decades around 2030, 2050, and 2085. Averages from just one year are misleading as that year could be particularly cool or warm or wet or dry (just as climate varies fr ...
... Timeframes: The projections for this analysis span from the current year until 2100 with summary statistics for conditions for the decades around 2030, 2050, and 2085. Averages from just one year are misleading as that year could be particularly cool or warm or wet or dry (just as climate varies fr ...
A Kantian approach to sustainable development indicators for
... climate change indicator should ideally also tell the public to what extent their government contributed to solve the problem. Today, several developed countries have their own separate indicators for climate change (UNECE, 2009). The climate change indicators can be grouped into two categories. Th ...
... climate change indicator should ideally also tell the public to what extent their government contributed to solve the problem. Today, several developed countries have their own separate indicators for climate change (UNECE, 2009). The climate change indicators can be grouped into two categories. Th ...
Changing weather and climate in Northern Ghana
... devastating effects (Armah 2010). Floods in Northern Ghana in August–September 2007, for example, resulted in a death toll of 20 people, loss of livestock, farmlands, homes, and other infrastructure (Armah 2010). Annual rainfall amounts in West Africa generally decreased during the latter decades of ...
... devastating effects (Armah 2010). Floods in Northern Ghana in August–September 2007, for example, resulted in a death toll of 20 people, loss of livestock, farmlands, homes, and other infrastructure (Armah 2010). Annual rainfall amounts in West Africa generally decreased during the latter decades of ...
Climate Change Impact on Agricultural Water Resources Variability
... but small seasonal changes with an annual average of 20◦ C. The mean annual relative humidity (1961–2004) at Bahr Dar meteorological station is 0.65. Lake Tana occupies a wide depression in the Ethiopian plateau. The lake is shallow, oligotrophic, and freshwater, with weak seasonal stratification (W ...
... but small seasonal changes with an annual average of 20◦ C. The mean annual relative humidity (1961–2004) at Bahr Dar meteorological station is 0.65. Lake Tana occupies a wide depression in the Ethiopian plateau. The lake is shallow, oligotrophic, and freshwater, with weak seasonal stratification (W ...
How much risk ought we to take? Exploring the possibilities of
... well-being, equality and risk, Peterson's account might leave us unsatisfied. As we said at the beginning of this paper, we want to explore the possibility of presenting a risk-sensitive consequentialism which can also provide at least some ethical guidance for decision-makers. This is not to say th ...
... well-being, equality and risk, Peterson's account might leave us unsatisfied. As we said at the beginning of this paper, we want to explore the possibility of presenting a risk-sensitive consequentialism which can also provide at least some ethical guidance for decision-makers. This is not to say th ...
Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic
... The Eocene is thought to be the warmest epoch of the Cenozoic, although climate data for this period are sparse, especially in Africa. Warm deep ocean temperatures (>10°C) are recorded in benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes during the early Eocene climatic optimum (54–50 Ma; figure 4.1). Although ...
... The Eocene is thought to be the warmest epoch of the Cenozoic, although climate data for this period are sparse, especially in Africa. Warm deep ocean temperatures (>10°C) are recorded in benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes during the early Eocene climatic optimum (54–50 Ma; figure 4.1). Although ...
Climate Change Policy Jason Shogren and Michael Toman •
... even harder to come by. The rise in sea level as a result of polar ice melting, for instance, is perhaps the best understood, and the current predicted range of change is still broad. For example, scenarios presented by the IPCC (1996a) indicate possible increases in sea level of less than 20 cm to ...
... even harder to come by. The rise in sea level as a result of polar ice melting, for instance, is perhaps the best understood, and the current predicted range of change is still broad. For example, scenarios presented by the IPCC (1996a) indicate possible increases in sea level of less than 20 cm to ...
Working Paper 136 - Dietz and Matei 2013 revised October 2014 (opens in new window)
... resolve? It contains normative and positive elements. There is a clear sense in which normative differences may never be completely eliminated. Positive ‘uncertainties’ could in principle be eliminated by collecting more empirical data from, for instance, market behaviour, questionnaire surveys or l ...
... resolve? It contains normative and positive elements. There is a clear sense in which normative differences may never be completely eliminated. Positive ‘uncertainties’ could in principle be eliminated by collecting more empirical data from, for instance, market behaviour, questionnaire surveys or l ...
Reducing Human Vulnerability
... difficult. Well-managed landscapes can modulate flood waters. Intact coastal wetlands can buffer against storm damage. But management of natural resources will face a rapidly changing climate with more extreme events and with ecosystems under increasing threats from stresses other than climate (such ...
... difficult. Well-managed landscapes can modulate flood waters. Intact coastal wetlands can buffer against storm damage. But management of natural resources will face a rapidly changing climate with more extreme events and with ecosystems under increasing threats from stresses other than climate (such ...
The role of culture in climate change policy making
... justification of ‘tradition’ and who act as gatekeepers of traditionalism to freeze their cultures.’ Genocide typically starts when one identity (e.g., religion, ethnicity) dominates and minimizes the relevance of other identities. By focusing on this one identity, individuals become ‘dehumanized’ ...
... justification of ‘tradition’ and who act as gatekeepers of traditionalism to freeze their cultures.’ Genocide typically starts when one identity (e.g., religion, ethnicity) dominates and minimizes the relevance of other identities. By focusing on this one identity, individuals become ‘dehumanized’ ...
1/8 An experimental model to understand
... container, not forgetting that the set-up represents the Earth and sun etc, thus they must find realistic solutions (for example, switching the lamp off to reduce the temperature would be the same as extinguishing the sun, which is not possible). 3. If you wish, set a more precise challenge to the p ...
... container, not forgetting that the set-up represents the Earth and sun etc, thus they must find realistic solutions (for example, switching the lamp off to reduce the temperature would be the same as extinguishing the sun, which is not possible). 3. If you wish, set a more precise challenge to the p ...
Analysis and Use of Information and Communication Tools in the
... The socio-economic area includes tools for estimating damages associated with climate change, costs and benefits of mitigation and adaptation measures (and their cost-effectiveness) and to analyze related contingent effects, like distributional impacts and equity issues (IPCC, 2007). In this context ...
... The socio-economic area includes tools for estimating damages associated with climate change, costs and benefits of mitigation and adaptation measures (and their cost-effectiveness) and to analyze related contingent effects, like distributional impacts and equity issues (IPCC, 2007). In this context ...
Effects of Climate Change on Crop Production in Thaba-Tseka
... intensification, irrigation development, conservation agriculture and development of climate change policy are suitable adaptation strategies that will help farmers to improve crop yields. Key words: climate change, crop production and adaptation ...
... intensification, irrigation development, conservation agriculture and development of climate change policy are suitable adaptation strategies that will help farmers to improve crop yields. Key words: climate change, crop production and adaptation ...
global 500 greenhouse gases performance 2010
... For the Global 500 as a whole, greenhouse gas emissions increased by 1% from 2010 to the beginning of 2015, which is the latest date for which complete and comparable data is available.5 This differs from the 1.2 to 1.7% (median value 1.4%) average annual decrease between 2010 and 2050 required to h ...
... For the Global 500 as a whole, greenhouse gas emissions increased by 1% from 2010 to the beginning of 2015, which is the latest date for which complete and comparable data is available.5 This differs from the 1.2 to 1.7% (median value 1.4%) average annual decrease between 2010 and 2050 required to h ...
Sensitivity and the Carbon Budget - Apollo
... The temperature change illustrates the impact of change in CO2 concentration without any of the amplifying effects of the feedback system. The 280 ppm point marks the pre-industrial benchmark. Temperature variation is displayed on the vertical axis. (See Table 2, p36) Two concentration markers have ...
... The temperature change illustrates the impact of change in CO2 concentration without any of the amplifying effects of the feedback system. The 280 ppm point marks the pre-industrial benchmark. Temperature variation is displayed on the vertical axis. (See Table 2, p36) Two concentration markers have ...
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.