Climate change and impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean and the
... are among the highest in the world. It is likely that ozone levels will continue to increase and that the EMME will be a persisting air pollution ‘hot spot’ with especially high levels around the Persian Gulf. ...
... are among the highest in the world. It is likely that ozone levels will continue to increase and that the EMME will be a persisting air pollution ‘hot spot’ with especially high levels around the Persian Gulf. ...
Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made
... cycles. Earlier human-like populations, such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus, date back at least 2,000,000 years, but, as is clear from Fig. 1a, even the human-like species were present only during the recent time of ice ages. ...
... cycles. Earlier human-like populations, such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus, date back at least 2,000,000 years, but, as is clear from Fig. 1a, even the human-like species were present only during the recent time of ice ages. ...
Climate change and Tourism in the Alps: a position paper in view of
... resorts of the European Alps are considered not to be snow-reliable1 (Agrawala 2007). The orientation and the gradient of slopes also have an important impact on the reliability of snow cover. Indeed, downhill skiing is the most vulnerable activity. Also cross-country skiing faces the risk of the ab ...
... resorts of the European Alps are considered not to be snow-reliable1 (Agrawala 2007). The orientation and the gradient of slopes also have an important impact on the reliability of snow cover. Indeed, downhill skiing is the most vulnerable activity. Also cross-country skiing faces the risk of the ab ...
PROGRAMME APPROVAL FORM: TAUGHT PROGRAMMES – THE PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION SECTION 1
... address the risks posed by climate change through only scientific, political and economic analysis. The programme therefore aims to provide students with the theories, methods and skills to analyse climate change from different historical and cultural perspectives, thereby enabling them to better un ...
... address the risks posed by climate change through only scientific, political and economic analysis. The programme therefore aims to provide students with the theories, methods and skills to analyse climate change from different historical and cultural perspectives, thereby enabling them to better un ...
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... impact of a doubling of the atmospheric concentration on the current economy is relatively small. Although the estimates differ, impacts are not more than a few percent of GDP. The estimates of Hope (2006), Mendelsohn et al. (2000a,b) and Tol (2002b) even point to initial benefits of climate change. ...
... impact of a doubling of the atmospheric concentration on the current economy is relatively small. Although the estimates differ, impacts are not more than a few percent of GDP. The estimates of Hope (2006), Mendelsohn et al. (2000a,b) and Tol (2002b) even point to initial benefits of climate change. ...
Denman-Opening_Talk
... • Annual rates of emissions of CO2 are increasing, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future (at least 30 years, due to coal generation plants) [see next 2 slides] • Polluting aerosols will be tackled and reduced due their short atmospheric lifetimes and to the more immediate threat to h ...
... • Annual rates of emissions of CO2 are increasing, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future (at least 30 years, due to coal generation plants) [see next 2 slides] • Polluting aerosols will be tackled and reduced due their short atmospheric lifetimes and to the more immediate threat to h ...
Fact sheet: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
... climate feedbacks in anthropogenic climate change, including abrupt and extreme climate changes that pose great risks to sustainable food production. Berkeley Lab scientists are computational and climatology leaders in the national Advanced Climate Model for Energy (ACME) effort, which is addressing ...
... climate feedbacks in anthropogenic climate change, including abrupt and extreme climate changes that pose great risks to sustainable food production. Berkeley Lab scientists are computational and climatology leaders in the national Advanced Climate Model for Energy (ACME) effort, which is addressing ...
the Migration as Adaptation briefing.
... labour mobility which, through remittances, helps origin communities sustain consumption of basic needs such as food in times of livelihood shocks and finance the acquisition of human, social, physical and natural capital. Although, migration has been autonomous in many of these situations, it shoul ...
... labour mobility which, through remittances, helps origin communities sustain consumption of basic needs such as food in times of livelihood shocks and finance the acquisition of human, social, physical and natural capital. Although, migration has been autonomous in many of these situations, it shoul ...
Urban Heat Island and Air Quality of London, UK
... 3.1 Projected changes in the urban heat island Heat waves may increase in frequency and severity in a warmer world. Urban heat islands exacerbate the effects of heat waves by increasing summer temperatures by several more degrees Celsius relative to rural locations (see Figure 1b). This can lead dir ...
... 3.1 Projected changes in the urban heat island Heat waves may increase in frequency and severity in a warmer world. Urban heat islands exacerbate the effects of heat waves by increasing summer temperatures by several more degrees Celsius relative to rural locations (see Figure 1b). This can lead dir ...
Confronting Climate Change in New Mexico
... Extreme precipitation, flooding, and wildfires have affected sites that are central to New Mexico’s heritage. The rock carvings and cliff dwellings of Bandelier National Monument tell the story of some of the earliest inhabitants of the Americas, while their descendants live nearby in modern-day pue ...
... Extreme precipitation, flooding, and wildfires have affected sites that are central to New Mexico’s heritage. The rock carvings and cliff dwellings of Bandelier National Monument tell the story of some of the earliest inhabitants of the Americas, while their descendants live nearby in modern-day pue ...
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... from the MESSAGE energy system model (Riahi et al. 2011). Both biomass demand and emissions prices are consistent with pathways of the global energy and emissions price regimes required for attaining the individual RCPs. The policy assumption implicit to these scenarios is one of full global collab ...
... from the MESSAGE energy system model (Riahi et al. 2011). Both biomass demand and emissions prices are consistent with pathways of the global energy and emissions price regimes required for attaining the individual RCPs. The policy assumption implicit to these scenarios is one of full global collab ...
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... Jatropha Curcas plantations to over 3.2 million hectares for bio-diesel production for export and for rural household energy needs by 2010 was abandoned by the government in 2013. The Energy Planning Department (EPD) within the Ministry of Energy co-ordinates the activities of Myanmar’s three energy ...
... Jatropha Curcas plantations to over 3.2 million hectares for bio-diesel production for export and for rural household energy needs by 2010 was abandoned by the government in 2013. The Energy Planning Department (EPD) within the Ministry of Energy co-ordinates the activities of Myanmar’s three energy ...
Climate Change and First Nations: Recommendations for Action
... In the past, most research related to climate change has either been focused on the identification of potential impacts of climate change or the development of mitigation measures to lessen the scale of predicted climate change (through measures to decrease greenhouse gas production and release). It ...
... In the past, most research related to climate change has either been focused on the identification of potential impacts of climate change or the development of mitigation measures to lessen the scale of predicted climate change (through measures to decrease greenhouse gas production and release). It ...
Introduction The Public Trust Doctrine, Climate Change and Future Generations Table of Contents
... Courts can require governments’ trustees at any jurisdictional level to establish a budget and asset recovery plan calibrated to the uniform fiduciary standard set forth in the Target for U.S. Emissions Reductions. The contemplated injunctive relief does not invade the prerogatives of the other bran ...
... Courts can require governments’ trustees at any jurisdictional level to establish a budget and asset recovery plan calibrated to the uniform fiduciary standard set forth in the Target for U.S. Emissions Reductions. The contemplated injunctive relief does not invade the prerogatives of the other bran ...
Climate Treaties and Enforcement - Yale Center for the Study of
... meeting the goal of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)—to ensure that concentrations would be stabilized ‘at a level that would prevent dangerous interference with the climate system’. This is an elegant and audacious construct. Can it work? An effective international agreement for cl ...
... meeting the goal of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)—to ensure that concentrations would be stabilized ‘at a level that would prevent dangerous interference with the climate system’. This is an elegant and audacious construct. Can it work? An effective international agreement for cl ...
Why EPA Climate Protection is Good for Labor—And How Jobs Producer
... could permanently cut the US GDP by 2.5%. [9] We’re already well on the way there. EPA regulation promotes jobs Scare talk that EPA regulation will “kill jobs” has a long history, going back to the origins of Federal environmental protection. For example, the US Business Roundtable sponsored a study ...
... could permanently cut the US GDP by 2.5%. [9] We’re already well on the way there. EPA regulation promotes jobs Scare talk that EPA regulation will “kill jobs” has a long history, going back to the origins of Federal environmental protection. For example, the US Business Roundtable sponsored a study ...
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... We don’t have a picture of the good that we need. It is not clear what it means to be a moral person, or to lead a good life in the context of climate debt. The current human population living sustainably on the planet with relative environmental equity between and within societies is an unprecedent ...
... We don’t have a picture of the good that we need. It is not clear what it means to be a moral person, or to lead a good life in the context of climate debt. The current human population living sustainably on the planet with relative environmental equity between and within societies is an unprecedent ...
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... In recent years, numerical investigations of changes in atmospheric behavior due to natural and anthropogenic factors have played an increasing role in atmospheric sciences. For instance, numerical modeling supports the attribution of specific causes for spatial and temporal variability, changes, or ...
... In recent years, numerical investigations of changes in atmospheric behavior due to natural and anthropogenic factors have played an increasing role in atmospheric sciences. For instance, numerical modeling supports the attribution of specific causes for spatial and temporal variability, changes, or ...
Indigenous Australians` knowledge of weather and climate
... Australians have one of the longest living cultural traditions in the world, with recent archaeological records dating their culture back at least 50,000 years (Roberts et al. 1990). Unsurprisingly, Indigenous Australians have a long history of adaptation to gradually changing landscapes and climate ...
... Australians have one of the longest living cultural traditions in the world, with recent archaeological records dating their culture back at least 50,000 years (Roberts et al. 1990). Unsurprisingly, Indigenous Australians have a long history of adaptation to gradually changing landscapes and climate ...
Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Urban Forests in the
... more pronounced in the cities in the east side of the Cascades than those in the Puget Sound area. More extensive analysis covering more cities and their surrounding areas will be needed to be able to separate the urban heat island effect from the impacts of global climate change in the region. Bioc ...
... more pronounced in the cities in the east side of the Cascades than those in the Puget Sound area. More extensive analysis covering more cities and their surrounding areas will be needed to be able to separate the urban heat island effect from the impacts of global climate change in the region. Bioc ...
Annual Average Temperature Rise: Global Average
... Change (S. Solomon and others, eds.) (Cambridge, United Kingdom, and New York, NY, USA, 2007), pgs. 747846; see pg. 749. http://goo.gl/ZDMF1W; Rowan T. Sutton and others, “Land/sea warming ratio in response to climate change: IPCC AR4 model results and comparison with observations,” Geophysical Rese ...
... Change (S. Solomon and others, eds.) (Cambridge, United Kingdom, and New York, NY, USA, 2007), pgs. 747846; see pg. 749. http://goo.gl/ZDMF1W; Rowan T. Sutton and others, “Land/sea warming ratio in response to climate change: IPCC AR4 model results and comparison with observations,” Geophysical Rese ...
Regional Security Implications of Climate Change A
... organisations, which have stepped in where governments have failed – and which in turn has aroused suspicion of governments, leading in many instances to repressive actions. The global food crisis in 2008 witnessed riots in the Maghreb region. With agricultural production likely to decrease in the r ...
... organisations, which have stepped in where governments have failed – and which in turn has aroused suspicion of governments, leading in many instances to repressive actions. The global food crisis in 2008 witnessed riots in the Maghreb region. With agricultural production likely to decrease in the r ...
Apocalypse Soon? Dire Messages Reduce Belief in Global
... There was a significant difference between the two conditions on the manipulation-check item, t(94) = 2.41, p < .05. Thus, the manipulation effectively influenced belief in science’s ability to find solutions to global warming. An examination of the effect of message condition, justworld beliefs, an ...
... There was a significant difference between the two conditions on the manipulation-check item, t(94) = 2.41, p < .05. Thus, the manipulation effectively influenced belief in science’s ability to find solutions to global warming. An examination of the effect of message condition, justworld beliefs, an ...
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.