Adapting to drought in the Sahel: Lessons for
... The Sahel’s experience of adapting to changes in rainfall on a scale at least comparable to that of climate change scenarios, between the 1960s and the 1990s, suggests that lessons can be learnt that may have a wider utility for policy in the future. The Sahel is a major global agroecological region ...
... The Sahel’s experience of adapting to changes in rainfall on a scale at least comparable to that of climate change scenarios, between the 1960s and the 1990s, suggests that lessons can be learnt that may have a wider utility for policy in the future. The Sahel is a major global agroecological region ...
Engineering solutions for coastal infrastructure
... the Australian Government to produce a coastal climate risk management tool in support of coastal managers adapting to climate change and sea-level rise. This online tool, known as CoastAdapt, provides information on all aspects of coastal adaptation as well as a decision support framework. It can b ...
... the Australian Government to produce a coastal climate risk management tool in support of coastal managers adapting to climate change and sea-level rise. This online tool, known as CoastAdapt, provides information on all aspects of coastal adaptation as well as a decision support framework. It can b ...
Global warming is dead - Nottingham ePrints
... about 6 degrees (Lynas, 2008), the popular slogan ‘mitigate for 2, adapt for 4’ and annual press releases telling us the global surface air temperature for the year all feed into this popular understanding of climate change. If scientists now say that what really matters is the amount of heat (energ ...
... about 6 degrees (Lynas, 2008), the popular slogan ‘mitigate for 2, adapt for 4’ and annual press releases telling us the global surface air temperature for the year all feed into this popular understanding of climate change. If scientists now say that what really matters is the amount of heat (energ ...
spread_talk_May2007 - UCLA: Atmospheric and Oceanic
... (3) These results map out a clear strategy for targeted climate system observation and further model analysis to reduce spread in snow albedo feedback. If we could eliminate the spread in this feedback, it would constrain many critical aspects of future climate change, including the summertime soil ...
... (3) These results map out a clear strategy for targeted climate system observation and further model analysis to reduce spread in snow albedo feedback. If we could eliminate the spread in this feedback, it would constrain many critical aspects of future climate change, including the summertime soil ...
Rethinking wedges
... reductions required by current targets, let alone a complete phase-out of emissions, demand fundamental, disruptive changes in the global energy system over the next 50 years. Depending on what sort of fossil-fuel infrastructure is replaced and neglecting any emissions produced to build and maintain ...
... reductions required by current targets, let alone a complete phase-out of emissions, demand fundamental, disruptive changes in the global energy system over the next 50 years. Depending on what sort of fossil-fuel infrastructure is replaced and neglecting any emissions produced to build and maintain ...
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2007) provided conclusive scientific evidence that human activity in the form of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is responsible for many observed climate changes, but noted that use of this knowledge to suppor ...
Csc_ADS_2011 - University of Minnesota
... • For e.g. both forecasts for 2080-2100 show continuing dipole activity in the extratropics but decreased activity in the tropics. SOI activity is reduced in GFDL2.1 and activity over Africa is reduced in BCM 2.0. This is consistent with ...
... • For e.g. both forecasts for 2080-2100 show continuing dipole activity in the extratropics but decreased activity in the tropics. SOI activity is reduced in GFDL2.1 and activity over Africa is reduced in BCM 2.0. This is consistent with ...
Val Swail
... What analyses of these data can provide information useful for climate change detection and attribution? What international coordination on data issues would improve climate change detection and attribution? What are the indices with most impact? What indices should we include on version 1 of our li ...
... What analyses of these data can provide information useful for climate change detection and attribution? What international coordination on data issues would improve climate change detection and attribution? What are the indices with most impact? What indices should we include on version 1 of our li ...
How limiting factors drive agricultural adaptation to climate change.
... but now broadly used in ecological research, states that an organism’s growth is limited by its most scarce resource (von Liebig, 1855). We argue that an agricultural system’s adaptation to climate change is fundamentally hindered by, and vulnerable to, the most limiting factor within the system. In ...
... but now broadly used in ecological research, states that an organism’s growth is limited by its most scarce resource (von Liebig, 1855). We argue that an agricultural system’s adaptation to climate change is fundamentally hindered by, and vulnerable to, the most limiting factor within the system. In ...
INFLUENCE OF LONG- AND SHORT
... these have been long discussed in the scientific circles, during the last few years this problem acquired new urgency in connection with new data, reflecting “long” sequences in paleoclimatic reconstructions and a comparatively short, but detailed series of instrumental meteorological and climatolog ...
... these have been long discussed in the scientific circles, during the last few years this problem acquired new urgency in connection with new data, reflecting “long” sequences in paleoclimatic reconstructions and a comparatively short, but detailed series of instrumental meteorological and climatolog ...
The IMBER Project Name change for the international Network for
... and is backed politically by 97 countries representing 87% of the world’s population (Note 5). The Year was promoted politically at UNESCO and at the United Nations in New York by the People”s Republic of Tanzania. The Year is now open to Expressions of Interest from researchers within each of its 1 ...
... and is backed politically by 97 countries representing 87% of the world’s population (Note 5). The Year was promoted politically at UNESCO and at the United Nations in New York by the People”s Republic of Tanzania. The Year is now open to Expressions of Interest from researchers within each of its 1 ...
2015 NGPR Leadership Symposium
... Webpage: www.maxliboiron.com My work looks at how the emerging phenomena of ocean plastics and their attendant chemicals become manifest in science and activism through monitoring activities, and how these methods of representation relate to action. ...
... Webpage: www.maxliboiron.com My work looks at how the emerging phenomena of ocean plastics and their attendant chemicals become manifest in science and activism through monitoring activities, and how these methods of representation relate to action. ...
The Economic Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels
... warming, health effects and contaminated water and farmland. There are signs that this is beginning to change, and firms will increasingly be liable for taxes and damages in the tens if not hundreds of billions, and with good reason. A 2013TEEB For Business Coalition Study found that “[t]he value of ...
... warming, health effects and contaminated water and farmland. There are signs that this is beginning to change, and firms will increasingly be liable for taxes and damages in the tens if not hundreds of billions, and with good reason. A 2013TEEB For Business Coalition Study found that “[t]he value of ...
Climate Change and Paleoecology: New Contexts for Restoration
... Of particular interest is the warming of the twentieth century. During the preceding fourcentury-long Little Ice Age, temperatures in western North America were on average 1°C colder than present; glaciers in many western North American mountain ranges were at their greatest extent since the end of ...
... Of particular interest is the warming of the twentieth century. During the preceding fourcentury-long Little Ice Age, temperatures in western North America were on average 1°C colder than present; glaciers in many western North American mountain ranges were at their greatest extent since the end of ...
Assessing ``Dangerous Climate Change
... target with the help of global climate-carbon-cycle models, which reveal that eventual warming depends on cumulative carbon emissions, not on the temporal history of emissions [12]. The emission limit depends on climate sensitivity, but central estimates [12–13], including those in the upcoming Fift ...
... target with the help of global climate-carbon-cycle models, which reveal that eventual warming depends on cumulative carbon emissions, not on the temporal history of emissions [12]. The emission limit depends on climate sensitivity, but central estimates [12–13], including those in the upcoming Fift ...
Running to stand still: adaptation and the response of
... species tolerate such short-term variability through phenotypic plasticity. However, beyond the point at which individuals (and therefore species) are able to tolerate changes in climate, distributional and evolutionary changes are inevitable (Lynch & Lande 1993). The accumulating evidence of plant ...
... species tolerate such short-term variability through phenotypic plasticity. However, beyond the point at which individuals (and therefore species) are able to tolerate changes in climate, distributional and evolutionary changes are inevitable (Lynch & Lande 1993). The accumulating evidence of plant ...
Presentazione di PowerPoint
... It provokes widely differentiated effects in term of timing (immediate, medium-term and long-term) and in terms of geographical areas and economic sectors. ...
... It provokes widely differentiated effects in term of timing (immediate, medium-term and long-term) and in terms of geographical areas and economic sectors. ...
... robust assessment. Additionally, costs to the agriculture sector due to tropical cyclones were estimated to be $6.9 million and $6.2 million under the A2 and B2 scenarios, respectively. There are a number of possible adaptation strategies that can be employed by the agriculture sector. The most attr ...
U_Toronto_Jan2007 - Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
... (3) These results map out a clear strategy for targeted climate system observation and further model analysis to reduce spread in snow albedo feedback. If we could eliminate the spread in this feedback, it would constrain many critical aspects of future climate change, including the summertime soil ...
... (3) These results map out a clear strategy for targeted climate system observation and further model analysis to reduce spread in snow albedo feedback. If we could eliminate the spread in this feedback, it would constrain many critical aspects of future climate change, including the summertime soil ...
Regional Impacts of climate change
... A key theme emerges from these four case studies: pre-existing problems caused by human activities are exacerbated by climate change, itself mostly a human-induced phenomenon. Fortunately, manmade problems are amenable to manmade solutions. Climate change cannot be stopped entirely, but it can be li ...
... A key theme emerges from these four case studies: pre-existing problems caused by human activities are exacerbated by climate change, itself mostly a human-induced phenomenon. Fortunately, manmade problems are amenable to manmade solutions. Climate change cannot be stopped entirely, but it can be li ...
Study Session 11 Impacts of Climate Change in Ethiopia
... impacts occur when climate changes in the temperature, precipitation and weather extremes affect our health and survival directly. For example, very hot weather can cause heat-related illness such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke; and floods can cause injury and drowning. These direct effects are ...
... impacts occur when climate changes in the temperature, precipitation and weather extremes affect our health and survival directly. For example, very hot weather can cause heat-related illness such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke; and floods can cause injury and drowning. These direct effects are ...
Australian climate change policy: a chronology
... Climate change is a long-term, global problem. Long-term problems generally require stable but flexible policy implementation over time. However, Australia’s commitment to climate action over the past three decades could be seen as inconsistent and lacking in direction. At times Australia has been a ...
... Climate change is a long-term, global problem. Long-term problems generally require stable but flexible policy implementation over time. However, Australia’s commitment to climate action over the past three decades could be seen as inconsistent and lacking in direction. At times Australia has been a ...
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... practices, traditional growing period and climate data in 2008 were used for the analysis and temperature and CO2 levels are controlled in the simulation model called DSSAT (Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer). The simulation results show that rice production varies in different lo ...
... practices, traditional growing period and climate data in 2008 were used for the analysis and temperature and CO2 levels are controlled in the simulation model called DSSAT (Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer). The simulation results show that rice production varies in different lo ...
Scale-dependent regional climate predictability over North America
... 1b and d suggests that, for the CMIP5 simulations of climatological mean precipitation, the ensemble spread can be used qualitatively to assess the uncertainty in the ensemble mean estimate. To place the U.S. results in a broader perspective, we also compare the ensemble mean, spread, and error for ...
... 1b and d suggests that, for the CMIP5 simulations of climatological mean precipitation, the ensemble spread can be used qualitatively to assess the uncertainty in the ensemble mean estimate. To place the U.S. results in a broader perspective, we also compare the ensemble mean, spread, and error for ...
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.