TIEE Global Temperature Change in the 21 Century ISSUES : DATA SET
... Human industrial activity, use of fossil fuels, and land use changes have been leading to increasing emissions and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (Figure 1). Greenhouse gases are ones that allow electromagnetic radiation (light) at the wavelengths emitted by ...
... Human industrial activity, use of fossil fuels, and land use changes have been leading to increasing emissions and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (Figure 1). Greenhouse gases are ones that allow electromagnetic radiation (light) at the wavelengths emitted by ...
Reportforthe IADB(Draft)
... El Salvador has severe environmental degradation and increasing vulnerability before climate change, therefore the following specific problems have been identified: 1) Degradation of high value ecosystems: the ecosystems that are critical to El Salvador are the mangroves, gallery forests, biologica ...
... El Salvador has severe environmental degradation and increasing vulnerability before climate change, therefore the following specific problems have been identified: 1) Degradation of high value ecosystems: the ecosystems that are critical to El Salvador are the mangroves, gallery forests, biologica ...
International Journal of Web Information Systems
... climate), (cloudy,picture), (extreme,heat), (climate,risks), (climate,justice), (conservation, measures), (global,forest), (forest,carbon), (carbon,balance), (flood,risk), (challenging, climate), (carbon,budget), (climategate,inquiry), (past,revealed), (sea,ice), (marine,invaders), (consensus,predic ...
... climate), (cloudy,picture), (extreme,heat), (climate,risks), (climate,justice), (conservation, measures), (global,forest), (forest,carbon), (carbon,balance), (flood,risk), (challenging, climate), (carbon,budget), (climategate,inquiry), (past,revealed), (sea,ice), (marine,invaders), (consensus,predic ...
Assessing global biome exposure to climate change through the
... increase across the entire globe in the A1B greenhouse gas emission scenario with respect to 0 cal bp (Fig. 1). Modelled mH maximum and mean temperatures are higher in the Northern Hemisphere than 0 cal bp. Maximum and mean temperatures are lower for much of the Southern Hemisphere, with notable exc ...
... increase across the entire globe in the A1B greenhouse gas emission scenario with respect to 0 cal bp (Fig. 1). Modelled mH maximum and mean temperatures are higher in the Northern Hemisphere than 0 cal bp. Maximum and mean temperatures are lower for much of the Southern Hemisphere, with notable exc ...
A normative account of dangerous climate change
... In trying to understand the nature of dangerous climate change it would be folly not to incorporate the findings of climate science. We need to understand what CO2 does in the atmosphere, how long it stays there, what its likely climatic effects are, and the variety of positive feedbacks that warmin ...
... In trying to understand the nature of dangerous climate change it would be folly not to incorporate the findings of climate science. We need to understand what CO2 does in the atmosphere, how long it stays there, what its likely climatic effects are, and the variety of positive feedbacks that warmin ...
Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
... gradual, taking almost half a century.47 For example, keeping CO2 emissions to below 450 ppm by 2100 is predicted to prevent approximately 0.15°C of BAU warming in the first 30 years, with prevented warming increasing to 0.5°C 50 years after significant reductions begin (see Fig. 5).48 Cuts to CO2 a ...
... gradual, taking almost half a century.47 For example, keeping CO2 emissions to below 450 ppm by 2100 is predicted to prevent approximately 0.15°C of BAU warming in the first 30 years, with prevented warming increasing to 0.5°C 50 years after significant reductions begin (see Fig. 5).48 Cuts to CO2 a ...
Appendix 5 Preparing Component Programmes 2013-16
... • Each component of IUCN prepares a component programme plan, following the same basic rules: – The document must contain a clear situation analysis (diagnosis) and justification for the results which are proposed; – The proposed results must align with the Global Programme Areas and Results; – The ...
... • Each component of IUCN prepares a component programme plan, following the same basic rules: – The document must contain a clear situation analysis (diagnosis) and justification for the results which are proposed; – The proposed results must align with the Global Programme Areas and Results; – The ...
A Conceptual Tool for Climate Change Risk Assessment
... [Equation (2)] is a single-point failure system in which any of the three factors determines the societal consequence no matter how little the other factors contribute. For example, if human society were highly dependent on existing physical systems, biological resources, and social institutions, th ...
... [Equation (2)] is a single-point failure system in which any of the three factors determines the societal consequence no matter how little the other factors contribute. For example, if human society were highly dependent on existing physical systems, biological resources, and social institutions, th ...
world development report 2010: Development and Climate Change
... are unlikely to stabilize temperatures at anything less than 2°C above preindustrial ...
... are unlikely to stabilize temperatures at anything less than 2°C above preindustrial ...
Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements
... • Policies should include new approaches that support multiscale and multisector action, rooted in the different expectations of a wide range of partners. The Report suggests three main areas in which the international community can support and enable more effective urban mitigation and adaptation r ...
... • Policies should include new approaches that support multiscale and multisector action, rooted in the different expectations of a wide range of partners. The Report suggests three main areas in which the international community can support and enable more effective urban mitigation and adaptation r ...
Peatlands and Their Role in the Global Carbon Cycle
... Fig. 2. Holocene peatland C dynamics and the global C cycle. (a) Net global peatland C sequestration rates per millennium (gigatons C per kiloyear) modeled from observed peat core data [Yu, 2011]. (b) True instantaneous C accumulation rates from northern peatlands as derived from net carbon balance ...
... Fig. 2. Holocene peatland C dynamics and the global C cycle. (a) Net global peatland C sequestration rates per millennium (gigatons C per kiloyear) modeled from observed peat core data [Yu, 2011]. (b) True instantaneous C accumulation rates from northern peatlands as derived from net carbon balance ...
Robust Analysis of Future Climate Change Impacts on Water for
... The simulated impacts of the climate change scenarios on the Sacramento Basin hydrology are characterized by considering inflows to the three major reservoirs in the basin: Lake Shasta, Lake Oroville and Folsom Lake. Two aspects of the hydrologic system that could be affected by the climate change s ...
... The simulated impacts of the climate change scenarios on the Sacramento Basin hydrology are characterized by considering inflows to the three major reservoirs in the basin: Lake Shasta, Lake Oroville and Folsom Lake. Two aspects of the hydrologic system that could be affected by the climate change s ...
Climate of Opinion
... “The era of cheap oil and gas is well and truly over - supplies worldwide will begin to run out within a generation and that means imported energy will become more expensive. We need to make a start on renewable energy now as an alternative” net more supportive +71% “The world's not going to start ...
... “The era of cheap oil and gas is well and truly over - supplies worldwide will begin to run out within a generation and that means imported energy will become more expensive. We need to make a start on renewable energy now as an alternative” net more supportive +71% “The world's not going to start ...
451kB - Surrey Research Insight Open Access
... effort to protect the environment must be based on an attempt to measure it for the future: for economist David Pearce, for example, sustainable development is ‘sustainable utility’ and is ...
... effort to protect the environment must be based on an attempt to measure it for the future: for economist David Pearce, for example, sustainable development is ‘sustainable utility’ and is ...
Dealing With Complexity and Extreme Events Using a Bottom-Up,
... to Adger [1996, p. 10] an important issue for IPCC-like global reports is to assess whether the top-down approach can incorporate the “aggregation of individual decisionmaking in a realistic way, so that results of the modelling are applicable and policy relevant.” There are also unresolved issues b ...
... to Adger [1996, p. 10] an important issue for IPCC-like global reports is to assess whether the top-down approach can incorporate the “aggregation of individual decisionmaking in a realistic way, so that results of the modelling are applicable and policy relevant.” There are also unresolved issues b ...
Slide 1 - University of Washington
... Current and Future Research •Additional VIC calibration to improve simulations, and comparison with DHSVM models (proposed) •Estimate the effects of reservoir management using simulation models (in progress) ...
... Current and Future Research •Additional VIC calibration to improve simulations, and comparison with DHSVM models (proposed) •Estimate the effects of reservoir management using simulation models (in progress) ...
Full text
... Seidl, R., Rammer, W., Lasch, P., Badeck, F.-W. & Lexer, M.J. 2008. Does conversion of even-aged, secondary coniferous forests affect carbon sequestration? A simulation study under changing environmental conditions. Silva Fennica 42(3): 369–386. To circumvent problems associated with even-aged, pure ...
... Seidl, R., Rammer, W., Lasch, P., Badeck, F.-W. & Lexer, M.J. 2008. Does conversion of even-aged, secondary coniferous forests affect carbon sequestration? A simulation study under changing environmental conditions. Silva Fennica 42(3): 369–386. To circumvent problems associated with even-aged, pure ...
Climate change and extreme weather events: can developing
... in surface temperature and precipitation. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001b) has summarised the estimates of confidence of extreme events, as shown in Table 1. Increases in mean temperature and precipitation, rise in sea level and extreme weather events due to climate change ...
... in surface temperature and precipitation. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001b) has summarised the estimates of confidence of extreme events, as shown in Table 1. Increases in mean temperature and precipitation, rise in sea level and extreme weather events due to climate change ...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
... of the atmosphere, on the data and modelling infrastructures required to study it (Edwards, 2010), and the emergence of new ideas about how environmental problems could or should be managed through cooperation at the global scale (Miller, 2004). It was the novelty of the latter which arguably drove ...
... of the atmosphere, on the data and modelling infrastructures required to study it (Edwards, 2010), and the emergence of new ideas about how environmental problems could or should be managed through cooperation at the global scale (Miller, 2004). It was the novelty of the latter which arguably drove ...
Key aspects of global climate change
... aerosol-induced atmospheric cooling holds a SAT increase (new estimates suggest the conclusion about a weaker manifestation of the aerosol impact); 4) the presence of the warming minima in the North Atlantic and in the circumpolar regions of the oceans in the Southern Hemisphere due to mixing in the ...
... aerosol-induced atmospheric cooling holds a SAT increase (new estimates suggest the conclusion about a weaker manifestation of the aerosol impact); 4) the presence of the warming minima in the North Atlantic and in the circumpolar regions of the oceans in the Southern Hemisphere due to mixing in the ...
Have the Tropical Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
... the amplitude and frequency of El Niño or La Niña varied in response to a precessional cycle (calculated NINO3 in Fig. 2). This finding suggests that the tropical Pacific can drive globally synchronous climate change on an orbital time scale rather than being a passive player. When this modeling res ...
... the amplitude and frequency of El Niño or La Niña varied in response to a precessional cycle (calculated NINO3 in Fig. 2). This finding suggests that the tropical Pacific can drive globally synchronous climate change on an orbital time scale rather than being a passive player. When this modeling res ...
What Point of Allocation?
... non-existent; yet scientific and economic consensus point to need for a credible approach. • Pressing need for a credible international agreement that is scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically ...
... non-existent; yet scientific and economic consensus point to need for a credible approach. • Pressing need for a credible international agreement that is scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically ...
Bangladesh Experience Mohammad Abdul Qayyum 1
... ∗ Bangladesh remains to be one of the world’s poorest countries, but also the most resilient! ∗ Left unaddressed, climate change will increase and intensify Bangladesh’s disaster risks: ∗ Frequency and intensity of hazards such as flood, drought, salinity, cyclone, tidal surge, sea level rise etc. ∗ ...
... ∗ Bangladesh remains to be one of the world’s poorest countries, but also the most resilient! ∗ Left unaddressed, climate change will increase and intensify Bangladesh’s disaster risks: ∗ Frequency and intensity of hazards such as flood, drought, salinity, cyclone, tidal surge, sea level rise etc. ∗ ...
FH Research Branch
... databases, and use them to predict the impacts of climate change on forest pests, using the western spruce budworm and spruce bark beetle as test cases. (FIA, Harry Swain – UVIC/Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium & CFS) ...
... databases, and use them to predict the impacts of climate change on forest pests, using the western spruce budworm and spruce bark beetle as test cases. (FIA, Harry Swain – UVIC/Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium & CFS) ...
Empathy and Climate Change
... people in rich countries know about the damaging effects of climate change and their own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet relatively few are willing to make substantive changes to how they live. They might change a few light bulbs but they do not cut back on flying abroad for their holidays nor d ...
... people in rich countries know about the damaging effects of climate change and their own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet relatively few are willing to make substantive changes to how they live. They might change a few light bulbs but they do not cut back on flying abroad for their holidays nor d ...
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.