cop21 and the paris agreement
... as ‘glacial’, but despite disappointments and many potholes along the way, the international negotiation process continued and built cumulative progress. In parallel, non-state entities, such as corporations, subnational regions and cities, were beginning to act decisively, irrespective of a global ...
... as ‘glacial’, but despite disappointments and many potholes along the way, the international negotiation process continued and built cumulative progress. In parallel, non-state entities, such as corporations, subnational regions and cities, were beginning to act decisively, irrespective of a global ...
Slide 1
... • Ultimately, increased spatial resolution can allow more processes to be modeled explicitly. (But there are many orders of magnitude between spatial resolution of most advanced global models and spatial scales of cloud formation!) ...
... • Ultimately, increased spatial resolution can allow more processes to be modeled explicitly. (But there are many orders of magnitude between spatial resolution of most advanced global models and spatial scales of cloud formation!) ...
- The Kresge Foundation
... of ice on earth, creating a science fiction version of our planet that makes Kevin Costner’s “Waterworld” seem like a documentary.3 This is the unmanageable, surely. The question is, how to avoid it. Most greenhouse gases remain in the atmosphere for centuries or millennia, and the effects of our em ...
... of ice on earth, creating a science fiction version of our planet that makes Kevin Costner’s “Waterworld” seem like a documentary.3 This is the unmanageable, surely. The question is, how to avoid it. Most greenhouse gases remain in the atmosphere for centuries or millennia, and the effects of our em ...
Changing US Extreme Temperature Statistics
... The “low index” λ(t) is defined analogously, replacing < with > in the temperature test of Eq. 4 and letting T denote the minimum temperature rather than the maximum. Even when there are gaps, our metric utilizes the information contained in all extant data because the likehood, in the null hypothes ...
... The “low index” λ(t) is defined analogously, replacing < with > in the temperature test of Eq. 4 and letting T denote the minimum temperature rather than the maximum. Even when there are gaps, our metric utilizes the information contained in all extant data because the likehood, in the null hypothes ...
The African Climate Solution Unlocking Africa`s Potential in the
... Several important changes have created this new opportunity to address persistent problems of rural poverty and environmental degradation, which have impeded development in much of Africa, while at the same time addressing the local threat of climate change and the global need for mitigation measure ...
... Several important changes have created this new opportunity to address persistent problems of rural poverty and environmental degradation, which have impeded development in much of Africa, while at the same time addressing the local threat of climate change and the global need for mitigation measure ...
DO THE UNCERTAINTY RANGES IN THE IPCC AND U.S.
... change of technique for developing the estimate; unfortunately, this contribution is not indicated explicitly. While IPCC can call each of the derived ranges their best estimates, even though prepared using different techniques, it seems to me that it would have been helpful to more fully discuss th ...
... change of technique for developing the estimate; unfortunately, this contribution is not indicated explicitly. While IPCC can call each of the derived ranges their best estimates, even though prepared using different techniques, it seems to me that it would have been helpful to more fully discuss th ...
The Myth of Dangerous Human
... (climate) tipping point’. In contrast, Emeritus Professor Gray, a distinguished climate scientist from the University of Colorado, said recently ‘Observations and theory do not support these ideas (of dangerous human-caused warming)’. These statements cannot both be true. Who is right, and how shoul ...
... (climate) tipping point’. In contrast, Emeritus Professor Gray, a distinguished climate scientist from the University of Colorado, said recently ‘Observations and theory do not support these ideas (of dangerous human-caused warming)’. These statements cannot both be true. Who is right, and how shoul ...
73 - ITU
... in addition to the work in ITU-T, the ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) and ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) initiatives in considering climate change and the role of ICTs; c) that ITU Recommendations focusing on energy-saving systems and applications can play a critical role in ...
... in addition to the work in ITU-T, the ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) and ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) initiatives in considering climate change and the role of ICTs; c) that ITU Recommendations focusing on energy-saving systems and applications can play a critical role in ...
Managing Marine Resources in the Face of Climate Uncertainties
... Climate Change (“IPCC”) offered the most widely accepted and definitive consensus on the issue. The panel announced, “[t]here is new stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last [fifty] years is attributable to human activities.”17 Since then, contrarians have criticized the IPC ...
... Climate Change (“IPCC”) offered the most widely accepted and definitive consensus on the issue. The panel announced, “[t]here is new stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last [fifty] years is attributable to human activities.”17 Since then, contrarians have criticized the IPC ...
Fine-grain modeling of species` response to climate change
... populations occupying successive microclimates that have a role in mediating the range shift of a species in response to climate change. Stepping-stones may be important at the leading edge, trailing edge, or center of the range of a species. Microrefugia, holdouts, and stepping-stones are all speci ...
... populations occupying successive microclimates that have a role in mediating the range shift of a species in response to climate change. Stepping-stones may be important at the leading edge, trailing edge, or center of the range of a species. Microrefugia, holdouts, and stepping-stones are all speci ...
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... A globally efficient policy requires emissions reductions at a similar marginal cost in all countries, and on all sources of emissions where control policies are practicable. To achieve this efficiency, we (and many others, such as Stern 2006, xviii) contend that climate policy needs to use emission ...
... A globally efficient policy requires emissions reductions at a similar marginal cost in all countries, and on all sources of emissions where control policies are practicable. To achieve this efficiency, we (and many others, such as Stern 2006, xviii) contend that climate policy needs to use emission ...
CEDRIG tools - SDC Disaster Risk Reduction Network
... Climate Change Adaptation: a critical development issue 2012: SDC CEDRIG – Climate, Environment and DRR Integration Guidance Systematic integration of DRR /CCA into Development ...
... Climate Change Adaptation: a critical development issue 2012: SDC CEDRIG – Climate, Environment and DRR Integration Guidance Systematic integration of DRR /CCA into Development ...
Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation
... governments. Currently, there is no forum to consider the collective cost of climate change on society across all sectors to ensure least cost adaptation responses. WSAA proposes water utilities should be included in any such forum or coordination mechanism. WSAA supports this recommendation. Across ...
... governments. Currently, there is no forum to consider the collective cost of climate change on society across all sectors to ensure least cost adaptation responses. WSAA proposes water utilities should be included in any such forum or coordination mechanism. WSAA supports this recommendation. Across ...
Entire Proposal - New Page - Suffolk County Community College
... According to the United States National Academy of Sciences (2010): A strong, credible body of scientific evidence shows that climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems…. Some scientific conclusions o ...
... According to the United States National Academy of Sciences (2010): A strong, credible body of scientific evidence shows that climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems…. Some scientific conclusions o ...
1 Conflict and Accommodation in International Environmental
... Climate Change as a Threat to Hegemony Concerns about the impact of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on the global climate system presented industry with the threat of coordinated international action that could cause serious disruption to markets (Levy, 1997a; Rowlands, 1995). Although scientific interest ...
... Climate Change as a Threat to Hegemony Concerns about the impact of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on the global climate system presented industry with the threat of coordinated international action that could cause serious disruption to markets (Levy, 1997a; Rowlands, 1995). Although scientific interest ...
The Not-So-Green Habits of Hollywood Gasbags
... According to the London Evening Standard (UK), despite telling British fans to “‘do their bit’ to tackle global warming,” Travolta has been “clocking up at least 30,000 flying miles in the past 12 months means he has produced an estimated 800 tons of carbon emissions – nearly 100 times the average B ...
... According to the London Evening Standard (UK), despite telling British fans to “‘do their bit’ to tackle global warming,” Travolta has been “clocking up at least 30,000 flying miles in the past 12 months means he has produced an estimated 800 tons of carbon emissions – nearly 100 times the average B ...
Words
... of greenhouse gas, but when we burn fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas, we add more. The more greenhouse gas we produce, the thicker the blanket around the earth’s atmosphere becomes. This blanket traps heat around the planet and makes it hotter. The 1980’s and 1990’s were the warmest decad ...
... of greenhouse gas, but when we burn fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas, we add more. The more greenhouse gas we produce, the thicker the blanket around the earth’s atmosphere becomes. This blanket traps heat around the planet and makes it hotter. The 1980’s and 1990’s were the warmest decad ...
one way or another, everything changes
... happen incrementally. A given amount of emission will lead to a given amount of temperature increase that will lead to a given amount of smooth incremental sea level rise. However, the geological record for the climate reflects instances where a relatively small change in one element of climate led ...
... happen incrementally. A given amount of emission will lead to a given amount of temperature increase that will lead to a given amount of smooth incremental sea level rise. However, the geological record for the climate reflects instances where a relatively small change in one element of climate led ...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
... Sometimes uncertainty is a matter of expert judgment, and sometimes it can be inferred quantitatively from data and/or models. ...
... Sometimes uncertainty is a matter of expert judgment, and sometimes it can be inferred quantitatively from data and/or models. ...
The Optimal and Equitable Climate Finance Gap.
... Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, ...
... Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, ...
adaptation - Network for Business Sustainability
... • Important to add climate change risk and vulnerability analysis to decision-making • Place to start is to define risk because climate change has many indirect • Rationale based on traditional economics: save money, reduce risk, increase energy efficiency, minimize waste ...
... • Important to add climate change risk and vulnerability analysis to decision-making • Place to start is to define risk because climate change has many indirect • Rationale based on traditional economics: save money, reduce risk, increase energy efficiency, minimize waste ...
14. human influences on heat-related health indicators during the
... Bergaoui et al. 2015). Approximately 2000 simulations of 2015 are run using perturbed initial conditions (actual scenario) and compared with ~2000 simulations estimating a naturalized version of 2015 (natural scenario). The natural simulations employ solar and volcanic forcings fixed at 2015 levels ...
... Bergaoui et al. 2015). Approximately 2000 simulations of 2015 are run using perturbed initial conditions (actual scenario) and compared with ~2000 simulations estimating a naturalized version of 2015 (natural scenario). The natural simulations employ solar and volcanic forcings fixed at 2015 levels ...
OVERVIEW:
... from Working Group I, which focuses on the evidence of climate change, and observed and expected changes (IPCC, 2013). The report concludes that earth’s climate system is undoubtedly warming, noting significant warming trends over recent decades. It also states that humans are the primary case of th ...
... from Working Group I, which focuses on the evidence of climate change, and observed and expected changes (IPCC, 2013). The report concludes that earth’s climate system is undoubtedly warming, noting significant warming trends over recent decades. It also states that humans are the primary case of th ...
Managing the business risks and opportunities of a changing climate
... changes: in 2010, 950 natural catastrophes caused global losses totaling US$130 billion U.S., of which US$37 billion was insured.1 As the effects of climate change play out globally, demand for products and services to manage climate risks will also rise.2 Despite these striking prospects and figure ...
... changes: in 2010, 950 natural catastrophes caused global losses totaling US$130 billion U.S., of which US$37 billion was insured.1 As the effects of climate change play out globally, demand for products and services to manage climate risks will also rise.2 Despite these striking prospects and figure ...
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.