CATO HANDBOOK CONGRESS FOR
... Members of Congress should note that calls for dramatic emissions reductions are usually accompanied by lurid rhetoric about weather and climate disasters. The purpose of this chapter is to provide the facts that counter such emotional appeals. No credible argument counters the notion that the plane ...
... Members of Congress should note that calls for dramatic emissions reductions are usually accompanied by lurid rhetoric about weather and climate disasters. The purpose of this chapter is to provide the facts that counter such emotional appeals. No credible argument counters the notion that the plane ...
Climate Change Mitigation: Technology Issues
... • “9. There is no single path to a low emission future and countries and regions will have to choose their own path. Most model results indicate that known technological options could achieve a broad range of atmospheric CO2 stabilization levels, such as 550ppmv, 450ppmv or below over the next 100 y ...
... • “9. There is no single path to a low emission future and countries and regions will have to choose their own path. Most model results indicate that known technological options could achieve a broad range of atmospheric CO2 stabilization levels, such as 550ppmv, 450ppmv or below over the next 100 y ...
Report
... anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, which are the cause of global warming. If the Bill is passed, it will direct the United States Environmental Protection Agency to administrate a cap-and-trade system intended to reduce carbon dioxide levels progressively relative to a 2005 ...
... anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, which are the cause of global warming. If the Bill is passed, it will direct the United States Environmental Protection Agency to administrate a cap-and-trade system intended to reduce carbon dioxide levels progressively relative to a 2005 ...
AOSS_480_L24_Impacts_Public_Health_Heat_20080403
... Lessons from heat waves • Strongest levers for addressing the problem are – Societal capability (social integration, structure, communications) – Environmental warnings and alerts – Education (first responders, general public, ...
... Lessons from heat waves • Strongest levers for addressing the problem are – Societal capability (social integration, structure, communications) – Environmental warnings and alerts – Education (first responders, general public, ...
Responding to Climate Myths
... Ding et al 2011 found that people who believe scientists disagree on global warming are less likely to support climate policy McCright et al 2013: “Climate change communicators should therefore identify opportunities and employ techniques to effectively counter the denial machine’s campaign of chall ...
... Ding et al 2011 found that people who believe scientists disagree on global warming are less likely to support climate policy McCright et al 2013: “Climate change communicators should therefore identify opportunities and employ techniques to effectively counter the denial machine’s campaign of chall ...
A Case Study of Biofuels and Solar Energy
... Energy sources exploited in Brazil include hydropower, thermal power, solar power, biofuels and wind energy. According to the National Electric Energy Agency [2], the country has 3336 projects of electricity generation in operation, representing an output of approximately 118 Gigawatts. Thus, signif ...
... Energy sources exploited in Brazil include hydropower, thermal power, solar power, biofuels and wind energy. According to the National Electric Energy Agency [2], the country has 3336 projects of electricity generation in operation, representing an output of approximately 118 Gigawatts. Thus, signif ...
GTAP 2015 Conference Paper # 4650 Coupling Socioeconomic
... could be termed Human-Earth-System Models, where policy, actions, and responses to environmental and global change issues can be modelled in a coupled manner. ...
... could be termed Human-Earth-System Models, where policy, actions, and responses to environmental and global change issues can be modelled in a coupled manner. ...
Global Warming: DC Metro Region Outlook
... Higher water temperatures, if coupled with both increased pollutant runoff in the spring (as a result of changes in precipitation patters) and higher air temperatures during summer months - will likely lead to increased frequency and duration of algal blooms. Lead to degraded water quality Sourc ...
... Higher water temperatures, if coupled with both increased pollutant runoff in the spring (as a result of changes in precipitation patters) and higher air temperatures during summer months - will likely lead to increased frequency and duration of algal blooms. Lead to degraded water quality Sourc ...
Document
... Data Source: D.M. Etheridge et al. Concentrations of CH4 from the Law Dome (East Side, "DE08" Site) Ice Core(a), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia. September 1994. Available: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ftp/trends/methane/lawdome.259. M.A.K. K ...
... Data Source: D.M. Etheridge et al. Concentrations of CH4 from the Law Dome (East Side, "DE08" Site) Ice Core(a), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia. September 1994. Available: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ftp/trends/methane/lawdome.259. M.A.K. K ...
3_session_Ayensu
... • Assessment of vulnerability to climate change and how future climate change will affect it ...
... • Assessment of vulnerability to climate change and how future climate change will affect it ...
Spring 2003
... of the worlds global environmental success stories. We’ll explore what made it possible and the lessons that can be taken from it to address other global environmental problems. Reading: Protecting the Ozone Layer: The United Nations History by Stephen O Andersen and K Madhava Sarma, United Nations ...
... of the worlds global environmental success stories. We’ll explore what made it possible and the lessons that can be taken from it to address other global environmental problems. Reading: Protecting the Ozone Layer: The United Nations History by Stephen O Andersen and K Madhava Sarma, United Nations ...
Download - 238kb
... Vigorous young forests may sequester a great deal of carbon as they grow. In contrast, the vegetation and soils of old-growth forests typically store large quantities of carbon but add to these stocks only slowly, if at all. Forests are also sources of GHG emissions, mainly CO2. Deforestation and fo ...
... Vigorous young forests may sequester a great deal of carbon as they grow. In contrast, the vegetation and soils of old-growth forests typically store large quantities of carbon but add to these stocks only slowly, if at all. Forests are also sources of GHG emissions, mainly CO2. Deforestation and fo ...
Incorporating snow albedo feedback into downscaled temperature
... Sierra Nevada snowpack is an important source of freshwater for the state of California, acting as a natural reservoir that holds water in frozen form until it gradually melts over spring and summer and flows into manmade reservoirs and conveyance systems. Past studies have shown that in the future, ...
... Sierra Nevada snowpack is an important source of freshwater for the state of California, acting as a natural reservoir that holds water in frozen form until it gradually melts over spring and summer and flows into manmade reservoirs and conveyance systems. Past studies have shown that in the future, ...
Health impact of climate change due to combustion of fossil fuel
... sun’s energy reaches the earth’s surface, some of it is reflected back and some of it is absorbed by the earth’s surface. The absorbed energy warms the earth. This heat is then re-radiated back towards space as terrestrial radiation. Certain gases such as CH4, N2O in the earth’s atmosphere act as “g ...
... sun’s energy reaches the earth’s surface, some of it is reflected back and some of it is absorbed by the earth’s surface. The absorbed energy warms the earth. This heat is then re-radiated back towards space as terrestrial radiation. Certain gases such as CH4, N2O in the earth’s atmosphere act as “g ...
The Decline and Fall of Global Warming
... a “semi direct” heating of the lower atmosphere by aerosol absorption may minimize the indirect cloud effect. Most recently, Hobbs (1997) reported that air samples from the eastern United States showed a predominance of soot (carbon), which should have created a net warming, rather than sulfates, wh ...
... a “semi direct” heating of the lower atmosphere by aerosol absorption may minimize the indirect cloud effect. Most recently, Hobbs (1997) reported that air samples from the eastern United States showed a predominance of soot (carbon), which should have created a net warming, rather than sulfates, wh ...
mmelsner_poster_waccia_agu_dec08
... next 100 years. The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) at the University of Washington Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) is working with Washington State University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and state agencies to perform an integrated assessment on the effects ...
... next 100 years. The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) at the University of Washington Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) is working with Washington State University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and state agencies to perform an integrated assessment on the effects ...
xxxxx August 2006 - Development Watch
... infrastructure is also a major concern. The risk is heightened by expectations that the intensity of rain during storms will increase and, by 2050, cyclones may produce 20 to 30 per cent more rain than they do now. For this reason, climate change could result in increased rainfall intensities and fl ...
... infrastructure is also a major concern. The risk is heightened by expectations that the intensity of rain during storms will increase and, by 2050, cyclones may produce 20 to 30 per cent more rain than they do now. For this reason, climate change could result in increased rainfall intensities and fl ...
NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST)
... • Radiative forcing from black carbon aerosol (BC) is 0.65 W m-2, highly uncertain • Together methane and BC have radiative forcing comparable to CO2 they have made comparable contribution to past climate change • But atmospheric lifetimes of methane (10 years) and BC (~1 week) are shorter than CO ...
... • Radiative forcing from black carbon aerosol (BC) is 0.65 W m-2, highly uncertain • Together methane and BC have radiative forcing comparable to CO2 they have made comparable contribution to past climate change • But atmospheric lifetimes of methane (10 years) and BC (~1 week) are shorter than CO ...
Word format
... * Cosmetic “rounding up” of the calculated number from 1.0 to 1.4 0C, thus serving to lift it clear of the 1.0 0C low-end for the previous (1996) range. IPCC’s explanation, repeated by CSIRO, that the jump from 1.0-3.5 0C to 1.4-5.8 0C results from assuming lower sulphur dioxide emissions in the fut ...
... * Cosmetic “rounding up” of the calculated number from 1.0 to 1.4 0C, thus serving to lift it clear of the 1.0 0C low-end for the previous (1996) range. IPCC’s explanation, repeated by CSIRO, that the jump from 1.0-3.5 0C to 1.4-5.8 0C results from assuming lower sulphur dioxide emissions in the fut ...
EC-EARTH: goals, developments and scientific perspectives
... a weather prediction model forced us to seek improvements to the uncoupled version of IFS (called CY31), which was initially chosen as the starting point of EC-Earth. These improvements should be reflected in the mean current climate as well as in its variability6). The tuning group of the EC-Earth ...
... a weather prediction model forced us to seek improvements to the uncoupled version of IFS (called CY31), which was initially chosen as the starting point of EC-Earth. These improvements should be reflected in the mean current climate as well as in its variability6). The tuning group of the EC-Earth ...
Climate Change and Vector-Borne/Zoonotic Diseases
... – South Africa – Maximum daily temperatures from preceding season correlated with malaria cases (Craig et al. 2004) – Ethiopia – Minimum temperatures (< 12oC) in cold region correlated with cases – Kenya and Ethiopia – Heavy rainfall associated with outbreaks (Lindsay and ...
... – South Africa – Maximum daily temperatures from preceding season correlated with malaria cases (Craig et al. 2004) – Ethiopia – Minimum temperatures (< 12oC) in cold region correlated with cases – Kenya and Ethiopia – Heavy rainfall associated with outbreaks (Lindsay and ...
The Global Carbon Cycle
... Dancing Molecules and Heat Rays! • Nearly all of the air is made of oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2) in which two atoms of the same element share electrons • Infrared (heat) energy radiated up from the surface can be absorbed by these molecules, but not very well ...
... Dancing Molecules and Heat Rays! • Nearly all of the air is made of oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2) in which two atoms of the same element share electrons • Infrared (heat) energy radiated up from the surface can be absorbed by these molecules, but not very well ...
Natural Assets - Infrastructure SA
... the economic, cultural and social wellbeing of the regional communities. The plan will work towards keeping adequate freshwater in the system with the implementation of adaptive and complementary management actions to protect this valuable Ramsar site. The plan outlines the priority actions for fund ...
... the economic, cultural and social wellbeing of the regional communities. The plan will work towards keeping adequate freshwater in the system with the implementation of adaptive and complementary management actions to protect this valuable Ramsar site. The plan outlines the priority actions for fund ...
Climate Change Law Seminar - IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
... found at http://blogs.law.widener.edu/climatechangelaw/. -West, Selected Environmental Law Statutes (or on-line statutory resources) -There will also be supplementary materials posted on TWEN. Overview Climate change is perhaps the most important environmental and public policy issue of our time. As ...
... found at http://blogs.law.widener.edu/climatechangelaw/. -West, Selected Environmental Law Statutes (or on-line statutory resources) -There will also be supplementary materials posted on TWEN. Overview Climate change is perhaps the most important environmental and public policy issue of our time. As ...
Climate Change
... support of stronger health systems and expanded access to medicines and vaccines in underserved areas is even more important given the evidence that certain disease patterns can be associated with changing climate conditions, which may lead to an increase in marginalized populations. Our Position on ...
... support of stronger health systems and expanded access to medicines and vaccines in underserved areas is even more important given the evidence that certain disease patterns can be associated with changing climate conditions, which may lead to an increase in marginalized populations. Our Position on ...
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.