Ecosystem Services for Climate change Adaptation in Agricultural
... Knowledge systems (traditional and formal). Ecosystems influence the types of knowledge systems developed by different cultures. Educational values. Ecosystems and their components and processes provide the basis for both formal and informal education in many societies. Inspiration. Ecosystems provi ...
... Knowledge systems (traditional and formal). Ecosystems influence the types of knowledge systems developed by different cultures. Educational values. Ecosystems and their components and processes provide the basis for both formal and informal education in many societies. Inspiration. Ecosystems provi ...
Assessment of Climate Hazards, Traditional Early
... the information from NMA reaches them with location specific, timely and accurately. Types of climate information expected from NMA are drought/rainfall onset, set off and its volume, heat stress, disease outbreak, erratic rainfall, flood, etc within time frame of up to two months ahead and maximum ...
... the information from NMA reaches them with location specific, timely and accurately. Types of climate information expected from NMA are drought/rainfall onset, set off and its volume, heat stress, disease outbreak, erratic rainfall, flood, etc within time frame of up to two months ahead and maximum ...
Sea Ice–Albedo Feedback and Nonlinear Arctic Climate Change
... Plate 3 shows the relationship between polar region effective albedo and surface temperature. The effective albedo is the long-term ratio of surface-up to surface-down shortwave flux. Effective albedo can be shown to be the time-averaged albedo weighted with the surface downward shortwave flux. This ...
... Plate 3 shows the relationship between polar region effective albedo and surface temperature. The effective albedo is the long-term ratio of surface-up to surface-down shortwave flux. Effective albedo can be shown to be the time-averaged albedo weighted with the surface downward shortwave flux. This ...
Ireland in a Warmer World
... a particular focus on coastal regions surrounding Ireland. While the impact is seasonally dependent, there is evidence that extreme wave heights may increase by up to 10% in some Irish waters. Chapter 5 describes an investigation into the impact of warmer ocean temperatures on storminess. The result ...
... a particular focus on coastal regions surrounding Ireland. While the impact is seasonally dependent, there is evidence that extreme wave heights may increase by up to 10% in some Irish waters. Chapter 5 describes an investigation into the impact of warmer ocean temperatures on storminess. The result ...
Public understanding of climate change and adaptation
... This report summarises research conducted by the Discipline of Public Health at The University of Adelaide, augmenting knowledge of how South Australians construe and rationalise climate change risk and adaptation responses. The research project comprises two interlinked studies. First, four semi-st ...
... This report summarises research conducted by the Discipline of Public Health at The University of Adelaide, augmenting knowledge of how South Australians construe and rationalise climate change risk and adaptation responses. The research project comprises two interlinked studies. First, four semi-st ...
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
impact of warmer climate on lake Geneva water
... indicate an increase in monthly epilimnic and hypolimnic temperatures of 2.32–3.8 °C and 2.2–2.33 °C, respectively. The rising of epilimnic temperatures corresponds to 55%–98% of the monthly increase in air temperature. The stratification period lasts longer and the lake stability increases. Thus th ...
... indicate an increase in monthly epilimnic and hypolimnic temperatures of 2.32–3.8 °C and 2.2–2.33 °C, respectively. The rising of epilimnic temperatures corresponds to 55%–98% of the monthly increase in air temperature. The stratification period lasts longer and the lake stability increases. Thus th ...
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
Ecosystems and Wildlife: Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... It is generally acknowledged that climate change is occurring and that it will have significant effects on wildlife and ecosystems in the United States and the world (IPCC 2007). Since 2005, when states originally developed their Wildlife Action Plans, the scientific community has refined and improv ...
... It is generally acknowledged that climate change is occurring and that it will have significant effects on wildlife and ecosystems in the United States and the world (IPCC 2007). Since 2005, when states originally developed their Wildlife Action Plans, the scientific community has refined and improv ...
Climate Change: The Role of .S. Agriculture Sector the U
... reduction programs that would either mandate or authorize a cap-and-trade program to reduce GHG emissions. In general, the current legislative proposals would not require emission reductions in the agriculture and forestry sectors. However, some of these proposals would allow farmers and landowners ...
... reduction programs that would either mandate or authorize a cap-and-trade program to reduce GHG emissions. In general, the current legislative proposals would not require emission reductions in the agriculture and forestry sectors. However, some of these proposals would allow farmers and landowners ...
New York City Begins Planning for Climate
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
On the interpretation of inter-model spread in CMIP5 climate
... temperature adjustment occurs on a much smaller time-scale (i.e., weeks to months) than the long-term climate ...
... temperature adjustment occurs on a much smaller time-scale (i.e., weeks to months) than the long-term climate ...
Contested science in the media: linguistic traces of
... often involves complex and contested issues characterized by risk and uncertainty. In addition, economic, political, and ethical aspects, as well as even broader social and values-based considerations may be involved. Cases in point are nuclear power (e.g., Bickerstaff et al., 2008; Peoples, 2014), ...
... often involves complex and contested issues characterized by risk and uncertainty. In addition, economic, political, and ethical aspects, as well as even broader social and values-based considerations may be involved. Cases in point are nuclear power (e.g., Bickerstaff et al., 2008; Peoples, 2014), ...
The Global “Disappearing Act”: How Island States Can Maintain
... The UN created the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to “provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts.” 31 The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (Report) outlines “new evidence of ...
... The UN created the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to “provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts.” 31 The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (Report) outlines “new evidence of ...
Understanding Sustainability Jon Barrett
... The physical reasons for this predicament have been well-explained elsewhere5 but, in summarising these, we begin to recognise their interconnecting patterns. Cheap abundant energy derived from oil has driven growth in the human population from less than one billion two hundred years ago to seven bi ...
... The physical reasons for this predicament have been well-explained elsewhere5 but, in summarising these, we begin to recognise their interconnecting patterns. Cheap abundant energy derived from oil has driven growth in the human population from less than one billion two hundred years ago to seven bi ...
Improving Societal Outcomes of Extreme Weather in a Changing
... significantly across time, space, and populations. For example, hot temperatures affect crops differently depending on when they occur relative to the plants’ stage of development (26). The temperature threshold for a heat wave is lower in a colder climate than a warmer one, and the human impacts of ...
... significantly across time, space, and populations. For example, hot temperatures affect crops differently depending on when they occur relative to the plants’ stage of development (26). The temperature threshold for a heat wave is lower in a colder climate than a warmer one, and the human impacts of ...
the relationships between marine phytoplankton
... compound in the transfer of sulphur derived from a traditional perspective on the cycles of elements, namely, that only physicochemical sources could account for the huge amounts of substances involved in such cycles. Non-biological sources of H2S that were already known, such as volcanoes and fumar ...
... compound in the transfer of sulphur derived from a traditional perspective on the cycles of elements, namely, that only physicochemical sources could account for the huge amounts of substances involved in such cycles. Non-biological sources of H2S that were already known, such as volcanoes and fumar ...
Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for all sectors of Sonoma
... Sonoma’s first assessment of the greenhouse gas emitted by the whole community. The County of Sonoma and the City of Santa Rosa completed their GHG emissions inventories—Milestone One—for their internal operations in 2002. The County also set a target—Milestone Two—to reduce the emissions produced b ...
... Sonoma’s first assessment of the greenhouse gas emitted by the whole community. The County of Sonoma and the City of Santa Rosa completed their GHG emissions inventories—Milestone One—for their internal operations in 2002. The County also set a target—Milestone Two—to reduce the emissions produced b ...
9 Towards global agreemenT Key points
... need to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations to low levels. There is great difficulty in moving directly to that outcome from where the world is now. Whether the ultimate aim is stabilisation or prolonged decline after an initial rise (peaking), there is a good chance that the optimal response to cl ...
... need to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations to low levels. There is great difficulty in moving directly to that outcome from where the world is now. Whether the ultimate aim is stabilisation or prolonged decline after an initial rise (peaking), there is a good chance that the optimal response to cl ...
Activity report_year N-Template - MONARCH-A
... 5. Reanalysis of the water and carbon balances of the major high-latitude catchments and their link to climate ...
... 5. Reanalysis of the water and carbon balances of the major high-latitude catchments and their link to climate ...
Detecting range shifts among Australian fishes in
... tropical and subtropical species that were present in the latter sampling period, but not in the former, which they attributed to regional increases in air and sea-surface temperatures (.38C) during the 30-year period. In freshwater systems, there are several long-term studies linking patterns of cl ...
... tropical and subtropical species that were present in the latter sampling period, but not in the former, which they attributed to regional increases in air and sea-surface temperatures (.38C) during the 30-year period. In freshwater systems, there are several long-term studies linking patterns of cl ...
2010_09_icao_grounded PDF, 750.6 KByte
... debate. ICAO in 2004 endorsed the inclusion of emissions trading in existing schemes. But renewed insistence on „mutual agreement‟ has now been proposed by Canada, the United States and Mexico. It is a thinly-disguised delay tactic. A number of proposed methodologies are available, there is no need ...
... debate. ICAO in 2004 endorsed the inclusion of emissions trading in existing schemes. But renewed insistence on „mutual agreement‟ has now been proposed by Canada, the United States and Mexico. It is a thinly-disguised delay tactic. A number of proposed methodologies are available, there is no need ...
Flooding Workshop, Canberra, 7-9th February 2001
... (developed by the author) is explained, and examples given of how it can be used in practice. The impacts of climate change will be strongly felt by the global insurance industry; not only is the growth in catastrophe claims costs likely to continue at an ever increasing rate, but also the demand fo ...
... (developed by the author) is explained, and examples given of how it can be used in practice. The impacts of climate change will be strongly felt by the global insurance industry; not only is the growth in catastrophe claims costs likely to continue at an ever increasing rate, but also the demand fo ...