The Third Oregon Climate Assessment Report
... Adaptation is necessary, as mitigation alone will not prevent serious impacts. In order to avoid negative impacts, now and in the future, we must both mitigate climate change and adapt to climate change. That is, we must try to reduce or even eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, and we must make prep ...
... Adaptation is necessary, as mitigation alone will not prevent serious impacts. In order to avoid negative impacts, now and in the future, we must both mitigate climate change and adapt to climate change. That is, we must try to reduce or even eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, and we must make prep ...
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Broads
... season by reducing the number of days boats were winterized. Even if projected August temperature increases led to a slight reduction in tourism in that month, the potential climate-‐related increase in the length of the season could potentially offset it. ...
... season by reducing the number of days boats were winterized. Even if projected August temperature increases led to a slight reduction in tourism in that month, the potential climate-‐related increase in the length of the season could potentially offset it. ...
The impact of climate change on disease constraints on production
... planning for adaptation to climate change, there is a need to evaluate impacts of climate change on disease-induced losses in crop yields. Oilseed rape (Brassica napus, B. rapa, B. juncea, B. carinata, rapeseed, canola) is grown throughout the world as a source of oil and protein (for human/animal c ...
... planning for adaptation to climate change, there is a need to evaluate impacts of climate change on disease-induced losses in crop yields. Oilseed rape (Brassica napus, B. rapa, B. juncea, B. carinata, rapeseed, canola) is grown throughout the world as a source of oil and protein (for human/animal c ...
City of Urbana CAP phase IFinal
... This document has been developed by the City of Urbana Sustainability Advisory Commission (SAC). It presents the first of two phases of a climate action plan for the City of Urbana. A second phase ...
... This document has been developed by the City of Urbana Sustainability Advisory Commission (SAC). It presents the first of two phases of a climate action plan for the City of Urbana. A second phase ...
Powerpoint version
... Looking back 600 million years Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide was likely 18 times today’s concentration, during the Cambrian period when life’s diversity was at its greatest expansion (red circle). It was 4 times the current level when the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid. The only other extended t ...
... Looking back 600 million years Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide was likely 18 times today’s concentration, during the Cambrian period when life’s diversity was at its greatest expansion (red circle). It was 4 times the current level when the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid. The only other extended t ...
Maize migration: key crop expands to higher altitudes
... on farm survey and climate data from seven South American countries also indicates future changes in the expansion of major crops, concluding that “[p]redictions of the impact of climate change on net revenue must reflect not only changes in yields per crop but also crop switching” (Seo & Mendelsohn, ...
... on farm survey and climate data from seven South American countries also indicates future changes in the expansion of major crops, concluding that “[p]redictions of the impact of climate change on net revenue must reflect not only changes in yields per crop but also crop switching” (Seo & Mendelsohn, ...
An Engineer`s Critique of Global Warming `Science`
... Looking back 600 million years Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide was likely 18 times today’s concentration, during the Cambrian period when life’s diversity was at its greatest expansion (red circle). It was 4 times the current level when the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid. The only other extended t ...
... Looking back 600 million years Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide was likely 18 times today’s concentration, during the Cambrian period when life’s diversity was at its greatest expansion (red circle). It was 4 times the current level when the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid. The only other extended t ...
Comparing CO2 emissions to CO2 levels
... Figure 1: CO2 levels (Green Line - Law Dome, East Antarctica and Blue line - Mauna Loa, Hawaii) and Cumulative CO2 emissions in gigatonnes of CO2 (Red Line - CDIAC). So putting it all together, Figure 1 is a plot of the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (top) versus the total amount of CO2 huma ...
... Figure 1: CO2 levels (Green Line - Law Dome, East Antarctica and Blue line - Mauna Loa, Hawaii) and Cumulative CO2 emissions in gigatonnes of CO2 (Red Line - CDIAC). So putting it all together, Figure 1 is a plot of the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (top) versus the total amount of CO2 huma ...
COMMUNITIES AT RISK? Tool 2, Activity 8 Greenland Defends
... language and culture and addressing social issues affecting the region’s youth, said that many of her friends are unhappy with their job options: “A lot of them would like to be traveling. None of them really say [so]; they just often talk about how much they hate their jobs.” Nunavut’s relative pov ...
... language and culture and addressing social issues affecting the region’s youth, said that many of her friends are unhappy with their job options: “A lot of them would like to be traveling. None of them really say [so]; they just often talk about how much they hate their jobs.” Nunavut’s relative pov ...
climate change and ocean acidification
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) synthesized research regarding observed and projected impacts of climate change on physical and biological processes in the oceans, at both global and regional levels. The impacts of these changes on human health and ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) synthesized research regarding observed and projected impacts of climate change on physical and biological processes in the oceans, at both global and regional levels. The impacts of these changes on human health and ...
Understanding future risks to ports in Australia
... RECONCILIATION OF CLIMATE INFORMATION WITH RESEARCH NEEDS ................................ 33 7.4.1 Structural resilience to climate impacts (WP3) ....................................................... 34 7.4.2 Functional resilience to climate impacts (WP2) ......................................... ...
... RECONCILIATION OF CLIMATE INFORMATION WITH RESEARCH NEEDS ................................ 33 7.4.1 Structural resilience to climate impacts (WP3) ....................................................... 34 7.4.2 Functional resilience to climate impacts (WP2) ......................................... ...
Emissions Reductions - American Public Power Association
... Overview of Guidelines: Small Emitters (<10,000 metric tons CO2e per year) Small emitters that intend to register must: Emit less than 10,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent per year Report all emissions and reductions for at least one activity, e.g. livestock operations or forested land Report ...
... Overview of Guidelines: Small Emitters (<10,000 metric tons CO2e per year) Small emitters that intend to register must: Emit less than 10,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent per year Report all emissions and reductions for at least one activity, e.g. livestock operations or forested land Report ...
Recent climate change in Japan
... to 2.95◦ C (Tokyo). Strongly increasing trends can be found in all seasons, with highest increasing trends in winter. The magnitude of climate change is illustrated to increase over the recent period 1976–2000, which can be clearly identified by the case of Tokyo and also for the other stations unde ...
... to 2.95◦ C (Tokyo). Strongly increasing trends can be found in all seasons, with highest increasing trends in winter. The magnitude of climate change is illustrated to increase over the recent period 1976–2000, which can be clearly identified by the case of Tokyo and also for the other stations unde ...
Climate of the Past
... data – i.e. climate proxy records – are further needed for validation of climate models, to assure that the models are able to reproduce the observed climate change. Reconstructions of past climate changes can be obtained by analyzing different types of proxy data from natural archives, like biologi ...
... data – i.e. climate proxy records – are further needed for validation of climate models, to assure that the models are able to reproduce the observed climate change. Reconstructions of past climate changes can be obtained by analyzing different types of proxy data from natural archives, like biologi ...
Earth`s energy imbalance and implications
... its response to many forcings (Hansen et al., 2005b, 2007). About 40 percent of the equilibrium response is obtained within five years. This quick response is due to the small effective inertia of continents, but warming over continents is limited by exchange of continental and marine air masses. On ...
... its response to many forcings (Hansen et al., 2005b, 2007). About 40 percent of the equilibrium response is obtained within five years. This quick response is due to the small effective inertia of continents, but warming over continents is limited by exchange of continental and marine air masses. On ...
Antarctic precipitation and climate-change predictions: horizontal
... corresponding to a >1 mm a–1 sea-level rise. About three-quarters of this rise originates from the marginal regions of the Antarctic ice sheet with surface elevation below 2250 m. This is where field programs are most urgently needed to better understand and monitor accumulation at the surface of An ...
... corresponding to a >1 mm a–1 sea-level rise. About three-quarters of this rise originates from the marginal regions of the Antarctic ice sheet with surface elevation below 2250 m. This is where field programs are most urgently needed to better understand and monitor accumulation at the surface of An ...
Acceleration technique for Milankovitch type forcing in a coupled
... LORENZ AND LOHMANN: ACCELERATION TECHNIQUE FOR MILANKOVITCH FORCING ...
... LORENZ AND LOHMANN: ACCELERATION TECHNIQUE FOR MILANKOVITCH FORCING ...
Climate and Carbon Cycle
... (Ganopolski and Rahmstorf 2001; Rahmstorf 2002). Aerosols—droplets and particles reflecting the solar radiation and limiting its amount that reaches the surface, are another essential factor influencing the Earth’s climate (Charlson et al. 1992). Aerosols, as the condensation nuclei in the course of ...
... (Ganopolski and Rahmstorf 2001; Rahmstorf 2002). Aerosols—droplets and particles reflecting the solar radiation and limiting its amount that reaches the surface, are another essential factor influencing the Earth’s climate (Charlson et al. 1992). Aerosols, as the condensation nuclei in the course of ...
ESM 215 – Landscape Ecology Winter 2017 1/9
... 2/27-3/1 Land use/land cover dynamics Required reading Perry, G. and N. Enwright. 2006. Spatial modelling of vegetation change in dynamic landscapes: a review of methods and applications. Progress in Physical Geography 30: ...
... 2/27-3/1 Land use/land cover dynamics Required reading Perry, G. and N. Enwright. 2006. Spatial modelling of vegetation change in dynamic landscapes: a review of methods and applications. Progress in Physical Geography 30: ...
Ocean heat uptake and the global surface temperature record
... The severity of the slowdown is sensitive to the methods of data analysis employed11, but even taking the choice of start date and analysis methods into account there may have been a slowdown in surface temperature rise over the last decade. In this paper we consider the contribution that changing o ...
... The severity of the slowdown is sensitive to the methods of data analysis employed11, but even taking the choice of start date and analysis methods into account there may have been a slowdown in surface temperature rise over the last decade. In this paper we consider the contribution that changing o ...