aapg-san-antonio-peterson
... 2008: Changes in North American extremes derived from daily weather data. Journal of Geophysical Research, in press. Peterson, Thomas C., Marjorie McGuirk, Tamara G. Houston, Andrew H. Horvitz and Michael F. Wehner, 2008: Climate Variability and Change with Implications for Transportation, National ...
... 2008: Changes in North American extremes derived from daily weather data. Journal of Geophysical Research, in press. Peterson, Thomas C., Marjorie McGuirk, Tamara G. Houston, Andrew H. Horvitz and Michael F. Wehner, 2008: Climate Variability and Change with Implications for Transportation, National ...
Climate Action Plan - Walking Mountains Science Center
... 2014). Local, regional, and state efforts have become the cornerstone of climate action because national and international energy policy and emissions reduction efforts are slowed and often stifled by policy, politics, and bureaucratic processes. Furthermore, local governments and communities are of ...
... 2014). Local, regional, and state efforts have become the cornerstone of climate action because national and international energy policy and emissions reduction efforts are slowed and often stifled by policy, politics, and bureaucratic processes. Furthermore, local governments and communities are of ...
ACSRI report - Columbia University
... list; (2) a public divestment commitment to divest from “direct ownership of fossil fuel holdings and from any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds” in an advance of the December 2015 United Nations climate change meeting; (3) a five year divestment period to ...
... list; (2) a public divestment commitment to divest from “direct ownership of fossil fuel holdings and from any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds” in an advance of the December 2015 United Nations climate change meeting; (3) a five year divestment period to ...
Issue 16-February 2009
... and people with disability. Under the human rights portfolio, NCOSS works with the NSW charter group who are lobbying for a NSW charter of rights, and the Federal Government has now shown an interest in a national charter of rights. She says an ongoing issue is the elimination all forms of discrimin ...
... and people with disability. Under the human rights portfolio, NCOSS works with the NSW charter group who are lobbying for a NSW charter of rights, and the Federal Government has now shown an interest in a national charter of rights. She says an ongoing issue is the elimination all forms of discrimin ...
The economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
... Global surface temperature, anomalies in annual temperature relative to the average for 1986-2005.... 18 Impacts of climate change on the Latin American and Caribbean region assuming a 2.5°C temperature increase, second half of the twenty-first century................................................ ...
... Global surface temperature, anomalies in annual temperature relative to the average for 1986-2005.... 18 Impacts of climate change on the Latin American and Caribbean region assuming a 2.5°C temperature increase, second half of the twenty-first century................................................ ...
ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON
... 2.8.1.3 Calibration of SWAT Model ...................................................................... 24 2.8.1.4 Climate Customization in SWAT ............................................................... 26 ...
... 2.8.1.3 Calibration of SWAT Model ...................................................................... 24 2.8.1.4 Climate Customization in SWAT ............................................................... 26 ...
Interactions Between State and Federal Climate Change Policies
... Consider first the situation where the state program is more stringent than the national program in that it requires reductions from sources within the state that are greater than would be achieved under the national program alone. In this case, emissions sources must surrender both state and feder ...
... Consider first the situation where the state program is more stringent than the national program in that it requires reductions from sources within the state that are greater than would be achieved under the national program alone. In this case, emissions sources must surrender both state and feder ...
Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in
... effect on the net radiative forcing in the lowermost stratosphere, where it reduces the impact of local changes there, although they still dominate the profile. Kernel calculations are presented here only for the purpose of illustration, as the full global distributions are used in the detailed radi ...
... effect on the net radiative forcing in the lowermost stratosphere, where it reduces the impact of local changes there, although they still dominate the profile. Kernel calculations are presented here only for the purpose of illustration, as the full global distributions are used in the detailed radi ...
11.2MB - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
... ... however, RECOGNISES that recent scientific research and work under the IPCC indicates that it is unlikely that stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations above 550 ppmv CO2 equivalent would be consistent with meeting the 2°C long-term objective ... ... and that in order to have a reasonable ...
... ... however, RECOGNISES that recent scientific research and work under the IPCC indicates that it is unlikely that stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations above 550 ppmv CO2 equivalent would be consistent with meeting the 2°C long-term objective ... ... and that in order to have a reasonable ...
A Case for Guardians for Future Generations
... has the ability to make development sustainable to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”’ The outcome document from Rio+20 in 2012, The Future We Want9, states in the first paragraph that countries renew their “c ...
... has the ability to make development sustainable to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”’ The outcome document from Rio+20 in 2012, The Future We Want9, states in the first paragraph that countries renew their “c ...
Is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change an
... effectiveness, yet his process has only just begun to emerge in the literature on global climate governance (Tompkins & Amundsen 2008, Turnheim & Tezcan 2010). Accordingly, the core of today’s international climate change regime, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is ...
... effectiveness, yet his process has only just begun to emerge in the literature on global climate governance (Tompkins & Amundsen 2008, Turnheim & Tezcan 2010). Accordingly, the core of today’s international climate change regime, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is ...
Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture
... specifications suggest that long run adaptions have more likely offset none of these short run impacts. We also show limited evidence for adaptation along other margins within agriculture: revenues are similarly harmed by extreme heat exposure, and farmers do not appear to be substantially altering ...
... specifications suggest that long run adaptions have more likely offset none of these short run impacts. We also show limited evidence for adaptation along other margins within agriculture: revenues are similarly harmed by extreme heat exposure, and farmers do not appear to be substantially altering ...
FINAL DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 17 Subject to Final Copyedit
... often not provide the desirable level of adaptation with some types of actions not undertaken due to costs, incentives, nature of beneficiaries and resource requirements. This implies the public sector will need to play a strong role. There are also other reasons for public action such as overcoming ...
... often not provide the desirable level of adaptation with some types of actions not undertaken due to costs, incentives, nature of beneficiaries and resource requirements. This implies the public sector will need to play a strong role. There are also other reasons for public action such as overcoming ...
Reversible and irreversible impacts of greenhouse gas
... GHG emissions. Arguably more relevant for individual countries than global mean change is by how much and for how long anthropogenic changes exceed natural variability in individual regions. However, there is as yet no explicit quantification available to which extent the impacts of historical and 2 ...
... GHG emissions. Arguably more relevant for individual countries than global mean change is by how much and for how long anthropogenic changes exceed natural variability in individual regions. However, there is as yet no explicit quantification available to which extent the impacts of historical and 2 ...
report
... over future years: Native herbivores such as kangaroos and wombats, play a vital role in ecosystem functioning but are often victimized and treated with lack of concern because of socio-political factors and historical value judgements rather than heeding biological and ecological information.’ ‘It ...
... over future years: Native herbivores such as kangaroos and wombats, play a vital role in ecosystem functioning but are often victimized and treated with lack of concern because of socio-political factors and historical value judgements rather than heeding biological and ecological information.’ ‘It ...
Act LX of 2007 on the implementation framework of the UN
... major measures and financial sources necessary to achieve them; c) the research priorities connected to the cost-efficient reduction of domestic emissions and to the domestic impacts of climate change as well as the financial sources thereof. (5) The Climate Programme should be determined for a two- ...
... major measures and financial sources necessary to achieve them; c) the research priorities connected to the cost-efficient reduction of domestic emissions and to the domestic impacts of climate change as well as the financial sources thereof. (5) The Climate Programme should be determined for a two- ...
2015 Annual Highlights
... and a stronghold for pronghorn antelope. However, altered fire regimes, invasive species, water scarcity, development and climate change threaten the integrity of this landscape. Several efforts are ongoing for individual species, specific threats or sub-geographies, and more than 60 existing plans ...
... and a stronghold for pronghorn antelope. However, altered fire regimes, invasive species, water scarcity, development and climate change threaten the integrity of this landscape. Several efforts are ongoing for individual species, specific threats or sub-geographies, and more than 60 existing plans ...
pdf
... weather basics and explore climate change related issues close to home in the Hudson River Valley. Most of the lessons have been adapted for use from existing peer reviewed plans. The original source material is credited at the beginning of each lesson. The material presented is not designed as a cu ...
... weather basics and explore climate change related issues close to home in the Hudson River Valley. Most of the lessons have been adapted for use from existing peer reviewed plans. The original source material is credited at the beginning of each lesson. The material presented is not designed as a cu ...
Climate Change, Economic Growth, and Conflict
... certainly due to the use of different measures of climate change and environmental degradation, data problems, and different sample sizes and time periods. Another part, we submit, is due to the fact that past research has focused on identification of a direct link between climatic conditions and c ...
... certainly due to the use of different measures of climate change and environmental degradation, data problems, and different sample sizes and time periods. Another part, we submit, is due to the fact that past research has focused on identification of a direct link between climatic conditions and c ...
The Recent Trend and Variance Increase of the
... includes a warming of the surface temperature in midand high latitudes, a cooling in the high-latitude lower stratosphere, an increase in the strength of the westerlies in high latitudes, and a reduction in total column ozone [for a summary of these trends, including many additional references, see ...
... includes a warming of the surface temperature in midand high latitudes, a cooling in the high-latitude lower stratosphere, an increase in the strength of the westerlies in high latitudes, and a reduction in total column ozone [for a summary of these trends, including many additional references, see ...
Effects of climate variation and water levels on reservoir recreation
... reservoirs by Ward et al. (1996) found that the recreational use value of water ranged from $6 to $600 per acre-foot, depending on the reservoir. In a study of Nevada reservoirs, Huszar et al. (1999) also found that the value of and demand for water-based recreation related significantly to water le ...
... reservoirs by Ward et al. (1996) found that the recreational use value of water ranged from $6 to $600 per acre-foot, depending on the reservoir. In a study of Nevada reservoirs, Huszar et al. (1999) also found that the value of and demand for water-based recreation related significantly to water le ...