climate, water, and political-economic crises
... complexity. Society is viewed as being oriented toward solving minor and major problems that are constantly emerging, although sometimes they emerge abruptly and without warning. Solving problems requires the investment and expenditure of resources. Some of these resources are easily accessible and ...
... complexity. Society is viewed as being oriented toward solving minor and major problems that are constantly emerging, although sometimes they emerge abruptly and without warning. Solving problems requires the investment and expenditure of resources. Some of these resources are easily accessible and ...
Water and Carbon Cycles 3 days
... transport—are built on carbon. We need carbon, but that need is also entwined with one of the most serious problems facing us today: global climate change.....’ NASA Earth Observatory The current geographical study of carbon is fundamental to the age in which we live, and to future generations. Equi ...
... transport—are built on carbon. We need carbon, but that need is also entwined with one of the most serious problems facing us today: global climate change.....’ NASA Earth Observatory The current geographical study of carbon is fundamental to the age in which we live, and to future generations. Equi ...
Climate change and the impact of aerosol
... indirectly by modifying the properties of clouds. Black carbon causes warming, whereas all other aerosol causes cooling. The short lifetime of aerosols (days/weeks) means that their effects are more regional and less persistent into the future than those of the long lived greenhouse gases. Aerosol c ...
... indirectly by modifying the properties of clouds. Black carbon causes warming, whereas all other aerosol causes cooling. The short lifetime of aerosols (days/weeks) means that their effects are more regional and less persistent into the future than those of the long lived greenhouse gases. Aerosol c ...
Washing Away Our Heritage: The Impacts of Rising Sea
... change but also because they reflect whom these issues are significant to. They provide scenarios and plans for adaptations in different regions, which will help to inform the recommendations issued at the end of this work. However, these reports also come with their own biases. Many state and even ...
... change but also because they reflect whom these issues are significant to. They provide scenarios and plans for adaptations in different regions, which will help to inform the recommendations issued at the end of this work. However, these reports also come with their own biases. Many state and even ...
Climate change in the Arctic: current and future
... current adaptive capacity). This involves (1) identification of climatic conditions that represent risks to community members; (2) characterisation of how communities manage and experience these risks; and (3) identification of those processes and conditions that influence exposure to climatic risks ...
... current adaptive capacity). This involves (1) identification of climatic conditions that represent risks to community members; (2) characterisation of how communities manage and experience these risks; and (3) identification of those processes and conditions that influence exposure to climatic risks ...
CSA Sourcebook Module 13: Mainstreaming CSA into national policies and programmes
... particularly in countries with high economic dependence on agriculture (FAO, 2012a). At the same time, agriculture is a major user of natural capital and has a considerable impact on the environment. The 2012 United Nation’s Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio considered the green economy1 ...
... particularly in countries with high economic dependence on agriculture (FAO, 2012a). At the same time, agriculture is a major user of natural capital and has a considerable impact on the environment. The 2012 United Nation’s Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio considered the green economy1 ...
Climate Change: Addressing the Major Skeptic Arguments
... The purpose of this paper is to examine the many claims and counter-claims being made in the public debate about climate change science. For most of this year, the volume of this debate has turned way up as the ‘skeptics’ launched a determined assault on the climate findings accepted by the overwhel ...
... The purpose of this paper is to examine the many claims and counter-claims being made in the public debate about climate change science. For most of this year, the volume of this debate has turned way up as the ‘skeptics’ launched a determined assault on the climate findings accepted by the overwhel ...
Particulate air pollution from wildfires in the Western US under
... therefore used a multi-model approach: we first calculated the future change in area burned for each model separately and then determined median changes for the model ensemble (Yue et al. 2013). The predicted median increase from present day to future in area burned ranged from 10 % to 170 %, depend ...
... therefore used a multi-model approach: we first calculated the future change in area burned for each model separately and then determined median changes for the model ensemble (Yue et al. 2013). The predicted median increase from present day to future in area burned ranged from 10 % to 170 %, depend ...
Analysis of Monthly, Seasonal and Annual Air Temperature
... perature of the Earth within a range suitable for life. However, as the levels of these gases build up in the atmosphere, they act like the transparent roof of a greenhouse, which allows in sunlight while trapping the heat energy. Climate change over the last century is a subject of great topical in ...
... perature of the Earth within a range suitable for life. However, as the levels of these gases build up in the atmosphere, they act like the transparent roof of a greenhouse, which allows in sunlight while trapping the heat energy. Climate change over the last century is a subject of great topical in ...
Environment - West Sussex County Council
... Climate Change Description Climate change refers to man-made changes in our climate. Global warming is one of the most well-known effects of climate change where there is a steady increase in the earth’s temperature. Other effects include rising sea levels, ice caps melting at the poles and extreme ...
... Climate Change Description Climate change refers to man-made changes in our climate. Global warming is one of the most well-known effects of climate change where there is a steady increase in the earth’s temperature. Other effects include rising sea levels, ice caps melting at the poles and extreme ...
How The Wall Street Journal Opinion Section
... disclose to its readers. Scientists and journalists criticized93 the piece, saying the op-ed exhibits a “breath-taking illogic and intellectual legerdemain”94 with arguments that “don’t even come close to passing a scientific smell test;” that it serves to “manufacture doubt”95 by “recycling long de ...
... disclose to its readers. Scientists and journalists criticized93 the piece, saying the op-ed exhibits a “breath-taking illogic and intellectual legerdemain”94 with arguments that “don’t even come close to passing a scientific smell test;” that it serves to “manufacture doubt”95 by “recycling long de ...
Indicators of Canada`s Changing Climate
... Heating needs across most of Canada have decreased during the past century. Many parts of the country have also seen cooling needs rise. ...
... Heating needs across most of Canada have decreased during the past century. Many parts of the country have also seen cooling needs rise. ...
NRDC: Hotter and Drier - The West`s Changed Climate
... The American West has heated up even more than the world as a whole. For the last five years (2003 through 2007), the global climate has averaged 1.0 degree Fahrenheit warmer than its 20th century average. For this report, RMCO found that during the 2003 through 2007 period, the 11 western states av ...
... The American West has heated up even more than the world as a whole. For the last five years (2003 through 2007), the global climate has averaged 1.0 degree Fahrenheit warmer than its 20th century average. For this report, RMCO found that during the 2003 through 2007 period, the 11 western states av ...
5 A Portfolio of Carbon Management Options
... Continuation of current trends in fossil-fuel and land use is likely to lead to significant climate change, with important adverse consequences for both natural and human systems. This has led to the investigation of various options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or otherwise diminish the impact ...
... Continuation of current trends in fossil-fuel and land use is likely to lead to significant climate change, with important adverse consequences for both natural and human systems. This has led to the investigation of various options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or otherwise diminish the impact ...
Climate change and habitat conversion favour the same species
... posits that climate niches of tropical species are narrow (Janzen 1967), and (3) the tropics are expected to experience locally novel climates sooner than any other region on Earth (Mora et al. 2013). Despite uncertainty in precise spatial patterns, over the coming century, the Neotropics are expect ...
... posits that climate niches of tropical species are narrow (Janzen 1967), and (3) the tropics are expected to experience locally novel climates sooner than any other region on Earth (Mora et al. 2013). Despite uncertainty in precise spatial patterns, over the coming century, the Neotropics are expect ...
Climate change and the water industry
... Snowpack and glaciers have a large impact on water storage and flow seasonality, and with global warming, vanishing glaciers and diminishing snowpacks potentially pose a major threat to the water availability in the regions identified in figure 1. In a warmer world, a smaller proportion of winter pr ...
... Snowpack and glaciers have a large impact on water storage and flow seasonality, and with global warming, vanishing glaciers and diminishing snowpacks potentially pose a major threat to the water availability in the regions identified in figure 1. In a warmer world, a smaller proportion of winter pr ...
Coastal flooding, global warming and environmental management
... rapid rates of change along the coast of Louisiana, which are about 10 times the global rate (Gornitz, 1995), are a cause for management concern. Delta areas are known to experience a more rapid sea-level rise than adjacent areas that are not a part of the deltaic system. This is because the earth’s ...
... rapid rates of change along the coast of Louisiana, which are about 10 times the global rate (Gornitz, 1995), are a cause for management concern. Delta areas are known to experience a more rapid sea-level rise than adjacent areas that are not a part of the deltaic system. This is because the earth’s ...
Working Paper No.7 - Climate Learning and Knowledge
... The Uganda country study is part of a series of case studies carried out under a project entitled Climate Learning for African Agriculture, funded by the Climate and Knowledge Development Network. ...
... The Uganda country study is part of a series of case studies carried out under a project entitled Climate Learning for African Agriculture, funded by the Climate and Knowledge Development Network. ...
How the Great Barrier Reef and its industries can adapt to climate
... impacts or improve our lives. We want to identify and avoid these kinds of ‘limited’ adaptation strategies. Instead, we want to follow adaptation strategies that our experiences so far suggest are actually effective and will continue to be in the future. These kinds of strategies are referred to her ...
... impacts or improve our lives. We want to identify and avoid these kinds of ‘limited’ adaptation strategies. Instead, we want to follow adaptation strategies that our experiences so far suggest are actually effective and will continue to be in the future. These kinds of strategies are referred to her ...
Heiken-Forest-Carbon-Myths.pps
... Forests are dark green, so they exacerbate global warming by absorbing rather than reflecting the sun's energy. ...
... Forests are dark green, so they exacerbate global warming by absorbing rather than reflecting the sun's energy. ...
The sun plays only a very minor role
... The sun plays only a very minor role Before discussing any detail, there are a few general points that I do feel need to be made. Please forgive me if writing these down appears patronising for, indeed, these points are well known and I have never seen them contested in any rational argument - which ...
... The sun plays only a very minor role Before discussing any detail, there are a few general points that I do feel need to be made. Please forgive me if writing these down appears patronising for, indeed, these points are well known and I have never seen them contested in any rational argument - which ...
All developing countries where there is any ability to measure
... Equity - - regarding developing countries. They point out that: it was the industrialized countries, not they, who created the problem of Global Climate Change (having contributed only about 20 percent of the carbon dioxide that has accumulated in the atmosphere from industrial activity over the pas ...
... Equity - - regarding developing countries. They point out that: it was the industrialized countries, not they, who created the problem of Global Climate Change (having contributed only about 20 percent of the carbon dioxide that has accumulated in the atmosphere from industrial activity over the pas ...
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... Total funding is inadequate by an order of magnitude Nearly all conservation funding is short-term (1 - 3 years) Explosive growth of private financial flows (adverse impacts/opportunities) Ecosystem services undervalued ...
... Total funding is inadequate by an order of magnitude Nearly all conservation funding is short-term (1 - 3 years) Explosive growth of private financial flows (adverse impacts/opportunities) Ecosystem services undervalued ...