the critical decade:climate change and health
... temperatures, changes to rainfall patterns, sealevel rise and more intense weather events— have serious consequences for our health. As climate change continues, scientists anticipate that these health impacts will get worse. The full range of risks to human health from climate change is mostly fore ...
... temperatures, changes to rainfall patterns, sealevel rise and more intense weather events— have serious consequences for our health. As climate change continues, scientists anticipate that these health impacts will get worse. The full range of risks to human health from climate change is mostly fore ...
Adaptation in Action - American Public Health Association
... go to cool off, for seven communities that include both rural and urban counties. The maps are tailored to local needs so local health officials can use them in public advisory and education efforts. • The Minnesota program has developed a series of training modules related to climate change for pu ...
... go to cool off, for seven communities that include both rural and urban counties. The maps are tailored to local needs so local health officials can use them in public advisory and education efforts. • The Minnesota program has developed a series of training modules related to climate change for pu ...
Challenges of a Sustained Climate Observing System
... Abstract Observations of planet Earth and especially all climate system components and forcings are increasingly needed for planning and informed decision making related to climate services in the broadest sense. Although significant progress has been made, much more remains to be done before a full ...
... Abstract Observations of planet Earth and especially all climate system components and forcings are increasingly needed for planning and informed decision making related to climate services in the broadest sense. Although significant progress has been made, much more remains to be done before a full ...
Making Climate Data Relevant to Decision Making:
... been produced about climate change, but very little of this information is relevant to on-the-ground decision making about these types of specific climate change impacts. This is due to different reasons: 1) the climate model information is at spatial scales too coarse a scale for most impact modeli ...
... been produced about climate change, but very little of this information is relevant to on-the-ground decision making about these types of specific climate change impacts. This is due to different reasons: 1) the climate model information is at spatial scales too coarse a scale for most impact modeli ...
Slide 1
... We must learn from the events of recent days. These rains were unprecedented, but it would be wrong to suppose that such an event could never happen again…. (Hazel Blears, House of Commons, July 2007) ...
... We must learn from the events of recent days. These rains were unprecedented, but it would be wrong to suppose that such an event could never happen again…. (Hazel Blears, House of Commons, July 2007) ...
Biodiversity climate change impacts report card technical paper
... evidence (Section 1.3), where it has been sought, primarily among the zooplankton, of rapid microevolutionary adjustment to temperature change [H, Li]. Many invertebrates are resilient to disturbance, some with resting stages, in contrast to a near complete absence of these in marine species. Freshw ...
... evidence (Section 1.3), where it has been sought, primarily among the zooplankton, of rapid microevolutionary adjustment to temperature change [H, Li]. Many invertebrates are resilient to disturbance, some with resting stages, in contrast to a near complete absence of these in marine species. Freshw ...
Honors Seminar - Advanced Presentation
... shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date on which not less than 55 Parties to the Convention, incorporating Parties included in Annex I, which accounted in total for at least 55 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions for 1990 of the Parties included in Annex I, have deposite ...
... shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date on which not less than 55 Parties to the Convention, incorporating Parties included in Annex I, which accounted in total for at least 55 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions for 1990 of the Parties included in Annex I, have deposite ...
Downloadable Full Text - DSpace@MIT
... intense media coverage of and great public interest in the 2011 disasters, we suspect that many readers have received inquiries or have personal interest about the nature of these events in the context of long-term trends and potential climate change. This paper is meant to present a clear record th ...
... intense media coverage of and great public interest in the 2011 disasters, we suspect that many readers have received inquiries or have personal interest about the nature of these events in the context of long-term trends and potential climate change. This paper is meant to present a clear record th ...
- Wiley Online Library
... the Ethiopian endemic Lobelia rhynchopetalum as a model. We modeled the habitat suitability of L. rhynchopetalum and assessed how its range is affected under two climate models and four emission scenarios. We used three statistical algorithms calibrated to represent two different complexity levels o ...
... the Ethiopian endemic Lobelia rhynchopetalum as a model. We modeled the habitat suitability of L. rhynchopetalum and assessed how its range is affected under two climate models and four emission scenarios. We used three statistical algorithms calibrated to represent two different complexity levels o ...
Summary of Climate Change Effects on Major Habitat Types in
... Nationwide, the effects of climate change are projected to include increasingly severe storms and floods in some places and increasing droughts in other places.15 Some locations are expected to be subject to each of these conditions during different times of the year.16 In parts of the United States ...
... Nationwide, the effects of climate change are projected to include increasingly severe storms and floods in some places and increasing droughts in other places.15 Some locations are expected to be subject to each of these conditions during different times of the year.16 In parts of the United States ...
Background paper
... accounted for almost half the deforestation in the SADC region.3 The Integrated Land Use Assessment (ILUA) study estimated annual deforestation rate in Zambia to be around 300,000 ha. Given the role deforestation plays in raising greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), this is clearly an area of great conce ...
... accounted for almost half the deforestation in the SADC region.3 The Integrated Land Use Assessment (ILUA) study estimated annual deforestation rate in Zambia to be around 300,000 ha. Given the role deforestation plays in raising greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), this is clearly an area of great conce ...
A Greener Dragon? - Department of Defence
... As a developed economy endowed with natural resources, it is within Australia’s capacity to undertake reform and increase GHG emission reductions. The constraints for Australia implementing mitigation actions are ‘no longer technological or economic…. [t]hey are political, institutional and ideologi ...
... As a developed economy endowed with natural resources, it is within Australia’s capacity to undertake reform and increase GHG emission reductions. The constraints for Australia implementing mitigation actions are ‘no longer technological or economic…. [t]hey are political, institutional and ideologi ...
The Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Hinders Climate
... Fact: Alberta has weak climate policies and weak future emissions-reduction targets. For example, tar sands companies can forgo on-site emission reductions by paying $15 per tonne into a fund that reinvests the money into emissions-reduction projects. It is clear, though, that the emission reduction ...
... Fact: Alberta has weak climate policies and weak future emissions-reduction targets. For example, tar sands companies can forgo on-site emission reductions by paying $15 per tonne into a fund that reinvests the money into emissions-reduction projects. It is clear, though, that the emission reduction ...
Assessment of Available Tools to Create a More Resilient
... Higher water levels, which are often easiest to observe during seasonal king tides or storms, can have multiple impacts on the transportation network. These higher water levels can reduce access to residents’ property, impact evacuation networks, deteriorate roadway surfaces and substructures, and d ...
... Higher water levels, which are often easiest to observe during seasonal king tides or storms, can have multiple impacts on the transportation network. These higher water levels can reduce access to residents’ property, impact evacuation networks, deteriorate roadway surfaces and substructures, and d ...
What is adaptation?
... • Adaptation is a series of actions taken to cope with a changing climate, e.g. increased rainfall, higher temperatures, scarce water or more frequent storms... • Adaptation may need to tackle present problems or anticipate changes in the future, aiming to reduce risk and damage cost-effectively, an ...
... • Adaptation is a series of actions taken to cope with a changing climate, e.g. increased rainfall, higher temperatures, scarce water or more frequent storms... • Adaptation may need to tackle present problems or anticipate changes in the future, aiming to reduce risk and damage cost-effectively, an ...
The Climate Deception Dossiers - Union of Concerned Scientists
... been a climate hoax that continues today. It is the decades’ long campaign by a handful of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies—such as Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Peabody Energy—to deceive the American public by distorting the realities and risks of climate change, sometimes actin ...
... been a climate hoax that continues today. It is the decades’ long campaign by a handful of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies—such as Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Peabody Energy—to deceive the American public by distorting the realities and risks of climate change, sometimes actin ...
AFWA 2002 - Nevada Department of Wildlife
... climate change may reshape the original eight required elements. Congress required that state fish and wildlife agencies develop a Wildlife Action Plan as a condition for receiving State Wildlife Grant funding. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies have ...
... climate change may reshape the original eight required elements. Congress required that state fish and wildlife agencies develop a Wildlife Action Plan as a condition for receiving State Wildlife Grant funding. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies have ...
What is adaptation?
... • Adaptation is a series of actions taken to cope with a changing climate, e.g. increased rainfall, higher temperatures, scarce water or more frequent storms... • Adaptation may need to tackle present problems or anticipate changes in the future, aiming to reduce risk and damage cost-effectively, an ...
... • Adaptation is a series of actions taken to cope with a changing climate, e.g. increased rainfall, higher temperatures, scarce water or more frequent storms... • Adaptation may need to tackle present problems or anticipate changes in the future, aiming to reduce risk and damage cost-effectively, an ...
Are observed changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the
... that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.” The so called “evidence” cited in Chapter 8 of the main report was based on one paper that at the time had not been published in the refereed scientific literature. Moreover, one of the authors of this paper was also the convening lead ...
... that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.” The so called “evidence” cited in Chapter 8 of the main report was based on one paper that at the time had not been published in the refereed scientific literature. Moreover, one of the authors of this paper was also the convening lead ...
Wine Grape Suitability and Quality in a Changing Climate
... regions pose huge threats to the wine industry, as regions that were once well suited to grow grapes, or certain varietals, may no longer be as well suited. Understanding the importance between site selection and varietal matching is probably the single most important element to viticulture. The win ...
... regions pose huge threats to the wine industry, as regions that were once well suited to grow grapes, or certain varietals, may no longer be as well suited. Understanding the importance between site selection and varietal matching is probably the single most important element to viticulture. The win ...
Argentina - Met Office
... available to the researchers in the project was used, unless there were good scientific reasons for not doing so. For example, some impacts areas were omitted, such as many of those associated with human health. In this case, these impacts are strongly dependant on local factors and do not easily le ...
... available to the researchers in the project was used, unless there were good scientific reasons for not doing so. For example, some impacts areas were omitted, such as many of those associated with human health. In this case, these impacts are strongly dependant on local factors and do not easily le ...
Radiative Forcing: negative
... Dust, salt, smoke (all of which are natural aerosols) So, aerosols (with both natural and anthropogenic origin) – may serve as cloud condensation nuclei. ...
... Dust, salt, smoke (all of which are natural aerosols) So, aerosols (with both natural and anthropogenic origin) – may serve as cloud condensation nuclei. ...
The Kyoto Protocol and International Actions
... Emissions Trading. Emissions trading is one of three “flexibility” mechanisms contained in the Kyoto Protocol (article 17).3 Under the Kyoto Protocol, developed countries are given greenhouse gas emissions “budgets” (or emissions “caps”) for the compliance period 2008-2012 based on a percentage of t ...
... Emissions Trading. Emissions trading is one of three “flexibility” mechanisms contained in the Kyoto Protocol (article 17).3 Under the Kyoto Protocol, developed countries are given greenhouse gas emissions “budgets” (or emissions “caps”) for the compliance period 2008-2012 based on a percentage of t ...
Sea-level rise and climate change
... It is virtually certain that sea levels will continue to rise after 2100, with sea-level rise due to thermal expansion to continue for many centuries due to the slow response of the oceans to the accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. ...
... It is virtually certain that sea levels will continue to rise after 2100, with sea-level rise due to thermal expansion to continue for many centuries due to the slow response of the oceans to the accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. ...