Agroecology and the design of climate change-resilient
... and measures that can help modern agricultural systems become more resilient to climatic extremes. Many of these agroecological strategies that reduce vulnerabilities to climate variability include crop diversification, maintaining local genetic diversity, animal integration, soil organic management ...
... and measures that can help modern agricultural systems become more resilient to climatic extremes. Many of these agroecological strategies that reduce vulnerabilities to climate variability include crop diversification, maintaining local genetic diversity, animal integration, soil organic management ...
Here - Lawrence Torcello
... about how we ought to live in relation to others. We may draw from the sciences in order to offer a moral analysis (as I do here), but our obligation is to offer sound arguments about viable ways to engage in moral decision making and to debunk unsound arguments.1 Drawing attention to the relationsh ...
... about how we ought to live in relation to others. We may draw from the sciences in order to offer a moral analysis (as I do here), but our obligation is to offer sound arguments about viable ways to engage in moral decision making and to debunk unsound arguments.1 Drawing attention to the relationsh ...
English
... Climate extremes – increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as drought, flooding, heat and cold waves, and intense storms – are a particularly troubling aspect of greater climate variability. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan ...
... Climate extremes – increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as drought, flooding, heat and cold waves, and intense storms – are a particularly troubling aspect of greater climate variability. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan ...
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... emissions trajectories that are consistent with stable atmospheric concentrations of CO2 at five alternative levels. These paths exhibit the peak and decline pattern associated with the limit on cumulative emissions for atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The higher the stabilization concentration, the ...
... emissions trajectories that are consistent with stable atmospheric concentrations of CO2 at five alternative levels. These paths exhibit the peak and decline pattern associated with the limit on cumulative emissions for atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The higher the stabilization concentration, the ...
Preparing for climate change guide for local government
... frequency and intensity of storms. Informed and proactive planning now can help maximise benefits and minimise the direct and indirect costs of climate change. Local government is responsible for a range of functions that may be affected by climate. These include natural hazards and resource managem ...
... frequency and intensity of storms. Informed and proactive planning now can help maximise benefits and minimise the direct and indirect costs of climate change. Local government is responsible for a range of functions that may be affected by climate. These include natural hazards and resource managem ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... experience differences in climate change impact on the regional wind and sea current systems, precipitation form and pattern, cloudiness, salinity regime, fresh water run-off and soil erosion. The polar regions and Mountain zones will experience decreased snow cover, reduced glaciers and permafrost ...
... experience differences in climate change impact on the regional wind and sea current systems, precipitation form and pattern, cloudiness, salinity regime, fresh water run-off and soil erosion. The polar regions and Mountain zones will experience decreased snow cover, reduced glaciers and permafrost ...
Local Climate Change Governance
... often have the legislative and executive control of many of the factors related to GHG emissions, such as: land use planning and regulation, residential and commercial regulations, transit options and solid waste disposal, and (often) the public transportation and electric supply networks (Kousky/Sc ...
... often have the legislative and executive control of many of the factors related to GHG emissions, such as: land use planning and regulation, residential and commercial regulations, transit options and solid waste disposal, and (often) the public transportation and electric supply networks (Kousky/Sc ...
Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in water hazard assessments using regional
... be used as the benchmark (control) with which dynamic downscaling would have to improve on. An excellent example of this type of testing is given in the paper Landsea, C.W., Knaff, J.A., 2000: “How much skill was there in forecasting the very strong 1997-98 El Niño?” Bulletin of the American Meteoro ...
... be used as the benchmark (control) with which dynamic downscaling would have to improve on. An excellent example of this type of testing is given in the paper Landsea, C.W., Knaff, J.A., 2000: “How much skill was there in forecasting the very strong 1997-98 El Niño?” Bulletin of the American Meteoro ...
Fishing, climate change and north-east Atlantic cod
... larval cod and the prey had a high mean size. The results showed that high cod recruitment years (1963-1983) coincided with increases in Calanus finmarchicus, A shift in dominance from the coldwater copepod C. finmarchicus to the warm-water species C. helgolandicus over the second half of the 20th c ...
... larval cod and the prey had a high mean size. The results showed that high cod recruitment years (1963-1983) coincided with increases in Calanus finmarchicus, A shift in dominance from the coldwater copepod C. finmarchicus to the warm-water species C. helgolandicus over the second half of the 20th c ...
The Role of Uncertainty in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate
... model with essentially the same reduced form (structural uncertainty about some unknown open-ended scale-multiplier parameter) can have very strong consequences for cost-bene…t analysis, because it can drive applications of expected utility theory under strict relative risk aversion. It will turn ou ...
... model with essentially the same reduced form (structural uncertainty about some unknown open-ended scale-multiplier parameter) can have very strong consequences for cost-bene…t analysis, because it can drive applications of expected utility theory under strict relative risk aversion. It will turn ou ...
The Fatal Flaw of the Global Warming Theory
... Although rises in CO2 act to block the normal long wave infrared (IR) radiation to space, this blockage is very small compared to the globe’s basic energy budget system. About 3.7 Wm-2 of IR energy is intercepted for a doubling of CO2 (Figure 1). Since the mid-19th century, CO2’s influence on IR blo ...
... Although rises in CO2 act to block the normal long wave infrared (IR) radiation to space, this blockage is very small compared to the globe’s basic energy budget system. About 3.7 Wm-2 of IR energy is intercepted for a doubling of CO2 (Figure 1). Since the mid-19th century, CO2’s influence on IR blo ...
Using Infrared Emission Spectroscopy to Study Arctic
... Surface Temperature Positive Feedback Observations from ground-based instruments are crucial to better our understanding of the changing climate. ...
... Surface Temperature Positive Feedback Observations from ground-based instruments are crucial to better our understanding of the changing climate. ...
Climate Change: ImplIcatIons and strategIes for the luxury fashIon
... with primary producers to develop agricultural systems that incorporate reduced emissions and dependency on water and that offer diversity of livelihood options. Through this in-depth climate change analysis, we can see that the impact of climate change is already locally pronounced on the productio ...
... with primary producers to develop agricultural systems that incorporate reduced emissions and dependency on water and that offer diversity of livelihood options. Through this in-depth climate change analysis, we can see that the impact of climate change is already locally pronounced on the productio ...
FAQ Sustainable Development Summit (English)
... development agenda. How can we quantify their contribution to the final document? The negotiating process on the sustainable development goals involved the unprecedented participation of civil society and other stakeholders, such as the private sector and mayors. During the negotiations, civil s ...
... development agenda. How can we quantify their contribution to the final document? The negotiating process on the sustainable development goals involved the unprecedented participation of civil society and other stakeholders, such as the private sector and mayors. During the negotiations, civil s ...
Plants and climate change: complexities and
... Climate change represents one of the greatest research challenges currently faced by plant biologists, agronomists and conservation biologists. With global greenhouse gas emissions set to continue to rise for the foreseeable future, the impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2), and associated shift ...
... Climate change represents one of the greatest research challenges currently faced by plant biologists, agronomists and conservation biologists. With global greenhouse gas emissions set to continue to rise for the foreseeable future, the impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2), and associated shift ...
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... 6. These assumptions, based on the IPCC’s MediumHigh (A2) Emissions Scenario, suggest that within a few decades Ireland’s marine ecosystems are likely to undergo significant changes in response to increased seawater temperatures, changes in near-shore salinities, more intense storms and possibly inc ...
... 6. These assumptions, based on the IPCC’s MediumHigh (A2) Emissions Scenario, suggest that within a few decades Ireland’s marine ecosystems are likely to undergo significant changes in response to increased seawater temperatures, changes in near-shore salinities, more intense storms and possibly inc ...
Abstract Book The Human Side of Climate Change Bergen 16
... Culture and Climate Change: A Storied Examination of Norwegian Public Opinion Global climate change is a problem where solutions are costly, often at odds with existing energy market incentives, where unilateral action by individuals or countries often seems futile in the face of collective action p ...
... Culture and Climate Change: A Storied Examination of Norwegian Public Opinion Global climate change is a problem where solutions are costly, often at odds with existing energy market incentives, where unilateral action by individuals or countries often seems futile in the face of collective action p ...
Understanding By Design Unit Template for
... MS-ESS2-5. Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on how air masses flow from regions of high pressure to low pressure, causing weather (defined by temperature, pressu ...
... MS-ESS2-5. Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on how air masses flow from regions of high pressure to low pressure, causing weather (defined by temperature, pressu ...
T - Climate Investment Funds
... Whereas weather refers to changes in the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time — for example whether Kingston today is warm or cool, wet or dry, cloudy or windy — climate refers to the average state of the weather over long periods of time ranging from months or seasons to years and ...
... Whereas weather refers to changes in the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time — for example whether Kingston today is warm or cool, wet or dry, cloudy or windy — climate refers to the average state of the weather over long periods of time ranging from months or seasons to years and ...
a Climate of Conflict
... The evidence and arguments of the international scientific body will be neither queried nor extended in this report. Our starting point is the IPCC’s finding that climate change and its consequences are not topics for the long-term future alone – they are upon us. Some governments and international ...
... The evidence and arguments of the international scientific body will be neither queried nor extended in this report. Our starting point is the IPCC’s finding that climate change and its consequences are not topics for the long-term future alone – they are upon us. Some governments and international ...
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... To circumvent problems associated with even-aged, pure coniferous stands propagated outside their natural range alternative management strategies and conversion programs are currently discussed in Central Europe. However, a mainstreaming of such adapted silvicultural systems with climate change miti ...
... To circumvent problems associated with even-aged, pure coniferous stands propagated outside their natural range alternative management strategies and conversion programs are currently discussed in Central Europe. However, a mainstreaming of such adapted silvicultural systems with climate change miti ...