Progress in Modeling the Impact of Land Cover Change on the Global Climate (PiPG - December 2006 Issue)
... Many studies are reported which evaluate the impact of the temperature trend and the changes in moisture that it brings on regional and local ecosystems and on the ability of the land to be used for agriculture, grazing and ecological evolution of species. These studies commonly use the IPCC simula ...
... Many studies are reported which evaluate the impact of the temperature trend and the changes in moisture that it brings on regional and local ecosystems and on the ability of the land to be used for agriculture, grazing and ecological evolution of species. These studies commonly use the IPCC simula ...
Regional assessment of climate change impacts on maize
... analysis (see next section) refers to a threefold increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentration by the end of the century and implies rather drastic changes in the temperature and precipitation regime of the Alpine region. Moreover, as stated above, we do not consider adaptation in cropping practice ...
... analysis (see next section) refers to a threefold increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentration by the end of the century and implies rather drastic changes in the temperature and precipitation regime of the Alpine region. Moreover, as stated above, we do not consider adaptation in cropping practice ...
Improve the quality of life for the people of Africa
... targeting Ebola-affected communities to finance demand-driven, small-scale business activities. It is expected to play a catalytic role in improving community response to outbreaks, thereby contributing to inclusive growth, gender equality and poverty reduction in the three affected countries. ...
... targeting Ebola-affected communities to finance demand-driven, small-scale business activities. It is expected to play a catalytic role in improving community response to outbreaks, thereby contributing to inclusive growth, gender equality and poverty reduction in the three affected countries. ...
Karen M. Shell Associate Professor, Atmospheric Science Climate
... American Meteorological Society 2011 annual meeting: Comparison of radiative feedbacks and climate sensitivities between CCSM3 and CCSM4 American Geophysical Union Fall 2010 meeting: Using the Radiative Kernel Technique to Evaluate Physical Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Models American Geophysical Uni ...
... American Meteorological Society 2011 annual meeting: Comparison of radiative feedbacks and climate sensitivities between CCSM3 and CCSM4 American Geophysical Union Fall 2010 meeting: Using the Radiative Kernel Technique to Evaluate Physical Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Models American Geophysical Uni ...
Shifting Tides: Migration in the era of globalization, global
... The human population is becoming more concentrated in urban areas. More than half of us now live in cities, and by 2030 over 60% will – with many concentrated in mega-cities. Most of these urban dwellers will live in poverty (UNFPA 2006). This rural to urban population shift is in part due to Intern ...
... The human population is becoming more concentrated in urban areas. More than half of us now live in cities, and by 2030 over 60% will – with many concentrated in mega-cities. Most of these urban dwellers will live in poverty (UNFPA 2006). This rural to urban population shift is in part due to Intern ...
Vol.12, No. 2
... amount of rainfall varies greatly over short distances, small shifts in the location of the rainband could have severe consequences for the vulnerable island nations already having to adapt to sea level rise. Despite its importance, scientists know very little about how this 8,000-km-long rainband w ...
... amount of rainfall varies greatly over short distances, small shifts in the location of the rainband could have severe consequences for the vulnerable island nations already having to adapt to sea level rise. Despite its importance, scientists know very little about how this 8,000-km-long rainband w ...
Nuclear war does not cause extinction from climate
... Now if we think about what just reducing the probability of human extinction by just one percentage point. Not very much. So that’s equivalent to 60 million lives saved, if we just count currently living people. The current generation. One percent of six billion people is equivalent to 60 million. S ...
... Now if we think about what just reducing the probability of human extinction by just one percentage point. Not very much. So that’s equivalent to 60 million lives saved, if we just count currently living people. The current generation. One percent of six billion people is equivalent to 60 million. S ...
Assimilation and Impact of GPS Radio Occultation data
... This system is currently under development by UCAR, NESDIS, + UKMO Data available to weather centers within < 180 minutes ...
... This system is currently under development by UCAR, NESDIS, + UKMO Data available to weather centers within < 180 minutes ...
A RICARDIAN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH
... A growing number of studies indicate that the world is warming and will continue to warm as the concentration of greenhouse gases rises in the future (IPCC, 2001a; 2007). However, there remains considerable debate about how harmful climate change will actually be (IPCC, 2001b). This paper examines t ...
... A growing number of studies indicate that the world is warming and will continue to warm as the concentration of greenhouse gases rises in the future (IPCC, 2001a; 2007). However, there remains considerable debate about how harmful climate change will actually be (IPCC, 2001b). This paper examines t ...
The climate of the United Kingdom and recent trends
... for example. However Lockwood and Frohlich (2007) have investigated recent trends in a number of solar activity indices and shown that over the last 20 years none of them is consistent with the observed increase in global temperatures. The internal variability of climate can be important on decadal ...
... for example. However Lockwood and Frohlich (2007) have investigated recent trends in a number of solar activity indices and shown that over the last 20 years none of them is consistent with the observed increase in global temperatures. The internal variability of climate can be important on decadal ...
Linking Population, Fertility and Family Planning with
... ambitious assumption that fertility rates decline to nearly replacement level.11 Population density is also projected to more than double from 72 people per square kilometer in 2005 to 166 per square kilometer in 2050. Ethiopia has a very young age structure, with 72 percent of the population under ...
... ambitious assumption that fertility rates decline to nearly replacement level.11 Population density is also projected to more than double from 72 people per square kilometer in 2005 to 166 per square kilometer in 2050. Ethiopia has a very young age structure, with 72 percent of the population under ...
An Initial Look at DoD`s Activities Toward Climate Change Resiliency
... presents an initial overview of what the Department is doing to respond to likely climate change effects. We focused on what the Department is doing, thus further limiting our survey to studies that looked at climate change scenarios and on how these may affect various Defense Department activities. ...
... presents an initial overview of what the Department is doing to respond to likely climate change effects. We focused on what the Department is doing, thus further limiting our survey to studies that looked at climate change scenarios and on how these may affect various Defense Department activities. ...
Green Revolution: Pathways to Food Security in an Era of Climate
... pressure due to convergence of multiple factors. On the demand side, the current population will increase from nearly 7 billion to over 9 billion by 2050 (Lutz and K.C., 2010 [10]), a growth that would require farmers to increase food production from nearly 6 billion tons (gross) to 9 billion tons b ...
... pressure due to convergence of multiple factors. On the demand side, the current population will increase from nearly 7 billion to over 9 billion by 2050 (Lutz and K.C., 2010 [10]), a growth that would require farmers to increase food production from nearly 6 billion tons (gross) to 9 billion tons b ...
PDF File - 788KB - RAIC Centre for Architecture
... that Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative has identified, “Use best efficiency practices in all residential and commercial buildings,” as its own ‘wedge’ in their mitigation strategy where each wedge “has the potential to reduce global carbon emissions by at least 1 billion tons per year by 2060 ...
... that Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative has identified, “Use best efficiency practices in all residential and commercial buildings,” as its own ‘wedge’ in their mitigation strategy where each wedge “has the potential to reduce global carbon emissions by at least 1 billion tons per year by 2060 ...
Cross-pressuring conservative Catholics? Effects of Pope Francis
... climate change exists and less concerned with its adverse effects (Leiserowitz 2006). Pope Francis’ stances on contentious issues do not uniformly align with those of either political party. Republicans generally share his opposition to same-sex marriage, euthanasia, and abortion, and Democrats agre ...
... climate change exists and less concerned with its adverse effects (Leiserowitz 2006). Pope Francis’ stances on contentious issues do not uniformly align with those of either political party. Republicans generally share his opposition to same-sex marriage, euthanasia, and abortion, and Democrats agre ...
Common Knowledge? Public Understanding of Climate Change in
... values, and moral responsibilities for future and distant environments and societies. Section three outlines the ways in which respondents interpreted their responsibilities towards the global environment. Although morally sanctioned, and seen as a valid means of achieving other goals, actions taken ...
... values, and moral responsibilities for future and distant environments and societies. Section three outlines the ways in which respondents interpreted their responsibilities towards the global environment. Although morally sanctioned, and seen as a valid means of achieving other goals, actions taken ...
Aff Ice Age DA 7WK - Open Evidence Archive
... not drop. “It’s not the mean, it’s the extremes that are most worrying,” he says. One aspect of the problem is that the thermohaline cir- culation is not just a climatic affair. Its effect on ocean circulations means it influences the rates at which nutrient- rich bottom water rises to the surface a ...
... not drop. “It’s not the mean, it’s the extremes that are most worrying,” he says. One aspect of the problem is that the thermohaline cir- culation is not just a climatic affair. Its effect on ocean circulations means it influences the rates at which nutrient- rich bottom water rises to the surface a ...
Eco-support Activity and Carbon Calculators Promote Climate Work
... for a selected journey, and includes a route-finding facility for walking and cycling. The Journey Planner carbon dioxide calculator also shows the user of the carbon emissions associated with the selected journey when made by various modes of public transport, and provides a comparison with the emi ...
... for a selected journey, and includes a route-finding facility for walking and cycling. The Journey Planner carbon dioxide calculator also shows the user of the carbon emissions associated with the selected journey when made by various modes of public transport, and provides a comparison with the emi ...
From convergence to contention: United States mass media representations of
... may be a way of counteracting society’s currently excessive reliance on technical assessment and the displacement of explicit values-based arguments from public life. However, when this occurs without the benefit of a clear understanding of the importance of the substantial areas where scientists do ...
... may be a way of counteracting society’s currently excessive reliance on technical assessment and the displacement of explicit values-based arguments from public life. However, when this occurs without the benefit of a clear understanding of the importance of the substantial areas where scientists do ...
GrahamVickery
... Enabling effects: Optimisation: ICTs can reduce another product’s environmental impact, e.g. embedded systems for fuel-efficient driving, “smart” electricity distribution, and intelligent heating and lighting systems. Dematerialisation and substitution: Digital replacement of products and processes. ...
... Enabling effects: Optimisation: ICTs can reduce another product’s environmental impact, e.g. embedded systems for fuel-efficient driving, “smart” electricity distribution, and intelligent heating and lighting systems. Dematerialisation and substitution: Digital replacement of products and processes. ...
Assessing Earthquake Risks along the West African Coast in the
... Seismographers have stated very clearly that no place on earth is free from earthquakes (www.watchtower.org 2002). There are areas where earthquakes have higher probability of occurring than other areas. The general view is that there are areas of undoubted crustal stability called shields or craton ...
... Seismographers have stated very clearly that no place on earth is free from earthquakes (www.watchtower.org 2002). There are areas where earthquakes have higher probability of occurring than other areas. The general view is that there are areas of undoubted crustal stability called shields or craton ...
Improving the Linkages between the GEOSS Agricultural Monitoring
... – project agricultural expansion, intensification, and abandonment – model the potential impacts of these changes on the major biogeochemical cycles, land-atmosphere exchange of water and energy and human population dynamics ...
... – project agricultural expansion, intensification, and abandonment – model the potential impacts of these changes on the major biogeochemical cycles, land-atmosphere exchange of water and energy and human population dynamics ...
Earth System Processes
... regular orbit of the Earth around the Sun, we expect them, and we look forward to them. We plan summer vacations and winter ski trips accordingly. Farmers plan their crops and harvests around the seasonal cycle. By comparison, variations in the average weather from one year to the next are quite mod ...
... regular orbit of the Earth around the Sun, we expect them, and we look forward to them. We plan summer vacations and winter ski trips accordingly. Farmers plan their crops and harvests around the seasonal cycle. By comparison, variations in the average weather from one year to the next are quite mod ...