climate change - the United Nations
... significant foreshore damage despite “missing” the Cook Islands. Samoa has similarly experienced the wrath of climate change with cyclones Ofa and Valerie 1992 and 1993 causing total destruction of its economy, social and physical infrastructure, as well as natural resources amounting to more than f ...
... significant foreshore damage despite “missing” the Cook Islands. Samoa has similarly experienced the wrath of climate change with cyclones Ofa and Valerie 1992 and 1993 causing total destruction of its economy, social and physical infrastructure, as well as natural resources amounting to more than f ...
Needs must: should the environment trump prosperity?
... Science and technology have created a very complex world and politics has found it difficult to keep up with the speed of change. This problem is compounded by the desire of the media to look for quick solutions and simple explanations – very often when they are just not available. There are few are ...
... Science and technology have created a very complex world and politics has found it difficult to keep up with the speed of change. This problem is compounded by the desire of the media to look for quick solutions and simple explanations – very often when they are just not available. There are few are ...
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... the House and the Senate will rally around a key Obama initiative that most of them campaigned against. Even initiatives such as a renewable portfolio standard that once seemed politically safe now seem less likely. Environmental advocates have turned to new channels. One of the chief tools in the O ...
... the House and the Senate will rally around a key Obama initiative that most of them campaigned against. Even initiatives such as a renewable portfolio standard that once seemed politically safe now seem less likely. Environmental advocates have turned to new channels. One of the chief tools in the O ...
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... Japan, to an increase of 1, 8, 1nd 10 percent by Norway, Australia, and Iceland, respectively. While the Kyoto Protocol targets are obviously inadequate to prevent climate change, it is nevertheless an essential first step towards the right direction. As a result of the increased concentration of th ...
... Japan, to an increase of 1, 8, 1nd 10 percent by Norway, Australia, and Iceland, respectively. While the Kyoto Protocol targets are obviously inadequate to prevent climate change, it is nevertheless an essential first step towards the right direction. As a result of the increased concentration of th ...
Amy Clement - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
... I am pleased to stand for election to the UCAR Board of Trustees. I have supported UCAR’s activities for many years by serving on the UCAR Steering Committee for the NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change, the UCAR Membership Committee, the Community Climate System Model Advisory Boa ...
... I am pleased to stand for election to the UCAR Board of Trustees. I have supported UCAR’s activities for many years by serving on the UCAR Steering Committee for the NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change, the UCAR Membership Committee, the Community Climate System Model Advisory Boa ...
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... change scenario, with most of the additional poor located in Africa and South Asia. It is worth stressing that this analysis focuses on the expected or mean value of the probability distribution of damage from climate change. Obviously, looking at lower probability extreme outcomes increases the est ...
... change scenario, with most of the additional poor located in Africa and South Asia. It is worth stressing that this analysis focuses on the expected or mean value of the probability distribution of damage from climate change. Obviously, looking at lower probability extreme outcomes increases the est ...
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... clouds, precipitation, streamflow, soil moisture droughts, etc. Model evaluation and diagnostics ...
... clouds, precipitation, streamflow, soil moisture droughts, etc. Model evaluation and diagnostics ...
The Poverty Impacts of Climate Change
... change scenario, with most of the additional poor located in Africa and South Asia. It is worth stressing that this analysis focuses on the expected or mean value of the probability distribution of damage from climate change. Obviously, looking at lower probability extreme outcomes increases the est ...
... change scenario, with most of the additional poor located in Africa and South Asia. It is worth stressing that this analysis focuses on the expected or mean value of the probability distribution of damage from climate change. Obviously, looking at lower probability extreme outcomes increases the est ...
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... reaches a new perturbed steady state where N=0, at the ΔT-intercept. We note that the net downward radiation at the tropopause does not quite reach zero. This is because there can be sensible and latent heat exchange across the tropopause, and apparently there is an increase of 0.5 W m-2 upwards in ...
... reaches a new perturbed steady state where N=0, at the ΔT-intercept. We note that the net downward radiation at the tropopause does not quite reach zero. This is because there can be sensible and latent heat exchange across the tropopause, and apparently there is an increase of 0.5 W m-2 upwards in ...
Lecture 5: Cold War Scientists and the Denial of Global Warming
... world is “one that plants will enjoy… a lot more. They have been, in effect, eating the CO2 out of the air for a long time and they’re rather starved for CO2….” • “The increase in atmospheric CO2 is a benefit that will occur around the globe, regardless of where you are located.” ...
... world is “one that plants will enjoy… a lot more. They have been, in effect, eating the CO2 out of the air for a long time and they’re rather starved for CO2….” • “The increase in atmospheric CO2 is a benefit that will occur around the globe, regardless of where you are located.” ...
English - Inter-Parliamentary Union
... Worldwide climate change is one of the central problems of our time. Alongside other important aspects of environmental protection, it has become one of the world’s most urgent issues. The consequences of climate change can already be observed in many regions of the world: melting glaciers, desertif ...
... Worldwide climate change is one of the central problems of our time. Alongside other important aspects of environmental protection, it has become one of the world’s most urgent issues. The consequences of climate change can already be observed in many regions of the world: melting glaciers, desertif ...
The air has no residence
... practice need not do more than work with weather, because all around us the skies have become laden with the foreboding aura of climate change (through scientific visualisation to disaster movies), and thus weather has become a changeling in the contemporary imagination, so perhaps a legitimate site ...
... practice need not do more than work with weather, because all around us the skies have become laden with the foreboding aura of climate change (through scientific visualisation to disaster movies), and thus weather has become a changeling in the contemporary imagination, so perhaps a legitimate site ...
Implications of the Paris agreement for the ocean
... this point — to more empirical mitigation storylines for the twenty-first century 22, and to risks of impact scenarios for the ocean that are better rooted in the real world. Finally, an important decision of 43rd IPCC session (11–13 April 2016) paves the way for the effective implementation of the ...
... this point — to more empirical mitigation storylines for the twenty-first century 22, and to risks of impact scenarios for the ocean that are better rooted in the real world. Finally, an important decision of 43rd IPCC session (11–13 April 2016) paves the way for the effective implementation of the ...
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... Farmers and ranchers lead program development. Professional development training for CSU Extension agents on the science of climate and weather variability Farmers and ranchers already are responding to changing weather patterns Farmers and ranchers are long-term stewards of their land and r ...
... Farmers and ranchers lead program development. Professional development training for CSU Extension agents on the science of climate and weather variability Farmers and ranchers already are responding to changing weather patterns Farmers and ranchers are long-term stewards of their land and r ...
Regionalkonferenz der Metropolregion Hamburg
... policy, but prepare the factual basis for decision makers, who consider apart of geophysical and ecological facts also other, in particular normative arguments. • Climate change is real and mostly caused by human emissions. Society wants to avoid such a change; thus, reductions of emissions are need ...
... policy, but prepare the factual basis for decision makers, who consider apart of geophysical and ecological facts also other, in particular normative arguments. • Climate change is real and mostly caused by human emissions. Society wants to avoid such a change; thus, reductions of emissions are need ...
3. Weather patterns and climate change
... driven mainly by the use of fossil fuels, but agriculture, industry, transport, changes in land use, etc. also play a role. The average temperature in Europe has increased by nearly 1 °C in the past century. A couple of degrees is all it takes to change the Earth’s climate. The current international ...
... driven mainly by the use of fossil fuels, but agriculture, industry, transport, changes in land use, etc. also play a role. The average temperature in Europe has increased by nearly 1 °C in the past century. A couple of degrees is all it takes to change the Earth’s climate. The current international ...
Adapting to climate change in practice
... Moderator: Gian-Reto Walther, Federal Office for the Environment FOEN (CH) The effects of climate change on biodiversity are already visible today, for example in the way the seasons are shifting (spring blossoms and bird migration) and changes in the regional distribution of animals and plants. Wha ...
... Moderator: Gian-Reto Walther, Federal Office for the Environment FOEN (CH) The effects of climate change on biodiversity are already visible today, for example in the way the seasons are shifting (spring blossoms and bird migration) and changes in the regional distribution of animals and plants. Wha ...
Sustainable Land Management - Nachhaltiges Landmanagement
... Dwellings, infrastructure Conservation areas Other ...
... Dwellings, infrastructure Conservation areas Other ...
Paris Climate Agreement
... attention, but as a father I can tell you that it is absolutely terrifying to our children who are old enough to understand what is happening. The generation that is coming of age at this time, the millennials, are some of the smartest and globally-aware young adults that the human race has ever pro ...
... attention, but as a father I can tell you that it is absolutely terrifying to our children who are old enough to understand what is happening. The generation that is coming of age at this time, the millennials, are some of the smartest and globally-aware young adults that the human race has ever pro ...
Summary report of the Climate Action Seminar Series for Clean... Submitted by: Rachael Beddoe
... Respondents were asked which location they preferred. ‘In Vermont’ received the highest number of first place ranks (16). ‘Near UVM’ and ‘In New England/Northern US’ tied for the highest number of second place rankings (9 each). ‘In New England/Northern US’ received the highest number of third place ...
... Respondents were asked which location they preferred. ‘In Vermont’ received the highest number of first place ranks (16). ‘Near UVM’ and ‘In New England/Northern US’ tied for the highest number of second place rankings (9 each). ‘In New England/Northern US’ received the highest number of third place ...
Publication in doc format - Friends of the Earth Ireland
... As an EU member state, Ireland is bound to the longstanding EU objective of stabilising global temperatures at a level below 2oC above pre-industrial temperatures. Achievement of this objective will depend not only on the EU, but on all Parties to UNFCCC putting themselves onto sustainable and solid ...
... As an EU member state, Ireland is bound to the longstanding EU objective of stabilising global temperatures at a level below 2oC above pre-industrial temperatures. Achievement of this objective will depend not only on the EU, but on all Parties to UNFCCC putting themselves onto sustainable and solid ...
2014/31/PR IPCC PRESS RELEASE 2 November 2014 Concluding
... “Adaptation can play a key role in decreasing these risks,” said Vicente Barros, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group II. “Adaptation is so important because it can be integrated with the pursuit of development, and can help prepare for the risks to which we are already committed by past emissions and exi ...
... “Adaptation can play a key role in decreasing these risks,” said Vicente Barros, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group II. “Adaptation is so important because it can be integrated with the pursuit of development, and can help prepare for the risks to which we are already committed by past emissions and exi ...