Communicating climate change: history, challenges, process and
... falling with the issue attention cycles in the media.21–25 Basic understanding of the problem thus remains superficial and vulnerable to frequent revision.26–28 Today, after more than 20 years of scientific progress and a much greater scientific consensus,29,30 public climate change communication is ...
... falling with the issue attention cycles in the media.21–25 Basic understanding of the problem thus remains superficial and vulnerable to frequent revision.26–28 Today, after more than 20 years of scientific progress and a much greater scientific consensus,29,30 public climate change communication is ...
The benefits of recent warming for maize production in high latitude
... The lack of simulated yield trends in the 2nd-4th zones despite warming reflects the fact that baseline temperatures in 1980s are close to optimum. The simulated gross assimilation and total respiration was constant from 1980 to 2009 (Figure S5). For the 1st zone, simulated grain yield decreased by ...
... The lack of simulated yield trends in the 2nd-4th zones despite warming reflects the fact that baseline temperatures in 1980s are close to optimum. The simulated gross assimilation and total respiration was constant from 1980 to 2009 (Figure S5). For the 1st zone, simulated grain yield decreased by ...
Polar Bears on Ice - Canadian Geographic Education
... You are becoming convinced that global warming is affecting the polar bears and the last thing you want to see is for them to become extinct (which is a possibility if things continue the way they are). What can you do about it, though? Well… Global warming has natural causes, for example the releas ...
... You are becoming convinced that global warming is affecting the polar bears and the last thing you want to see is for them to become extinct (which is a possibility if things continue the way they are). What can you do about it, though? Well… Global warming has natural causes, for example the releas ...
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... falling with the issue attention cycles in the media.21–25 Basic understanding of the problem thus remains superficial and vulnerable to frequent revision.26–28 Today, after more than 20 years of scientific progress and a much greater scientific consensus,29,30 public climate change communication is ...
... falling with the issue attention cycles in the media.21–25 Basic understanding of the problem thus remains superficial and vulnerable to frequent revision.26–28 Today, after more than 20 years of scientific progress and a much greater scientific consensus,29,30 public climate change communication is ...
The psychology of climate change communication - UvA-DARE
... layer, and there is a global “greenhouse” effect, then there must be a “hole” in the “greenhouse.” Some Americans thus reason that this “hole” either allows more solar radiation into the biosphere—warming the planet—or, alternatively, allows heat to escape—cooling the planet. Although logical, such ...
... layer, and there is a global “greenhouse” effect, then there must be a “hole” in the “greenhouse.” Some Americans thus reason that this “hole” either allows more solar radiation into the biosphere—warming the planet—or, alternatively, allows heat to escape—cooling the planet. Although logical, such ...
Presents
... Hinkel et al. (2010) address the question of what will be both the potential and the residual impacts of sea-level rise on coastal countries of the EU27. The authors use the DIVA model to project the impacts of various sea-level rise and socio-economic scenarios on the countries first without any ad ...
... Hinkel et al. (2010) address the question of what will be both the potential and the residual impacts of sea-level rise on coastal countries of the EU27. The authors use the DIVA model to project the impacts of various sea-level rise and socio-economic scenarios on the countries first without any ad ...
Soil drying in Europe and its impact on atmospheric
... Figure 1 clearly shows the preferred locations of summertime blocking structures over the Eurasian Northern Hemisphere sector. This signature is present in both ERA40 and the model simulations, pointing at a reasonable model skill in reproducing this atmospheric circulation feature. The spread betwe ...
... Figure 1 clearly shows the preferred locations of summertime blocking structures over the Eurasian Northern Hemisphere sector. This signature is present in both ERA40 and the model simulations, pointing at a reasonable model skill in reproducing this atmospheric circulation feature. The spread betwe ...
ICT research for Climate Change
... Modelling gives us a clue into the long term changes in climate. So why model? To build climate resilience by: - offering insight into likely ways the climate might change in our region - enabling the use of this knowledge for planning purposes. ...
... Modelling gives us a clue into the long term changes in climate. So why model? To build climate resilience by: - offering insight into likely ways the climate might change in our region - enabling the use of this knowledge for planning purposes. ...
5.Temperature stress and plant sexual reproduction
... The direct effect of temperature changes on the reproductive process has been documented previously, and recent data from other physiological processes that are affected by rising temperatures seem to reinforce the susceptibility of the reproductive process to a changing climate. But the reproductiv ...
... The direct effect of temperature changes on the reproductive process has been documented previously, and recent data from other physiological processes that are affected by rising temperatures seem to reinforce the susceptibility of the reproductive process to a changing climate. But the reproductiv ...
5. Hydrology - Skagit County
... 2010). All GCMs, however, project increasing trends in temperature through the 21st century. Increases in winter, spring and fall precipitation coupled with summer drying are also a common feature of the GCM simulations for the PNW (See Chapter 3). The sensitivities of the streamflow and peak SWE i ...
... 2010). All GCMs, however, project increasing trends in temperature through the 21st century. Increases in winter, spring and fall precipitation coupled with summer drying are also a common feature of the GCM simulations for the PNW (See Chapter 3). The sensitivities of the streamflow and peak SWE i ...
Citizen Science Reveals Unexpected Continental-Scale
... benchmark against which to test for recent evolutionary responses are very rare, but an exception is found in the brown-lipped banded snail (Cepaea nemoralis). This species is sensitive to its thermal environment and exhibits several polymorphisms of shell colour and banding pattern affecting shell ...
... benchmark against which to test for recent evolutionary responses are very rare, but an exception is found in the brown-lipped banded snail (Cepaea nemoralis). This species is sensitive to its thermal environment and exhibits several polymorphisms of shell colour and banding pattern affecting shell ...
Latin America
... Amazonia but also Brazil’s central-south region, where most of the country’s agriculture and silviculture are located. However, with the current rate of deforestation of no more than 10% in Amazonia as a whole, discharge observations across the basin do not exhibit, to date, any significant trends. ...
... Amazonia but also Brazil’s central-south region, where most of the country’s agriculture and silviculture are located. However, with the current rate of deforestation of no more than 10% in Amazonia as a whole, discharge observations across the basin do not exhibit, to date, any significant trends. ...
April 2013 News - South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy
... sediments -- to reconstruct temperature back through time using a Bayesian statistical approach," Tingley said. "What we are trying to do is put statistical inference of past changes in temperature on a more solid and complete footing.”… Source: http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130413.htm Arctic Wil ...
... sediments -- to reconstruct temperature back through time using a Bayesian statistical approach," Tingley said. "What we are trying to do is put statistical inference of past changes in temperature on a more solid and complete footing.”… Source: http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130413.htm Arctic Wil ...
Hydro_CC_0729 - University of Washington
... The relative change in each hydrologic variable between the first 20 yr and the last 20 yr of the last half of the twentieth century was examined. The relative change was computed as 100 times the difference between 1980-99 and 1950-69, divided by 1950-69 value. Computing the PCMDI/AR4 ensemble medi ...
... The relative change in each hydrologic variable between the first 20 yr and the last 20 yr of the last half of the twentieth century was examined. The relative change was computed as 100 times the difference between 1980-99 and 1950-69, divided by 1950-69 value. Computing the PCMDI/AR4 ensemble medi ...
Climate Change Knows No Borders
... can swell rivers, causing floods and devastation downstream whether in-country or transboundary. The Kedarnath tragedy, in which more than 5,700 people died as a result of flooding and landslides caused by a multi-day cloudburst in Uttarakhand province in Northern India, is one example. Lakes caused ...
... can swell rivers, causing floods and devastation downstream whether in-country or transboundary. The Kedarnath tragedy, in which more than 5,700 people died as a result of flooding and landslides caused by a multi-day cloudburst in Uttarakhand province in Northern India, is one example. Lakes caused ...
Climate Records from Ice Cores
... Where do we stand? • Currently, model calculations that attempt to simulate the biological, chemical and physical changes in the ocean during the LGM cannot reproduce the glacial concentrations of atmospheric CO2 found in ice cores and independent evidence of ocean change. • Thus our current unders ...
... Where do we stand? • Currently, model calculations that attempt to simulate the biological, chemical and physical changes in the ocean during the LGM cannot reproduce the glacial concentrations of atmospheric CO2 found in ice cores and independent evidence of ocean change. • Thus our current unders ...
Climate change, ocean processes and ocean iron fertilization
... third most important long-lived anthropogenic greenhouse gas, with an atmospheric lifetime now estimated to be ~115 yr (IPCC 2007, Chap. 2). Subsequent to the SAR, the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated by member countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), but it did no ...
... third most important long-lived anthropogenic greenhouse gas, with an atmospheric lifetime now estimated to be ~115 yr (IPCC 2007, Chap. 2). Subsequent to the SAR, the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated by member countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), but it did no ...
- Wiley Online Library
... rare or uncommon trees or trees outside of the scatter of component study locations. For those studies reporting tree data at the genus level, component species temperatures were averaged and assigned a temperature class at that taxonomic level (Table 1). One exception was with pine (Pinus), which, ...
... rare or uncommon trees or trees outside of the scatter of component study locations. For those studies reporting tree data at the genus level, component species temperatures were averaged and assigned a temperature class at that taxonomic level (Table 1). One exception was with pine (Pinus), which, ...
Deceitful Tongues: Is Climate Change Denial A Crime?
... The consequences of global warming and associated climate changes are now apparent. No longer can there be any doubt that anthropogenic (humancaused) warming of the Earth is happening, caused mainly by greenhouse gas emissions, primarily carbon dioxide, from burning fossil fuels. Climate change pose ...
... The consequences of global warming and associated climate changes are now apparent. No longer can there be any doubt that anthropogenic (humancaused) warming of the Earth is happening, caused mainly by greenhouse gas emissions, primarily carbon dioxide, from burning fossil fuels. Climate change pose ...
UN-Water | Coordinating the UN`s work on water and sanitation
... indication of what could lie ahead from increased climate variability (4). At the opposite end, the more intense droughts experienced in the past decade, which have affected an increasing number of people, have been linked to higher temperatures and decreased precipitation. Moreover, in its Fourth A ...
... indication of what could lie ahead from increased climate variability (4). At the opposite end, the more intense droughts experienced in the past decade, which have affected an increasing number of people, have been linked to higher temperatures and decreased precipitation. Moreover, in its Fourth A ...
The Effect of Climate Change on the Variability of the Northern
... and a fully resolved stratosphere. Analysis of the standard stratospheric zonal mean wind diagnostic shows no significant increase over the twenty-first century in the number of major sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) from its historical value of 0.7 events per decade, although the monthly distri ...
... and a fully resolved stratosphere. Analysis of the standard stratospheric zonal mean wind diagnostic shows no significant increase over the twenty-first century in the number of major sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) from its historical value of 0.7 events per decade, although the monthly distri ...
onp_draft_112011 - University of Washington
... to sustain traversable streamflows during the low flow season in the summer and early fall when many salmon populations are migrating. For instance, the volume in the Elwha River dropped below average streamflows during the summer and fall of 2009 due to dry conditions during those and the previous ...
... to sustain traversable streamflows during the low flow season in the summer and early fall when many salmon populations are migrating. For instance, the volume in the Elwha River dropped below average streamflows during the summer and fall of 2009 due to dry conditions during those and the previous ...
Ranking of the World`s Cities Most Exposed to Coastal Flooding
... There are exceptions to the general relationship between wealth and protection. For example, Greater New York, despite having a larger GDP than London, Tokyo and Amsterdam, is currently only protected to a standard of roughly a 1 in 100 year flood. Shanghai, a developing country city with a lower GD ...
... There are exceptions to the general relationship between wealth and protection. For example, Greater New York, despite having a larger GDP than London, Tokyo and Amsterdam, is currently only protected to a standard of roughly a 1 in 100 year flood. Shanghai, a developing country city with a lower GD ...
Global climate change scenario
... Impact of the Changes of Green house gases Summary of changes in the global environment by the 2050s and 2080s for the four scenarios expressed as changes from the 1961-90 average. The current (1999) CO2 concentration is about 370ppmv. The effects of aerosols on climate are not considered. (ppmv ...
... Impact of the Changes of Green house gases Summary of changes in the global environment by the 2050s and 2080s for the four scenarios expressed as changes from the 1961-90 average. The current (1999) CO2 concentration is about 370ppmv. The effects of aerosols on climate are not considered. (ppmv ...
Global changes in seasonal means and extremes of precipitation
... have discussed, projections of 21st century change are very uncertain in these regions, with equal numbers of models predicting a significantly wetter or drier future, or no significant change with respect to present conditions at all. Moreover in these areas, as detected by the goodness-of-fit anal ...
... have discussed, projections of 21st century change are very uncertain in these regions, with equal numbers of models predicting a significantly wetter or drier future, or no significant change with respect to present conditions at all. Moreover in these areas, as detected by the goodness-of-fit anal ...
Attribution of recent climate change
Attribution of recent climate change is the effort to scientifically ascertain mechanisms responsible for recent changes observed in the Earth's climate, commonly known as 'global warming'. The effort has focused on changes observed during the period of instrumental temperature record, when records are most reliable; particularly in the last 50 years, when human activity has grown fastest and observations of the troposphere have become available. The dominant mechanisms (to which recent climate change has been attributed) are anthropogenic, i.e., the result of human activity. They are: increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases global changes to land surface, such as deforestation increasing atmospheric concentrations of aerosols.There are also natural mechanisms for variation including climate oscillations, changes in solar activity, and volcanic activity.According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it is ""extremely likely"" that human influence was the dominant cause of global warming between 1951 and 2010. The IPCC defines ""extremely likely"" as indicating a probability of 95 to 100%, based on an expert assessment of all the available evidence.Multiple lines of evidence support attribution of recent climate change to human activities: A basic physical understanding of the climate system: greenhouse gas concentrations have increased and their warming properties are well-established. Historical estimates of past climate changes suggest that the recent changes in global surface temperature are unusual. Computer-based climate models are unable to replicate the observed warming unless human greenhouse gas emissions are included. Natural forces alone (such as solar and volcanic activity) cannot explain the observed warming.The IPCC's attribution of recent global warming to human activities is a view shared by most scientists, and is also supported by 196 other scientific organizations worldwide (see also: scientific opinion on climate change).