S08-2 Mistimed reproduction due to global climate change
... early laying great tits will produce more recruits in the following year than late laying birds. For the Hoge Veluwe great tits, there is a clear decrease in selection differentials for laying date (Fig. 2; Visser et al., 1998). In the early years of the study, there was no directional selection (se ...
... early laying great tits will produce more recruits in the following year than late laying birds. For the Hoge Veluwe great tits, there is a clear decrease in selection differentials for laying date (Fig. 2; Visser et al., 1998). In the early years of the study, there was no directional selection (se ...
Communicating climate change in mainstream
... Through eight years of analyzing reports for our annual ‘How does it stack up?’ research, we know that the best environmental and social disclosures help to tell a more rounded story about a company’s performance and priorities. However, narrative on these topics is all too frequently disconnected a ...
... Through eight years of analyzing reports for our annual ‘How does it stack up?’ research, we know that the best environmental and social disclosures help to tell a more rounded story about a company’s performance and priorities. However, narrative on these topics is all too frequently disconnected a ...
Conference Proceeding
... the Himalayan river basins need to be empowered and their livelihoods improved enabling them to take responsibility for the preservation of natural resources and fulfill their role as mountain stewards. In order to enhance resilience of livelihoods it is essential to gain a better understanding of t ...
... the Himalayan river basins need to be empowered and their livelihoods improved enabling them to take responsibility for the preservation of natural resources and fulfill their role as mountain stewards. In order to enhance resilience of livelihoods it is essential to gain a better understanding of t ...
Navigating Complexity
... changing conditions and improve resilience. Host communities can also benefit from the skills and capabilities of migrants and the additional resources and attention that sometimes follow. A case study in Guinea in the late 1990s found that aid funneled through existing institutional frameworks (e.g ...
... changing conditions and improve resilience. Host communities can also benefit from the skills and capabilities of migrants and the additional resources and attention that sometimes follow. A case study in Guinea in the late 1990s found that aid funneled through existing institutional frameworks (e.g ...
MD/DC Metro Area - GAIA - The Johns Hopkins University Applied
... Alpana Kaushiva ([email protected]), Shadrian Strong, Steven Babin, & Larry Paxton The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States ...
... Alpana Kaushiva ([email protected]), Shadrian Strong, Steven Babin, & Larry Paxton The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States ...
Guidance to the interaction between POPs and climate change and
... (2009) the boundary for colder water/warmer water species have moved north wards for plankton, benthos, fishes and pole wards for some sea mammals during the last 30 years with increasing temperatures in the surface layers of the north-eastern Atlantic. Immigration of temperate species of fish and s ...
... (2009) the boundary for colder water/warmer water species have moved north wards for plankton, benthos, fishes and pole wards for some sea mammals during the last 30 years with increasing temperatures in the surface layers of the north-eastern Atlantic. Immigration of temperate species of fish and s ...
Project Packet
... From http://www.visionlearning.com/library/pop_glossary_term.php?oid= The part of the world in which life can exist Carbon Dioxide: A gas that is exhaled by humans and absorbed by plants during photosynthesis. emitted when fossil fuels are burned. ...
... From http://www.visionlearning.com/library/pop_glossary_term.php?oid= The part of the world in which life can exist Carbon Dioxide: A gas that is exhaled by humans and absorbed by plants during photosynthesis. emitted when fossil fuels are burned. ...
Climate Change: Current Issues and Policy Tools
... most warming occurring since the 1970s. Precipitation has increased over the past century, although some regions have become wetter while some have become drier. These results are consistent with scientists’ understanding of how heightened greenhouse gas concentrations affect climate regionally. Inc ...
... most warming occurring since the 1970s. Precipitation has increased over the past century, although some regions have become wetter while some have become drier. These results are consistent with scientists’ understanding of how heightened greenhouse gas concentrations affect climate regionally. Inc ...
Handbook for Local Elected Officials on Climate Change
... have a responsibility to become informed and to take appropriate action within their mandates to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change. ...
... have a responsibility to become informed and to take appropriate action within their mandates to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change. ...
Nunavut`s Natural Environment - Nunavut Climate Change Centre
... Climate change is happening, as is evident from increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global sea levels.1 In Nunavut the annual average temperature is rising twice as fast as the rest of the world.2 In Nunavut specifically, many aspect ...
... Climate change is happening, as is evident from increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global sea levels.1 In Nunavut the annual average temperature is rising twice as fast as the rest of the world.2 In Nunavut specifically, many aspect ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... (2009) the boundary for colder water/warmer water species have moved north wards for plankton, benthos, fishes and pole wards for some sea mammals during the last 30 years with increasing temperatures in the surface layers of the north-eastern Atlantic. Immigration of temperate species of fish and s ...
... (2009) the boundary for colder water/warmer water species have moved north wards for plankton, benthos, fishes and pole wards for some sea mammals during the last 30 years with increasing temperatures in the surface layers of the north-eastern Atlantic. Immigration of temperate species of fish and s ...
The Response of Precipitation Minus
... warming climate, following the Clausius–Clapeyron relation at roughly constant relative humidity [a similar mechanism was termed the direct moisture effect by Chou and Neelin (2004)]. The dynamical contribution to precipitation changes is also important locally (Xie et al. 2010; Huang et al. 2013; C ...
... warming climate, following the Clausius–Clapeyron relation at roughly constant relative humidity [a similar mechanism was termed the direct moisture effect by Chou and Neelin (2004)]. The dynamical contribution to precipitation changes is also important locally (Xie et al. 2010; Huang et al. 2013; C ...
IOSR Journal of Mathematics (IOSR-JM)
... the environment by emitting the GHGs and discharging other pollutants. Crude oil production, fuel combustion accounts for the high amount of CO2 emission. Most devastating is the burning of gas by flaring that leads to the emission of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. These gases released dur ...
... the environment by emitting the GHGs and discharging other pollutants. Crude oil production, fuel combustion accounts for the high amount of CO2 emission. Most devastating is the burning of gas by flaring that leads to the emission of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. These gases released dur ...
Planning for an Uncertain Future: Climate Change Sensitivity
... significantly between watersheds, averaging 23.8% 8F21 and ranging from 21.8% to 26.5% flow reduction per degree Fahrenheit of warming. The largest flow reductions occur during the high water demand months of May–September. Precipitation drives hydrologic response more strongly than temperature, wit ...
... significantly between watersheds, averaging 23.8% 8F21 and ranging from 21.8% to 26.5% flow reduction per degree Fahrenheit of warming. The largest flow reductions occur during the high water demand months of May–September. Precipitation drives hydrologic response more strongly than temperature, wit ...
A mechanism for dust-induced destabilization of
... scale upper attain source parameters. Additionally, dust optical properties mosphere layer of these fine aerosol particles was established are strongly affected by uncertain mineralogical parameters, and stabilized by feedbacks arising from the small aerosols’ such as hematite content (Sokolik and T ...
... scale upper attain source parameters. Additionally, dust optical properties mosphere layer of these fine aerosol particles was established are strongly affected by uncertain mineralogical parameters, and stabilized by feedbacks arising from the small aerosols’ such as hematite content (Sokolik and T ...
Status Description Total Funding Strengthening Communities
... functional and self-sustaining USD$200,000 More information on this project ...
... functional and self-sustaining USD$200,000 More information on this project ...
Cryosphere, Instability, Sea Level Rise Session 1
... Since the industrial revolution, the natural cycles of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and other greenhouse gases have been strongly unbalanced by human activities. For CO2, this has led to carbon sinks in land and ocean systems which together absorb more than half of anthropogenic emissions, represen ...
... Since the industrial revolution, the natural cycles of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and other greenhouse gases have been strongly unbalanced by human activities. For CO2, this has led to carbon sinks in land and ocean systems which together absorb more than half of anthropogenic emissions, represen ...
Background Report on ICTs and Climate Change
... The Kyoto and London events led to the establishment of an ITU-T Focus Group on ICTs & Climate Change by TSAG in July 2008. The Focus Group analyzed and identified gaps in the areas of definitions and developed agreed methodologies and appropriate tools to measure the impact of ICTs on climate chang ...
... The Kyoto and London events led to the establishment of an ITU-T Focus Group on ICTs & Climate Change by TSAG in July 2008. The Focus Group analyzed and identified gaps in the areas of definitions and developed agreed methodologies and appropriate tools to measure the impact of ICTs on climate chang ...
Climate Change and Wildfire in California AL Westerling, University
... effect on risks for these fires as they could for energy-limited fire regimes. Indirectly, however, changes in temperature may have an effect on moisture-limited wildfire risks through their potential to affect the moisture available for the growth of vegetation during the growing season. For exampl ...
... effect on risks for these fires as they could for energy-limited fire regimes. Indirectly, however, changes in temperature may have an effect on moisture-limited wildfire risks through their potential to affect the moisture available for the growth of vegetation during the growing season. For exampl ...
Bohensky CV Dec 2015
... governments in seven African countries to increase emphasis on ecosystem services and links to human wellbeing in national poverty reduction strategies. Lead Editor, Gariep Basin Millennium Ecosystem Assessment University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (Jul 2002 - Dec 2004) I managed this Southern Af ...
... governments in seven African countries to increase emphasis on ecosystem services and links to human wellbeing in national poverty reduction strategies. Lead Editor, Gariep Basin Millennium Ecosystem Assessment University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (Jul 2002 - Dec 2004) I managed this Southern Af ...
Incentives for Sustainability in the European Union:
... literature and news. Global reactions to the mounting scientific evidence have evolved rapidly in recent years, as an increased sense of urgency has emerged. On September 27, 2013, the IPCC announced that there is a 95% probability that climate change has been caused by humans. This announcement, in ...
... literature and news. Global reactions to the mounting scientific evidence have evolved rapidly in recent years, as an increased sense of urgency has emerged. On September 27, 2013, the IPCC announced that there is a 95% probability that climate change has been caused by humans. This announcement, in ...
BACKGROUND PAPER Prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment
... climate risk and development concerns (p.10). The role of climate change itself – the range of potential futures depending on how much greenhouse gas concentrations are allowed to rise – is a less-explored dimension of the links between climate change and DRR. Yet this dimension is critical for unde ...
... climate risk and development concerns (p.10). The role of climate change itself – the range of potential futures depending on how much greenhouse gas concentrations are allowed to rise – is a less-explored dimension of the links between climate change and DRR. Yet this dimension is critical for unde ...
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).