Strategic Framework 2014–2017: SDC Global Programme Climate
... Climate Change 1 is a major global challenge and a key underlying factor in many global risks including food shortage, water supply crises and the impacts of extreme weather events. Additionally, Climate Change is a most relevant development challenge, as it affects developing countries far more tha ...
... Climate Change 1 is a major global challenge and a key underlying factor in many global risks including food shortage, water supply crises and the impacts of extreme weather events. Additionally, Climate Change is a most relevant development challenge, as it affects developing countries far more tha ...
Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: Scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments
... models used to explore the (stage III) uncertainty represents only a limited sample. Indeed, parameter uncertainty is not captured in the scenario set (for either stage II or III uncertainty) as such information is not available for the region. Consequently, the level of confidence in the range of fu ...
... models used to explore the (stage III) uncertainty represents only a limited sample. Indeed, parameter uncertainty is not captured in the scenario set (for either stage II or III uncertainty) as such information is not available for the region. Consequently, the level of confidence in the range of fu ...
Making Climate Data Relevant to Decision Making:
... Throughout the world, there is a major need for climate change science to inform on-the-ground adaptation planning. However, a big gap exists between the well-developed state of climate science and decision-makers preparing for a future climate. There is no shortage of scientific data that has been ...
... Throughout the world, there is a major need for climate change science to inform on-the-ground adaptation planning. However, a big gap exists between the well-developed state of climate science and decision-makers preparing for a future climate. There is no shortage of scientific data that has been ...
Climatic Change
... different extreme event types, magnitudes, durations or proximity influence public perceptions of extreme weather experience. Our goal is to investigate the geographic correspondence of subjective personal experience of extreme weather events with the recorded locations of events. In so doing, we wi ...
... different extreme event types, magnitudes, durations or proximity influence public perceptions of extreme weather experience. Our goal is to investigate the geographic correspondence of subjective personal experience of extreme weather events with the recorded locations of events. In so doing, we wi ...
Noctilucent Clouds
... Temperature in the Mesosphere is decreasing Temperatures near 80 km have cooled by almost 5 K every 10 years, since measurements were started in the 1950’s ...
... Temperature in the Mesosphere is decreasing Temperatures near 80 km have cooled by almost 5 K every 10 years, since measurements were started in the 1950’s ...
Combustion of available fossil fuel resources
... long lifetime of perturbations to atmospheric CO2 concentrations in conjunction with the logarithmic nature of the warming versus CO2 relationship means that global mean temperatures decline by less than 5% per thousand years once more than about 5000 GtC have been emitted. Instead, temperatures rem ...
... long lifetime of perturbations to atmospheric CO2 concentrations in conjunction with the logarithmic nature of the warming versus CO2 relationship means that global mean temperatures decline by less than 5% per thousand years once more than about 5000 GtC have been emitted. Instead, temperatures rem ...
Climate Change and the Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU) Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
... areas with recurrent droughts, extreme precipitation and snow, damaging cyclones, sea level rise, ocean acidification and carbon dioxide fertilization. These trends may have varied effects on Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU). ...
... areas with recurrent droughts, extreme precipitation and snow, damaging cyclones, sea level rise, ocean acidification and carbon dioxide fertilization. These trends may have varied effects on Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU). ...
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... Poverty is often closely linked to food insecurity. Participatory assessments of poverty consistently identify the poor in terms of food availability—the rich are those who own land and can produce enough food to support the household for a full year, while the poor are landless labourers who rely a ...
... Poverty is often closely linked to food insecurity. Participatory assessments of poverty consistently identify the poor in terms of food availability—the rich are those who own land and can produce enough food to support the household for a full year, while the poor are landless labourers who rely a ...
report on adaptation challenges in pacific island countries
... at extreme risk from sea level rise. More than 50% of the population in the region lives within 1.5 km of the shore and many of these countries are less than a few meters above sea level. An increase of as little as half a meter, along with increased incidents of storm surges, would inundate many cr ...
... at extreme risk from sea level rise. More than 50% of the population in the region lives within 1.5 km of the shore and many of these countries are less than a few meters above sea level. An increase of as little as half a meter, along with increased incidents of storm surges, would inundate many cr ...
Future directions in adaptation research
... Adaptation cost 2050 = US$75 – 100b/yr? SLR impact cost 2100 = US$300 – 90b/yr? EU AS: “climate-proof” CAP, CFP, infrastr. standards NCCAF: Sectoral adaptation plans to be published by ...
... Adaptation cost 2050 = US$75 – 100b/yr? SLR impact cost 2100 = US$300 – 90b/yr? EU AS: “climate-proof” CAP, CFP, infrastr. standards NCCAF: Sectoral adaptation plans to be published by ...
Interannual Variations of Arctic Cloud Types:
... This sub-region is chosen because it is where the seaice edge has been most variable Study the change in cloud cover in each region based on linear fits to time series ...
... This sub-region is chosen because it is where the seaice edge has been most variable Study the change in cloud cover in each region based on linear fits to time series ...
Reducing the Future to Climate: a Story of Climate Determinism and
... The costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year, now and forever ... [rising to] 20% of GDP or more; ...
... The costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year, now and forever ... [rising to] 20% of GDP or more; ...
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Earth`s Energy Imbalance and Implications
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001, 2007) reports and by innumerable authors. Although climate change is driven by many climate forcing agents and the climate system also exhibits unforced (chaotic) variability, it is now widely agreed that the strong global warming trend of recen ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001, 2007) reports and by innumerable authors. Although climate change is driven by many climate forcing agents and the climate system also exhibits unforced (chaotic) variability, it is now widely agreed that the strong global warming trend of recen ...
The Implications of Climate Change for the Insurance
... somwhere they could go should there be a prolonged drought in their area. In times of plenty, the aborigines would have great feasts, called “corroborees” where they invited other clans to come and share in their good fortune. In effect “paying a premium” for protection when times were hard. It is p ...
... somwhere they could go should there be a prolonged drought in their area. In times of plenty, the aborigines would have great feasts, called “corroborees” where they invited other clans to come and share in their good fortune. In effect “paying a premium” for protection when times were hard. It is p ...
Relationship between climate change and the full and effective
... extent possible. Citing Article 29 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Hungary emphasized that adequate education, including on the natural environment, was a rights and was also critical to safeguard children’s interests and facilitate their participation. The Constitution of Hungary spec ...
... extent possible. Citing Article 29 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Hungary emphasized that adequate education, including on the natural environment, was a rights and was also critical to safeguard children’s interests and facilitate their participation. The Constitution of Hungary spec ...
UK climate change policy: how does it affect competitiveness?
... reduction target for 2030. The EU has set a target to reduce its annual emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 40 per cent compared to their 1990 level by 2030. The UK’s share of meeting this goal is likely to be a target in the range of 51 and 57 per cent. The Committee on Climate Change’s advic ...
... reduction target for 2030. The EU has set a target to reduce its annual emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 40 per cent compared to their 1990 level by 2030. The UK’s share of meeting this goal is likely to be a target in the range of 51 and 57 per cent. The Committee on Climate Change’s advic ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CLIMATE ECONOMICS: A META-REVIEW AND SOME SUGGESTIONS Geoffrey Heal
... That an increment of consumption is less important to a rich person than to a poor person has long been a staple of utilitarian arguments for income redistribution and progressive taxation (see Sen [33]), and is very widely accepted. This is re‡ected in the diminishing marginal utility of consumptio ...
... That an increment of consumption is less important to a rich person than to a poor person has long been a staple of utilitarian arguments for income redistribution and progressive taxation (see Sen [33]), and is very widely accepted. This is re‡ected in the diminishing marginal utility of consumptio ...
“There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming
... The impacts of climate change are likely to become increasingly evident in the coming decades and will affect many of your organisation’s services, assets and infrastructure. If organisations do not plan for and respond to these pressures appropriately, costly remedial action which could have been a ...
... The impacts of climate change are likely to become increasingly evident in the coming decades and will affect many of your organisation’s services, assets and infrastructure. If organisations do not plan for and respond to these pressures appropriately, costly remedial action which could have been a ...
The South East Queensland drought to 2007
... One of the consequences of global warming is a general warming of Pacific Ocean sea-surface temperatures including those in the central equatorial Pacific. Although warmer temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific may resemble a semi-permanent El Niño-like state, modelling studies show that the ...
... One of the consequences of global warming is a general warming of Pacific Ocean sea-surface temperatures including those in the central equatorial Pacific. Although warmer temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific may resemble a semi-permanent El Niño-like state, modelling studies show that the ...
Poverty and climate change: assessing impacts in developing
... There is wide academic consensus that global warming is occurring due to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group’s Fifth Report; Climate change 2001 : impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, predicts an average global temperature ...
... There is wide academic consensus that global warming is occurring due to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group’s Fifth Report; Climate change 2001 : impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, predicts an average global temperature ...
Claiming and adjudicating on Mt Kilimanjaro`s
... human-induced global warming, but they had very different resources at their disposal to advance these beliefs. While Callendar’s claim was revealed only to the editor of the science journal Nature, Gore’s claims were visible to millions through his film An Inconvenient Truth. While the force of Cal ...
... human-induced global warming, but they had very different resources at their disposal to advance these beliefs. While Callendar’s claim was revealed only to the editor of the science journal Nature, Gore’s claims were visible to millions through his film An Inconvenient Truth. While the force of Cal ...
Karuk Tribe: Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge within
... planning needs to be a strategic process that is based on “intergenerational cumulative observations at the community scale, rather than predictions acquired from models based on recently identified trends” (Karuk 2012). TEK has the potential to inform how climate change may affect cultural resource ...
... planning needs to be a strategic process that is based on “intergenerational cumulative observations at the community scale, rather than predictions acquired from models based on recently identified trends” (Karuk 2012). TEK has the potential to inform how climate change may affect cultural resource ...
Integrating biophysical models and evolutionary theory
... 4. While we predict that climate change will directly increase habitat suitability throughout much of Australia, the potential indirect impact of changed water storage practices by humans in response to drought may have a greater effect. 5. In northern Australia, we show that evolutionary changes in ...
... 4. While we predict that climate change will directly increase habitat suitability throughout much of Australia, the potential indirect impact of changed water storage practices by humans in response to drought may have a greater effect. 5. In northern Australia, we show that evolutionary changes in ...
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).