Climate Change PowerPoint
... Shifting Ranges of Checkerspot Butterflies • Edith’s checkerspot: range has shifted northward and to higher ...
... Shifting Ranges of Checkerspot Butterflies • Edith’s checkerspot: range has shifted northward and to higher ...
Section 1 - Climate Change - finalSLO
... society in the next several years. Climate scientists predict that a medium warning scenario of 5 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2090 would significantly reduce the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada, raise sea levels, and lead to more heat waves, wildfires, and air pollution. These climate changes can thre ...
... society in the next several years. Climate scientists predict that a medium warning scenario of 5 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2090 would significantly reduce the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada, raise sea levels, and lead to more heat waves, wildfires, and air pollution. These climate changes can thre ...
assessing trade and business groups` positions on climate change
... negative action. Rather, a label of not yet indicates that there has yet to be a broad national policy for which an association has demonstrated endorsement. For that reason, while associations with a yes are colored green, those with a not yet are not colored at all. Note, however, no policy wi ...
... negative action. Rather, a label of not yet indicates that there has yet to be a broad national policy for which an association has demonstrated endorsement. For that reason, while associations with a yes are colored green, those with a not yet are not colored at all. Note, however, no policy wi ...
Framing Climate: Implications for Local Government Policy
... This paper is explores the process through which the climate change issue is translated into local government planning and policy action. While its focus is on South-East Queensland local governments, the findings shed light on the difficulty of Australian local government in dealing with this comp ...
... This paper is explores the process through which the climate change issue is translated into local government planning and policy action. While its focus is on South-East Queensland local governments, the findings shed light on the difficulty of Australian local government in dealing with this comp ...
mobilising climate finance
... to foster a high-level dialogue with private sector financiers. In spring 2015, the G20 asked the Financial Stability Board (FSB) for recommendations about the climate risk to global financial stability and economic growth. Mark Carney, FSB Chair and Governor of the Bank of England, subsequently ide ...
... to foster a high-level dialogue with private sector financiers. In spring 2015, the G20 asked the Financial Stability Board (FSB) for recommendations about the climate risk to global financial stability and economic growth. Mark Carney, FSB Chair and Governor of the Bank of England, subsequently ide ...
Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the Younger Dryas
... Recent borehole temperature studies8 show that the d18Oice ‘palaeothermometer’ underestimates the glacial-to-Holocene warming by about a factor of 2 when calibrated from the modern spatial d18O–temperature relationship, motivating the search for an independent palaeothermometer. Second, the age of t ...
... Recent borehole temperature studies8 show that the d18Oice ‘palaeothermometer’ underestimates the glacial-to-Holocene warming by about a factor of 2 when calibrated from the modern spatial d18O–temperature relationship, motivating the search for an independent palaeothermometer. Second, the age of t ...
1. Climate Catastrophe - Global Commons Institute
... themselves from the report, continue to remain on the list. 12 Examples of flagrant misrepresentation in the report are rife. On the list, for instance, is “prominent scientist” Ray Kurzweil – not a scientist but an inventor. Worse, Kurzweil is not even a global warming skeptic. Rather, he argued th ...
... themselves from the report, continue to remain on the list. 12 Examples of flagrant misrepresentation in the report are rife. On the list, for instance, is “prominent scientist” Ray Kurzweil – not a scientist but an inventor. Worse, Kurzweil is not even a global warming skeptic. Rather, he argued th ...
Running to stand still: adaptation and the response of
... even in the absence of long-term climatic changes. Most species tolerate such short-term variability through phenotypic plasticity. However, beyond the point at which individuals (and therefore species) are able to tolerate changes in climate, distributional and evolutionary changes are inevitable ( ...
... even in the absence of long-term climatic changes. Most species tolerate such short-term variability through phenotypic plasticity. However, beyond the point at which individuals (and therefore species) are able to tolerate changes in climate, distributional and evolutionary changes are inevitable ( ...
2015 NGPR Leadership Symposium
... I employ phylogenomic and comparative genomic approaches to study evolution of marine invertebrates. My primary goal is to improve understanding of phylogeny, evolutionary origins of molecular innovations (e.g., biomineralization), and the genomic toolkits that underlie them. I am also a classically ...
... I employ phylogenomic and comparative genomic approaches to study evolution of marine invertebrates. My primary goal is to improve understanding of phylogeny, evolutionary origins of molecular innovations (e.g., biomineralization), and the genomic toolkits that underlie them. I am also a classically ...
Globalization, Climate Change, and Human Health
... fundamentally influence patterns of human health, international health care, and public health activities.2 They constitute a syndrome, not a set of separate changes, that reflects the interrelated pressures, stresses, and tensions arising from an overly large world population, the pervasive and inc ...
... fundamentally influence patterns of human health, international health care, and public health activities.2 They constitute a syndrome, not a set of separate changes, that reflects the interrelated pressures, stresses, and tensions arising from an overly large world population, the pervasive and inc ...
2A.3 APPLICATION OF DIFFERENT WEATHER PATTERN
... As far as the summer drying, the largest changes are projected in case of circulation pattern type 9 (the decrease is likely to exceed 1.1 and 1.4 mm/day for B2 and B2 scenario, respectively). This circulation type showing a strong zonal/cyclonic isobar structure in Fig. 1, was the wettest one in Hu ...
... As far as the summer drying, the largest changes are projected in case of circulation pattern type 9 (the decrease is likely to exceed 1.1 and 1.4 mm/day for B2 and B2 scenario, respectively). This circulation type showing a strong zonal/cyclonic isobar structure in Fig. 1, was the wettest one in Hu ...
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... misleading: what is “free” is only freedom for global corporations and it entails the suppression of freedom for communities or nations to regulate or otherwise maintain their primary values, like the env ...
... misleading: what is “free” is only freedom for global corporations and it entails the suppression of freedom for communities or nations to regulate or otherwise maintain their primary values, like the env ...
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Heathland ecosystems
... variability exists, scientific evidence indicates that the rapid climate changes of the past century are dominantly human-induced (IPCC 2007a). Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (NOX), and of aerosols (microscopic airborne part ...
... variability exists, scientific evidence indicates that the rapid climate changes of the past century are dominantly human-induced (IPCC 2007a). Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (NOX), and of aerosols (microscopic airborne part ...
Observed Climate Variations and Change
... Hemispheres. A cooling of the Northern Hemisphere occurred between the 1940s and the early 1970s, while Southern Hemisphere temperatures remained nearly constant from the 1940s to about 1970. Since 1970 in the Southern Hemisphere and 1975 in the Northern Hemisphere, a more general warming has been o ...
... Hemispheres. A cooling of the Northern Hemisphere occurred between the 1940s and the early 1970s, while Southern Hemisphere temperatures remained nearly constant from the 1940s to about 1970. Since 1970 in the Southern Hemisphere and 1975 in the Northern Hemisphere, a more general warming has been o ...
PDF - Oxford Academic - Oxford University Press
... partial explanation for the existence of massive phytoplankton blooms that are observed in some polar ecosystems (Smith and Gordon, 1997). That conclusion was based on an analysis of hundreds of data points obtained for protists growing in culture, but studies that have examined the growth rates of ...
... partial explanation for the existence of massive phytoplankton blooms that are observed in some polar ecosystems (Smith and Gordon, 1997). That conclusion was based on an analysis of hundreds of data points obtained for protists growing in culture, but studies that have examined the growth rates of ...
A summary for policymakers
... challenges decision makers face. Climate change impacts in a number of basins dominated by snow and ice show that water managers and users will need to adapt to change in the quantity and timing of water resources. This is not only relevant to local and regional scales, but also to communities and e ...
... challenges decision makers face. Climate change impacts in a number of basins dominated by snow and ice show that water managers and users will need to adapt to change in the quantity and timing of water resources. This is not only relevant to local and regional scales, but also to communities and e ...
Long-term macroinvertebrate responses to climate change
... McLaughlin Reserve. The total amount of precipitation that occurred over the 15-week period leading up to the sampling date (i.e., January 1 to April 15) was calculated to create a precipitation variable for analysis. We limited the analysis to the calendar year rather than to the start of the wet s ...
... McLaughlin Reserve. The total amount of precipitation that occurred over the 15-week period leading up to the sampling date (i.e., January 1 to April 15) was calculated to create a precipitation variable for analysis. We limited the analysis to the calendar year rather than to the start of the wet s ...
Is Strange Weather in the Air? A Study of US National Network News
... change had yet to come out in public. Thus the three peaks in coverage all occur between 1980 and 1988. Interestingly, the transition year of 1988 receives substantially less coverage than found in the two earlier peak-years. Subsequent to 1988, coverage declines for several years. Even 1995, when m ...
... change had yet to come out in public. Thus the three peaks in coverage all occur between 1980 and 1988. Interestingly, the transition year of 1988 receives substantially less coverage than found in the two earlier peak-years. Subsequent to 1988, coverage declines for several years. Even 1995, when m ...
WSB 8/5/1 Task Group Climate page 1 Agenda Item: 5 Subject
... Continue and further strengthen TG-C activities, including exchange of best practices. 4. Flexibility There is considerable uncertainty about climate change and its impacts regarding direction, timing and magnitude (e.g. plausible sea level rise projections vary among 0.2 and 1.4 m). These uncerta ...
... Continue and further strengthen TG-C activities, including exchange of best practices. 4. Flexibility There is considerable uncertainty about climate change and its impacts regarding direction, timing and magnitude (e.g. plausible sea level rise projections vary among 0.2 and 1.4 m). These uncerta ...
Atmospheric Circulations do not Explain the
... behind a “pure” record of climatic change. But several studies have shown a correlation between the spatial pattern of warming trends in climatic data products and the spatial pattern of industrialization, indicating that local non-climatic effects may still be present. This, in turn, could bias mea ...
... behind a “pure” record of climatic change. But several studies have shown a correlation between the spatial pattern of warming trends in climatic data products and the spatial pattern of industrialization, indicating that local non-climatic effects may still be present. This, in turn, could bias mea ...
Forced displacement in the context of climate change
... BACKGROUND ANALYSIS 1. Climate Change and Forced Displacement Global warming and the ensuing changes of climate as such do not trigger movement of persons; however, its effects, such as natural disasters, environmental degradation or sealevel rise, have the potential to do so. It is believed that be ...
... BACKGROUND ANALYSIS 1. Climate Change and Forced Displacement Global warming and the ensuing changes of climate as such do not trigger movement of persons; however, its effects, such as natural disasters, environmental degradation or sealevel rise, have the potential to do so. It is believed that be ...
The Ethical Responsibility of the Loss and Damage Mechanism: a
... changes, and evaluate the work streams’ ethical responsibility and prospective capability to handle such losses. Introduction In the past 20 years, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has focused on two main goals, mitigation and adaptation. In essence, mitigating the ...
... changes, and evaluate the work streams’ ethical responsibility and prospective capability to handle such losses. Introduction In the past 20 years, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has focused on two main goals, mitigation and adaptation. In essence, mitigating the ...
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... that, even though there are compelling arguments for implementing relatively mild mitigation measures in the short term, this should not justify the absence of policy action now, because it could lower abatement costs in the future. Since the publication of these seminal papers, much effort has been ...
... that, even though there are compelling arguments for implementing relatively mild mitigation measures in the short term, this should not justify the absence of policy action now, because it could lower abatement costs in the future. Since the publication of these seminal papers, much effort has been ...
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).