freeze-thaw and precipitation report
... occurring. Actions can be taken to become more prepared for unexpected events, to minimize the negative impacts of events already occurring or expected, or to maximize any positive benefits that may arise. Adaptation is different than climate change mitigation, which refers to actions that reduce th ...
... occurring. Actions can be taken to become more prepared for unexpected events, to minimize the negative impacts of events already occurring or expected, or to maximize any positive benefits that may arise. Adaptation is different than climate change mitigation, which refers to actions that reduce th ...
NASA Research Strategy for Earth System Science
... detect the occurrence of significant variations in the major components of the climate system and independently determine changes in representative variables that currently cannot be inferred from other measured quantities (e.g., the structure of precipitating clouds and associated precipitation tha ...
... detect the occurrence of significant variations in the major components of the climate system and independently determine changes in representative variables that currently cannot be inferred from other measured quantities (e.g., the structure of precipitating clouds and associated precipitation tha ...
Uncertainty and Learning in Sequential Decision
... Necessary Conditions for Emissions Reductions • Someone, somewhere has to consume less energy, and/or • Someone, somewhere has to use energy from a lower carbon source (at higher cost), and/or • Someone, somewhere has to invest resources to lower the cost of low-carbon energy (so that someone will ...
... Necessary Conditions for Emissions Reductions • Someone, somewhere has to consume less energy, and/or • Someone, somewhere has to use energy from a lower carbon source (at higher cost), and/or • Someone, somewhere has to invest resources to lower the cost of low-carbon energy (so that someone will ...
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Water Availability
... Climate change is any systematic and statistically significant change in the longterm statistics of climate elements, such as precipitation, temperature, pressure, or winds, sustained over several decades or longer. Thus, climate change can be an expression of changes in long-term average precipita ...
... Climate change is any systematic and statistically significant change in the longterm statistics of climate elements, such as precipitation, temperature, pressure, or winds, sustained over several decades or longer. Thus, climate change can be an expression of changes in long-term average precipita ...
Solar irradiance reduction to counteract radiative forcing from a
... a deliberate global-scale manipulation of the radiative budget of the Earth may counterbalance the effects of continued greenhouse gas emissions on global surface temperature, but may also result in undesirable side effects for crucial parts of the Earth system and humankind. An SRM-engineered clima ...
... a deliberate global-scale manipulation of the radiative budget of the Earth may counterbalance the effects of continued greenhouse gas emissions on global surface temperature, but may also result in undesirable side effects for crucial parts of the Earth system and humankind. An SRM-engineered clima ...
Debate Capitalism and Climate Change: Can the Invisible Hand
... by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main St., Malden, MA 02148, USA ...
... by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main St., Malden, MA 02148, USA ...
Global warming is dead - Nottingham ePrints
... “Has global warming stalled? Or is it entirely expected that natural variability rears its head and can offset warming for a decade or two?” In part the answer depends on what we mean by ‘global warming'. For many it means the global mean temperature increases. But for anthropogenic climate change, ...
... “Has global warming stalled? Or is it entirely expected that natural variability rears its head and can offset warming for a decade or two?” In part the answer depends on what we mean by ‘global warming'. For many it means the global mean temperature increases. But for anthropogenic climate change, ...
Fact sheet: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
... sustainability of such critical terrestrial system services, Berkeley Lab scientists are developing methods to interrogate and simulate how plants and microbial soil communities interact and function in dynamic terrestrial systems, particularly in response to changes in climate and land use. Initial ...
... sustainability of such critical terrestrial system services, Berkeley Lab scientists are developing methods to interrogate and simulate how plants and microbial soil communities interact and function in dynamic terrestrial systems, particularly in response to changes in climate and land use. Initial ...
IS CLIMATE CHANGE HINDERING ECONOMIC GROWTH OF ASIAN ECONOMIES? *
... long-term growth potential of the country. Furthermore, the effects of climate change are not homogeneous within countries; it was found that agriculture, coastal zones and elderly people are more heavily affected than their counterparts. (O’Brien, Sygna and Haugen, 2004; Parry and others, 2007; Luc ...
... long-term growth potential of the country. Furthermore, the effects of climate change are not homogeneous within countries; it was found that agriculture, coastal zones and elderly people are more heavily affected than their counterparts. (O’Brien, Sygna and Haugen, 2004; Parry and others, 2007; Luc ...
biodiversity and climate change
... is critical to adapt and evolve to climate change. • promoting dispersal – For a species to respond and move to suitable climate, it needs increased habitat availability and connectivity (POSTnote 300). However, a species that is unable to disperse naturally with the rate of climate change may need ...
... is critical to adapt and evolve to climate change. • promoting dispersal – For a species to respond and move to suitable climate, it needs increased habitat availability and connectivity (POSTnote 300). However, a species that is unable to disperse naturally with the rate of climate change may need ...
TeCHnOLOGICAL PROGReSS WILL nOT
... Arguably, climate change, and the environmental problems that will occur as a result, are the most pressing issues that mankind faces. The Paris climate change summit last year was hailed as a momentous deal, in which countries pledged, among other things, to cap emissions, and seek to limit tempera ...
... Arguably, climate change, and the environmental problems that will occur as a result, are the most pressing issues that mankind faces. The Paris climate change summit last year was hailed as a momentous deal, in which countries pledged, among other things, to cap emissions, and seek to limit tempera ...
Debate Capitalism and Climate Change: Can the Invisible Hand
... by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main St., Malden, MA 02148, USA ...
... by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main St., Malden, MA 02148, USA ...
Draft Resolution X
... has established climate change as a Priority Area for Interdisciplinary Action, in order to assist countries in developing cross-sectoral policies to address the negative impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture; has organized the “High-Level Conference on World Food Security: The Ch ...
... has established climate change as a Priority Area for Interdisciplinary Action, in order to assist countries in developing cross-sectoral policies to address the negative impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture; has organized the “High-Level Conference on World Food Security: The Ch ...
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
... transient alterations in an organism’s neurophysiological and somatovisceral state that represent its immediate relationship to the flow of changing events… in a sense, core affect is a neurophysiologic barometer of the individual’s relationship to an environment at a given point in time. To the ext ...
... transient alterations in an organism’s neurophysiological and somatovisceral state that represent its immediate relationship to the flow of changing events… in a sense, core affect is a neurophysiologic barometer of the individual’s relationship to an environment at a given point in time. To the ext ...
The World Meteorological Organization at a glance
... WMO coordinates and organizes research programmes that contribute to our scientific understanding of the dynamical physical and chemical processes in the atmosphere and oceans, as well as the interactions of various components of the Earth system on all time- and space-scales. That understanding has ...
... WMO coordinates and organizes research programmes that contribute to our scientific understanding of the dynamical physical and chemical processes in the atmosphere and oceans, as well as the interactions of various components of the Earth system on all time- and space-scales. That understanding has ...
Potential Climatic Deterioration in Semiarid Subtropical
... the record cold temperatures in the region set during that period were not shattered until brutally cold snaps on or around the Christmas days of 1983 and 1989.) Third, various studies have reported that global mean temperatures decreased for about 25 years between the late 1940s and 1970 or so. At ...
... the record cold temperatures in the region set during that period were not shattered until brutally cold snaps on or around the Christmas days of 1983 and 1989.) Third, various studies have reported that global mean temperatures decreased for about 25 years between the late 1940s and 1970 or so. At ...
Status Description Total Funding Pacific iCLIM Completed
... regarding the climate and crop perfromamce Carry out agrobiodiversity case study in Pukapuka to record baseline agrobiodiveristy as well Completed as community observations regarding the climate and crop perfromamce Management techniques that prevent Combatting Coral Bleaching and bleaching of limit ...
... regarding the climate and crop perfromamce Carry out agrobiodiversity case study in Pukapuka to record baseline agrobiodiveristy as well Completed as community observations regarding the climate and crop perfromamce Management techniques that prevent Combatting Coral Bleaching and bleaching of limit ...
The use of agrobiodiversity in adapting to climate change
... However, much of the world’s agrobiodiversity is still being used by indigenous and traditional agricultural communities that depend on agrobiodiversity for their livelihoods. In this role they act as custodians of a diversity of crops, forages, livestock, agroforestry products, and fish, and the ot ...
... However, much of the world’s agrobiodiversity is still being used by indigenous and traditional agricultural communities that depend on agrobiodiversity for their livelihoods. In this role they act as custodians of a diversity of crops, forages, livestock, agroforestry products, and fish, and the ot ...
Paris: Beyond the Climate Dead End through Pledge and Review?
... secure these gains. This will be true of states, subnational governments, firms, and individuals. But the absolute level of costs is also important, since cooperation is risky, and when costs are high, states undertaking costly action risk being seriously disadvantaged if their partners do not fulf ...
... secure these gains. This will be true of states, subnational governments, firms, and individuals. But the absolute level of costs is also important, since cooperation is risky, and when costs are high, states undertaking costly action risk being seriously disadvantaged if their partners do not fulf ...
Implications for Buildings - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability
... Rising temperatures: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) concludes that climate change is unequivocal, and that human activities, particularly emissions of carbon dioxide, are very likely to be the dominant cause. Changes are observed in all geographica ...
... Rising temperatures: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) concludes that climate change is unequivocal, and that human activities, particularly emissions of carbon dioxide, are very likely to be the dominant cause. Changes are observed in all geographica ...
Chapter 3: Climate Projections for the Future
... embody basic physical principles and are tested against observations, are the best available tools to understand potential future changes in climate resulting from future greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions. This chapter sets out the potential changes in climate under different scenarios of future ...
... embody basic physical principles and are tested against observations, are the best available tools to understand potential future changes in climate resulting from future greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions. This chapter sets out the potential changes in climate under different scenarios of future ...
focus What can we learn from past warm periods?
... lies of only natural factors, such as solar variations and volcanic forcing, we cannot simulate the changes that have taken place in the last 50 years. But if we use the same models and add CO2 as a factor, then the observed temperatures are tracked very well by the models. In other words, the diffe ...
... lies of only natural factors, such as solar variations and volcanic forcing, we cannot simulate the changes that have taken place in the last 50 years. But if we use the same models and add CO2 as a factor, then the observed temperatures are tracked very well by the models. In other words, the diffe ...
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).