Observed climate - Climatic Research Unit
... has been increasing at a rate of warming which ranges between +0.17ºC / decade and +0.24ºC / decade for the whole of the Catalunya area. Particularly significant is the temperature increase from 1950 to 2008 measured at Fabra and Ebro (Figure 1), shown with 95% confidence intervals in Table 1. Moreo ...
... has been increasing at a rate of warming which ranges between +0.17ºC / decade and +0.24ºC / decade for the whole of the Catalunya area. Particularly significant is the temperature increase from 1950 to 2008 measured at Fabra and Ebro (Figure 1), shown with 95% confidence intervals in Table 1. Moreo ...
Chapter 5: Pacific Island Developing Country Water Resources and
... wavelengths between 0.15 and 5 µm. Each square meter of the earth receives an average of 342 watts of solar radiation throughout the year (IPCC 2001b). Approximately one-third of the incoming solar radiation is reflected back to space in the form of thermal infrared, or longer-wave radiation, at wav ...
... wavelengths between 0.15 and 5 µm. Each square meter of the earth receives an average of 342 watts of solar radiation throughout the year (IPCC 2001b). Approximately one-third of the incoming solar radiation is reflected back to space in the form of thermal infrared, or longer-wave radiation, at wav ...
Climate Change Justice
... From the beginning of the industrial revolution to the present, humanity has emitted approximately 579,500,000 tons of carbon. In order to have a better than 66 percent chance of limiting warming to 2 °C, total human emissions must not exceed one trillion tons of carbon.8 We are, then, more than hal ...
... From the beginning of the industrial revolution to the present, humanity has emitted approximately 579,500,000 tons of carbon. In order to have a better than 66 percent chance of limiting warming to 2 °C, total human emissions must not exceed one trillion tons of carbon.8 We are, then, more than hal ...
Changing weather and climate in Northern Ghana
... Efforts to use meteorological data to examine the localscale impacts of climate variability and change have faced important challenges in developing countries (arguably where the need is greatest) due to a lack of long-term, reliable in situ meteorological records (Watson et al. 1998) For example, t ...
... Efforts to use meteorological data to examine the localscale impacts of climate variability and change have faced important challenges in developing countries (arguably where the need is greatest) due to a lack of long-term, reliable in situ meteorological records (Watson et al. 1998) For example, t ...
Molecular Evolution
... Insects have longer wings in expanding range margins. The conehead bush cricket, Conocephalus discolor (left map) and Roesel ’ s bush cricket, Metrioptera Roeselii (right map), have undergone recent range expansions due to climate change. Blue circles indicate historical range, with yellow and red c ...
... Insects have longer wings in expanding range margins. The conehead bush cricket, Conocephalus discolor (left map) and Roesel ’ s bush cricket, Metrioptera Roeselii (right map), have undergone recent range expansions due to climate change. Blue circles indicate historical range, with yellow and red c ...
Bond.19.4.Dec_.08
... 3. Any influx of offset credits into the emissions trading scheme will undermine its effectiveness due to the risk of developing a “lemons market.” This is of increasing concern given the evidence that up to one-third of CDM projects either already registered or in the process of CDM registration ar ...
... 3. Any influx of offset credits into the emissions trading scheme will undermine its effectiveness due to the risk of developing a “lemons market.” This is of increasing concern given the evidence that up to one-third of CDM projects either already registered or in the process of CDM registration ar ...
Slide 1
... Anthropogenic climate change is primarily the result of unsustainable practices which also lead to other significant environmental issues, including ...
... Anthropogenic climate change is primarily the result of unsustainable practices which also lead to other significant environmental issues, including ...
Assessing the impacts of global warming on meteorological hazards
... meteorological hazards that would spawn disasters. Based on the statistics on natural disasters ...
... meteorological hazards that would spawn disasters. Based on the statistics on natural disasters ...
climatic adaptation of coastal communities on the southwest of taiwan
... the past ten decades, the temperature in Taiwan has increased by 0.8C (Central Weather Bureau, 2015). From 1995 to 2015, the temperature in the most pleasant month of the year, May, has risen by 1.32C. The amount of rainfall has become greater and more concentrated from June to August. People in T ...
... the past ten decades, the temperature in Taiwan has increased by 0.8C (Central Weather Bureau, 2015). From 1995 to 2015, the temperature in the most pleasant month of the year, May, has risen by 1.32C. The amount of rainfall has become greater and more concentrated from June to August. People in T ...
How Companies Think About Climate Change: A Global Survey.
... issues. And more than one-third of global executives say their companies seldom or never factor climate change into their companies’ overall strategy. When asked how well their companies do take climate change into consideration in strategy, more than half of CEOs say somewhat well at best. Executiv ...
... issues. And more than one-third of global executives say their companies seldom or never factor climate change into their companies’ overall strategy. When asked how well their companies do take climate change into consideration in strategy, more than half of CEOs say somewhat well at best. Executiv ...
ISDE Italia News edited by ISDE Italy (International Society of
... health in urban and polluted regions. Climate change producing alterations in: food webs, lipid dynamics, ice and snow melt, and organic carbon cycling could result in increased POP levels in water, soil, and biota. There is also compelling evidence that increasing temperatures could be deleterious ...
... health in urban and polluted regions. Climate change producing alterations in: food webs, lipid dynamics, ice and snow melt, and organic carbon cycling could result in increased POP levels in water, soil, and biota. There is also compelling evidence that increasing temperatures could be deleterious ...
Climate change in the Sahel
... average temperature would be about -18° C, whereas observations show an Earth’s average temperature of about + 15 °C. Depending on the emission scenarios of greenhouse gases, which are closely related to the demographic, technologic and socioeconomic evolution of the world, global temperatures could ...
... average temperature would be about -18° C, whereas observations show an Earth’s average temperature of about + 15 °C. Depending on the emission scenarios of greenhouse gases, which are closely related to the demographic, technologic and socioeconomic evolution of the world, global temperatures could ...
Are observed changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the
... that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.” The so called “evidence” cited in Chapter 8 of the main report was based on one paper that at the time had not been published in the refereed scientific literature. Moreover, one of the authors of this paper was also the convening lead ...
... that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.” The so called “evidence” cited in Chapter 8 of the main report was based on one paper that at the time had not been published in the refereed scientific literature. Moreover, one of the authors of this paper was also the convening lead ...
Institute for International Economic Studies Seminar paper No. 757
... Uncertainty about future climate change is an unavoidable fact. It is commonplace to gauge this uncertainty by simulations with different climate models. This is the approach taken, e.g., by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001, 2007) to highlight our imprecise knowledge about the r ...
... Uncertainty about future climate change is an unavoidable fact. It is commonplace to gauge this uncertainty by simulations with different climate models. This is the approach taken, e.g., by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001, 2007) to highlight our imprecise knowledge about the r ...
Using the NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index
... Use elsewhere may require modification of specific factors relating to local habitat and/or climate features not present in North America. Also, the resolution of downscaled climate predictions may be lower than that currently available for the U.S. In the future, NatureServe may create a version of ...
... Use elsewhere may require modification of specific factors relating to local habitat and/or climate features not present in North America. Also, the resolution of downscaled climate predictions may be lower than that currently available for the U.S. In the future, NatureServe may create a version of ...
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... to reduce green house gas emissions suggested by various bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). According to Evans et al. (2011), research and development was proposed to support the strategies in enabling the agricultural sector to respond to climate change. Science’s ...
... to reduce green house gas emissions suggested by various bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). According to Evans et al. (2011), research and development was proposed to support the strategies in enabling the agricultural sector to respond to climate change. Science’s ...
SCAR`s Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE
... from potential sources of colonists at lower latitudes. In some contrast with the marine environment, the combination of continental scale ice sheet formation and advance, and extreme environmental conditions, led to large-scale (but incomplete) extinction of preexisting biota, and to evolutionary r ...
... from potential sources of colonists at lower latitudes. In some contrast with the marine environment, the combination of continental scale ice sheet formation and advance, and extreme environmental conditions, led to large-scale (but incomplete) extinction of preexisting biota, and to evolutionary r ...
New Zealand`s Defective Law on Climate Change
... scientist Professor Michael J Kelly, the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge, who is currently visiting Victoria. He takes the view that lack of engineering reality tests cripple most suggested de-carbonisation policies. The three laws of thermodynamics mean that ene ...
... scientist Professor Michael J Kelly, the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge, who is currently visiting Victoria. He takes the view that lack of engineering reality tests cripple most suggested de-carbonisation policies. The three laws of thermodynamics mean that ene ...
The physical concept of climate forcing
... mainly described by temperature and precipitation. Climate change is consequently a long-term change in the average weather. Regional climates differ due to proximity to the ocean, vegetation coverage, geology, altitude, abundance of sunshine, atmospheric composition, and so on. Therefore, climatolo ...
... mainly described by temperature and precipitation. Climate change is consequently a long-term change in the average weather. Regional climates differ due to proximity to the ocean, vegetation coverage, geology, altitude, abundance of sunshine, atmospheric composition, and so on. Therefore, climatolo ...
climatic cataclysm
... capita comparable to U.S. GDP per capita at the beginning of the twentieth century (about $5,000 in today’s dollars).14 In the twentieth century, world population quadrupled and world economic growth averaged 3.6 percent annually.15 Even if we assume slower population growth, say a doubling of world ...
... capita comparable to U.S. GDP per capita at the beginning of the twentieth century (about $5,000 in today’s dollars).14 In the twentieth century, world population quadrupled and world economic growth averaged 3.6 percent annually.15 Even if we assume slower population growth, say a doubling of world ...
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... Fronts: when 2 air masses meet, the boundary is called a _________________________. A warm front is a boundary between an advancing warm air mass and the cooler one replacing it. Since warm air is less dense, it rises and cools and the moisture it contains is released as rain. A cold front is the le ...
... Fronts: when 2 air masses meet, the boundary is called a _________________________. A warm front is a boundary between an advancing warm air mass and the cooler one replacing it. Since warm air is less dense, it rises and cools and the moisture it contains is released as rain. A cold front is the le ...
Evidence for intensification of the global water cycle: Review and
... It is now well established that surface air temperatures and precipitation over land have increased during the 20th century (Folland et al., 2001). Results from recent simulations using one of about 20 coupled ocean–atmosphere–land models based on the IS92A mid-range emission scenario indicate that ...
... It is now well established that surface air temperatures and precipitation over land have increased during the 20th century (Folland et al., 2001). Results from recent simulations using one of about 20 coupled ocean–atmosphere–land models based on the IS92A mid-range emission scenario indicate that ...
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).