The climate change, migration and economic
... change projections presented in the next section. Due to weak disaster records, it would be speculative to deduce that a rise in the frequency of climate-related disasters has occurred in the region in recent years, even though this is to be expected as climate change progresses and extreme events b ...
... change projections presented in the next section. Due to weak disaster records, it would be speculative to deduce that a rise in the frequency of climate-related disasters has occurred in the region in recent years, even though this is to be expected as climate change progresses and extreme events b ...
Dr. John T. Everett - Ocean Associates, Inc.
... President and Consultant: Ocean Associates, Inc., a rapidly growing fisheries and oceans consulting firm focusing on science, policy and sustainability. Consultant on fisheries research and issues, US fisheries status and trends, and on global climate change, including adaptation strategies. Many re ...
... President and Consultant: Ocean Associates, Inc., a rapidly growing fisheries and oceans consulting firm focusing on science, policy and sustainability. Consultant on fisheries research and issues, US fisheries status and trends, and on global climate change, including adaptation strategies. Many re ...
Climate, Drought, and Wildfire Effects on Water Quality
... and quality delivered to the Valley in the future. The best way to ensure we have the tools needed to document these changes is through continued data acquisition. Climate change and drought are linked to biological, physical, and chemical factors which directly affect water quantity and quality ...
... and quality delivered to the Valley in the future. The best way to ensure we have the tools needed to document these changes is through continued data acquisition. Climate change and drought are linked to biological, physical, and chemical factors which directly affect water quantity and quality ...
No Regrets Charter
... The latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) world climate report emphasises the likelihood of global temperature increases in excess of two degrees. It states that sea levels are rising more rapidly than had previously been predicted. Even if we can stay within the threshold of a two ...
... The latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) world climate report emphasises the likelihood of global temperature increases in excess of two degrees. It states that sea levels are rising more rapidly than had previously been predicted. Even if we can stay within the threshold of a two ...
Assimilating urban heat island effects into climate projections
... extremes. Changes in these extremes have important societal and ecological impacts (Abatzoglou and Barbero, 2014) including heat stress and energy demand produced by extreme daily temperatures. This work should be extended to properly characterize how the distribution of daily extreme temperature va ...
... extremes. Changes in these extremes have important societal and ecological impacts (Abatzoglou and Barbero, 2014) including heat stress and energy demand produced by extreme daily temperatures. This work should be extended to properly characterize how the distribution of daily extreme temperature va ...
PowerPoint **** - UCLA Land Surface Hydrology Research Group
... According to figure (b), future climate influences are greater for historically transient basins, which will shift towards rain dominant basins and experience longer summer low flow period, with increase in winter streamflow and significant decrease in summer streamflow, primarily due to reduction i ...
... According to figure (b), future climate influences are greater for historically transient basins, which will shift towards rain dominant basins and experience longer summer low flow period, with increase in winter streamflow and significant decrease in summer streamflow, primarily due to reduction i ...
2016 - Greenpeace - Exxon - Climate Liability
... to establish itself as a credible voice on climate change.35 The threat to Exxon’s social license as a result of these allegations and resulting events represents another parallel with the fate of tobacco companies. Tobacco is now viewed as a dangerous product whose use should be discouraged, is sub ...
... to establish itself as a credible voice on climate change.35 The threat to Exxon’s social license as a result of these allegations and resulting events represents another parallel with the fate of tobacco companies. Tobacco is now viewed as a dangerous product whose use should be discouraged, is sub ...
Mankind at the Turning Point slides
... • One of the existing modeling groups above (or a shared exercise) could be chosen to develop a powerful new (or probably more likely an adapted/extended) modeling tool to represent the key variables of global sustainability. This would be a two years full-time effort of a limited number of experts. ...
... • One of the existing modeling groups above (or a shared exercise) could be chosen to develop a powerful new (or probably more likely an adapted/extended) modeling tool to represent the key variables of global sustainability. This would be a two years full-time effort of a limited number of experts. ...
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
... in these losses was due to weather-related events, an increase in severe weather is a possibility that has to be looked at seriously. The likelihood that weather-related disasters are on the rise is also supported by an analysis done by the Geneva Secretariat for the International Decade for Natural ...
... in these losses was due to weather-related events, an increase in severe weather is a possibility that has to be looked at seriously. The likelihood that weather-related disasters are on the rise is also supported by an analysis done by the Geneva Secretariat for the International Decade for Natural ...
Lindzen2014-What Catastrophe.pdf
... Richard Lindzen presents a problem for those who say that the science behind climate change is “settled.” So many “alarmists” prefer to ignore him and instead highlight straw men: less credible skeptics, such as climatologist Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama (signatory to a declaration that ...
... Richard Lindzen presents a problem for those who say that the science behind climate change is “settled.” So many “alarmists” prefer to ignore him and instead highlight straw men: less credible skeptics, such as climatologist Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama (signatory to a declaration that ...
Climate Change and Biodiversity in North East England
... already showing signs of decline. Currently, this may be due to pressures other than those directly related to climate change (e.g. nitrogen deposition) but the increased impact from this extra factor will add to population fragmentation and overall vulnerability. ...
... already showing signs of decline. Currently, this may be due to pressures other than those directly related to climate change (e.g. nitrogen deposition) but the increased impact from this extra factor will add to population fragmentation and overall vulnerability. ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... In May 2013, the Interagency Working Group (IWG) produced an updated SCC value by applying updates to the underlying three Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) used in its initial 2010 SCC determination, but did not update the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) employed in the IAMs. This was not d ...
... In May 2013, the Interagency Working Group (IWG) produced an updated SCC value by applying updates to the underlying three Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) used in its initial 2010 SCC determination, but did not update the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) employed in the IAMs. This was not d ...
Implications of the Paris Agreement for Carbon Dioxide Removal
... experience climates closer to preindustrial conditions with SRM compared to what they would experience without it (Kravitz et al., 2014). In other words, SRM may be efficacious in reducing the dimensions of climate change more broadly, not just global average surface temperature. Fourth, and finall ...
... experience climates closer to preindustrial conditions with SRM compared to what they would experience without it (Kravitz et al., 2014). In other words, SRM may be efficacious in reducing the dimensions of climate change more broadly, not just global average surface temperature. Fourth, and finall ...
Endangered, Neglected, Indigenous Resilient Crops: A Potential
... is projected under a range of climate-change scenarios. Climate change will affect livestock by changing the yield and nutritional quality of fodder, increasing disease and disease-spreading pests, reducing water availability, and making it difficult to survive in extreme environments – without a do ...
... is projected under a range of climate-change scenarios. Climate change will affect livestock by changing the yield and nutritional quality of fodder, increasing disease and disease-spreading pests, reducing water availability, and making it difficult to survive in extreme environments – without a do ...
The impact of climate change on seasonal floods of a southern
... During this period, the concerns over global warming and climate change issues have gradually shifted from a mainly scientific concern to mainstream media. From subjective theories, the expectations of a rapid climate change are now arguably backed by observations. In Canada, a 1 ° C raise in averag ...
... During this period, the concerns over global warming and climate change issues have gradually shifted from a mainly scientific concern to mainstream media. From subjective theories, the expectations of a rapid climate change are now arguably backed by observations. In Canada, a 1 ° C raise in averag ...
Climate action
... consequences around the world. They cause glaciers to melt and sea levels to rise. They have brought flooding or droughts to regions which were previously immune to such extremes. These abnormal weather conditions are having an increasing impact on our economies, environment, health and daily lives. ...
... consequences around the world. They cause glaciers to melt and sea levels to rise. They have brought flooding or droughts to regions which were previously immune to such extremes. These abnormal weather conditions are having an increasing impact on our economies, environment, health and daily lives. ...
Chapter 6 Climate Science and Politics in the United States
... Smagorinsky, whose main goal was to expand research and data collection on the global atmosphere and oceans. However, other studies of this period often paid cooling scenarios equal (or greater) attention than anthropogenic global warming, raising fears of a new ice age. In part, this reflected the ...
... Smagorinsky, whose main goal was to expand research and data collection on the global atmosphere and oceans. However, other studies of this period often paid cooling scenarios equal (or greater) attention than anthropogenic global warming, raising fears of a new ice age. In part, this reflected the ...
TIEE Global Temperature Change in the 21 Century ISSUES : DATA SET
... Earth’s surface. We will focus on one parameter, temperature above surface, defined as the air temperature 2 m above the Earth’s surface. This corresponds to the familiar air temperature reported in the daily weather report in newspapers and on TV. The data you will examine is the mean temperature ( ...
... Earth’s surface. We will focus on one parameter, temperature above surface, defined as the air temperature 2 m above the Earth’s surface. This corresponds to the familiar air temperature reported in the daily weather report in newspapers and on TV. The data you will examine is the mean temperature ( ...
S 2016
... A growing international scientific consensus has emerged that there is now only a 50 percent chance that the official United Nations maximum target of limiting the rise in average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius by the year 2050 would effectively avert irreversible climate change. The latest report ...
... A growing international scientific consensus has emerged that there is now only a 50 percent chance that the official United Nations maximum target of limiting the rise in average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius by the year 2050 would effectively avert irreversible climate change. The latest report ...
diseases - Pesticide Action Network
... pathogen growth and reproduction if climates warm. For example, predictive models for potato and tomato late blight (caused by Phytophthora infestans) show that the fungus infects and reproduces most successfully during periods of high moisture that occur when temperatures are between 45o F (7.2 o C ...
... pathogen growth and reproduction if climates warm. For example, predictive models for potato and tomato late blight (caused by Phytophthora infestans) show that the fungus infects and reproduces most successfully during periods of high moisture that occur when temperatures are between 45o F (7.2 o C ...
Nonrenewable Resources and the Inevitability of Outcomes.
... it is said to “sink” into the stock, and the ocean, then, becomes a carbon “sink.” These sinks then become reabsorption mechanisms for fossil-fuel emissions to be reabsorbed by the earth.5 To some extent, the relationship is dynamic. But all is not as it seems. In a recent review article on the atmo ...
... it is said to “sink” into the stock, and the ocean, then, becomes a carbon “sink.” These sinks then become reabsorption mechanisms for fossil-fuel emissions to be reabsorbed by the earth.5 To some extent, the relationship is dynamic. But all is not as it seems. In a recent review article on the atmo ...
Chapter 20 Next Generation Sunshine State Standards
... The environment of the wet tropics characterizes almost 10 percent of Earth’s land area. An examination of Figure 20.4 shows that Af and Am climates form a discontinuous belt astride the equator that typically extends 5° to 10° into each hemisphere. The poleward margins are most often marked by dimi ...
... The environment of the wet tropics characterizes almost 10 percent of Earth’s land area. An examination of Figure 20.4 shows that Af and Am climates form a discontinuous belt astride the equator that typically extends 5° to 10° into each hemisphere. The poleward margins are most often marked by dimi ...
Improving predictions and management of hydrological extremes
... that may be of use for the society at large. As such, these services include data, information and knowledge that support adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management (DRM)”. Our understanding of the climate system is thus intended to be packed as products that help society anticipate and mit ...
... that may be of use for the society at large. As such, these services include data, information and knowledge that support adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management (DRM)”. Our understanding of the climate system is thus intended to be packed as products that help society anticipate and mit ...
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).