Developing a Caribbean climate interactive data base
... Once CCID is fully developed, it will provide a wealth of Climate Data that can easily be accessed and spanning a wider region. Under one roof, it enables: • The study of the climate variability/change on a regional/country/parish(county) basis, on different time scales. • Information on the frequen ...
... Once CCID is fully developed, it will provide a wealth of Climate Data that can easily be accessed and spanning a wider region. Under one roof, it enables: • The study of the climate variability/change on a regional/country/parish(county) basis, on different time scales. • Information on the frequen ...
Carbon Footprints & Climate Risk: Tools for business and
... and cash flows in 2013, but it also is one more way to implement a clean energy future. Whether harmful emissions are priced or regulated, our combined capacity of nearly 19,000 megawatts of zeroemission wind, solar, hydro, landfill gas and nuclear power remains a clear competitive advantage that wi ...
... and cash flows in 2013, but it also is one more way to implement a clean energy future. Whether harmful emissions are priced or regulated, our combined capacity of nearly 19,000 megawatts of zeroemission wind, solar, hydro, landfill gas and nuclear power remains a clear competitive advantage that wi ...
3000 words max - University of Surrey
... Climate change is a global phenomenon: no one will remain unaffected. So, what can we do? Well, as individual citizens, we can look for ways to limit our use of private transport, turn off unnecessary gadgets, and generally use less energy. But such actions are not necessarily as straightforward as ...
... Climate change is a global phenomenon: no one will remain unaffected. So, what can we do? Well, as individual citizens, we can look for ways to limit our use of private transport, turn off unnecessary gadgets, and generally use less energy. But such actions are not necessarily as straightforward as ...
Go Green Go Global - Eco
... There is plenty of food in the world to feed everybody. The problem is how this food is distributed and shared. In fact, more than one and a half times the amount of food needed to feed everybody in the world is produced each year. Yet over 1 billion, 1 in 6 people, are hungry. If there’s really en ...
... There is plenty of food in the world to feed everybody. The problem is how this food is distributed and shared. In fact, more than one and a half times the amount of food needed to feed everybody in the world is produced each year. Yet over 1 billion, 1 in 6 people, are hungry. If there’s really en ...
European Collaboration
... The Met Office has engaged in competing for European Framework Programme research funding since the early mid 1990s. In 2002, a dedicated post was established in International to coordinate and grow this funding stream. At this time (under Framework Programme 6) revenue to the Met Office was £3/4m p ...
... The Met Office has engaged in competing for European Framework Programme research funding since the early mid 1990s. In 2002, a dedicated post was established in International to coordinate and grow this funding stream. At this time (under Framework Programme 6) revenue to the Met Office was £3/4m p ...
Update on Climate Change Liability cases in the US Supreme Court
... Judge had previously found in favour of insurers because no “occurrence” causing property damage had been alleged (rather than on other grounds, e.g. loss was still a loss in progress or excluded by pollution exclusion). Last September (in first case of its type heard at that level) Virginia Supreme ...
... Judge had previously found in favour of insurers because no “occurrence” causing property damage had been alleged (rather than on other grounds, e.g. loss was still a loss in progress or excluded by pollution exclusion). Last September (in first case of its type heard at that level) Virginia Supreme ...
Equity in climate change treaty
... REGIONAL and global variability in the earth’s climate has been part of the natural phenomenon throughout the Holocene1–5 and earlier6–8 , shaping interactions of life with the biosphere and adaptations to global change9–11 . However, recent anthropogenic warming of climate system12,13 and its proje ...
... REGIONAL and global variability in the earth’s climate has been part of the natural phenomenon throughout the Holocene1–5 and earlier6–8 , shaping interactions of life with the biosphere and adaptations to global change9–11 . However, recent anthropogenic warming of climate system12,13 and its proje ...
boiling point - India Environment Portal
... to voice their angst over the severe repercussions of climate change that is already inflicting them. It is with this purpose in mind that we have compiled together an approach to National Action on Climate Change that comprehensively entails how severely the country is already being swept under the ...
... to voice their angst over the severe repercussions of climate change that is already inflicting them. It is with this purpose in mind that we have compiled together an approach to National Action on Climate Change that comprehensively entails how severely the country is already being swept under the ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/020/al372e.pdf
... Adaptation to climate change occurs when we are able to reduce vulnerability. This includes reactive or anticipatory actions by individuals or public institutions. These range from abandoning fisheries and aquaculture altogether for alternative occupations, to developing insurance and warning system ...
... Adaptation to climate change occurs when we are able to reduce vulnerability. This includes reactive or anticipatory actions by individuals or public institutions. These range from abandoning fisheries and aquaculture altogether for alternative occupations, to developing insurance and warning system ...
Slide 1
... • will Reclamation meet it’s current contractual obligations for water storage and delivery? • will Reclamation meet it’s environmental obligations? • will current flood risk management practices be adequate? ...
... • will Reclamation meet it’s current contractual obligations for water storage and delivery? • will Reclamation meet it’s environmental obligations? • will current flood risk management practices be adequate? ...
Global warming and the Arctic: a new world beyond the reach of the
... in the Arctic – there have been extended periods (millennia) when the climate at high latitudes has warmed or cooled relative to the 20th century. In addition, there have been large shifts in the global atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and CH4. Some of the best long-term re ...
... in the Arctic – there have been extended periods (millennia) when the climate at high latitudes has warmed or cooled relative to the 20th century. In addition, there have been large shifts in the global atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and CH4. Some of the best long-term re ...
Climate Change Choices - Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign
... consider to be the most significant impacts of aviation, including its non-CO2 emissions, on climate change? How can these impacts best be addressed? and 5.34 What is the potential for increased use of sustainable biofuels in aviation and over what timeframe? and 5.39 What scope is there to influenc ...
... consider to be the most significant impacts of aviation, including its non-CO2 emissions, on climate change? How can these impacts best be addressed? and 5.34 What is the potential for increased use of sustainable biofuels in aviation and over what timeframe? and 5.39 What scope is there to influenc ...
Climate change adaptation and Australia`s water
... • Direct effects of humans on rivers will be more significant in the short term – urban expansion and increased agricultural demand for water. • Climate variability – compound this further as we attempt to drought proof our cities. ...
... • Direct effects of humans on rivers will be more significant in the short term – urban expansion and increased agricultural demand for water. • Climate variability – compound this further as we attempt to drought proof our cities. ...
Appalachian Tiger Beetle - Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program
... "devastating flood." Thus flooding of known sites should not be assumed to eradicate them. River dynamics may be an important habitat factor. A mitigating factor is the ability of adults to disperse relatively easily along stream corridors to colonize newly created habitat. Whether or not there will ...
... "devastating flood." Thus flooding of known sites should not be assumed to eradicate them. River dynamics may be an important habitat factor. A mitigating factor is the ability of adults to disperse relatively easily along stream corridors to colonize newly created habitat. Whether or not there will ...
History of climate modeling
... Meteorologists’ picture of the gross atmospheric circulation has changed little since Ferrel’s day. These conceptual models explained the prevailing winds over the globe and captured the fundamental energy-transport function of the climate system. However, meteorologists of the 19th and early 20th c ...
... Meteorologists’ picture of the gross atmospheric circulation has changed little since Ferrel’s day. These conceptual models explained the prevailing winds over the globe and captured the fundamental energy-transport function of the climate system. However, meteorologists of the 19th and early 20th c ...
impacts by degree - Division on Earth and Life Studies
... The impacts of human activities—particularly emissions of carbon dioxide, but also including other greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and population growth—are so vast that they will largely control the future of the Earth’s climate system. This future could bring a relatively mild change in clima ...
... The impacts of human activities—particularly emissions of carbon dioxide, but also including other greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and population growth—are so vast that they will largely control the future of the Earth’s climate system. This future could bring a relatively mild change in clima ...
Document
... these lead only to a secondary differentiation (Holdridge 1967). Tests of the Holdridge life zones have revealed that the system can fit tropical vegetation zones (e.g. Holdridge 1967), mediterranean zones (Steila 1966), as well as the boreal zones, but that it is less applicable to cold oceanic or ...
... these lead only to a secondary differentiation (Holdridge 1967). Tests of the Holdridge life zones have revealed that the system can fit tropical vegetation zones (e.g. Holdridge 1967), mediterranean zones (Steila 1966), as well as the boreal zones, but that it is less applicable to cold oceanic or ...
DDI CM - Debating the Case Drill
... Arctic warms. And as the Arctic warms, the release of billions of tonnes of methane – a greenhouse gas 70 times stronger than carbon dioxide over 20 years – captured under melting permafrost is already under way. To see how far this process could go, look 55.5m years to the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal ...
... Arctic warms. And as the Arctic warms, the release of billions of tonnes of methane – a greenhouse gas 70 times stronger than carbon dioxide over 20 years – captured under melting permafrost is already under way. To see how far this process could go, look 55.5m years to the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal ...
discussion brief - International Research Institute for Climate and
... rainfall exceeds the infiltration capacity of the ground and excess rainwater runs off the surface. Runoff can accumulate and transport pollutants and sediments, depending on its speed and volume and the nature of land surfaces. In urban areas much of the land surface consists of impervious surfaces ...
... rainfall exceeds the infiltration capacity of the ground and excess rainwater runs off the surface. Runoff can accumulate and transport pollutants and sediments, depending on its speed and volume and the nature of land surfaces. In urban areas much of the land surface consists of impervious surfaces ...
08-06
... and oceanic GCMs. These models integrate multiple equations, typically including surface pressure; horizontal layered components of fluid velocity and temperature; solar short wave radiation and terrestrial infra-red and long wave radiation; convection; land surface processes; albedo; hydrology; clo ...
... and oceanic GCMs. These models integrate multiple equations, typically including surface pressure; horizontal layered components of fluid velocity and temperature; solar short wave radiation and terrestrial infra-red and long wave radiation; convection; land surface processes; albedo; hydrology; clo ...
Lecture A1
... • How does an increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration modify climate? • Why does the THC weaken under GHG increase? • How does climate change under a THC collapse? • If the THC weakens dramatically, will it return to “normal” after GHG concentration has returned to pre-industrial? • What is t ...
... • How does an increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration modify climate? • Why does the THC weaken under GHG increase? • How does climate change under a THC collapse? • If the THC weakens dramatically, will it return to “normal” after GHG concentration has returned to pre-industrial? • What is t ...
Climate Scientists and the Consensus on Climate Change
... was posted in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the Climlist server, and...sent to institutional lists in Germany and Denmark’. Respondents (n = 558) came ‘from some 30 countries’, with fewer from Europe than in 1996. The method of sampling, sometimes known as ‘saturation sampling ...
... was posted in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the Climlist server, and...sent to institutional lists in Germany and Denmark’. Respondents (n = 558) came ‘from some 30 countries’, with fewer from Europe than in 1996. The method of sampling, sometimes known as ‘saturation sampling ...
Jagdeo Leads Caricom in Talks With Obama
... Jagdeo leads Regional heads talks with Obama - Guyanese head-of-state chosen by colleagues to lead region in discussions on several wide-ranging issues By Mark Ramotar at the Summit venue in Trinidad PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo led a team of Regional leaders late last night in discussions on several cr ...
... Jagdeo leads Regional heads talks with Obama - Guyanese head-of-state chosen by colleagues to lead region in discussions on several wide-ranging issues By Mark Ramotar at the Summit venue in Trinidad PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo led a team of Regional leaders late last night in discussions on several cr ...
Planting Trees for Climate Change
... has already caused a global increase in temperature. Scientists are no longer saying “if” but “when” and they agree that the consequences will be dramatic and costly. ...
... has already caused a global increase in temperature. Scientists are no longer saying “if” but “when” and they agree that the consequences will be dramatic and costly. ...
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).