Multiple Effects of Changes in Arctic Snow Cover
... Abstract Snow cover plays a major role in the climate, hydrological and ecological systems of the Arctic and other regions through its influence on the surface energy balance (e.g. reflectivity), water balance (e.g. water storage and release), thermal regimes (e.g. insulation), vegetation and trace ...
... Abstract Snow cover plays a major role in the climate, hydrological and ecological systems of the Arctic and other regions through its influence on the surface energy balance (e.g. reflectivity), water balance (e.g. water storage and release), thermal regimes (e.g. insulation), vegetation and trace ...
Climate Threatens TI - northwesterndebateinstitute2012
... transportation impacts mentioned most often in the literature included pavement damage; rail buckling; less lift and fuel efficiency for aircraft; and the implications of lower inland water levels, thawing permafrost, reduced ice cover on seaways, and an increase in vegetation. These are discussed i ...
... transportation impacts mentioned most often in the literature included pavement damage; rail buckling; less lift and fuel efficiency for aircraft; and the implications of lower inland water levels, thawing permafrost, reduced ice cover on seaways, and an increase in vegetation. These are discussed i ...
Precipitation and temperatures extremes in East Africa in past and
... mean weather conditions, but also in increase of the variability of climate (IPCC, 2012&2013). These impacts of climate change in East Africa (EA) have materialized through changes in extreme events such as prolonged droughts, floods, heat waves and storms that is likely associated with regional cli ...
... mean weather conditions, but also in increase of the variability of climate (IPCC, 2012&2013). These impacts of climate change in East Africa (EA) have materialized through changes in extreme events such as prolonged droughts, floods, heat waves and storms that is likely associated with regional cli ...
2015 DOS GCCI Indicator Training
... what is being accomplished with foreign assistance. Standard foreign assistance indicators measure outputs that are directly attributable to the U.S. Government's programs, projects, and activities (e.g., training teachers), as well as outcomes and impacts to which the U.S. Government contributes bu ...
... what is being accomplished with foreign assistance. Standard foreign assistance indicators measure outputs that are directly attributable to the U.S. Government's programs, projects, and activities (e.g., training teachers), as well as outcomes and impacts to which the U.S. Government contributes bu ...
Addressing Climate Change in National Urban Policy
... List of NATIONAL URBAN POLICY BOXES Box 4. National Urban Policy Excerpt – Chile (2014)......................................................................................... 7 Box 6. National Urban Policy Excerpt: Germany (2012)..................................................................... ...
... List of NATIONAL URBAN POLICY BOXES Box 4. National Urban Policy Excerpt – Chile (2014)......................................................................................... 7 Box 6. National Urban Policy Excerpt: Germany (2012)..................................................................... ...
Rethinking the Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis
... does not have the capacity to provide much guidance on climate issues. For CBA to have much relevance to the control of air and water pollution, major legislative changes would be required. But a much more fruitful direction for legislative change in economic terms would be a broad cap-and-trade sys ...
... does not have the capacity to provide much guidance on climate issues. For CBA to have much relevance to the control of air and water pollution, major legislative changes would be required. But a much more fruitful direction for legislative change in economic terms would be a broad cap-and-trade sys ...
Slight glacier reduction over the northwestern Tibetan Plateau
... c Author(s) 2016. CC-BY 3.0 License. ...
... c Author(s) 2016. CC-BY 3.0 License. ...
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... on Climate Change and Food Security, and Social Protection for Food Security, which we are presenting this year. --Food insecurity and climate change are, more than ever, the two major global challenges humanity is facing, and climate change is increasingly perceived as one of the greatest challenge ...
... on Climate Change and Food Security, and Social Protection for Food Security, which we are presenting this year. --Food insecurity and climate change are, more than ever, the two major global challenges humanity is facing, and climate change is increasingly perceived as one of the greatest challenge ...
IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 6 FIRST-‐ORDER DRAFT Expert Review
... change on oceanic ecosystems. Being a “mechanism-‐based” scientist, working with individuals and mainly with physiological of considering the mechanisms behind ecoogical change and have mechanisms to explain specie- ...
... change on oceanic ecosystems. Being a “mechanism-‐based” scientist, working with individuals and mainly with physiological of considering the mechanisms behind ecoogical change and have mechanisms to explain specie- ...
Past and projected trends in London`s urban heat island
... cities suggest that the density and height of buildings are significant factors affecting the steepness of the urban± rural temperature gradient Oke 1982 . Dense urban structures also tend to reduce average wind speeds, modifying patterns of airflow over the city and reducing convective heat losses ...
... cities suggest that the density and height of buildings are significant factors affecting the steepness of the urban± rural temperature gradient Oke 1982 . Dense urban structures also tend to reduce average wind speeds, modifying patterns of airflow over the city and reducing convective heat losses ...
MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL HELD BY THE
... WHEREAS GHGs (e.g. carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide), released from burning coal, oil and natural gas acting as pollutants, and from cutting trees and clearing land for agriculture and development, can be seen as possible contributors to climate change; WHEREAS municipal investments in buildin ...
... WHEREAS GHGs (e.g. carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide), released from burning coal, oil and natural gas acting as pollutants, and from cutting trees and clearing land for agriculture and development, can be seen as possible contributors to climate change; WHEREAS municipal investments in buildin ...
This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The... copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research
... Appendix A. Supplementary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
... Appendix A. Supplementary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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... sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activities (GHG emissions and global environmental benefits): to be estimated through historical projects and/or trend analyses ...
... sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activities (GHG emissions and global environmental benefits): to be estimated through historical projects and/or trend analyses ...
GEF Investment in Climate Change Mitigation and Sound Chemicals
... sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activities (GHG emissions and global environmental benefits): to be estimated through historical projects and/or trend analyses ...
... sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activities (GHG emissions and global environmental benefits): to be estimated through historical projects and/or trend analyses ...
An astronomical correspondence to the 1470 year cycle of abrupt
... The modelled RRA activity was compared to 5500 years of astronomical data based on solar and lunar declinations linked to the current perihelion-based Metonic lunation [Fig. 1], generated using planetarium software: NOVA 2.13, (Hand, 1989–1994) and SkyChart III (DeBenedictis, 1993–2004). Lunar nodal ...
... The modelled RRA activity was compared to 5500 years of astronomical data based on solar and lunar declinations linked to the current perihelion-based Metonic lunation [Fig. 1], generated using planetarium software: NOVA 2.13, (Hand, 1989–1994) and SkyChart III (DeBenedictis, 1993–2004). Lunar nodal ...
Water: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and
... cabinet-level body of agencies responsible for scientific research in the U.S. government. The Global Change Research Act gave voice to early scientific findings that human activities were starting to change the global climate: “(1) Industrial, agricultural, and other human activities, coupled with ...
... cabinet-level body of agencies responsible for scientific research in the U.S. government. The Global Change Research Act gave voice to early scientific findings that human activities were starting to change the global climate: “(1) Industrial, agricultural, and other human activities, coupled with ...
Report
... are cut down. Although rarely acknowledged in day-‐to-‐day discussions surrounding climate change, deforestation and forest degradation activities are the third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing ...
... are cut down. Although rarely acknowledged in day-‐to-‐day discussions surrounding climate change, deforestation and forest degradation activities are the third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing ...
Do values subjectively define the limits to climate change adaptation?
... that there is nonetheless an inescapable link between people’s personal value priorities and the way they view the world, and that value system structure can be used to guide investigations of people’s worldviews. At the personal level, worldviews have been linked to cognitive structures, which have ...
... that there is nonetheless an inescapable link between people’s personal value priorities and the way they view the world, and that value system structure can be used to guide investigations of people’s worldviews. At the personal level, worldviews have been linked to cognitive structures, which have ...
S1501174_en.pdf
... This publication was based on analysis between 2008 and 2015 within the framework of “The Economics of Climate Change in Central America Initiative”, coordinated between the Ministries of Environment, Treasury or Finance, their Ministerial Councils and Executive Secretariats of the Central American ...
... This publication was based on analysis between 2008 and 2015 within the framework of “The Economics of Climate Change in Central America Initiative”, coordinated between the Ministries of Environment, Treasury or Finance, their Ministerial Councils and Executive Secretariats of the Central American ...
I Agree - CLEo - Whitman College
... and Holland. Ecosystems will change at a rapid pace, and with them, habitat requirements. In South and Central American cities previously too cold for malarial mosquitoes, mosquito habitat will suddenly be available. Many species will be unable to cope with the changes and will go extinct; others wi ...
... and Holland. Ecosystems will change at a rapid pace, and with them, habitat requirements. In South and Central American cities previously too cold for malarial mosquitoes, mosquito habitat will suddenly be available. Many species will be unable to cope with the changes and will go extinct; others wi ...
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).