The Cycling of Matter
... recent increase of the earth’s temperature as a whole. • The earth’s weather and climate is controlled by energy from the sun, which warms the surface of the earth as it, in turn, deflects the energy back into space. • Some of this deflected energy is retained within the atmosphere of the earth by g ...
... recent increase of the earth’s temperature as a whole. • The earth’s weather and climate is controlled by energy from the sun, which warms the surface of the earth as it, in turn, deflects the energy back into space. • Some of this deflected energy is retained within the atmosphere of the earth by g ...
Aalborg Universitet Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation Rasmussen, Torben Valdbjørn
... It is hugely important to engage decision-makers in the building stock issue, thereby providing a visual decision-support tool with user-friendly access that clearly depict the economic impacts of adaptation measures to climate change for the building sector and their uncertainties. Such a tool need ...
... It is hugely important to engage decision-makers in the building stock issue, thereby providing a visual decision-support tool with user-friendly access that clearly depict the economic impacts of adaptation measures to climate change for the building sector and their uncertainties. Such a tool need ...
curriculum in natural environmental science, vol. 2, 2010
... restored area provide for local people and the region? What is the present and possible future ecological status of the project? What is the status of the area in terms of present land ...
... restored area provide for local people and the region? What is the present and possible future ecological status of the project? What is the status of the area in terms of present land ...
techvols_tv2_ch_7 - Port of Vancouver
... Climate change in the short-term is expected to have a minor impact on the physical environment of Roberts Bank. However, in the long-term, the physical conditions experienced at Roberts Bank will likely be modified as a result of sea-level change and a possible increase in the incidence of severe s ...
... Climate change in the short-term is expected to have a minor impact on the physical environment of Roberts Bank. However, in the long-term, the physical conditions experienced at Roberts Bank will likely be modified as a result of sea-level change and a possible increase in the incidence of severe s ...
Inaugural Lecture
... feedbacks between climate change and carbon cycle. Values vary between 25 and 225 ppm at 2100 mostly due to land-carbon cycle feedbacks. ...
... feedbacks between climate change and carbon cycle. Values vary between 25 and 225 ppm at 2100 mostly due to land-carbon cycle feedbacks. ...
a hero with a butterfly net
... Pavlov’s Dogs and Schrödinger’s Cat: Scenes From the Living Laboratory by Rom Harré (Oxford Univ. Press, £8.99) scientists use various creatures to study life. rom Harré takes us through 500 years of the ‘living laboratory’ to show how organisms have been used in scientific discovery. “This charming ...
... Pavlov’s Dogs and Schrödinger’s Cat: Scenes From the Living Laboratory by Rom Harré (Oxford Univ. Press, £8.99) scientists use various creatures to study life. rom Harré takes us through 500 years of the ‘living laboratory’ to show how organisms have been used in scientific discovery. “This charming ...
Planetary roulette: Gambling with the climate
... decision-making and international cooperation been subjected to comparable strains. In short, what happens in Kyoto will signal the prospects for managing what could prove to be the most momentous environmental problem in human history. Driving these negotiations is the certainty that rising greenho ...
... decision-making and international cooperation been subjected to comparable strains. In short, what happens in Kyoto will signal the prospects for managing what could prove to be the most momentous environmental problem in human history. Driving these negotiations is the certainty that rising greenho ...
Climate Change Adaptation in Nova Scotia`s Coastal Zone
... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/coastal-erosion-threatens-cape-breton-homes-1.1205385 ...
... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/coastal-erosion-threatens-cape-breton-homes-1.1205385 ...
Slide 1
... Communities in Northern Peripheral Regions Climate change adaptation cuts across all sectors and political levels. ...
... Communities in Northern Peripheral Regions Climate change adaptation cuts across all sectors and political levels. ...
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... I believe that we can creatively finance new technologies and work practices that will help mitigate climate change. We must remake capitalism to be greener, more profitable, and more ethical. Now ...
... I believe that we can creatively finance new technologies and work practices that will help mitigate climate change. We must remake capitalism to be greener, more profitable, and more ethical. Now ...
Session 1 - Climate Technology Centre & Network
... • Expertise that is both state of the art and locally relevant • To academic, public, NGO, or private entities • For a broad range of adaptation and mitigation technologies At all stages of the technology cycle: • From identification of needs; • policy assessments; • selection and piloting technolog ...
... • Expertise that is both state of the art and locally relevant • To academic, public, NGO, or private entities • For a broad range of adaptation and mitigation technologies At all stages of the technology cycle: • From identification of needs; • policy assessments; • selection and piloting technolog ...
increases in puget sound estuarine flood risk under climate change
... al. (2010) as the large scale forcing for the regional climate model. Monthly gridded equatorial sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were extracted from this large scale data set to include ENSO effects. ...
... al. (2010) as the large scale forcing for the regional climate model. Monthly gridded equatorial sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were extracted from this large scale data set to include ENSO effects. ...
Volunteer Tools for CCL Fall 2012 Fundraising Campaign
... companies were just too powerful to overcome, that they were calling the shots in Washington, and I was powerless to do anything about that. But something great happened when I started volunteering with Citizens Climate Lobby: I rediscovered the power of our democracy and the power I have to influen ...
... companies were just too powerful to overcome, that they were calling the shots in Washington, and I was powerless to do anything about that. But something great happened when I started volunteering with Citizens Climate Lobby: I rediscovered the power of our democracy and the power I have to influen ...
Why have Scientists succumbed to Political Correctness?
... human component of climate change. We recognize that this component is roughly proportional to the product of the number of people and their average per capita annual resource consumption. The last paragraph of the AGU statement starts with the sentence, “With climate change, as with ozone depletion ...
... human component of climate change. We recognize that this component is roughly proportional to the product of the number of people and their average per capita annual resource consumption. The last paragraph of the AGU statement starts with the sentence, “With climate change, as with ozone depletion ...
Expert Judgment for Climate Change Adaptation
... we would expect to see a probability downgrade of at least the same magnitude as the one given for global mean temperature. In effect the 24% represents an imprecise lower bound to our uncertainty about other variables.9 The conclusion we draw from this is that the case for quantifying uncertainty t ...
... we would expect to see a probability downgrade of at least the same magnitude as the one given for global mean temperature. In effect the 24% represents an imprecise lower bound to our uncertainty about other variables.9 The conclusion we draw from this is that the case for quantifying uncertainty t ...
Climate change pressure on Scotland`s notified species
... need to take into consideration the implications of climate change and changes in climate space. Management will need to differentiate between changes that can be influenced through intervention (e.g. controlling grazing rates), and those that cannot be prevented (e.g. changes in precipitation patte ...
... need to take into consideration the implications of climate change and changes in climate space. Management will need to differentiate between changes that can be influenced through intervention (e.g. controlling grazing rates), and those that cannot be prevented (e.g. changes in precipitation patte ...
How Is Pacific Northwest Climate Projected to Change? (PDF)
... become more severe. Regionally, sea level will continue to rise in concert with global sea level. Locally, sea level is projected to rise in most locations, with the amount of rise varying by location and over time. Natural variability will continue to influence shorter-term (up to several decades) ...
... become more severe. Regionally, sea level will continue to rise in concert with global sea level. Locally, sea level is projected to rise in most locations, with the amount of rise varying by location and over time. Natural variability will continue to influence shorter-term (up to several decades) ...
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... mixed crop-livestock systems, and switching from crops to livestock and from dry land to irrigation, practicing zero tillage, making ridges across farms and cereal/legume intercropping. Table 3 reveals that multiple cropping mixed with livestock rearing under dry land conditions is the dominant syst ...
... mixed crop-livestock systems, and switching from crops to livestock and from dry land to irrigation, practicing zero tillage, making ridges across farms and cereal/legume intercropping. Table 3 reveals that multiple cropping mixed with livestock rearing under dry land conditions is the dominant syst ...
Francis Zwiers`s presentation. - Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium
... • Media discourse tends to quickly evoke possible links to climate change • As a default, we scientists tend to point to the similarity between recent events and projected change • Event attribution science has been trying to find a way for science to do better than this • Requires “rapid response” ...
... • Media discourse tends to quickly evoke possible links to climate change • As a default, we scientists tend to point to the similarity between recent events and projected change • Event attribution science has been trying to find a way for science to do better than this • Requires “rapid response” ...
National interests
... Policy-based crediting, where credits would be generated by adopting and implementing GHG friendly policies in particular sectors; Rate-based (indexed) crediting, where GHG emissions below a certain intensity level (e.g. per product output or per value of output) would generate emission credits; ...
... Policy-based crediting, where credits would be generated by adopting and implementing GHG friendly policies in particular sectors; Rate-based (indexed) crediting, where GHG emissions below a certain intensity level (e.g. per product output or per value of output) would generate emission credits; ...
IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science (IOSR-JAVS)
... The effects of climate change on agricultural production vary from one region to another depending on the prevailing climate of the region hence affects agricultural productivity differently. Nigeria, like all other countries of subSaharan Africa, is highly vulnerable to the impact of climate change ...
... The effects of climate change on agricultural production vary from one region to another depending on the prevailing climate of the region hence affects agricultural productivity differently. Nigeria, like all other countries of subSaharan Africa, is highly vulnerable to the impact of climate change ...
Dominican Republic
... 10 million incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving compact fluorescents (CFLs) in 840,000 Dominican homes. Three million 18-watt CFLs (equivalent to 75-watt incandescent bulbs) were given out in the barrios that received subsidised power under the Reduced Blackout Programme. A further 7m 14W bul ...
... 10 million incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving compact fluorescents (CFLs) in 840,000 Dominican homes. Three million 18-watt CFLs (equivalent to 75-watt incandescent bulbs) were given out in the barrios that received subsidised power under the Reduced Blackout Programme. A further 7m 14W bul ...
Kyoto Protocol - muhlsdk12.org
... Should the U.S. ratify the Kyoto Protocol or is it best that they have not? Select three arguments in favor of your position and write down the topic sentence and supporting details for each. Take note of arguments in favor of the opposing position in order to complete a ...
... Should the U.S. ratify the Kyoto Protocol or is it best that they have not? Select three arguments in favor of your position and write down the topic sentence and supporting details for each. Take note of arguments in favor of the opposing position in order to complete a ...
Preserving the World Second Largest Hypersaline Lake Under
... IPCC report which showed a decline in runoff for this region for both near-term (Kirtman, 2013) and long-term future (Collins, 2013) under the rapid greenhouse-gas concentration scenarios. These ndings also are consistent with the results obtained by Asokan et al. (2016) in Aral Sea basin, which ha ...
... IPCC report which showed a decline in runoff for this region for both near-term (Kirtman, 2013) and long-term future (Collins, 2013) under the rapid greenhouse-gas concentration scenarios. These ndings also are consistent with the results obtained by Asokan et al. (2016) in Aral Sea basin, which ha ...
Consistency analysis
... • So far, and in the next few decades, the signal is limited to temperature and directly related variables, such as ice conditions. • Later, changes in the water cycle are expected to become obvious. • This regional warming will have a variety of effects on terrestrial and marine ecosystems – some p ...
... • So far, and in the next few decades, the signal is limited to temperature and directly related variables, such as ice conditions. • Later, changes in the water cycle are expected to become obvious. • This regional warming will have a variety of effects on terrestrial and marine ecosystems – some p ...
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).