Climate Change in Southeast Alaska
... “you use to use a flat stick, you’d put nails on it and cut it off and rake them inside the boat” “the water was boiling like a real heavy rain it was load you could hear the boat motors running” ...
... “you use to use a flat stick, you’d put nails on it and cut it off and rake them inside the boat” “the water was boiling like a real heavy rain it was load you could hear the boat motors running” ...
Climate finance additionality: where are we now and what
... Climate-relevant finance: – a much broader set of capital flows (public or private) from developed to developing countries that will influence (positively or negatively) emissions and/or vulnerability to climate change in developing countries – flows that support development and economic growth in k ...
... Climate-relevant finance: – a much broader set of capital flows (public or private) from developed to developing countries that will influence (positively or negatively) emissions and/or vulnerability to climate change in developing countries – flows that support development and economic growth in k ...
New UBS report highlights the high cost of climate change to global
... A study of 15 European cities over a 10-year period estimated that even a 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) increase above the respective average summer temperature threshold resulted in a two to three percent increase in mortality. In the longer term, temperatures are predicted to rise to a ...
... A study of 15 European cities over a 10-year period estimated that even a 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) increase above the respective average summer temperature threshold resulted in a two to three percent increase in mortality. In the longer term, temperatures are predicted to rise to a ...
1996. Because most of the increase in radia-
... models. It is unknown if the current generation of climate models, other than the PCM, meet this constraint. Almost all rigorous studies attempting to find the impact of anthropogenic forcing in today’s climate system have used air-temperature observations as the data set of choice for the detection ...
... models. It is unknown if the current generation of climate models, other than the PCM, meet this constraint. Almost all rigorous studies attempting to find the impact of anthropogenic forcing in today’s climate system have used air-temperature observations as the data set of choice for the detection ...
Agriculture in the COP21 Agenda
... addressed by the UNFCCC’s Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), which links the policy negotiations to the technical communities. SBSTA needs to ensure there are clear standards for comparing and assessing the agricultural components of national CSA strategies. A number of ...
... addressed by the UNFCCC’s Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), which links the policy negotiations to the technical communities. SBSTA needs to ensure there are clear standards for comparing and assessing the agricultural components of national CSA strategies. A number of ...
Agriculture in the COP21 Agenda
... addressed by the UNFCCC’s Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), which links the policy negotiations to the technical communities. SBSTA needs to ensure there are clear standards for comparing and assessing the agricultural components of national CSA strategies. A number of ...
... addressed by the UNFCCC’s Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), which links the policy negotiations to the technical communities. SBSTA needs to ensure there are clear standards for comparing and assessing the agricultural components of national CSA strategies. A number of ...
The Serengeti strategy: How special interests try to intimidate
... Much as lions on the Serengeti seek out vulnerable zebras at the edge of a herd, special interests faced with adverse scientific evidence often target individual scientists rather than take on an entire scientific field at once. Part of the reasoning behind this approach is that it is easier to brin ...
... Much as lions on the Serengeti seek out vulnerable zebras at the edge of a herd, special interests faced with adverse scientific evidence often target individual scientists rather than take on an entire scientific field at once. Part of the reasoning behind this approach is that it is easier to brin ...
Name: Period: ______ Global Warming, Clouds, and Albedo
... Only a fairly small fraction (40 W/m2 or 10.3%) of the 390 W/m2 of infrared radiation emitted from Earth's surface makes it directly into space without first being trapped by various greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In other words, about 89.7% of the outgoing infrared radiation is affected by the ...
... Only a fairly small fraction (40 W/m2 or 10.3%) of the 390 W/m2 of infrared radiation emitted from Earth's surface makes it directly into space without first being trapped by various greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In other words, about 89.7% of the outgoing infrared radiation is affected by the ...
Dora Chi Xu, Class of 2015
... Even as we work our way to build a low-carbon economy, petroleum yet plays an indispensible role. Take solar energy development in Arizona for example, with more than 300 days of sunshine each year, and sizable wide-open, flat landscape that is ideal to install large-scale solar panels, the potentia ...
... Even as we work our way to build a low-carbon economy, petroleum yet plays an indispensible role. Take solar energy development in Arizona for example, with more than 300 days of sunshine each year, and sizable wide-open, flat landscape that is ideal to install large-scale solar panels, the potentia ...
The ECO-ACTIVE guide to the Science and Impacts of Climate
... 20th Centuries was matched by a parallel growth in the use of energy. One has driven the other. Consider for instance heating, lighting, travel and transport, food production, manufacture of goods and materials, and electrical devices from carpet cleaners to computers. Without access to large quanti ...
... 20th Centuries was matched by a parallel growth in the use of energy. One has driven the other. Consider for instance heating, lighting, travel and transport, food production, manufacture of goods and materials, and electrical devices from carpet cleaners to computers. Without access to large quanti ...
Climate Change - North Bay Water Reuse Authority
... Water supply can be described in terms of indices such as precipitation, snow pack, and runoff. Analysis of data and weather records are studied to determine the trend and the variability in the indices (e.g., precipitation and runoff), which affect water availability. Most precipitation events in C ...
... Water supply can be described in terms of indices such as precipitation, snow pack, and runoff. Analysis of data and weather records are studied to determine the trend and the variability in the indices (e.g., precipitation and runoff), which affect water availability. Most precipitation events in C ...
Changing US Extreme Temperature Statistics
... expected in a stationary climate. We find that λ < 1 at the 5.0σ level. The mean maximum index η is consistent with unity (as in the null hypothesis of no climate change) All-time temperature minimum records are being set far less frequently than in a stationary climate, while maximum records are se ...
... expected in a stationary climate. We find that λ < 1 at the 5.0σ level. The mean maximum index η is consistent with unity (as in the null hypothesis of no climate change) All-time temperature minimum records are being set far less frequently than in a stationary climate, while maximum records are se ...
Climate Change, Energy, and Texas
... Humans are ‘forcing’ the system in a new way. CO2 increases are mainly due to fossil fuel burning. CO2 has not been this high in more than half a million years. ...
... Humans are ‘forcing’ the system in a new way. CO2 increases are mainly due to fossil fuel burning. CO2 has not been this high in more than half a million years. ...
PARIS COP21: KEY ISSUES FOR THE NEW CLIMATE AGREEMENT
... targets can continually be reviewed and hopefully improved. While the agreement highlights that the world needs to limit global warming to below 1.5°C, it also acknowledges that countries must up their targets. In theory, countries would submit new “intended nationally determined contributions” (IND ...
... targets can continually be reviewed and hopefully improved. While the agreement highlights that the world needs to limit global warming to below 1.5°C, it also acknowledges that countries must up their targets. In theory, countries would submit new “intended nationally determined contributions” (IND ...
Annex N Sunflowers and Climate Change
... than previously experienced in history. The recent global climate models show that the current warming trend cannot be explained by natural variations alone and that for the models to agree with current observations, anthropogenic effects must be included (Hulme et al., 2002, IPCC 2007, Jenkins et a ...
... than previously experienced in history. The recent global climate models show that the current warming trend cannot be explained by natural variations alone and that for the models to agree with current observations, anthropogenic effects must be included (Hulme et al., 2002, IPCC 2007, Jenkins et a ...
Course Name: FW 345 Global Change Biology – The interface
... In an academic community, students and faculty, and staff each have responsibility for maintaining an appropriate learning environment, whether online or in the classroom. Students, faculty, and staff have the responsibility to treat each other with understanding, dignity and respect. Disruption of ...
... In an academic community, students and faculty, and staff each have responsibility for maintaining an appropriate learning environment, whether online or in the classroom. Students, faculty, and staff have the responsibility to treat each other with understanding, dignity and respect. Disruption of ...
The future of transport and development in the new
... functions of Government is seen to be to cater for as much public demand as possible- without regard to the consequences then running counter to the necessity of adopting and then delivering very low carbon- based patterns of activity. Appropriate decisions to cater for future transport activity are ...
... functions of Government is seen to be to cater for as much public demand as possible- without regard to the consequences then running counter to the necessity of adopting and then delivering very low carbon- based patterns of activity. Appropriate decisions to cater for future transport activity are ...
Gore rebuttal comments
... meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years." Patterso ...
... meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years." Patterso ...
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
... of 0.27ºF (0.15ºC) per decade, with increases of around 0.61ºF (0.34ºC) per decade between 1974 and 1998. Past and future temperature increases are causing and will continue to cause irreversible damage to the Andean ecology, including by accelerating glacier melt. 6. The tropical glaciers of the An ...
... of 0.27ºF (0.15ºC) per decade, with increases of around 0.61ºF (0.34ºC) per decade between 1974 and 1998. Past and future temperature increases are causing and will continue to cause irreversible damage to the Andean ecology, including by accelerating glacier melt. 6. The tropical glaciers of the An ...
Earth Radiation Management
... The unusual renewable energies from the Meteorological Reactors family include a set of clean and green alternative energy sources that will enrich our broad energy portfolio mix of de-carbonized renewable energy technologies. MR include many breakthrough technologies that can increase power generat ...
... The unusual renewable energies from the Meteorological Reactors family include a set of clean and green alternative energy sources that will enrich our broad energy portfolio mix of de-carbonized renewable energy technologies. MR include many breakthrough technologies that can increase power generat ...
Powerpoint - Imode Energy Research
... gas (0.93 percent) plus a number of other gases. Carbon dioxide (0.038 percent) is an important constituent of air because it has the ability to absorb heat energy radiated by Earth and thus to heat the atmosphere. • Air includes many gases and particles that vary significantly from time to time and ...
... gas (0.93 percent) plus a number of other gases. Carbon dioxide (0.038 percent) is an important constituent of air because it has the ability to absorb heat energy radiated by Earth and thus to heat the atmosphere. • Air includes many gases and particles that vary significantly from time to time and ...
Geoengineering: An Introduction to the Possibilities
... The SOLAS (Surface Ocean- Lower Atmosphere Study) scientific team has offered the following statement on proposed large scale commercial ocean fertilisation: ¾ ...
... The SOLAS (Surface Ocean- Lower Atmosphere Study) scientific team has offered the following statement on proposed large scale commercial ocean fertilisation: ¾ ...
Food insecurity and climate change
... changes or trends in extremes (such as the frequency of intense rainfall). However, people experience climate as individual weather events, which naturally fluctuate from year to year. In addition to natural variation, climate change will mean a shift in the patterns of weather events over the long- ...
... changes or trends in extremes (such as the frequency of intense rainfall). However, people experience climate as individual weather events, which naturally fluctuate from year to year. In addition to natural variation, climate change will mean a shift in the patterns of weather events over the long- ...
here - Why Mercer Law?
... Observers of this litigation expected that the outcome would likely turn on the Erie-genre issue of whether a federal common law of air pollution-as-nuisance survived the passage of the Clean Air Act: the defense, raised and extensively argued in motions to dismiss by all defendants, that Congress h ...
... Observers of this litigation expected that the outcome would likely turn on the Erie-genre issue of whether a federal common law of air pollution-as-nuisance survived the passage of the Clean Air Act: the defense, raised and extensively argued in motions to dismiss by all defendants, that Congress h ...
health professionals for clean air
... Paris was the result of a structured four year set of negotiations. - Paris is the latest in the UN’s climate change work, which began in 1992 with the adoption of the Framework Convention - 2009 Copenhagen and 2010 Cancun Agreements established the idea of a bottom-up framework - 2011 the Durban Pl ...
... Paris was the result of a structured four year set of negotiations. - Paris is the latest in the UN’s climate change work, which began in 1992 with the adoption of the Framework Convention - 2009 Copenhagen and 2010 Cancun Agreements established the idea of a bottom-up framework - 2011 the Durban Pl ...
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).