Climate Change and Energy Policy
... *What Is Climate Change III • Not just warming. Rising sea levels from melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice, greater moisture in the atmosphere from warmer seas, and thus more severe storms and floods in some areas, but also prolonged drought in others and changes in rainfall patterns. Drought also ...
... *What Is Climate Change III • Not just warming. Rising sea levels from melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice, greater moisture in the atmosphere from warmer seas, and thus more severe storms and floods in some areas, but also prolonged drought in others and changes in rainfall patterns. Drought also ...
Our meat production and consumption also warms the
... sector with the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rates, with approximately the 18%, after the transport sector which represents the 22% of GHG emissions. This is 9% of the global CO2 emissions, 37% of methane (more than mining exploitation, oil and natural gas!) and 65% of NO2, with these last ...
... sector with the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rates, with approximately the 18%, after the transport sector which represents the 22% of GHG emissions. This is 9% of the global CO2 emissions, 37% of methane (more than mining exploitation, oil and natural gas!) and 65% of NO2, with these last ...
Tropical origins for recent and future Northern Hemisphere climate
... for ensemble member 13 and 32 and the observations. The observed trend is well reproduced in ensemble member 13, but not in member 32, which shows an opposite trend over the same period. Averaging over all ensemble members (thin solid line in Figure 2a) reveals no significant systematic change in th ...
... for ensemble member 13 and 32 and the observations. The observed trend is well reproduced in ensemble member 13, but not in member 32, which shows an opposite trend over the same period. Averaging over all ensemble members (thin solid line in Figure 2a) reveals no significant systematic change in th ...
Louisiana Climate Change - Southern Climate Impacts Planning
... Projections for the U.S. Southeast show a temperature increase of 4-8 degrees by 2100, with projected increases for interior states 1-2 degrees higher than coastal areas (NCA). Major consequences of warming include a significant increase in the number of hot days (above 95 degrees) each year and an ...
... Projections for the U.S. Southeast show a temperature increase of 4-8 degrees by 2100, with projected increases for interior states 1-2 degrees higher than coastal areas (NCA). Major consequences of warming include a significant increase in the number of hot days (above 95 degrees) each year and an ...
Agriculture, Agribusiness and Climate Change
... change. As countries are seeking to meet in Copenhagen and negotiate binding climate change targets, the contribution that agricultural production makes to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly coming under scrutiny. There is therefore a clear need to find cost-effective ways to add ...
... change. As countries are seeking to meet in Copenhagen and negotiate binding climate change targets, the contribution that agricultural production makes to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly coming under scrutiny. There is therefore a clear need to find cost-effective ways to add ...
Global Warming
... According to the National Academy of Sciences, the Earth's surface temperature has risen by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century, with accelerated warming during the past two decades. There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming over the last 50 years is attributable to human ...
... According to the National Academy of Sciences, the Earth's surface temperature has risen by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century, with accelerated warming during the past two decades. There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming over the last 50 years is attributable to human ...
Nurturing natural carbon sinks
... National Parks, etc. In other words, the best ‘nurture’ strategy would be to leave half of the Earth alone. Even then, the designated wilderness half of the Earth would still experience high greenhouse gases, chemical air and water pollution (including plastic waste slowly degrading into micropartic ...
... National Parks, etc. In other words, the best ‘nurture’ strategy would be to leave half of the Earth alone. Even then, the designated wilderness half of the Earth would still experience high greenhouse gases, chemical air and water pollution (including plastic waste slowly degrading into micropartic ...
Causes of the northern high-latitude land surface
... the 1960s and 1970s). Thus, the AO explains only part of the NHL land surface temperature variability. Similarly, the correlation between the AL and NHL land SAT is 0.45 for the period 1958 – 2004, only accounting for 21% of the shared variance. However, for the cooling period (during the 1960s and ...
... the 1960s and 1970s). Thus, the AO explains only part of the NHL land surface temperature variability. Similarly, the correlation between the AL and NHL land SAT is 0.45 for the period 1958 – 2004, only accounting for 21% of the shared variance. However, for the cooling period (during the 1960s and ...
Long-Term Climate Change
... Reasons for change in the climate, in essence cause and effect, are termed ‘forcing’ and ‘response’ by climate scientists. There are three fundamental kinds of natural climate forcing in existence, all operating on different timescales. These are: • changes to the strength of the Sun’s radiation occ ...
... Reasons for change in the climate, in essence cause and effect, are termed ‘forcing’ and ‘response’ by climate scientists. There are three fundamental kinds of natural climate forcing in existence, all operating on different timescales. These are: • changes to the strength of the Sun’s radiation occ ...
Preparing for Climate Change Impacts in Los Angeles
... Santa Barbara emissions. The state’s successes over the years have set an example for other states and the federal government to follow. ...
... Santa Barbara emissions. The state’s successes over the years have set an example for other states and the federal government to follow. ...
Cuba Confronts Climate Change
... to the more complex and multifactoral chronic non-communicable diseases. Such social determinants were described by WHO’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health as “the circumstances in which people grow, live, work, and age, […] in turn, shaped by political, social, and economic forces.” The r ...
... to the more complex and multifactoral chronic non-communicable diseases. Such social determinants were described by WHO’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health as “the circumstances in which people grow, live, work, and age, […] in turn, shaped by political, social, and economic forces.” The r ...
Climate change adaptation-related actions and projects
... change and the climate variability being experienced in the past, the idea that adaptation is necessary and should be deemed as a priority is being shared by both industrialised and developing countries alike. Furthermore, the notion that a timely adaptation shall allow for a proper and gradual cost ...
... change and the climate variability being experienced in the past, the idea that adaptation is necessary and should be deemed as a priority is being shared by both industrialised and developing countries alike. Furthermore, the notion that a timely adaptation shall allow for a proper and gradual cost ...
AIMES: Analysis, Integration and Modelling of the Earth System
... Ø Monitoring & Predicting Earth System Change. Ø Human-Environment Coupling. Ø Planet Earth as a Complex System. ...
... Ø Monitoring & Predicting Earth System Change. Ø Human-Environment Coupling. Ø Planet Earth as a Complex System. ...
QUESTIONS - Climate Reality Project
... Forum, climate change is already contributing to over 400,000 deaths and costing the world more than $1.2 trillion each year (PDF). How? Just look at the devastation of the New Jersey shore in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Witness the homes turned to splinters in the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan. I ...
... Forum, climate change is already contributing to over 400,000 deaths and costing the world more than $1.2 trillion each year (PDF). How? Just look at the devastation of the New Jersey shore in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Witness the homes turned to splinters in the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan. I ...
Jeremy D. Shakun
... I use the geologic record to understand the behavior of the climate system on decadal to million-year time scales. Given the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of global change science, my research takes a broad and highly collaborative approach. I generate new reconstructions of climate change ...
... I use the geologic record to understand the behavior of the climate system on decadal to million-year time scales. Given the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of global change science, my research takes a broad and highly collaborative approach. I generate new reconstructions of climate change ...
(2009-2011) in public attitude towards climate change
... reports a dip in the proportion of people who believe that climate change is ‘definitely’ a reality, from 44% in 2009 to 31% in 2010.7,8. Latest Ipsos Mori data should be updated here: http://www.ipsosmori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/2552/Climate-Change-Omnibus-Great-Britain.aspx. Also ...
... reports a dip in the proportion of people who believe that climate change is ‘definitely’ a reality, from 44% in 2009 to 31% in 2010.7,8. Latest Ipsos Mori data should be updated here: http://www.ipsosmori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/2552/Climate-Change-Omnibus-Great-Britain.aspx. Also ...
Remembering the Purpose of Earth Day
... In 1970, industrialization was at its height. Garbage was dumped into rivers and bays, sewage flowed straight into the ocean, and toxic chemicals from factories and leaded gasoline exhaust from cars were fouling the air. The Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so polluted that it caught on fire. Off the Sant ...
... In 1970, industrialization was at its height. Garbage was dumped into rivers and bays, sewage flowed straight into the ocean, and toxic chemicals from factories and leaded gasoline exhaust from cars were fouling the air. The Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so polluted that it caught on fire. Off the Sant ...
14. The Environment
... – Canada’s commitments at Rio: reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 ...
... – Canada’s commitments at Rio: reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 ...
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... model the complete causal chain, including all feedbacks have an interface that could be used interactively by a reasonably educated policy-maker on their own desktop PC have results that don’t differ significantly from a hypothetical IAM made of the most comprehensive models available ...
... model the complete causal chain, including all feedbacks have an interface that could be used interactively by a reasonably educated policy-maker on their own desktop PC have results that don’t differ significantly from a hypothetical IAM made of the most comprehensive models available ...
Document
... 15% of electricity consumed to come from renewable sources by 2010; 33% by 2020. Extended support for biomass through Bioenergy Action ...
... 15% of electricity consumed to come from renewable sources by 2010; 33% by 2020. Extended support for biomass through Bioenergy Action ...
PDF
... techniques that translates GCM output into finer-resolution projections. These advances include the use of regional scale, process-based models that can be used to better explore the interactions between climate and local topography (e.g., Salathe et al. 2010), as well as, efforts aimed at understan ...
... techniques that translates GCM output into finer-resolution projections. These advances include the use of regional scale, process-based models that can be used to better explore the interactions between climate and local topography (e.g., Salathe et al. 2010), as well as, efforts aimed at understan ...
Altizer et al. 2013 climate disease
... embedded in diverse communities, with climate change likely leading to the loss of some hostpathogen interactions and the gain of novel species pairings. In some cases, pathogen extinction and the loss of endemic parasites could follow from climate change, potentially reducing disease or conversely ...
... embedded in diverse communities, with climate change likely leading to the loss of some hostpathogen interactions and the gain of novel species pairings. In some cases, pathogen extinction and the loss of endemic parasites could follow from climate change, potentially reducing disease or conversely ...
Here`s - UA Atmospheric Sciences
... Many scientists would argue that this graph is strong support of a connection between rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and global warming. Early in this time interval when CO2 concentration was constant, there is little temperature change. Temperature only begins to rise in about 190 ...
... Many scientists would argue that this graph is strong support of a connection between rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and global warming. Early in this time interval when CO2 concentration was constant, there is little temperature change. Temperature only begins to rise in about 190 ...
CAN LIZARDS BEAT THE HEAT , OR WILL THEY GO ExTINCT
... Long-term datasets allow them to make this assessment by comparing lizard absence/presence at 200 sites since the mid-1970s. They found that Sceloporus lizards are now locally extinct at 12% of the sites, although, for some species, they found range expansions into these same sites where they previo ...
... Long-term datasets allow them to make this assessment by comparing lizard absence/presence at 200 sites since the mid-1970s. They found that Sceloporus lizards are now locally extinct at 12% of the sites, although, for some species, they found range expansions into these same sites where they previo ...
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).