Non-Aerospace Research Quests of a Designer/Flight Test
... * Of course, Consensus has nothing to do with Science and Science has nothing to do with Consensus. ...
... * Of course, Consensus has nothing to do with Science and Science has nothing to do with Consensus. ...
Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine
... Just before Kyoto, S. Fred Singer released the "Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change." Singer, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria as a boy, had run the U.S. weather-satellite program in the early 1960s. In the Leipzig petition, just over 100 scientists and others, including TV weathermen, said t ...
... Just before Kyoto, S. Fred Singer released the "Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change." Singer, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria as a boy, had run the U.S. weather-satellite program in the early 1960s. In the Leipzig petition, just over 100 scientists and others, including TV weathermen, said t ...
cdema - Global Framework for Climate Services
... Temperature increases: 11 of the 12 warmest years on record have occurred in the last 12 years. If concentrations of all GHG and aerosols kept constant at 2000 levels, further warming of 0.1degrees C would be expected * ‘Very likely” that extreme heat events and heavy precipitation will become more ...
... Temperature increases: 11 of the 12 warmest years on record have occurred in the last 12 years. If concentrations of all GHG and aerosols kept constant at 2000 levels, further warming of 0.1degrees C would be expected * ‘Very likely” that extreme heat events and heavy precipitation will become more ...
Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre Publishes Third
... Carpenter & Company, LLC and City University of Hong Kong, today released its third annual report, which presents the findings of the 27 research projects conducted by GCACIC members on climate issues in the Asia-Pacific region in 2011. The report, available for download at www.gccapitalideas.com, c ...
... Carpenter & Company, LLC and City University of Hong Kong, today released its third annual report, which presents the findings of the 27 research projects conducted by GCACIC members on climate issues in the Asia-Pacific region in 2011. The report, available for download at www.gccapitalideas.com, c ...
PRESS RELEASE - UN Climate Change Secretariat Teams
... “Action on climate change is not some far-off event,” explains Mr. Somerhalder in the film’s opening minutes. “There is an enormous groundswell of action already underway to fight climate change. It’s happening right now, all over the world.” The documentary was produced by the United Nations Climat ...
... “Action on climate change is not some far-off event,” explains Mr. Somerhalder in the film’s opening minutes. “There is an enormous groundswell of action already underway to fight climate change. It’s happening right now, all over the world.” The documentary was produced by the United Nations Climat ...
Solutions and ideas for mitigation and adaptation
... • Loss of alpine: treeline has risen 1m/year in the Kenai Mountains • Wetlands have decreased 6-11% per decade in surface area • Harding Icefield has decreased 5% in surface area and 21m in average elevation • Spruce bark beetle outbreak • Available water for vegetation has declined 55% • Spring, gr ...
... • Loss of alpine: treeline has risen 1m/year in the Kenai Mountains • Wetlands have decreased 6-11% per decade in surface area • Harding Icefield has decreased 5% in surface area and 21m in average elevation • Spruce bark beetle outbreak • Available water for vegetation has declined 55% • Spring, gr ...
Climate change and climate variability * implications for food
... Change in biophysical variables over time ...
... Change in biophysical variables over time ...
- International Journal of Health Policy and Management
... causing extreme forest and grassland fires that contributed to many thousands of deaths and severe damage to wheat crops (16,17). In 2011, Thailand experienced its most extreme floods in modern times, displacing many thousands of people, causing over 500 deaths (18), destroying at least one-seventh ...
... causing extreme forest and grassland fires that contributed to many thousands of deaths and severe damage to wheat crops (16,17). In 2011, Thailand experienced its most extreme floods in modern times, displacing many thousands of people, causing over 500 deaths (18), destroying at least one-seventh ...
Climate Change and Vector-Borne/Zoonotic Diseases
... African malaria epidemics triggered by climate anomalies that follow periods of drought (DeSilva et al. 2004) Dec-Feb rainfall totals explain > two-thirds of variation in Botswana cases Sea surface temperatures linked to rainfall and El Nino-La Nina cycles (Thomson et al. 2005, 2006) Other climatic ...
... African malaria epidemics triggered by climate anomalies that follow periods of drought (DeSilva et al. 2004) Dec-Feb rainfall totals explain > two-thirds of variation in Botswana cases Sea surface temperatures linked to rainfall and El Nino-La Nina cycles (Thomson et al. 2005, 2006) Other climatic ...
Open - The Scottish Government
... programmes to maximise leverage? How do we balance our fuel poverty, climate change and housing quality objectives ? What should we be asking of the UK Government ? ...
... programmes to maximise leverage? How do we balance our fuel poverty, climate change and housing quality objectives ? What should we be asking of the UK Government ? ...
but with the very high emission per capita in developed
... North versus South, Annex-1 versus Non-Annex, Major Emitter Countries versus Major Emitter Intensity Countries ...
... North versus South, Annex-1 versus Non-Annex, Major Emitter Countries versus Major Emitter Intensity Countries ...
Modelling the interactions between climate change and rice
... Climatic risks are common in India 70% of land under cultivation prone to drought 12% of land (40 million hectares) to floods 8% of land (8,000 km coastline) to cyclones A major disaster occurs ...
... Climatic risks are common in India 70% of land under cultivation prone to drought 12% of land (40 million hectares) to floods 8% of land (8,000 km coastline) to cyclones A major disaster occurs ...
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... Climate change – a rise in the average temperature of the Earth, primarily caused by emissions from burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas Biodiversity – the number and variety of plant and animal species on Earth, including genetic variation within individual species ...
... Climate change – a rise in the average temperature of the Earth, primarily caused by emissions from burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas Biodiversity – the number and variety of plant and animal species on Earth, including genetic variation within individual species ...
`HUMANITY AND NATURE: A NEW BALANCE`
... gas emissions have been cut by 8%. That is why we are introducing a Climate Change Bill which will ensure the UK becomes the first country in the world with legislative framework designed to manage the transition to a low-carbon economy – it will put into law our commitment to reduce C02 emissions b ...
... gas emissions have been cut by 8%. That is why we are introducing a Climate Change Bill which will ensure the UK becomes the first country in the world with legislative framework designed to manage the transition to a low-carbon economy – it will put into law our commitment to reduce C02 emissions b ...
Slide 1
... intensity (both effects increase flood risk) Inland Snowmelt Dominant Basins: Relatively small overall changes because effects of warming (decreased risks) and increased precipitation intensity (increased risks) are in the opposite directions. ...
... intensity (both effects increase flood risk) Inland Snowmelt Dominant Basins: Relatively small overall changes because effects of warming (decreased risks) and increased precipitation intensity (increased risks) are in the opposite directions. ...
Global Warming
... be more substantial and more rapidly occurring than others do, the scientific consensus on climatic changes related to global warming is that the average temperature of the Earth has risen between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the past 100 years. O The increased volumes of carbon dioxide and ...
... be more substantial and more rapidly occurring than others do, the scientific consensus on climatic changes related to global warming is that the average temperature of the Earth has risen between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the past 100 years. O The increased volumes of carbon dioxide and ...
Draft Framework
... environmental characteristics of each community, as well as the place of that community in a regional and global context. Together, these factors will influence how sensitive a community may be to the impacts of climate change. In addition, the assessment would need to consider the type of climate c ...
... environmental characteristics of each community, as well as the place of that community in a regional and global context. Together, these factors will influence how sensitive a community may be to the impacts of climate change. In addition, the assessment would need to consider the type of climate c ...
presentation - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
... • 2 Coupled atmosphere-ocean control runs with 1600 pre-industrial conditions (atmosphere composition and solar irradiance) – One control run for each solar spectrum – Integrated for 500 years ...
... • 2 Coupled atmosphere-ocean control runs with 1600 pre-industrial conditions (atmosphere composition and solar irradiance) – One control run for each solar spectrum – Integrated for 500 years ...
UNEP Adaptation Source book (2008)
... Boko, M., I. Niang, A. Nyong, C. Vogel, A. Githeko, M. Medany, B. Osman-Elasha, R. Tabo and P. Yanda, 2007: Africa. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parr ...
... Boko, M., I. Niang, A. Nyong, C. Vogel, A. Githeko, M. Medany, B. Osman-Elasha, R. Tabo and P. Yanda, 2007: Africa. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parr ...
An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat
... Fig. 1. (A) Histograms of 2-meter T (Black), T max (Blue), and T WðmaxÞ (Red) on land from 60S–60N during the last decade (1999–2008). “Max” histograms are annual maxima accumulated over location and year, while the T histogram is accumulated over location and reanalysis time. Data are from the ERA- ...
... Fig. 1. (A) Histograms of 2-meter T (Black), T max (Blue), and T WðmaxÞ (Red) on land from 60S–60N during the last decade (1999–2008). “Max” histograms are annual maxima accumulated over location and year, while the T histogram is accumulated over location and reanalysis time. Data are from the ERA- ...
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... carrying the very cold water along the bottom • Surface and deep currents interact • Water cycles from deep currents to surface currents and back to the deep again- forms the ...
... carrying the very cold water along the bottom • Surface and deep currents interact • Water cycles from deep currents to surface currents and back to the deep again- forms the ...
Politics of Mainstreaming Ecofeminism
... water and other resources. At the 14th Meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD, 2006), the Women’s Major Group pointed out that climate change has specific gender characteristics because: 1) Women, due to their social roles, discrimination and poverty, are affected d ...
... water and other resources. At the 14th Meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD, 2006), the Women’s Major Group pointed out that climate change has specific gender characteristics because: 1) Women, due to their social roles, discrimination and poverty, are affected d ...
Script - Centre for Science and Environment
... one hand, promotion of forest helps to reduce the effect of global warming and on the other it prevents our nature from drought, erosion and excess rain. So people who are making their houses in the forest areas should be removed from there and all the political parties should help the local adminis ...
... one hand, promotion of forest helps to reduce the effect of global warming and on the other it prevents our nature from drought, erosion and excess rain. So people who are making their houses in the forest areas should be removed from there and all the political parties should help the local adminis ...
Climate and Carbon Cycle Prediction: C3P
... 2. Provide the necessary software and modeling expertise to rapidly integrate new methods and model improvements, 3. Pursue the development and evaluation of innovative methods in the coupled context of the CCSM, and 4. Improve the performance, portability and scalability of the CCSM on available an ...
... 2. Provide the necessary software and modeling expertise to rapidly integrate new methods and model improvements, 3. Pursue the development and evaluation of innovative methods in the coupled context of the CCSM, and 4. Improve the performance, portability and scalability of the CCSM on available an ...
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).