Hot, Flat & Dangerous
... o Others: Volcanoes, comets, solar activity, ocean circulation, methane ...
... o Others: Volcanoes, comets, solar activity, ocean circulation, methane ...
Climate Change and Migration: Perspective of the Big - sid
... The observation that the atmosphere near the earth’s surface is warming beyond its tolerance levels, i.e. more and more heat trapping gases are ejected into the atmosphere is called Global Warming ...
... The observation that the atmosphere near the earth’s surface is warming beyond its tolerance levels, i.e. more and more heat trapping gases are ejected into the atmosphere is called Global Warming ...
6g_CCNet-coach-training-presentation
... water, etc. may often be worse than if the ecosystem was left to adjust naturally. Thus, it is absolutely critical to understand how human systems (social, infrastructure, etc.) will be affected so that the team can start to understand the full range of threats to natural systems. ...
... water, etc. may often be worse than if the ecosystem was left to adjust naturally. Thus, it is absolutely critical to understand how human systems (social, infrastructure, etc.) will be affected so that the team can start to understand the full range of threats to natural systems. ...
Socio-Economic Impacts of Climate Change 21
... impact will likely come from large numbers of displaced people who, by the very nature of their displacement, will become subject to malnutrition and disease; agricultural dislocation could aggravate or spark displacement and border security issues could arise as well. ...
... impact will likely come from large numbers of displaced people who, by the very nature of their displacement, will become subject to malnutrition and disease; agricultural dislocation could aggravate or spark displacement and border security issues could arise as well. ...
Global Systems Impacting our Planet – 15 Page Resource of Earth
... • explaining the causes and effects of the greenhouse effect • investigating the effect of climate change on sea levels and biodiversity • considering the long-term effects of loss of biodiversity • investigating currently occurring changes to permafrost and sea ice and the impacts of these changes ...
... • explaining the causes and effects of the greenhouse effect • investigating the effect of climate change on sea levels and biodiversity • considering the long-term effects of loss of biodiversity • investigating currently occurring changes to permafrost and sea ice and the impacts of these changes ...
Global Warming
... Can we match the observation of temperature trends with the model predictions? The temperature record of the past hundred years does show a warming trend, by approximately 0.5°C. However, the observed warming trend is not entirely consistent with the carbon dioxide change. Most of the temperature in ...
... Can we match the observation of temperature trends with the model predictions? The temperature record of the past hundred years does show a warming trend, by approximately 0.5°C. However, the observed warming trend is not entirely consistent with the carbon dioxide change. Most of the temperature in ...
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
... blanket, making the Earth’s surface warmer than it otherwise would be. While this greenhouse effect occurs naturally, making life as we know it possible, human activities in the past century have substantially increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to trap ...
... blanket, making the Earth’s surface warmer than it otherwise would be. While this greenhouse effect occurs naturally, making life as we know it possible, human activities in the past century have substantially increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to trap ...
Slide 1 - climateknowledge.org
... • Mitigation: The notion of limiting or controlling emissions of greenhouse gases so that the total accumulation is limited. • Adaptation: The notion of making changes in the way we do things to adapt to changes in climate. • Resilience: The ability to adapt. • Geo-engineering: The notion that we ca ...
... • Mitigation: The notion of limiting or controlling emissions of greenhouse gases so that the total accumulation is limited. • Adaptation: The notion of making changes in the way we do things to adapt to changes in climate. • Resilience: The ability to adapt. • Geo-engineering: The notion that we ca ...
nature: our best defense against climate change
... Around the world, climate change is exacerbating droughts, floods, heat waves and extreme weather events—and these impacts are expected to worsen in the coming decades. Already, nearly 800 million people are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.5 Harnessing the immediate potential of natural ...
... Around the world, climate change is exacerbating droughts, floods, heat waves and extreme weather events—and these impacts are expected to worsen in the coming decades. Already, nearly 800 million people are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.5 Harnessing the immediate potential of natural ...
Human-Natural Urban System Tipping Points as - NOAA
... • Change in conceptualization of extreme events – From discrete acute events to events as part of a chronic process – Looking into future dynamics as much as the present and past ...
... • Change in conceptualization of extreme events – From discrete acute events to events as part of a chronic process – Looking into future dynamics as much as the present and past ...
Lab: Looking at Scientific Data on Climate Change
... graphs, you must first understand the word "anomaly". This means difference from the norm. For NASA graphs, the norm is the period from 1951-1980 (which is when NASA began collecting data). Looking at the global data, how does 2013 compare to the years? Explain. 2. Go to the NASA site GISS (Goddard ...
... graphs, you must first understand the word "anomaly". This means difference from the norm. For NASA graphs, the norm is the period from 1951-1980 (which is when NASA began collecting data). Looking at the global data, how does 2013 compare to the years? Explain. 2. Go to the NASA site GISS (Goddard ...
Sustainable Responses to Climate Change MKE July 2016
... • “By comparison to what it could have been, it’s a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, it’s a disaster.” George Monbiot, The Guardian ...
... • “By comparison to what it could have been, it’s a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, it’s a disaster.” George Monbiot, The Guardian ...
ACCR - Baltic Sea Region
... To develop tripartite political discussion on preventing the effects of climate change in regions based on current European, national and regional discussion, law making and information from ACCR-project work packages. Currently large frame political decisions regarding environmental affairs are mad ...
... To develop tripartite political discussion on preventing the effects of climate change in regions based on current European, national and regional discussion, law making and information from ACCR-project work packages. Currently large frame political decisions regarding environmental affairs are mad ...
Climate Change Threatens Global Development and International
... discontinuities, the foreseeable environmental changes that would take place with an average global warming of 1.5–3°C would affect the development perspectives of some seven billion people. The developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America, that typically have fewer capacities for adaptati ...
... discontinuities, the foreseeable environmental changes that would take place with an average global warming of 1.5–3°C would affect the development perspectives of some seven billion people. The developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America, that typically have fewer capacities for adaptati ...
06-manton.pps2011-07-12 00:584.1 MB - Asia
... • Data for 100 climate variables computed in 30-minute time-steps for a series of months, years decades or centuries • Models adequately simulate observed daily weather and average climate patterns • A one-year simulation takes 1 day of computer time ...
... • Data for 100 climate variables computed in 30-minute time-steps for a series of months, years decades or centuries • Models adequately simulate observed daily weather and average climate patterns • A one-year simulation takes 1 day of computer time ...
PA Climate Impacts Assessment
... - Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC): A global initiative developed in collaboration with the UNEP/WMO Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and funded by the Global Environment Facility to advance scientific understanding of climate change vulnerabilities an ...
... - Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC): A global initiative developed in collaboration with the UNEP/WMO Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and funded by the Global Environment Facility to advance scientific understanding of climate change vulnerabilities an ...
44. Global Warming Congress should
... community of nations. It is based on ‘‘general circulation models’’ (GCMs), which are large-scale simulations of the globe’s climate that have been used as research and teaching tools for two decades. By 1990 there were five GCMs that received the bulk of scientific citations. On average, they predi ...
... community of nations. It is based on ‘‘general circulation models’’ (GCMs), which are large-scale simulations of the globe’s climate that have been used as research and teaching tools for two decades. By 1990 there were five GCMs that received the bulk of scientific citations. On average, they predi ...
a summary presentation of the TK
... communities) dependent on marine and coastal resources for their livelihoods have long been observing and reporting the impacts of climate change. The observed impacts include sea-level rise, coastal erosion, warming oceans, melting sea ice, salt-water intrusion, changing weather patterns, and degra ...
... communities) dependent on marine and coastal resources for their livelihoods have long been observing and reporting the impacts of climate change. The observed impacts include sea-level rise, coastal erosion, warming oceans, melting sea ice, salt-water intrusion, changing weather patterns, and degra ...
news and views
... effects of methane that escapes to the atmosphere remain a matter of debate. Other new work8 shows that, because of its much longer residence time in the ocean–atmosphere system, CO2 might be responsible for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds (whose insulating effects could explain the espe ...
... effects of methane that escapes to the atmosphere remain a matter of debate. Other new work8 shows that, because of its much longer residence time in the ocean–atmosphere system, CO2 might be responsible for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds (whose insulating effects could explain the espe ...
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).