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... The Stern Review of The Economics of Climate Change (Stern et al., 2006) has caused substantial discussion, not least about the validity of the headline conclusion that climate change would cause a welfare loss equivalent to a permanent income loss of 5 to 20%. The initial responses of many economis ...
... The Stern Review of The Economics of Climate Change (Stern et al., 2006) has caused substantial discussion, not least about the validity of the headline conclusion that climate change would cause a welfare loss equivalent to a permanent income loss of 5 to 20%. The initial responses of many economis ...
Michigan Climate and Health Profile Report 2015
... Based on current trends and projections of the most recent period for which information is available, 2021 – 2050, the most likely impacts from climate change in Michigan are extreme heat events, defined as prolonged periods of increased temperatures and humidity; changes in precipitation patterns, ...
... Based on current trends and projections of the most recent period for which information is available, 2021 – 2050, the most likely impacts from climate change in Michigan are extreme heat events, defined as prolonged periods of increased temperatures and humidity; changes in precipitation patterns, ...
Global Warming Begins at Home
... To answer the following questions, talk to your family to get the most accurate data for your calculations. 1. If your family has a car, how many miles did your family drive last year? ___________ 2. How many miles does your car average per gallon of gas? ___________ (If your family has more than on ...
... To answer the following questions, talk to your family to get the most accurate data for your calculations. 1. If your family has a car, how many miles did your family drive last year? ___________ 2. How many miles does your car average per gallon of gas? ___________ (If your family has more than on ...
Modeling dynamics of tundra plant communities on the Yamal
... grazing is important, in addition to the latitudinal climate gradient, in controlling tundra plant community composition, explaining about 13% of the total variance in model simulations for all arctic tundra subzones. The decrease in biomass of lichen, deciduous shrub and graminoid plant functional ...
... grazing is important, in addition to the latitudinal climate gradient, in controlling tundra plant community composition, explaining about 13% of the total variance in model simulations for all arctic tundra subzones. The decrease in biomass of lichen, deciduous shrub and graminoid plant functional ...
Climate and the Tropical Oceans - LDEO Climate Group
... an enhanced Walker circulation and an increased zonal mean meridional overturning in the ocean in response to increasing CO 2 concentrations. This change in ocean circulation cools the tropical climate and consitutes a negative feedback to greenhouse warming at least on the timescale over which the ...
... an enhanced Walker circulation and an increased zonal mean meridional overturning in the ocean in response to increasing CO 2 concentrations. This change in ocean circulation cools the tropical climate and consitutes a negative feedback to greenhouse warming at least on the timescale over which the ...
Assessing the Effects of Climate and Socioeconomic Factors on
... The evidence found in the literature is robust with regard to this causal link. Nonetheless, some services will tend to have a larger impact on the likelihood of an outbreak than others; sewage, access to piped water, and provision of health services, among others, are expected to be better predict ...
... The evidence found in the literature is robust with regard to this causal link. Nonetheless, some services will tend to have a larger impact on the likelihood of an outbreak than others; sewage, access to piped water, and provision of health services, among others, are expected to be better predict ...
English - unfccc
... There is clear evidence that the potential negative impacts of climate change are immense, and Ghana is particularly vulnerable due to lack of capacity to undertake adaptive measures to address environmental problems and socio-economic costs of climate change. These include climate change associated ...
... There is clear evidence that the potential negative impacts of climate change are immense, and Ghana is particularly vulnerable due to lack of capacity to undertake adaptive measures to address environmental problems and socio-economic costs of climate change. These include climate change associated ...
Climate Change: Addressing the Impact for Human Security
... laymen alike. Environmental problems will increasingly affect eco-nomic, social and political developments throughout the world. The impact of climate change will be even more acute in vulnerable regions and groups that face multiple stresses at the same time pre-existing conflict, poverty and une-q ...
... laymen alike. Environmental problems will increasingly affect eco-nomic, social and political developments throughout the world. The impact of climate change will be even more acute in vulnerable regions and groups that face multiple stresses at the same time pre-existing conflict, poverty and une-q ...
tackling the double injustice of climate change and gender inequality
... change strikes at the root causes of poverty, including gender inequality. Addressing the uncertainties and risks involved in climate change, while at the same time dealing with deeply entrenched gender inequalities, is a dual learning challenge. But promising practices are emerging. Locally-driven, ...
... change strikes at the root causes of poverty, including gender inequality. Addressing the uncertainties and risks involved in climate change, while at the same time dealing with deeply entrenched gender inequalities, is a dual learning challenge. But promising practices are emerging. Locally-driven, ...
tackling the double injustice of climate change and gender inequality
... change strikes at the root causes of poverty, including gender inequality. Addressing the uncertainties and risks involved in climate change, while at the same time dealing with deeply entrenched gender inequalities, is a dual learning challenge. But promising practices are emerging. Locally-driven, ...
... change strikes at the root causes of poverty, including gender inequality. Addressing the uncertainties and risks involved in climate change, while at the same time dealing with deeply entrenched gender inequalities, is a dual learning challenge. But promising practices are emerging. Locally-driven, ...
Seasonal versus transient snow and the elevation dependence of
... while the identification of trends is somewhat sensitive to the chosen period of analysis, a substantial percentage of trends are identified across both periods. Six additional gage records available in 1962–2007 produced four significant trends, so the total number of significant seasonal trends fo ...
... while the identification of trends is somewhat sensitive to the chosen period of analysis, a substantial percentage of trends are identified across both periods. Six additional gage records available in 1962–2007 produced four significant trends, so the total number of significant seasonal trends fo ...
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... for responding to local weather variability. Corn farmers in the Corn Belt push back planting dates in response to a wet spring, for example, and may switch to soybean production if persistent wet weather delays corn planting excessively. During extremely dry periods, farmers in the Plains States ma ...
... for responding to local weather variability. Corn farmers in the Corn Belt push back planting dates in response to a wet spring, for example, and may switch to soybean production if persistent wet weather delays corn planting excessively. During extremely dry periods, farmers in the Plains States ma ...
Deep South Challenge Research and Business Plan
... are a growing societal and industry (especially aquaculture) concern. Greater emphasis on the oceanic influence of a changing climate is anticipated in the second term of the Challenge. Climate science that does not target those processes and observations that improve model representation of Aotearo ...
... are a growing societal and industry (especially aquaculture) concern. Greater emphasis on the oceanic influence of a changing climate is anticipated in the second term of the Challenge. Climate science that does not target those processes and observations that improve model representation of Aotearo ...
Climate Change and Food Systems
... Annu. Rev. Environ. Resourc. 2012.37:195-222. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by United Nations Library on 05/13/13. For personal use only. ...
... Annu. Rev. Environ. Resourc. 2012.37:195-222. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by United Nations Library on 05/13/13. For personal use only. ...
Drainage basin responses to climate change
... in vegetation cover). No single scenario encompasses the entire range of changes in precipitation, runoff, vegetation, and other processes that appear to have accompanied the Quaternary climate cycles in many parts of the world. Rather, the goal is to explore how the drainage basin as a system respo ...
... in vegetation cover). No single scenario encompasses the entire range of changes in precipitation, runoff, vegetation, and other processes that appear to have accompanied the Quaternary climate cycles in many parts of the world. Rather, the goal is to explore how the drainage basin as a system respo ...
Cloud feedback mechanisms and their representation in global
... altitude, amount, and optical depth (plus a small residual)45. The multi-model-mean net cloud feedback can then be understood as the sum of positive contributions from cloud altitude and amount changes, and a negative contribution from optical depth changes (Fig. 2a). The ...
... altitude, amount, and optical depth (plus a small residual)45. The multi-model-mean net cloud feedback can then be understood as the sum of positive contributions from cloud altitude and amount changes, and a negative contribution from optical depth changes (Fig. 2a). The ...
The economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
... consequences are coupled with uneven, asymmetrical impacts on different regions, countries and socioeconomic groups, with those that have contributed the least to global warming often being the hardest-hit. As part of this picture, Latin America and the Caribbean has historically made no more than a ...
... consequences are coupled with uneven, asymmetrical impacts on different regions, countries and socioeconomic groups, with those that have contributed the least to global warming often being the hardest-hit. As part of this picture, Latin America and the Caribbean has historically made no more than a ...
part 3. technical summary
... for Albania developed as part of this exercise have predicted an annual increase in temperature of up to 3.6 ºC, decrease in precipitation by 12.5%, and consequent reduction of water resources and arable land (due to moisture loss, soil erosion and degradation) by the year 2100. In the coastal zone, ...
... for Albania developed as part of this exercise have predicted an annual increase in temperature of up to 3.6 ºC, decrease in precipitation by 12.5%, and consequent reduction of water resources and arable land (due to moisture loss, soil erosion and degradation) by the year 2100. In the coastal zone, ...
the User Guide
... Figure 1.1 indicates the relationship between the CCSP partners and their roles in delivering the project outputs. Table 1.1 presents the CCSP versioning. ...
... Figure 1.1 indicates the relationship between the CCSP partners and their roles in delivering the project outputs. Table 1.1 presents the CCSP versioning. ...
achieving a climate for health
... activities are producing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, black carbon, and methane, which concentrate in the earth’s atmosphere and prevent heat from escaping.5 This phenomenon creates a warming effect on the earth and other cascading changes that impact people, plants, wildlife, and ecosys ...
... activities are producing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, black carbon, and methane, which concentrate in the earth’s atmosphere and prevent heat from escaping.5 This phenomenon creates a warming effect on the earth and other cascading changes that impact people, plants, wildlife, and ecosys ...
uganda`s economic development - Konrad-Adenauer
... for an extended period of time, typically decades or longer.1This definition is different from the one used by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where climate change refers to a change of climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alter ...
... for an extended period of time, typically decades or longer.1This definition is different from the one used by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where climate change refers to a change of climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alter ...
Climate change, extreme weather events, air pollution and respiratory health in Europe
... frequent, more intense and longer lasting heatwaves, especially in Southern and Eastern Europe, and also in areas not currently susceptible to such events [2, 3]. This will be paralleled by an increase in the intensity of short duration precipitation events (1–2 days) in regions such as the Mediterr ...
... frequent, more intense and longer lasting heatwaves, especially in Southern and Eastern Europe, and also in areas not currently susceptible to such events [2, 3]. This will be paralleled by an increase in the intensity of short duration precipitation events (1–2 days) in regions such as the Mediterr ...
Future wet grasslands: ecological implications of climate change
... total precipitation and precipitation seasonality and patterns, including snow cover and melt; (3) a rise in sea level impacting coastal wetlands; and (4) an increase in climate variability and extreme events, notably intense precipitation and extreme temperatures with consequent heatwaves, storms, ...
... total precipitation and precipitation seasonality and patterns, including snow cover and melt; (3) a rise in sea level impacting coastal wetlands; and (4) an increase in climate variability and extreme events, notably intense precipitation and extreme temperatures with consequent heatwaves, storms, ...
Climate change and animal genetic resources for food and agriculture - State of knowledge, risks and opportunities
... Climate change comes as an additional factor affecting a livestock sector that is already highly dynamic and facing many challenges. Important objectives of AnGR management include ensuring that AnGR are effectively deployed to meet these challenges (i.e. are well matched to the production environme ...
... Climate change comes as an additional factor affecting a livestock sector that is already highly dynamic and facing many challenges. Important objectives of AnGR management include ensuring that AnGR are effectively deployed to meet these challenges (i.e. are well matched to the production environme ...
Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
... zones and marine ecosystems. This improvement has been far from uniform, either thematically or in regional coverage, and there are still substantial gaps in our understanding. The First and Second Assessment Reports on ocean systems (Tsyban et al., 1990; Ittekkot et al., 1996) conclude that global ...
... zones and marine ecosystems. This improvement has been far from uniform, either thematically or in regional coverage, and there are still substantial gaps in our understanding. The First and Second Assessment Reports on ocean systems (Tsyban et al., 1990; Ittekkot et al., 1996) conclude that global ...
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).