Measuring Climatic Impacts on Energy Consumption
... we found focus on electricity consumption in the residential sector. The coverage of the commercial and industrial sectors as well as studies on other fuels is most sparse. For example, we could not locate any empirical peer-reviewed economics papers on the effect of climate on energy supply. The em ...
... we found focus on electricity consumption in the residential sector. The coverage of the commercial and industrial sectors as well as studies on other fuels is most sparse. For example, we could not locate any empirical peer-reviewed economics papers on the effect of climate on energy supply. The em ...
EIR Greenhouse Gas Emissions
... The County of Napa is in the process of preparing a Climate Action Plan (Napa County CAP) that would provide emissions reduction strategies necessary to reduce emissions in unincorporated Napa County to 1990 levels by 2020. In December 2012, the Napa County Board of Supervisors (Board) considered ...
... The County of Napa is in the process of preparing a Climate Action Plan (Napa County CAP) that would provide emissions reduction strategies necessary to reduce emissions in unincorporated Napa County to 1990 levels by 2020. In December 2012, the Napa County Board of Supervisors (Board) considered ...
Climate Change, Planning and Development in the Eastern
... To understand the effects of climate change on REROC’s planning and development policies and practices, it is important to firstly understand what climate change is and how it will potentially affect the region. The terms weather and climate tend to be used interchangeably, however they represent tw ...
... To understand the effects of climate change on REROC’s planning and development policies and practices, it is important to firstly understand what climate change is and how it will potentially affect the region. The terms weather and climate tend to be used interchangeably, however they represent tw ...
After Kyoto: A Global Scramble for Advantage
... climate change yield mixed results, which is to say that temperature changes may be caused by solar activity, clouds, or ocean temperature changes. There is also contradictory evidence on temperature change itself. It is not a foregone conclusion that temperatures, though increasing in the last few ...
... climate change yield mixed results, which is to say that temperature changes may be caused by solar activity, clouds, or ocean temperature changes. There is also contradictory evidence on temperature change itself. It is not a foregone conclusion that temperatures, though increasing in the last few ...
The Influence on Climate Change of Differing Scenarios for Future
... The climate component of the IGSM has evolved since the CCSP exercise. Hence we run the emissions profiles from the above CCSP 2.1.a exercise through this modified IGSM, so that the climate and carbon cycle results reported here are somewhat different from the IGSM results reported in US CCSP (2007) ...
... The climate component of the IGSM has evolved since the CCSP exercise. Hence we run the emissions profiles from the above CCSP 2.1.a exercise through this modified IGSM, so that the climate and carbon cycle results reported here are somewhat different from the IGSM results reported in US CCSP (2007) ...
Reunião na Índia debate acordo do clima
... •Parties that have ratified Kyoto strongly urge others to do so in a timely manner (as nations declared in Johannesburg). •The IPCC's Third Assessment Report confirms that significant cuts in global emissions will be necessary to meet the Convention's ultimate objective. •All parties should continue ...
... •Parties that have ratified Kyoto strongly urge others to do so in a timely manner (as nations declared in Johannesburg). •The IPCC's Third Assessment Report confirms that significant cuts in global emissions will be necessary to meet the Convention's ultimate objective. •All parties should continue ...
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... students background on climate change. There are a number of things that can alter the global temperature: changes in the sun’s activity, distance of the sun’s orbit from earth, volcanic eruptions, greenhouse gas emissions (including aerosols, which can provide a cooling effect). However, we know fr ...
... students background on climate change. There are a number of things that can alter the global temperature: changes in the sun’s activity, distance of the sun’s orbit from earth, volcanic eruptions, greenhouse gas emissions (including aerosols, which can provide a cooling effect). However, we know fr ...
Climate Change: The Copenhagen Conference
... one of its weaknesses; the aim of the current negotiations is to produce an agreement which all member countries will accept. Global greenhouse gas emissions are estimated to have increased by 22% between 1990 and 2005. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in 2007 that global em ...
... one of its weaknesses; the aim of the current negotiations is to produce an agreement which all member countries will accept. Global greenhouse gas emissions are estimated to have increased by 22% between 1990 and 2005. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in 2007 that global em ...
Nonstate Actors in the Global Climate Regime
... protocols is enormous. Business groups with a wide variety of stakes in the policy outcome have mobilized to monitor and influence the proceedings. The major interested industries include, among others, fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas), automobiles, insurers, power generation, and alternative e ...
... protocols is enormous. Business groups with a wide variety of stakes in the policy outcome have mobilized to monitor and influence the proceedings. The major interested industries include, among others, fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas), automobiles, insurers, power generation, and alternative e ...
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... present an opportunity for retailers to realise a new market opportunity (Hoffman, 2005). Retailers can attempt to appeal to these consumers by way of promoting the climate-friendly characteristics of their own operations and by offering consumers products that are perceived as being climate-friendl ...
... present an opportunity for retailers to realise a new market opportunity (Hoffman, 2005). Retailers can attempt to appeal to these consumers by way of promoting the climate-friendly characteristics of their own operations and by offering consumers products that are perceived as being climate-friendl ...
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... becomes wetter, it will switch more to forests, either with crops or with both crops and livestock, especially in the mid and high elevation humid zones. Forestry will play a significant role in adaptation when a substantial increase in precipitation makes animal husbandry an unattractive alternative ...
... becomes wetter, it will switch more to forests, either with crops or with both crops and livestock, especially in the mid and high elevation humid zones. Forestry will play a significant role in adaptation when a substantial increase in precipitation makes animal husbandry an unattractive alternative ...
STATEMENT OF GUIDANCE FOR CLIMATE (other aspects
... Precipitation in the form of rainfall and snow is also associated with changes in mortality. In most of the city, upward trends in mortality were noted the day after snowfalls that had accumulated 2 inches or more. Weather and climate extreme events such as flood, drought, heat and cold wave, tornad ...
... Precipitation in the form of rainfall and snow is also associated with changes in mortality. In most of the city, upward trends in mortality were noted the day after snowfalls that had accumulated 2 inches or more. Weather and climate extreme events such as flood, drought, heat and cold wave, tornad ...
Climate Change and Protection of the Habitat: Empirical Evidence
... satellites and the feedback processes through which the greenhouse effect warms the planet have also been measured. In addition, there is unambiguous empirical evidence for the link between the greenhouse effect and global warming. In this paper I will document these compelling observational evidenc ...
... satellites and the feedback processes through which the greenhouse effect warms the planet have also been measured. In addition, there is unambiguous empirical evidence for the link between the greenhouse effect and global warming. In this paper I will document these compelling observational evidenc ...
A PERIOD OF CONSEQUENCES: GLOBAL WARMING, SOCIAL
... and a culture that bears a great deal of responsibility for the problem. The carbon dioxide emissions from the United States far outweigh those of any other country. We drive gigantic cars, use massive amounts of electricity and have a government that still claims to believe that the jury is out on ...
... and a culture that bears a great deal of responsibility for the problem. The carbon dioxide emissions from the United States far outweigh those of any other country. We drive gigantic cars, use massive amounts of electricity and have a government that still claims to believe that the jury is out on ...
Teng and Jotzo Reaping the Economic Benefits of Decarbonization for China
... countries (Pan et al., 2013). Third, the mitigation burden is compounded by the future damages and costs of adapting to climate change, which in many cases may disproportionately affect developing countries with low incomes and limited institutional capacity. The world’s nations are now working tow ...
... countries (Pan et al., 2013). Third, the mitigation burden is compounded by the future damages and costs of adapting to climate change, which in many cases may disproportionately affect developing countries with low incomes and limited institutional capacity. The world’s nations are now working tow ...
Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in
... of climate change are situated, power-laden, media-fed and recursive in an ongoing battlefield of knowledge and interpretation.18 Mass media link these varied spaces together, as powerful and important interpreters of climate science and policy, translating what can often be alienating, jargon-laden ...
... of climate change are situated, power-laden, media-fed and recursive in an ongoing battlefield of knowledge and interpretation.18 Mass media link these varied spaces together, as powerful and important interpreters of climate science and policy, translating what can often be alienating, jargon-laden ...
Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change
... these discharge changes into a societal perspective, we reconcile them with the spatial distribution of population, using population projections from the newly developed Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) (22). In the following, we will focus on the middle-of-the-road population scenario according ...
... these discharge changes into a societal perspective, we reconcile them with the spatial distribution of population, using population projections from the newly developed Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) (22). In the following, we will focus on the middle-of-the-road population scenario according ...
climate engineering: which role for space?
... be severe if no immediate actions were to be taken to stop global warming [1, 2]. According to the fourth and most recent assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global atmospheric temperature rise corresponding to several future trajectories of greenhouse gas ...
... be severe if no immediate actions were to be taken to stop global warming [1, 2]. According to the fourth and most recent assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global atmospheric temperature rise corresponding to several future trajectories of greenhouse gas ...
Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Risk of
... Overall, even stringent global mitigation action may not be enough to avoid a 2.0° Celsius increase on pre-industrial temperatures. Even if the 2009 Copenhagen summit had agreed that global emissions would peak in 2015 and decline by 3% a year thereafter, this would still have left the world with an ...
... Overall, even stringent global mitigation action may not be enough to avoid a 2.0° Celsius increase on pre-industrial temperatures. Even if the 2009 Copenhagen summit had agreed that global emissions would peak in 2015 and decline by 3% a year thereafter, this would still have left the world with an ...
Climate Resilient Planning : A Tool for Long
... Despite enormous challenges, Nepal has done fairly well in certain areas of development. The GDP increased from USD 180 in the early 1980s to USD 472 in 2009 and the population below the poverty line has dropped to 25.4%. The infant mortality rate has fallen to less than 41/1000 and 80% have access ...
... Despite enormous challenges, Nepal has done fairly well in certain areas of development. The GDP increased from USD 180 in the early 1980s to USD 472 in 2009 and the population below the poverty line has dropped to 25.4%. The infant mortality rate has fallen to less than 41/1000 and 80% have access ...
Climate change and plant invasions: restoration opportunities ahead?
... for restoration (Fig. 2c). Of the currently invaded lands, only 1% are no longer climatically suitable by 2100 in any of the 10 AOGCMs tested. Eighty eight percent of currently invaded lands maintained climatic suitability in five or more of the 10 AOGCMs (Table 1). Tamarix distribution is poorly co ...
... for restoration (Fig. 2c). Of the currently invaded lands, only 1% are no longer climatically suitable by 2100 in any of the 10 AOGCMs tested. Eighty eight percent of currently invaded lands maintained climatic suitability in five or more of the 10 AOGCMs (Table 1). Tamarix distribution is poorly co ...
submission for the carbon tax bill
... with science. Climate prediction is not science, it is pseudo-science, and sooner or later more real scientists are going to wake up to this fact.”…..“If the IPCC were a pharmaceutical company it could face fraud charges for doing this. This is a good analogy. The IPCC claims to have diagnosed a pla ...
... with science. Climate prediction is not science, it is pseudo-science, and sooner or later more real scientists are going to wake up to this fact.”…..“If the IPCC were a pharmaceutical company it could face fraud charges for doing this. This is a good analogy. The IPCC claims to have diagnosed a pla ...
Public Enemy No. 1? Understanding Media Representations of
... concerns regarding IPCC openness, transparency, effective communications, and dialogue in the public view (Revkin, 2010b). Moreover, this advice indicated that scrutiny over climate science following “climategate” had a discernible chilling effect on science–media–public interactions. However, when ...
... concerns regarding IPCC openness, transparency, effective communications, and dialogue in the public view (Revkin, 2010b). Moreover, this advice indicated that scrutiny over climate science following “climategate” had a discernible chilling effect on science–media–public interactions. However, when ...
Climate change in the United States
Because of global warming, there has been concern in the United States and internationally, that the country should reduce total greenhouse gas which is relatively high per capita.In 2012, the United States experienced its warmest year on record. As of 2012, the thirteen warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998, transcending those from 1880.From 1950 to 2009, the American government's surface temperature record shows an increase by 1 °F (0.56 °C), approximately. Global warming has caused many changes in the U.S. According to a 2009 statement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), trends include lake and river ice melting earlier in the spring, plants blooming earlier, multiple animal species shifting their habitat ranges northward, and reductions in the size of glaciers.Predicting future climate changes are fraught with difficultly. Some research has warned against possible problems due to American climate changes such as the spread of invasive species and possibilities of floods as well as droughts. Changes in climate in the regions of the United States appear significant. Drought conditions appear to be worsening in the southwest while improving in the northeast for example.President Barack Obama committed in the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, 42% below 2005 levels by 2030, and 83% below 2005 levels by 2050. In an address towards the U.S. Congress in June 2013, Obama detailed a specific action plan to achieve the 17% carbon emissions cut from 2005 by 2020. He included such measures as shifting from coal-based power generation to solar and natural gas production.