A new feedback on climate change from the hydrological cycle
... long term, ocean heat uptake will then give no feedback on climate change. However, on the decadal time scale most relevant for climate prediction, ocean heat uptake in coupled models is roughly proportional to the magnitude of global climate change [Gregory, 2000; Raper et al., 2002]. Our process m ...
... long term, ocean heat uptake will then give no feedback on climate change. However, on the decadal time scale most relevant for climate prediction, ocean heat uptake in coupled models is roughly proportional to the magnitude of global climate change [Gregory, 2000; Raper et al., 2002]. Our process m ...
The Climate Change Issue: Beyond the `True` or `Not True`
... Spring in 1962, provides a good starting point in order to discern which paradoxical tropes and calls for action inform ‘green’ political engagement in general. In its incessant compulsion to cover over its own internal contradictions namely, environmentalism has mutated into climate change activism ...
... Spring in 1962, provides a good starting point in order to discern which paradoxical tropes and calls for action inform ‘green’ political engagement in general. In its incessant compulsion to cover over its own internal contradictions namely, environmentalism has mutated into climate change activism ...
Activity 1.3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
... are going to consider each of these gases, and how they get into the atmosphere. 3. They are going to start with carbon dioxide, since it is the best known greenhouse gas. Ask students what they know about carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases. Have them write their answers on the board. Res ...
... are going to consider each of these gases, and how they get into the atmosphere. 3. They are going to start with carbon dioxide, since it is the best known greenhouse gas. Ask students what they know about carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases. Have them write their answers on the board. Res ...
Climate Change - American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians
... There is widespread scientific agreement that the world’s climate is changing and that the weight of evidence demonstrates that anthropogenic factors have and will continue to contribute significantly to global warming and climate change. It is anticipated that continuing changes to the climate will ...
... There is widespread scientific agreement that the world’s climate is changing and that the weight of evidence demonstrates that anthropogenic factors have and will continue to contribute significantly to global warming and climate change. It is anticipated that continuing changes to the climate will ...
O 3 Environmental Advocacy in the Obama Years
... chapter, on the road to meaningfully dealing with climate change and other environmental problems, this new brand of pressure politics as practiced by 350.org, NextGen Climate, and their allies among national environmental groups is not without its potential trade-offs, flaws, and weaknesses. Most n ...
... chapter, on the road to meaningfully dealing with climate change and other environmental problems, this new brand of pressure politics as practiced by 350.org, NextGen Climate, and their allies among national environmental groups is not without its potential trade-offs, flaws, and weaknesses. Most n ...
High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change: Working Paper 9 (505 kB) (opens in new window)
... uncertain issue is what to assume about the functional form, β. Across the range of previous studies, the damage function has tended to be quadratic (which has the convenient analytical property of giving a linear marginal benefit function, but not much more justification than that) or less steep. P ...
... uncertain issue is what to assume about the functional form, β. Across the range of previous studies, the damage function has tended to be quadratic (which has the convenient analytical property of giving a linear marginal benefit function, but not much more justification than that) or less steep. P ...
Climate modeling at various spatial and temporal scales: where can
... to give insight into processes that explain the tree-ring chronologies. Recommendations for future research, based on the Third Assessment of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are included to highlight areas where dendrochronology may have added value in issues related to climate ...
... to give insight into processes that explain the tree-ring chronologies. Recommendations for future research, based on the Third Assessment of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are included to highlight areas where dendrochronology may have added value in issues related to climate ...
West and Central Africa
... Sahelian zones. The increasingly unpredictable onset of the rainy season and erratic rainfall patterns, combined with higher soil erosion rates, are having a negative impact on crop yields and food security. An IFAD-supported programme operates in an area characterized by frequent episodes of drough ...
... Sahelian zones. The increasingly unpredictable onset of the rainy season and erratic rainfall patterns, combined with higher soil erosion rates, are having a negative impact on crop yields and food security. An IFAD-supported programme operates in an area characterized by frequent episodes of drough ...
The ViTal imporTance of ending new fossil fuel leases in The gulf of
... The 2015 Paris Agreement recognized that climate change is an “urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet,” 21 and it commits 197 signatory countries to hold temperatures “to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature i ...
... The 2015 Paris Agreement recognized that climate change is an “urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet,” 21 and it commits 197 signatory countries to hold temperatures “to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature i ...
Past, present, and future summer stream temperature in the Lake
... If all species occupy a Hutchinsonian niche, a hypervolume with dimensions equal to the number of different conditions and resources an organism requires to survive and reproduce (Hutchinson 1957), changes to environmental factors will result in range shifts of those species. Water temperature is on ...
... If all species occupy a Hutchinsonian niche, a hypervolume with dimensions equal to the number of different conditions and resources an organism requires to survive and reproduce (Hutchinson 1957), changes to environmental factors will result in range shifts of those species. Water temperature is on ...
Adaptation and the poor: development, resilience and transition ■ synthesis article
... ANNE JERNECK1, LENNART OLSSON2* ...
... ANNE JERNECK1, LENNART OLSSON2* ...
Efforts on Climate Change in Malaysia: A Preliminary Assessment
... Malaysia is rich in natural resource. Its economy has over the years inevitably tied closely to its unique resource endowments, including land, water, forestry and biodiversity as well as coastal and marine. The socio-economic development activities on agriculture, potable and irrigation water suppl ...
... Malaysia is rich in natural resource. Its economy has over the years inevitably tied closely to its unique resource endowments, including land, water, forestry and biodiversity as well as coastal and marine. The socio-economic development activities on agriculture, potable and irrigation water suppl ...
Removing harmful greenhouse gases from the air using energy from
... is different from other CDR technologies in that it produces energy, instead of only removing CO2 from the air. As a result, it could also replace power plants operating on fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, or natural gas. Energy and climate scientists, like those at the IPCC, are just beginning to u ...
... is different from other CDR technologies in that it produces energy, instead of only removing CO2 from the air. As a result, it could also replace power plants operating on fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, or natural gas. Energy and climate scientists, like those at the IPCC, are just beginning to u ...
climate policy: separating fact from fantasy
... Developed nations recognize the problem of gaining widespread participation. In the G8 summit on July 8, 2008, they stated for the first time that developing nations would have to be included in any future climate change treaties. The G8 nations committed to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions in ...
... Developed nations recognize the problem of gaining widespread participation. In the G8 summit on July 8, 2008, they stated for the first time that developing nations would have to be included in any future climate change treaties. The G8 nations committed to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions in ...
GLOBAL WARMING - members.iinet.com.au
... members of the general public. Such as: that global average temperature has not increased over the last seven years, despite the continuing rise in human-caused greenhouse emissions; that late 20th century temperatures were warm as part of a solardriven recovery from the Little Ice Age; and that dur ...
... members of the general public. Such as: that global average temperature has not increased over the last seven years, despite the continuing rise in human-caused greenhouse emissions; that late 20th century temperatures were warm as part of a solardriven recovery from the Little Ice Age; and that dur ...
borehole
... former, and 0.8 K in the latter. The twentieth-century temperature change is 0.6 K in the Northern Hemisphere compared with 0.4 K in the Southern Hemisphere. These values compare, respectively, with 0.60 and 0.65 K per century for hemispheric trends in the combined land and sea surface air temperatu ...
... former, and 0.8 K in the latter. The twentieth-century temperature change is 0.6 K in the Northern Hemisphere compared with 0.4 K in the Southern Hemisphere. These values compare, respectively, with 0.60 and 0.65 K per century for hemispheric trends in the combined land and sea surface air temperatu ...
Psychological research and global climate change
... these technologies, including cognitive and motivational factors such as values and beliefs, and social factors such as norms and public commitments, as well as features of programmes intended to influence behaviour such as the type of information and forms of financial incentive provided. Research ...
... these technologies, including cognitive and motivational factors such as values and beliefs, and social factors such as norms and public commitments, as well as features of programmes intended to influence behaviour such as the type of information and forms of financial incentive provided. Research ...
M B V C
... Fund, as the world’s economies and populations continue to grow, the demand for finite natural resources is increasing unsustainably (UNFPA, 2011:2; Lloyd & Subbarao, 2009: 237). The social, environmental and economic pressures of the modern world are the result of developmental objectives which hav ...
... Fund, as the world’s economies and populations continue to grow, the demand for finite natural resources is increasing unsustainably (UNFPA, 2011:2; Lloyd & Subbarao, 2009: 237). The social, environmental and economic pressures of the modern world are the result of developmental objectives which hav ...
Observed coherent changes in climatic
... ABSTRACT: A new global dataset of derived indicators has been compiled to clarify whether frequency and/or severity of climatic extremes changed during the second half of the 20th century. This period provides the best spatial coverage of homogenous daily series, which can be used for calculating th ...
... ABSTRACT: A new global dataset of derived indicators has been compiled to clarify whether frequency and/or severity of climatic extremes changed during the second half of the 20th century. This period provides the best spatial coverage of homogenous daily series, which can be used for calculating th ...
Projected Changes in the Physical Climate of the Gulf Coast and
... (both globally and regionally) than the ensemble mean, while some predict smaller ones. The degree to which different models agree on specific aspects of the projected climate change is one measure of our confidence in the likelihood that that specific change will occur in response to increasing gre ...
... (both globally and regionally) than the ensemble mean, while some predict smaller ones. The degree to which different models agree on specific aspects of the projected climate change is one measure of our confidence in the likelihood that that specific change will occur in response to increasing gre ...
... patterns derived form different use [6]-[8]. Odum Emergy concept studies through to the actual macro perspective simplify complex systems architecture complete model, taking into consideration the relationship between energy flow transformation mathematical equations, in order to facilitate the subs ...
The Myth of Dangerous Human
... ideas (of dangerous human-caused warming)’. These statements cannot both be true. Who is right, and how should members of the public make up their minds on the matter? That climate changes frequently, rapidly and sometimes unpredictably has been conventional knowledge amongst earth environmental sci ...
... ideas (of dangerous human-caused warming)’. These statements cannot both be true. Who is right, and how should members of the public make up their minds on the matter? That climate changes frequently, rapidly and sometimes unpredictably has been conventional knowledge amongst earth environmental sci ...
The impact of climate change on smallholder and subsistence
... by individual households or entire communities. Smallholder and subsistence farmers and pastoralists often practice hunting/ gathering of wild resources as well as crop and livestock production to fulfil energy, clothing, health, and cash income needs as well as direct food requirements (11). They a ...
... by individual households or entire communities. Smallholder and subsistence farmers and pastoralists often practice hunting/ gathering of wild resources as well as crop and livestock production to fulfil energy, clothing, health, and cash income needs as well as direct food requirements (11). They a ...
Climate Ready Stirling
... Analysis of ice cores going back many thousands of years shows that concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased markedly since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that most of the increase in global average temperatu ...
... Analysis of ice cores going back many thousands of years shows that concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased markedly since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that most of the increase in global average temperatu ...
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.