Climate change indices
... FORTRAN code for calculating the indices from daily data and a userfriendly software package to calculate the indices. This software package, called RClimDex, uses the free software R (see http://www.r-project.org for more information), which is a language and an environment for statistical computin ...
... FORTRAN code for calculating the indices from daily data and a userfriendly software package to calculate the indices. This software package, called RClimDex, uses the free software R (see http://www.r-project.org for more information), which is a language and an environment for statistical computin ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/020/al372e.pdf
... Some of these mechanisms include the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)4 and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) under the GEF. These are administered by the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention, UNFCC-GEF. The LDCF is based on National Adaptation Programmes for Adaptation (NAPAs), w ...
... Some of these mechanisms include the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)4 and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) under the GEF. These are administered by the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention, UNFCC-GEF. The LDCF is based on National Adaptation Programmes for Adaptation (NAPAs), w ...
Efficiency, Distribution and the Soft Law Future of the Climate Regime
... agreement—of the sort associated with traditional “hard law”—would be superior to a more flexible and decentralized alternative. In the case of climate change, I argue that rigid, top-down agreements are not only politically unrealistic but also counterproductive from the perspective of environmenta ...
... agreement—of the sort associated with traditional “hard law”—would be superior to a more flexible and decentralized alternative. In the case of climate change, I argue that rigid, top-down agreements are not only politically unrealistic but also counterproductive from the perspective of environmenta ...
Understanding Climate Change: Lesson Plans for the Classroom
... t has been proposed that increases in carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions resulting from human activity are responsible for climate change. We know that CO2 , together with water vapor, ozone, methane, and other molecules in the atmosphere, helps to regulate temperatures on earth. We also know that the ...
... t has been proposed that increases in carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions resulting from human activity are responsible for climate change. We know that CO2 , together with water vapor, ozone, methane, and other molecules in the atmosphere, helps to regulate temperatures on earth. We also know that the ...
NAFTA and Climate Change
... become more difficult and costly for the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Climate policy faces uncertain prospects in all three countries. In each, federal regulations and actions by subnational governments seek to supplement, and often substitute for, national climate policies. The US Environment ...
... become more difficult and costly for the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Climate policy faces uncertain prospects in all three countries. In each, federal regulations and actions by subnational governments seek to supplement, and often substitute for, national climate policies. The US Environment ...
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... agricultural impact assessment, the models allocate domestic and foreign consumption and regional production based on given perturbations of crop production, water supply, and demand for irrigation derived from biophysical techniques. Population growth and improvements in technology are set exogenou ...
... agricultural impact assessment, the models allocate domestic and foreign consumption and regional production based on given perturbations of crop production, water supply, and demand for irrigation derived from biophysical techniques. Population growth and improvements in technology are set exogenou ...
Clearing the Air Students learn about the scientific evidence
... There are several gases that exist on this planet that contribute to the greenhouse effect. These greenhouse gases include: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), ozone (O3), and nitrous oxide (N2O). These gases absorb energy from the Sun, which creates a warming effect by trapping heat within the atm ...
... There are several gases that exist on this planet that contribute to the greenhouse effect. These greenhouse gases include: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), ozone (O3), and nitrous oxide (N2O). These gases absorb energy from the Sun, which creates a warming effect by trapping heat within the atm ...
Global model confirms: Cool roofs can offset carbon
... surface temperature decreased by a modest amount—an average of roughly 0.01degrees Celsius, based on an albedo increase of .003 ...
... surface temperature decreased by a modest amount—an average of roughly 0.01degrees Celsius, based on an albedo increase of .003 ...
climate change and international justice
... Some states have joined together to combat climate change in the courtroom. In one vehicle emissions case, 12 states and three major cities15 combined to force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate CO2 and other GHGs as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.16 In another case, eight US States ...
... Some states have joined together to combat climate change in the courtroom. In one vehicle emissions case, 12 states and three major cities15 combined to force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate CO2 and other GHGs as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.16 In another case, eight US States ...
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... population and urbanization (FAO, 2009). Changes in climate patterns can have multiple impacts on livestock, including productivity losses due to heat stress, shifting of vector born diseases, increase in feed prices and animal losses due to droughts and floods; leading therefore to increasing price ...
... population and urbanization (FAO, 2009). Changes in climate patterns can have multiple impacts on livestock, including productivity losses due to heat stress, shifting of vector born diseases, increase in feed prices and animal losses due to droughts and floods; leading therefore to increasing price ...
Climate and Culture Change in Archaeology
... Archaeologists have always underscored that how humans respond to changes in their natural environment plays a crucial part in the formation of society. In an era of unprecedented, threatening global warming and massive species extinctions, this message is clear even to a broader contemporary audien ...
... Archaeologists have always underscored that how humans respond to changes in their natural environment plays a crucial part in the formation of society. In an era of unprecedented, threatening global warming and massive species extinctions, this message is clear even to a broader contemporary audien ...
Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Climate Change A Guide for Policymakers
... policies, they are projected to roughly triple 2000 levels by the end of the century. The huge bulk of the projected future emissions growth is in developing countries: CO2 emissions from these countries now exceed those from industrial countries; by 2030, China and India combined are expected to ac ...
... policies, they are projected to roughly triple 2000 levels by the end of the century. The huge bulk of the projected future emissions growth is in developing countries: CO2 emissions from these countries now exceed those from industrial countries; by 2030, China and India combined are expected to ac ...
Land Use and Climate Interactions [i.e. system]
... and vegetation/soil dynamics are all part of the climate system Land use, through its role in the water, energy, carbon and other trace gas and aerosol effects, has a first order role in human and natural climate forcings and feedbacks The identification of global atmospheric teleconnections due to ...
... and vegetation/soil dynamics are all part of the climate system Land use, through its role in the water, energy, carbon and other trace gas and aerosol effects, has a first order role in human and natural climate forcings and feedbacks The identification of global atmospheric teleconnections due to ...
Introductory e-Course on Climate Change
... time” and in many countries the impacts of it are already felt. At the same time, it is still very difficult for many people not working directly on the subject to understand the basics of climate change. For example, which gases are actually contributing to the greenhouse gas effect? What temperatu ...
... time” and in many countries the impacts of it are already felt. At the same time, it is still very difficult for many people not working directly on the subject to understand the basics of climate change. For example, which gases are actually contributing to the greenhouse gas effect? What temperatu ...
AKEBE LEONARD AKOH INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUS- TAINABILITY.
... On a general platform, previous studies (IPCC, 2007) have shown that climate change can have serious developmental effects that hit particularly hard on those countries that are already experiencing the hardships of poverty and marginalization. There are clear evidence which shows that climate chang ...
... On a general platform, previous studies (IPCC, 2007) have shown that climate change can have serious developmental effects that hit particularly hard on those countries that are already experiencing the hardships of poverty and marginalization. There are clear evidence which shows that climate chang ...
Impacts of Climate Change on London`s Transport Systems
... Sea levels are rising and the risk of tidal surges is increasing. As a result, the risk of tidal flooding is increasing, and the area at risk is growing. Heavier and more frequent intense downpours will also increase the risk of river flooding. Developers have assumed that flood defences will contin ...
... Sea levels are rising and the risk of tidal surges is increasing. As a result, the risk of tidal flooding is increasing, and the area at risk is growing. Heavier and more frequent intense downpours will also increase the risk of river flooding. Developers have assumed that flood defences will contin ...
Response to Climate Change: The Paris Agreement and Vancouver
... 2.Flipping the architecture of energy. Just as the Internet and the cell phone turned the architecture of information upsidedown, the clean disruption will create an energy architecture that is different from the one we know today. The new energy architecture will be distributed, mobile, intelligent ...
... 2.Flipping the architecture of energy. Just as the Internet and the cell phone turned the architecture of information upsidedown, the clean disruption will create an energy architecture that is different from the one we know today. The new energy architecture will be distributed, mobile, intelligent ...
Climate Change and Poverty
... Goal 5: Improve maternal health, particularly in the Sub-Saharan region and Southern Asia. ...
... Goal 5: Improve maternal health, particularly in the Sub-Saharan region and Southern Asia. ...
Measuring the economic impact of climate change on
... change on the South African field crop sector, by projecting net revenue per hectare using a range of climate outcomes that are predicted to occur over a period of 30–100 years under a conventional CO2 doubling scenario (IPPC, 2001). The scenarios used in this study forecasted rise in temperature an ...
... change on the South African field crop sector, by projecting net revenue per hectare using a range of climate outcomes that are predicted to occur over a period of 30–100 years under a conventional CO2 doubling scenario (IPPC, 2001). The scenarios used in this study forecasted rise in temperature an ...
Flawed Logic
... the carbon that is released by burning fossil fuels. This claim, however, is not backed by climate science. Carbon dioxide emissions – independent of their source – enter the atmosphere immediately. The removal of CO2 from the atmosphere, on the other hand, takes much longer, with several processes ...
... the carbon that is released by burning fossil fuels. This claim, however, is not backed by climate science. Carbon dioxide emissions – independent of their source – enter the atmosphere immediately. The removal of CO2 from the atmosphere, on the other hand, takes much longer, with several processes ...
Post-1_SYRCL_TechnicalEvlalofClimateChangeData_02-24-14
... electrical power. Further, it found that: “The impacts of global warming are already being felt in California. The Sierra snowpack, an important source of water supply for the state, has shrunk 10 percent in the last 100 years. It is expected to continue to decrease by as much as 25 percent by 2050. ...
... electrical power. Further, it found that: “The impacts of global warming are already being felt in California. The Sierra snowpack, an important source of water supply for the state, has shrunk 10 percent in the last 100 years. It is expected to continue to decrease by as much as 25 percent by 2050. ...
A balance of bottom-up and top-down in linking climate policies
... addition to potentially catalysing reductions, they also create incentives for weaker emissions targets that need to be anticipated and managed. ‘Abatement’ is unlike many other goods. The supply of emissions allowances depends on government policy to create and enforce property rights and willingne ...
... addition to potentially catalysing reductions, they also create incentives for weaker emissions targets that need to be anticipated and managed. ‘Abatement’ is unlike many other goods. The supply of emissions allowances depends on government policy to create and enforce property rights and willingne ...
Expanding the Concept of Human - Caused Climate
... of anthropogenically forced climate models. For example, a climate model that reproduces the observed change in global air temperature over the last 50 years, but fails to quantitatively reproduce the observed change in ocean heat content, cannot be correct. The PCM has a relatively low sensitivity ...
... of anthropogenically forced climate models. For example, a climate model that reproduces the observed change in global air temperature over the last 50 years, but fails to quantitatively reproduce the observed change in ocean heat content, cannot be correct. The PCM has a relatively low sensitivity ...
Climate Change impacts pathways
... • In the last 50 years in Southern BC, less annual snowfall has led to a decreased snowpack in spring and at lower elevations • In BC as a whole there has been a decrease in the snow to total precipitation ratio (more rain, less snow during cold season) • Snowpack analysis from 1956-2005 suggests th ...
... • In the last 50 years in Southern BC, less annual snowfall has led to a decreased snowpack in spring and at lower elevations • In BC as a whole there has been a decrease in the snow to total precipitation ratio (more rain, less snow during cold season) • Snowpack analysis from 1956-2005 suggests th ...
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.