1 - WMO
... The proposals under sub-section 2.1 that are devoted to GSN and GUAN are critical in the enhancement of climate observation network. Although GSN and GUAN are ranked as key priority areas, it was noted that GAW programme collects, distributes, and archives observations of atmospheric constituents, ...
... The proposals under sub-section 2.1 that are devoted to GSN and GUAN are critical in the enhancement of climate observation network. Although GSN and GUAN are ranked as key priority areas, it was noted that GAW programme collects, distributes, and archives observations of atmospheric constituents, ...
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... from the reproducibility perspective, only surveys allow for the estimation of omitted climate impacts – though only to the extent that they are considered by experts. There is also the potential to derive regional-sector estimates, though this has only been done in a general sense up to now for dev ...
... from the reproducibility perspective, only surveys allow for the estimation of omitted climate impacts – though only to the extent that they are considered by experts. There is also the potential to derive regional-sector estimates, though this has only been done in a general sense up to now for dev ...
Marine Climate Change in Australia
... individual-level effect) in habitat-forming kelps (Ecklonia radiata) in warm water resulted in lower resilience of the kelp bed (a habitat-level effect) to additional perturbations (Wernberg et al. 2010). This study is important because it provides a mechanistic framework for understanding how clima ...
... individual-level effect) in habitat-forming kelps (Ecklonia radiata) in warm water resulted in lower resilience of the kelp bed (a habitat-level effect) to additional perturbations (Wernberg et al. 2010). This study is important because it provides a mechanistic framework for understanding how clima ...
Paths beyond Paris
... multilateral agencies like the World Bank, the expansion of a financialized free-market logic through the climate talks has generated windfall profits for heavy polluters and financial traders while proving to be inherently ineffective and unjust. Even with the obvious failures, the EU Emissions Tra ...
... multilateral agencies like the World Bank, the expansion of a financialized free-market logic through the climate talks has generated windfall profits for heavy polluters and financial traders while proving to be inherently ineffective and unjust. Even with the obvious failures, the EU Emissions Tra ...
Blue Nile Runoff Sensitivity to Climate Change
... worst in 50 years. It is likely that more extreme events like these will be observed more frequently in future as a result of global warming [3]. In an attempt to understand climatic shifts in Africa, [4] studied both annual temperature and precipitation anomalies from the turn of the 20th Century. ...
... worst in 50 years. It is likely that more extreme events like these will be observed more frequently in future as a result of global warming [3]. In an attempt to understand climatic shifts in Africa, [4] studied both annual temperature and precipitation anomalies from the turn of the 20th Century. ...
The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science
... A richer appreciation for the social processes of scientific knowledge construction is as important for scientists themselves as it is for wider public credibility of their knowledge. In the particular case of climate change, heavy reliance upon diverse, highly specialized, and multidisciplinary bod ...
... A richer appreciation for the social processes of scientific knowledge construction is as important for scientists themselves as it is for wider public credibility of their knowledge. In the particular case of climate change, heavy reliance upon diverse, highly specialized, and multidisciplinary bod ...
Climate change research and policy in Portugal
... change and the Commission adopted a strategy on adaptation in April 2013. In the 1990s, there was very little knowledge about the nature, intensity, and distribution of climate change impacts across Europe. These questions were addressed mainly at the national level by the scientific community of ea ...
... change and the Commission adopted a strategy on adaptation in April 2013. In the 1990s, there was very little knowledge about the nature, intensity, and distribution of climate change impacts across Europe. These questions were addressed mainly at the national level by the scientific community of ea ...
Climate change, Health, and General Practice in
... The College unequivocally acknowledges anthropogenic (man-made) climate change as a threat to health and equity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Equally, the College recognises that many ‘climate actions’, aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, also promote healthier lifestyles. This policy statement ...
... The College unequivocally acknowledges anthropogenic (man-made) climate change as a threat to health and equity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Equally, the College recognises that many ‘climate actions’, aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, also promote healthier lifestyles. This policy statement ...
The Paris Agreement: A New Beginning
... The Paris Agreement aims to hold global temperatures ‘well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C’ (Art. 2.1.(a)). This goes beyond what had been agreed in Copenhagen and confirmed in Cancún, namely to recognize ‘the scientific view tha ...
... The Paris Agreement aims to hold global temperatures ‘well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C’ (Art. 2.1.(a)). This goes beyond what had been agreed in Copenhagen and confirmed in Cancún, namely to recognize ‘the scientific view tha ...
SpecieS and climate change
... Indo-Pacific groups, and are generally located between 25˚N and 25˚S. The Atlantic group is by far the smaller of the two, being composed of only two extant species and a common hybrid, found along the Caribbean coasts of Central and South America, south-western Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamian archi ...
... Indo-Pacific groups, and are generally located between 25˚N and 25˚S. The Atlantic group is by far the smaller of the two, being composed of only two extant species and a common hybrid, found along the Caribbean coasts of Central and South America, south-western Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamian archi ...
2 Echoes of 1983 `Weather Alert` report
... Climatic disasters are on the increase as the Earth warms up – in line with scientific observations and computer simulations that model future climate. 2007 has been a year of climatic crises, especially floods, often of an unprecedented nature. They included Africa’s worst floods in three decades, ...
... Climatic disasters are on the increase as the Earth warms up – in line with scientific observations and computer simulations that model future climate. 2007 has been a year of climatic crises, especially floods, often of an unprecedented nature. They included Africa’s worst floods in three decades, ...
Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent
... concentrated along the coast and in northeastern Syria. The longterm drying trend is closely mirrored by recent changes in satellite measurements of groundwater (measured in terms of liquid water equivalent) (Fig. 2C) and, to a lesser extent, by estimates of vegetation changes (Fig. 2D). The annual ...
... concentrated along the coast and in northeastern Syria. The longterm drying trend is closely mirrored by recent changes in satellite measurements of groundwater (measured in terms of liquid water equivalent) (Fig. 2C) and, to a lesser extent, by estimates of vegetation changes (Fig. 2D). The annual ...
Climate Change Adaptation Position Paper
... Adapting large-scale infrastructure such as rail, to climate change, is a formidable challenge. Rail infrastructure is vast, has an extremely long useful life and decisions made now will have impact on whether or not future generations will be granted the same level of mobility and supply chain effi ...
... Adapting large-scale infrastructure such as rail, to climate change, is a formidable challenge. Rail infrastructure is vast, has an extremely long useful life and decisions made now will have impact on whether or not future generations will be granted the same level of mobility and supply chain effi ...
Climate and Air Quality - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
... primarily by variations in Earth’s orbit. The associated changes in climate and in carbon dioxide, methane, and other atmospheric constituents are controlled by mechanisms involving both terrestrial and ocean ecosystems (IPCC 2001a; Prentice and Raynaud 2001; Steffen et al. 2004; Joos and Prentice 2 ...
... primarily by variations in Earth’s orbit. The associated changes in climate and in carbon dioxide, methane, and other atmospheric constituents are controlled by mechanisms involving both terrestrial and ocean ecosystems (IPCC 2001a; Prentice and Raynaud 2001; Steffen et al. 2004; Joos and Prentice 2 ...
Kocornick Mina and Fankhauser 2015 (opens in new window)
... Adaptation to climate change in developing countries is now commonly framed as climateresilient development, that is, development where economic growth, poverty reduction and other development objectives are viable under current and projected future climate conditions (OECD, 2014). Rather than a ser ...
... Adaptation to climate change in developing countries is now commonly framed as climateresilient development, that is, development where economic growth, poverty reduction and other development objectives are viable under current and projected future climate conditions (OECD, 2014). Rather than a ser ...
Word version of course outline - Vula
... Section 3: Assessing vulnerability In order to assess vulnerability it is important that the right questions are asked. This section highlights the need to understand the complexity of vulnerability and the details of the case in question in order to choose appropriate methods and tools that capture ...
... Section 3: Assessing vulnerability In order to assess vulnerability it is important that the right questions are asked. This section highlights the need to understand the complexity of vulnerability and the details of the case in question in order to choose appropriate methods and tools that capture ...
- FUND - Climate Framework for Uncertainty, Negotiation
... The parameters in Table A are calibrated, following the procedure described in Tol (2002a), to the results of Kane et al. (1992), Reilly et al. (1994), Morita et al. (1994), Fischer et al. (1996), and Tsigas et al. (1996). These studies all use a global computable general equilibrium model, and repo ...
... The parameters in Table A are calibrated, following the procedure described in Tol (2002a), to the results of Kane et al. (1992), Reilly et al. (1994), Morita et al. (1994), Fischer et al. (1996), and Tsigas et al. (1996). These studies all use a global computable general equilibrium model, and repo ...
Gaurnet Review - Garnaut Climate Change Review
... The ‘hot and dry’ scenario adopts a ‘business-as-usual’ approach to greenhouse gas emissions, therefore assuming the highest level of temperature increase, along with the greatest decline in rainfall and relative humidity. With this level of emissions mainland Australia experiences a 1°C temperature ...
... The ‘hot and dry’ scenario adopts a ‘business-as-usual’ approach to greenhouse gas emissions, therefore assuming the highest level of temperature increase, along with the greatest decline in rainfall and relative humidity. With this level of emissions mainland Australia experiences a 1°C temperature ...
Climate Change and California`s Local Public Health Agencies
... The survey found that local public health officials believe that climate change poses a significant threat to public health. The most often-cited concern is the potential increase in extreme heat, followed closely by water-related concerns. The survey also found that local Health Officers generally ...
... The survey found that local public health officials believe that climate change poses a significant threat to public health. The most often-cited concern is the potential increase in extreme heat, followed closely by water-related concerns. The survey also found that local Health Officers generally ...
Top-down vs bottom-up - working paper version
... 2007). For a comparison of costs see Jonathan Pickering, Frank Jotzo, and Peter J. Wood, ‘Splitting the Difference: Can Limited Coordination Achieve a Fair Distribution of the Global Climate Financing Effort?’, Global Environmental ...
... 2007). For a comparison of costs see Jonathan Pickering, Frank Jotzo, and Peter J. Wood, ‘Splitting the Difference: Can Limited Coordination Achieve a Fair Distribution of the Global Climate Financing Effort?’, Global Environmental ...
International Climate Policy, National Positions, and Their Domestic
... efforts when their cooperation preferences are stronger than the preferences of groups in other countries. By contrast, if the lobbies are “internationally benefitting” (IBL), they are mainly interested in ensuring that the foreign government cooperates, thus they will unambiguously improve cooperat ...
... efforts when their cooperation preferences are stronger than the preferences of groups in other countries. By contrast, if the lobbies are “internationally benefitting” (IBL), they are mainly interested in ensuring that the foreign government cooperates, thus they will unambiguously improve cooperat ...
Petition - Center for Biological Diversity
... several times over.18 Consequently, the vast majority of fossil fuels must remain in the ground. The physical question of what amount of fossil fuels can be extracted and burned without negating a realistic chance of meeting a 1.5°C or even 2ºC target is relatively easy to answer. The question of w ...
... several times over.18 Consequently, the vast majority of fossil fuels must remain in the ground. The physical question of what amount of fossil fuels can be extracted and burned without negating a realistic chance of meeting a 1.5°C or even 2ºC target is relatively easy to answer. The question of w ...
Trends in river floods: why is there no clear signal in observations?
... There are two primary factors that determine how human activities change climate: first, the rate of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants, and second, the response of the climate to these emissions. The rate of emissions depends on many different assumptions about how the world’s population ...
... There are two primary factors that determine how human activities change climate: first, the rate of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants, and second, the response of the climate to these emissions. The rate of emissions depends on many different assumptions about how the world’s population ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... fish and sea mammals has been observed in the Arctic during this period, while many populations of arctic species decline. Lower temperatures in the stratosphere, a consequence of climate change, is likely to increase the frequency and severity of ozone-depletion in the Arctic, as well as cloudiness ...
... fish and sea mammals has been observed in the Arctic during this period, while many populations of arctic species decline. Lower temperatures in the stratosphere, a consequence of climate change, is likely to increase the frequency and severity of ozone-depletion in the Arctic, as well as cloudiness ...
Official PDF , 34 pages
... both the public and private sectors have all contributed to diminishing the relative impact of major flood events. ...
... both the public and private sectors have all contributed to diminishing the relative impact of major flood events. ...