Readying California`s Fisheries for Climate Change
... esteemed scientists from California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Initially a California effort first called for by the OPC in September 2012, and launched following the November 2012 OPC-SAT meeting, Ocean Acidification & Hypoxia: Engaging California in the Challenge, we are now poised ...
... esteemed scientists from California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Initially a California effort first called for by the OPC in September 2012, and launched following the November 2012 OPC-SAT meeting, Ocean Acidification & Hypoxia: Engaging California in the Challenge, we are now poised ...
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... An alternative to the crop simulation approach is to estimate statistical relationships between crop yields on the one hand, and temperature and precipitation on the other. The advantages of this approach are that it requires relatively less data and it can be readily implemented for large geographi ...
... An alternative to the crop simulation approach is to estimate statistical relationships between crop yields on the one hand, and temperature and precipitation on the other. The advantages of this approach are that it requires relatively less data and it can be readily implemented for large geographi ...
Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Current
... interactive temperature, precipitation, and windiness. Over time, the various chemical and physical processes of the atmosphere, and the influences of the ocean, land, ice, albedo, etc. have been incorporated or represented in greater and greater detail. Impacts researchers similarly developed quant ...
... interactive temperature, precipitation, and windiness. Over time, the various chemical and physical processes of the atmosphere, and the influences of the ocean, land, ice, albedo, etc. have been incorporated or represented in greater and greater detail. Impacts researchers similarly developed quant ...
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... mitigation of future biodiversity losses. However, the current distribution of Chinese caterpillar fungus, a flagship species of the Himalaya with very high economic value, is unknown. Nor do we know the potential changes in suitable habitat of Chinese caterpillar fungus caused by future climate cha ...
... mitigation of future biodiversity losses. However, the current distribution of Chinese caterpillar fungus, a flagship species of the Himalaya with very high economic value, is unknown. Nor do we know the potential changes in suitable habitat of Chinese caterpillar fungus caused by future climate cha ...
CHAPTER 13
... wetter climate than does the Canadian model. By using these two models, a plausible range of future temperature conditions is captured, with one model being near the lower end and the other near the upper end of projected temperature changes over the US. Both models project much wetter conditions, c ...
... wetter climate than does the Canadian model. By using these two models, a plausible range of future temperature conditions is captured, with one model being near the lower end and the other near the upper end of projected temperature changes over the US. Both models project much wetter conditions, c ...
The Business of AdApTing To ClimATe ChAnge
... Climate change will significantly impact how business develops, produces and markets its products and services. This represents an enormous risk to businesses that are unwilling or unable to adapt. However, it also represents an incredible opportunity for those companies with the foresight and capac ...
... Climate change will significantly impact how business develops, produces and markets its products and services. This represents an enormous risk to businesses that are unwilling or unable to adapt. However, it also represents an incredible opportunity for those companies with the foresight and capac ...
Australian climate change policy: a chronology
... implementation over time. However, Australia’s commitment to climate action over the past three decades could be seen as inconsistent and lacking in direction. At times Australia has been an early adopter, establishing the world’s first government agency dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emission ...
... implementation over time. However, Australia’s commitment to climate action over the past three decades could be seen as inconsistent and lacking in direction. At times Australia has been an early adopter, establishing the world’s first government agency dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emission ...
Applying the VFM framework to business case design and appraisal
... There is a significant degree of uncertainty associated with climate change and impacts. This is in part due to uncertainty about future emission GHG pathways, but also due to differences between the different climate models and the difficulty in projecting complex effects such as rainfall. As a res ...
... There is a significant degree of uncertainty associated with climate change and impacts. This is in part due to uncertainty about future emission GHG pathways, but also due to differences between the different climate models and the difficulty in projecting complex effects such as rainfall. As a res ...
Work Home Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment
... precipitation at one-degree daily resolution from multi-satellite observations. J. Hydrometeor., 2, 36-50. 45. Adler, R. F., G. J. Huffman, D. T. Bolvin, S. Curtis, and E. J. Nelkin, 2000: Tropical rainfall distributions determined using TRMM combined with other satellite and raingauge information. ...
... precipitation at one-degree daily resolution from multi-satellite observations. J. Hydrometeor., 2, 36-50. 45. Adler, R. F., G. J. Huffman, D. T. Bolvin, S. Curtis, and E. J. Nelkin, 2000: Tropical rainfall distributions determined using TRMM combined with other satellite and raingauge information. ...
W How to Take A R T I C L E S
... depend on projections of what may occur in the future present courts with a greater degree of uncertainty than they faced in the past. Climate change issues are being raised and increasingly considered in water litigation and in environmental policy more generally. This document notes the escalating ...
... depend on projections of what may occur in the future present courts with a greater degree of uncertainty than they faced in the past. Climate change issues are being raised and increasingly considered in water litigation and in environmental policy more generally. This document notes the escalating ...
Road transport sensitivities to weather and climate change in Australia
... Over the 20th century, average air temperatures at the earth’s surface increased by approximately 0.6°C (IPCC, 2001). The 1990’s were the warmest decade since the beginning of instrumental records, and various studies have indicated that temperatures in ...
... Over the 20th century, average air temperatures at the earth’s surface increased by approximately 0.6°C (IPCC, 2001). The 1990’s were the warmest decade since the beginning of instrumental records, and various studies have indicated that temperatures in ...
the eastern European Alps Climate change and geomorphological
... more spring and autumn heavy precipitation events than at present, and fewer in summer. Snow is a key feature of environmental change in alpine areas (Laternser & Schneebeli 2003; Vavrus 2007). Under current climatic conditions, a shift in snow amount and snowcover duration can already be observed ( ...
... more spring and autumn heavy precipitation events than at present, and fewer in summer. Snow is a key feature of environmental change in alpine areas (Laternser & Schneebeli 2003; Vavrus 2007). Under current climatic conditions, a shift in snow amount and snowcover duration can already be observed ( ...
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... Climate research focuses on the dynamics of the global climate system. Direct human contributions on global greenhouse gas (GHG) cycles (e.g. industrial and vehicular emissions) are small relative to the size of natural flows but cumulatively have significant impacts on the balance of GHG in natural r ...
... Climate research focuses on the dynamics of the global climate system. Direct human contributions on global greenhouse gas (GHG) cycles (e.g. industrial and vehicular emissions) are small relative to the size of natural flows but cumulatively have significant impacts on the balance of GHG in natural r ...
Overcoming Behavioral and Institutional Inertia
... status quo and prefer to make only small incremental adjustments to it. They are at a loss when measuring achievements is difficult, as in disaster preparedness, where there are no clear counterfactuals. We are “myopic decision makers” who strongly discount future events and assign higher priorities ...
... status quo and prefer to make only small incremental adjustments to it. They are at a loss when measuring achievements is difficult, as in disaster preparedness, where there are no clear counterfactuals. We are “myopic decision makers” who strongly discount future events and assign higher priorities ...
Where Are You From? Why Are You Here? An African Perspective
... my participation in these bottom-up programs—Allan Robinson at Harvard University, Jule Charney at MIT, and Joe Smagorinsky and Kirk Bryan at GFDL in Princeton, where I started a very fruitful, ongoing collaboration with the incomparable Ron Pacanowski. Even more fortuitous was the opportunity to in ...
... my participation in these bottom-up programs—Allan Robinson at Harvard University, Jule Charney at MIT, and Joe Smagorinsky and Kirk Bryan at GFDL in Princeton, where I started a very fruitful, ongoing collaboration with the incomparable Ron Pacanowski. Even more fortuitous was the opportunity to in ...
The relationship between affective connections to animals and
... such as unsustainable wildlife harvest or climate change. Environmental education and communication strategies are often used to encourage an engaged citizenry capable of making sound personal and policy decisions. Many such education and communication strategies reflect the perception that telling ...
... such as unsustainable wildlife harvest or climate change. Environmental education and communication strategies are often used to encourage an engaged citizenry capable of making sound personal and policy decisions. Many such education and communication strategies reflect the perception that telling ...
California Climate Extremes Workshop Report Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, CA
... weather events in California and how they would evolve in a changing climate for the rest of this century. The presenters offered this information in a format that was accessible to decision makers, scientists from different disciplines, and the public in general. High-level officials from State Gov ...
... weather events in California and how they would evolve in a changing climate for the rest of this century. The presenters offered this information in a format that was accessible to decision makers, scientists from different disciplines, and the public in general. High-level officials from State Gov ...
Good Living for Whom? Bolivia`s Climate Justice Movement and the
... agenda to recover control over a resource that was seen as the country’s national patrimony (Perreault, 2006). Demands for nationalization were fused with other demands for indigenous rights, greater indigenous representation, and the rewriting of the constitution (Gustafson & Fabricant, 2011). This ...
... agenda to recover control over a resource that was seen as the country’s national patrimony (Perreault, 2006). Demands for nationalization were fused with other demands for indigenous rights, greater indigenous representation, and the rewriting of the constitution (Gustafson & Fabricant, 2011). This ...
Impact of the Expanding Thar Desert
... which was characterized by normal monsoon rainfall over India as a whole (Jayanthi et al. 2006). The desert impact was investigated by conducting two types of experiments, each consisting of a four-member ensemble of 7-month continuous simulations initialized on successive days of February (0000 UTC ...
... which was characterized by normal monsoon rainfall over India as a whole (Jayanthi et al. 2006). The desert impact was investigated by conducting two types of experiments, each consisting of a four-member ensemble of 7-month continuous simulations initialized on successive days of February (0000 UTC ...
Using expert knowledge to assess uncertainties in future polar bear
... There is a general tendency towards overconfidence when providing estimates for probability distributions (Morgan et al. 2001). The distributions given tend to be too narrow, and do not encompass the true range of uncertainty that may exist. Even if calibration questions are used in a survey to demo ...
... There is a general tendency towards overconfidence when providing estimates for probability distributions (Morgan et al. 2001). The distributions given tend to be too narrow, and do not encompass the true range of uncertainty that may exist. Even if calibration questions are used in a survey to demo ...
an inconvenient burden of proof? co2 nuisance plaintiffs will face
... 13. Cases seeking only injunctive relief and cases in state courts that do not follow Daubert may fare somewhat better. While such cases are beyond the scope of this article, the analysis herein may nevertheless be applicable so far as it goes, and state case considerations are discussed briefly bel ...
... 13. Cases seeking only injunctive relief and cases in state courts that do not follow Daubert may fare somewhat better. While such cases are beyond the scope of this article, the analysis herein may nevertheless be applicable so far as it goes, and state case considerations are discussed briefly bel ...
Climate Impact Research in the BSR: State of the Art
... gulf, is also rapidly disappearing. A year from now another 25 to 30 square miles of delta marsh - an area the size of Manhattan - will have vanished. An acre disappears every 24 minutes. Each loss gives a storm surge a clearer path to wash over the delta and pour into the bowl, trapping one million ...
... gulf, is also rapidly disappearing. A year from now another 25 to 30 square miles of delta marsh - an area the size of Manhattan - will have vanished. An acre disappears every 24 minutes. Each loss gives a storm surge a clearer path to wash over the delta and pour into the bowl, trapping one million ...
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... The present paper proposes SDU as an alternative criterion to DU for the evaluation of climate abatement policies, and it seeks to illustrate that substituting SDU for DU matters for empirical evaluation of such policies. We do so by considering the DICE integrated assessment model, built by William ...
... The present paper proposes SDU as an alternative criterion to DU for the evaluation of climate abatement policies, and it seeks to illustrate that substituting SDU for DU matters for empirical evaluation of such policies. We do so by considering the DICE integrated assessment model, built by William ...