Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change
... last frost) have been well recorded, dating back hundreds of years for some crops. But the plethora of records also stems from the strong sociological significance of the change of the seasons, particularly in high-latitude countries. Peoples of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Finland hav ...
... last frost) have been well recorded, dating back hundreds of years for some crops. But the plethora of records also stems from the strong sociological significance of the change of the seasons, particularly in high-latitude countries. Peoples of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Finland hav ...
Tambora 1815 as a test case for high impact volcanic eruptions
... relevant for assessing geoengineering options. In particular, Tambora is a good test case for studying historical climate-society interactions. Tambora erupted at the beginning of the early instrumental period so that making best use of observations, proxy information, reconstructions, model simulat ...
... relevant for assessing geoengineering options. In particular, Tambora is a good test case for studying historical climate-society interactions. Tambora erupted at the beginning of the early instrumental period so that making best use of observations, proxy information, reconstructions, model simulat ...
Climate-driven expansion of blanket bogs in Britain during the
... blanket-bog initiation in the UK. There is a long-standing hypothesis, first proposed by Moore (1973), that it was a consequence of land use by Neolithic human populations, and in particular land clearing practices at the time of the “elm decline” (often taken as a stratigraphic marker of Neolithic ...
... blanket-bog initiation in the UK. There is a long-standing hypothesis, first proposed by Moore (1973), that it was a consequence of land use by Neolithic human populations, and in particular land clearing practices at the time of the “elm decline” (often taken as a stratigraphic marker of Neolithic ...
selvaraju
... factors determining the rainy season characteristics, farming systems, field crop production and livestock rearing. Both interannual and intraseasonal rainfall variability constrains crop production in the tropics and subtropics. In semi-arid tropics, unreliable rainfall combined with high evaporati ...
... factors determining the rainy season characteristics, farming systems, field crop production and livestock rearing. Both interannual and intraseasonal rainfall variability constrains crop production in the tropics and subtropics. In semi-arid tropics, unreliable rainfall combined with high evaporati ...
151725 Public Policy Text - A Convention For Persons Displaced By
... David Hodgkinson1, Tess Burton2, Lucy Young3 and Heather Anderson4 The effects of climate change will cause large-scale human displacement. However, neither the UNFCCC process nor the December, 2009 Copenhagen Accord contemplates or addresses the issue of displacement, notwithstanding their focus on ...
... David Hodgkinson1, Tess Burton2, Lucy Young3 and Heather Anderson4 The effects of climate change will cause large-scale human displacement. However, neither the UNFCCC process nor the December, 2009 Copenhagen Accord contemplates or addresses the issue of displacement, notwithstanding their focus on ...
Making Climate Data Relevant to Decision Making: The important
... Throughout the world, there is a major need for climate change science to inform on-the-ground adaptation planning. However, a major gap exists between the well-developed state of climate science and decision-makers preparing for a future climate. There is no shortage of scientific data that has bee ...
... Throughout the world, there is a major need for climate change science to inform on-the-ground adaptation planning. However, a major gap exists between the well-developed state of climate science and decision-makers preparing for a future climate. There is no shortage of scientific data that has bee ...
Global surface temperatures over the past two millennia
... centennial timescales [Mann et al., 1999]. [25] Unlike annually-calibrated reconstructions for which the 20th century instrumental record can be used for calibration, while independent 19th century data is withheld for cross-validation [e.g., Mann et al., 1998], decadal-resolution reconstructions re ...
... centennial timescales [Mann et al., 1999]. [25] Unlike annually-calibrated reconstructions for which the 20th century instrumental record can be used for calibration, while independent 19th century data is withheld for cross-validation [e.g., Mann et al., 1998], decadal-resolution reconstructions re ...
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... many ways, the economic impacts of climate change have proved more difficult to project than the future climate itself. A number of economists have conducted studies in which they take scientific predictions about climate change and use them to estimate future economic conditions. But the results of ...
... many ways, the economic impacts of climate change have proved more difficult to project than the future climate itself. A number of economists have conducted studies in which they take scientific predictions about climate change and use them to estimate future economic conditions. But the results of ...
Organisation strategy for Sweden`s cooperation with the Green
... Efforts to limit climate and environmental impacts and promote sustainable use of natural resources are a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction. Climate change risks deepening social and economic disparities, which in turn may lead to more and deeper conflicts. International ...
... Efforts to limit climate and environmental impacts and promote sustainable use of natural resources are a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction. Climate change risks deepening social and economic disparities, which in turn may lead to more and deeper conflicts. International ...
Growing disruption: Climate change, food, and the fight against hunger
... point to Africa, South East Asia, and South Asia as being particularly vulnerable to impacts on food security.15 In the tropics and sub-tropics in general, crop yields may fall by 10–20 per cent by 2050 because of climate change, and there are places where yield losses may be even more severe (Figur ...
... point to Africa, South East Asia, and South Asia as being particularly vulnerable to impacts on food security.15 In the tropics and sub-tropics in general, crop yields may fall by 10–20 per cent by 2050 because of climate change, and there are places where yield losses may be even more severe (Figur ...
Impact of Climate Change on Indian Agriculture: A Review
... 1991; Pant and Rupakumar, 1997; Pant et al., 1999; Stephenson et al., 2001), and decreasing/increasing trends in rainfall in regional basis (Chowdhury and Abhyankar, 1979; Rupa Kumar et al., 1992; Kripalani et al., 1996, 2003; Singh and Sontakke, 2002). Table I shows the silent features of the selec ...
... 1991; Pant and Rupakumar, 1997; Pant et al., 1999; Stephenson et al., 2001), and decreasing/increasing trends in rainfall in regional basis (Chowdhury and Abhyankar, 1979; Rupa Kumar et al., 1992; Kripalani et al., 1996, 2003; Singh and Sontakke, 2002). Table I shows the silent features of the selec ...
Climate change knowledge and social movement theory
... account. The positions are neither mutually exclusive nor all-encompassing, but as ideal–typical categories, they can be helpful for exploring the connections between social movements and climate change knowledge. It is the contention of this article that these three contending positions have been s ...
... account. The positions are neither mutually exclusive nor all-encompassing, but as ideal–typical categories, they can be helpful for exploring the connections between social movements and climate change knowledge. It is the contention of this article that these three contending positions have been s ...
The Strategy of Chinese Insurance Industry to Address Global Climate Change
... insurance industry itself is also responsible to shareholders and consumers reflected. With colleagues, customers and governments, insurance companies can help the community to prevent the worst of climate change impact on society. They can also reduce greenhouse gas emissions, technology and behavi ...
... insurance industry itself is also responsible to shareholders and consumers reflected. With colleagues, customers and governments, insurance companies can help the community to prevent the worst of climate change impact on society. They can also reduce greenhouse gas emissions, technology and behavi ...
Parmesan
... last frost) have been well recorded, dating back hundreds of years for some crops. But the plethora of records also stems from the strong sociological significance of the change of the seasons, particularly in high-latitude countries. Peoples of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Finland hav ...
... last frost) have been well recorded, dating back hundreds of years for some crops. But the plethora of records also stems from the strong sociological significance of the change of the seasons, particularly in high-latitude countries. Peoples of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Finland hav ...
Quest - Academy of Science of South Africa
... crops are failing. The next good rain in these areas of the country is predicted for March 2016 – too late for many. The El Niño weather system that affects this part of the world every five years or so is cited as the main reason – but El Niño is becoming a stronger weather system as the oceans war ...
... crops are failing. The next good rain in these areas of the country is predicted for March 2016 – too late for many. The El Niño weather system that affects this part of the world every five years or so is cited as the main reason – but El Niño is becoming a stronger weather system as the oceans war ...
Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the... Authors: , Taciano L. Milfont , Yoshihisa Kashima
... among those unconvinced or unconcerned about climate change. Communicating climate change importance may continue to be effective in promoting action in those convinced climate change is real, but less so in poorer countries. Communicating Benevolence cobenefits is likely to have the most consistent ...
... among those unconvinced or unconcerned about climate change. Communicating climate change importance may continue to be effective in promoting action in those convinced climate change is real, but less so in poorer countries. Communicating Benevolence cobenefits is likely to have the most consistent ...
The Climate of the Last Millennium
... of this region, conditions today are the driest they have been throughout the Holocene. By contrast, lakes of inland drainage on the Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia have expanded and increased in depth from the mid-Holocene to the present. Lake Titicaca, for example, is currently close to its highest ...
... of this region, conditions today are the driest they have been throughout the Holocene. By contrast, lakes of inland drainage on the Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia have expanded and increased in depth from the mid-Holocene to the present. Lake Titicaca, for example, is currently close to its highest ...
Dynamic and thermodynamic changes in mean and extreme
... proxy of the strength of ’dynamic disturbance’ at each grid point on each day. For example, in mid-latitudes winter, it is expected to correspond to the phase and strength of extratropical cyclones and anticyclones passing over the grid point of interest. For computational purposes, w is divided int ...
... proxy of the strength of ’dynamic disturbance’ at each grid point on each day. For example, in mid-latitudes winter, it is expected to correspond to the phase and strength of extratropical cyclones and anticyclones passing over the grid point of interest. For computational purposes, w is divided int ...
Transitions in climate and energy discourse between Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy
... and intense extreme weather events, result from increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases attributed primarily to fossil fuel burning for energy. Given probable links between the increasing ocean temperature and the severity and frequency of hurricanes and tropical storms (Mann and Em ...
... and intense extreme weather events, result from increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases attributed primarily to fossil fuel burning for energy. Given probable links between the increasing ocean temperature and the severity and frequency of hurricanes and tropical storms (Mann and Em ...
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... emphases. Given the characteristics of climate change (slow, highly uncertain, small relative to climate variability, spatially heterogeneous), the value of information from research and extension to guide farmers’ decision making about adaptation is likely to be low for decisions about farming prac ...
... emphases. Given the characteristics of climate change (slow, highly uncertain, small relative to climate variability, spatially heterogeneous), the value of information from research and extension to guide farmers’ decision making about adaptation is likely to be low for decisions about farming prac ...
Impacts of climate change on land-based sectors and
... Zealand’s primary sectors to climate change. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), concluding warming of the climate system is unequivocal and that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th cen ...
... Zealand’s primary sectors to climate change. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), concluding warming of the climate system is unequivocal and that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th cen ...
American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World
... reflected back into the atmosphere.5 The atmosphere is a global commons; no matter where in the world you are, your emissions contribute to its increasing insulating properties. Further, the atmosphere cannot be compartmentalized. For example, the fact that the United States has the highest historic ...
... reflected back into the atmosphere.5 The atmosphere is a global commons; no matter where in the world you are, your emissions contribute to its increasing insulating properties. Further, the atmosphere cannot be compartmentalized. For example, the fact that the United States has the highest historic ...
Climate change impacts on groundwater hydrology
... practical water management, where climate change adaptation decisions require more accuracy than often possible with today’s knowledge and modelling tools. Kundzewicz and Stakhiv (2010) argue that climate models, because of their large inherent uncertainties, are not ready for water resources manage ...
... practical water management, where climate change adaptation decisions require more accuracy than often possible with today’s knowledge and modelling tools. Kundzewicz and Stakhiv (2010) argue that climate models, because of their large inherent uncertainties, are not ready for water resources manage ...
The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: The World After 2012
... Bank has financed will over the next 20 to 50 years add carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere equivalent to 1.3 times the total amount emitted by all the world’s countries in 1995.21 To achieve a higher level of policy integration then, climate objectives, and environmental goals more broadly, ...
... Bank has financed will over the next 20 to 50 years add carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere equivalent to 1.3 times the total amount emitted by all the world’s countries in 1995.21 To achieve a higher level of policy integration then, climate objectives, and environmental goals more broadly, ...