Eurasian Arctic greening reveals teleconnections and the potential
... higher NDVI, correspond to regions with topographically dissected valleys and extensive landslide activity18 . Regardless of overall biomass accumulation due to differences in substrate, all ringwidth chronologies and overall NDVI variability were found to be strongly linked to summer temperature (F ...
... higher NDVI, correspond to regions with topographically dissected valleys and extensive landslide activity18 . Regardless of overall biomass accumulation due to differences in substrate, all ringwidth chronologies and overall NDVI variability were found to be strongly linked to summer temperature (F ...
The EU and Strategies for New Climate Treaty Negotiations
... options for mitigating climate change under national or international laws and, if so, would the national legislations, private contracts and environmental contracts serve as alternatives to a treaty? Drawing insights from international law and relations, this policy analysis focuses on the future n ...
... options for mitigating climate change under national or international laws and, if so, would the national legislations, private contracts and environmental contracts serve as alternatives to a treaty? Drawing insights from international law and relations, this policy analysis focuses on the future n ...
STRATEGIES FOR A HOLISTIC RESPONSE TO OZONE
... should also take the diminishment of such compounds into account. The second framework in which a scientific linkage may be established between the atmosphere and the climate system concerns the cooling indirectly provoked by ozone depletion. The reduction of the ozone layer favors the penetration o ...
... should also take the diminishment of such compounds into account. The second framework in which a scientific linkage may be established between the atmosphere and the climate system concerns the cooling indirectly provoked by ozone depletion. The reduction of the ozone layer favors the penetration o ...
Event - IUCN
... The Union of Concerned Scientists, the International Council on Monuments and Sites and UNESCO, with the cooperation of IUCN are inviting to a networking cocktail to unite those working at the intersection of culture, heritage and climate change As in the first edition at COP 21 in Le Bourget, this ...
... The Union of Concerned Scientists, the International Council on Monuments and Sites and UNESCO, with the cooperation of IUCN are inviting to a networking cocktail to unite those working at the intersection of culture, heritage and climate change As in the first edition at COP 21 in Le Bourget, this ...
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... species, such as cod [4]. The fish populations and ecosystems most at risk with climate change will be those that are already: (1) near their physiological limits in terms of temperature, salinity and pH; (2) severely compromised in terms of their resilience due to existing anthropogenic factors, su ...
... species, such as cod [4]. The fish populations and ecosystems most at risk with climate change will be those that are already: (1) near their physiological limits in terms of temperature, salinity and pH; (2) severely compromised in terms of their resilience due to existing anthropogenic factors, su ...
Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy
... Tennekes [13]). That said, it is not at all clear how one is to extract probabilities from computer simulations of any kind, much less from those that extrapolate an entire planet to regimes which have never been observed. The diversity of our current climate models, or of any set of models to be de ...
... Tennekes [13]). That said, it is not at all clear how one is to extract probabilities from computer simulations of any kind, much less from those that extrapolate an entire planet to regimes which have never been observed. The diversity of our current climate models, or of any set of models to be de ...
Warming Good - RS - DDI
... Craig D. Idso, founder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, “Study: Global Warming Will Benefit Marine Life”, 10/4/10, http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2010/10/04/study-global-warming-will-benefit-marine-life) Seventeen Australian and Canadian scientists have p ...
... Craig D. Idso, founder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, “Study: Global Warming Will Benefit Marine Life”, 10/4/10, http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2010/10/04/study-global-warming-will-benefit-marine-life) Seventeen Australian and Canadian scientists have p ...
GEOG F412 - Geography of Climate and Environmental Change
... campus. The two courses will comprise a capstone experience for senior BS Geography majors, and will be available as four 2 credit modules for graduate students embarking on climate change projects and needing background coursework in all or some of the course modules. We believe this course sequenc ...
... campus. The two courses will comprise a capstone experience for senior BS Geography majors, and will be available as four 2 credit modules for graduate students embarking on climate change projects and needing background coursework in all or some of the course modules. We believe this course sequenc ...
The Emergence of Climate Change Mitigation Action by Society: An
... 1.4 Currently society’s response to climate change has not been incorporated adequately in modelling studies on the energy system, climate change and associated impact as researchers have widely acknowledged (Balbi & Giupponi 2009; Brede & de Vries 2013; Giupponi et al. 2013; Hughes et al. 2013; Pfe ...
... 1.4 Currently society’s response to climate change has not been incorporated adequately in modelling studies on the energy system, climate change and associated impact as researchers have widely acknowledged (Balbi & Giupponi 2009; Brede & de Vries 2013; Giupponi et al. 2013; Hughes et al. 2013; Pfe ...
twelve things we´ve learned on the road to paris
... had a sense that what humans do might affect the climate since Antiquity. Studies of glaciers in the mid-18tʰ century got people wondering what had changed since the Ice Age. It was back in 1824 that French physicist Joseph Fourier first started talking about something called the ‘greenhouse effect’ ...
... had a sense that what humans do might affect the climate since Antiquity. Studies of glaciers in the mid-18tʰ century got people wondering what had changed since the Ice Age. It was back in 1824 that French physicist Joseph Fourier first started talking about something called the ‘greenhouse effect’ ...
The conquering of climate
... discourse - acclimatisation - also centred around changes in climate experienced through mobility, in this case through migration and imperial expansion (Livingstone, 1999). The post-nineteenth century discourse about anthropogenic global climate change driven by changes in greenhouse gases has move ...
... discourse - acclimatisation - also centred around changes in climate experienced through mobility, in this case through migration and imperial expansion (Livingstone, 1999). The post-nineteenth century discourse about anthropogenic global climate change driven by changes in greenhouse gases has move ...
Expansion of the Tropics – Evidence and implications
... the tropical zone) in studies was problematic, and that widening trends were particularly sensitive to changes in the tropopause height threshold. Additionally, a number of studies have identified shifts and changes in intensity in tropical circulation systems and climatic phenomenon. The primary dr ...
... the tropical zone) in studies was problematic, and that widening trends were particularly sensitive to changes in the tropopause height threshold. Additionally, a number of studies have identified shifts and changes in intensity in tropical circulation systems and climatic phenomenon. The primary dr ...
THE ROLE OF LAND - SURFACE PROCESSES IN LOCAL, REGIONAL AND
... − The rains did practically nothing to alleviate the hydrologic drought. Little water was put in reservoirs in our area and did essentially nothing for the drastically decreased water for irrigation wells. − The supply of irrigation water was lengthened by reducing the requirement and thus allowing ...
... − The rains did practically nothing to alleviate the hydrologic drought. Little water was put in reservoirs in our area and did essentially nothing for the drastically decreased water for irrigation wells. − The supply of irrigation water was lengthened by reducing the requirement and thus allowing ...
Biological Impacts of Climate Change
... between two extremes: glacial (cold and dry) and interglacial (warm and wet) periods. Average Pleistocene temperature cycling from the beginning of a glacial period to the end of an interglacial period operated on a scale of about 100,000 years. Peak glacial periods were about 5°C cooler than curren ...
... between two extremes: glacial (cold and dry) and interglacial (warm and wet) periods. Average Pleistocene temperature cycling from the beginning of a glacial period to the end of an interglacial period operated on a scale of about 100,000 years. Peak glacial periods were about 5°C cooler than curren ...
- Wiley Online Library
... (ABC) is widely used in population genetics and phylogeography to reconstruct demographic history under complex evolutionary scenarios in a Bayesian setting, without the need to compute the likelihood function (Bertorelle et al. 2010). The inference is based on large sets of stochastic simulations, ...
... (ABC) is widely used in population genetics and phylogeography to reconstruct demographic history under complex evolutionary scenarios in a Bayesian setting, without the need to compute the likelihood function (Bertorelle et al. 2010). The inference is based on large sets of stochastic simulations, ...
Impact of large-scale environmental features changes on host
... another hand favor the strains that perform best under the new conditions. ...
... another hand favor the strains that perform best under the new conditions. ...
Climate change negotiations reconsidered
... comply.8 The agreement also created incentives for both countries to remain within the agreement. The Kyoto Protocol provides neither kind of incentive. Simply negotiating tougher emission caps will not help. In Bali, the EU pushed for rich countries to cut their emissions 25–40%. This proposal is c ...
... comply.8 The agreement also created incentives for both countries to remain within the agreement. The Kyoto Protocol provides neither kind of incentive. Simply negotiating tougher emission caps will not help. In Bali, the EU pushed for rich countries to cut their emissions 25–40%. This proposal is c ...
Freshwater biodiversity versus anthropogenic climate
... biodiversity The effects of climate change on biodiversity at large have already been observed and demonstrated in the past and are expected to increase in the future, according to predictive climate models and bioclimatic modelling (for example, Araújo and New, 2007; Thuiller, 2004). Very high exti ...
... biodiversity The effects of climate change on biodiversity at large have already been observed and demonstrated in the past and are expected to increase in the future, according to predictive climate models and bioclimatic modelling (for example, Araújo and New, 2007; Thuiller, 2004). Very high exti ...
A severe centennial-scale drought in mid
... to more distal sources of moisture, consistent with drought climatology (Woodhouse and Overpeck, 1998). A pollen record from alluvial sediments in the same region shows a brief spike in Ambrosia (ragweed) and corresponding decrease in Quercus (oak) (Baker et al., 2002), indicating transient drought. ...
... to more distal sources of moisture, consistent with drought climatology (Woodhouse and Overpeck, 1998). A pollen record from alluvial sediments in the same region shows a brief spike in Ambrosia (ragweed) and corresponding decrease in Quercus (oak) (Baker et al., 2002), indicating transient drought. ...
Climate Change: what do we know about the IPCC?
... work related to the ‘futures’ community – work either published in core futures journals or by known futures experts. His argument was that for an assessment which is so heavily futures-oriented, the inclusion of futures research in the 2007 Fourth Assessment was depressingly thin; the IPCC would be ...
... work related to the ‘futures’ community – work either published in core futures journals or by known futures experts. His argument was that for an assessment which is so heavily futures-oriented, the inclusion of futures research in the 2007 Fourth Assessment was depressingly thin; the IPCC would be ...
Broader perspectives for comparing different greenhouse gases
... However, comparing the effects of emissions of greenhouse gases leads to a more complex situation because it needs to take into account the rate at which a gas is removed from the atmosphere, as well as its side effects on atmospheric chemistry. In this context, the GWP is an index giving the ratio ...
... However, comparing the effects of emissions of greenhouse gases leads to a more complex situation because it needs to take into account the rate at which a gas is removed from the atmosphere, as well as its side effects on atmospheric chemistry. In this context, the GWP is an index giving the ratio ...
Impact of Freshwater Release in the North Atlantic under Different
... exchange in the ocean interior (convection releases heat toward the surface ocean, which limits sea ice formation). Process (ii) is more regional, but it affects the surface radiative budget (through the high albedo of the sea ice), and therefore also the large-scale surface climate. These two proce ...
... exchange in the ocean interior (convection releases heat toward the surface ocean, which limits sea ice formation). Process (ii) is more regional, but it affects the surface radiative budget (through the high albedo of the sea ice), and therefore also the large-scale surface climate. These two proce ...
Tropospheric temperature response to stratospheric ozone recovery
... with the largest impacts felt in the NH. H11 base this conclusion primarily on differences in the simulated temperature change between two groups of CMIP3 climate models, one group which included stratospheric ozone recovery in its 21st century simulations and a second group which did not. We have s ...
... with the largest impacts felt in the NH. H11 base this conclusion primarily on differences in the simulated temperature change between two groups of CMIP3 climate models, one group which included stratospheric ozone recovery in its 21st century simulations and a second group which did not. We have s ...
- Urban Gateway
... Case studies on CC adaptation in rural and urban areas. This should include a) Three rural livelihood zones along the Mekong river: (i) the coastal zone (affected by typhoons and storm surges; partially protected by mangroves; with fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture based livelihoods, affected b ...
... Case studies on CC adaptation in rural and urban areas. This should include a) Three rural livelihood zones along the Mekong river: (i) the coastal zone (affected by typhoons and storm surges; partially protected by mangroves; with fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture based livelihoods, affected b ...
Cryptic impacts of temperature variability on amphibian immune
... Ectothermic species living in temperate regions can experience rapid and potentially stressful changes in body temperature driven by abrupt weather changes. Yet, among amphibians, the physiological impacts of short-term temperature variation are largely unknown. Using an ex situ population of Crypto ...
... Ectothermic species living in temperate regions can experience rapid and potentially stressful changes in body temperature driven by abrupt weather changes. Yet, among amphibians, the physiological impacts of short-term temperature variation are largely unknown. Using an ex situ population of Crypto ...