Climate Trends in the Casco Bay Region
... Tropical cyclones have generally grown more intense. Warmer air temperatures and increased water vapor, along with warmer sea-surface temperatures, provide more fuel to tropical storms, increasing their wind speeds (NASA 2015). Warming ocean temperatures could also cause more frequent high-intensity ...
... Tropical cyclones have generally grown more intense. Warmer air temperatures and increased water vapor, along with warmer sea-surface temperatures, provide more fuel to tropical storms, increasing their wind speeds (NASA 2015). Warming ocean temperatures could also cause more frequent high-intensity ...
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... impact is communicated to the atmosphere through these tropical SST changes. In addition, the secular response to man-made changes in atmospheric composition (i.e., greenhouse gases and aerosols) is an important source of predictability on the decadal time scale, but less so on the seasonal time sca ...
... impact is communicated to the atmosphere through these tropical SST changes. In addition, the secular response to man-made changes in atmospheric composition (i.e., greenhouse gases and aerosols) is an important source of predictability on the decadal time scale, but less so on the seasonal time sca ...
Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities?
... Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), about whether the likelihood of quantified amounts of climate change throughout the coming century can be estimated. This lively debate re-emerged after the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) was published with a commentary on ‘What is ...
... Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), about whether the likelihood of quantified amounts of climate change throughout the coming century can be estimated. This lively debate re-emerged after the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) was published with a commentary on ‘What is ...
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... particularly in large river basins such as Changjiang, is likely to decrease due to climate change, along with population growth and rising standards of living that could adversely affect more than a billion people by the 2050s. Projected sea-level rise is very likely to result in significant losses ...
... particularly in large river basins such as Changjiang, is likely to decrease due to climate change, along with population growth and rising standards of living that could adversely affect more than a billion people by the 2050s. Projected sea-level rise is very likely to result in significant losses ...
Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... F. How long have scientists been investigating human influences on climate? G. How can the small proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have such a large effect on our climate? H. Could the sun or other natural factors explain the observed warming of the past 50 years? I. How do we know ...
... F. How long have scientists been investigating human influences on climate? G. How can the small proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have such a large effect on our climate? H. Could the sun or other natural factors explain the observed warming of the past 50 years? I. How do we know ...
u.s.climate.US position paper
... Unifying qualities and controversy-aversive culture of the World Heritage Convention One of the most significant legacies of the World Heritage Convention is that it provides a non-confrontational forum for virtually every State Party in the world to come together in a positive atmosphere and united ...
... Unifying qualities and controversy-aversive culture of the World Heritage Convention One of the most significant legacies of the World Heritage Convention is that it provides a non-confrontational forum for virtually every State Party in the world to come together in a positive atmosphere and united ...
The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship
... 255%) from 2004 to 2008, with most of the rise coming in the last 12 months (IRRI 2010), leading to food riots in some countries and affecting 100 million people worldwide. One analysis points to several interacting drivers as the cause—rising energy prices, pro-biofuel policies, and export restrict ...
... 255%) from 2004 to 2008, with most of the rise coming in the last 12 months (IRRI 2010), leading to food riots in some countries and affecting 100 million people worldwide. One analysis points to several interacting drivers as the cause—rising energy prices, pro-biofuel policies, and export restrict ...
The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship
... 255%) from 2004 to 2008, with most of the rise coming in the last 12 months (IRRI 2010), leading to food riots in some countries and affecting 100 million people worldwide. One analysis points to several interacting drivers as the cause—rising energy prices, pro-biofuel policies, and export restrict ...
... 255%) from 2004 to 2008, with most of the rise coming in the last 12 months (IRRI 2010), leading to food riots in some countries and affecting 100 million people worldwide. One analysis points to several interacting drivers as the cause—rising energy prices, pro-biofuel policies, and export restrict ...
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... to climate change interact with water policy. The analysis follows the state-contingent modelling approach presented by Adamson et al. (2007) and previously applied to medium term modelling of climate change by Quiggin et al. (2008) and Adamson et al. (2009). This analysis extends previou ...
... to climate change interact with water policy. The analysis follows the state-contingent modelling approach presented by Adamson et al. (2007) and previously applied to medium term modelling of climate change by Quiggin et al. (2008) and Adamson et al. (2009). This analysis extends previou ...
Extending a Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 1
... with resultant inadequate attention to humans rights (Liverman 2009) and justice concerns such as recognition. A second framing with implications for justice is that of “common but differentiated responsibility” (Liverman 2009). How responsibility for climate change is framed directly shapes the al ...
... with resultant inadequate attention to humans rights (Liverman 2009) and justice concerns such as recognition. A second framing with implications for justice is that of “common but differentiated responsibility” (Liverman 2009). How responsibility for climate change is framed directly shapes the al ...
Evo Morales, Climate Change and the Paradoxes of a Social
... agreement/) are the following: the establishment of a UN Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth that would reflect and complement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the establishment of ...
... agreement/) are the following: the establishment of a UN Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth that would reflect and complement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the establishment of ...
The likelihood and potential impact of future change in
... The Chongming Dongtan Nature reserve in the Yangtze Estuary could lose 11% and 39% of its terrestrial area in the case of a prescribed 0.22 m and 0.88 m SLR respectively by 2100 (Tian et al., 2010) – the reserve is a vital breeding area for migratory shorebirds. Elsewhere the area of tidal freshwate ...
... The Chongming Dongtan Nature reserve in the Yangtze Estuary could lose 11% and 39% of its terrestrial area in the case of a prescribed 0.22 m and 0.88 m SLR respectively by 2100 (Tian et al., 2010) – the reserve is a vital breeding area for migratory shorebirds. Elsewhere the area of tidal freshwate ...
Using climate information to support crop breeding decisions and
... could be impacted by the changing climate and changing threats from pests and pathogens. Crop breeding, both through conventional techniques, and GM assisted breeding could help meet these challenges, if adequately supported by appropriate information on the future climate. We highlight some of the ...
... could be impacted by the changing climate and changing threats from pests and pathogens. Crop breeding, both through conventional techniques, and GM assisted breeding could help meet these challenges, if adequately supported by appropriate information on the future climate. We highlight some of the ...
Changes in the distribution of multispecies pest assemblages
... was modeled with Sharpe & Demichele (1977) model modified by Schoolfield et al. (1981). Since sex ratio of PTM species is close to one (Herrera, 1998; Makee & Saour, 2001) half of the pupae that transformed into adults were considered as oviposing females. Adult longevity in relation to temperature ...
... was modeled with Sharpe & Demichele (1977) model modified by Schoolfield et al. (1981). Since sex ratio of PTM species is close to one (Herrera, 1998; Makee & Saour, 2001) half of the pupae that transformed into adults were considered as oviposing females. Adult longevity in relation to temperature ...
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
... The FTAs systematically overestimate climate change impacts because they do not account fully for increases in adaptive capacity resulting from higher wealth and advances in technology assumed by the IPCC scenarios that are used to drive the FTA analyses (Goklany 2005, 2007a; Tol 2005). That is, the ...
... The FTAs systematically overestimate climate change impacts because they do not account fully for increases in adaptive capacity resulting from higher wealth and advances in technology assumed by the IPCC scenarios that are used to drive the FTA analyses (Goklany 2005, 2007a; Tol 2005). That is, the ...
Adapting social safety net programs to climate change shocks
... are very minimum (in-combined covered less than 1%) as compared to other programs The FFW, only the program where no non-poor hhold was included. So, this program can be expanded in climate-disadvantaged rural areas of Bangladesh ...
... are very minimum (in-combined covered less than 1%) as compared to other programs The FFW, only the program where no non-poor hhold was included. So, this program can be expanded in climate-disadvantaged rural areas of Bangladesh ...
Hydrology - Tufts University School of Engineering
... The predominant greenhouse gases are water vapor and carbon dioxide. Together with cloud particles (water droplets, aerosols, and ice crystals), water vapor and carbon dioxide contribute to about 95% of the greenhouse effect. The other 5% is contributed mainly by ozone, methane, nitrous oxide, and, ...
... The predominant greenhouse gases are water vapor and carbon dioxide. Together with cloud particles (water droplets, aerosols, and ice crystals), water vapor and carbon dioxide contribute to about 95% of the greenhouse effect. The other 5% is contributed mainly by ozone, methane, nitrous oxide, and, ...
A Proposed New Metric For Quantifying The Climatic Effects Of Human-Caused
... FIGURE SPM-2. Global-average radiative forcing (RF) estimates and ranges in 2005 for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and other important agents and mechanisms, together with the typical geographical extent (spatial scale) of the forcing and the assessed level ...
... FIGURE SPM-2. Global-average radiative forcing (RF) estimates and ranges in 2005 for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and other important agents and mechanisms, together with the typical geographical extent (spatial scale) of the forcing and the assessed level ...
- The University of Liverpool Repository
... tamed the challenges of the environmental new social movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Urban policy is to protect and police consumer capitalism and unsustainable levels of consumption, with the result that the radical action necessary to avoid calamitous climate change is not taken, and a vague com ...
... tamed the challenges of the environmental new social movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Urban policy is to protect and police consumer capitalism and unsustainable levels of consumption, with the result that the radical action necessary to avoid calamitous climate change is not taken, and a vague com ...
NASA faked the moon landing—therefore
... Luther King, Jr.) predicted rejection of climate science as well as other scientific findings. Our results provide empirical support for previous suggestions that conspiratorial thinking contributes to the rejection of science. Acceptance of science, by contrast, was strongly associated with the per ...
... Luther King, Jr.) predicted rejection of climate science as well as other scientific findings. Our results provide empirical support for previous suggestions that conspiratorial thinking contributes to the rejection of science. Acceptance of science, by contrast, was strongly associated with the per ...
IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks
... and likelihood of extremes of temperature and precipitation. The choice is subjective due to the paucity of literature projecting the impacts of changes in heat extremes. By about 2035 (during which time the increase in model-averaged and scenario-averaged GMT remains below ~1.6 °C), 25–30% of daily ...
... and likelihood of extremes of temperature and precipitation. The choice is subjective due to the paucity of literature projecting the impacts of changes in heat extremes. By about 2035 (during which time the increase in model-averaged and scenario-averaged GMT remains below ~1.6 °C), 25–30% of daily ...
Quantifying the impacts of land surface schemes and dynamic
... O’Gorman and Muller, 2010]. The trend and magnitude of projected future changes are subject to a large degree of uncertainties, for which the differences between model structures are considered to be one of the major sources [Knutti et al., 2010; Murphy et al., 2004]. The other two major sources of ...
... O’Gorman and Muller, 2010]. The trend and magnitude of projected future changes are subject to a large degree of uncertainties, for which the differences between model structures are considered to be one of the major sources [Knutti et al., 2010; Murphy et al., 2004]. The other two major sources of ...
Contributions of past and present human generations to committed
... attempt to examine the range of forcing agents that are believed to be contributing to climate change in this article, nor do we examine how feedbacks influence the climate changes caused by forcing. The purpose of this article is to probe in a qualitative fashion the nature and scope of the warming ...
... attempt to examine the range of forcing agents that are believed to be contributing to climate change in this article, nor do we examine how feedbacks influence the climate changes caused by forcing. The purpose of this article is to probe in a qualitative fashion the nature and scope of the warming ...