Young People`s Burden: Requirement of Negative CO2 Emissions
... assessment of ongoing and paleo temperature changes, with the latter especially helpful for characterizing long-term ice sheet and sea level response versus temperature. We examine the modern period with near-global instrumental temperature data in the context of the current and previous (Holocene a ...
... assessment of ongoing and paleo temperature changes, with the latter especially helpful for characterizing long-term ice sheet and sea level response versus temperature. We examine the modern period with near-global instrumental temperature data in the context of the current and previous (Holocene a ...
Marine Board-ESF Response to the European Commission DG
... Review concludes that, provided we take strong action now, there is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. A two pronged approach to addressing and resolving climate change issues and challenges, involving both mitigation and adaptive strategies, is essential. The response detailed ...
... Review concludes that, provided we take strong action now, there is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. A two pronged approach to addressing and resolving climate change issues and challenges, involving both mitigation and adaptive strategies, is essential. The response detailed ...
Intel Climate Change Policy
... by diplomats from nearly all countries of the world. 2013 saw the publication of the IPCC’s “Fifth Assessment Report.” Among the more important findings of the Fifth Assessment are: ...
... by diplomats from nearly all countries of the world. 2013 saw the publication of the IPCC’s “Fifth Assessment Report.” Among the more important findings of the Fifth Assessment are: ...
SC/2008/xxx - asian parliamentary assembly
... APA Member Parliaments; 3. Recommend APA Member Parliaments to exchange information and technological development for climate change and Planting Billions of Trees throughout Asia; 4. Welcome the results of the World Ocean Conference and Coral Triangle Initiative in Manado, Indonesia and encourage t ...
... APA Member Parliaments; 3. Recommend APA Member Parliaments to exchange information and technological development for climate change and Planting Billions of Trees throughout Asia; 4. Welcome the results of the World Ocean Conference and Coral Triangle Initiative in Manado, Indonesia and encourage t ...
The Influence of Climate Change on Global Crop
... The main question of interest here is the following: how important will climate change and CO2 be in shaping future crop yields at the global scale, relative to the many other factors that influence productivity? This question helps to set the challenge of climate adaptation in context. We are less c ...
... The main question of interest here is the following: how important will climate change and CO2 be in shaping future crop yields at the global scale, relative to the many other factors that influence productivity? This question helps to set the challenge of climate adaptation in context. We are less c ...
- Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc.
... reservations and treaty ceded territories, which may be vulnerable to projected changes in climate. The identified resources include: plant, fish, and wildlife species, natural features, public health, and infrastructure. The connection between natural resources and tribal public health, cultural we ...
... reservations and treaty ceded territories, which may be vulnerable to projected changes in climate. The identified resources include: plant, fish, and wildlife species, natural features, public health, and infrastructure. The connection between natural resources and tribal public health, cultural we ...
Changing weather and climate in Northern Ghana
... us to infer the prevalence of different perceptions within that larger population. Furthermore, Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates are available for study households, enabling us to examine variation in these perceptions across space. In addition, we conduct a meteorological analysis using ...
... us to infer the prevalence of different perceptions within that larger population. Furthermore, Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates are available for study households, enabling us to examine variation in these perceptions across space. In addition, we conduct a meteorological analysis using ...
Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Playa Lakes Joint Venture
... habitat traits (e.g., key plant species) within that range. They then project these associations based on one or more climate models into the future. There are some habitat-specific studies for particular regions (e.g., the northeastern U.S. in Matthews et al. 2004). However, these studies are not ...
... habitat traits (e.g., key plant species) within that range. They then project these associations based on one or more climate models into the future. There are some habitat-specific studies for particular regions (e.g., the northeastern U.S. in Matthews et al. 2004). However, these studies are not ...
Antarctic precipitation and climate-change predictions: horizontal
... Altogether, there are 49 simulations available that cover the full 21st century or more in the SRESA1B scenario. Here, only their 21st-century data are used, although some models run longer simulations with fixed greenhouse-gas concentrations beyond the end of the 21st century. Although 20thcentury ...
... Altogether, there are 49 simulations available that cover the full 21st century or more in the SRESA1B scenario. Here, only their 21st-century data are used, although some models run longer simulations with fixed greenhouse-gas concentrations beyond the end of the 21st century. Although 20thcentury ...
John Holdren: The Scientist Who Cried Wolf
... Who is John Holdren? If you’re Jonathan Chait, the answer seems to be: I don’t really know. Writing this weekend on his blog at New York magazine, Chait offered a point by point rebuttal of recent comments by Charles Krauthammer and George Will regarding the recently released National Climate Assess ...
... Who is John Holdren? If you’re Jonathan Chait, the answer seems to be: I don’t really know. Writing this weekend on his blog at New York magazine, Chait offered a point by point rebuttal of recent comments by Charles Krauthammer and George Will regarding the recently released National Climate Assess ...
Greenhouse Effect
... The Cenozoic era, comprising the past 65.5 million years, marks the Cretaceous extinction of dinosaurs and the auspicious rise of mammals. During this era, the level of atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide peaked near 3000 parts per million roughly 50 million years ago (Royer, 2006). This coi ...
... The Cenozoic era, comprising the past 65.5 million years, marks the Cretaceous extinction of dinosaurs and the auspicious rise of mammals. During this era, the level of atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide peaked near 3000 parts per million roughly 50 million years ago (Royer, 2006). This coi ...
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... A significant effort has been spent by scientist from various disciplines to shed light on the causes and effects of climate change in recent years (Tol, 2010). Although there are still some controversies about the details (Idso and Singer, 2009), it is widely accepted that climate change has alread ...
... A significant effort has been spent by scientist from various disciplines to shed light on the causes and effects of climate change in recent years (Tol, 2010). Although there are still some controversies about the details (Idso and Singer, 2009), it is widely accepted that climate change has alread ...
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
... Extreme weather, in the most obvious sense, is weather that lies outside a locale’s normal range of weather intensity. It is therefore, by definition, infrequent or rare. Extreme weather is also potentially destructive, although not all extreme weather events end in disasters. For some weather event ...
... Extreme weather, in the most obvious sense, is weather that lies outside a locale’s normal range of weather intensity. It is therefore, by definition, infrequent or rare. Extreme weather is also potentially destructive, although not all extreme weather events end in disasters. For some weather event ...
Empathy and Climate Change
... organisations wish to promote certain forms of change, they should engage in generating empathy on a mass scale. The historian Theodore Zeldin argues, for instance, that learning ‘to empathise with people different from ourselves’ is one of the ‘the most effective means of establishing equality’ tha ...
... organisations wish to promote certain forms of change, they should engage in generating empathy on a mass scale. The historian Theodore Zeldin argues, for instance, that learning ‘to empathise with people different from ourselves’ is one of the ‘the most effective means of establishing equality’ tha ...
Evidence for parallel adaptation to climate across the natural range
... determined by climate suitability. Consequently, the anthropogenic impact on earth’s climate is of key concern to conservation efforts because of our relatively poor understanding of the ability of populations to track and evolve to climate change. Here, we investigate the ability of Arabidopsis tha ...
... determined by climate suitability. Consequently, the anthropogenic impact on earth’s climate is of key concern to conservation efforts because of our relatively poor understanding of the ability of populations to track and evolve to climate change. Here, we investigate the ability of Arabidopsis tha ...
Climate in the 21st century - four scenarios for
... in historic observational series. It was assumed that this relation would not change in the future and neither the air circulation patterns. With the new analyses the relation between global warming, changes in air circulation above Western Europe and climate change in the Netherlands was mapped sys ...
... in historic observational series. It was assumed that this relation would not change in the future and neither the air circulation patterns. With the new analyses the relation between global warming, changes in air circulation above Western Europe and climate change in the Netherlands was mapped sys ...
Questionnaire design effects in climate change surveys
... polling on topics for which no standard terminology exists to represent the issue at hand. This is the case for climate change. Various terms—including “global warming,” “climate change,” “global climate change,” and “the greenhouse effect”—are routinely used in climate surveys in a more or less int ...
... polling on topics for which no standard terminology exists to represent the issue at hand. This is the case for climate change. Various terms—including “global warming,” “climate change,” “global climate change,” and “the greenhouse effect”—are routinely used in climate surveys in a more or less int ...
Adaptation policy and practice in densely populated glacier
... Adaptive governance has the potential of guiding planning processes which can produce strategies which are not only robust in design but also socially acceptable. Most of the literature on this approach offers either the need for adaptive governance or identify factors influencing its emergence. How ...
... Adaptive governance has the potential of guiding planning processes which can produce strategies which are not only robust in design but also socially acceptable. Most of the literature on this approach offers either the need for adaptive governance or identify factors influencing its emergence. How ...
UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, and the WTO – Brewing Conflicts or
... The main reason for the increase in GHG emission beyond the natural variability in climate change is human activity. 15 This activity, usually classified as economic development, has impacted the balance of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other GHGs in the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial r ...
... The main reason for the increase in GHG emission beyond the natural variability in climate change is human activity. 15 This activity, usually classified as economic development, has impacted the balance of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other GHGs in the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial r ...
Social and cultural issues raised by climate change in Pacific Island
... action is taken, as they require only a relatively small increase in GMST, and further warming of ocean waters over the next century that is virtually certain given the heating effect of the current concentration of GHGs (Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2014: FAQ30.1). The impacts indicated in Table 1 could b ...
... action is taken, as they require only a relatively small increase in GMST, and further warming of ocean waters over the next century that is virtually certain given the heating effect of the current concentration of GHGs (Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2014: FAQ30.1). The impacts indicated in Table 1 could b ...
Environmental effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide
... et al. 1996) and the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, UK (Parker et al. 1994, CRU 1999) are shown in Fig. 4. The overall rise of about 0.5 to 0.6°C during the 20th century is often cited in support of greenhouse global warming (e.g. Schneider 1994). However, since approx ...
... et al. 1996) and the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, UK (Parker et al. 1994, CRU 1999) are shown in Fig. 4. The overall rise of about 0.5 to 0.6°C during the 20th century is often cited in support of greenhouse global warming (e.g. Schneider 1994). However, since approx ...