Surveying the impact. The day after tomorrow
... n Memorial Day weekend 2004, Twentieth Century Fox released The Day After Tomorrow, a disaster movie depicting an abrupt and catastrophic climate change. In the movie, a global warming– induced shutdown of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation system1 triggers extreme weather events worldwide ...
... n Memorial Day weekend 2004, Twentieth Century Fox released The Day After Tomorrow, a disaster movie depicting an abrupt and catastrophic climate change. In the movie, a global warming– induced shutdown of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation system1 triggers extreme weather events worldwide ...
The distributional impact of climate change on rich and poor countries
... model captures a full array of seasonal temperatures and precipitation levels. Carbon dioxide, through fertilization, is strictly beneficial and helps forestry and especially agriculture in all regions (see Reilly et al., 1996 and Sohngen et al., 2002). It is assumed that carbon fertilization benefits ...
... model captures a full array of seasonal temperatures and precipitation levels. Carbon dioxide, through fertilization, is strictly beneficial and helps forestry and especially agriculture in all regions (see Reilly et al., 1996 and Sohngen et al., 2002). It is assumed that carbon fertilization benefits ...
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... probability of a particular choice being made with respect to a unit change in an independent variable. In all the cases, the estimated coefficients should be compared with the base category of no adaptation. The marginal effects along with the levels of statistical significance are presented in Tab ...
... probability of a particular choice being made with respect to a unit change in an independent variable. In all the cases, the estimated coefficients should be compared with the base category of no adaptation. The marginal effects along with the levels of statistical significance are presented in Tab ...
Context Analysis - Kenya livestock Marketing Council
... Pastoralism4 is the livelihood and production system that has proved most adaptive to the extreme climatic uncertainty and marginal landscapes of the drylands, making the most sustainable economic and environmental use of these ecologically sensitive areas to support the lives and livelihoods of loc ...
... Pastoralism4 is the livelihood and production system that has proved most adaptive to the extreme climatic uncertainty and marginal landscapes of the drylands, making the most sustainable economic and environmental use of these ecologically sensitive areas to support the lives and livelihoods of loc ...
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... popularly known as the greenhouse effect, can result in significant environmental implications worldwide. Natural and social scientists have been actively involved in understanding the human sources of these global changes, the potential damage they cause to natural and economic systems, and the mos ...
... popularly known as the greenhouse effect, can result in significant environmental implications worldwide. Natural and social scientists have been actively involved in understanding the human sources of these global changes, the potential damage they cause to natural and economic systems, and the mos ...
Agriculture and food systems in sub
... As noted above, several modelling studies have assessed the potential impacts of climate change on agricultural production in SSA, although the projected ranges of shifts in yields for the major crops vary widely [13,14]. Many of these studies have estimated yield impacts in response to the Special ...
... As noted above, several modelling studies have assessed the potential impacts of climate change on agricultural production in SSA, although the projected ranges of shifts in yields for the major crops vary widely [13,14]. Many of these studies have estimated yield impacts in response to the Special ...
First International Workshop on the “Responses of Marine Hazards
... models. Scientists also briefly introduced their on‐going research activities relevant with this project and expressed their willingness to work together towards the objectives of the project. The workshop recognized with concerns the ever increasing impacts of climate change ...
... models. Scientists also briefly introduced their on‐going research activities relevant with this project and expressed their willingness to work together towards the objectives of the project. The workshop recognized with concerns the ever increasing impacts of climate change ...
An ecohydrological sketch of climate change impacts on water and
... Abstract. For policy making and spatial planning, information is needed about the impacts of climate change on natural ecosystems. To provide this information, commonly hydrological and ecological models are used. We give arguments for our assessment that modelling only is insufficient for determini ...
... Abstract. For policy making and spatial planning, information is needed about the impacts of climate change on natural ecosystems. To provide this information, commonly hydrological and ecological models are used. We give arguments for our assessment that modelling only is insufficient for determini ...
Earth, Climate, and Change: Observing Human Impact
... Climate change and the human contribution to this change is sometimes denied or depicted as an uncertainty. However, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see References and Further Reading), climate change is not controversial: 97 percent of climate scientists are c ...
... Climate change and the human contribution to this change is sometimes denied or depicted as an uncertainty. However, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see References and Further Reading), climate change is not controversial: 97 percent of climate scientists are c ...
Nullifying the climate null hypothesis
... and identifiable in the instrumental records of the last century-and-a-half and in recent paleoclimate records? The answer to this question depends on the null hypothesis against which such an impact is tested. The current approach that is generally pursued assumes essentially that past climate vari ...
... and identifiable in the instrumental records of the last century-and-a-half and in recent paleoclimate records? The answer to this question depends on the null hypothesis against which such an impact is tested. The current approach that is generally pursued assumes essentially that past climate vari ...
Biodiversity and Climate Change - European Commission
... account of these effects. 1 IPCC (2007) “Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis”, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report ...
... account of these effects. 1 IPCC (2007) “Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis”, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report ...
Discussion Paper - Economics E
... by the five-box model (Hammitt et al. 1992;Maier-Reimer and Hasselmann 1987). The model also contains sulphur emissions (Tol 2006). The radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride and sulphur aerosols is as in the IPCC (Ramaswamy et al. 2001). The global mean te ...
... by the five-box model (Hammitt et al. 1992;Maier-Reimer and Hasselmann 1987). The model also contains sulphur emissions (Tol 2006). The radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride and sulphur aerosols is as in the IPCC (Ramaswamy et al. 2001). The global mean te ...
Changes in subduction in the South Atlantic Ocean during the
... 2. The CCSM3 Model and Integrations Analysed [4] The CCSM3 is a general circulation climate model that couples atmosphere, land, ocean, and sea ice components. An overview and a description of its present day climate simulation using T85 (1.4°) atmosphere and land resolution, and a nominal 1° ocean ...
... 2. The CCSM3 Model and Integrations Analysed [4] The CCSM3 is a general circulation climate model that couples atmosphere, land, ocean, and sea ice components. An overview and a description of its present day climate simulation using T85 (1.4°) atmosphere and land resolution, and a nominal 1° ocean ...
argentina - World Bank Group
... http://www.fao.org/landandwater/agll/glasod/glasodmaps.jsp?country=ARG&search=Display+map+%21 ...
... http://www.fao.org/landandwater/agll/glasod/glasodmaps.jsp?country=ARG&search=Display+map+%21 ...
National Conference on Climate Change and Water Safety for
... Attendees/Participants, invocation and singing of the National Anthem. It was followed by the welcome message from ARD. Louella Estembre, the Assistant Regional Director of Pampanga who replaced Dir. Leonita Gorgolon, Regional Director of Region III due to some personal emergencies. Then, Engr. Boni ...
... Attendees/Participants, invocation and singing of the National Anthem. It was followed by the welcome message from ARD. Louella Estembre, the Assistant Regional Director of Pampanga who replaced Dir. Leonita Gorgolon, Regional Director of Region III due to some personal emergencies. Then, Engr. Boni ...
Coupled Climate–Economy–Biosphere (CoCEB) model – Part 1
... 15 atmosphere, ε the emissivity that gives the ratio of actual emission to blackbody emission, α T the mean planetary albedo, Q is the average solar constant. The specific heat capacity ch of Earth as a whole is largely determined by the oceans (Levitus et al., 2005); here it is taken equal to 16.7 ...
... 15 atmosphere, ε the emissivity that gives the ratio of actual emission to blackbody emission, α T the mean planetary albedo, Q is the average solar constant. The specific heat capacity ch of Earth as a whole is largely determined by the oceans (Levitus et al., 2005); here it is taken equal to 16.7 ...
PREPARING FOR CLIMATIC CHANGE: THE WATER, SALMON, AND
... We used output from eight different coupled global ocean-atmosphere climate models available through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Data Distribution Centre. All of these models included ocean, sea ice, and land surface models, though of varying complexity and spatial resoluti ...
... We used output from eight different coupled global ocean-atmosphere climate models available through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Data Distribution Centre. All of these models included ocean, sea ice, and land surface models, though of varying complexity and spatial resoluti ...
Running to stand still: adaptation and the response of
... environment that are predicted to result from global warming. The potential for a population to adapt to changes in climate will in part be governed by the average lifespan of individuals and the age at which they reach reproductive maturity. If all other things are held equal, annual plants will ad ...
... environment that are predicted to result from global warming. The potential for a population to adapt to changes in climate will in part be governed by the average lifespan of individuals and the age at which they reach reproductive maturity. If all other things are held equal, annual plants will ad ...
Handbook on the OECD-DAC Climate Markers
... can contribute to biodiversity conservation, to capturing carbon (climate change mitigation) and to reducing climate risk (climate change adaptation). In drylands such a project can also help to combat desertification. Therefore, in certain cases, the same activity can obtain more than one principal ...
... can contribute to biodiversity conservation, to capturing carbon (climate change mitigation) and to reducing climate risk (climate change adaptation). In drylands such a project can also help to combat desertification. Therefore, in certain cases, the same activity can obtain more than one principal ...
Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in water hazard assessments using regional
... be used as the benchmark (control) with which dynamic downscaling would have to improve on. An excellent example of this type of testing is given in the paper Landsea, C.W., Knaff, J.A., 2000: “How much skill was there in forecasting the very strong 1997-98 El Niño?” Bulletin of the American Meteoro ...
... be used as the benchmark (control) with which dynamic downscaling would have to improve on. An excellent example of this type of testing is given in the paper Landsea, C.W., Knaff, J.A., 2000: “How much skill was there in forecasting the very strong 1997-98 El Niño?” Bulletin of the American Meteoro ...
Research Note Effects of Warming Conditions in Eastern North
... Timing of calling of four frog species in New York occurred 10–13 days earlier between 1990 and 1999 than between 1900 and 1912, and this was correlated with increases in mean maximum daily temperatures during the century (Gibbs & Breisch 2001). In contrast, Blaustein et al. (2001) concluded from a ...
... Timing of calling of four frog species in New York occurred 10–13 days earlier between 1990 and 1999 than between 1900 and 1912, and this was correlated with increases in mean maximum daily temperatures during the century (Gibbs & Breisch 2001). In contrast, Blaustein et al. (2001) concluded from a ...
