Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent
... snow-catching capacity, so understanding their response to climate warming can inform models of global surface energy balance and carbon sequestration22,23 and generate predictions for areas beyond the monitored regions. The vast geographic distribution of the present data set yielded poor replicati ...
... snow-catching capacity, so understanding their response to climate warming can inform models of global surface energy balance and carbon sequestration22,23 and generate predictions for areas beyond the monitored regions. The vast geographic distribution of the present data set yielded poor replicati ...
responding to changes in nature
... changing pressures as we work to protect the natural environment of England and Wales and contribute to sustainable development. Scientific evidence clearly indicates that the climate itself is changing and will continue to do so even if concerted international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissi ...
... changing pressures as we work to protect the natural environment of England and Wales and contribute to sustainable development. Scientific evidence clearly indicates that the climate itself is changing and will continue to do so even if concerted international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissi ...
Climate research Africa - Deutsches Klima Konsortium
... There are four complementary topics. In the following, the related research needs are described in detail. ...
... There are four complementary topics. In the following, the related research needs are described in detail. ...
trilateral strategy - Common Wadden Sea Secretariat
... Wadden Sea region may increase among 2.0 and 4.7 degrees Celsius until the end of this century. Water temperatures in the Wadden Sea are already increasing and are expected to increase further. Due to the high uncertainty regarding the magnitude and direction of the above climate change aspects, as ...
... Wadden Sea region may increase among 2.0 and 4.7 degrees Celsius until the end of this century. Water temperatures in the Wadden Sea are already increasing and are expected to increase further. Due to the high uncertainty regarding the magnitude and direction of the above climate change aspects, as ...
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... and soil carbon sequestration into a whole model, which facilitates a comprehensive, systematic analysis. Second, it employs a unique dataset, consisting of high-quality Geographic Information System (GIS) data on climate, land use, and soil properties. To the best of our knowledge, no one has used ...
... and soil carbon sequestration into a whole model, which facilitates a comprehensive, systematic analysis. Second, it employs a unique dataset, consisting of high-quality Geographic Information System (GIS) data on climate, land use, and soil properties. To the best of our knowledge, no one has used ...
Climate, conflict, and social stability: what does the evidence say
... 2 Findings from pre-1900 samples Because studies of samples from before 1900 can examine multi-century datasets, several4 are uniquely positioned to examine prolonged perturbations in a location’s climate. These natural climate variations represent an appealing proxy for future anthropogenic changes ...
... 2 Findings from pre-1900 samples Because studies of samples from before 1900 can examine multi-century datasets, several4 are uniquely positioned to examine prolonged perturbations in a location’s climate. These natural climate variations represent an appealing proxy for future anthropogenic changes ...
Discounting and climate change - a non-marginal policy choice
... capita on a path where greenhouse gas emissions are uncontrolled (i=b where b stands for ‘business-asusual’), resulting in climate change that has a non-marginal effect on consumption per capita and hence utility per capita both through the costs of adaptation and especially through residual impacts ...
... capita on a path where greenhouse gas emissions are uncontrolled (i=b where b stands for ‘business-asusual’), resulting in climate change that has a non-marginal effect on consumption per capita and hence utility per capita both through the costs of adaptation and especially through residual impacts ...
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... Story better posed in terms of finding new structures for economic development, together with strong support, that both allow the management of climate change and the overcoming of poverty. Better than getting stuck in ill-founded arguments on formulae for the ‘space’. ...
... Story better posed in terms of finding new structures for economic development, together with strong support, that both allow the management of climate change and the overcoming of poverty. Better than getting stuck in ill-founded arguments on formulae for the ‘space’. ...
Curriculum Vitae: Lisa Goddard
... terms of their education and their nationalities. There is a set of core classes and then a wide array of elective classes available for them to design the climate and society degree that fits their interests and talents. I developed and lead the core class on Dynamics of Climate Variability and Cli ...
... terms of their education and their nationalities. There is a set of core classes and then a wide array of elective classes available for them to design the climate and society degree that fits their interests and talents. I developed and lead the core class on Dynamics of Climate Variability and Cli ...
Lindzen2014-What Catastrophe.pdf
... of Oklahoma (a major energy-producing state). The idea is to make it seem as though the choice is between accepting the view of, say, journalist James Delingpole (B.A., English literature), who says global warming is a hoax, and that of, say, James Hansen (Ph.D., physics, former head of the NASA God ...
... of Oklahoma (a major energy-producing state). The idea is to make it seem as though the choice is between accepting the view of, say, journalist James Delingpole (B.A., English literature), who says global warming is a hoax, and that of, say, James Hansen (Ph.D., physics, former head of the NASA God ...
Aasprang.Brita.Envir..
... higher temperatures and depositing, changing cycles of freeze-thaw-stability, new species of plants, fungus and insects and more frequent occurrence of extreme weather (Kvalvik et al., 2011:27). Direct effects of climate change and annual variations can be difficult to distinguish (Kvalvik et al., ...
... higher temperatures and depositing, changing cycles of freeze-thaw-stability, new species of plants, fungus and insects and more frequent occurrence of extreme weather (Kvalvik et al., 2011:27). Direct effects of climate change and annual variations can be difficult to distinguish (Kvalvik et al., ...
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... damages. Regional damages are obtained by mapping a given change in the temperature of a region relative to a benchmark period - the temperature anomaly - to the damages that this change is expected to bring given the characteristics of the region’s economy. In the context of a zero-dimensional mode ...
... damages. Regional damages are obtained by mapping a given change in the temperature of a region relative to a benchmark period - the temperature anomaly - to the damages that this change is expected to bring given the characteristics of the region’s economy. In the context of a zero-dimensional mode ...
Climate of Opinion
... Defining swing voters • Swing voters (weighted n = 1,165) defined as those who: – Chose a party in when asked which party they would vote for if there were a general election tomorrow OR – Chose a party when asked a follow up question about which party they would be most inclined to support AND – W ...
... Defining swing voters • Swing voters (weighted n = 1,165) defined as those who: – Chose a party in when asked which party they would vote for if there were a general election tomorrow OR – Chose a party when asked a follow up question about which party they would be most inclined to support AND – W ...
A modified impulse-response representation of the global response
... response over the 21st century to both high-emission and mitigation scenarios estimated from more complex models. Section 2 describes the formalism of the model that we use. Section 3 then demonstrates the model’s ability in replicating ESM behaviour under a set of idealised experiments, namely thos ...
... response over the 21st century to both high-emission and mitigation scenarios estimated from more complex models. Section 2 describes the formalism of the model that we use. Section 3 then demonstrates the model’s ability in replicating ESM behaviour under a set of idealised experiments, namely thos ...
New Zealand`s changing climate and oceans
... climate is changing, and there is strong scientific agreement that this is predominantly as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Any short-term departures from the long-term warming trend can broadly be explained through a combination of other causes of climate variability and inheren ...
... climate is changing, and there is strong scientific agreement that this is predominantly as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Any short-term departures from the long-term warming trend can broadly be explained through a combination of other causes of climate variability and inheren ...
SAN Climate Module - Rainforest Alliance
... application of fertilizers and giving priority to organic fertilizer generated on the farm, thus minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and carbon based emissions associated with their use, production and transportation. Certified farms reduce the amount of waste they produce and thereby not only decre ...
... application of fertilizers and giving priority to organic fertilizer generated on the farm, thus minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and carbon based emissions associated with their use, production and transportation. Certified farms reduce the amount of waste they produce and thereby not only decre ...
Climate change, phenological shifts, eco
... lation viability with future climate change may guide conservation and management programs. For example, the polar bear was recently listed on the US Endangered Species Act because its population is endangered by future sea ice change (Hunter et al. 2010). Current predictive models linking climate t ...
... lation viability with future climate change may guide conservation and management programs. For example, the polar bear was recently listed on the US Endangered Species Act because its population is endangered by future sea ice change (Hunter et al. 2010). Current predictive models linking climate t ...
Simple indices of global climate variability and change: Part I
... land–ocean temperature contrast, the meridional temperature gradient, the inter-hemispheric contrast, and the magnitude of the annual cycle, to describe global climate variability and change. These indices are associated with dynamical factors determining aspects of the large-scale atmospheric circu ...
... land–ocean temperature contrast, the meridional temperature gradient, the inter-hemispheric contrast, and the magnitude of the annual cycle, to describe global climate variability and change. These indices are associated with dynamical factors determining aspects of the large-scale atmospheric circu ...
Atlantic Region Adaptation Science Activities Report
... Abstract: On the Atlantic coast of Canada, the predicted effects of climate change, such as sea-level rise and the increased occurrence and intensity of extreme weather events, are compounded in many areas by post-glacial crustal subsidence, leading to increased coastal erosion and flooding. This pl ...
... Abstract: On the Atlantic coast of Canada, the predicted effects of climate change, such as sea-level rise and the increased occurrence and intensity of extreme weather events, are compounded in many areas by post-glacial crustal subsidence, leading to increased coastal erosion and flooding. This pl ...
Urban growth and climate change
... Climate change is the leading environmental challenge we face. Climate scientists continue to investigate the amount by which we must reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) production to mitigate the impacts of climate change (Hansen et al. 2008). They measure the atmospheric concentration of carbon dio ...
... Climate change is the leading environmental challenge we face. Climate scientists continue to investigate the amount by which we must reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) production to mitigate the impacts of climate change (Hansen et al. 2008). They measure the atmospheric concentration of carbon dio ...
Make room for the climate! - Climate changes Spatial Planning
... warmer and drier. The likelihood of experiencing a prolonged period of (extremely) high temperatures or an intense rainstorm is increasing. By the end of this century, the sea level will rise between 35 and 85 cm. Annual rainfall will increase. During the winter, we will have to deal with greater di ...
... warmer and drier. The likelihood of experiencing a prolonged period of (extremely) high temperatures or an intense rainstorm is increasing. By the end of this century, the sea level will rise between 35 and 85 cm. Annual rainfall will increase. During the winter, we will have to deal with greater di ...
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository)
... closely woven into almost every facet of modern production and consumption. The ‘oil crisis’ of the seventies and eighties clearly demonstrated this dependence on fossil fuels. With its 4.6% of global population the United States is responsible for one-quarter of global oil consumption (EIA 2004). R ...
... closely woven into almost every facet of modern production and consumption. The ‘oil crisis’ of the seventies and eighties clearly demonstrated this dependence on fossil fuels. With its 4.6% of global population the United States is responsible for one-quarter of global oil consumption (EIA 2004). R ...
Modeling the Monsoons in a Changing Climate
... estimates of natural (e.g., solar irradiance, volcanic aerosols) and anthropogenic (e.g., greenhouse gases, sulfate aerosols, ozone) climate forcing during this period. For each model, June–September averaged rainfall climatology of the last 30-years from the 20c3m simulations was constructed and co ...
... estimates of natural (e.g., solar irradiance, volcanic aerosols) and anthropogenic (e.g., greenhouse gases, sulfate aerosols, ozone) climate forcing during this period. For each model, June–September averaged rainfall climatology of the last 30-years from the 20c3m simulations was constructed and co ...