Scientific Consensus Statement on the Executive Summary
... • over the last century, the global average surface temperature increased about 1° F, and • sea level rose between 4 and 8 inches. The IPCC predicts that if current trends continue, by 2100 • the global average temperature will increase 2.5–10.4° F and • sea level will rise 4–35”. The IPCC report co ...
... • over the last century, the global average surface temperature increased about 1° F, and • sea level rose between 4 and 8 inches. The IPCC predicts that if current trends continue, by 2100 • the global average temperature will increase 2.5–10.4° F and • sea level will rise 4–35”. The IPCC report co ...
Sustainable Land Management - Nachhaltiges Landmanagement
... Population growth Climate change Globalization GLOBAL LAND USE Agriculture Forestry Pasture, livestock breeding Dwellings, infrastructure Conservation areas Other ...
... Population growth Climate change Globalization GLOBAL LAND USE Agriculture Forestry Pasture, livestock breeding Dwellings, infrastructure Conservation areas Other ...
- Eionet Forum
... detailed assessment of the DRR policies and practices as well as the NMHS capacities, gaps and led to the development of policy recommendations. To create this report, UNDP and WMO mobilized consultants to work jointly with national consultants. These teams consulted with a wide range of DRR stakeho ...
... detailed assessment of the DRR policies and practices as well as the NMHS capacities, gaps and led to the development of policy recommendations. To create this report, UNDP and WMO mobilized consultants to work jointly with national consultants. These teams consulted with a wide range of DRR stakeho ...
First draft of a preliminary text of a declaration on
... Conscious of the different ethical perspectives in regard to climate change, and Acknowledging that responses to climate change are likely to have many important and variable ethical implications, and that it has become an imperative to place ethics as a core and necessary element in climate change ...
... Conscious of the different ethical perspectives in regard to climate change, and Acknowledging that responses to climate change are likely to have many important and variable ethical implications, and that it has become an imperative to place ethics as a core and necessary element in climate change ...
State of Oregon: At Home
... • over the last century, the global average surface temperature increased about 1° F, and • sea level rose between 4 and 8 inches. The IPCC predicts that if current trends continue, by 2100 • the global average temperature will increase 2.5–10.4° F and • sea level will rise 4–35”. The IPCC report co ...
... • over the last century, the global average surface temperature increased about 1° F, and • sea level rose between 4 and 8 inches. The IPCC predicts that if current trends continue, by 2100 • the global average temperature will increase 2.5–10.4° F and • sea level will rise 4–35”. The IPCC report co ...
The world beyond two degrees: where do we stand?
... extreme weather events were judged to imply substantial impacts or risks between 1°C and 2°C above the 1990 level of global mean temperature. The third and fourth reasons for concern – distribution of impact and aggregate impacts reflected substantial risks beginning in the range between 2°C and 3°C ...
... extreme weather events were judged to imply substantial impacts or risks between 1°C and 2°C above the 1990 level of global mean temperature. The third and fourth reasons for concern – distribution of impact and aggregate impacts reflected substantial risks beginning in the range between 2°C and 3°C ...
Communication, Education, Participation: Successful Ways to
... by the legislature. Washington followed two years later when citizens in that state put Initiative 937 on the ballot. The initiative required covered utilities to provide 15% of their electricity from ...
... by the legislature. Washington followed two years later when citizens in that state put Initiative 937 on the ballot. The initiative required covered utilities to provide 15% of their electricity from ...
Key NGO Priorities in Energy and Climate Change
... Who is Climate Action Network Europe? • We focus on climate change • 85 European member organisations • More than 300 members of the Climate Action Network (CAN) ...
... Who is Climate Action Network Europe? • We focus on climate change • 85 European member organisations • More than 300 members of the Climate Action Network (CAN) ...
The UN Climate Change Conference, 2009 (COP 15) ACCA POsiTiON PAPer
... Copenhagen is the last opportunity to reach a follow-on agreement that can enter into force by 2012. The challenge facing negotiators at Copenhagen is significant. Recent projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn that unless action is taken to cut greenhouse gas emis ...
... Copenhagen is the last opportunity to reach a follow-on agreement that can enter into force by 2012. The challenge facing negotiators at Copenhagen is significant. Recent projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn that unless action is taken to cut greenhouse gas emis ...
The African contribution to the global climate
... climate model as it is on the higher end of the C4MIP models. It is rather a direct result of the low sensitivity of the land carbon cycle to the climate change (called γL in F06). We defined γL as the difference in cumulated NEP in COU and UNC (corrected by the effect of atmospheric CO2 difference ...
... climate model as it is on the higher end of the C4MIP models. It is rather a direct result of the low sensitivity of the land carbon cycle to the climate change (called γL in F06). We defined γL as the difference in cumulated NEP in COU and UNC (corrected by the effect of atmospheric CO2 difference ...
Current and future climate of the Solomon Islands
... There are many different global climate models and they all represent the climate slightly differently. Scientists from the Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP) have evaluated 24 models from around the world and found that 18 best represent the climate of the western tropical Pacific regio ...
... There are many different global climate models and they all represent the climate slightly differently. Scientists from the Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP) have evaluated 24 models from around the world and found that 18 best represent the climate of the western tropical Pacific regio ...
Climate dangers and atoll countries
... system. It is also a very clear case of environmental insecurity (Barnett 2001a). The risk to atoll countries challenges the ability of science to predict and prevent dangerous thresholds of climate change (Jones 2000). The threshold of penultimate concern is that point at which atolls will no longe ...
... system. It is also a very clear case of environmental insecurity (Barnett 2001a). The risk to atoll countries challenges the ability of science to predict and prevent dangerous thresholds of climate change (Jones 2000). The threshold of penultimate concern is that point at which atolls will no longe ...
the inuit case study - Center for International Environmental Law
... in international fora. For example, international Inuit communities organized the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to pursue an unprecedented complaint before the Inter-American ...
... in international fora. For example, international Inuit communities organized the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to pursue an unprecedented complaint before the Inter-American ...
State of the climate 2012
... coolest years recorded in Australia since 2001. Global-average surface temperatures were the warmest on record in 2010 (slightly higher than 2005 and 1998). 2011 was the world’s 11th warmest year and the warmest year on record during a La Niña event. The world’s 13 warmest years on record have all o ...
... coolest years recorded in Australia since 2001. Global-average surface temperatures were the warmest on record in 2010 (slightly higher than 2005 and 1998). 2011 was the world’s 11th warmest year and the warmest year on record during a La Niña event. The world’s 13 warmest years on record have all o ...
How to eat an elephant: a bottom
... to citizens concerned with more immediate welfare issues such as employment and competitiveness (Laird, 2000; Sarewitz and Pielke, 2000; Benedick, 2001; Victor, 2001; Prins and Rayner, 2007). The faulty UNFCCC architecture was exacerbated at Kyoto by hasty borrowings from other international governa ...
... to citizens concerned with more immediate welfare issues such as employment and competitiveness (Laird, 2000; Sarewitz and Pielke, 2000; Benedick, 2001; Victor, 2001; Prins and Rayner, 2007). The faulty UNFCCC architecture was exacerbated at Kyoto by hasty borrowings from other international governa ...
The IPCC`s Contradictory Global Temperature Data
... Little Ice Age to remove the contrary evidence which refuted the climate models. § This new temperature proxy commonly known as the Hockey Stick Graph attributed all of the observed warming to the post industrial age in support of the climate model premise of fossil fuel emissions causing this obser ...
... Little Ice Age to remove the contrary evidence which refuted the climate models. § This new temperature proxy commonly known as the Hockey Stick Graph attributed all of the observed warming to the post industrial age in support of the climate model premise of fossil fuel emissions causing this obser ...
2. Studying the Earth: Major Earth Biomes and the Trace Gas
... People living in cities in the comfort of their houses and living an urban life-style may or may not notice the enhanced greenhouse effect changing the climate they are used to. After all, climate is assessed in terms of decades; nobody will ever be able to state categorically that a particular stor ...
... People living in cities in the comfort of their houses and living an urban life-style may or may not notice the enhanced greenhouse effect changing the climate they are used to. After all, climate is assessed in terms of decades; nobody will ever be able to state categorically that a particular stor ...
H3 Evidence and impacts of climate change.
... glaciers are one of the important indicators of global warming and climate change. The melting of glaciers causes sea levels to rise. As the ice melts, the white, reflective surface of glaciers is reduced, increasing the amount of the Sun’s heat which is absorbed by the Earth. H2-1 L2 text (shout ou ...
... glaciers are one of the important indicators of global warming and climate change. The melting of glaciers causes sea levels to rise. As the ice melts, the white, reflective surface of glaciers is reduced, increasing the amount of the Sun’s heat which is absorbed by the Earth. H2-1 L2 text (shout ou ...
Probabilistic regional and seasonal predictions of twenty-first century temperature and precipitation: Working Paper 23 (440 kB) (opens in new window)
... multi-year mean near-surface temperature (Tg) because (i) observational and physical constraints on Tg minimise the impact of spatial and temporal variability, (ii) temperature is the best observed climatic variable, and (iii) it can be studied with a variety of different types of models from compli ...
... multi-year mean near-surface temperature (Tg) because (i) observational and physical constraints on Tg minimise the impact of spatial and temporal variability, (ii) temperature is the best observed climatic variable, and (iii) it can be studied with a variety of different types of models from compli ...
elninocyclones - Global Change System for Analysis, Research
... The very high resolution modelling work suggests that increases in the intensity of tropical cyclones will be accompanied by increases in mean and maximum precipitation rates. In the cases studied, precipitation in the vicinity of the storm centre increased by 20% whereas peak rates increased by 30 ...
... The very high resolution modelling work suggests that increases in the intensity of tropical cyclones will be accompanied by increases in mean and maximum precipitation rates. In the cases studied, precipitation in the vicinity of the storm centre increased by 20% whereas peak rates increased by 30 ...
Template - Agriculture v11.indd - Business for Social Responsibility
... Elevated ozone levels have very likely suppressed global production of crops, causing estimated losses of 10% for wheat and soybean. These are some aspects of a complex picture involving interactions between CO2, ozone, mean temperature rise, temperature extremes, reduced water availability and chan ...
... Elevated ozone levels have very likely suppressed global production of crops, causing estimated losses of 10% for wheat and soybean. These are some aspects of a complex picture involving interactions between CO2, ozone, mean temperature rise, temperature extremes, reduced water availability and chan ...
Tell an exciting story of adaptation to climate change and
... FROM THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION If you have been telling the exciting story of adaptation to climate change, here is your chance to win an award, and rub shoulders with the movers and shakers in this field. Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia (AKP), the Asia Pacific Adaptatio ...
... FROM THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION If you have been telling the exciting story of adaptation to climate change, here is your chance to win an award, and rub shoulders with the movers and shakers in this field. Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia (AKP), the Asia Pacific Adaptatio ...
Petition of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Science and
... The past year, 2016, was reportedly warmer than 1998 by 0.02 deg. C.6 The atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in December 2016 was 404.48 ppm.7 Despite this 10 percent increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, however, the temperature difference between 1998 and 2016 was not statistically si ...
... The past year, 2016, was reportedly warmer than 1998 by 0.02 deg. C.6 The atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in December 2016 was 404.48 ppm.7 Despite this 10 percent increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, however, the temperature difference between 1998 and 2016 was not statistically si ...
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... Building damage (extreme weather events, hurricanes, tornadoes, Nor’easters, ice storms) Power outages/damage (ice storms, extreme heat, extreme weather) Water pollution/contamination (intense storm events, rainfall events) CSO overflows (intense storm events, intense rainfall events) Drought (extre ...
... Building damage (extreme weather events, hurricanes, tornadoes, Nor’easters, ice storms) Power outages/damage (ice storms, extreme heat, extreme weather) Water pollution/contamination (intense storm events, rainfall events) CSO overflows (intense storm events, intense rainfall events) Drought (extre ...