``Risks of oil storing and oil pipelines: the case of Bourgas
... targets imposed on Bulgaria by the EC. The arguments used by the government were that Bulgaria is a poor country and should be allowed to continue to rely on carbon-intensive technologies. The government's position was to call for a longer period before Bulgarian industry is compelled to meet Europe ...
... targets imposed on Bulgaria by the EC. The arguments used by the government were that Bulgaria is a poor country and should be allowed to continue to rely on carbon-intensive technologies. The government's position was to call for a longer period before Bulgarian industry is compelled to meet Europe ...
TEAM A - Earth System Science Education Alliance
... aesthetic resources they provide. In various regions across the world, some high-altitude and high-latitude ecosystems have already been affected by changes in climate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reviewed relevant published studies of biological systems and concluded that 2 ...
... aesthetic resources they provide. In various regions across the world, some high-altitude and high-latitude ecosystems have already been affected by changes in climate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reviewed relevant published studies of biological systems and concluded that 2 ...
Western U.S. Stream Flow Metric Dataset
... streams in major river basins of the western US for historical conditions and under future climate change scenarios. These are based on daily simulations of the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) macroscale hydrologic model produced by the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group. Model outp ...
... streams in major river basins of the western US for historical conditions and under future climate change scenarios. These are based on daily simulations of the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) macroscale hydrologic model produced by the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group. Model outp ...
Craig Smith
... Large reductions in export flux and dramatic changes in abyssal ecosystems Smith et al in review in Trends in Ecology and Evolution ...
... Large reductions in export flux and dramatic changes in abyssal ecosystems Smith et al in review in Trends in Ecology and Evolution ...
Potential impacts of climate change on the Wet Tropics
... Models by researchers from James Cook University, CSIRO and the Rainforest CRC suggest that global warming will have severe effects on many Wet Tropics endemic vertebrate species. An increase in regional average temperature of 1ºC is shown to produce a decrease of 60% in the distribution of endemic ...
... Models by researchers from James Cook University, CSIRO and the Rainforest CRC suggest that global warming will have severe effects on many Wet Tropics endemic vertebrate species. An increase in regional average temperature of 1ºC is shown to produce a decrease of 60% in the distribution of endemic ...
International committee on large dams
... http://www.usbr.gov/WaterSMART/basin.html ○ Fed / non-Fed cost-shared studies on future supply & demand imbalances, management strategies to address imbalances, stressors including climate change. ○ FY10 study grants: Colorado River Basin, St Marys / Milk River Basin (MT), and ...
... http://www.usbr.gov/WaterSMART/basin.html ○ Fed / non-Fed cost-shared studies on future supply & demand imbalances, management strategies to address imbalances, stressors including climate change. ○ FY10 study grants: Colorado River Basin, St Marys / Milk River Basin (MT), and ...
Global warming due to increasing absorbed solar radiation
... dioxide, only slightly lower than the overall mean of all models which average 3.2 ± 0.7 K. The transient climate response at time of doubling of carbon dioxide of 1.6 K is typical of many models which average 1.7 ± 0.4 K. Hence without the change in model clouds, warming would still occur and, whil ...
... dioxide, only slightly lower than the overall mean of all models which average 3.2 ± 0.7 K. The transient climate response at time of doubling of carbon dioxide of 1.6 K is typical of many models which average 1.7 ± 0.4 K. Hence without the change in model clouds, warming would still occur and, whil ...
Climate Change and its impact on European Windstorm scenarios
... *losses in original values © 2008 Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Geo Risks Research, NatCatSERVICE ...
... *losses in original values © 2008 Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Geo Risks Research, NatCatSERVICE ...
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... weather station data. For each of the 32 sites, we created scatterplots in which the modeled temperature for each month from 1980-2007 was graphed against the real (weather station) mean for that month. Each ...
... weather station data. For each of the 32 sites, we created scatterplots in which the modeled temperature for each month from 1980-2007 was graphed against the real (weather station) mean for that month. Each ...
What is Ozone Depletion?
... Scientists have warned that the world's climate has changed a lot, and has affected many living and nonliving things. Many places that were warmer are now getting colder, and many colder regions are getting much more colder or even warmer (know as Global Warming). For example, between 1901 and 2012, ...
... Scientists have warned that the world's climate has changed a lot, and has affected many living and nonliving things. Many places that were warmer are now getting colder, and many colder regions are getting much more colder or even warmer (know as Global Warming). For example, between 1901 and 2012, ...
Comparing variability and trends in observed and modelled global
... 4.1. Climate Evolution and the Natural Signals [10] Figure 1 (top) shows the evolution of observed and simulated twentieth century global‐mean surface temperature anomalies. As a group the models show good agreement with the observed global‐mean warming. Figure 1 (middle) gives the impression that f ...
... 4.1. Climate Evolution and the Natural Signals [10] Figure 1 (top) shows the evolution of observed and simulated twentieth century global‐mean surface temperature anomalies. As a group the models show good agreement with the observed global‐mean warming. Figure 1 (middle) gives the impression that f ...
Paris 2015 UN Conference on CC
... Paris, France, in December 2015, with the goal of reaching a new global climate agreement that will have "legal force" and be "applicable to all" countries. UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) The UNFCCC is an international treaty aimed at stabilizing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentratio ...
... Paris, France, in December 2015, with the goal of reaching a new global climate agreement that will have "legal force" and be "applicable to all" countries. UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) The UNFCCC is an international treaty aimed at stabilizing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentratio ...
English
... -The Government has sent a clear message that energy efficiency, renewable energy and reduced emissions are important. - A fair amount of technological capacity exists for mitigation. - Opportunities for financing emissions reductions exist and are increasing. This is likely to continue to grow as C ...
... -The Government has sent a clear message that energy efficiency, renewable energy and reduced emissions are important. - A fair amount of technological capacity exists for mitigation. - Opportunities for financing emissions reductions exist and are increasing. This is likely to continue to grow as C ...
Potential for Southern Hemisphere climate surprises
... CO2 uptake (orange arrows) and January sea-surface temperatures (SST, from The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite data). For more specific technical details see ACCE (2009, Chapter 1, The Antarctic Environment and the Global Climate System). ...
... CO2 uptake (orange arrows) and January sea-surface temperatures (SST, from The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite data). For more specific technical details see ACCE (2009, Chapter 1, The Antarctic Environment and the Global Climate System). ...
The air has no residence
... residences of air as weather and as climate? What are the challenges to art of these occupancies of air? What is the political praxis for these aesthetics of climate change? The traversal between weather and climate is not an easy one. Oh happy air, oh catastrophic climate. It is a journey between t ...
... residences of air as weather and as climate? What are the challenges to art of these occupancies of air? What is the political praxis for these aesthetics of climate change? The traversal between weather and climate is not an easy one. Oh happy air, oh catastrophic climate. It is a journey between t ...
How to handle the issue of uncertainty in Local Climate Change
... Some experiences from trying to cope with uncertainty in local climate change adaptation Interaction between climate and societal change Will expected changes in society make us more or less vulnerable to climate change? • Communication uncertainty: the one-sided approach (that is – looking onl ...
... Some experiences from trying to cope with uncertainty in local climate change adaptation Interaction between climate and societal change Will expected changes in society make us more or less vulnerable to climate change? • Communication uncertainty: the one-sided approach (that is – looking onl ...
1 Contrasting Population Responses: Winners and Losers in
... The trophic position occupied by each of these two seabird species may explain their different population responses. Brandt’s cormorants typically forage at the tertiary trophic level and have the ability to exploit a variety schooling fish (Ainley et al. 1981). In contrast, Cassin’s auklets forage ...
... The trophic position occupied by each of these two seabird species may explain their different population responses. Brandt’s cormorants typically forage at the tertiary trophic level and have the ability to exploit a variety schooling fish (Ainley et al. 1981). In contrast, Cassin’s auklets forage ...
OBrien- Climate Change in Norway
... promotion of equity across gender and class, and between rural and urban areas. ...
... promotion of equity across gender and class, and between rural and urban areas. ...
a janus-faced challenge for our times
... What is there to celebrate about a new millennium if the northern group of the Cook Islands, or the many islands of Kiribati, Tokelau, Tuvalu, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands are about to disappear beneath the ocean?” ...
... What is there to celebrate about a new millennium if the northern group of the Cook Islands, or the many islands of Kiribati, Tokelau, Tuvalu, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands are about to disappear beneath the ocean?” ...
Hydro-Québec`s Experience in Adapting to Climate Change
... • “…the asymmetry between the economic, political, and personal costs of experimentation (often immediate and obvious) and the benefits (often displaced to the future and problematic) can act to suppress investments in knowledge ...
... • “…the asymmetry between the economic, political, and personal costs of experimentation (often immediate and obvious) and the benefits (often displaced to the future and problematic) can act to suppress investments in knowledge ...
Understanding the Effects of Climate Change on Water Resources
... Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle. Battin J., Wiley, M.W., Ruckelshaus, M.H., Palmer, R.N., Korb, E., Bartz, K.K., Imaki, H., 2007. Projected impacts of climate change on salmon habitat restoration, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United St ...
... Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle. Battin J., Wiley, M.W., Ruckelshaus, M.H., Palmer, R.N., Korb, E., Bartz, K.K., Imaki, H., 2007. Projected impacts of climate change on salmon habitat restoration, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United St ...
Representing Uncertainties & Selecting Scenarios
... Singular or unique event An event likely to occur once only. Probability refers to the chance of an event occurring, or to a particular state of that event when it occurs. Eg. Climate change, collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, hell freezing over ...
... Singular or unique event An event likely to occur once only. Probability refers to the chance of an event occurring, or to a particular state of that event when it occurs. Eg. Climate change, collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, hell freezing over ...
Phenomenological solar signature in 400 years of reconstructed N. Scafetta
... cosmic rays that may affect formation of clouds affecting Earth’s albedo [Pap and Fox, 2004]), since they are only partially known, might be poorly or not modeled at all. [4] To circumvent the lack of knowledge in climate physics, we adopt an alternative approach that attempts to evaluate the total ...
... cosmic rays that may affect formation of clouds affecting Earth’s albedo [Pap and Fox, 2004]), since they are only partially known, might be poorly or not modeled at all. [4] To circumvent the lack of knowledge in climate physics, we adopt an alternative approach that attempts to evaluate the total ...