Climate Change, Political Truth, and the Marketplace of Ideas
... The metaphor of a marketplace of ideas, in which unfettered expression of ideas will lead inexorably to the discovery of truth, has deep roots in AngloAmerican political philosophy. John Milton, writing in opposition to press licensing laws in Areopagitica, urged poetically that truth would of neces ...
... The metaphor of a marketplace of ideas, in which unfettered expression of ideas will lead inexorably to the discovery of truth, has deep roots in AngloAmerican political philosophy. John Milton, writing in opposition to press licensing laws in Areopagitica, urged poetically that truth would of neces ...
Climate Change and Wetlands: Impacts and Mitigation
... The focus of this paper is the impacts of climate change on wetlands, and adaptation and mitigation options. To set the context for this, the paper also provides a brief overview of the importance and global distribution of wetlands, as well as of recent and projected changes in global and regional ...
... The focus of this paper is the impacts of climate change on wetlands, and adaptation and mitigation options. To set the context for this, the paper also provides a brief overview of the importance and global distribution of wetlands, as well as of recent and projected changes in global and regional ...
fair shares: a civil society equity review of indcs report
... most difficult commons problems that humanity has ever faced, and it will not be solved without durable and robust cooperation. This robust cooperation is urgently needed. Climate science paints a frightening picture – one that tells us that urgent and dramatic action is needed to have any chance of ...
... most difficult commons problems that humanity has ever faced, and it will not be solved without durable and robust cooperation. This robust cooperation is urgently needed. Climate science paints a frightening picture – one that tells us that urgent and dramatic action is needed to have any chance of ...
Climate change adaptation strategies for Australian birds
... Table 20. Costs of fine scale modelling to identify terrestrial refugia for Australian birds exposed and/or sensitive to climate change (costs AU$’000) ...................................... 59 Table 21. Annual costs (AU$’000s) of monitoring Australian bird taxa that may be sensitive or exposed to t ...
... Table 20. Costs of fine scale modelling to identify terrestrial refugia for Australian birds exposed and/or sensitive to climate change (costs AU$’000) ...................................... 59 Table 21. Annual costs (AU$’000s) of monitoring Australian bird taxa that may be sensitive or exposed to t ...
Treeline dynamics with climate change at the central Nepal Himalaya
... Abstract. Treeline shifting in tandem with climate change has widely been reported from various parts of the world. In Nepal, several impacts of climate change on the physical environment have been observed, but study on the biological impacts is lacking. This dendrochronological study was carried o ...
... Abstract. Treeline shifting in tandem with climate change has widely been reported from various parts of the world. In Nepal, several impacts of climate change on the physical environment have been observed, but study on the biological impacts is lacking. This dendrochronological study was carried o ...
Changing
... risks and opportunities brought about by these climate impacts. In Section 2 the consequences of climate change on UK society and people at work are considered, demonstrating that there is an expressly ‘social’ dimension to climate change. Within this context, the employment implications of adaptati ...
... risks and opportunities brought about by these climate impacts. In Section 2 the consequences of climate change on UK society and people at work are considered, demonstrating that there is an expressly ‘social’ dimension to climate change. Within this context, the employment implications of adaptati ...
WORKING GROUP III CONTRIBUTION TO THE IPCC FIFTH ASSESSMENT REPORT (AR5)
... Chapter 2 will provide a discussion of the methods used for integrated risk and uncertainty assessments of climate change response policies. Although this issue is a cross-cutting method across working groups (see section 3.1), the basic concept should be laid out in the respective WG contributions ...
... Chapter 2 will provide a discussion of the methods used for integrated risk and uncertainty assessments of climate change response policies. Although this issue is a cross-cutting method across working groups (see section 3.1), the basic concept should be laid out in the respective WG contributions ...
Ground water and climate change
... accounted for ~70% of global freshwater withdrawals and ~90% of consumptive water use2. This large-scale redistribution of fresh water from rivers, lakes and ground water to arable land (Fig. 2) has led to: (1) groundwater depletion in regions with primarily groundwater-fed irrigation; (2) groundwat ...
... accounted for ~70% of global freshwater withdrawals and ~90% of consumptive water use2. This large-scale redistribution of fresh water from rivers, lakes and ground water to arable land (Fig. 2) has led to: (1) groundwater depletion in regions with primarily groundwater-fed irrigation; (2) groundwat ...
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... Increasingly intense economic activities are triggering a range of global environmental risks to health and well-being of unprecedented scale and of a systemic nature. Climate change is a burgeoning reality. The global mean surface temperature has increased by 0.74±0.18°C over the last 100 years, wh ...
... Increasingly intense economic activities are triggering a range of global environmental risks to health and well-being of unprecedented scale and of a systemic nature. Climate change is a burgeoning reality. The global mean surface temperature has increased by 0.74±0.18°C over the last 100 years, wh ...
overcoming barriers to the adoption of climate-friendly
... action now so as to limit the impacts of climate change. Identifying the reasons behind the limited adoption of climate-friendly practices is essential to understand and address this gap. This activity is an important precursor to designing or restructuring policies to stimulate climate-friendly beh ...
... action now so as to limit the impacts of climate change. Identifying the reasons behind the limited adoption of climate-friendly practices is essential to understand and address this gap. This activity is an important precursor to designing or restructuring policies to stimulate climate-friendly beh ...
climate change law: the emergence of a new legal discipline
... threats to peace and security in the face of water shortages, and domestic energy retailers drawing on different sources of power generation to supply consumers. In addition, climate change presents enormous challenges for socioeconomic governance systems. (The federal government’s leading climate c ...
... threats to peace and security in the face of water shortages, and domestic energy retailers drawing on different sources of power generation to supply consumers. In addition, climate change presents enormous challenges for socioeconomic governance systems. (The federal government’s leading climate c ...
2. The impacts of climate change on the benthos
... there is also evidence of local and regional heterogeneity within biogeographic ranges, with infilling of gaps or loss of site occupancy away from range limits. Living close to their physiological tolerance limits, being sessile or sedentary, having typically short life spans and being from lower t ...
... there is also evidence of local and regional heterogeneity within biogeographic ranges, with infilling of gaps or loss of site occupancy away from range limits. Living close to their physiological tolerance limits, being sessile or sedentary, having typically short life spans and being from lower t ...
In the hot seat: Insolation, ENSO, and vegetation in the African tropics
... area index), NDVI saturates. In order to account for this, values above 0.7 or below 0.1 are not considered. Following the methods of Russell and Wallace [2004], 3 month mean values of NDVI fields were used to represent the seasonal mean vegetation and were regressed on time series of climatic variab ...
... area index), NDVI saturates. In order to account for this, values above 0.7 or below 0.1 are not considered. Following the methods of Russell and Wallace [2004], 3 month mean values of NDVI fields were used to represent the seasonal mean vegetation and were regressed on time series of climatic variab ...
Characterizing postindustrial changes in the ocean carbon cycle in
... The global climate-carbon model that we use in this study is MESMO (Matsumoto et al., 2008). The physical model of MESMO is derived from the computationally efficient CGOLDSTEIN climate model (Edwards and Marsh, 2005) and consists of a three-dimensional dynamical model of the ocean, a two-dimensiona ...
... The global climate-carbon model that we use in this study is MESMO (Matsumoto et al., 2008). The physical model of MESMO is derived from the computationally efficient CGOLDSTEIN climate model (Edwards and Marsh, 2005) and consists of a three-dimensional dynamical model of the ocean, a two-dimensiona ...
climate change effects on grassland
... Inkley) and external experts (Sonia Hall, The Nature Conservancy; and Julie Conley, South Central Washington Shrub-Steppe/Rangeland Partnership). We must emphasize that this discussion draft is neither comprehensive nor complete. In this complex and rapidly evolving field, we do not expect that we h ...
... Inkley) and external experts (Sonia Hall, The Nature Conservancy; and Julie Conley, South Central Washington Shrub-Steppe/Rangeland Partnership). We must emphasize that this discussion draft is neither comprehensive nor complete. In this complex and rapidly evolving field, we do not expect that we h ...
Polish National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change
... The European Commission, aiming at implementing the Nairobi Programme, published on 1 April 2009 “The White Paper: Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action”, COM (2009) 147, which defined the scope of EU’s activity for the years 2009-2012, inter alia, with regard to the pr ...
... The European Commission, aiming at implementing the Nairobi Programme, published on 1 April 2009 “The White Paper: Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action”, COM (2009) 147, which defined the scope of EU’s activity for the years 2009-2012, inter alia, with regard to the pr ...
Climate change and stream temperature projections in the Columbia
... generated within SWAT (Neitsch et al., 2005).The Columbia River basin natural flow data that were used for streamflow calibration were obtained from output from a calibrated Variable Infiltration Capacity Model (VIC) model (from http://cses.washington.edu/) and the United States Geological Survey Hy ...
... generated within SWAT (Neitsch et al., 2005).The Columbia River basin natural flow data that were used for streamflow calibration were obtained from output from a calibrated Variable Infiltration Capacity Model (VIC) model (from http://cses.washington.edu/) and the United States Geological Survey Hy ...
Participatory scenario planning for community
... There is a need to increase our resilience to uncertainty on a more proactive basis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states, with medium confidence, that intense and longer droughts are being experienced in some parts of the world in addition to an intensification of extreme rai ...
... There is a need to increase our resilience to uncertainty on a more proactive basis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states, with medium confidence, that intense and longer droughts are being experienced in some parts of the world in addition to an intensification of extreme rai ...
climate change adaptation: a collective action
... ASSESSMENT REPORT OF THE IPCC (2007), available at http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4wg2.htm (click to download individual chapters))); see also Alejandro E. Camacho, Adapting Governance to Climate Change: Managing Uncertainty Through a Learning Infrastructure, 59 EMORY L.J. 1, 17 (2009) (“[N]o amou ...
... ASSESSMENT REPORT OF THE IPCC (2007), available at http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4wg2.htm (click to download individual chapters))); see also Alejandro E. Camacho, Adapting Governance to Climate Change: Managing Uncertainty Through a Learning Infrastructure, 59 EMORY L.J. 1, 17 (2009) (“[N]o amou ...
Developing and Applying Scenarios
... higher than the 0.7–3.5°C of the SAR because of higher levels of radiative forcing in the SRES scenarios than in the IS92a-f scenarios, primarily because of lower sulfate aerosol emissions, especially after 2050. The equivalent range of estimates of global sea-level rise (for this range of global te ...
... higher than the 0.7–3.5°C of the SAR because of higher levels of radiative forcing in the SRES scenarios than in the IS92a-f scenarios, primarily because of lower sulfate aerosol emissions, especially after 2050. The equivalent range of estimates of global sea-level rise (for this range of global te ...
TAMK - University of Applied Sciences Tampere, Finland
... development of techniques and machines which convert potential energy into work has heavily increased the economies‟ outputs – but, vice versa, as well the demand for energy. The combustion of slowly renewable and fossil fuels since the beginning of the industrialization period to cover the continuo ...
... development of techniques and machines which convert potential energy into work has heavily increased the economies‟ outputs – but, vice versa, as well the demand for energy. The combustion of slowly renewable and fossil fuels since the beginning of the industrialization period to cover the continuo ...
Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Coastal and Inland Wetlands in
... which may lead to the loss of additional wetlands currently supported by groundwater. Michigan is already experiencing increases in the agricultural irrigation water withdrawals as a result of the dry, hot summer weather. Wetlands as a tool to address the problems created by greenhouse gas emissions ...
... which may lead to the loss of additional wetlands currently supported by groundwater. Michigan is already experiencing increases in the agricultural irrigation water withdrawals as a result of the dry, hot summer weather. Wetlands as a tool to address the problems created by greenhouse gas emissions ...
the effects of climate stability on northern temperate forests
... The climate was always changing: there had been periods of global tropical climate and glaciation in the past (Ruddiman, 2013). Non-avian dinosaurs lived to see the first flowers in the forests, as most angiosperm plants today can trace their family ancestors in the late Cretaceous Period (mean fami ...
... The climate was always changing: there had been periods of global tropical climate and glaciation in the past (Ruddiman, 2013). Non-avian dinosaurs lived to see the first flowers in the forests, as most angiosperm plants today can trace their family ancestors in the late Cretaceous Period (mean fami ...