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... The increase of carbon dioxide emissions and the resultant effects on the climate are at the heart of the political discussion (cf. UNFCCC, 1998; UN, 2009). Policy begins to establish various measures for emission mitigation and continuously seeks for new ways to meet emission-reduction targets. Sin ...
... The increase of carbon dioxide emissions and the resultant effects on the climate are at the heart of the political discussion (cf. UNFCCC, 1998; UN, 2009). Policy begins to establish various measures for emission mitigation and continuously seeks for new ways to meet emission-reduction targets. Sin ...
Impact of weather on commuter cyclist behaviour and implications
... weather on the transport sector (Koetse and Rietveld, 2009) but less has focussed on the effects on bicyclists. In an effort to improve the sustainability of the transport system, State, Federal and Local Governments have been promoting cycling (Austroads, 2005). Apart from investing in infrastruct ...
... weather on the transport sector (Koetse and Rietveld, 2009) but less has focussed on the effects on bicyclists. In an effort to improve the sustainability of the transport system, State, Federal and Local Governments have been promoting cycling (Austroads, 2005). Apart from investing in infrastruct ...
Assessing Current Climate Risks
... Fixing the level of vulnerability allows the magnitude and frequency of climate-related hazards contributing to that vulnerability to be diagnosed. This is the “inverse method” as described in Carter et al. (1994). While commonly used in other disciplines, this technique has not been widely used for ...
... Fixing the level of vulnerability allows the magnitude and frequency of climate-related hazards contributing to that vulnerability to be diagnosed. This is the “inverse method” as described in Carter et al. (1994). While commonly used in other disciplines, this technique has not been widely used for ...
EPA Research - 2015 Call Technical Description
... will deliver an unprecedented stream of in situ greenhouse gas observation data which can serve to constrain various analyses. The data for these network sites will provide an invaluable contribution to advancing top down verification of data provided by bottom up analysis of activities and processe ...
... will deliver an unprecedented stream of in situ greenhouse gas observation data which can serve to constrain various analyses. The data for these network sites will provide an invaluable contribution to advancing top down verification of data provided by bottom up analysis of activities and processe ...
Risk, uncertainty and the institutional geographies of
... which proved institutionally robust in spurring local authorities to make precautionary allowances for climate change, at least in part because its scientific limitations were only partly acknowledged. By contrast in the second case, greater scientific confidence led to successively more elaborate g ...
... which proved institutionally robust in spurring local authorities to make precautionary allowances for climate change, at least in part because its scientific limitations were only partly acknowledged. By contrast in the second case, greater scientific confidence led to successively more elaborate g ...
Impacts of climate change on Australian marine life
... The timing of events in an animal’s life, such as when it lays eggs, migrates, or shows peaks in abundance. As these events may be sensitive to climate, phenology studies provide evidence of climate impacts on biology. Piscivorous Fish eating. Resilience Refers to the amount of disturbance or stress ...
... The timing of events in an animal’s life, such as when it lays eggs, migrates, or shows peaks in abundance. As these events may be sensitive to climate, phenology studies provide evidence of climate impacts on biology. Piscivorous Fish eating. Resilience Refers to the amount of disturbance or stress ...
Evans - NERC
... Plant-pollinator interactions and trophic mismatches Warmer springs have resulted in advances in the phenology of many key life cycle events, including timing of flowering and insect emergence. A meta-analysis of UK phenological data demonstrate that flowering dates have advanced more rapidly than i ...
... Plant-pollinator interactions and trophic mismatches Warmer springs have resulted in advances in the phenology of many key life cycle events, including timing of flowering and insect emergence. A meta-analysis of UK phenological data demonstrate that flowering dates have advanced more rapidly than i ...
Effects of climate change and seed dispersal on airborne ragweed
... However, in absolute numbers, the increase in the latter areas can be larger, which represents higher risk for the population. Alternative sensitivity simulations were carried out to assess the relative contributions of the different drivers: excluding seed dispersal to quantify the direct effect of ...
... However, in absolute numbers, the increase in the latter areas can be larger, which represents higher risk for the population. Alternative sensitivity simulations were carried out to assess the relative contributions of the different drivers: excluding seed dispersal to quantify the direct effect of ...
Changing Climate, Changing Forests: The Impacts of Climate Change on
... amount of projected future change depends on the emissions scenarios used. Tree species composition of northeast forests has shifted slowly in response to climate for thousands of years. However, current human-accelerated climate change is much more rapid and it is unclear how forests will respond t ...
... amount of projected future change depends on the emissions scenarios used. Tree species composition of northeast forests has shifted slowly in response to climate for thousands of years. However, current human-accelerated climate change is much more rapid and it is unclear how forests will respond t ...
Fossil Free NUIG: - NUI Galway Students` Union
... These were positive, hopeful and progressive developments. But in the same year, the amount of carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere reached 350 parts per million, posing an existential threat to human progress. A concentration of 350 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide is recognised as the thr ...
... These were positive, hopeful and progressive developments. But in the same year, the amount of carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere reached 350 parts per million, posing an existential threat to human progress. A concentration of 350 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide is recognised as the thr ...
February 26, 2014 Ms. Mabel Echols Office of Information and
... 1. Introduction: The SCC is an important policy tool. The SCC estimates the economic cost of climate impacts—specifically the additional economic harm caused by one additional metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. SCC calculations are important for evaluating the costs of activities that pr ...
... 1. Introduction: The SCC is an important policy tool. The SCC estimates the economic cost of climate impacts—specifically the additional economic harm caused by one additional metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. SCC calculations are important for evaluating the costs of activities that pr ...
Changing climate, changing forests
... amount of projected future change depends on the emissions scenarios used. Tree species composition of northeast forests has shifted slowly in response to climate for thousands of years. However, current human-accelerated climate change is much more rapid and it is unclear how forests will respond t ...
... amount of projected future change depends on the emissions scenarios used. Tree species composition of northeast forests has shifted slowly in response to climate for thousands of years. However, current human-accelerated climate change is much more rapid and it is unclear how forests will respond t ...
... in lower SWE values than those observed at the SNOTEL sites. However, most of the sites with large negative PBIAS were located at lower elevations where using positive changes in SWE to validate SFE would have been problematic. At these lower elevation sites, as mentioned above, rain-on-snow events ...
Potential Impacts Of Climate Change On Tourism
... its policies and institutional strategies, along with the technical and administrative capacity for shoreline management and protection. Barbados also provides the opportunity to understand the range of coastal management issues associated with storm surge and sea level rise. Trinidad was chosen bec ...
... its policies and institutional strategies, along with the technical and administrative capacity for shoreline management and protection. Barbados also provides the opportunity to understand the range of coastal management issues associated with storm surge and sea level rise. Trinidad was chosen bec ...
Hydroclimatic changes and drivers in the Sava River Catchment and
... changes and identification of the causes and possible longterm consequences of changing water resources. Water conditions in the world’s land areas interact constantly with natural and anthropogenic climate change (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999; Christensen et al. 2004; Nilsson et al. 2005; Seneviratn ...
... changes and identification of the causes and possible longterm consequences of changing water resources. Water conditions in the world’s land areas interact constantly with natural and anthropogenic climate change (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999; Christensen et al. 2004; Nilsson et al. 2005; Seneviratn ...
Guidance for making the case for climate change adaptation in the
... Through risk assessment workshops, it was determined that the major climate change risk for this building was overheating of internal spaces. Comparisons were made between a 2005 Test Reference Year (TRY) and the UKCP09 climate projections for 2020, 2050 and 2080, with the annual hours of overheatin ...
... Through risk assessment workshops, it was determined that the major climate change risk for this building was overheating of internal spaces. Comparisons were made between a 2005 Test Reference Year (TRY) and the UKCP09 climate projections for 2020, 2050 and 2080, with the annual hours of overheatin ...
The Role of Uncertainty in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate
... model with essentially the same reduced form (structural uncertainty about some unknown open-ended scale-multiplier parameter) can have very strong consequences for cost-bene…t analysis, because it can drive applications of expected utility theory under strict relative risk aversion. It will turn ou ...
... model with essentially the same reduced form (structural uncertainty about some unknown open-ended scale-multiplier parameter) can have very strong consequences for cost-bene…t analysis, because it can drive applications of expected utility theory under strict relative risk aversion. It will turn ou ...
Landscaping climate change: a mapping technique for
... beyond the specific government, university and the “hacktivist” and “techie” communities of early adapters to the widest range of governmental bodies, non-governmental organizations and corporations. Such a new web pluralism, including dominant, “socially relevant actors,” provides an opportunity to ...
... beyond the specific government, university and the “hacktivist” and “techie” communities of early adapters to the widest range of governmental bodies, non-governmental organizations and corporations. Such a new web pluralism, including dominant, “socially relevant actors,” provides an opportunity to ...
Climate Change Law in Latin America
... competitiveness studies to estimate the costs and impacts of such policies. 11 In addition, Brazil is the only country in Latin America to have created a specific structure to compile advances in research related to climate change in Brazil, including on vulnerability and adaptation. The Brazilian P ...
... competitiveness studies to estimate the costs and impacts of such policies. 11 In addition, Brazil is the only country in Latin America to have created a specific structure to compile advances in research related to climate change in Brazil, including on vulnerability and adaptation. The Brazilian P ...
FINAL DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 24 Subject to Final Copyedit
... and affect many people in future. Integrated water management strategies could help adapt to climate change, including developing water saving technologies, increasing water productivity, and water reuse. The impacts of climate change on food production and food security in Asia will vary by region ...
... and affect many people in future. Integrated water management strategies could help adapt to climate change, including developing water saving technologies, increasing water productivity, and water reuse. The impacts of climate change on food production and food security in Asia will vary by region ...
Investing in a Time of Climate Change
... Ambitious and stringent climate change policy and mitigation action put the world on a path to limiting global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures by the end of this century. Climate perspective ...
... Ambitious and stringent climate change policy and mitigation action put the world on a path to limiting global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures by the end of this century. Climate perspective ...
Robert Whittakers 1963 Arizona Mountain plant transect revisited
... of extreme rainfall events will increase (Diffenbaugh and Giorgi 2012; Dominguez et al. 2012). A recent analysis by Cook and Seager (2013) suggests that the onset of the Southwestern summer monsoons should shift a few weeks later in the year, although the total summer precipitation should remain abo ...
... of extreme rainfall events will increase (Diffenbaugh and Giorgi 2012; Dominguez et al. 2012). A recent analysis by Cook and Seager (2013) suggests that the onset of the Southwestern summer monsoons should shift a few weeks later in the year, although the total summer precipitation should remain abo ...
Media Attention for Climate Change around the World: Data
... Abstract Climate change is a global phenomenon, and its outcomes affect societies around the world. So far, however, studies on media representations of climate change have mostly concentrated on Western societies. This paper will go beyond this limited geographical scope by presenting ...
... Abstract Climate change is a global phenomenon, and its outcomes affect societies around the world. So far, however, studies on media representations of climate change have mostly concentrated on Western societies. This paper will go beyond this limited geographical scope by presenting ...
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... Ethiopia is a large country comprised of different agro-ecologies and climate features resulting from its location and altitude variations. This suggests the need for climate investigations at the local level. Some studies have been carried out in different parts of the country because large-scale c ...
... Ethiopia is a large country comprised of different agro-ecologies and climate features resulting from its location and altitude variations. This suggests the need for climate investigations at the local level. Some studies have been carried out in different parts of the country because large-scale c ...
The effects of global change upon United States air quality
... Protection Agency and the academic community resulted in a set of modeling studies that adopted a variety of modeling methods (Hogrefe et al., 2004; Leung and Gustafson, 2005; Liang et al., 2006; Steiner et al., 2006; Tagaris et al., 2007; Liao et al., 2006; Racherla and Adams, 2006, 2008; Tao et al ...
... Protection Agency and the academic community resulted in a set of modeling studies that adopted a variety of modeling methods (Hogrefe et al., 2004; Leung and Gustafson, 2005; Liang et al., 2006; Steiner et al., 2006; Tagaris et al., 2007; Liao et al., 2006; Racherla and Adams, 2006, 2008; Tao et al ...
Climate change and agriculture
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Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale. Climate change affects agriculture in a number of ways, including through changes in average temperatures, rainfall, and climate extremes (e.g., heat waves); changes in pests and diseases; changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and ground-level ozone concentrations; changes in the nutritional quality of some foods; and changes in sea level.Climate change is already affecting agriculture, with effects unevenly distributed across the world. Future climate change will likely negatively affect crop production in low latitude countries, while effects in northern latitudes may be positive or negative. Climate change will probably increase the risk of food insecurity for some vulnerable groups, such as the poor.Agriculture contributes to climate change by (1) anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), and (2) by the conversion of non-agricultural land (e.g., forests) into agricultural land. Agriculture, forestry and land-use change contributed around 20 to 25% to global annual emissions in 2010.There are range of policies that can reduce the risk of negative climate change impacts on agriculture, and to reduce GHG emissions from the agriculture sector.