Climate Change in Pilot Point, Alaska
... Records from King Salmon’s weather station (80 miles North from Pilot Point) indicate that between 1949 and 2008, average annual temperatures increased by 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) with most warming occurring in winter (+8.1°F) and the least in the fall (+0.6°F)(Alaska Climate Research Center). L ...
... Records from King Salmon’s weather station (80 miles North from Pilot Point) indicate that between 1949 and 2008, average annual temperatures increased by 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) with most warming occurring in winter (+8.1°F) and the least in the fall (+0.6°F)(Alaska Climate Research Center). L ...
Economics of PGRFA Management for Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of Selected Literature
... The links between climate change and crop yield have largely been explored focusing on the relation between climate variables and the productivity of food crops. Indeed, there is a large and growing body of literature that uses agronomic models, agro-economic models or Ricardian analysis to investig ...
... The links between climate change and crop yield have largely been explored focusing on the relation between climate variables and the productivity of food crops. Indeed, there is a large and growing body of literature that uses agronomic models, agro-economic models or Ricardian analysis to investig ...
Global Warming and Climate Change
... their citizens. This will necessitate a wide range of measures, including significant additional energy use in those countries and compensating reductions in industrialized countries. The transition to a sustainable future will require investments in energy efficiency and non-fossil energy sources. ...
... their citizens. This will necessitate a wide range of measures, including significant additional energy use in those countries and compensating reductions in industrialized countries. The transition to a sustainable future will require investments in energy efficiency and non-fossil energy sources. ...
Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press
... since 1990, three times as much as any other country, and more than Japan and all 15 nations of the EU combined’’ (New York Times, 2001, p. A12). During this time, top climate change scientists from around the globe—comprising the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I ...
... since 1990, three times as much as any other country, and more than Japan and all 15 nations of the EU combined’’ (New York Times, 2001, p. A12). During this time, top climate change scientists from around the globe—comprising the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I ...
Working Paper - University of Sussex
... Figure 2 also shows that, by and large, the negative impacts of climate change will fall on developing economies. Some have argued that the proportional impacts of climate change increase with per capita income (Hoel & Sterner, 2007; Sterner & Persson, 2008). The empirical evidence shows the opposit ...
... Figure 2 also shows that, by and large, the negative impacts of climate change will fall on developing economies. Some have argued that the proportional impacts of climate change increase with per capita income (Hoel & Sterner, 2007; Sterner & Persson, 2008). The empirical evidence shows the opposit ...
EXAMINING THE UNINTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE
... of crop yields, and the effects of sea level rise were found to be completely erroneous and derived from non-peer reviewed sources. In 2010 the InterAcademy Council identified “significant shortcomings in each major step of IPCC’s assessment process.” We all know that predictions are difficult and t ...
... of crop yields, and the effects of sea level rise were found to be completely erroneous and derived from non-peer reviewed sources. In 2010 the InterAcademy Council identified “significant shortcomings in each major step of IPCC’s assessment process.” We all know that predictions are difficult and t ...
Report of the Working Group on Climate Change
... flush comes for a period of 15 to 20 days. The leaves at this time is a resultant of the climate prevailed during its prior months because tea being a rain-fed perennial crop, the physiology of tea plants is closely linked to external environmental and climatic factors – elevation, precipitation, te ...
... flush comes for a period of 15 to 20 days. The leaves at this time is a resultant of the climate prevailed during its prior months because tea being a rain-fed perennial crop, the physiology of tea plants is closely linked to external environmental and climatic factors – elevation, precipitation, te ...
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... example, to develop agricultural technologies for the hotspot regions. In extreme cases, hotspots may provide forewarning of areas where agriculture could be untenable in the future, leading to shifts out of agriculture or migration away from the hotspot. Areas identified as climate opportunities, i ...
... example, to develop agricultural technologies for the hotspot regions. In extreme cases, hotspots may provide forewarning of areas where agriculture could be untenable in the future, leading to shifts out of agriculture or migration away from the hotspot. Areas identified as climate opportunities, i ...
Using the UKCP09 probabilistic scenarios to model the amplified
... model structure and emissions scenario in GCMs (e.g. Giorgi and Francisco, 2000; Covey et al., 2003) and when using RCM data the sources of uncertainty increase, as outputs are influenced by RCM resolution, numerical scheme, physical parameterizations and the forcing lateral boundary conditions (Rum ...
... model structure and emissions scenario in GCMs (e.g. Giorgi and Francisco, 2000; Covey et al., 2003) and when using RCM data the sources of uncertainty increase, as outputs are influenced by RCM resolution, numerical scheme, physical parameterizations and the forcing lateral boundary conditions (Rum ...
Climate Change: Issues and Events
... things; a target of getting at least 1.3 million small holder farmers, most of these rural women into climate resilient agriculture. It intends to help some countries access their vulnerability so as to take early response. There is also an ambition to mainstream Climate change into school curricula ...
... things; a target of getting at least 1.3 million small holder farmers, most of these rural women into climate resilient agriculture. It intends to help some countries access their vulnerability so as to take early response. There is also an ambition to mainstream Climate change into school curricula ...
Climate Change Briefing: Questions for Directors to Ask
... mitigation may add expenses, it can also create opportunities for costsaving and innovation. The financial impact of adaptation and mitigation actions varies among companies, depending on their nature and circumstances. The impacts and severity of adaptation and mitigation also affect different indu ...
... mitigation may add expenses, it can also create opportunities for costsaving and innovation. The financial impact of adaptation and mitigation actions varies among companies, depending on their nature and circumstances. The impacts and severity of adaptation and mitigation also affect different indu ...
Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not
... While archaic humans appear not to have inhabited the northernmost parts of Eurasia, no terrestrial megafaunal species was endemic to these parts (see the electronic supplementary material, Data S1). The residing megafauna would have encountered archaic hominins during range extensions into more sou ...
... While archaic humans appear not to have inhabited the northernmost parts of Eurasia, no terrestrial megafaunal species was endemic to these parts (see the electronic supplementary material, Data S1). The residing megafauna would have encountered archaic hominins during range extensions into more sou ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... capitalized upon, not only will yields drop but prices of staples will rise. Climate change is projected to bring about a shift of seasons accompanied by a reduction of humid periods, a rise in evapotranspiration, and drying of soils. A majority of humid soils where rice and sugar cane are cultivate ...
... capitalized upon, not only will yields drop but prices of staples will rise. Climate change is projected to bring about a shift of seasons accompanied by a reduction of humid periods, a rise in evapotranspiration, and drying of soils. A majority of humid soils where rice and sugar cane are cultivate ...
Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not
... While archaic humans appear not to have inhabited the northernmost parts of Eurasia, no terrestrial megafaunal species was endemic to these parts (see the electronic supplementary material, Data S1). The residing megafauna would have encountered archaic hominins during range extensions into more sou ...
... While archaic humans appear not to have inhabited the northernmost parts of Eurasia, no terrestrial megafaunal species was endemic to these parts (see the electronic supplementary material, Data S1). The residing megafauna would have encountered archaic hominins during range extensions into more sou ...
Velocity of climate change algorithms for guiding conservation and
... differential of adjacent grid cells, measured in °C km 1. The division cancels the °C units, while units of kilometre in the denominator and the units of year in the numerator swap positions. The resulting variable is a speed or velocity measured in units of kilometres per year, and represents an in ...
... differential of adjacent grid cells, measured in °C km 1. The division cancels the °C units, while units of kilometre in the denominator and the units of year in the numerator swap positions. The resulting variable is a speed or velocity measured in units of kilometres per year, and represents an in ...
Can terrestrial ectotherms escape the heat of climate change by
... persistence. We omit other important issues such as whether dispersal ability and landscape connectivity would enable a species to reach the new location, whether the habitat would be suitable in the new location and coupling between cells. We consider the movement of populations as would occur with ...
... persistence. We omit other important issues such as whether dispersal ability and landscape connectivity would enable a species to reach the new location, whether the habitat would be suitable in the new location and coupling between cells. We consider the movement of populations as would occur with ...
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... Recent evidence suggests that global climate change is likely to increase the incidence of environmental disasters, increase the variability of rainfall and temperature, and involve other climatic parameters such as seasonal pattern change and the increase of extreme weather events (IPCC, 2013). Stu ...
... Recent evidence suggests that global climate change is likely to increase the incidence of environmental disasters, increase the variability of rainfall and temperature, and involve other climatic parameters such as seasonal pattern change and the increase of extreme weather events (IPCC, 2013). Stu ...
Preliminary Analysis of Climate Change in the Cariboo
... The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC, 2007) has presented clear evidence that the world’s climate is warming and projects future increases in global mean annual temperature of 1.1°C to 6.4°C during the 21st century, depending on levels of greenhouse gas emissions and on ...
... The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC, 2007) has presented clear evidence that the world’s climate is warming and projects future increases in global mean annual temperature of 1.1°C to 6.4°C during the 21st century, depending on levels of greenhouse gas emissions and on ...
Impacts of climate change on plankton
... to affect the process of calcification and therefore certain planktonic organisms (e.g. coccolithophores, foraminifera, pelagic molluscs) may be particularly vulnerable to future CO2 emissions. Apart from climate warming, potential chemical changes to the oceans and their effect on the biology of th ...
... to affect the process of calcification and therefore certain planktonic organisms (e.g. coccolithophores, foraminifera, pelagic molluscs) may be particularly vulnerable to future CO2 emissions. Apart from climate warming, potential chemical changes to the oceans and their effect on the biology of th ...
ProClim– Flash - Naturwissenschaften Schweiz
... • The contribution by WGII to the AR5 mostly confirms previous findings from AR4. • Risks result from a combination of hazard, exposure and vulnerability. • Generally: The warmer it gets the more nega tive impacts dominate and the higher the risks become. • Risks differ among social groups, reg ...
... • The contribution by WGII to the AR5 mostly confirms previous findings from AR4. • Risks result from a combination of hazard, exposure and vulnerability. • Generally: The warmer it gets the more nega tive impacts dominate and the higher the risks become. • Risks differ among social groups, reg ...
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... storms in Washington can be definitively attributed to climate change or if they are instead severe storm occurrences within otherwise natural weather patterns. However, consensus in the scientific community indicates that major storms and other events including inundation of coastal roads from sea ...
... storms in Washington can be definitively attributed to climate change or if they are instead severe storm occurrences within otherwise natural weather patterns. However, consensus in the scientific community indicates that major storms and other events including inundation of coastal roads from sea ...
PowerPoint presentation (PPT file)
... characterized by relatively smaller uncertainties; Tier 3: Higher order methods involving detailed modeling and/or inventory measurement systems driven by data at a greater resolution that provide estimates with lower uncertainties than the previous two methods. ...
... characterized by relatively smaller uncertainties; Tier 3: Higher order methods involving detailed modeling and/or inventory measurement systems driven by data at a greater resolution that provide estimates with lower uncertainties than the previous two methods. ...
Adaptation Research Program - Department of Agriculture and
... 2010 growing seasons. The results also showed that later sown wheat crops had significantly reduced growth and yield compared with wheat optimally sown early during the 2009 growing season. This stimulation is on average slightly greater than what was reported from higher yielding environments overs ...
... 2010 growing seasons. The results also showed that later sown wheat crops had significantly reduced growth and yield compared with wheat optimally sown early during the 2009 growing season. This stimulation is on average slightly greater than what was reported from higher yielding environments overs ...
Rapporteurs Report (RapporteurReport2012)
... through the implementation of the National Policy on Climate Change, which was established in 2010 and coordinated and facilitated by the National Green Technology and Climate Change Council, chaired by the Prime Minister of Malaysia. The Council‟s Working Committee on Adaptation involves both the M ...
... through the implementation of the National Policy on Climate Change, which was established in 2010 and coordinated and facilitated by the National Green Technology and Climate Change Council, chaired by the Prime Minister of Malaysia. The Council‟s Working Committee on Adaptation involves both the M ...
Climate Sensitivity, Sea Level, and Atmospheric
... 170 ppm during recent glacial periods (Petit et al., 1999). Climate forcing due to CO2 change from 1000 ppm to 170 ppm is more than 10 W/m2, which compares with forcings of the order of 1 W/m2 for competing climate forcings during the Cenozoic (Hansen et al., 2008), specifically long-term change of ...
... 170 ppm during recent glacial periods (Petit et al., 1999). Climate forcing due to CO2 change from 1000 ppm to 170 ppm is more than 10 W/m2, which compares with forcings of the order of 1 W/m2 for competing climate forcings during the Cenozoic (Hansen et al., 2008), specifically long-term change of ...
Effects of global warming
The effects of global warming are the environmental and social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse gases. There is a scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, and that human activities are the primary driver. Many impacts of climate change have already been observed, including glacier retreat, changes in the timing of seasonal events (e.g., earlier flowering of plants), and changes in agricultural productivity.Future effects of climate change will vary depending on climate change policies and social development. The two main policies to address climate change are reducing human greenhouse gas emissions (climate change mitigation) and adapting to the impacts of climate change. Geoengineering is another policy option.Near-term climate change policies could significantly affect long-term climate change impacts. Stringent mitigation policies might be able to limit global warming (in 2100) to around 2 °C or below, relative to pre-industrial levels. Without mitigation, increased energy demand and extensive use of fossil fuels might lead to global warming of around 4 °C. Higher magnitudes of global warming would be more difficult to adapt to, and would increase the risk of negative impacts.