climate change adaptation action plan for iqaluit
... change to 70 cm sea-level rise, will have a wide potential range of impacts on the shoreline and the infrastructure adjacent to it including: docking facilities, waste discharge areas, and the community’s ongoing access to the shorelines and beach activities. Each of these issues will have a variety ...
... change to 70 cm sea-level rise, will have a wide potential range of impacts on the shoreline and the infrastructure adjacent to it including: docking facilities, waste discharge areas, and the community’s ongoing access to the shorelines and beach activities. Each of these issues will have a variety ...
Public Perception of Climate Change in a Period of Economic Crisis
... effects on human welfare are not always clear, it is hard for people to conceptualize the causes of climate change and, conversely, the possible effects of climate change on their lives. This, however, does not imply that citizens are not concerned about the consequences of climate change [1]. Sever ...
... effects on human welfare are not always clear, it is hard for people to conceptualize the causes of climate change and, conversely, the possible effects of climate change on their lives. This, however, does not imply that citizens are not concerned about the consequences of climate change [1]. Sever ...
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... species. Increased storm intensity may have significant implications for coastal structures, navigation as well as marine search and rescue operations. Changing marine ecosystems will also have real implications for environmental monitoring, protection and conservation strategies.While international ...
... species. Increased storm intensity may have significant implications for coastal structures, navigation as well as marine search and rescue operations. Changing marine ecosystems will also have real implications for environmental monitoring, protection and conservation strategies.While international ...
Atmospheric moisture transport: the bridge between ocean
... tion of the sources; or (3) more complex Lagrangian computational techniques that are able to infer the sources of the precipitation that falls in a target region and thus overcome the limitations of (1) and (2). An analysis of the performance of these Lagrangian techniques and their advantages over ...
... tion of the sources; or (3) more complex Lagrangian computational techniques that are able to infer the sources of the precipitation that falls in a target region and thus overcome the limitations of (1) and (2). An analysis of the performance of these Lagrangian techniques and their advantages over ...
Seasonal and spatial heterogeneity of recent sea surface
... were significant in most of the study area (Fig. 3F) with an average of 0.33 °C decade1 (Fig. 3E). A much decreased, non-significant summer warming was observed in the upwelling areas of Yucatan and the southern Caribbean Sea, as well as in the Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela) and the eastern Florida shelf ...
... were significant in most of the study area (Fig. 3F) with an average of 0.33 °C decade1 (Fig. 3E). A much decreased, non-significant summer warming was observed in the upwelling areas of Yucatan and the southern Caribbean Sea, as well as in the Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela) and the eastern Florida shelf ...
Eurasian Arctic greening reveals teleconnections and the potential
... over different spatial and temporal scales, such as fluvial valleys and cryogenic landslides. Whereas fluvial landscapes are dominant west of the Urals, cryogenic landslides are the leading landscapeforming process in the continuous permafrost zone of northwestern Siberia18 . Cryogenic landslides ar ...
... over different spatial and temporal scales, such as fluvial valleys and cryogenic landslides. Whereas fluvial landscapes are dominant west of the Urals, cryogenic landslides are the leading landscapeforming process in the continuous permafrost zone of northwestern Siberia18 . Cryogenic landslides ar ...
Workshop summary
... These strategies which include programs such as REDD and sustainable land and water management, advocate a range of good practices that are often also the most effective strategy to improve the resilience of food system assets to climate change. Mechanisms for regional cooperation Having identified ...
... These strategies which include programs such as REDD and sustainable land and water management, advocate a range of good practices that are often also the most effective strategy to improve the resilience of food system assets to climate change. Mechanisms for regional cooperation Having identified ...
Articles Climate Change Vulnerability and Policy Support
... Environmentally Significant Behavior: Definition, Types, and Causes Social scientific literature is replete with theories, models, and hypotheses of environmental behavior. Paul Stern (2000) has developed an analytic framework that coherently organizes this literature into typologies of behavior and ...
... Environmentally Significant Behavior: Definition, Types, and Causes Social scientific literature is replete with theories, models, and hypotheses of environmental behavior. Paul Stern (2000) has developed an analytic framework that coherently organizes this literature into typologies of behavior and ...
Multi-hazard Risks and Vulnerable Populations in the Caribbean
... analysis. They model U.S. hurricane direct fatalities over time, by landfall county, and by storm, as a function of various geographical considerations, storm characteristics, socioeconomic demographics, forecasting technology, and evacuation. They identify a total of 68 landfalling hurricanes from ...
... analysis. They model U.S. hurricane direct fatalities over time, by landfall county, and by storm, as a function of various geographical considerations, storm characteristics, socioeconomic demographics, forecasting technology, and evacuation. They identify a total of 68 landfalling hurricanes from ...
The role of ecosystems in climate change adaptation and disaster
... human systems makes adaptation imperative. Adaptation, in human systems, is defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects, in order to moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, it refers ...
... human systems makes adaptation imperative. Adaptation, in human systems, is defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects, in order to moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, it refers ...
The Climate Change Generation?
... with conservatives more skeptical and less engaged than liberals, and this ideological divide is no different among young Americans. Members of the current college-age generation (18-22 year-olds), who have grown up with even less scientific uncertainty about climate change, are somewhat more concer ...
... with conservatives more skeptical and less engaged than liberals, and this ideological divide is no different among young Americans. Members of the current college-age generation (18-22 year-olds), who have grown up with even less scientific uncertainty about climate change, are somewhat more concer ...
The Future of Vascular Plant Diversity Under Four
... described at the end of this section. For global losses, we used the land cover projections of the MA scenarios produced by IMAGE model in conjunction with the species-area relationship (SAR) to explore possible trends in future, global vascular plant biodiversity. The SAR is a wellestablished empir ...
... described at the end of this section. For global losses, we used the land cover projections of the MA scenarios produced by IMAGE model in conjunction with the species-area relationship (SAR) to explore possible trends in future, global vascular plant biodiversity. The SAR is a wellestablished empir ...
Climate Justice in Rural Southeastern United States: A Review of
... warming event over the last 65 million years and that this warming trend is expected to increase in its speed and intensity over the next 30 to 80 years [1]. The Committee addresses two global changes that are occurring abruptly: the disappearance of Arctic sea ice and increases in the extinction ra ...
... warming event over the last 65 million years and that this warming trend is expected to increase in its speed and intensity over the next 30 to 80 years [1]. The Committee addresses two global changes that are occurring abruptly: the disappearance of Arctic sea ice and increases in the extinction ra ...
Yurok Tribe and Climate Change:
... “The term Climate Change is used to refer to changes in the Earth's climate. In the most general sense, it can be taken to mean changes over all timescales and in all of the components of climate, including precipitation and clouds as well as temperature. Climate changes can be caused both by natura ...
... “The term Climate Change is used to refer to changes in the Earth's climate. In the most general sense, it can be taken to mean changes over all timescales and in all of the components of climate, including precipitation and clouds as well as temperature. Climate changes can be caused both by natura ...
T - Climate Investment Funds
... form the backdrop for a number of lifestyle and livelihood related activities, making Jamaica a climate sensitive country. For example, Jamaica’s climate sensitivity can be found in planting and reaping cycles which are intimately bound up with Jamaica’s rainfall and temperature climatologies i.e. i ...
... form the backdrop for a number of lifestyle and livelihood related activities, making Jamaica a climate sensitive country. For example, Jamaica’s climate sensitivity can be found in planting and reaping cycles which are intimately bound up with Jamaica’s rainfall and temperature climatologies i.e. i ...
Climate Change Scenarios for New Zealand Rainfall
... Expected average increases in global mean temperature during the twenty-first century have been assessed to lie between 1.4° and 5.8°C, relative to 1990 levels (Cubasch et al. 2001). In global terms, the hydrological cycle is expected to increase in intensity with rising temperatures. All general ci ...
... Expected average increases in global mean temperature during the twenty-first century have been assessed to lie between 1.4° and 5.8°C, relative to 1990 levels (Cubasch et al. 2001). In global terms, the hydrological cycle is expected to increase in intensity with rising temperatures. All general ci ...
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... Sensitivity was taken as responsiveness to changes in climate variables. A robust classification of species¶ sensitivity, which can be compared across species, is not possible, as there is insufficient data on the response of species to the climate parameters. The assessment, therefore, was based on ...
... Sensitivity was taken as responsiveness to changes in climate variables. A robust classification of species¶ sensitivity, which can be compared across species, is not possible, as there is insufficient data on the response of species to the climate parameters. The assessment, therefore, was based on ...
the global monsoon systems
... also increasingly refers to regions where there is a clear alternation between winter dry and summer rainy seasons. According to this definition, the monsoon region is distributed globally over all tropical continents, and in the tropical oceans in the western North Pacific, eastern North Pacific, a ...
... also increasingly refers to regions where there is a clear alternation between winter dry and summer rainy seasons. According to this definition, the monsoon region is distributed globally over all tropical continents, and in the tropical oceans in the western North Pacific, eastern North Pacific, a ...
Analysis of perception and adaptation to climate change in the Nile
... which assist to adapt to climate change. Adaptation to climate change is costly (Mendelson, 2004), and this cost could be revealed through the need for intensive labour use. Thus, if farmers do not have sufficient family labour or the financial means to higher labour, they can not adapt. Shortage o ...
... which assist to adapt to climate change. Adaptation to climate change is costly (Mendelson, 2004), and this cost could be revealed through the need for intensive labour use. Thus, if farmers do not have sufficient family labour or the financial means to higher labour, they can not adapt. Shortage o ...
Modeling the Impact of Afforestation on Global Climate: A 2
... by Gibbard et al. (2005) showed that total replacement of current vegetation by trees would lead to warming similar to 2 × CO2 scenarios while replacement of vegetation by grassland would lead to moderate cooling. Their simulations also indicate that mid-latitude forestation shows the possibility of ...
... by Gibbard et al. (2005) showed that total replacement of current vegetation by trees would lead to warming similar to 2 × CO2 scenarios while replacement of vegetation by grassland would lead to moderate cooling. Their simulations also indicate that mid-latitude forestation shows the possibility of ...
Climate Change Adaptation Plan – City of Red Deer Part One
... debate over the causes and severity of changes to our climatic patterns, there is some agreement that our planet is facing more severe weather and that the average conditions are no longer the type of norm we might expect to continue. Over the past century, Alberta’s average temperature has warmed b ...
... debate over the causes and severity of changes to our climatic patterns, there is some agreement that our planet is facing more severe weather and that the average conditions are no longer the type of norm we might expect to continue. Over the past century, Alberta’s average temperature has warmed b ...
Arctic greening can cause earlier seasonality of Arctic amplification
... understand the factors that affect the seasonal cycle of Arctic warming because it affects Arctic ecosystems, economic activities such as shipping and fisheries, and the mass balance of glaciers and ice caps that affects sea level. ...
... understand the factors that affect the seasonal cycle of Arctic warming because it affects Arctic ecosystems, economic activities such as shipping and fisheries, and the mass balance of glaciers and ice caps that affects sea level. ...
Challenging the current climate change – migration nexus: exploring
... change is often correlated with the change of seasons or a-typical weather patterns. These quantitative results are in line with our own taken from interviews as they share the general tendency to frame the abstract entity climate change by way of more concrete and experienced phenomena. However, a ...
... change is often correlated with the change of seasons or a-typical weather patterns. These quantitative results are in line with our own taken from interviews as they share the general tendency to frame the abstract entity climate change by way of more concrete and experienced phenomena. However, a ...
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.