Apocalypse Soon? Dire Messages Reduce Belief in Global
... values indicating higher skepticism. In addition to the sevenitem battery, there was one item that asked, “Overall, how willing are you to change your current lifestyle in order to reduce your carbon footprint (i.e., to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases you emit both directly and indirectly)?” ...
... values indicating higher skepticism. In addition to the sevenitem battery, there was one item that asked, “Overall, how willing are you to change your current lifestyle in order to reduce your carbon footprint (i.e., to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases you emit both directly and indirectly)?” ...
FOUNDATION PAPER |ONE CLIMATE CHANGE Victoria: the
... and analysing environmental trends – working to bring the best possible scientific knowledge to our considerations of policy direction and public debate. Each ‘discipline’ is seeking to explain biophysical changes and social dynamics through rigorous scientific inquiry and research processes relevan ...
... and analysing environmental trends – working to bring the best possible scientific knowledge to our considerations of policy direction and public debate. Each ‘discipline’ is seeking to explain biophysical changes and social dynamics through rigorous scientific inquiry and research processes relevan ...
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... Global warming refers to the increasing temperature of the Earth. Scientists think it is mainly caused by gases ___1___ when fuels such as coal and oil are burned. ___2___ the world burning more fuel than ever, global warming could mean big trouble for humans. It already has caused glaciers to melt, ...
... Global warming refers to the increasing temperature of the Earth. Scientists think it is mainly caused by gases ___1___ when fuels such as coal and oil are burned. ___2___ the world burning more fuel than ever, global warming could mean big trouble for humans. It already has caused glaciers to melt, ...
Running to stand still: adaptation and the response of
... species tolerate such short-term variability through phenotypic plasticity. However, beyond the point at which individuals (and therefore species) are able to tolerate changes in climate, distributional and evolutionary changes are inevitable (Lynch & Lande 1993). The accumulating evidence of plant ...
... species tolerate such short-term variability through phenotypic plasticity. However, beyond the point at which individuals (and therefore species) are able to tolerate changes in climate, distributional and evolutionary changes are inevitable (Lynch & Lande 1993). The accumulating evidence of plant ...
Downloadable Full Text - DSpace@MIT
... intense media coverage of and great public interest in the 2011 disasters, we suspect that many readers have received inquiries or have personal interest about the nature of these events in the context of long-term trends and potential climate change. This paper is meant to present a clear record th ...
... intense media coverage of and great public interest in the 2011 disasters, we suspect that many readers have received inquiries or have personal interest about the nature of these events in the context of long-term trends and potential climate change. This paper is meant to present a clear record th ...
the greater mekong and climate change
... Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – from various sources including combustion of fossil fuels, forest destruction, and unsustainable agriculture practices – are causing the planet to warm, altering its overall climate. Observed increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting ...
... Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – from various sources including combustion of fossil fuels, forest destruction, and unsustainable agriculture practices – are causing the planet to warm, altering its overall climate. Observed increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting ...
Road transport sensitivities to weather and climate change in Australia
... expected to increase with global warming (Pittock et al., 1999). Changes in hail and lightning frequencies are uncertain, although there are some arguments for expected increases (Price & Rind, 1994; McMaster, 1999; Pittock et al., 1999). Global climate change is expected to result in greater weathe ...
... expected to increase with global warming (Pittock et al., 1999). Changes in hail and lightning frequencies are uncertain, although there are some arguments for expected increases (Price & Rind, 1994; McMaster, 1999; Pittock et al., 1999). Global climate change is expected to result in greater weathe ...
Expected changes in future temperature extremes
... warming is expected to continue into the future under enhanced greenhouse gas forcing (IPCC, 2007). A primary concern in estimating impacts from climate changes are the potential changes in variability and hence extreme events that could be associated with global climate change (Marengo et al., 2010 ...
... warming is expected to continue into the future under enhanced greenhouse gas forcing (IPCC, 2007). A primary concern in estimating impacts from climate changes are the potential changes in variability and hence extreme events that could be associated with global climate change (Marengo et al., 2010 ...
Multicentury Changes to the Global Climate and Carbon Cycle
... Their results also indicated a positive feedback to global warming from the interactive carbon cycle, with an additional increase of 90 ppmv in the atmospheric CO2, and 0.6-K additional warming. However, the changes in various carbon pools were more modest, due largely to the multiple limiting facto ...
... Their results also indicated a positive feedback to global warming from the interactive carbon cycle, with an additional increase of 90 ppmv in the atmospheric CO2, and 0.6-K additional warming. However, the changes in various carbon pools were more modest, due largely to the multiple limiting facto ...
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... Copyright 2012 by L. Menapace, G. Colson and R. Raffaelli. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. ...
... Copyright 2012 by L. Menapace, G. Colson and R. Raffaelli. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. ...
Images are courtesy of the National Snow and Ice Data Center
... AP (and decreasing of sea-ice volume in the sea-ice edge region) intensifies. This result suggests that recent observed sea-ice trend around the AP could be associated to anthropogenic forcings. ...
... AP (and decreasing of sea-ice volume in the sea-ice edge region) intensifies. This result suggests that recent observed sea-ice trend around the AP could be associated to anthropogenic forcings. ...
Temporary storage of carbon in the biosphere does have value for
... we can design a strategy to minimize the maximum values. With that objective, Kirschbaum ‘‘adopts a 100-year horizon for the analysis and aims to assess when the worst climatic impacts occur up to the year 2100, and by what land-use strategy the expected worst impacts could be most effectively ameli ...
... we can design a strategy to minimize the maximum values. With that objective, Kirschbaum ‘‘adopts a 100-year horizon for the analysis and aims to assess when the worst climatic impacts occur up to the year 2100, and by what land-use strategy the expected worst impacts could be most effectively ameli ...
MEECS Climate Change Unit Introduction
... • Describe common ecological relationships between and among species and their environments (competition, territory, carrying capacity, natural balance, L3.p2B population, dependence, survival, and other biotic and abiotic factors). (prerequisite) • Explain how two organisms can be mutually benefi ...
... • Describe common ecological relationships between and among species and their environments (competition, territory, carrying capacity, natural balance, L3.p2B population, dependence, survival, and other biotic and abiotic factors). (prerequisite) • Explain how two organisms can be mutually benefi ...
Quest - Academy of Science of South Africa
... lose their livelihoods and others their jobs. Livestock are dying and crops are failing. The next good rain in these areas of the country is predicted for March 2016 – too late for many. The El Niño weather system that affects this part of the world every five years or so is cited as the main reason ...
... lose their livelihoods and others their jobs. Livestock are dying and crops are failing. The next good rain in these areas of the country is predicted for March 2016 – too late for many. The El Niño weather system that affects this part of the world every five years or so is cited as the main reason ...
Responses to Climate Change and their Implications on
... alternative to the policy myopia that sees emission reductions as the sole path to climate change abatement,” and in particular we need to apply geo-engineering that can prevent global warming and reduce acidification of the oceans.5 Others agree. Alan Carlin, Senior Economist with the U.S. Environm ...
... alternative to the policy myopia that sees emission reductions as the sole path to climate change abatement,” and in particular we need to apply geo-engineering that can prevent global warming and reduce acidification of the oceans.5 Others agree. Alan Carlin, Senior Economist with the U.S. Environm ...
Climate Change Effects on North American Inland Fish Populations
... AMERICAN INLAND WATERS Earth’s climate system is changing with widespread impacts on inland aquatic systems. Climate change effects with the greatest significance for North American aquatic ecosystems include warming of the atmosphere and oceans, reduced snow and ice, and rising sea levels (IPCC 201 ...
... AMERICAN INLAND WATERS Earth’s climate system is changing with widespread impacts on inland aquatic systems. Climate change effects with the greatest significance for North American aquatic ecosystems include warming of the atmosphere and oceans, reduced snow and ice, and rising sea levels (IPCC 201 ...
Global Warming False Alarms - Institute of Economic Affairs
... predictions of 40 years ago of an imminent ice age and to other past doom forecasts due to alleged overpopulation, depletion of food and fuel supplies, and chemical pollution. There are serious doubts about the measurements, assumptions and predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang ...
... predictions of 40 years ago of an imminent ice age and to other past doom forecasts due to alleged overpopulation, depletion of food and fuel supplies, and chemical pollution. There are serious doubts about the measurements, assumptions and predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang ...
Global Warming False Alarms
... mounting taxes and controls. It is strikingly similar to the dire predictions of 40 years ago of an imminent ice age and to other past doom forecasts due to alleged overpopulation, depletion of food and fuel supplies, and chemical pollution. There are serious doubts about the measurements, assumptio ...
... mounting taxes and controls. It is strikingly similar to the dire predictions of 40 years ago of an imminent ice age and to other past doom forecasts due to alleged overpopulation, depletion of food and fuel supplies, and chemical pollution. There are serious doubts about the measurements, assumptio ...
Australian rangelands and climate change – pastoral production
... Table 5.1 Summary of climate change impacts on livestock production systems. ......................................................... 8 Table 5.2 Options for adapting to climate change in the livestock industry................................................................... 8 Table 5.3 Plausible ...
... Table 5.1 Summary of climate change impacts on livestock production systems. ......................................................... 8 Table 5.2 Options for adapting to climate change in the livestock industry................................................................... 8 Table 5.3 Plausible ...
Double exposure: assessing the impacts of climate change within
... identifying them. In Sections 3 and 4, we consider winners and losers in the context of climate change, and from the perspective of economic globalization. Section 3 introduces the concept of double exposure, and presents some examples. In conclusion, we suggest some issues and questions for future ...
... identifying them. In Sections 3 and 4, we consider winners and losers in the context of climate change, and from the perspective of economic globalization. Section 3 introduces the concept of double exposure, and presents some examples. In conclusion, we suggest some issues and questions for future ...
Hydrological Responses to Climate Change in the Water Receiving
... China is located in the monsoon area, where the earth environment is complex in spatial and mutable in temporal, and it is sensitive and vulnerable to the external changes (Zhou et al. 2004). The Hai River Basin, one of the main areas of severe water shortage with water imbalance and water overloadi ...
... China is located in the monsoon area, where the earth environment is complex in spatial and mutable in temporal, and it is sensitive and vulnerable to the external changes (Zhou et al. 2004). The Hai River Basin, one of the main areas of severe water shortage with water imbalance and water overloadi ...
Climate-human-environment interactions: resolving our past
... in time? Reviews of environmental changes over the last 250 years (e.g. Steffen et al., 2004) offer powerful images of recent rates of change, but may not capture the trajectories of “slow” adaptive cycles that are key to understanding resilience (Holling and Gunderson, 2002). Viewing our present ea ...
... in time? Reviews of environmental changes over the last 250 years (e.g. Steffen et al., 2004) offer powerful images of recent rates of change, but may not capture the trajectories of “slow” adaptive cycles that are key to understanding resilience (Holling and Gunderson, 2002). Viewing our present ea ...
Young people`s burden: Requirement of
... asked the Court to dismiss the case, in part based on the argument that the requested rate of fossil fuel emissions reduction was implausible. Magistrate Judge Coffin stated that he was “troubled” by the severity of the requested emissions reduction rate, but he also noted that some of the alleged c ...
... asked the Court to dismiss the case, in part based on the argument that the requested rate of fossil fuel emissions reduction was implausible. Magistrate Judge Coffin stated that he was “troubled” by the severity of the requested emissions reduction rate, but he also noted that some of the alleged c ...
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.