For submission to Global Change Biology
... in annual GPP. Because the impacts on annual sapflow and GPP were far smaller than the 10% decline in rainfall, we assumed having a slightly larger rainfall for our study was acceptable. Furthermore, using a slightly larger annual rainfall for this analysis would ...
... in annual GPP. Because the impacts on annual sapflow and GPP were far smaller than the 10% decline in rainfall, we assumed having a slightly larger rainfall for our study was acceptable. Furthermore, using a slightly larger annual rainfall for this analysis would ...
World Bank Document
... 4 The marginality index is a policy-oriented indicator, created by the National Population Council in Mexico (CONAPO) that measures the lack of basic public infrastructure, as well as education and material living conditions at the state and municipal levels. It has been based traditionally on censu ...
... 4 The marginality index is a policy-oriented indicator, created by the National Population Council in Mexico (CONAPO) that measures the lack of basic public infrastructure, as well as education and material living conditions at the state and municipal levels. It has been based traditionally on censu ...
Queensland`s biodiversity under climate change:
... may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and technical advice. To the extent permitted by law, CSIRO (including its employees and consultants) excludes all ...
... may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and technical advice. To the extent permitted by law, CSIRO (including its employees and consultants) excludes all ...
Working Paper 12C
... may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and technical advice. To the extent permitted by law, CSIRO (including its employees and consultants) excludes all ...
... may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and technical advice. To the extent permitted by law, CSIRO (including its employees and consultants) excludes all ...
Transformational adaptation
... issue is framed as having only a limited, local interest or require a system-wide and transformative intervention. If vulnerability is framed as resulting from socio-political processes, then more ...
... issue is framed as having only a limited, local interest or require a system-wide and transformative intervention. If vulnerability is framed as resulting from socio-political processes, then more ...
Global Climate Change: National Security Implications
... So where are we in our thinking today when it comes to the science of climate change? There are still dissenting voices, and we cannot speak with absolute certainty. But science, we should remember, is essentially a culture of doubt.2 As Karl Popper wrote at the start of the 20th century, “I think ...
... So where are we in our thinking today when it comes to the science of climate change? There are still dissenting voices, and we cannot speak with absolute certainty. But science, we should remember, is essentially a culture of doubt.2 As Karl Popper wrote at the start of the 20th century, “I think ...
http://www.undp.org/content/dam/jordan/docs/News/Climate%20change%20policy_JO.pdf
... advanced herewith, including providing access to regional and international financing resources and capacity building initiatives and programs ...
... advanced herewith, including providing access to regional and international financing resources and capacity building initiatives and programs ...
Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on Children in
... Children are disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The specific nature of their vulnerability is multidimensional, shaped largely by the physical, social, and emotional changes that take place over the course of childhood. These changes are intensified by children’s heighte ...
... Children are disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The specific nature of their vulnerability is multidimensional, shaped largely by the physical, social, and emotional changes that take place over the course of childhood. These changes are intensified by children’s heighte ...
Resilience to natural hazards: How useful is this concept?
... resilience to natural hazards, using weather-related hazards in coastal megacities as an example. The paper draws on the wide literature on megacities, coastal hazards, hazard risk reduction strategies, and resilience within environmental management. Some analysts define resilience as a system attrib ...
... resilience to natural hazards, using weather-related hazards in coastal megacities as an example. The paper draws on the wide literature on megacities, coastal hazards, hazard risk reduction strategies, and resilience within environmental management. Some analysts define resilience as a system attrib ...
Interaction of impacts of doubling CO2 and changing regional land
... ABSTRACT: The Community Climate System Model version 2.0.1 is running for 40 years under 355 ppm CO2 conditions, without and with natural and anthropogenic land-cover changes that are assumed in the inner core of four hydrothermally different, but similar-sized (≈3.27x106 km2 ) regions (Yukon, Ob, S ...
... ABSTRACT: The Community Climate System Model version 2.0.1 is running for 40 years under 355 ppm CO2 conditions, without and with natural and anthropogenic land-cover changes that are assumed in the inner core of four hydrothermally different, but similar-sized (≈3.27x106 km2 ) regions (Yukon, Ob, S ...
Queensland Climate Change Centre of
... All sectors will be affected by climate change, particularly water supply, agriculture, human settlements, the natural environment, health and industry, but there are many others. In fact, all aspects of human existence are affected in some way by the climate of our planet. Everyday we make plans on ...
... All sectors will be affected by climate change, particularly water supply, agriculture, human settlements, the natural environment, health and industry, but there are many others. In fact, all aspects of human existence are affected in some way by the climate of our planet. Everyday we make plans on ...
Connecting on Climate
... Bill McKibben’s book The End of Nature in 1989, brought the issue to the public’s eye.1 Hansen and McKibben framed global warming in dramatic terms— rising sea levels, melting Arctic sea ice, and extreme flood and droughts— and ushered in an era of framing climate change as planetary destruction. Th ...
... Bill McKibben’s book The End of Nature in 1989, brought the issue to the public’s eye.1 Hansen and McKibben framed global warming in dramatic terms— rising sea levels, melting Arctic sea ice, and extreme flood and droughts— and ushered in an era of framing climate change as planetary destruction. Th ...
Debating Climate Economics: The Stern Review vs
... human actions create “risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century.”4 American readers should remember that this was written in a country where World Wars I and ...
... human actions create “risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century.”4 American readers should remember that this was written in a country where World Wars I and ...
Public Perception of geoengineering and its consequences for
... good for the environment people tend to be more skeptical with roughly 7 out of 10 strongly/ somewhat agree (Borick and Rabe 2012). Alike, the survey undertaken by the United States Government Accountability Office indicated that some 50 % or more were somewhat to extremely concerned that geoenginee ...
... good for the environment people tend to be more skeptical with roughly 7 out of 10 strongly/ somewhat agree (Borick and Rabe 2012). Alike, the survey undertaken by the United States Government Accountability Office indicated that some 50 % or more were somewhat to extremely concerned that geoenginee ...
Buying Time: a user`s manual for building resistance and
... CO2 concentrations have risen from ~280 ppm to 370 ppm. Emissions scenarios from the IPCC (2001) suggest that if humans do not act to reduce emissions, we will see CO2 levels of 550 ppm within the next 40 to 100 years, roughly a doubling of pre-industrial concentrations. This range of scenarios impl ...
... CO2 concentrations have risen from ~280 ppm to 370 ppm. Emissions scenarios from the IPCC (2001) suggest that if humans do not act to reduce emissions, we will see CO2 levels of 550 ppm within the next 40 to 100 years, roughly a doubling of pre-industrial concentrations. This range of scenarios impl ...
Climate Change Effects and Adaptation Approaches in Marine and
... Olympic Peninsula (WA).56 Rising sea level often results in loss of nearshore or coastal habitat57 and harm to dependent species.58 Recent anomalous hypoxic events in the California Current Ecosystem may be characteristic of future change. Severe hypoxia, corresponding to dissolved oxygen (DO) level ...
... Olympic Peninsula (WA).56 Rising sea level often results in loss of nearshore or coastal habitat57 and harm to dependent species.58 Recent anomalous hypoxic events in the California Current Ecosystem may be characteristic of future change. Severe hypoxia, corresponding to dissolved oxygen (DO) level ...
Climate Change in Colorado: A Synthesis to Support Water Resources Management and Adaptation.
... by increased surface, atmospheric, and ocean temperatures; melting glaciers and ice sheets; rising sea levels; and increased atmospheric water vapor. ...
... by increased surface, atmospheric, and ocean temperatures; melting glaciers and ice sheets; rising sea levels; and increased atmospheric water vapor. ...
Climate Change and Population Movement in Pacific Island Countries
... If droughts were to be longer or occur more frequently, the livelihoods of very large numbers of people would be placed under significant duress. As well as droughts, extreme rainfall events are likely to become increasingly intense and frequent, causing flooding that may make ...
... If droughts were to be longer or occur more frequently, the livelihoods of very large numbers of people would be placed under significant duress. As well as droughts, extreme rainfall events are likely to become increasingly intense and frequent, causing flooding that may make ...
CURRICULUM VITAE
... Environmental Systems Institute, and the EMS Energy Institute. He led the faculty through the development of the College’s 2009-2014 Strategic Plan, which currently guides new thrusts in international earth and energy science education, traditional and high-risk research in clean carbon energy, natu ...
... Environmental Systems Institute, and the EMS Energy Institute. He led the faculty through the development of the College’s 2009-2014 Strategic Plan, which currently guides new thrusts in international earth and energy science education, traditional and high-risk research in clean carbon energy, natu ...
Glacier changes during the past century in the Gangrigabu
... the northwestern slope of the Gangrigabu mountains have advanced 1117 and 1762 m, and their areas have increased 0.51 and 0.49 km2, respectively. The general pattern of glacier shrinkage during the last two decades can be attributed to climate warming in the region, while a less obvious total area r ...
... the northwestern slope of the Gangrigabu mountains have advanced 1117 and 1762 m, and their areas have increased 0.51 and 0.49 km2, respectively. The general pattern of glacier shrinkage during the last two decades can be attributed to climate warming in the region, while a less obvious total area r ...
Climate Change: Adaptation for Queensland Issues Paper
... With overwhelming evidence demonstrating the link between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, policy development in many jurisdictions has focussed on reducing emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change. These efforts are commonly referred to as mitigation and will need to be continued ...
... With overwhelming evidence demonstrating the link between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, policy development in many jurisdictions has focussed on reducing emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change. These efforts are commonly referred to as mitigation and will need to be continued ...
Precipitation and temperatures extremes in East Africa in past and
... There is strong evidence that enhanced greenhouse effect will result not only in changes in the mean weather conditions, but also in increase of the variability of climate (IPCC, 2012&2013). These impacts of climate change in East Africa (EA) have materialized through changes in extreme events such ...
... There is strong evidence that enhanced greenhouse effect will result not only in changes in the mean weather conditions, but also in increase of the variability of climate (IPCC, 2012&2013). These impacts of climate change in East Africa (EA) have materialized through changes in extreme events such ...
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.