Information and Knowledge Management for Climate Change
... What is VCA? An Introduction to Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment Drinking Water Safety Planning: A Practical Guide for Pacific Island Countries Climate Proofing for Development: Adapting to Climate Change Reducing Risks - Summary for Policy and Decision Makers Surviving Climate Change in Small ...
... What is VCA? An Introduction to Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment Drinking Water Safety Planning: A Practical Guide for Pacific Island Countries Climate Proofing for Development: Adapting to Climate Change Reducing Risks - Summary for Policy and Decision Makers Surviving Climate Change in Small ...
Geographies of Race and Food
... One of the most significant – and unfair – impacts of predicted global climate change is likely to be on agricultural production. Recent studies show that the early-industrializing nations with the weightiest per-capita carbon footprints may even benefit from a warmer planet, while those already und ...
... One of the most significant – and unfair – impacts of predicted global climate change is likely to be on agricultural production. Recent studies show that the early-industrializing nations with the weightiest per-capita carbon footprints may even benefit from a warmer planet, while those already und ...
Safe climate memes - Green Innovations
... 6b. Action can’t be limited to tools ‘allowed’ by neo-liberalism or other ideologies “for the duration”. (A skeleton case for this has been made, but needs to be developed in depth.) 6c. The emergency footing strategy needs to also include solutions for any issues that might undermine effective acti ...
... 6b. Action can’t be limited to tools ‘allowed’ by neo-liberalism or other ideologies “for the duration”. (A skeleton case for this has been made, but needs to be developed in depth.) 6c. The emergency footing strategy needs to also include solutions for any issues that might undermine effective acti ...
Letter from Bob Ward to Peter Lilley, 22 February 2013
... assumption that future generations would automatically be “many times better off than us”, no matter what damage is caused by unmitigated climate change. This mistaken belief, of course, pre-determines your conclusions, but is at odds with the science, which clearly indicates potentially huge impact ...
... assumption that future generations would automatically be “many times better off than us”, no matter what damage is caused by unmitigated climate change. This mistaken belief, of course, pre-determines your conclusions, but is at odds with the science, which clearly indicates potentially huge impact ...
awareness of both type 1 and 2 errors in climate science and
... landscape of uncertainty characterization, which has been increasingly explored and utilized within the context of the IPCC (Mastrandrea et al. 2011; Moss and Schneider 2000; O’Reilly et al. 2011; Yohe and Oppenheimer 2011). Yet, careful treatment of type 2 errors can fall outside current uncertaint ...
... landscape of uncertainty characterization, which has been increasingly explored and utilized within the context of the IPCC (Mastrandrea et al. 2011; Moss and Schneider 2000; O’Reilly et al. 2011; Yohe and Oppenheimer 2011). Yet, careful treatment of type 2 errors can fall outside current uncertaint ...
Reference Document - World Health Organization
... The four national time series plots are country–specific projections up to the year 2100 for climate hazards under a ‘business as usual’ high emissions scenario (in orange) compared to projections under a ‘two-degree’ scenario with rapidly decreasing emissions (in green). The panels include: mean an ...
... The four national time series plots are country–specific projections up to the year 2100 for climate hazards under a ‘business as usual’ high emissions scenario (in orange) compared to projections under a ‘two-degree’ scenario with rapidly decreasing emissions (in green). The panels include: mean an ...
ANNEX 1 A JPI CLIMATE First joint call 2013, call topic 1: Societal
... Research in this thematic area contributes to the understanding of systemic and sustainable societal responses to climate change and creates synergies with all other themes in this call. The multiple drivers of climate change are connected to current global megatrends, socio-ecological challenges (e ...
... Research in this thematic area contributes to the understanding of systemic and sustainable societal responses to climate change and creates synergies with all other themes in this call. The multiple drivers of climate change are connected to current global megatrends, socio-ecological challenges (e ...
Vulnerability, Resilience, & Adaptation: Societal Causes
... resilience index by the various proxies ...
... resilience index by the various proxies ...
Adapting to Climate Change - Business for Social Responsibility
... Collaborating on adaptation with solutions providers, such as insurance and information and communication technology companies. While climate science continues to be refined, the most confident projections are usually made at global or large-scale regional levels. Yet because impacts are highly loca ...
... Collaborating on adaptation with solutions providers, such as insurance and information and communication technology companies. While climate science continues to be refined, the most confident projections are usually made at global or large-scale regional levels. Yet because impacts are highly loca ...
Rapid evolution of thermal tolerance in the water flea Daphnia
... Global climate is changing rapidly, and the degree to which natural populations respond genetically to these changes is key to predicting ecological responses1–3 . So far, no study has documented evolutionary changes in the thermal tolerance of natural populations as a response to recent temperature ...
... Global climate is changing rapidly, and the degree to which natural populations respond genetically to these changes is key to predicting ecological responses1–3 . So far, no study has documented evolutionary changes in the thermal tolerance of natural populations as a response to recent temperature ...
Review of climate and cryospheric change in the Tibetan Plateau
... The TP climate is characterized by wet and humid summers with cool and dry winters. Most of the precipitation, greater than 60–90% of the annual total, falls between June and September and less than 10% between November and February (Xu et al 2008). Summer precipitation gradually decreases from the ...
... The TP climate is characterized by wet and humid summers with cool and dry winters. Most of the precipitation, greater than 60–90% of the annual total, falls between June and September and less than 10% between November and February (Xu et al 2008). Summer precipitation gradually decreases from the ...
Here are some documents that we used for research. Climate
... located on Seafield Road West) with their children, who were both baptised there. Stoker was an invalid until he started school at the age of seven — when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportu ...
... located on Seafield Road West) with their children, who were both baptised there. Stoker was an invalid until he started school at the age of seven — when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportu ...
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... Global warming and its effects on climate change have been considered important issues that can have long term economic implications. There are different schools of thought on its causes as well as consequences, but there is evidence that the solar system goes through different cycles causing rises ...
... Global warming and its effects on climate change have been considered important issues that can have long term economic implications. There are different schools of thought on its causes as well as consequences, but there is evidence that the solar system goes through different cycles causing rises ...
The Role of International Project Offices (IPOs) in
... Measures of the different expressions of biodiversity may not necessarily track each other over time when policy changes. ...
... Measures of the different expressions of biodiversity may not necessarily track each other over time when policy changes. ...
lecture20erk - UA Atmospheric Sciences
... Changing CO2 concentrations • CO2 concentrations have varied naturally by ~30-50% over the past few hundred thousand years (ice ages) • Fossil fuel burning since the industrial revolution has created a recent sharp increase in CO2 concentrations • CO2 concentrations are now higher than at any time ...
... Changing CO2 concentrations • CO2 concentrations have varied naturally by ~30-50% over the past few hundred thousand years (ice ages) • Fossil fuel burning since the industrial revolution has created a recent sharp increase in CO2 concentrations • CO2 concentrations are now higher than at any time ...
Introduction - San Jose State University
... Write an essay relating how the predictions of future climate change may intersect with the issue of water privatization. ...
... Write an essay relating how the predictions of future climate change may intersect with the issue of water privatization. ...
Estimated PDFs of climate system properties including natural and
... Levitus et al. [2000, 2005] ocean temperature data; however, one can obtain a correct temperature change with excessive mixing if S is too low, for example. Hence a single diagnostic is not sufficient to describe fully the model response. [16] From the two sensitivity tests regarding the strength of ...
... Levitus et al. [2000, 2005] ocean temperature data; however, one can obtain a correct temperature change with excessive mixing if S is too low, for example. Hence a single diagnostic is not sufficient to describe fully the model response. [16] From the two sensitivity tests regarding the strength of ...
seven theories of climate change - The Science and Public Policy
... The first theory of climate change contends that human emissions of greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide, are causing a catastrophic rise in global temperatures. The mechanism whereby this happens is called the enhanced greenhouse effect. We call this theory ...
... The first theory of climate change contends that human emissions of greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide, are causing a catastrophic rise in global temperatures. The mechanism whereby this happens is called the enhanced greenhouse effect. We call this theory ...
global climate change triggered by global warming
... in its equilibrium state: We cannot assert that the Younger Dryas scenario would necessarily be repeated if global warming causes much of the Greenland ice sheet to melt. There are too many other factors that would need to be considered. One such factor is the rate of melting, since the release of c ...
... in its equilibrium state: We cannot assert that the Younger Dryas scenario would necessarily be repeated if global warming causes much of the Greenland ice sheet to melt. There are too many other factors that would need to be considered. One such factor is the rate of melting, since the release of c ...
American Risk Perceptions: Is Climate Change Dangerous?
... narrowly define risks using two dimensions (e.g., probabilities and severity of consequences), the general public has been found to utilize a much more multidimensional and complex set of assessments. Public risk perceptions are influenced not only by scientific and technical descriptions of danger, ...
... narrowly define risks using two dimensions (e.g., probabilities and severity of consequences), the general public has been found to utilize a much more multidimensional and complex set of assessments. Public risk perceptions are influenced not only by scientific and technical descriptions of danger, ...
New Methods to Assess Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation for
... face some of the greatest adaptation challenges Rural households and agricultural systems are heterogeneous, implying CC impacts – and value of adaptation strategies -- will vary within and between these populations Farmers’ choice among adaptation options involves self-selection that must be taken ...
... face some of the greatest adaptation challenges Rural households and agricultural systems are heterogeneous, implying CC impacts – and value of adaptation strategies -- will vary within and between these populations Farmers’ choice among adaptation options involves self-selection that must be taken ...
1 - QUBES Hub
... been leading to increasing emissions and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (Figure 1). Greenhouse gases are ones that allow electromagnetic radiation (light) at the wavelengths emitted by the sun to pass through to the Earth’s surface, but absorb the radiation t ...
... been leading to increasing emissions and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (Figure 1). Greenhouse gases are ones that allow electromagnetic radiation (light) at the wavelengths emitted by the sun to pass through to the Earth’s surface, but absorb the radiation t ...
Introduction. Climate change and urban areas: research dialogue in
... future climates is by computing multiple runs of the GCMs with varying starting parameters. Obtaining confidence limits in this way as well as modelling processes in greater detail will require ‘petascale’ computing facilities (i.e. a thousand times faster than at present). These may only become gene ...
... future climates is by computing multiple runs of the GCMs with varying starting parameters. Obtaining confidence limits in this way as well as modelling processes in greater detail will require ‘petascale’ computing facilities (i.e. a thousand times faster than at present). These may only become gene ...
SERIE RESEARCH MEMORANDA Clobal Trends and Climate Change Polities
... what extent?). Last but not least, is climate change good or bad (e.g., would it have unforeseen benefits, in temperate or cold regions for instance, in addition to costs ?).A consensus is gradually emerging among climatologists that the role of the emission and concentration of greenhouse gases is ...
... what extent?). Last but not least, is climate change good or bad (e.g., would it have unforeseen benefits, in temperate or cold regions for instance, in addition to costs ?).A consensus is gradually emerging among climatologists that the role of the emission and concentration of greenhouse gases is ...
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.