Preparing for climate change guide for local government
... edition of Preparing for Climate Change supersedes the first edition published in 2004. The guide summarises the main elements of a comprehensive technical report Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment (‘the source report’). Its first edition was updated in May 2008 following the release of t ...
... edition of Preparing for Climate Change supersedes the first edition published in 2004. The guide summarises the main elements of a comprehensive technical report Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment (‘the source report’). Its first edition was updated in May 2008 following the release of t ...
Potential Climate Change Impacts on Marine Resources
... anomalies for three coupled ocean-atmosphere GCMs under high and low IPCC emission scenarios. We developed projections for four major regions of our study area: Northern Mid-Atlantic Bight, Georges Bank, Western Gulf of Maine, and Eastern Gulf of Maine. Dramatic differences are evident for the low a ...
... anomalies for three coupled ocean-atmosphere GCMs under high and low IPCC emission scenarios. We developed projections for four major regions of our study area: Northern Mid-Atlantic Bight, Georges Bank, Western Gulf of Maine, and Eastern Gulf of Maine. Dramatic differences are evident for the low a ...
Warming Power of CO2 and H2O: Correlations with Temperature
... and 1998. The close relationship between the CO2 increase in the atmosphere and the increase of industrial CO2 production and waste seemed to confirm the relationship and present discordant arguments against the warming model based on the carbon dioxide increase. Physical, chemical and mathematical ...
... and 1998. The close relationship between the CO2 increase in the atmosphere and the increase of industrial CO2 production and waste seemed to confirm the relationship and present discordant arguments against the warming model based on the carbon dioxide increase. Physical, chemical and mathematical ...
SEEKING CLIMATE JUSTICE: A CRITICAL RESPONSE TO SINGER
... support could be impossible if there were no greenhouse effect. The earth’s temperature was in balance for human beings for fifty thousand years. But due to increase of greenhouse gases the earth surface becomes warmer for a few centuries. Human activities are responsible mostly for increasing green ...
... support could be impossible if there were no greenhouse effect. The earth’s temperature was in balance for human beings for fifty thousand years. But due to increase of greenhouse gases the earth surface becomes warmer for a few centuries. Human activities are responsible mostly for increasing green ...
Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an
... Earth system AOGCMs. New subcomponents (for example, continental ice sheets, representations of peatlands, wetlands or permafrost) are often developed within the EMIC framework before they are embedded into coupled AOGCMs, because development and testing is less computationally expensive. In additio ...
... Earth system AOGCMs. New subcomponents (for example, continental ice sheets, representations of peatlands, wetlands or permafrost) are often developed within the EMIC framework before they are embedded into coupled AOGCMs, because development and testing is less computationally expensive. In additio ...
Migration and Climate Change - Development Research Centre on
... As early as 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that the greatest single impact of climate change might be on human migration—with millions of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption.3 Since then, successive reports have argued ...
... As early as 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that the greatest single impact of climate change might be on human migration—with millions of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption.3 Since then, successive reports have argued ...
Grinnell Glacier
... causing some streams to become intermittent, impacting stream ecology. Coal-burning power plant. Coal is a fossil fuel. ...
... causing some streams to become intermittent, impacting stream ecology. Coal-burning power plant. Coal is a fossil fuel. ...
A Climate Change Exposure Summary for Species and
... and assumes a high level of economic growth, with moderate population growth, and a significant increase in renewable energy use. Projections from Frumoff et al. (2007) used IPCC’s A1fi and B1 scenarios to represent possible higher- and lower-emissions scenarios, respectively, over the next century. ...
... and assumes a high level of economic growth, with moderate population growth, and a significant increase in renewable energy use. Projections from Frumoff et al. (2007) used IPCC’s A1fi and B1 scenarios to represent possible higher- and lower-emissions scenarios, respectively, over the next century. ...
The Gaia Hypothesis: Fact, Theory, and Wishful
... considerable doubt on the notion that biologically mediated feedbacks are necessarily (or even typically) stabilizing. As Lashof et al. (1997) conclude, ‘While the processes involved are complex and there are both positive and negative feedback loops, it appears likely that the combined effect of th ...
... considerable doubt on the notion that biologically mediated feedbacks are necessarily (or even typically) stabilizing. As Lashof et al. (1997) conclude, ‘While the processes involved are complex and there are both positive and negative feedback loops, it appears likely that the combined effect of th ...
Climate Change and Extreme Events
... Climate and land-use change complicate current and future water management challenges through their complex and shifting interactions that alter space–time patterns of hydrological variability and induce uncertainty in the decision making processes. Limitations of traditional hydrological analyses a ...
... Climate and land-use change complicate current and future water management challenges through their complex and shifting interactions that alter space–time patterns of hydrological variability and induce uncertainty in the decision making processes. Limitations of traditional hydrological analyses a ...
Livestock and climate change - CGSpace
... life-cycle analyses of household GHG emissions, test cases of different schemes that can provide income to farmers through payments for ecosystems goods and services, and development of household models that are able to evaluate risk and crop-livestock interactions and tradeoffs, but much remains to ...
... life-cycle analyses of household GHG emissions, test cases of different schemes that can provide income to farmers through payments for ecosystems goods and services, and development of household models that are able to evaluate risk and crop-livestock interactions and tradeoffs, but much remains to ...
CCSM_Feb2006 - UCLA: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
... We were able to isolate the surface component as the main source of an approximately three-fold divergence in simulations of snow albedo feedback. Focusing on the surface component, we compared snow albedo feedback's strength in the real seasonal cycle to simulated values. They mostly fall well outs ...
... We were able to isolate the surface component as the main source of an approximately three-fold divergence in simulations of snow albedo feedback. Focusing on the surface component, we compared snow albedo feedback's strength in the real seasonal cycle to simulated values. They mostly fall well outs ...
A Profile of the Greenhouse Industry in British Columbia and Clues
... are environmentally sound, even if the federal government wavers and dithers on how and when to create climate change legislation and policies in line with countries beyond the United States (Macdonald 2011). In practice Canadians demand local control, local produce by local production processes wit ...
... are environmentally sound, even if the federal government wavers and dithers on how and when to create climate change legislation and policies in line with countries beyond the United States (Macdonald 2011). In practice Canadians demand local control, local produce by local production processes wit ...
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... In a recently published paper, Creutzig et al. (2012) note the disconnect between these two bodies of literature – one which emphasizes the economic and environmental costs associated with widespread biofuel expansion in the short- to medium term, and one which emphasizes the GHG mitigation potentia ...
... In a recently published paper, Creutzig et al. (2012) note the disconnect between these two bodies of literature – one which emphasizes the economic and environmental costs associated with widespread biofuel expansion in the short- to medium term, and one which emphasizes the GHG mitigation potentia ...
Weathering the Storm: the impact of climate change
... to climate change. Not only do we face higher risk of flooding, drought and heatwave events at home, but our city’s interdependence with economies elsewhere in the world means we 'import' risk through the financial services sector and international supply chains. Yet, we have found that these risks, ...
... to climate change. Not only do we face higher risk of flooding, drought and heatwave events at home, but our city’s interdependence with economies elsewhere in the world means we 'import' risk through the financial services sector and international supply chains. Yet, we have found that these risks, ...
The Emergence of Climate Change Mitigation Action by Society: An
... system in which climate change takes place (van Vuuren et al. 2012). Scenarios provide an intuitive means to characterise and communicate information about uncertain future states of a system (Hughes 2009; Bryant & J 2010; Gerst et al. 2013a). 1.5 In contrast to conventional scenario development pro ...
... system in which climate change takes place (van Vuuren et al. 2012). Scenarios provide an intuitive means to characterise and communicate information about uncertain future states of a system (Hughes 2009; Bryant & J 2010; Gerst et al. 2013a). 1.5 In contrast to conventional scenario development pro ...
Community Adaptation Plan Bluefields, Jamaica
... The earth is getting warmer. Over the past hundred years, the earth’s average temperature has gone up by approximately 0.8°C or 1.5°F. The earth has got warmer in the past, but what is different this time is that it is warming much faster now, and the changes we are seeing are bigger than before. Th ...
... The earth is getting warmer. Over the past hundred years, the earth’s average temperature has gone up by approximately 0.8°C or 1.5°F. The earth has got warmer in the past, but what is different this time is that it is warming much faster now, and the changes we are seeing are bigger than before. Th ...
The Role of Stochastic Forcing on the Behavior of Thermohaline
... formation in climate models suggest there is a cooling with a maximum of 10 K over the nordic seas, while the spatial extent of the cooling is model dependent.8 In the last decade some efforts have been made to measure the magnitude of this circulation and even to determine if there is a diminishing ...
... formation in climate models suggest there is a cooling with a maximum of 10 K over the nordic seas, while the spatial extent of the cooling is model dependent.8 In the last decade some efforts have been made to measure the magnitude of this circulation and even to determine if there is a diminishing ...
Ecosystem services - International Risk Governance Council
... sector, and the general public (Nature, 2009). Emerging risks related to climate change have most dramatically illustrated this growing concern, though the impacts of climate change are felt by people primarily through changes in ecosystems. So what, exactly, are ecosystem services? Simply, they are ...
... sector, and the general public (Nature, 2009). Emerging risks related to climate change have most dramatically illustrated this growing concern, though the impacts of climate change are felt by people primarily through changes in ecosystems. So what, exactly, are ecosystem services? Simply, they are ...
A Preliminary Assessment of Ecosystem Vulnerability to Climate
... and physical factors. While the relationship between species and ecosystem functions is far from being understood (Peterson et al. 1998), there is a general consensus that biodiversity loss decreases the resilience of ecosystems to biotic and abiotic disturbances (Hooper et al. 2005). In a policy-ma ...
... and physical factors. While the relationship between species and ecosystem functions is far from being understood (Peterson et al. 1998), there is a general consensus that biodiversity loss decreases the resilience of ecosystems to biotic and abiotic disturbances (Hooper et al. 2005). In a policy-ma ...
Climate Change modeling
... – Meteorological Institute of the University of Bonn (Germany), Institute of KMA (Korea), and Model and Data Group. ...
... – Meteorological Institute of the University of Bonn (Germany), Institute of KMA (Korea), and Model and Data Group. ...
Coral Reef Monitoring for Climate Change Impact Assessment and
... The overall objective of C5 is to assist CPACC countries establish long-term coral reef monitoring programs which will, over time, show the impacts of climate change factors such as temperature stress, sea-level rise and hurricanes. These monitoring programs will continue beyond the life of the CPAC ...
... The overall objective of C5 is to assist CPACC countries establish long-term coral reef monitoring programs which will, over time, show the impacts of climate change factors such as temperature stress, sea-level rise and hurricanes. These monitoring programs will continue beyond the life of the CPAC ...
Global warming
Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming. Although the increase of near-surface atmospheric temperature is the measure of global warming often reported in the popular press, most of the additional energy stored in the climate system since 1970 has gone into ocean warming. The remainder has melted ice, and warmed the continents and atmosphere. Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia.Scientific understanding of global warming is increasing. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in 2014 that scientists were more than 95% certain that most of global warming is caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and other human (anthropogenic) activities. Climate model projections summarized in the report indicated that during the 21st century the global surface temperature is likely to rise a further 0.3 to 1.7 °C (0.5 to 3.1 °F) for their lowest emissions scenario using stringent mitigation and 2.6 to 4.8 °C (4.7 to 8.6 °F) for their highest. These findings have been recognized by the national science academies of the major industrialized nations.Future climate change and associated impacts will differ from region to region around the globe. Anticipated effects include warming global temperature, rising sea levels, changing precipitation, and expansion of deserts in the subtropics. Warming is expected to be greatest in the Arctic, with the continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely changes include more frequent extreme weather events including heat waves, droughts, heavy rainfall, and heavy snowfall; ocean acidification; and species extinctions due to shifting temperature regimes. Effects significant to humans include the threat to food security from decreasing crop yields and the abandonment of populated areas due to flooding.Possible societal responses to global warming include mitigation by emissions reduction, adaptation to its effects, building systems resilient to its effects, and possible future climate engineering. Most countries are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),whose ultimate objective is to prevent dangerous anthropogenic climate change. The UNFCCC have adopted a range of policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to assist in adaptation to global warming. Parties to the UNFCCC have agreed that deep cuts in emissions are required, and that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level.