Fourth Carbon Budget Review – part 1
... cause and in projections for the future. For example, the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment concludes that warming of the climate system since the mid-20th Century is unequivocal, and it is extremely likely that human activity is the dominant cause. • The recent slowdown in surface temperature rise can be ex ...
... cause and in projections for the future. For example, the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment concludes that warming of the climate system since the mid-20th Century is unequivocal, and it is extremely likely that human activity is the dominant cause. • The recent slowdown in surface temperature rise can be ex ...
Modelling the Response of Mountain Glacier Discharge
... strong summer snowfall can effectively shut off glacier discharge for an extended period of the melt season. Currently, many conceptual runoff models do not include explicit routing routines for water transport through the glacier, taking into account the different hydraulic properties of snow, firn ...
... strong summer snowfall can effectively shut off glacier discharge for an extended period of the melt season. Currently, many conceptual runoff models do not include explicit routing routines for water transport through the glacier, taking into account the different hydraulic properties of snow, firn ...
1) Bad Ideas - CBC Ombudsman - Radio
... If you juxtapose a non-scientist (Epstein) or unqualified inactive non-climate scientist (Moore) with scientists in the field, you cannot call the non-experts—who do not know what they are talking about and make up their own facts—"contrarians". The big-name denialists are self-promoting mischief-ma ...
... If you juxtapose a non-scientist (Epstein) or unqualified inactive non-climate scientist (Moore) with scientists in the field, you cannot call the non-experts—who do not know what they are talking about and make up their own facts—"contrarians". The big-name denialists are self-promoting mischief-ma ...
Atlases Give Global Snapshot of Oceans in the 1990s
... the oceans” during the 1990s, providing a baseline for changes that have been observed subsequently through repeats of selected WOCE sections via the Global Ocean ShipBased Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP; http://www.go -ship.org). Today, more than a decade later, WOCE data continue to ...
... the oceans” during the 1990s, providing a baseline for changes that have been observed subsequently through repeats of selected WOCE sections via the Global Ocean ShipBased Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP; http://www.go -ship.org). Today, more than a decade later, WOCE data continue to ...
use of regional climate for hydrological simulations for the
... One field of application of hydrological models is the creation of runoff scenarios for different climate and glaciation conditions. However glacier storage is not handled well by current conceptual or physically-based hydrological models. Hence, holistic approaches to study and model glacier storag ...
... One field of application of hydrological models is the creation of runoff scenarios for different climate and glaciation conditions. However glacier storage is not handled well by current conceptual or physically-based hydrological models. Hence, holistic approaches to study and model glacier storag ...
AdApting to climAte chAnge: A Business ApproAch
... in Western Montana—near Glacier National Park where the area covered by glaciers has dropped by nearly three quarters since 1850—have in recent years suffered from lack of snow. The Washington Post in 2006 reported that the owner of a ski resort in Montana was trying to persuade the United States Fo ...
... in Western Montana—near Glacier National Park where the area covered by glaciers has dropped by nearly three quarters since 1850—have in recent years suffered from lack of snow. The Washington Post in 2006 reported that the owner of a ski resort in Montana was trying to persuade the United States Fo ...
Challenges of a Sustained Climate Observing System
... Mitigation of the human influences, such as reducing greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions, is a major challenge yet to be adequately addressed and the effectiveness of any mitigation actions needs to be documented in order for them to continue. However, given the likelihood of large future human-ind ...
... Mitigation of the human influences, such as reducing greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions, is a major challenge yet to be adequately addressed and the effectiveness of any mitigation actions needs to be documented in order for them to continue. However, given the likelihood of large future human-ind ...
Psychology`s Contributions to Understanding and Addressing
... summary of relevant psychological research was provided in the report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change (2009). The articles in this special issue follow from this task force report. The present article provides an over ...
... summary of relevant psychological research was provided in the report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change (2009). The articles in this special issue follow from this task force report. The present article provides an over ...
Lost in the problem: the role of boundary organisations in the
... Like many environmental problems, climate change became perceptible only through increasing scientific knowledge. Scientific knowledge compiled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been at the heart of attempts to build a global policy regime centred on the UN Framework Conve ...
... Like many environmental problems, climate change became perceptible only through increasing scientific knowledge. Scientific knowledge compiled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been at the heart of attempts to build a global policy regime centred on the UN Framework Conve ...
Workshop-questions
... • Presently a warming is going on in the Baltic Sea region. • No formal detection and attribution studies available. • BACC considers it plausible that this warming is at least partly related to anthropogenic factors. • So far, and in the next few decades, the signal is limited to temperature and di ...
... • Presently a warming is going on in the Baltic Sea region. • No formal detection and attribution studies available. • BACC considers it plausible that this warming is at least partly related to anthropogenic factors. • So far, and in the next few decades, the signal is limited to temperature and di ...
Chapter 10 - Graduate Institute of International and Development
... rights regime—with its compulsory system of adjudication and its extensive body of decisional law—represents a hard type of international law. In contrast, the World Heritage Convention, which seeks primarily to promote national action and contains only very general international norms, reflects a s ...
... rights regime—with its compulsory system of adjudication and its extensive body of decisional law—represents a hard type of international law. In contrast, the World Heritage Convention, which seeks primarily to promote national action and contains only very general international norms, reflects a s ...
Psychology`s Contributions to Understanding and Addressing
... summary of relevant psychological research was provided in the report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change (2009). The articles in this special issue follow from this task force report. The present article provides an over ...
... summary of relevant psychological research was provided in the report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change (2009). The articles in this special issue follow from this task force report. The present article provides an over ...
Sweden facing climate change - Government Offices of Sweden
... impacts of global climate change on the Swedish society including costs. Bengt Holgersson Governor of the County Administrative Board in the region of Skåne was appointed head of the Commission. This report will be subject to a public review and will serve as one of the inputs to a forthcoming clima ...
... impacts of global climate change on the Swedish society including costs. Bengt Holgersson Governor of the County Administrative Board in the region of Skåne was appointed head of the Commission. This report will be subject to a public review and will serve as one of the inputs to a forthcoming clima ...
AN OVERVIEW OF GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND
... IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007), where new and more certain scientific evidence confirmed that it is ‘likely that there has been a substantial anthropogenic contribution to surface temperature increases’(IPCC, 2007), which affects climate change. GHG emissions have increased since the beginning ...
... IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007), where new and more certain scientific evidence confirmed that it is ‘likely that there has been a substantial anthropogenic contribution to surface temperature increases’(IPCC, 2007), which affects climate change. GHG emissions have increased since the beginning ...
Can terrestrial ectotherms escape the heat of climate change by
... of movement ranges from 214 per cent to 21 per cent (25% and 75% quantiles) and the maximum ranges from 7% to 30% of the fitness impacts of climate change. In tropical areas (08–208 N and S), the mean of the fitness advantage of movement ranges from 25 per cent to 0 per cent (25% and 75% quantiles), ...
... of movement ranges from 214 per cent to 21 per cent (25% and 75% quantiles) and the maximum ranges from 7% to 30% of the fitness impacts of climate change. In tropical areas (08–208 N and S), the mean of the fitness advantage of movement ranges from 25 per cent to 0 per cent (25% and 75% quantiles), ...
Evolving Responsibility? The Principle of Common
... over climate change12 has shifted the way key players view the process of distributing responsibility to act. In light of these changes, negotiations about what will happen after the Protocol’s first commitment period ends in 2012 have raised the need for a different model. In their efforts to answe ...
... over climate change12 has shifted the way key players view the process of distributing responsibility to act. In light of these changes, negotiations about what will happen after the Protocol’s first commitment period ends in 2012 have raised the need for a different model. In their efforts to answe ...
A mechanism for dust-induced destabilization of
... Abstract. Abrupt transitions between cold/dry stadial and warm/wet interstadial states occurred during glacial periods in the absence of any known external forcing. The climate record preserved in polar glaciers, mountain glaciers, and widespread cave deposits reveals that these events were global i ...
... Abstract. Abrupt transitions between cold/dry stadial and warm/wet interstadial states occurred during glacial periods in the absence of any known external forcing. The climate record preserved in polar glaciers, mountain glaciers, and widespread cave deposits reveals that these events were global i ...
Production and release of a V0
... Growth in global warming potential by section 1970-2004 (lower right) ....................................................... 5 Figure 2. Regional distribution of GHG emissions in 2004 by population (mt CO 2-eq per capita) ............... 6 Figure 3. Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions (PgC) ................. ...
... Growth in global warming potential by section 1970-2004 (lower right) ....................................................... 5 Figure 2. Regional distribution of GHG emissions in 2004 by population (mt CO 2-eq per capita) ............... 6 Figure 3. Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions (PgC) ................. ...
Long-term Temperature Trends at Four Largest Cities of India during
... and regional climate. A study by Jones et al., (1990) on urbanization and related temperature variation indicates that the impact of urbanization on the mean surface temperature would be no more than 0.05 °C per 100 years. On the other hand a study by Fujibe (1995) reports a rising trend of 2-5 °C p ...
... and regional climate. A study by Jones et al., (1990) on urbanization and related temperature variation indicates that the impact of urbanization on the mean surface temperature would be no more than 0.05 °C per 100 years. On the other hand a study by Fujibe (1995) reports a rising trend of 2-5 °C p ...
noaa climate program
... *S 245 Abrupt Climate Change Research Act of 2005 (Collins), February 2005: NOAA ordered to set up an abrupt climate change research program within OAR *S 342 Climate Stewardship Act of 2005 (McCain), February 2005 *S 786 National Weather Services Duties Act (Santorum), November 2005: Prohibits the ...
... *S 245 Abrupt Climate Change Research Act of 2005 (Collins), February 2005: NOAA ordered to set up an abrupt climate change research program within OAR *S 342 Climate Stewardship Act of 2005 (McCain), February 2005 *S 786 National Weather Services Duties Act (Santorum), November 2005: Prohibits the ...
Vermont`s Wildlife Action Plan
... degradation and habitat loss (Staudinger, M.D. et al. 2015). Climate change already presents a variety of challenges for species and ecosystems across the Northeast. These include the reduction in the “quality and distribution of habitats, the availability of food, increases in the abundance of para ...
... degradation and habitat loss (Staudinger, M.D. et al. 2015). Climate change already presents a variety of challenges for species and ecosystems across the Northeast. These include the reduction in the “quality and distribution of habitats, the availability of food, increases in the abundance of para ...
Guide to Climate Change Convention
... While the world’s climate has always varied naturally, the vast majority of scientists now believe that rising concentrations of “greenhouse gases” in the earth’s atmosphere, resulting from economic and demographic growth over the last two centuries since the industrial revolution, are overriding th ...
... While the world’s climate has always varied naturally, the vast majority of scientists now believe that rising concentrations of “greenhouse gases” in the earth’s atmosphere, resulting from economic and demographic growth over the last two centuries since the industrial revolution, are overriding th ...
Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Cities
... unusual in comparison with changes in global temperature data for the past 600-1000 years that have been inferred from proxy indicators. Over the 20th century, the globally averaged surface air temperature has increased by 0.6±0.2°C. In addition, there seems to be some evidence for a corresponding s ...
... unusual in comparison with changes in global temperature data for the past 600-1000 years that have been inferred from proxy indicators. Over the 20th century, the globally averaged surface air temperature has increased by 0.6±0.2°C. In addition, there seems to be some evidence for a corresponding s ...
Report on Fifth Assessment Report 6
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Its main activity is to prepare comprehensive assessment reports about climat ...
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Its main activity is to prepare comprehensive assessment reports about climat ...
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.