Senate Inquiry into the Kyoto Protocol
... Climate change will have the greatest impact on agriculture (compared to any other sector in the economy). Farmers, more than anyone else, depend upon the land and environment for their continued livelihood – they deal with the climate on a daily basis. For agriculture, climate change could lead to: ...
... Climate change will have the greatest impact on agriculture (compared to any other sector in the economy). Farmers, more than anyone else, depend upon the land and environment for their continued livelihood – they deal with the climate on a daily basis. For agriculture, climate change could lead to: ...
Hope in God`s Future - The Methodist Church in Britain
... n this theological context, we approach the current scientific understandings of recent and future changes in the earth’s climate. In the second half of the twentieth century it was recognised that ‘global atmospheric concentrations of CO2, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N20) have increased marked ...
... n this theological context, we approach the current scientific understandings of recent and future changes in the earth’s climate. In the second half of the twentieth century it was recognised that ‘global atmospheric concentrations of CO2, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N20) have increased marked ...
Event - IUCN
... among South Asian countries that share Himalayan and tropical ecologies. The event will aim at developing a guiding framework for sustaining ecosystem services, implementing biodiversity conservation, and mitigating climate change ...
... among South Asian countries that share Himalayan and tropical ecologies. The event will aim at developing a guiding framework for sustaining ecosystem services, implementing biodiversity conservation, and mitigating climate change ...
THE COST OF DELAYING ACTION TO STEM CLIMATE CHANGE
... 2013) provides a likely range of 1.5° to 4.5° Celsius for the equilibrium climate sensitivity, which is the long-run increase in global mean surface temperature that is caused by a sustained doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The upper end of that range would imply severe climate impacts un ...
... 2013) provides a likely range of 1.5° to 4.5° Celsius for the equilibrium climate sensitivity, which is the long-run increase in global mean surface temperature that is caused by a sustained doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The upper end of that range would imply severe climate impacts un ...
Bringing the Copenhagen Global Climate Change Negotiations to Conclusion J
... quantitative targets and time frames) for CO2 emission reduction/ limitation (with reductions in other greenhouse gases measured directly proportional to their greenhouse potency relative to CO2) were agreed to and, for the most part, it was left to individual countries to choose the method they wou ...
... quantitative targets and time frames) for CO2 emission reduction/ limitation (with reductions in other greenhouse gases measured directly proportional to their greenhouse potency relative to CO2) were agreed to and, for the most part, it was left to individual countries to choose the method they wou ...
Why Have the Leading Journals in Management
... It is necessary to establish an objective measure of research interest in the topic. To do this, I use bibliometric methods. I count how many times the top-30 business and management journals reference the terms “global warming” or “climate change” in their article titles, abstracts, or key words1. ...
... It is necessary to establish an objective measure of research interest in the topic. To do this, I use bibliometric methods. I count how many times the top-30 business and management journals reference the terms “global warming” or “climate change” in their article titles, abstracts, or key words1. ...
who left carbon footprints in my greenhouse?
... This image was created with data acquired by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument (AIRS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite during July 2009. The image shows large-scale patterns of carbon dioxide concentrations that are transported around Earth by the general circulation of the atmosphere. Dark blue c ...
... This image was created with data acquired by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument (AIRS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite during July 2009. The image shows large-scale patterns of carbon dioxide concentrations that are transported around Earth by the general circulation of the atmosphere. Dark blue c ...
document - Africa-wide Civil Society Climate Change
... dialogue on climate change in the country with full participation of legislators, the industrial and insurance sectors, bankers, and other players. She highlighted the need for the country to harmonise concern on climate change, and for Africa to speak with one voice at the World Climate Change Nego ...
... dialogue on climate change in the country with full participation of legislators, the industrial and insurance sectors, bankers, and other players. She highlighted the need for the country to harmonise concern on climate change, and for Africa to speak with one voice at the World Climate Change Nego ...
The integrated Earth system model version 1
... independently of each other and their interactions have historically been relatively simplistic. Typically, projections of GHGs and SLS emissions have been produced by the human system components of IAMs, archived in databases, and used by ESMs to produce projections of climate and altered biogeophy ...
... independently of each other and their interactions have historically been relatively simplistic. Typically, projections of GHGs and SLS emissions have been produced by the human system components of IAMs, archived in databases, and used by ESMs to produce projections of climate and altered biogeophy ...
What Role Do Property Rights Play In Climate Change?
... There is a third important role that the insurance industry plays in concerns about climate change liability for the infringement of private rights: insurers are experts at identifying risks, predicting potential magnitude of loss, and anticipating possible Claimants and Defendants. But insurers can ...
... There is a third important role that the insurance industry plays in concerns about climate change liability for the infringement of private rights: insurers are experts at identifying risks, predicting potential magnitude of loss, and anticipating possible Claimants and Defendants. But insurers can ...
climate change and ocean acidification
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) synthesized research regarding observed and projected impacts of climate change on physical and biological processes in the oceans, at both global and regional levels. The impacts of these changes on human health and ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) synthesized research regarding observed and projected impacts of climate change on physical and biological processes in the oceans, at both global and regional levels. The impacts of these changes on human health and ...
concept paper 22 april DD
... meaningful social change to occur); while Cleaver (2001) conceives of participation having both efficiency benefits and equity and empowerment benefits. Multiple experiences have pointed to the difficulties of precisely dividing such impacts as new capacities in one area (eg. confidence and negotiat ...
... meaningful social change to occur); while Cleaver (2001) conceives of participation having both efficiency benefits and equity and empowerment benefits. Multiple experiences have pointed to the difficulties of precisely dividing such impacts as new capacities in one area (eg. confidence and negotiat ...
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... the modelling of water allocation, using a state-contingent approach to risk and uncertainty, in which irrigators may respond flexibly to changes in the stochastic distribution of water prices and availability. The results of simulation modelling of adaptation to climate change with and without glo ...
... the modelling of water allocation, using a state-contingent approach to risk and uncertainty, in which irrigators may respond flexibly to changes in the stochastic distribution of water prices and availability. The results of simulation modelling of adaptation to climate change with and without glo ...
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... (World Agroforestry Centre, 2009). However, agriculture, food systems as well as the rural economies around the world have, in the last two decades, been experiencing major transformation emanating from climate change (Oxfam, 2007). In the Sub-Saharan Africa, climate change has drastically reduced a ...
... (World Agroforestry Centre, 2009). However, agriculture, food systems as well as the rural economies around the world have, in the last two decades, been experiencing major transformation emanating from climate change (Oxfam, 2007). In the Sub-Saharan Africa, climate change has drastically reduced a ...
A Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Communities in the
... activities in response to lowering water levels in lakes and rivers, which have made traditional hunting grounds increasingly inaccessible (Fox, 2002). Inuit in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec have had to make similar adjustments in response to the increasing unpredictability of the weather an ...
... activities in response to lowering water levels in lakes and rivers, which have made traditional hunting grounds increasingly inaccessible (Fox, 2002). Inuit in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec have had to make similar adjustments in response to the increasing unpredictability of the weather an ...
Climate-induced oceanic oxygen fluxes: Implications for the
... with observations from Levitus and Boyer [1994] for both the Atlantic and Pacific basins (Figure 1). The maximum values at middepth are well reproduced by the model. However, some discrepancies remain and seem to be mainly the result of deficiencies in the simulated oceanic circulation. Because of u ...
... with observations from Levitus and Boyer [1994] for both the Atlantic and Pacific basins (Figure 1). The maximum values at middepth are well reproduced by the model. However, some discrepancies remain and seem to be mainly the result of deficiencies in the simulated oceanic circulation. Because of u ...
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... Projections (UKCP09)2. The Highways Agency (the Agency) manages the trunk road network in England and its assets and operations will inevitably be affected, negatively or positively, by these changes in climate and weather. This study builds on a significant amount of work already undertaken by the ...
... Projections (UKCP09)2. The Highways Agency (the Agency) manages the trunk road network in England and its assets and operations will inevitably be affected, negatively or positively, by these changes in climate and weather. This study builds on a significant amount of work already undertaken by the ...
Adapting agriculture to climate change
... The farming community is sceptical about the reality of climate change or, at very least, about the need for action now. Generally, education and extension work around adaptation does not engage in this debate. Rather, the message is about the need for actions that address climate variability and so ...
... The farming community is sceptical about the reality of climate change or, at very least, about the need for action now. Generally, education and extension work around adaptation does not engage in this debate. Rather, the message is about the need for actions that address climate variability and so ...
Global trends in extreme precipitation
... (Held and Soden, 2006; Pall et al., 2006). Increasing availability of moisture in the atmosphere can be expected to result in increased intensity of extreme precipitation (Allan and Soden, 2008; Allen and Ingram, 2002; O’Gorman and Schneider, 2009; Trenberth, 2011; Trenberth et al., 2003), with a pr ...
... (Held and Soden, 2006; Pall et al., 2006). Increasing availability of moisture in the atmosphere can be expected to result in increased intensity of extreme precipitation (Allan and Soden, 2008; Allen and Ingram, 2002; O’Gorman and Schneider, 2009; Trenberth, 2011; Trenberth et al., 2003), with a pr ...
Climate change impacts on global agriculture | SpringerLink
... with economic models. We use the new version of the GTAP-W model, which accounts for water use in the agricultural sector, to analyze expected climate change impacts on global agricultural production. The GTAP-W model (Calzadilla et al. 2011) distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated crop producti ...
... with economic models. We use the new version of the GTAP-W model, which accounts for water use in the agricultural sector, to analyze expected climate change impacts on global agricultural production. The GTAP-W model (Calzadilla et al. 2011) distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated crop producti ...
Dividing climate change: global warming in the Indian mass media
... has been phenomenal, India remains a poor country in per capita terms, and this division is reflected in the disparities in per capita carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions. A citizen from the highest income group in India—comprising just 1% of the population—emits four-and-a-half times more CO2 than a ci ...
... has been phenomenal, India remains a poor country in per capita terms, and this division is reflected in the disparities in per capita carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions. A citizen from the highest income group in India—comprising just 1% of the population—emits four-and-a-half times more CO2 than a ci ...
Entire Report - Center for Climate and Energy
... have shifted their distributions in the past in response to changing climates; however, estimates of the rate of warming suggest that it may occur relatively quickly, some 10 times faster than the warming at the end of the recent glacial maximum, for example. It is not known whether species will be ...
... have shifted their distributions in the past in response to changing climates; however, estimates of the rate of warming suggest that it may occur relatively quickly, some 10 times faster than the warming at the end of the recent glacial maximum, for example. It is not known whether species will be ...
Carbon Credit 30 Dec 2013
... • Every part of the planet, from the polar ice caps to the equator, features life of some kind. Recent advances in microbiology have demonstrated that microbes live deep beneath the Earth's terrestrial surface, and that the total mass of microbial life in socalled "uninhabitable zones" may, in bioma ...
... • Every part of the planet, from the polar ice caps to the equator, features life of some kind. Recent advances in microbiology have demonstrated that microbes live deep beneath the Earth's terrestrial surface, and that the total mass of microbial life in socalled "uninhabitable zones" may, in bioma ...
Aerosol-induced thermal effects increase modelled terrestrial
... strongly influenced by environmental parameters (e.g. temperature, light and CO 2 concentrations) and is therefore affected by regional and global climate change. However, vegetation also has the ability to exert an influence on atmospheric composition and climate via the exchange of energy, water v ...
... strongly influenced by environmental parameters (e.g. temperature, light and CO 2 concentrations) and is therefore affected by regional and global climate change. However, vegetation also has the ability to exert an influence on atmospheric composition and climate via the exchange of energy, water v ...
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.