Partners for Resilience
... communities and encompass disaster preparedness and early warning, livelihood security, preventing environmental degradation, poverty reduction, and the protection of water resources. 2. Empowering civil society. The PfR aim to increase the capacities of civil society organizations (CSO) working on ...
... communities and encompass disaster preparedness and early warning, livelihood security, preventing environmental degradation, poverty reduction, and the protection of water resources. 2. Empowering civil society. The PfR aim to increase the capacities of civil society organizations (CSO) working on ...
Chapter 13 Notes 2015
... produces more ozone, which warms the stratosphere. • The increased solar radiation can also warm the lower atmosphere and surface of the Earth a little. ...
... produces more ozone, which warms the stratosphere. • The increased solar radiation can also warm the lower atmosphere and surface of the Earth a little. ...
The conquering of climate
... The second example is the Great Storm of 26/27 November 1703 which devastated parts of southern England and which was vividly recorded by Daniel Defoe in his classic account ‘The Storm’ (Defoe, 1704). In hurricane force winds, 8,000 lives were lost, the original Eddystone lighthouse was destroyed an ...
... The second example is the Great Storm of 26/27 November 1703 which devastated parts of southern England and which was vividly recorded by Daniel Defoe in his classic account ‘The Storm’ (Defoe, 1704). In hurricane force winds, 8,000 lives were lost, the original Eddystone lighthouse was destroyed an ...
PowerPoint - NIA :: ECSU - Elizabeth City State University
... Group 1 to the Third Assessment Report, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York. [4] Bubier, J., T. Moore, K. Savage, and P. Crill (2005), A comparison of methane flux in a boreal landscape between a dry and a wet year, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, ...
... Group 1 to the Third Assessment Report, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York. [4] Bubier, J., T. Moore, K. Savage, and P. Crill (2005), A comparison of methane flux in a boreal landscape between a dry and a wet year, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, ...
Workshop report ”Adaptation options in the Barents – Writers
... How to define the concept of adaptation options? The concept was coined in the IPCC fifth assessment report (AR5). The range of adaptation options is partly based on analysis and synthesis of adaptation ...
... How to define the concept of adaptation options? The concept was coined in the IPCC fifth assessment report (AR5). The range of adaptation options is partly based on analysis and synthesis of adaptation ...
Three Ways to Understand State Actors in International Negotiations
... In short, in prolonged international negotiations, what factors determine a state’s negotiating position, and its preparedness to sign an agreement? And how and why are such decisions made? This article addresses these questions by considering the role of the US across almost a decade of internation ...
... In short, in prolonged international negotiations, what factors determine a state’s negotiating position, and its preparedness to sign an agreement? And how and why are such decisions made? This article addresses these questions by considering the role of the US across almost a decade of internation ...
- Human Organization, Practicing Anthropology
... my Sherpa informants or their families live but also places that are influencing cultural changes for local Sherpa residents. It was also crucial that my fieldwork was conducted outside Pharak in places where climate change narratives and policies relating to vulnerability assessment, adaptation, a ...
... my Sherpa informants or their families live but also places that are influencing cultural changes for local Sherpa residents. It was also crucial that my fieldwork was conducted outside Pharak in places where climate change narratives and policies relating to vulnerability assessment, adaptation, a ...
creation care - The Center for Health and the Global Environment
... causing the warming. Evidence for climate change has been steadily accumulating over the past 30 years. Early reports of the IPCC simply noted the possibility of climate change as a problem, then raised the possibility of human activity as a contributing factor, calling for further study. As evidenc ...
... causing the warming. Evidence for climate change has been steadily accumulating over the past 30 years. Early reports of the IPCC simply noted the possibility of climate change as a problem, then raised the possibility of human activity as a contributing factor, calling for further study. As evidenc ...
Emergence of polycentric climate governance and
... Two important challenges remain for those working on national policies. First, scholars must find better ways to define and track policy adoptions and innovations; an under-appreciated challenge when policy-making activity is constant and no single actor is responsible for collecting comparable data ...
... Two important challenges remain for those working on national policies. First, scholars must find better ways to define and track policy adoptions and innovations; an under-appreciated challenge when policy-making activity is constant and no single actor is responsible for collecting comparable data ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/019/k7582e.pdf
... The Global Partnership for Climate, Fisheries and Aquaculture (PaCFA), comprising 20 international organizations and sector bodies (http://www.climatefish.org/index_en.htm), was borne from a mutual desire to draw together potentially fragmented and redundant climate change activities through a multi ...
... The Global Partnership for Climate, Fisheries and Aquaculture (PaCFA), comprising 20 international organizations and sector bodies (http://www.climatefish.org/index_en.htm), was borne from a mutual desire to draw together potentially fragmented and redundant climate change activities through a multi ...
Global Warming and the Free State
... been variations in temperature and precipitation due to ocean current cycles and solar and volcanic activity. However, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases—gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, that trap the sun’s energy from radiating back into space—have dramatically ...
... been variations in temperature and precipitation due to ocean current cycles and solar and volcanic activity. However, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases—gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, that trap the sun’s energy from radiating back into space—have dramatically ...
implications of long-term scenarios for medium
... which is often quoted from the IPCC report, is not only due to uncertainty about technology performance or the climate system, but is also a reflection of policy choice. Scenarios that avoid net negative CO2 emissions show emission reductions of at least 60% to 70% globally in 2050. Meeting the 2 °C ...
... which is often quoted from the IPCC report, is not only due to uncertainty about technology performance or the climate system, but is also a reflection of policy choice. Scenarios that avoid net negative CO2 emissions show emission reductions of at least 60% to 70% globally in 2050. Meeting the 2 °C ...
Probable maximum precipitation and climate change
... was not considered to have a robust theoretical basis. Instead, the lengthy and numerous data records of precipitation have been used to identify historical extreme observed storm precipitation (Pstorm). Pstorm values serve as indirect measures of maximum low-level moisture convergence and persisten ...
... was not considered to have a robust theoretical basis. Instead, the lengthy and numerous data records of precipitation have been used to identify historical extreme observed storm precipitation (Pstorm). Pstorm values serve as indirect measures of maximum low-level moisture convergence and persisten ...
Climate-Science Communication and the Measurement Problem
... her reasoning powers to apprehend what is known to science from two parallel perspectives simultaneously: a collective-knowledge-acquisition one, and a cultural-identity-protective one. Misapprehension of how these two forms of engaging information interact—variously reinforcing one another and canc ...
... her reasoning powers to apprehend what is known to science from two parallel perspectives simultaneously: a collective-knowledge-acquisition one, and a cultural-identity-protective one. Misapprehension of how these two forms of engaging information interact—variously reinforcing one another and canc ...
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE: THE
... implementation of those that already exist. It is well-known that the end of 2007 was the beginning of the most significant economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression. Throughout much of 2008 and 2009 gross domestic product (GDP) experienced negative growth, and unemployment r ...
... implementation of those that already exist. It is well-known that the end of 2007 was the beginning of the most significant economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression. Throughout much of 2008 and 2009 gross domestic product (GDP) experienced negative growth, and unemployment r ...
Full-Text PDF
... allows anticipating potential negative impacts, and thus planning and establishing preventive actions with time. Various approaches to assess the effects of climate change on water resources have been used [5–8]. In general, studies have reported that an increase in CO2, as long as temperature and r ...
... allows anticipating potential negative impacts, and thus planning and establishing preventive actions with time. Various approaches to assess the effects of climate change on water resources have been used [5–8]. In general, studies have reported that an increase in CO2, as long as temperature and r ...
studies
... Calvin et al. 2012; Kriegler et al. 2014c). Since a mitigation target of 450 ppm CO2e (or equivalently a radiative forcing level3 of 2.6 W/m2), is found to be consistent with a likely (probability > 67%) achievement of the 2°C target (Meinshausen et al. 2011; Rogelj et al. 2013), those studies are r ...
... Calvin et al. 2012; Kriegler et al. 2014c). Since a mitigation target of 450 ppm CO2e (or equivalently a radiative forcing level3 of 2.6 W/m2), is found to be consistent with a likely (probability > 67%) achievement of the 2°C target (Meinshausen et al. 2011; Rogelj et al. 2013), those studies are r ...
Impacts of climate change on temperature and evaporation from a
... changing climate. In fact, there are indications that the meteorological factors involved in the process of evaporation will be significantly affected as a result of increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The 2007 Australian Climate Change Report by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Res ...
... changing climate. In fact, there are indications that the meteorological factors involved in the process of evaporation will be significantly affected as a result of increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The 2007 Australian Climate Change Report by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Res ...
BCS331 Module 10
... For many years’ scientists studying the earth’s climate have noticed general warming appeared to be occurring. In the 1980s, concern about the implications of general warming of the earth’s climate began to develop. The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organiz ...
... For many years’ scientists studying the earth’s climate have noticed general warming appeared to be occurring. In the 1980s, concern about the implications of general warming of the earth’s climate began to develop. The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organiz ...
Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... The range of probable sea level change for Arviat over the next 100 years (from 2010 to 2100, relative to present-day mean sea level rise): ...
... The range of probable sea level change for Arviat over the next 100 years (from 2010 to 2100, relative to present-day mean sea level rise): ...
Effects of global warming on arctic sea-floor
... those conditions. Thus, identifying ecosystem function during different climate cycles can provide a foundation for understanding the likely oceanographic and ecological responses to a more sustained climatic shift. While dramatic trends have taken place in the Arctic in the past several decades tha ...
... those conditions. Thus, identifying ecosystem function during different climate cycles can provide a foundation for understanding the likely oceanographic and ecological responses to a more sustained climatic shift. While dramatic trends have taken place in the Arctic in the past several decades tha ...
Canadian Earth System Model CanESM2
... We have compared the Canadian CMIP5 generation models (coupled atmosphereocean general circulation model CanCM4 and the Earth System Model CanESM2 that includes dynamic vegetation) simulations of the Arctic 20th century temperature variability with the observed Arctic temperature. We found that the ...
... We have compared the Canadian CMIP5 generation models (coupled atmosphereocean general circulation model CanCM4 and the Earth System Model CanESM2 that includes dynamic vegetation) simulations of the Arctic 20th century temperature variability with the observed Arctic temperature. We found that the ...
copenhagen, climate change `refugees` and the need for a global
... Africa, mega‐deltas (particularly those in Asia) and the polar regions as areas most exposed to climate change (Kolmannskog 2008: 23). Global sea level this century is likely to rise twice as much as projected by the IPCC in its 2007 report. It is likely that, for unmitigated emissions, such sea ...
... Africa, mega‐deltas (particularly those in Asia) and the polar regions as areas most exposed to climate change (Kolmannskog 2008: 23). Global sea level this century is likely to rise twice as much as projected by the IPCC in its 2007 report. It is likely that, for unmitigated emissions, such sea ...
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.