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... But proper training in using/running these models are missing. Appreciate if you can conduct a training in Southeast Asia ...” ...
... But proper training in using/running these models are missing. Appreciate if you can conduct a training in Southeast Asia ...” ...
Climate Change Policy Jason Shogren and Michael Toman •
... Assessment Report that “the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate” (IPCC 1996a). (This phrase has generated some controversy in its own right. The many uncertainties are characterized in Chapter 8 of the same report.) A recent report by the Nation ...
... Assessment Report that “the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate” (IPCC 1996a). (This phrase has generated some controversy in its own right. The many uncertainties are characterized in Chapter 8 of the same report.) A recent report by the Nation ...
The Impact of Climate Change on the Agricultural Sector
... the Industrial Revolution which was accompanied by a rapid increase of fossil fuel consumption. This issue has attracted international interests as the scientific knowledge of climate has accumulated since the 1970s and it has been widely accepted by scientists that the anthropogenic greenhouse gas ...
... the Industrial Revolution which was accompanied by a rapid increase of fossil fuel consumption. This issue has attracted international interests as the scientific knowledge of climate has accumulated since the 1970s and it has been widely accepted by scientists that the anthropogenic greenhouse gas ...
Preview of Buddhist Response to the Climate
... to remove a lot of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere. A dramatic example of our predicament is provided at the poles, where global warming is occurring most rapidly. For far longer than our species has lived on the Earth, the Arctic Ocean has been covered by an area of ice as large as Austral ...
... to remove a lot of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere. A dramatic example of our predicament is provided at the poles, where global warming is occurring most rapidly. For far longer than our species has lived on the Earth, the Arctic Ocean has been covered by an area of ice as large as Austral ...
Catastrophe modelling and climate change
... size of glaciers all over the world and a shrinking extent of Arctic sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere. ...
... size of glaciers all over the world and a shrinking extent of Arctic sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere. ...
Presentation
... Working Party 1) for their dedicated efforts to the work of ITU-T Study Group 5. ITU-T Study Group 5 Environment & Climate Change ...
... Working Party 1) for their dedicated efforts to the work of ITU-T Study Group 5. ITU-T Study Group 5 Environment & Climate Change ...
Climate Change Regulation and PRediCtion maRkets
... carbon is the estimate of the external damages of greenhouse gas emissions. And to re-emphasize Pindyck’s point, current estimates of economic damages stand on even more tenuous footing. To address this, a climate prediction market might go beyond climate conditions and be extended to predicting the ...
... carbon is the estimate of the external damages of greenhouse gas emissions. And to re-emphasize Pindyck’s point, current estimates of economic damages stand on even more tenuous footing. To address this, a climate prediction market might go beyond climate conditions and be extended to predicting the ...
Coastal Areas and Marine Resources (Chapter 16) of the
... estimated that the US receives over 45% of the developed world’s travel and tourism revenues,and oceans,bays,and beaches are among the most popular tourist destinations in the nation (Houston, 1996). As many as 180 million people visit the coast each year for recreational purposes in all regions of ...
... estimated that the US receives over 45% of the developed world’s travel and tourism revenues,and oceans,bays,and beaches are among the most popular tourist destinations in the nation (Houston, 1996). As many as 180 million people visit the coast each year for recreational purposes in all regions of ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
... planet, greenhouse gases trap heat energy in the Earth's lower atmosphere (see below). If levels rise too high, the resulting overall rise in air temperatures – global warming – is liable to disrupt natural patterns of climate. In its Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
... planet, greenhouse gases trap heat energy in the Earth's lower atmosphere (see below). If levels rise too high, the resulting overall rise in air temperatures – global warming – is liable to disrupt natural patterns of climate. In its Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Text S1: Models, Climate Change Scenario Linkages, and
... corresponding to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s A2 scenario. This scenario was constructed using downscaled projections for 2050 from three models from the IPCC reports: PCM, CSIRO and HADCM3. The GCM projections were further processed using the WATBAL rainfall-runoff model develope ...
... corresponding to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s A2 scenario. This scenario was constructed using downscaled projections for 2050 from three models from the IPCC reports: PCM, CSIRO and HADCM3. The GCM projections were further processed using the WATBAL rainfall-runoff model develope ...
Strategic Plan - Department of Environmental Affairs
... sector. The MRV of AFOLU is intended to consistently track, quantify and report both the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and impacts, and non-GHG impacts of emission reduction responses over a long-term period. This will enable South Africa to analyse, interrogate and combine data and inputs to gener ...
... sector. The MRV of AFOLU is intended to consistently track, quantify and report both the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and impacts, and non-GHG impacts of emission reduction responses over a long-term period. This will enable South Africa to analyse, interrogate and combine data and inputs to gener ...
UNFCCC: UNITING ON CLIMATE
... planet, greenhouse gases trap heat energy in the Earth's lower atmosphere (see below). If levels rise too high, the resulting overall rise in air temperatures – global warming – is liable to disrupt natural patterns of climate. In its Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
... planet, greenhouse gases trap heat energy in the Earth's lower atmosphere (see below). If levels rise too high, the resulting overall rise in air temperatures – global warming – is liable to disrupt natural patterns of climate. In its Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
What shapes perceptions of climate change?
... phenomena or environments from personal experience versus from being provided with a statistical (typically numeric or graphic) description of possible outcomes and their likelihood.16 This distinction between learning from experience versus learning from description has received much attention beca ...
... phenomena or environments from personal experience versus from being provided with a statistical (typically numeric or graphic) description of possible outcomes and their likelihood.16 This distinction between learning from experience versus learning from description has received much attention beca ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES UNCERTAINTY AND DECISION IN CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS
... data, some use the cooling from the aerosols released by large volcanic eruptions, and some use only the instrumental record over the 20th century. Finally, and most importantly, even if we pooled all the data, and used a single consistent weighting scheme to evaluate model predictions, there would ...
... data, some use the cooling from the aerosols released by large volcanic eruptions, and some use only the instrumental record over the 20th century. Finally, and most importantly, even if we pooled all the data, and used a single consistent weighting scheme to evaluate model predictions, there would ...
South Asian Regional Study on Climate Change Impacts and
... The South Asian region is also highly sensitive to the consequences of climate change. It is known to be the most disaster prone region in the world supporting a huge population of more than 1.3 billion (UNEP 2003). This is critical as climate predictions for the future highlight increase in frequen ...
... The South Asian region is also highly sensitive to the consequences of climate change. It is known to be the most disaster prone region in the world supporting a huge population of more than 1.3 billion (UNEP 2003). This is critical as climate predictions for the future highlight increase in frequen ...
Overcoming Behavioral and Institutional Inertia
... Source: WDR team calculations based on BTS 2008. Note: Estimates are based on 40 million SUVs (sports utility vehicles) in the United States traveling a total of 480 billion miles (assuming 12,000 miles a car) a year. With average fuel efficiency of 18 miles a gallon, the SUV fleet consumes 27 billi ...
... Source: WDR team calculations based on BTS 2008. Note: Estimates are based on 40 million SUVs (sports utility vehicles) in the United States traveling a total of 480 billion miles (assuming 12,000 miles a car) a year. With average fuel efficiency of 18 miles a gallon, the SUV fleet consumes 27 billi ...
Sustainability of the Great Plains in an Uncertain Climate
... global and regional climate is made; postulated regional sensitivity to temperature and precipitation change; estimates of crop periomanoe under increased carbon dioxide; expectations of extreme events; and assumptions about technical and social change that might lessen o r exacerbate the effects of ...
... global and regional climate is made; postulated regional sensitivity to temperature and precipitation change; estimates of crop periomanoe under increased carbon dioxide; expectations of extreme events; and assumptions about technical and social change that might lessen o r exacerbate the effects of ...
The World Meteorological Organization at a glance
... ranging from weeks to centuries is coordinated by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) co-sponsored by WMO, the International Council for Science and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. By facilitating analysis and prediction of variability and change in the Earth’s syst ...
... ranging from weeks to centuries is coordinated by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) co-sponsored by WMO, the International Council for Science and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. By facilitating analysis and prediction of variability and change in the Earth’s syst ...
Does extreme precipitation intensity depend on the emissions
... Global-mean surface air temperature (Figure 1e) and global-mean precipitation (Figure 1f ) increase more for higher emissions scenarios, as expected from the range of radiative forcings driving them. For most of this paper, we will focus on quantities normalized by the change in global-mean surface ...
... Global-mean surface air temperature (Figure 1e) and global-mean precipitation (Figure 1f ) increase more for higher emissions scenarios, as expected from the range of radiative forcings driving them. For most of this paper, we will focus on quantities normalized by the change in global-mean surface ...
Report on WCRP developments/response post Review
... •The aim of WCRP is to facilitate analysis and prediction of Earth’s climate system variability and change for use in an increasing range of practical applications of direct relevance, benefit and value to society. • The Open Science Conference will thus assemble the scientific community working to ...
... •The aim of WCRP is to facilitate analysis and prediction of Earth’s climate system variability and change for use in an increasing range of practical applications of direct relevance, benefit and value to society. • The Open Science Conference will thus assemble the scientific community working to ...
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... discussion with U.S. experts of how and why it would be difficult to link different domestic emissions trading markets, the current process to establish a regional emissions trading program, and the evolving dynamics in the U.S. Senate. Looking forward, important lessons may be taken from past negot ...
... discussion with U.S. experts of how and why it would be difficult to link different domestic emissions trading markets, the current process to establish a regional emissions trading program, and the evolving dynamics in the U.S. Senate. Looking forward, important lessons may be taken from past negot ...
Chapter10.1
... • Widespread ice tends to lower global temperatures by increasing Earth’s reflectivity. • CO2 from outgassing will build up if oceans are frozen, ultimately raising global temperatures again. © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
... • Widespread ice tends to lower global temperatures by increasing Earth’s reflectivity. • CO2 from outgassing will build up if oceans are frozen, ultimately raising global temperatures again. © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
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... Ort, W. Polley, A. Thomson, and D. Wolfe. (2008) Agriculture. In: The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity in the United States. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. Washington, DC., ...
... Ort, W. Polley, A. Thomson, and D. Wolfe. (2008) Agriculture. In: The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity in the United States. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. Washington, DC., ...
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.