2015 NGPR Leadership Symposium
... My research aims to provide climate-related variables from satellite microwave observations over snow-covered regions including the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, sea ice in both hemispheres, and subarctic land. To that end, I develop, assess, and refine satellite algorithms. These activities r ...
... My research aims to provide climate-related variables from satellite microwave observations over snow-covered regions including the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, sea ice in both hemispheres, and subarctic land. To that end, I develop, assess, and refine satellite algorithms. These activities r ...
Policy Brief: Opportunities and Challenges for - CCAFS
... triple win for food security, adaptation and mitigation.16 For example, by increasing the organic content of the soil through conservation tillage, its water holding capacity increases, making yields more resilient and reducing erosion. Promoting soil carbon capture also helps mitigate climate chang ...
... triple win for food security, adaptation and mitigation.16 For example, by increasing the organic content of the soil through conservation tillage, its water holding capacity increases, making yields more resilient and reducing erosion. Promoting soil carbon capture also helps mitigate climate chang ...
Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change-Related Information
... regional climate disclosure approaches provide a strong basis from which further consistency in reporting could develop over time. Reporting along the value chain Depending on the particular sector, direct GHG emissions represent a small proportion of organisations’ overall carbon footprints. Howeve ...
... regional climate disclosure approaches provide a strong basis from which further consistency in reporting could develop over time. Reporting along the value chain Depending on the particular sector, direct GHG emissions represent a small proportion of organisations’ overall carbon footprints. Howeve ...
Understanding By Design Unit Template
... Current global models predict that, although future regional climate changes will be complex and varied, average global temperatures will continue to rise. The outcomes predicted by global climate models depend on the amount of human-generated greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere each year and o ...
... Current global models predict that, although future regional climate changes will be complex and varied, average global temperatures will continue to rise. The outcomes predicted by global climate models depend on the amount of human-generated greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere each year and o ...
Historical Overview of Climate Change Science
... clears aerosols out of the atmosphere in a week or two, but when material from a violent volcanic eruption is projected far above the highest cloud, these aerosols typically influence the climate for about a year or two before falling into the troposphere and being carried to the surface by precipit ...
... clears aerosols out of the atmosphere in a week or two, but when material from a violent volcanic eruption is projected far above the highest cloud, these aerosols typically influence the climate for about a year or two before falling into the troposphere and being carried to the surface by precipit ...
Long-Term Climate Trends and Extreme Events in Northern
... Abstract: We studied climate trends and the occurrence of rare and extreme temperature and precipitation events in northern Fennoscandia in 1914–2013. Weather data were derived from nine observation stations located in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. The results showed that spring and autumn tem ...
... Abstract: We studied climate trends and the occurrence of rare and extreme temperature and precipitation events in northern Fennoscandia in 1914–2013. Weather data were derived from nine observation stations located in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. The results showed that spring and autumn tem ...
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... estimated that there will be an additional 150, 000 deaths a year due to climate change. The WHO points out that climate change caused a loss of 5.5 million disability adjusted life years in 2000, 84% of them in sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank, 2010:41). Indirect effects of climate change will filter ...
... estimated that there will be an additional 150, 000 deaths a year due to climate change. The WHO points out that climate change caused a loss of 5.5 million disability adjusted life years in 2000, 84% of them in sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank, 2010:41). Indirect effects of climate change will filter ...
Primar y E duc ation Sect
... The ‘Greenhouse Effect’ is a natural phenomenon which helps to keep the planet at a habitable temperature. Without the natural greenhouse effect, the Earth would be colder by about 30 degrees Celsius. This phenomenon is caused by the presence of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in ou ...
... The ‘Greenhouse Effect’ is a natural phenomenon which helps to keep the planet at a habitable temperature. Without the natural greenhouse effect, the Earth would be colder by about 30 degrees Celsius. This phenomenon is caused by the presence of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in ou ...
LEIF CHRISTIAN STIGE, Dr. scient.
... Population dynamics – mainly in marine systems – using statistical approaches to deduce the underlying processes. The recent work has mainly focused on the fluctuations of zooplankton and fish in the Barents Sea, to understand how climate affects the populations and assess the likely effects of poss ...
... Population dynamics – mainly in marine systems – using statistical approaches to deduce the underlying processes. The recent work has mainly focused on the fluctuations of zooplankton and fish in the Barents Sea, to understand how climate affects the populations and assess the likely effects of poss ...
How Companies Think About Climate Change: A Global Survey.
... countries where they currently operate, regardless of the type of regulation involved. Nonetheless, 4 percent consider relocation in such circumstances very likely, while 7 percent consider it somewhat likely. For their part, C-level executives are slightly less inclined than other respondents to sa ...
... countries where they currently operate, regardless of the type of regulation involved. Nonetheless, 4 percent consider relocation in such circumstances very likely, while 7 percent consider it somewhat likely. For their part, C-level executives are slightly less inclined than other respondents to sa ...
Radiative forcing of gases, aerosols and, clouds.
... radiative forcing changes, either positive or negative, and cause some non-initial radiative effects, such as changes in evaporation. Radiative forcing and non-initial radiative effects lead to climate perturbations and responses. The coupling among biogeochemical processes leads to feedbacks from c ...
... radiative forcing changes, either positive or negative, and cause some non-initial radiative effects, such as changes in evaporation. Radiative forcing and non-initial radiative effects lead to climate perturbations and responses. The coupling among biogeochemical processes leads to feedbacks from c ...
Financing adaptation
... growth, access to potable water, food security, sanitation, improved health status, etc., take precedence. Hence, the concept of mainstreaming – integration of policies and measures to address climate change into ongoing sectoral and development planning and decisionmaking – so as to ensure long-ter ...
... growth, access to potable water, food security, sanitation, improved health status, etc., take precedence. Hence, the concept of mainstreaming – integration of policies and measures to address climate change into ongoing sectoral and development planning and decisionmaking – so as to ensure long-ter ...
Sea level Rise impact on Singapore, Solomon Island, Saint Vincent
... climate/temperature which in turn increases drought condition, reduction in agriculture, coastal erosion and sea level rise etc. But it will have more contrasting regional implications. In some areas temperatures may not rise for several years, but rainfall occurrence may change, and tropical cyclon ...
... climate/temperature which in turn increases drought condition, reduction in agriculture, coastal erosion and sea level rise etc. But it will have more contrasting regional implications. In some areas temperatures may not rise for several years, but rainfall occurrence may change, and tropical cyclon ...
Climate Change - EPA
... 2.1 Climate change and the greenhouse effect Over the last century Australia, along with the rest of the world, has experienced an average warming of about 0.9°C. It is now more than 90% certain that observed increases in global temperature are caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The projected effec ...
... 2.1 Climate change and the greenhouse effect Over the last century Australia, along with the rest of the world, has experienced an average warming of about 0.9°C. It is now more than 90% certain that observed increases in global temperature are caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The projected effec ...
Developing site scale projections of climate change in the Scottish
... that the anticipated warming of the next decades is expected to be more pronounced in northern hemisphere middle and high latitudes (Lean & Rind 2009). However, while most climate models suggest this amplification of global warming for mountain regions, the observations indicate spatial variation in ...
... that the anticipated warming of the next decades is expected to be more pronounced in northern hemisphere middle and high latitudes (Lean & Rind 2009). However, while most climate models suggest this amplification of global warming for mountain regions, the observations indicate spatial variation in ...
Public Enemy No. 1? Understanding Media Representations of
... it quantitatively emitted a relatively weak “signal” over this period amid the “noise” of overall climate change or global warming coverage. This brings light to two questions: How might the amount of coverage shape and/or sustain doubts or skepticism in the public arena on various aspects of climat ...
... it quantitatively emitted a relatively weak “signal” over this period amid the “noise” of overall climate change or global warming coverage. This brings light to two questions: How might the amount of coverage shape and/or sustain doubts or skepticism in the public arena on various aspects of climat ...
Climate Change in Value Chain Development
... shoots. The plant depends on high and evenly distributed annual rainfall of at least 1,500 mm and a dry season of not more than three months and optimum temperatures around 25°C, soil temperatures (30cm depths) are tolerated only until 16°C. In Kenya, tea (Camellia sinensis L.) grows over to 2,200 m ...
... shoots. The plant depends on high and evenly distributed annual rainfall of at least 1,500 mm and a dry season of not more than three months and optimum temperatures around 25°C, soil temperatures (30cm depths) are tolerated only until 16°C. In Kenya, tea (Camellia sinensis L.) grows over to 2,200 m ...
A social contract for low carbon and sustainable development
... Germany, and accompanied the rise of a new science of economics (as promoted by John Stuart Mill, for example), which addressed the transformation from an agrarian to an industrial society. The comprehensive transformation of the economic and social system over the course of the 19th century, theref ...
... Germany, and accompanied the rise of a new science of economics (as promoted by John Stuart Mill, for example), which addressed the transformation from an agrarian to an industrial society. The comprehensive transformation of the economic and social system over the course of the 19th century, theref ...
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... different levels of development. Equity-weighted estimates of the (marginal) impact of greenhouse gas emissions reflect these differences. Equity-weighted estimates of the marginal damage cost of carbon dioxide emissions are substantially higher than estimates without equity-weights; equity-weights ...
... different levels of development. Equity-weighted estimates of the (marginal) impact of greenhouse gas emissions reflect these differences. Equity-weighted estimates of the marginal damage cost of carbon dioxide emissions are substantially higher than estimates without equity-weights; equity-weights ...
A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change
... significant range shifts averaging 6.1 km per decade towards the poles (or metres per decade upward), and significant mean advancement of spring events by 2.3 days per decade. We define a diagnostic fingerprint of temporal and spatial ‘sign-switching’ responses uniquely predicted by twentieth centur ...
... significant range shifts averaging 6.1 km per decade towards the poles (or metres per decade upward), and significant mean advancement of spring events by 2.3 days per decade. We define a diagnostic fingerprint of temporal and spatial ‘sign-switching’ responses uniquely predicted by twentieth centur ...
Movements and Moments for Climate Justice
... underlying the failure of these summits. However, we feel it is ultimately unlikely that ‘climate justice’ can be a banner under which this movement could coalesce. This intervention is based on field work we carried out in Denmark, Bolivia and Mexico between November 2009 and December 2010. Introdu ...
... underlying the failure of these summits. However, we feel it is ultimately unlikely that ‘climate justice’ can be a banner under which this movement could coalesce. This intervention is based on field work we carried out in Denmark, Bolivia and Mexico between November 2009 and December 2010. Introdu ...
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... This paper discusses the question of whether, in the light of what is becoming overwhelming evidence, Japanese university students are being adequately prepared for a future in which their lives may be deeply affected by the consequences of climate change. Using research conducted by survey at two J ...
... This paper discusses the question of whether, in the light of what is becoming overwhelming evidence, Japanese university students are being adequately prepared for a future in which their lives may be deeply affected by the consequences of climate change. Using research conducted by survey at two J ...
Classifying Pacific islands Pacific Ecosystem
... PCCR 2013: Climate Change in Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands: How we can make the environment and people ready PACC Technical Report No. 13 - PACC Demonstration Guide: ‘Climate Proofing’ Coastal Development on Mangaia Island, Cook Islands Bonriki Inundation Vulnerability Assessment - Oceanographic D ...
... PCCR 2013: Climate Change in Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands: How we can make the environment and people ready PACC Technical Report No. 13 - PACC Demonstration Guide: ‘Climate Proofing’ Coastal Development on Mangaia Island, Cook Islands Bonriki Inundation Vulnerability Assessment - Oceanographic D ...
Waste - Cumbria County Council
... being taken to address this problem with improved flood defences, new pumping equipment and innovative appliance design, issues such as training, access to water rescue craft and helicopter support may need to be reviewed with this in mind. These events may also create an increased demand for short ...
... being taken to address this problem with improved flood defences, new pumping equipment and innovative appliance design, issues such as training, access to water rescue craft and helicopter support may need to be reviewed with this in mind. These events may also create an increased demand for short ...
Petition - Center for Biological Diversity
... The already severe impacts of global warming on the United States and the rest of the world from current atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels highlight the urgency of staying below the 1.5°C target so as to avoid truly catastrophic impacts to people and planet. 13 As CO2 levels continue to rise ...
... The already severe impacts of global warming on the United States and the rest of the world from current atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels highlight the urgency of staying below the 1.5°C target so as to avoid truly catastrophic impacts to people and planet. 13 As CO2 levels continue to rise ...
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.