Simulated Global-Mean Sea Level Changes over the Last Half
... that volcanoes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries cause a sudden drop in subsurface ocean temperature from which recovery is slow. We find the same in VOL5 (Fig. 5). The eruption of Krakatau causes a sea level fall due to thermal expansion, only about half of which has been recover ...
... that volcanoes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries cause a sudden drop in subsurface ocean temperature from which recovery is slow. We find the same in VOL5 (Fig. 5). The eruption of Krakatau causes a sea level fall due to thermal expansion, only about half of which has been recover ...
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes: Climate Change Strategic
... In order to better understand how climate will impact the Tribes, the project team drew on existing research of national, regional and local climate impacts. A major asset for the Tribes was the recently completed Missoula County Climate Action: Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Community Report, ...
... In order to better understand how climate will impact the Tribes, the project team drew on existing research of national, regional and local climate impacts. A major asset for the Tribes was the recently completed Missoula County Climate Action: Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Community Report, ...
... potentially leading to higher winter floods and lower flow in late spring and summer (Safeeq et al., 2013, 2015). In any given region, however, changes in Sf would depend on overall climatic regime as well as the corresponding changes in temperature and precipitation. Specifically, areas where snow ...
Climate-biosphere interactions on glacial
... climate change. Typical estimates for climate sensitivity to increased CO2 would attribute about 2C of the 6 C glacial-interglacial temperature change to different greenhouse gas concentrations [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ), 2001]. The remainder of the warming was due to a de ...
... climate change. Typical estimates for climate sensitivity to increased CO2 would attribute about 2C of the 6 C glacial-interglacial temperature change to different greenhouse gas concentrations [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ), 2001]. The remainder of the warming was due to a de ...
Can Green Growth Really Work and what are the True
... In the run-up to the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012 and the United Nations Climate Summit on 23 September 2014 virtually everyone (from multilateral agencies to politicians, to businessmen, and to NGOs) advocated a fundamental shift towards “green and inclusive growth”1 as the new, qualitativelydiff ...
... In the run-up to the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012 and the United Nations Climate Summit on 23 September 2014 virtually everyone (from multilateral agencies to politicians, to businessmen, and to NGOs) advocated a fundamental shift towards “green and inclusive growth”1 as the new, qualitativelydiff ...
56. Sabia R., D. Fernández-Prieto, J. Shutler, C. Donlon, P. Land, N
... expected to substantially alter the Earth’s water cycle1, impacting society and ecosystems globally2. The ocean component dominates the global water cycle, comprising nearly 97% of the Earth’s water and with over 75% (85%) of the annual global precipitation (evaporation) occurring over the ocean3-7. ...
... expected to substantially alter the Earth’s water cycle1, impacting society and ecosystems globally2. The ocean component dominates the global water cycle, comprising nearly 97% of the Earth’s water and with over 75% (85%) of the annual global precipitation (evaporation) occurring over the ocean3-7. ...
Post-1_SYRCL_TechnicalEvlalofClimateChangeData_02-24-14
... electrical power. Further, it found that: “The impacts of global warming are already being felt in California. The Sierra snowpack, an important source of water supply for the state, has shrunk 10 percent in the last 100 years. It is expected to continue to decrease by as much as 25 percent by 2050. ...
... electrical power. Further, it found that: “The impacts of global warming are already being felt in California. The Sierra snowpack, an important source of water supply for the state, has shrunk 10 percent in the last 100 years. It is expected to continue to decrease by as much as 25 percent by 2050. ...
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... University of New Brunswick Canada In its fourth assessment report published in spring 2007, leading scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) reached consensus that human activity is responsible for many observed climate changes, particularly the warming temperatures of th ...
... University of New Brunswick Canada In its fourth assessment report published in spring 2007, leading scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) reached consensus that human activity is responsible for many observed climate changes, particularly the warming temperatures of th ...
Globalisation, Inequality and Climate Change: What
... incomes decline (Hira 2004). This has not just been a phenomenon experienced in low-income developing countries, but in the rich countries as well, where income distribution has tended to worsen significantly over the past decade or two (Cornia and Court 2001). In the UK, for example, the minimum wa ...
... incomes decline (Hira 2004). This has not just been a phenomenon experienced in low-income developing countries, but in the rich countries as well, where income distribution has tended to worsen significantly over the past decade or two (Cornia and Court 2001). In the UK, for example, the minimum wa ...
Su et al, Monitoring climate change - core
... several climate indicators (eg. temperature increase, sea level rise, ice sheet melting and ocean warming) and climate indices (eg. based on records of temperature, precipitation and drought event) for both the identified climate drivers and the expected climate impacts. In conjunction with the Glob ...
... several climate indicators (eg. temperature increase, sea level rise, ice sheet melting and ocean warming) and climate indices (eg. based on records of temperature, precipitation and drought event) for both the identified climate drivers and the expected climate impacts. In conjunction with the Glob ...
Adaptation Planning Background Material
... The climate is changing and causing a host of serious consequences for people around the world. In the United States, Native Americans and Alaska Natives will likely be disproportionately impacted compared to their non-Native counterparts. Alaskan Native villages, for example, are already experienci ...
... The climate is changing and causing a host of serious consequences for people around the world. In the United States, Native Americans and Alaska Natives will likely be disproportionately impacted compared to their non-Native counterparts. Alaskan Native villages, for example, are already experienci ...
The politics of climate change
... recently, Bali, plus those worked out within the European Union. Where books and articles have been written about the “politics of climate change”, they tend to be about such international agreements. I want to make the somewhat startling assertion that, at present, we have no effective politics of ...
... recently, Bali, plus those worked out within the European Union. Where books and articles have been written about the “politics of climate change”, they tend to be about such international agreements. I want to make the somewhat startling assertion that, at present, we have no effective politics of ...
air module - Minnesota Department of Health
... Patz JA. 2000. Climate change and health: new research challenges. Ecosyst Health 6:52–58. Pope CA, Thun MJ, Namboodiri MM, Dockery DW, Evans JS, Speizer FE, Heath CW. 1995. Particulate air pollution as a predictor of mortality in a prospective study of U.S. adults. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. vo ...
... Patz JA. 2000. Climate change and health: new research challenges. Ecosyst Health 6:52–58. Pope CA, Thun MJ, Namboodiri MM, Dockery DW, Evans JS, Speizer FE, Heath CW. 1995. Particulate air pollution as a predictor of mortality in a prospective study of U.S. adults. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. vo ...
CURRICULUM VITAE Erin D. Baker
... ME. The class provides a solid grounding in economic analysis from an optimization point of view. It is a very demanding and rigorous class. We cover topics such as the theory of the firm, the theory of the market, monopoly, game theory, oligopoly, decision making under uncertainty, options theory, ...
... ME. The class provides a solid grounding in economic analysis from an optimization point of view. It is a very demanding and rigorous class. We cover topics such as the theory of the firm, the theory of the market, monopoly, game theory, oligopoly, decision making under uncertainty, options theory, ...
Impacts of Climate Change
... Climate as a Dynamic, Chaotic System It is important for those interested in the human significance of climate change to consider the fallacy of averages. While the SRES A2 scenario suggests that the average temperature of Earth will warm by between 0.7 and 2.0° Celsius (with an average of about 1. ...
... Climate as a Dynamic, Chaotic System It is important for those interested in the human significance of climate change to consider the fallacy of averages. While the SRES A2 scenario suggests that the average temperature of Earth will warm by between 0.7 and 2.0° Celsius (with an average of about 1. ...
gender and climate change issues in agriculture and food
... The greenhouse effect created by these gases maintains the Earth’s surface temperature at about 14 ̊C on average; without this, the Earth’s global average temperature would be closer to -19 ̊C. The greenhouse effect is therefore essential for keeping the world warm enough for human habitation. Howe ...
... The greenhouse effect created by these gases maintains the Earth’s surface temperature at about 14 ̊C on average; without this, the Earth’s global average temperature would be closer to -19 ̊C. The greenhouse effect is therefore essential for keeping the world warm enough for human habitation. Howe ...
C02 Levels in the Atmosphere Worksheet Introduction: The Earth`s
... Introduction: The Earth’s thermostat is a complex and delicate mechanism. At the centre of this control is Carbon Dioxide (CO2), a colourless, odorless, invisible gas. CO2 in the atmosphere helps keep the earth warm, because it traps heat near the planet’s surface in a process called the Greenhouse ...
... Introduction: The Earth’s thermostat is a complex and delicate mechanism. At the centre of this control is Carbon Dioxide (CO2), a colourless, odorless, invisible gas. CO2 in the atmosphere helps keep the earth warm, because it traps heat near the planet’s surface in a process called the Greenhouse ...
observed climate changes in georgia georgia temperature history
... areas along the Georgia coast and other low-lying areas around the world, clamoring that the IPCC was far too conservative in its projections. However, these rather alarmist views are not based upon the most reliable scientific information, ignoring what our best understanding of how a warmer world ...
... areas along the Georgia coast and other low-lying areas around the world, clamoring that the IPCC was far too conservative in its projections. However, these rather alarmist views are not based upon the most reliable scientific information, ignoring what our best understanding of how a warmer world ...
Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change
... biases are not large enough to prejudice conclusions about recent warming. The increasing amount of buoy data, although in principle more accurate than most ship measurements, introduces further inhomogeneities (Kent and Challenor, 2006; Kent and Kaplan, 2006), which may have caused an underestimate ...
... biases are not large enough to prejudice conclusions about recent warming. The increasing amount of buoy data, although in principle more accurate than most ship measurements, introduces further inhomogeneities (Kent and Challenor, 2006; Kent and Kaplan, 2006), which may have caused an underestimate ...
Nov 21, 2015 - Science and Environmental Policy Project
... climate variability are significant, multiple lines of evidence indicate that human influences have had an increasingly dominant effect on global climate warming observed since the mid-twentieth century. Although the magnitudes of future effects are uncertain, human influences on the climate are gro ...
... climate variability are significant, multiple lines of evidence indicate that human influences have had an increasingly dominant effect on global climate warming observed since the mid-twentieth century. Although the magnitudes of future effects are uncertain, human influences on the climate are gro ...
4 Climate change impacts in a context of full
... suited to measure important social phenomena like conflicts, mass migrations, disruption of knowledge, learning and social capital potentially triggered by climate change (Anthoff and Tol, 2013; Stern, 2013). IAMs emphasize impacts on GDP, which even disregarding its deficiency as a welfare measure, ...
... suited to measure important social phenomena like conflicts, mass migrations, disruption of knowledge, learning and social capital potentially triggered by climate change (Anthoff and Tol, 2013; Stern, 2013). IAMs emphasize impacts on GDP, which even disregarding its deficiency as a welfare measure, ...
A Summary of Climate Change Risks for South East England
... may be affected by a significantly increased risk of flooding based on future population growth and if no adaptive action is taken. • Summer overheating potentially contributing to heat-related health problems. Premature deaths due to hotter summers are projected to increase (e.g. by between 580 an ...
... may be affected by a significantly increased risk of flooding based on future population growth and if no adaptive action is taken. • Summer overheating potentially contributing to heat-related health problems. Premature deaths due to hotter summers are projected to increase (e.g. by between 580 an ...
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... Arctic Feedbacks • Feedback mechanisms in the Arctic are of growing concern • In 2009, the World Wildlife Federation published a well written report entitled “Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications” edited by Martin Sommerkorn & Susan Joy Hassol – a link to the PDF version of the second edit ...
... Arctic Feedbacks • Feedback mechanisms in the Arctic are of growing concern • In 2009, the World Wildlife Federation published a well written report entitled “Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications” edited by Martin Sommerkorn & Susan Joy Hassol – a link to the PDF version of the second edit ...
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.