A trait-based approach to assess climate change sensitivity of
... 2007; Rosset and Oertli, 2011). Benthic macroinvertebrates such as aquatic insects are affected by alterations in temperature and hydrological regime during their entire life cycle (e.g., Durance and Ormerod, 2007; Haidekker and Hering, 2008; Vannote and Sweeney, 1980) in that temperature affects gr ...
... 2007; Rosset and Oertli, 2011). Benthic macroinvertebrates such as aquatic insects are affected by alterations in temperature and hydrological regime during their entire life cycle (e.g., Durance and Ormerod, 2007; Haidekker and Hering, 2008; Vannote and Sweeney, 1980) in that temperature affects gr ...
Advent Light/”Light for Lima” - Christian Concern for One World
... climate]. Their wisdom is not working in the changed situation and that is putting them in a serious struggle to survive. The worst impacts of climate changes are now a reality Mitigating it or adapting are a big challenge for Bangladesh-like countries but they are not the creators of the problem – ...
... climate]. Their wisdom is not working in the changed situation and that is putting them in a serious struggle to survive. The worst impacts of climate changes are now a reality Mitigating it or adapting are a big challenge for Bangladesh-like countries but they are not the creators of the problem – ...
The Non-Regulatory Alternatives to GHG Regulations
... Keith, D.W. (2000). “Geoengineering the Climate: History and Prospect,” Annual Review of Energy and Environment, 25: 245284. MacCracken, M.C. (2006). “Geoengineering: Worthy of Cautious Evaluation?” Climatic Change 77: 235-243. National Academy of Sciences, 1992, Committee on Science, Engineering, a ...
... Keith, D.W. (2000). “Geoengineering the Climate: History and Prospect,” Annual Review of Energy and Environment, 25: 245284. MacCracken, M.C. (2006). “Geoengineering: Worthy of Cautious Evaluation?” Climatic Change 77: 235-243. National Academy of Sciences, 1992, Committee on Science, Engineering, a ...
chasing coral
... Ask students to hypothesize about how the world’s climate could change over the next 100 years if humans do nothing to limit the levels of their greenhouse gas emissions. Have them also make predictions about the effects such climate changes could have on humans. Ask students to write two or three p ...
... Ask students to hypothesize about how the world’s climate could change over the next 100 years if humans do nothing to limit the levels of their greenhouse gas emissions. Have them also make predictions about the effects such climate changes could have on humans. Ask students to write two or three p ...
Newsletter number 3
... coverage of CCRAs had high species richness whereas others had low species richness. The high species richness suggests that conserving these sites would protect a number of species in areas where climate change might be less ...
... coverage of CCRAs had high species richness whereas others had low species richness. The high species richness suggests that conserving these sites would protect a number of species in areas where climate change might be less ...
National climate change legislation: The key to more ambitious international agreements
... negotiations have been characterised by a debate around sharing a global burden (cost) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under this characterisation, it is in political leaders’ interest to minimise the burden placed on their own country, relative to others. The temptation is to plead that one’s c ...
... negotiations have been characterised by a debate around sharing a global burden (cost) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under this characterisation, it is in political leaders’ interest to minimise the burden placed on their own country, relative to others. The temptation is to plead that one’s c ...
How is Circulation in Puget Sound Projected to Change?
... How is Circulation in Puget Sound Projected to Change? Circulation in Puget Sound is projected to be affected by declining summer precipitation, increasing sea surface temperatures, shifting streamflow timing, ...
... How is Circulation in Puget Sound Projected to Change? Circulation in Puget Sound is projected to be affected by declining summer precipitation, increasing sea surface temperatures, shifting streamflow timing, ...
Climate Change: Responding to the Crisis Portended by George
... 2007; Stein et al. 2014). Ongoing and future climate change will likely affect all aspects of protected area management, including natural and cultural resource protection, operations and infrastructure, and visitor use and experience. To structure adaptation thinking for protected area management, ...
... 2007; Stein et al. 2014). Ongoing and future climate change will likely affect all aspects of protected area management, including natural and cultural resource protection, operations and infrastructure, and visitor use and experience. To structure adaptation thinking for protected area management, ...
The geopolitics of climate change
... practices where geopolitical discourse is routine. But more than textual matters structure the practices of global politics even if the other forms of knowledge e numerical and computational e discussed below, are rendered back into text in the key practices of decision-makers and in the justificatio ...
... practices where geopolitical discourse is routine. But more than textual matters structure the practices of global politics even if the other forms of knowledge e numerical and computational e discussed below, are rendered back into text in the key practices of decision-makers and in the justificatio ...
Infiltrating the Frozen Fortress: the importance of the cryosphere to
... Global Circulation Models (GCMs) are sophisticated, computer driven models that can handle large, detailed datasets. They are validated by their ability to predict past climate change. These models are not perfect and no single model is able to achieve absolute coherence (Anisimov et al. 2007; Le Tr ...
... Global Circulation Models (GCMs) are sophisticated, computer driven models that can handle large, detailed datasets. They are validated by their ability to predict past climate change. These models are not perfect and no single model is able to achieve absolute coherence (Anisimov et al. 2007; Le Tr ...
The Costs of Neglect of Climate Change Consequences: The Example of the Forestry Sector
... (IPCC), one third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions during the last 250 years have resulted from changes in land use, and especially deforestation. Sir Nicholas Stern’s report on climate change suggested avoiding this deforestation was a ‘highly cost-effective option’ to mitigate climate cha ...
... (IPCC), one third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions during the last 250 years have resulted from changes in land use, and especially deforestation. Sir Nicholas Stern’s report on climate change suggested avoiding this deforestation was a ‘highly cost-effective option’ to mitigate climate cha ...
Training Your People How to Think About Climate Change
... often presented with careless or even deliberately deceitful semantics. An example is the question, “don’t you believe in global warming?” This phraseology immediately misdirects the conversation. The climate change debate isn’t about global warming per se. Everyone agrees that global warming has o ...
... often presented with careless or even deliberately deceitful semantics. An example is the question, “don’t you believe in global warming?” This phraseology immediately misdirects the conversation. The climate change debate isn’t about global warming per se. Everyone agrees that global warming has o ...
Climate change and human health
... Climate change is increasingly recognized as a significant threat facing society and has the potential to be one of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st Century1. While the damage is being done now, many of the health effects may arise only decades in the future2. Possible impacts could ...
... Climate change is increasingly recognized as a significant threat facing society and has the potential to be one of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st Century1. While the damage is being done now, many of the health effects may arise only decades in the future2. Possible impacts could ...
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from... of Economic Research
... Today, global negotiations on climate change policy are conducted primarily under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This is the legal framework under which the Kyoto Protocol was created. The 2009 Copenhagen and 2010 Cancun meetings, which we discuss la ...
... Today, global negotiations on climate change policy are conducted primarily under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This is the legal framework under which the Kyoto Protocol was created. The 2009 Copenhagen and 2010 Cancun meetings, which we discuss la ...
The Marginal Damage Costs of Different Greenhouse Gases: An
... effects from climate on the amount of CO2 that is stored and emitted by the terrestrial biosphere is modelled as in (Tol 2009a).5 The radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride is as in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climat ...
... effects from climate on the amount of CO2 that is stored and emitted by the terrestrial biosphere is modelled as in (Tol 2009a).5 The radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride is as in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climat ...
GENERAL Climate Change, Water and Policy-making in
... regional scales (Jones and Briffa, 1992). Climate change will lead to an intensification of the global hydrological cycle and can have major impacts on water resources, affecting both ground and surface water supply for domestic and industrial uses, irrigation and in-stream ecosystems. Changes in th ...
... regional scales (Jones and Briffa, 1992). Climate change will lead to an intensification of the global hydrological cycle and can have major impacts on water resources, affecting both ground and surface water supply for domestic and industrial uses, irrigation and in-stream ecosystems. Changes in th ...
PDF
... many climate policy scenario analyses, including the “Mitigation” volume of the Third Assessment Report produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2001)10, and continue to be the dominant concentration used for scenario analysis.11 Lacking any firmer basis for the choice of concentra ...
... many climate policy scenario analyses, including the “Mitigation” volume of the Third Assessment Report produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2001)10, and continue to be the dominant concentration used for scenario analysis.11 Lacking any firmer basis for the choice of concentra ...
Waves of Change: Climate Change in the Pacific Islands
... you've don't this to us and what are you going to do about it? I've been waiting for an answer quite some time and we are running out of time." --Anote Tong President of Kiribati “Doing ...
... you've don't this to us and what are you going to do about it? I've been waiting for an answer quite some time and we are running out of time." --Anote Tong President of Kiribati “Doing ...
teacher`s guide - Earth Day Network
... What would make them change over shorter periods of time? How do the seasons change the amount of CO2 in the air? A sharp increase in atmospheric CO2 would lead to a dramatic increase in temperature. As we overwhelm the capacity of the carbon cycle to use CO2, we increase the possibility that positi ...
... What would make them change over shorter periods of time? How do the seasons change the amount of CO2 in the air? A sharp increase in atmospheric CO2 would lead to a dramatic increase in temperature. As we overwhelm the capacity of the carbon cycle to use CO2, we increase the possibility that positi ...
Children`s vulnerability and their capacity as agents for
... risk of water scarcity will be exacerbated by the low capacity of the water sector and a lack of water infrastructure (Batimaa, 2010). In 2005, only 27.7 per cent of district schools and 16.1 per cent of district hospitals had an institutional drinking water supply and only 50 per cent of these coul ...
... risk of water scarcity will be exacerbated by the low capacity of the water sector and a lack of water infrastructure (Batimaa, 2010). In 2005, only 27.7 per cent of district schools and 16.1 per cent of district hospitals had an institutional drinking water supply and only 50 per cent of these coul ...
This is an author produced version of a paper published in
... mitigating effect of the seven scenarios but it was still better than the effect of the reference systems, district heating produced from coal or natural gas. Keywords: short rotation coppice willow (SRCW), life cycle assessment (LCA), soil organic carbon (SOC), greenhouse gas (GHG), Salix ...
... mitigating effect of the seven scenarios but it was still better than the effect of the reference systems, district heating produced from coal or natural gas. Keywords: short rotation coppice willow (SRCW), life cycle assessment (LCA), soil organic carbon (SOC), greenhouse gas (GHG), Salix ...
Curriculum Vitae
... on the Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Contributing author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Second Assessment Report, WGI Technical Summary and Chapter 8 Technical Advisory Panel, H. John Heinz III Center Global Change Steering Committee, H. John Heinz III Center Scientific Advisory Board ...
... on the Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Contributing author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Second Assessment Report, WGI Technical Summary and Chapter 8 Technical Advisory Panel, H. John Heinz III Center Global Change Steering Committee, H. John Heinz III Center Scientific Advisory Board ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES Lee G. Branstetter William A. Pizer
... U.S. emissions are still the highest among developed countries, and others look to the United States for leadership. Yet, following promising developments towards a legislated emissions trading program in 2009, the political shift up to and including the November 2010 elections led even the Preside ...
... U.S. emissions are still the highest among developed countries, and others look to the United States for leadership. Yet, following promising developments towards a legislated emissions trading program in 2009, the political shift up to and including the November 2010 elections led even the Preside ...
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.