- Eionet Forum
... The Law on protection and rescue prescribes a set of measures and activities to prevent danger of natural disasters, technological accidents and other disasters. In order to effectively protect the population and the material heritage against possible disasters and preventing the spreading of risk, ...
... The Law on protection and rescue prescribes a set of measures and activities to prevent danger of natural disasters, technological accidents and other disasters. In order to effectively protect the population and the material heritage against possible disasters and preventing the spreading of risk, ...
Climatic Change in the Built Environment in Temperate Climates
... 4. How cities grow and operate matters for energy demand and thus for GHG emissions. Urban density and spatial planning and organization are key factors that influence energy consumption, especially in the transportation and building sectors. The acceleration of urbanization since 1950 has been acc ...
... 4. How cities grow and operate matters for energy demand and thus for GHG emissions. Urban density and spatial planning and organization are key factors that influence energy consumption, especially in the transportation and building sectors. The acceleration of urbanization since 1950 has been acc ...
A Strategic Climate Change Adaptation Model
... • It will enhance Academic Programs on Climate Change Adaptation to increase awareness of the youth to the dangers of climate change. The Center will collaborate and develop curricular materials that can be ...
... • It will enhance Academic Programs on Climate Change Adaptation to increase awareness of the youth to the dangers of climate change. The Center will collaborate and develop curricular materials that can be ...
American Meteorological Society Member Survey on Global
... Of the 7,197 members on the initial list, 135 were ineligible because their email addresses were invalid. The valid initial denominator of the study, therefore, was 7,062. Of these 7,062 people, 1,862 c ...
... Of the 7,197 members on the initial list, 135 were ineligible because their email addresses were invalid. The valid initial denominator of the study, therefore, was 7,062. Of these 7,062 people, 1,862 c ...
ICE AGES - Boston College
... millions of years, so it could just be that these so-called dropstones were deposited near the cold poles as continents drifted over them. However, the orientation of magnetic minerals in some rocks can be used as a sort of paleo-compass to determine where they were deposited, and this evidence show ...
... millions of years, so it could just be that these so-called dropstones were deposited near the cold poles as continents drifted over them. However, the orientation of magnetic minerals in some rocks can be used as a sort of paleo-compass to determine where they were deposited, and this evidence show ...
Yukon Government Climate Change Strategy
... In Yukon, and across the circumpolar north, the effects of climate change are becoming more apparent and better understood. Yukon is experiencing impacts such as thawing permafrost, increased glacial melting, rising sea levels on the north coast, beetle infestations across southern spruce forests an ...
... In Yukon, and across the circumpolar north, the effects of climate change are becoming more apparent and better understood. Yukon is experiencing impacts such as thawing permafrost, increased glacial melting, rising sea levels on the north coast, beetle infestations across southern spruce forests an ...
Presentation
... States, Cities and Climate Change States not so smart because of sovereignty States not so smart because of lack of legally binding rules States not so smart because international climate change rules cannot be enforced properly…. ...
... States, Cities and Climate Change States not so smart because of sovereignty States not so smart because of lack of legally binding rules States not so smart because international climate change rules cannot be enforced properly…. ...
Flexible_Mechanisms_of_the_Kyoto_Protocol
... 1) flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol – Joint Implementation projects specified in Article 6, the Clean Development Mechanism specified in Article 12 and the International Emissions Trading specified in Article 17 of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Cha ...
... 1) flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol – Joint Implementation projects specified in Article 6, the Clean Development Mechanism specified in Article 12 and the International Emissions Trading specified in Article 17 of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Cha ...
Atmospheric circulation and hydroclimate impacts of alternative
... speculative. Nonetheless, the problem of disentangling the mix of radiative forcing agents that gave rise to Eocene warmth remains of crucial importance given its implications for climate sensitivity and thus predictions of future climate change (Caballero and Huber, 2013). Here, we explore the pote ...
... speculative. Nonetheless, the problem of disentangling the mix of radiative forcing agents that gave rise to Eocene warmth remains of crucial importance given its implications for climate sensitivity and thus predictions of future climate change (Caballero and Huber, 2013). Here, we explore the pote ...
The Cost of Climate Change: What We`ll Pay if
... which the world continues to emit heat-trapping gases at an increasing rate. We base our economic projections on the most pessimistic of the business-as-usual climate forecasts considered “likely” by the scientific community.1 In this projected climate future, which is still far from the worst case ...
... which the world continues to emit heat-trapping gases at an increasing rate. We base our economic projections on the most pessimistic of the business-as-usual climate forecasts considered “likely” by the scientific community.1 In this projected climate future, which is still far from the worst case ...
Climate Change Strategy - Environment Yukon
... In Yukon, and across the circumpolar north, the effects of climate change are becoming more apparent and better understood. Yukon is experiencing impacts such as thawing permafrost, increased glacial melting, rising sea levels on the north coast, beetle infestations across southern spruce forests an ...
... In Yukon, and across the circumpolar north, the effects of climate change are becoming more apparent and better understood. Yukon is experiencing impacts such as thawing permafrost, increased glacial melting, rising sea levels on the north coast, beetle infestations across southern spruce forests an ...
Slides
... Changes Will Vary Greatly RCP8.5 Scenario for 2081-2100 Annual mean surface temperature [Chesapeake region warms more than global average, up to 8°F!] ...
... Changes Will Vary Greatly RCP8.5 Scenario for 2081-2100 Annual mean surface temperature [Chesapeake region warms more than global average, up to 8°F!] ...
The Economics of "When" Flexibility in the Design of Greenhouse Gas
... at a point in time when they can be achieved at lowest cost (when flexibility), the Protocol risks causing higher costs than more phased-in emission targets in achieving a long-term goal for atmospheric stabilization of GHG concentrations. Similarly, by not allowing the use of price-based policy ins ...
... at a point in time when they can be achieved at lowest cost (when flexibility), the Protocol risks causing higher costs than more phased-in emission targets in achieving a long-term goal for atmospheric stabilization of GHG concentrations. Similarly, by not allowing the use of price-based policy ins ...
Climate Change
... the resilience of vulnerable ecosystems and societies. Communities around the world are already vulnerable to the impacts of climate related hazards. Figure 2 shows a sharp increase in the occurrence of natural disasters such as floods, droughts, extreme temperatures, and wildfires from 1960 to 1989 ...
... the resilience of vulnerable ecosystems and societies. Communities around the world are already vulnerable to the impacts of climate related hazards. Figure 2 shows a sharp increase in the occurrence of natural disasters such as floods, droughts, extreme temperatures, and wildfires from 1960 to 1989 ...
Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega
... Response is further hindered by the fact that climate change mega-catastrophes are more often characterized by ignorance than uncertainty. That is, not only do we not know the probability of a particular mega-catastrophe occurring, we do not even know many of the possible outcomes. With this in mind ...
... Response is further hindered by the fact that climate change mega-catastrophes are more often characterized by ignorance than uncertainty. That is, not only do we not know the probability of a particular mega-catastrophe occurring, we do not even know many of the possible outcomes. With this in mind ...
Committee on Climate Change: Review of the fourth carbon budget
... B. EU discussions on 2030 target and pathways through 2020s Building on its Roadmap, the EC published a Green Paper5 in March 2013, which highlighted the cost-effective path through 2030 would be a 40% reduction in EU emissions on 1990, and consulted on EU 2030 ambition. The UK‟s response to the Gr ...
... B. EU discussions on 2030 target and pathways through 2020s Building on its Roadmap, the EC published a Green Paper5 in March 2013, which highlighted the cost-effective path through 2030 would be a 40% reduction in EU emissions on 1990, and consulted on EU 2030 ambition. The UK‟s response to the Gr ...
CO2 Targets
... would have a very significant impact on the economy, increasing joblessness, and extending needlessly the hardship on the Australian people. Even a 5% reduction target would cost of the order of 70 Billion dollars per annum and achieve almost no impact on world CO2 inventory. This tax was also enorm ...
... would have a very significant impact on the economy, increasing joblessness, and extending needlessly the hardship on the Australian people. Even a 5% reduction target would cost of the order of 70 Billion dollars per annum and achieve almost no impact on world CO2 inventory. This tax was also enorm ...
01_COPES_in_Poznan
... be used for retrospective forecasts of weekly?, seasonal, inter-annual and decadal variations • The period 2010-2019 will serve as a testbed for real time forecasts • Need and use of special observing periods? • Defining and planning of COPES will continue and will be widely presented at the 2006 Gl ...
... be used for retrospective forecasts of weekly?, seasonal, inter-annual and decadal variations • The period 2010-2019 will serve as a testbed for real time forecasts • Need and use of special observing periods? • Defining and planning of COPES will continue and will be widely presented at the 2006 Gl ...
Heat capacity, time constant, and sensitivity of Earth`s climate system
... advances in understanding of the many processes that need to be represented in global climate models, it nonetheless suggests the utility if not the necessity of alternative approaches to determining climate sensitivity on a timescale such that this determination can be made in a way that it can use ...
... advances in understanding of the many processes that need to be represented in global climate models, it nonetheless suggests the utility if not the necessity of alternative approaches to determining climate sensitivity on a timescale such that this determination can be made in a way that it can use ...
Communicating the risks of global warming
... rationales for their disbelief, ranging from acceptance of the reality of climate change (although naturally-caused or overblown) to flat denials and outright conspiracy theories. This interpretive community is thus predisposed to discount or flatly reject scientific assessments of climate change. W ...
... rationales for their disbelief, ranging from acceptance of the reality of climate change (although naturally-caused or overblown) to flat denials and outright conspiracy theories. This interpretive community is thus predisposed to discount or flatly reject scientific assessments of climate change. W ...
Americans` Knowledge of Climate Change
... In some cases, there is a clear “correct” or “incorrect” answer, strongly supported or strongly rejected by well-established scientific evidence. In other cases, there is a “best” answer reflecting broadly held scientific agreement, but somewhat more subjective. We provide references to peerreviewed ...
... In some cases, there is a clear “correct” or “incorrect” answer, strongly supported or strongly rejected by well-established scientific evidence. In other cases, there is a “best” answer reflecting broadly held scientific agreement, but somewhat more subjective. We provide references to peerreviewed ...
Climate Changes, Impacts and Implications for New Zealand to
... designed to be extended to regional and sectoral scenarios but make no assumptions about global or national-level climate change policy. In addition, Shared climate Policy Assumptions (SPAs) describe potential climate change mitigation and/ or adaptation policies specific to New Zealand, which enabl ...
... designed to be extended to regional and sectoral scenarios but make no assumptions about global or national-level climate change policy. In addition, Shared climate Policy Assumptions (SPAs) describe potential climate change mitigation and/ or adaptation policies specific to New Zealand, which enabl ...
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.