climate change in the american mind
... proportion of people that believe global warming is happening and a slight decrease in the proportion that believe it is caused by mostly by human activities. There has also been a slight decrease in the proportion of people who believe that most scientists think global warming is happening; this de ...
... proportion of people that believe global warming is happening and a slight decrease in the proportion that believe it is caused by mostly by human activities. There has also been a slight decrease in the proportion of people who believe that most scientists think global warming is happening; this de ...
Policy and Actions: Disaster Management, Natural Resources
... Government to promote mitigation in energy, transport and industry • The South African economy is energy intensive and presents special challenges in terms of transitioning to a low carbon economy • Government to support transition in key sectors Climate Change resilience a criterion for sustainable ...
... Government to promote mitigation in energy, transport and industry • The South African economy is energy intensive and presents special challenges in terms of transitioning to a low carbon economy • Government to support transition in key sectors Climate Change resilience a criterion for sustainable ...
Diurnal temperature range as an index of global
... trend in DTR and increases in cloudiness. Changes to water vapour, soil moisture and precipitation, not considered here, are also likely to have lesser but important impacts on simulated trends in Tmax and Tmin. [19] Since DTR is highly sensitive to small changes in maximum and minimum temperatures ...
... trend in DTR and increases in cloudiness. Changes to water vapour, soil moisture and precipitation, not considered here, are also likely to have lesser but important impacts on simulated trends in Tmax and Tmin. [19] Since DTR is highly sensitive to small changes in maximum and minimum temperatures ...
JMA/MRI
... Improving atmosphere-ocean coupled models will lead to constant improvement of seasonal predictions based on slow-coupled process like ENSO. On the other hand, high predictability from ENSO seems to be limited within relatively lowlatitudes. Therefore, for more complete seasonal prediction, we need ...
... Improving atmosphere-ocean coupled models will lead to constant improvement of seasonal predictions based on slow-coupled process like ENSO. On the other hand, high predictability from ENSO seems to be limited within relatively lowlatitudes. Therefore, for more complete seasonal prediction, we need ...
impact of climate change on agriculture: empirical evidence from
... (N2O) are responsible for generating changes to global climate. Climate change will produce swings such as rise in sea level, changes in rainfall sequences and movement of climatic regions due to increased temperatures. Intensities of droughts, storms and flood are expected to be increased due to ch ...
... (N2O) are responsible for generating changes to global climate. Climate change will produce swings such as rise in sea level, changes in rainfall sequences and movement of climatic regions due to increased temperatures. Intensities of droughts, storms and flood are expected to be increased due to ch ...
Climate Change Science for Mesoamerican Decision Makers
... responds to various types of changes, or forcings (e.g., changes in solar output, increases in greenhouse gas concentration, or alterations of the land surface). Once these models have been tested and verified for present-day climate, they can be used to simulate past and future climate change. In o ...
... responds to various types of changes, or forcings (e.g., changes in solar output, increases in greenhouse gas concentration, or alterations of the land surface). Once these models have been tested and verified for present-day climate, they can be used to simulate past and future climate change. In o ...
presentation
... Mean DD>00C flawed for local seasonal variations on survival Insensitve to arid habitats (prairies) limiting spread Insensitive to local rainfall variations and humidity Stochastic extinsions of ticks Conflict with Brownstein et al. 2005 (lower border projections) Correlation with USA data on border ...
... Mean DD>00C flawed for local seasonal variations on survival Insensitve to arid habitats (prairies) limiting spread Insensitive to local rainfall variations and humidity Stochastic extinsions of ticks Conflict with Brownstein et al. 2005 (lower border projections) Correlation with USA data on border ...
Climate change impacts on North African countries and on some
... frequent, more intense and longer-lasting. The projections also announce a drop of 4 to 27% in annual rainfall. The water deficit will be worsened by increased evaporation and coastal aquifers will become more salty. The sea level could rise by 23-47 cm. by the end of the 21st century. Many Mediterr ...
... frequent, more intense and longer-lasting. The projections also announce a drop of 4 to 27% in annual rainfall. The water deficit will be worsened by increased evaporation and coastal aquifers will become more salty. The sea level could rise by 23-47 cm. by the end of the 21st century. Many Mediterr ...
The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics
... http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/07.pdf. ...
... http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/07.pdf. ...
Communicating climate change to mass public audiences
... Current public communication campaigns, as orchestrated by government, business and non-governmental organisations, are not achieving these changes. This paper asks: how should such communications be designed if they are to have optimal impact in motivating these changes? The response to this quest ...
... Current public communication campaigns, as orchestrated by government, business and non-governmental organisations, are not achieving these changes. This paper asks: how should such communications be designed if they are to have optimal impact in motivating these changes? The response to this quest ...
AU16-Geog 5900 - Atmospheric Sciences Program
... Upon successful completion of the course, students should: (1) be able to describe the structure and composition of the atmosphere and how it has changed with time; (2) know the factors that cause solar energy variations on earth and be able to describe the global radiation balance; (3) be able to e ...
... Upon successful completion of the course, students should: (1) be able to describe the structure and composition of the atmosphere and how it has changed with time; (2) know the factors that cause solar energy variations on earth and be able to describe the global radiation balance; (3) be able to e ...
Climate Science Overview pdf
... the Earth system. So changes in the parts cause the climate to change, and that changing climate then affects the parts and cause further changes in the climate. These kinds of loops of change are ...
... the Earth system. So changes in the parts cause the climate to change, and that changing climate then affects the parts and cause further changes in the climate. These kinds of loops of change are ...
3. Global change scenarios
... scenario is based on a logically consistent, internally coherent and plausible set of assumptions (see Meadows et al. 2004; IPCC 1994). Theoretically, the scenario space contains an infinite number of scenarios; typically, only a few of them are considered. The scenarios used in this study combine p ...
... scenario is based on a logically consistent, internally coherent and plausible set of assumptions (see Meadows et al. 2004; IPCC 1994). Theoretically, the scenario space contains an infinite number of scenarios; typically, only a few of them are considered. The scenarios used in this study combine p ...
PDF - Wiley Online Library
... profoundly affect key physical and biological processes through nonlinear dynamics [Adrian et al., 2009]. The diverse array of lake sizes and shapes on earth suggests that patterns of lake warming should be highly variable, both in space and time. Key drivers of surface water temperature include abs ...
... profoundly affect key physical and biological processes through nonlinear dynamics [Adrian et al., 2009]. The diverse array of lake sizes and shapes on earth suggests that patterns of lake warming should be highly variable, both in space and time. Key drivers of surface water temperature include abs ...
Value of information for climate observing systems
... prediction based on changing boundary conditions and predicting the climate system response over long time scales (decades to century) with spatial averages from local (city) to regional (continent) to global. As a result, weather prediction VOI metrics are not directly applicable to climate predict ...
... prediction based on changing boundary conditions and predicting the climate system response over long time scales (decades to century) with spatial averages from local (city) to regional (continent) to global. As a result, weather prediction VOI metrics are not directly applicable to climate predict ...
global 500 greenhouse gases performance 2010
... Are the 500 largest businesses in the world (Global 500) reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at a rate that follows the global scientific consensus on the risks of climate change? As a group, they were not in our prior reports1 covering performance from 2010 through 2013, and they are not ...
... Are the 500 largest businesses in the world (Global 500) reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at a rate that follows the global scientific consensus on the risks of climate change? As a group, they were not in our prior reports1 covering performance from 2010 through 2013, and they are not ...
Lending a caring hand - University of New England
... in Texas, the dog days are 2.8 degrees hotter. The contiguous United States’ annual average temperature has warmed by 1.2 degrees since 1984, with summers getting 1.6 degrees hotter. But that doesn’t really tell you how hot it’s gotten for most Americans. While manmade greenhouse gases warm the worl ...
... in Texas, the dog days are 2.8 degrees hotter. The contiguous United States’ annual average temperature has warmed by 1.2 degrees since 1984, with summers getting 1.6 degrees hotter. But that doesn’t really tell you how hot it’s gotten for most Americans. While manmade greenhouse gases warm the worl ...
cop21: agriculture and forestry at the heart of the solution for the
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. This Framework Convention is a universal convention of principle, acknowledging the existence of anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and giving industrialized count ...
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. This Framework Convention is a universal convention of principle, acknowledging the existence of anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and giving industrialized count ...
Annexes
... typical size between a few nanometres and 10 μm that reside in the atmosphere for at least several hours. For convenience the term aerosol, which includes both the particles and the suspending gas, is often used in this report in its plural form to mean aerosol particles. Aerosols may be of either n ...
... typical size between a few nanometres and 10 μm that reside in the atmosphere for at least several hours. For convenience the term aerosol, which includes both the particles and the suspending gas, is often used in this report in its plural form to mean aerosol particles. Aerosols may be of either n ...
Crop yield simulation
... Climate change poses threats to the agricultural sector and negatively affects subsistence farmers who have a low adaptive capacity. Therefore adaptation capacity is needed to counteract the impacts of climate change. However, while adaptation is considered crucial for addressing potential challenge ...
... Climate change poses threats to the agricultural sector and negatively affects subsistence farmers who have a low adaptive capacity. Therefore adaptation capacity is needed to counteract the impacts of climate change. However, while adaptation is considered crucial for addressing potential challenge ...
Protecting Cultural Resources in Coastal U.S. National Parks from
... moved and will therefore have to be protected using engineered measures, or else risk being lost to the rising waters of the Mississippi Sound and surrounding Gulf of Mexico. The question of what would be the best approach to protect the fort has been the subject of some debate in recent decades, pa ...
... moved and will therefore have to be protected using engineered measures, or else risk being lost to the rising waters of the Mississippi Sound and surrounding Gulf of Mexico. The question of what would be the best approach to protect the fort has been the subject of some debate in recent decades, pa ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... Discussion and Analysis In the proposed rulemaking, the DOE recognizes that the determination of the SCC is rapidly evolving and dependent on the latest scientific findings. The DOE states that: DOE is well aware that scientific and economic knowledge about the contribution of CO 2 and other GHG emi ...
... Discussion and Analysis In the proposed rulemaking, the DOE recognizes that the determination of the SCC is rapidly evolving and dependent on the latest scientific findings. The DOE states that: DOE is well aware that scientific and economic knowledge about the contribution of CO 2 and other GHG emi ...
Cities, Climate Change, and The Big Opportunity
... In Pune, slums have increased just as they have in many cities around the world. In the absence of affordable housing, newcomers to Pune found shelter in squatter settlements, typically on land unsuitable or unattractive to real estate developers and even owned by the government. As encroachers, the ...
... In Pune, slums have increased just as they have in many cities around the world. In the absence of affordable housing, newcomers to Pune found shelter in squatter settlements, typically on land unsuitable or unattractive to real estate developers and even owned by the government. As encroachers, the ...
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.