Baltadapt impact survey
... society and environment in the Baltic Sea region. A number of different aspects of climate change are listed. Each of them is associated with an estimate of the uncertainty and also the time until significant climate change can be detected. The estimate of the uncertainty pertains to if there will b ...
... society and environment in the Baltic Sea region. A number of different aspects of climate change are listed. Each of them is associated with an estimate of the uncertainty and also the time until significant climate change can be detected. The estimate of the uncertainty pertains to if there will b ...
Climate Finance Regional Briefing
... change, in particular glacial melt and changes in river flows, extreme events and risks to food production systems affect development in both rural and urban areas in the region (World Bank, 2014). Climate finance in the Latin American region is highly concentrated, with a few of the largest countri ...
... change, in particular glacial melt and changes in river flows, extreme events and risks to food production systems affect development in both rural and urban areas in the region (World Bank, 2014). Climate finance in the Latin American region is highly concentrated, with a few of the largest countri ...
Research priorities in land use and land
... IAM approach comes largely from a tradition of modelling the interaction of human activities, decision making and the environment. In this work, the focus has been mostly on economic production and consumption, energy systems, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change. Land use (timber, agri ...
... IAM approach comes largely from a tradition of modelling the interaction of human activities, decision making and the environment. In this work, the focus has been mostly on economic production and consumption, energy systems, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change. Land use (timber, agri ...
Americans` Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in April 2013
... about global warming, a 7 percentage-point decline in worry since Fall 2012. ...
... about global warming, a 7 percentage-point decline in worry since Fall 2012. ...
Climate Risk Assessment and Management : Tamil Nadu State
... • Traditional Risk Assessment Methodologies underestimated climate risks since focused on assessing a part of direct impacts, not factoring in indirect and cascading impacts on over all economy • Traditional Risk Assessment Methodologies mostly focused on assessing high impact of extreme events and ...
... • Traditional Risk Assessment Methodologies underestimated climate risks since focused on assessing a part of direct impacts, not factoring in indirect and cascading impacts on over all economy • Traditional Risk Assessment Methodologies mostly focused on assessing high impact of extreme events and ...
Rapid Climate Change
... the world’s wetlands increased. Many of these shifts in parameters, including at least a 4-degree Celsius increase in the average annual air temperature, happened in less than 10 years. These changes were not restricted to Greenland; the global nature of many of these ice-core records showed that lo ...
... the world’s wetlands increased. Many of these shifts in parameters, including at least a 4-degree Celsius increase in the average annual air temperature, happened in less than 10 years. These changes were not restricted to Greenland; the global nature of many of these ice-core records showed that lo ...
BLACKROCK INVESTMENT INSTITUTE
... } Global average surface temperatures (land and ocean) have risen 0.88° Celsius (1.6° Fahrenheit) since records began in 1880, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. } Seventeen of the past 18 years have been the hottest on record globally. See the chart below. } Pos ...
... } Global average surface temperatures (land and ocean) have risen 0.88° Celsius (1.6° Fahrenheit) since records began in 1880, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. } Seventeen of the past 18 years have been the hottest on record globally. See the chart below. } Pos ...
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystems: a review of
... period of low rainfall and desiccation at least as severe as anything seen during the past millennium (Hulme & Kelly 1993). Although it is not yet possible to prove that changes such as these are caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions, they are consistent with predictions made by global circula ...
... period of low rainfall and desiccation at least as severe as anything seen during the past millennium (Hulme & Kelly 1993). Although it is not yet possible to prove that changes such as these are caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions, they are consistent with predictions made by global circula ...
Climate change consequences on the biome distribution in tropical
... the main source of uncertainty for regional climate change scenarios is associated to different projections from different AOGCMs. The projected temperature warming for South America range from 1° to 4°C for emissions scenarios B1 and from 2° to 6°C for A2. The analysis is much more complicated for ...
... the main source of uncertainty for regional climate change scenarios is associated to different projections from different AOGCMs. The projected temperature warming for South America range from 1° to 4°C for emissions scenarios B1 and from 2° to 6°C for A2. The analysis is much more complicated for ...
Climate Change, Vulnerability and Social Justice
... Assessments of the ecological and human risks from climate change need to take account of both the magnitude of the stresses that may result from alterations in the characteristics of climate--precipitation, temperature, droughts, severe storms--and the degree of vulnerability of human and ecologica ...
... Assessments of the ecological and human risks from climate change need to take account of both the magnitude of the stresses that may result from alterations in the characteristics of climate--precipitation, temperature, droughts, severe storms--and the degree of vulnerability of human and ecologica ...
model output statistics and climate variability over
... Contribute to global scientific efforts on climate change Provide framework for mitigation and adaptation Integrate climate change issues into national economic medium to long term planning Workshop on Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models, ICTP, Trieste, 26 May - 6 June ...
... Contribute to global scientific efforts on climate change Provide framework for mitigation and adaptation Integrate climate change issues into national economic medium to long term planning Workshop on Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models, ICTP, Trieste, 26 May - 6 June ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... The IWG2010 notes (p.14) that the calibrated Roe and Baker distribution better reflects the IPCC judgment that “values substantially higher than 4.5°C still cannot be excluded.” The IWG2010 further notes that “Although the IPCC made no quantitative judgment, the 95th percentile of the calibrated Ro ...
... The IWG2010 notes (p.14) that the calibrated Roe and Baker distribution better reflects the IPCC judgment that “values substantially higher than 4.5°C still cannot be excluded.” The IWG2010 further notes that “Although the IPCC made no quantitative judgment, the 95th percentile of the calibrated Ro ...
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... decades. Stabilisation of atmospheric concentrations at 550 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 equivalent (around twice the pre-industrial level) is estimated to require a 25% reduction compared to current annual emissions by 2050, and a more ambitious target of 450 ppm a reduction of 70% below current ...
... decades. Stabilisation of atmospheric concentrations at 550 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 equivalent (around twice the pre-industrial level) is estimated to require a 25% reduction compared to current annual emissions by 2050, and a more ambitious target of 450 ppm a reduction of 70% below current ...
CV - Department of Earth Sciences
... Disagreement between Simulated and Observed Climate Variability with Water Isotope Physics and Proxy System Models, in Session 16b: Reconstructing Warm and Cold Climates: Insights from Data and Models. • PAGES2k/PMIP3 Hydroclimate Workshop, June 2016, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Unive ...
... Disagreement between Simulated and Observed Climate Variability with Water Isotope Physics and Proxy System Models, in Session 16b: Reconstructing Warm and Cold Climates: Insights from Data and Models. • PAGES2k/PMIP3 Hydroclimate Workshop, June 2016, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Unive ...
Kennesaw State University High School Model United Nations
... Out of concerns raised in the IPCC's First Assessment Report. the UN General Assembly established the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted in May 1992 and implemented in 1994. The ...
... Out of concerns raised in the IPCC's First Assessment Report. the UN General Assembly established the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted in May 1992 and implemented in 1994. The ...
Climate change scenarios in Europe and their potential
... The complexity of the climate system and the multiple interactions that determine its behavior impose limitations on our ability to understand fully the future course of Earth’s global climate. There is still an incomplete physical understanding of many components of the climate system and their rol ...
... The complexity of the climate system and the multiple interactions that determine its behavior impose limitations on our ability to understand fully the future course of Earth’s global climate. There is still an incomplete physical understanding of many components of the climate system and their rol ...
Climate change consequences on the biome - mtc-m16b:80
... the main source of uncertainty for regional climate change scenarios is associated to different projections from different AOGCMs. The projected temperature warming for South America range from 1° to 4°C for emissions scenarios B1 and from 2° to 6°C for A2. The analysis is much more complicated for ...
... the main source of uncertainty for regional climate change scenarios is associated to different projections from different AOGCMs. The projected temperature warming for South America range from 1° to 4°C for emissions scenarios B1 and from 2° to 6°C for A2. The analysis is much more complicated for ...
Questionnaire design effects in climate change surveys
... Researchers have recently begun to explore the role that respondents’ perceptions of the beliefs held by climate scientists—so-called meta-beliefs—play in the willingness to support broad-scale societal action to mitigate climate change. Analyzing U.S. nationally representative survey data from 2010 ...
... Researchers have recently begun to explore the role that respondents’ perceptions of the beliefs held by climate scientists—so-called meta-beliefs—play in the willingness to support broad-scale societal action to mitigate climate change. Analyzing U.S. nationally representative survey data from 2010 ...
Go Green Go Global - Eco
... the identified products and foodstuffs come from. Label these on the map, for example doormats are made from hairy coats of coconuts. Coconuts grow on coconut palm trees in hot wet places like India. Step 2: Create a web of dependence from the country of origin to Ireland using coloured string on yo ...
... the identified products and foodstuffs come from. Label these on the map, for example doormats are made from hairy coats of coconuts. Coconuts grow on coconut palm trees in hot wet places like India. Step 2: Create a web of dependence from the country of origin to Ireland using coloured string on yo ...
Coastal Climate Impacts… What You Can Do.
... What is Sea Grant doing to improve my ability to use climate information? Both the North and South Carolina Sea Grant programs have university partners that conduct new research on our region’s coastal climatology. This research includes work on improving available climate information products and o ...
... What is Sea Grant doing to improve my ability to use climate information? Both the North and South Carolina Sea Grant programs have university partners that conduct new research on our region’s coastal climatology. This research includes work on improving available climate information products and o ...
ANNEX 1 A JPI CLIMATE First joint call 2013, call topic 1: Societal
... Research in this thematic area contributes to the understanding of systemic and sustainable societal responses to climate change and creates synergies with all other themes in this call. The multiple drivers of climate change are connected to current global megatrends, socio-ecological challenges (e ...
... Research in this thematic area contributes to the understanding of systemic and sustainable societal responses to climate change and creates synergies with all other themes in this call. The multiple drivers of climate change are connected to current global megatrends, socio-ecological challenges (e ...
anthropogenic climate change: a reason for
... 40 years earlier by Arrhenius (1896). Interestingly, Arrhenius (1903) himself stated that anthropogenic emissions of CO2 would cause a significant climate change only after several hundred years. Flohn (1941) also brought this line of reasoning into the scientific debate. In the 1940s global mean temp ...
... 40 years earlier by Arrhenius (1896). Interestingly, Arrhenius (1903) himself stated that anthropogenic emissions of CO2 would cause a significant climate change only after several hundred years. Flohn (1941) also brought this line of reasoning into the scientific debate. In the 1940s global mean temp ...
Economic Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol Jeffrey A. Frankel, Member
... Before discussing the likely cost of U.S. efforts to avert climate change, it is important to recognize the costs and risks facing our nation should we fail to act. Current concentrations of greenhouse gases have reached levels well above those of preindustrial times. As a consequence, the Intergove ...
... Before discussing the likely cost of U.S. efforts to avert climate change, it is important to recognize the costs and risks facing our nation should we fail to act. Current concentrations of greenhouse gases have reached levels well above those of preindustrial times. As a consequence, the Intergove ...
Tropical rainforest canopies and climate change
... cycling, soil carbon storage, tree–grass and plant–insect interactions, and soil hydrology. The response of tropical trees and vines to elevated CO2 may be initially positive where water is nonlimiting, although, as with the response to changing moisture regimes, it is likely to vary considerably ac ...
... cycling, soil carbon storage, tree–grass and plant–insect interactions, and soil hydrology. The response of tropical trees and vines to elevated CO2 may be initially positive where water is nonlimiting, although, as with the response to changing moisture regimes, it is likely to vary considerably ac ...
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.