An Analysis of the Future Climate over the Chesapeake Bay
... The purpose of this study is to analyze the projected climate over the Chesapeake Bay Watershed using the IPCC AR4 models. The A2 and B1 emission scenarios are analyzed because they bracket a business as usual emissions scenario and a more proactive emissions reduction strategy. The mean model is de ...
... The purpose of this study is to analyze the projected climate over the Chesapeake Bay Watershed using the IPCC AR4 models. The A2 and B1 emission scenarios are analyzed because they bracket a business as usual emissions scenario and a more proactive emissions reduction strategy. The mean model is de ...
ASSESSMENT OF THE CREDIBILITY AND EFFICIENCY OF THE
... emissions reduction targets. The CERs obtained can be used for Kyoto-target compliance and, since beginning of 2005, also in the EU ETS. CDM projects are designed to meet two main objectives: to assist Parties not included in Annex I (i.e. developing countries) in achieving sustainable development a ...
... emissions reduction targets. The CERs obtained can be used for Kyoto-target compliance and, since beginning of 2005, also in the EU ETS. CDM projects are designed to meet two main objectives: to assist Parties not included in Annex I (i.e. developing countries) in achieving sustainable development a ...
The Dynamics of Climate Change
... In these conditions the very meaning of ‘sustainability’ itself is rent asunder. On the one hand sustainability is grounded in the realities of the global life-support system. It encodes the constraints imposed on human enterprise by the contextual parameters of the holding environment. These are th ...
... In these conditions the very meaning of ‘sustainability’ itself is rent asunder. On the one hand sustainability is grounded in the realities of the global life-support system. It encodes the constraints imposed on human enterprise by the contextual parameters of the holding environment. These are th ...
Climate change to shift global pattern of mild weather
... U.S., Canada, northern Europe to gain milder days Scientists used high-resolution climate models to People living in the mid-latitudes, which include investigate the changing patterns of mild weather much of the United States, as well as many globally by examining the effect over time of mountainous ...
... U.S., Canada, northern Europe to gain milder days Scientists used high-resolution climate models to People living in the mid-latitudes, which include investigate the changing patterns of mild weather much of the United States, as well as many globally by examining the effect over time of mountainous ...
Robert H. Socolow, Professor, Co-Director, The Carbon Mitigation
... research focuses on global carbon management and fossil-carbon sequestration. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), www.princeton.edu/~cmi/, a fifteen-year (2000-2015) research project supported by BP and Fo ...
... research focuses on global carbon management and fossil-carbon sequestration. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), www.princeton.edu/~cmi/, a fifteen-year (2000-2015) research project supported by BP and Fo ...
Broader perspectives for comparing different greenhouse gases
... on further reduction of methane rather than CO2 . This may have short-term value, but is not consistent with long-term climate-change stabilization strategies. Furthermore, the use of a fixed time horizon for the GWP concept does not cover our understanding that about 20 per cent of CO2 emitted to th ...
... on further reduction of methane rather than CO2 . This may have short-term value, but is not consistent with long-term climate-change stabilization strategies. Furthermore, the use of a fixed time horizon for the GWP concept does not cover our understanding that about 20 per cent of CO2 emitted to th ...
1 Contrasting Population Responses: Winners and Losers in
... 2002). The California Current (CC), a highly productive Eastern boundary current, provides critical habitat for many marine organisms including several endemic species of seabirds. As highly visible upper trophic marine predators, seabirds have shown strong responses to recent climate change (Croxa ...
... 2002). The California Current (CC), a highly productive Eastern boundary current, provides critical habitat for many marine organisms including several endemic species of seabirds. As highly visible upper trophic marine predators, seabirds have shown strong responses to recent climate change (Croxa ...
The atmosphere surrounding the earth consists of a complex
... environmental and financial benefits of solar power as a renewable energy source. This workshop continues to attract large numbers and will be repeated in the 2011/12 financial year. ...
... environmental and financial benefits of solar power as a renewable energy source. This workshop continues to attract large numbers and will be repeated in the 2011/12 financial year. ...
Observed Changes and their Causes
... of regions and crops shows that negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts IPCC Synthesis Report Climate Change 2014 ...
... of regions and crops shows that negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts IPCC Synthesis Report Climate Change 2014 ...
Risks from Climate Feedbacks
... global warming. A climate feedback is a change to a component of the climate system that causes a knock-on effect which further alters the original change. An amplifying feedback (also referred to as a ‘positive feedback’) increases the rate of global warming. For example, as the climate warms it ...
... global warming. A climate feedback is a change to a component of the climate system that causes a knock-on effect which further alters the original change. An amplifying feedback (also referred to as a ‘positive feedback’) increases the rate of global warming. For example, as the climate warms it ...
climate change and the agriculture sector
... BOX 2. CLIMATE CHANGE AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS BY MIDCENTURY, WITHOUT ADAPTATION RESPONSES ...
... BOX 2. CLIMATE CHANGE AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS BY MIDCENTURY, WITHOUT ADAPTATION RESPONSES ...
Increasing River Discharge to the Arctic Ocean
... sverdrup/°C (Fig. 4), discharge from the six largest Eurasian arctic rivers alone would increase by 0.01 to 0.04 sverdrup (315 to 1260 km3/year) by 2100. This would represent an 18 to 70% increase in Eurasian arctic river discharge over present conditions. A comparable increase in Eurasian arctic ri ...
... sverdrup/°C (Fig. 4), discharge from the six largest Eurasian arctic rivers alone would increase by 0.01 to 0.04 sverdrup (315 to 1260 km3/year) by 2100. This would represent an 18 to 70% increase in Eurasian arctic river discharge over present conditions. A comparable increase in Eurasian arctic ri ...
Hot, It`s Not - Tufts University
... A mantra repeated throughout Cool It is the belief that other problems are more urgent than climate change, and more cost effective to address. Cost-benefit analyses of a range of competing priorities, written for Lomborg’s earlier “Copenhagen Consensus,” form the basis for this belief. That consens ...
... A mantra repeated throughout Cool It is the belief that other problems are more urgent than climate change, and more cost effective to address. Cost-benefit analyses of a range of competing priorities, written for Lomborg’s earlier “Copenhagen Consensus,” form the basis for this belief. That consens ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
... those developed by nuclear weapons designers for solving the fluid dynamics equations needed to analyze shock waves produced in nuclear explosions. The climatic consequences of nuclear war also represent a major historical intersection between climate science and nuclear affairs. Without the work do ...
... those developed by nuclear weapons designers for solving the fluid dynamics equations needed to analyze shock waves produced in nuclear explosions. The climatic consequences of nuclear war also represent a major historical intersection between climate science and nuclear affairs. Without the work do ...
Natural Processes in Mitigation of CO2 and CH4 Emission
... Grains constitute another ecosystem, which occupies 80 260 ha. While analyzing the crop size, it can be assumed that grains can absorb ...
... Grains constitute another ecosystem, which occupies 80 260 ha. While analyzing the crop size, it can be assumed that grains can absorb ...
Climate Change
... factors. These are factors which alter the Earth’s heat balance and thus cause a gradual change in the Earth’s temperature. More heat trapped – temperature rises until the heat radiated away from Earth equals that coming in. ...
... factors. These are factors which alter the Earth’s heat balance and thus cause a gradual change in the Earth’s temperature. More heat trapped – temperature rises until the heat radiated away from Earth equals that coming in. ...
Supporting Adaptation: A Priority for Action on Climate Change for
... canaDa’S inuit population Inuit are indigenous peoples inhabiting Arctic and subArctic regions of Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and Chukotka ...
... canaDa’S inuit population Inuit are indigenous peoples inhabiting Arctic and subArctic regions of Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and Chukotka ...
Climate of Concern
... warming lacked the type of media profile it has recently attracted. However, a study conducted by Fisher (1998) which explicitly questioned students about the issue of the Greenhouse Effect, found reasonably high levels of knowledge in the 11 to 17 year olds he interviewed. This study, which compare ...
... warming lacked the type of media profile it has recently attracted. However, a study conducted by Fisher (1998) which explicitly questioned students about the issue of the Greenhouse Effect, found reasonably high levels of knowledge in the 11 to 17 year olds he interviewed. This study, which compare ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Organisms and Ecosystems
... Earth’s climate has changed [30], and will likely continue to change [31], over multiple time scales (Table 1). Temperature change is apparent in the existing instrument record, and numerous proxies enable past temperature variations to be reconstructed [32]. Temperature is hugely influential on phy ...
... Earth’s climate has changed [30], and will likely continue to change [31], over multiple time scales (Table 1). Temperature change is apparent in the existing instrument record, and numerous proxies enable past temperature variations to be reconstructed [32]. Temperature is hugely influential on phy ...
El Niño Is Becoming More Active
... biological clues, such as from lake sediment cores, corals, or tree rings as proxies for past ENSO behavior. The problem has been, though, that reconstructions of ENSO from such paleo-proxies have not been telling the same story. Some of these discrepancies in ENSO reconstructions arise because the ...
... biological clues, such as from lake sediment cores, corals, or tree rings as proxies for past ENSO behavior. The problem has been, though, that reconstructions of ENSO from such paleo-proxies have not been telling the same story. Some of these discrepancies in ENSO reconstructions arise because the ...
Slide 1
... o To share your views, knowledge and experience o To be able to identify country needs for follow-up actions ...
... o To share your views, knowledge and experience o To be able to identify country needs for follow-up actions ...
Decadal Climate Predictability
... Currently, the global community is paralyzed as the desire for a higher standard of living and the need to maintain a stable environment collide. Rapidly rising living standards are straining the world’s energy infrastructure to its limits and are causing a relentless increase of atmospheric carbon ...
... Currently, the global community is paralyzed as the desire for a higher standard of living and the need to maintain a stable environment collide. Rapidly rising living standards are straining the world’s energy infrastructure to its limits and are causing a relentless increase of atmospheric carbon ...
The Global Weather, Climate and Water Enterprise: Helping to build Resilient Communities
... cooperation on enhancing action on adaptation, with respect to strengthening scientific knowledge on climate, including research, systematic observation of the climate system and early warning systems, in a manner that informs climate services and supports decision-making. ...
... cooperation on enhancing action on adaptation, with respect to strengthening scientific knowledge on climate, including research, systematic observation of the climate system and early warning systems, in a manner that informs climate services and supports decision-making. ...
TCC_activities
... correct understanding of uncertainty of the information. 2. JMA develops and improves the Integrated Climate Information Production System (ICIRS). 3. NMHSs should prepare and deliver climate information. International Cooperation Framework should assist NMHSs. TCC contributes to such a Framework. ...
... correct understanding of uncertainty of the information. 2. JMA develops and improves the Integrated Climate Information Production System (ICIRS). 3. NMHSs should prepare and deliver climate information. International Cooperation Framework should assist NMHSs. TCC contributes to such a Framework. ...
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.