Climate Change Choices - Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign
... consider to be the most significant impacts of aviation, including its non-CO2 emissions, on climate change? How can these impacts best be addressed? and 5.34 What is the potential for increased use of sustainable biofuels in aviation and over what timeframe? and 5.39 What scope is there to influenc ...
... consider to be the most significant impacts of aviation, including its non-CO2 emissions, on climate change? How can these impacts best be addressed? and 5.34 What is the potential for increased use of sustainable biofuels in aviation and over what timeframe? and 5.39 What scope is there to influenc ...
Nuclear war does not cause extinction from climate
... that oxygen levels in the atmosphere in prehistoric times averaged around 30% to 35%, compared to only 21% today – and that the levels are even less in densely populated, polluted city centres and industrial complexes, perhaps only 15 % or lower. Much of this recent, accelerated change is down to hu ...
... that oxygen levels in the atmosphere in prehistoric times averaged around 30% to 35%, compared to only 21% today – and that the levels are even less in densely populated, polluted city centres and industrial complexes, perhaps only 15 % or lower. Much of this recent, accelerated change is down to hu ...
CLIMATE CHANGE TRENDS IN SOME ROMANIAN VITICULTURAL
... trend, mainly during the growing season, especially during the ripening of the grapes. There have been highlighted relatively large differences between the values of the main bioclimatic indicators of the country's wine regions, as well as a stronger growth trend of these ones in the northern areas ...
... trend, mainly during the growing season, especially during the ripening of the grapes. There have been highlighted relatively large differences between the values of the main bioclimatic indicators of the country's wine regions, as well as a stronger growth trend of these ones in the northern areas ...
Air hygiene and management
... • People with respiratory or cardiac disorders should take their medication and minimize strenuous outdoor activity on smog alert days. • Avoid driving where possible. Consider public transport, cycling or walking. • Do not burn off outdoors or light incinerators (most local councils have restrictio ...
... • People with respiratory or cardiac disorders should take their medication and minimize strenuous outdoor activity on smog alert days. • Avoid driving where possible. Consider public transport, cycling or walking. • Do not burn off outdoors or light incinerators (most local councils have restrictio ...
Predicted Regional Consequences of climate change
... will significantly decrease both biodiversity and the amount of carbon dioxide that the planet is able to absorb.xvii Changing weather patterns and deforestation are destroying 1% of the forest each year.xviii One climate model used in the fourth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan ...
... will significantly decrease both biodiversity and the amount of carbon dioxide that the planet is able to absorb.xvii Changing weather patterns and deforestation are destroying 1% of the forest each year.xviii One climate model used in the fourth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan ...
National Plan on Climate Change
... Global climate change is one of the most significant challenges of the present day. The National Climate Change Plan intends to encourage the undertaking of actions in Brazil that can collaborate with global attempts to face the problem and create internal conditions to confront its consequences. Gl ...
... Global climate change is one of the most significant challenges of the present day. The National Climate Change Plan intends to encourage the undertaking of actions in Brazil that can collaborate with global attempts to face the problem and create internal conditions to confront its consequences. Gl ...
PlanetUnderPressure - Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
... Climate change affects biodiversity, and changes in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning affect climate change. • The carbon and water cycles, two important large-scale processes for life on Earth, both depend on biodiversity — at genetic, species and ecosystem levels ...
... Climate change affects biodiversity, and changes in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning affect climate change. • The carbon and water cycles, two important large-scale processes for life on Earth, both depend on biodiversity — at genetic, species and ecosystem levels ...
dvdslides_original - Sustainability Advantage
... Awakened Public - Consumers The “Goracle factor” + Hurricane Katrina + Weird weather + Gas prices + IPCC reports + …(other awakeners) • 70-80% of consumers say they are switching to “green” companies; 20% actually did in 2006 •LOHAS sector: $200B in 2007 $420B by 2010 $845B by 2015 ...
... Awakened Public - Consumers The “Goracle factor” + Hurricane Katrina + Weird weather + Gas prices + IPCC reports + …(other awakeners) • 70-80% of consumers say they are switching to “green” companies; 20% actually did in 2006 •LOHAS sector: $200B in 2007 $420B by 2010 $845B by 2015 ...
A new climate for business - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability
... on climate change and carbon emissions have significantly increased over the past decade (see for example CDP and the Climate Disclosures Standards Board). There are also numerous recent examples of shareholder activism driving corporate board resolutions to report on climate related risks. At the s ...
... on climate change and carbon emissions have significantly increased over the past decade (see for example CDP and the Climate Disclosures Standards Board). There are also numerous recent examples of shareholder activism driving corporate board resolutions to report on climate related risks. At the s ...
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... Awakened Public - Consumers The “Goracle factor” + Hurricane Katrina + Weird weather + Gas prices + IPCC reports + …(other awakeners) • 70-80% of consumers say they are switching to “green” companies; 20% actually did in 2006 •LOHAS sector: $200B in 2007 $420B by 2010 $845B by 2015 ...
... Awakened Public - Consumers The “Goracle factor” + Hurricane Katrina + Weird weather + Gas prices + IPCC reports + …(other awakeners) • 70-80% of consumers say they are switching to “green” companies; 20% actually did in 2006 •LOHAS sector: $200B in 2007 $420B by 2010 $845B by 2015 ...
Climate and Weather - AHS * Humanities 11
... • NOAA: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information • IPCC: http://www.ipcc.ch/ • NASA: http://climate.nasa.gov/ ...
... • NOAA: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information • IPCC: http://www.ipcc.ch/ • NASA: http://climate.nasa.gov/ ...
Strengthening the Climate Change Agenda and Indonesia`s
... 2. Urgent and Timely Limited The impact of global climate change affects the level of national resilience. In a report published by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), it was explained that an increase in global temperature of 2°C would bring environmental impacts that are dangerou ...
... 2. Urgent and Timely Limited The impact of global climate change affects the level of national resilience. In a report published by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), it was explained that an increase in global temperature of 2°C would bring environmental impacts that are dangerou ...
A new feedback on climate change from the hydrological cycle
... long term, ocean heat uptake will then give no feedback on climate change. However, on the decadal time scale most relevant for climate prediction, ocean heat uptake in coupled models is roughly proportional to the magnitude of global climate change [Gregory, 2000; Raper et al., 2002]. Our process m ...
... long term, ocean heat uptake will then give no feedback on climate change. However, on the decadal time scale most relevant for climate prediction, ocean heat uptake in coupled models is roughly proportional to the magnitude of global climate change [Gregory, 2000; Raper et al., 2002]. Our process m ...
The rise and rise of fluorinated greenhouse gases - Öko
... HFCs are chlorine-free substitutes developed by the chemicals industry to replace ozonedepleting CFCs and HCFCs. These are hydrocarbons with fluorine (F) in the molecule. While CFCs/HCFCs contribute both to the destruction of the ozone layer and to global warming, HFCs are only a threat to the clima ...
... HFCs are chlorine-free substitutes developed by the chemicals industry to replace ozonedepleting CFCs and HCFCs. These are hydrocarbons with fluorine (F) in the molecule. While CFCs/HCFCs contribute both to the destruction of the ozone layer and to global warming, HFCs are only a threat to the clima ...
Apocalypse Soon? Dire Messages Reduce Belief in Global
... held beliefs. In addition, our results suggest that reducing individuals’ just-world beliefs could result in decreased skepticism regarding global warming. Although we were able to manipulate just-world beliefs in Study 2, it remains to be seen how such beliefs could be changed in field settings ove ...
... held beliefs. In addition, our results suggest that reducing individuals’ just-world beliefs could result in decreased skepticism regarding global warming. Although we were able to manipulate just-world beliefs in Study 2, it remains to be seen how such beliefs could be changed in field settings ove ...
Tall tales and Fat tails: The science and economics of extreme
... 2009). From this literature three stylized facts emerge. First, there are differences—at times large—between the various estimates. Second, all have a large positive skew and in most cases it satisfies the definition of a fat tail. Third, there are large differences between the various estimates of ...
... 2009). From this literature three stylized facts emerge. First, there are differences—at times large—between the various estimates. Second, all have a large positive skew and in most cases it satisfies the definition of a fat tail. Third, there are large differences between the various estimates of ...
Global Climate Change - Vanderbilt University
... any natural factors that affect global temperatures have changed over the last 22,000 years (Joos and Spahni 2008). Thus, we infer that a new, non-natural process, Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), is responsible for these changes. A similar change in atmospheric CO2 concentration occurred natural ...
... any natural factors that affect global temperatures have changed over the last 22,000 years (Joos and Spahni 2008). Thus, we infer that a new, non-natural process, Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), is responsible for these changes. A similar change in atmospheric CO2 concentration occurred natural ...
Urban Development and Climate Change in China`s Pearl River Delta
... ities are both contributors to and victims of global climate change. Delta cities, in particular, have long been recognized as being extremely vulnerable because they are located where the stresses on natural systems coincide with intense human activity. A number of climate change impacts may af ...
... ities are both contributors to and victims of global climate change. Delta cities, in particular, have long been recognized as being extremely vulnerable because they are located where the stresses on natural systems coincide with intense human activity. A number of climate change impacts may af ...
Midterm Review
... addressed the effects of all these processes on the large-eddy structure. Nonlocal schemes are most attractive when the vertical structure and turbulent transports in a specific type of boundary layer (i. e. neutral or ...
... addressed the effects of all these processes on the large-eddy structure. Nonlocal schemes are most attractive when the vertical structure and turbulent transports in a specific type of boundary layer (i. e. neutral or ...
London, 10 June 2013 © OECD/IEA 2013
... reductions in some regions, but impede them in others Renewables are on the rise, but investment slowed in 2012 Efficiency policies are gaining momentum in many countries Nuclear is facing challenges and CCS still remains distant © OECD/IEA 2013 ...
... reductions in some regions, but impede them in others Renewables are on the rise, but investment slowed in 2012 Efficiency policies are gaining momentum in many countries Nuclear is facing challenges and CCS still remains distant © OECD/IEA 2013 ...
Annex I Glossary
... decomposition, and air-sea exchange, by which carbon continuously cycles through various reservoirs, such as the atmosphere, living organisms, soils, and oceans. Carbon dioxide (CO2) CO2 is a naturally occurring gas, and a by-product of burning fossil fuels or biomass, of land-use changes and of ind ...
... decomposition, and air-sea exchange, by which carbon continuously cycles through various reservoirs, such as the atmosphere, living organisms, soils, and oceans. Carbon dioxide (CO2) CO2 is a naturally occurring gas, and a by-product of burning fossil fuels or biomass, of land-use changes and of ind ...
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.