Slide 1
... Approximately 20-30% of plant and animal species assessed so far are likely to be at increased risk of extinction if increases in global average temperature exceed 1.5-2.5oC ...
... Approximately 20-30% of plant and animal species assessed so far are likely to be at increased risk of extinction if increases in global average temperature exceed 1.5-2.5oC ...
ACCOMMODATING GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: A RADICAL WORLD ORDER CHALLENGE Globalization in Crisis
... II. Deficiencies of World Order to Address Global Climate Change There are several structural obstacles to adaptive policies that depend on significant cooperative action on the part of a large number of governments. With respect to climate change there is a firm consensus on the part of the scienti ...
... II. Deficiencies of World Order to Address Global Climate Change There are several structural obstacles to adaptive policies that depend on significant cooperative action on the part of a large number of governments. With respect to climate change there is a firm consensus on the part of the scienti ...
THE CLIMATE SEVERITY INDEX FOR CANADA
... natural and built environments • User-friendly online model to inform and evaluate land use planning decisions’ ability to meet stormwater management objectives, at the scale of the individual development site and the watershed. ...
... natural and built environments • User-friendly online model to inform and evaluate land use planning decisions’ ability to meet stormwater management objectives, at the scale of the individual development site and the watershed. ...
PDF
... exceeded the rural. The rural population of the world is expected to decline and the urban population to increase. To put that into context with the population growth that I spoke of, it implies for example that in Africa in the next 13 years there will be a further thousand cities of 500,000 people ...
... exceeded the rural. The rural population of the world is expected to decline and the urban population to increase. To put that into context with the population growth that I spoke of, it implies for example that in Africa in the next 13 years there will be a further thousand cities of 500,000 people ...
Powerpoint
... pollutants, as well as via the impact of these pollutants on climate change. The Physiological Impacts of different atmospheric pollutants on land ecosystem services vary radically, and are often larger than the impacts of climate change alone. Current global models suggest that CO2 fertilizatio ...
... pollutants, as well as via the impact of these pollutants on climate change. The Physiological Impacts of different atmospheric pollutants on land ecosystem services vary radically, and are often larger than the impacts of climate change alone. Current global models suggest that CO2 fertilizatio ...
EU ETS from an NGO perspective - Astra-Project
... Build a EU/China Alliance Build EU/Progressive Americans Alliance 2020 Targets ...
... Build a EU/China Alliance Build EU/Progressive Americans Alliance 2020 Targets ...
Last Glacial Maximum and Afterwards
... resulting from ice melting or ice formation, determines the strength of NADW formation and, as a result, the rate of heat transport to the N. Atlantic region. ...
... resulting from ice melting or ice formation, determines the strength of NADW formation and, as a result, the rate of heat transport to the N. Atlantic region. ...
JOURNEY TO PLANET EARTH Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
... challenge of feeding the world’s people even more daunting. First, billions of people are becoming more affluent and are aspiring to attain the living standards we enjoy in the United States. This means that they want to eat more protein: meat, milk, and eggs. Animal products require much more land ...
... challenge of feeding the world’s people even more daunting. First, billions of people are becoming more affluent and are aspiring to attain the living standards we enjoy in the United States. This means that they want to eat more protein: meat, milk, and eggs. Animal products require much more land ...
Introduction Climate Change - European Capacity Building Initiative
... Dwindling national resources and high levels of poverty prevalent in most rural areas is a major impediment to tackling climate change impacts effectively. In fact, poverty perpetuates climate change impacts and vice versa. ...
... Dwindling national resources and high levels of poverty prevalent in most rural areas is a major impediment to tackling climate change impacts effectively. In fact, poverty perpetuates climate change impacts and vice versa. ...
Changes in Lake Productivity and Eutrophication -
... drying of watersheds (as are likely to occur under future climate change), will likely reduce inputs of both phosphorus and other dissolved materials (Magnuson et al. 1997; Schindler et al. 1996; Webster et al. 1996, 2000). In small, oligotrophic (unproductive) lakes, phosphorus loading from the wat ...
... drying of watersheds (as are likely to occur under future climate change), will likely reduce inputs of both phosphorus and other dissolved materials (Magnuson et al. 1997; Schindler et al. 1996; Webster et al. 1996, 2000). In small, oligotrophic (unproductive) lakes, phosphorus loading from the wat ...
JOURNEY TO PLANET EARTH Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
... challenge of feeding the world’s people even more daunting. First, billions of people are becoming more affluent and are aspiring to attain the living standards we enjoy in the United States. This means that they want to eat more protein: meat, milk, and eggs. Animal products require much more land ...
... challenge of feeding the world’s people even more daunting. First, billions of people are becoming more affluent and are aspiring to attain the living standards we enjoy in the United States. This means that they want to eat more protein: meat, milk, and eggs. Animal products require much more land ...
climate science
... Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, 1845 “The term climate, taken in its most general sense, indicates all the changes in the atmosphere, which sensibly affect our organs, as temperature, humidity, variations in the barometrical pressure, the calm state of the air or the action of vary ...
... Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, 1845 “The term climate, taken in its most general sense, indicates all the changes in the atmosphere, which sensibly affect our organs, as temperature, humidity, variations in the barometrical pressure, the calm state of the air or the action of vary ...
Diapositive 1
... Beginning of the negotiations for the figured objectives concerning the second commitment period (post-2012) ...
... Beginning of the negotiations for the figured objectives concerning the second commitment period (post-2012) ...
Climate change and environment
... to 2004 (Source: Petit & Prudent 2008, p. 42, from Webster et al 2005) ...
... to 2004 (Source: Petit & Prudent 2008, p. 42, from Webster et al 2005) ...
Solar Forcings of the Climate System π σ Does solar variability influence climate?
... The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (USCCP) Vision for the Program and Highlights of the Scientific Strategic Plan, 2003 Key Gaps in the Science of Climate Change The nature and causes of the natural variability of climate and its interactions with forced changes are uncertain: ...
... The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (USCCP) Vision for the Program and Highlights of the Scientific Strategic Plan, 2003 Key Gaps in the Science of Climate Change The nature and causes of the natural variability of climate and its interactions with forced changes are uncertain: ...
Global Warming
... Strong northward movement of near-surface waters are cooled when they arrive near Greenland The water cools, becomes saltier and denser, and it sinks to the bottom Current then flows southward around Africa Huge amounts of warm water keep Europe warmer than it would be otherwise © 2012 Pears ...
... Strong northward movement of near-surface waters are cooled when they arrive near Greenland The water cools, becomes saltier and denser, and it sinks to the bottom Current then flows southward around Africa Huge amounts of warm water keep Europe warmer than it would be otherwise © 2012 Pears ...
2013 Canada-US Comparative Climate Opinion
... al. 2013), the IPCC’s Working Group I published its highly anticipated Fifth Assessment report in September 2013, concluding with more certainty than ever that climate change is primarily driven by human activity (IPCC 2013). In the same year, other scientific reports warned that the widely agreed u ...
... al. 2013), the IPCC’s Working Group I published its highly anticipated Fifth Assessment report in September 2013, concluding with more certainty than ever that climate change is primarily driven by human activity (IPCC 2013). In the same year, other scientific reports warned that the widely agreed u ...
Greenhouse gases, climate change and the transition from coal to...
... Figure 3. Transitions of 1 TWe of coal-based electricity generation to lower-emitting energy technologies produces modest reductions in the amount of global warming from GHG emissions; if the transition takes 40 yr to complete, only the lowest-emission technologies can offset more than half of the c ...
... Figure 3. Transitions of 1 TWe of coal-based electricity generation to lower-emitting energy technologies produces modest reductions in the amount of global warming from GHG emissions; if the transition takes 40 yr to complete, only the lowest-emission technologies can offset more than half of the c ...
Stop Global Warming 2015 - Approach to Mitigation and Adaptation
... Global warming is unequivocal. According to the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), human activities are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause of the observed warming. We are facing unprecedented change of climate due to global warming. Extr ...
... Global warming is unequivocal. According to the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), human activities are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause of the observed warming. We are facing unprecedented change of climate due to global warming. Extr ...
Climate Change in the Pacific | Volume 1: Regional Overview
... Regional projections of ocean acidification are based on coarse resolution climate models, so they do not represent localised changes in carbonate chemistry that result from net calcification and production within reefs, which can feedback to the acidification response. In order to reduce uncertaint ...
... Regional projections of ocean acidification are based on coarse resolution climate models, so they do not represent localised changes in carbonate chemistry that result from net calcification and production within reefs, which can feedback to the acidification response. In order to reduce uncertaint ...
Chapter 17
... amounts of snow fall on Antarctica each year and the snow brings with it particles of matter contained within the Earth’s atmosphere at the time of precipitation. This means that ice sheets contain another sort of geological record. ...
... amounts of snow fall on Antarctica each year and the snow brings with it particles of matter contained within the Earth’s atmosphere at the time of precipitation. This means that ice sheets contain another sort of geological record. ...
Recent Warming of Antarctic Bottom Water in the South Atlantic
... • What is the relative importance of tropical and mid-latitude SST variability for mid-latitude climate? • Are ocean heat transport anomalies compensated by atmospheric heat transport anomalies? • Can internal processes alone generate atmospheric variability? • What background state in the atmospher ...
... • What is the relative importance of tropical and mid-latitude SST variability for mid-latitude climate? • Are ocean heat transport anomalies compensated by atmospheric heat transport anomalies? • Can internal processes alone generate atmospheric variability? • What background state in the atmospher ...
California Department of Fish: Incorporating Climate Change into
... Climate College Courses Climate 101 Class #1: Climate 101; understanding the basics of climate science and what we can do about it ...
... Climate College Courses Climate 101 Class #1: Climate 101; understanding the basics of climate science and what we can do about it ...
Breath-taking: Creating artistic visualisations of
... Kempton found that because it can be both seen and felt, the layperson tends to regard air pollution as one of the main causes of climate change and breathing in such pollution is a major personal concern. Some of his respondents believed that the atmosphere would run out of oxygen if the greenhouse ...
... Kempton found that because it can be both seen and felt, the layperson tends to regard air pollution as one of the main causes of climate change and breathing in such pollution is a major personal concern. Some of his respondents believed that the atmosphere would run out of oxygen if the greenhouse ...
Publication in doc format - Friends of the Earth Ireland
... temperatures at a level below 2oC above pre-industrial temperatures. Achievement of this objective will depend not only on the EU, but on all Parties to UNFCCC putting themselves onto sustainable and solid decarbonisation trajectories extending from the present day through a principal short-term "mi ...
... temperatures at a level below 2oC above pre-industrial temperatures. Achievement of this objective will depend not only on the EU, but on all Parties to UNFCCC putting themselves onto sustainable and solid decarbonisation trajectories extending from the present day through a principal short-term "mi ...
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.