MHC-200-Powerpoint
... environmental benefits to British Columbia (BC). Since the tax took effect in 2008, British Columbians’ use of petroleum fuels (subject to the tax) has dropped by 15.1% — and by 16.4% compared to the rest of Canada. “ – GROWTH UNAFFECTED: “BC’s GDP growth has outpaced the rest of Canada’s (albeit by ...
... environmental benefits to British Columbia (BC). Since the tax took effect in 2008, British Columbians’ use of petroleum fuels (subject to the tax) has dropped by 15.1% — and by 16.4% compared to the rest of Canada. “ – GROWTH UNAFFECTED: “BC’s GDP growth has outpaced the rest of Canada’s (albeit by ...
Citizens for Objective Public Education, Inc
... change, sustainability, and other environmental matters. This issue impacts not only religion, but also political and Constitutional views regarding human liberty, the right to property, and the proper role of government. Like origins science, environmental science often reduces to matters of opinio ...
... change, sustainability, and other environmental matters. This issue impacts not only religion, but also political and Constitutional views regarding human liberty, the right to property, and the proper role of government. Like origins science, environmental science often reduces to matters of opinio ...
Assessing and predicting regional climate change
... Doable: Plausibility argument using an a priori known forcing. ...
... Doable: Plausibility argument using an a priori known forcing. ...
Greenhouse Effect - Stephen Schneider
... based on assumed rates of growth in the use of fossil fuels (11). Most typical projections are in the 0.5 to 2% annual growth range for fossil fuel use and imply that CO2 concentrations will double (to 600 ppm) in the 21st century (12, 12a). There is virtually no dispute among scientists that the CO ...
... based on assumed rates of growth in the use of fossil fuels (11). Most typical projections are in the 0.5 to 2% annual growth range for fossil fuel use and imply that CO2 concentrations will double (to 600 ppm) in the 21st century (12, 12a). There is virtually no dispute among scientists that the CO ...
Ch 9 AIR POLLUTION
... strict carbon dioxide emission limits on existing coal-fired power plants to reduce global warming and improve public health, compared to only 31% of conservative Republicans. ...
... strict carbon dioxide emission limits on existing coal-fired power plants to reduce global warming and improve public health, compared to only 31% of conservative Republicans. ...
Arguing for population reduction
... the atmosphere over the next few decades if we are to stay the right side of the two-degree-centigrade increase (by the end of the century) which scientists tell us we absolutely mustn’t go above. That total volume has to be divided up between the total number of people doing the emitting… I believe ...
... the atmosphere over the next few decades if we are to stay the right side of the two-degree-centigrade increase (by the end of the century) which scientists tell us we absolutely mustn’t go above. That total volume has to be divided up between the total number of people doing the emitting… I believe ...
power point presentation
... prices: > 10 euro/t, total revenue > $ 40 billion to 2012 Industrial gases, hydro, energy efficiency, landfill gas, fuel switching, biomass CDM excludes deforestation, very limited in forestry ...
... prices: > 10 euro/t, total revenue > $ 40 billion to 2012 Industrial gases, hydro, energy efficiency, landfill gas, fuel switching, biomass CDM excludes deforestation, very limited in forestry ...
Biology 1b Evolution and Environment GCSE CORE
... Global warming and greenhouse gases One of the greatest threats caused by air pollution is global warming. Global warming is caused by a buildup of greenhouses gases, which leads to an increase in the Earth’s temperature. A greenhouse gas is an atmospheric gas that absorbs infrared light. Key green ...
... Global warming and greenhouse gases One of the greatest threats caused by air pollution is global warming. Global warming is caused by a buildup of greenhouses gases, which leads to an increase in the Earth’s temperature. A greenhouse gas is an atmospheric gas that absorbs infrared light. Key green ...
Worksheets on Climate Change: Global climate change
... Global climate change General issues The relatively stable climate in the Holocene period brought about the living conditions for humanity to create civilisation on planet Earth. The human-made greenhouse effect is a characteristic of the Anthropocene period, whose onset is currently the subject of ...
... Global climate change General issues The relatively stable climate in the Holocene period brought about the living conditions for humanity to create civilisation on planet Earth. The human-made greenhouse effect is a characteristic of the Anthropocene period, whose onset is currently the subject of ...
Document
... CHANGE TEST CASE? Daytime temperatures topped 38°C (over 100°F) for several days! EMEP Stations ...
... CHANGE TEST CASE? Daytime temperatures topped 38°C (over 100°F) for several days! EMEP Stations ...
Sustainism is the New Modernism
... altogether: Socio efficiency that minimizes both direct costs and full-spectrum losses, creating thicker value • To achieve gains to next-generation efficiency, all three— Walmart, Nike, and Interface—are innovating the cornerstone of industrial-age production itself: they are producing not in lines ...
... altogether: Socio efficiency that minimizes both direct costs and full-spectrum losses, creating thicker value • To achieve gains to next-generation efficiency, all three— Walmart, Nike, and Interface—are innovating the cornerstone of industrial-age production itself: they are producing not in lines ...
The impact of climate change on the global economy
... short-term economic cost to this action as resources are directed away from more productive uses. According to Mendelsohn (2013), the biggest threat climate change poses to economic growth is from immediate, aggressive and inefficient mitigation policies. The process of adaptation and mitigation wil ...
... short-term economic cost to this action as resources are directed away from more productive uses. According to Mendelsohn (2013), the biggest threat climate change poses to economic growth is from immediate, aggressive and inefficient mitigation policies. The process of adaptation and mitigation wil ...
Opportunities in Infrastructure with the IDB - Inter
... Climate Change In Context Fourth Assessment Report (2007) of the IPCC: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.” ...
... Climate Change In Context Fourth Assessment Report (2007) of the IPCC: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.” ...
Climate Justice - Challenges and Opportunities
... Critical to a human rights approach to climate change is the right to development. Recognised as a human right since 1986, the right to development acknowledges the right of every human person and all peoples to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political develo ...
... Critical to a human rights approach to climate change is the right to development. Recognised as a human right since 1986, the right to development acknowledges the right of every human person and all peoples to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political develo ...
W16IntroCSPsyllabus R5
... Dale Jamieson, Reason in a dark time: Why the Struggle against Climate Change Failed—and what it means for our future, Oxford University Press, 2014. Dale Jamieson, Ethics and the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Christopher F. Jones, Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Cambri ...
... Dale Jamieson, Reason in a dark time: Why the Struggle against Climate Change Failed—and what it means for our future, Oxford University Press, 2014. Dale Jamieson, Ethics and the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Christopher F. Jones, Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Cambri ...
Climate Change and the Caribbean
... Climate Change In Context Fourth Assessment Report (2007) of the IPCC: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.” ...
... Climate Change In Context Fourth Assessment Report (2007) of the IPCC: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.” ...
Global warming
... Science is a collaborative effort. What are some of the ways in which scientists are working together to study and report on global warming? Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change (NAS) Climate Change: Evidence, Impacts, and Choices (NAS) J ...
... Science is a collaborative effort. What are some of the ways in which scientists are working together to study and report on global warming? Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change (NAS) Climate Change: Evidence, Impacts, and Choices (NAS) J ...
Representing Uncertainties & Selecting Scenarios
... Singular or unique event An event likely to occur once only. Probability refers to the chance of an event occurring, or to a particular state of that event when it occurs. Eg. Climate change, collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, hell freezing over ...
... Singular or unique event An event likely to occur once only. Probability refers to the chance of an event occurring, or to a particular state of that event when it occurs. Eg. Climate change, collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, hell freezing over ...
Ouranos Climate Change Summary Report
... possible of the regional climate model. This allows for a better representation of the local/regional characteristics (topography, land cover, etc.) and finer spatial and temporal resolution than the global circulation models, providing results more applicable for such impacts and adaptation assessm ...
... possible of the regional climate model. This allows for a better representation of the local/regional characteristics (topography, land cover, etc.) and finer spatial and temporal resolution than the global circulation models, providing results more applicable for such impacts and adaptation assessm ...
Knowledge Helps: Mechanistic Information and Numeric Evidence as Cognitive
... Some organizations publicize out-of-context facts to try to undercut the reality or gravity of human-caused GW. These are usually blatantly cherry picked, such as that Earth slightly cooled by 0.2oF (.04% re: absolute-zero terms) from 1940 to 1975 (Jastrow, Nierenberg, & Seitz, 1991). While surprisi ...
... Some organizations publicize out-of-context facts to try to undercut the reality or gravity of human-caused GW. These are usually blatantly cherry picked, such as that Earth slightly cooled by 0.2oF (.04% re: absolute-zero terms) from 1940 to 1975 (Jastrow, Nierenberg, & Seitz, 1991). While surprisi ...
5 Determinants of Crop Growth and Yield in a Changing Climate
... the world by many countries to ensure crop water supply. However, despite this, large areas still remain rainfed. In climate change scenarios, globally precipitation is likely to increase, with large spatial and temporal variation. These changes in precipitation, especially increased frequency of he ...
... the world by many countries to ensure crop water supply. However, despite this, large areas still remain rainfed. In climate change scenarios, globally precipitation is likely to increase, with large spatial and temporal variation. These changes in precipitation, especially increased frequency of he ...
An Ethical Defense of Global-Warming Skepticism
... the skeptic‘s position that there are other, more powerful factors that affect temperature and control the climate. It is inconsistent to say that anthropogenic infusions of CO2 will control the climate and cause catastrophic warming one minute and the next minute to say that the influence of this s ...
... the skeptic‘s position that there are other, more powerful factors that affect temperature and control the climate. It is inconsistent to say that anthropogenic infusions of CO2 will control the climate and cause catastrophic warming one minute and the next minute to say that the influence of this s ...
Tropical origins for recent and future Northern Hemisphere climate
... for ensemble member 13 and 32 and the observations. The observed trend is well reproduced in ensemble member 13, but not in member 32, which shows an opposite trend over the same period. Averaging over all ensemble members (thin solid line in Figure 2a) reveals no significant systematic change in th ...
... for ensemble member 13 and 32 and the observations. The observed trend is well reproduced in ensemble member 13, but not in member 32, which shows an opposite trend over the same period. Averaging over all ensemble members (thin solid line in Figure 2a) reveals no significant systematic change in th ...
Slide 1 - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
... See Meinshausen et al., Climatic Change, 2011, doi: DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0156-z and Rogelj et al., Nature Climate Change, 2011, doi: DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1258 ...
... See Meinshausen et al., Climatic Change, 2011, doi: DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0156-z and Rogelj et al., Nature Climate Change, 2011, doi: DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1258 ...
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.