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... Since the first assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990, it has been clear that even if industrialised countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to zero, it will not be enough to stabilise atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Hence action by all countries i ...
... Since the first assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990, it has been clear that even if industrialised countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to zero, it will not be enough to stabilise atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Hence action by all countries i ...
Science Article PDF - Geological Society of America
... the greater the depletion in the heavy isotope, the colder the temperature. On the basis of measurements of temperature in the borehole, it has been possible to demonstrate that the mean air temperature in Greenland must have been 16 °C colder during glacial time than during the present interglacial ...
... the greater the depletion in the heavy isotope, the colder the temperature. On the basis of measurements of temperature in the borehole, it has been possible to demonstrate that the mean air temperature in Greenland must have been 16 °C colder during glacial time than during the present interglacial ...
A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the
... will occur mostly in winter, mostly in polar regions, and mostly at night. But in polar regions, where winter night temperatures range far below freezing, an increase of 5.4E F is hardly likely to cause significant melting of polar ice caps or other problems. Even if the recent strong warming trend ...
... will occur mostly in winter, mostly in polar regions, and mostly at night. But in polar regions, where winter night temperatures range far below freezing, an increase of 5.4E F is hardly likely to cause significant melting of polar ice caps or other problems. Even if the recent strong warming trend ...
OSA 13-020docx.pdf
... WHEREAS the leaders of 167 countries (including the United States) have agreed that any warming of the planet above 2°C (3.6°F) would be unsafe, and we have already (as of 2012) raised the average surface temperature 0.8°C, causing far more damage than most scientists expected; WHEREAS according to ...
... WHEREAS the leaders of 167 countries (including the United States) have agreed that any warming of the planet above 2°C (3.6°F) would be unsafe, and we have already (as of 2012) raised the average surface temperature 0.8°C, causing far more damage than most scientists expected; WHEREAS according to ...
No Slide Title - ForestFires.ba
... Main sources of uncertainties: * Natural: internal variability of climate system (unpredictable!) - natural fluctuation can mask future (weak) climate changes * Scientific and technical: imperfections in climate modelling - our limited knowledge of climate system - inadequacies of computer models (a ...
... Main sources of uncertainties: * Natural: internal variability of climate system (unpredictable!) - natural fluctuation can mask future (weak) climate changes * Scientific and technical: imperfections in climate modelling - our limited knowledge of climate system - inadequacies of computer models (a ...
Climate change impacts on forest growth and mortality
... Increases in temperature and CO2 could result in increased forest productivity, especially in areas where tree growth was previously constrained by low temperatures and short growing seasons and in areas where ...
... Increases in temperature and CO2 could result in increased forest productivity, especially in areas where tree growth was previously constrained by low temperatures and short growing seasons and in areas where ...
National Geographic - u.arizona.edu
... Rising sea level is not the only change Earth's oceans are undergoing. The ten-year-long World Ocean Circulation Experiment, launched in 1990, has helped researchers to better understand what is now called the ocean conveyor belt (see page 66). Oceans, in effect, mimic some functions of the human ci ...
... Rising sea level is not the only change Earth's oceans are undergoing. The ten-year-long World Ocean Circulation Experiment, launched in 1990, has helped researchers to better understand what is now called the ocean conveyor belt (see page 66). Oceans, in effect, mimic some functions of the human ci ...
The Latest Myths and Facts on Global Warming
... Fu et al. (2004) found another major problem with previous analyses. Satellite data that actually blend temperature readings in the stratosphere (the layer of atmosphere above the troposphere) with those in the troposphere were previously misinterpreted as representing only tropospheric temperatures ...
... Fu et al. (2004) found another major problem with previous analyses. Satellite data that actually blend temperature readings in the stratosphere (the layer of atmosphere above the troposphere) with those in the troposphere were previously misinterpreted as representing only tropospheric temperatures ...
View/Open
... the total inorganic carbon content of the oceans has increased by 118±19 Gt C from the preindustrial period (1750). The IPCC estimates the likely fraction of emitted CO2 taken up by the oceans has decreased from 42±7% during the period 1750–1994 to 37±7% over the period 1980–2005 (it should be noted ...
... the total inorganic carbon content of the oceans has increased by 118±19 Gt C from the preindustrial period (1750). The IPCC estimates the likely fraction of emitted CO2 taken up by the oceans has decreased from 42±7% during the period 1750–1994 to 37±7% over the period 1980–2005 (it should be noted ...
Slide 1 - University of Washington
... Payne, J. T., A. W. Wood, A. F. Hamlet, R. N. Palmer, and D. P. Lettenmaier. 2004. Mitigating the effects of climate change on the water resources of the Columbia River basin. Climatic Change 62:233-256. NW Power and Conservation Council, 2007, Effects of Climate Change on the Hydroelectric System, ...
... Payne, J. T., A. W. Wood, A. F. Hamlet, R. N. Palmer, and D. P. Lettenmaier. 2004. Mitigating the effects of climate change on the water resources of the Columbia River basin. Climatic Change 62:233-256. NW Power and Conservation Council, 2007, Effects of Climate Change on the Hydroelectric System, ...
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... strategies that promote technological inputs, innovation and institutional arrangements that make it easy to attend to this multi-causal and multi-dimensional challenge. The consequences of this phenomenon, which are evidenced by climatic conditions such as droughts, floods and sudden changes in tem ...
... strategies that promote technological inputs, innovation and institutional arrangements that make it easy to attend to this multi-causal and multi-dimensional challenge. The consequences of this phenomenon, which are evidenced by climatic conditions such as droughts, floods and sudden changes in tem ...
BC Regional District Template
... We note that your company has continued marketing your harmful products.3 While we recognize that individual consumers do play a small (although individually insignificant) role in the fossil fuel economy, your company has had the power to lead the transition away from that economy. Instead your co ...
... We note that your company has continued marketing your harmful products.3 While we recognize that individual consumers do play a small (although individually insignificant) role in the fossil fuel economy, your company has had the power to lead the transition away from that economy. Instead your co ...
A Realty Check on Global Warming
... inaccurate/inappropriate measurement. Human activity is not having any significant effect on Climate. The data on which such assumptions are made is so compromised as to be worthless. The physical science basis of AGW theory is founded on a false hypothesis. 2. Any recent warming is most likely natu ...
... inaccurate/inappropriate measurement. Human activity is not having any significant effect on Climate. The data on which such assumptions are made is so compromised as to be worthless. The physical science basis of AGW theory is founded on a false hypothesis. 2. Any recent warming is most likely natu ...
IGAD Regional Climate Change Strategy (IRCCS) Validated
... IGAD Regional Climate Change Strategy (IRCCS) Validated The member states of IGAD have validated the IRCCS that aims to address human induced climate change in the region. 09 March, 2016 – Nairobi, Kenya: The IGAD Regional Climate Change Strategy was validated by the member states during a two day w ...
... IGAD Regional Climate Change Strategy (IRCCS) Validated The member states of IGAD have validated the IRCCS that aims to address human induced climate change in the region. 09 March, 2016 – Nairobi, Kenya: The IGAD Regional Climate Change Strategy was validated by the member states during a two day w ...
The Unbearable Lightness of Politics: Climate
... indicate that climate change opposition initiatives will be a top priority. McCright and Dunlap hold that their argument poses problems for theories of “reflexive modernity.”7 These theories heralded a new phase of progressive modernization at the same moment (the 1980s and 1990s) that neoliberal res ...
... indicate that climate change opposition initiatives will be a top priority. McCright and Dunlap hold that their argument poses problems for theories of “reflexive modernity.”7 These theories heralded a new phase of progressive modernization at the same moment (the 1980s and 1990s) that neoliberal res ...
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Mexico
... Climate Because its geographic and topographic conditions, México has a wide variety of climatic regions, with several types of climate: arid, semiarid, dry tropical, humid tropical, temperate and cold. Precipitation Rainfall along the territory’s length and breadth is varied. Historically, the nati ...
... Climate Because its geographic and topographic conditions, México has a wide variety of climatic regions, with several types of climate: arid, semiarid, dry tropical, humid tropical, temperate and cold. Precipitation Rainfall along the territory’s length and breadth is varied. Historically, the nati ...
climate change - Hans von Storch
... pollution would increase by a factor of as much as 8 which could increase the opacity of the atmosphere within hundred years by 400%. This would reduce incoming sun light causing the global mean temperature to sink by 3.5 C. Such a cooling would almost certainly be enough to force Earth into a new I ...
... pollution would increase by a factor of as much as 8 which could increase the opacity of the atmosphere within hundred years by 400%. This would reduce incoming sun light causing the global mean temperature to sink by 3.5 C. Such a cooling would almost certainly be enough to force Earth into a new I ...
from WMO (2007), based on Sinnhuber and Folkins, ACP (2006)
... • Possible future changes in anthropogenic VSLS. If anthropogenic emissions increased, or if presently unused halogenated VSL SGs were to come into widespread commercial use, then halogenated VSLS would become of increased importance in affecting the future behavior of stratospheric ozone. • Deliver ...
... • Possible future changes in anthropogenic VSLS. If anthropogenic emissions increased, or if presently unused halogenated VSL SGs were to come into widespread commercial use, then halogenated VSLS would become of increased importance in affecting the future behavior of stratospheric ozone. • Deliver ...
Changing US Extreme Temperature Statistics
... The steady accumulation of greenhouse gases, most importantly CO2 , in the atmosphere and the warming trend it implies have been noted for more than a century and are the subject of a large literature (Hansen 2006; Hansen et al. 2010; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2013–2014). The extensi ...
... The steady accumulation of greenhouse gases, most importantly CO2 , in the atmosphere and the warming trend it implies have been noted for more than a century and are the subject of a large literature (Hansen 2006; Hansen et al. 2010; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2013–2014). The extensi ...
CLIMATE CHANGE
... snow or ice, liquid as water, and gaseous as water vapour. The cycling of water from one phase to another is critical to sustaining life since it is this cycling of water through the land-ocean-atmosphere system that replenishes the water available to life on Earth. The water cycle is also an import ...
... snow or ice, liquid as water, and gaseous as water vapour. The cycling of water from one phase to another is critical to sustaining life since it is this cycling of water through the land-ocean-atmosphere system that replenishes the water available to life on Earth. The water cycle is also an import ...
Climate Change - National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
... B. Climate change will harm all ecosystems and agriculture in every part of the world. C. It is important to understand how natural ecosystems and agriculture will change and how they can adapt to change. D. These changes are occurring far away and won’t affect the American public. ...
... B. Climate change will harm all ecosystems and agriculture in every part of the world. C. It is important to understand how natural ecosystems and agriculture will change and how they can adapt to change. D. These changes are occurring far away and won’t affect the American public. ...
Earth Sabbath Celebration For Unitarian Coastal Fellowship on
... larger strategies to halt environmental degradation and to encourage a “culture of care” which permeates all of society. When we feel that God is calling us to intervene with others in the social dynamics, we should realize that this too is part of our spirituality, which is an exercise of charity, ...
... larger strategies to halt environmental degradation and to encourage a “culture of care” which permeates all of society. When we feel that God is calling us to intervene with others in the social dynamics, we should realize that this too is part of our spirituality, which is an exercise of charity, ...
Assessing the Risk of Climate Change on the Water Resources of
... monthly and annual sampling on the probability distribution for changes to mean annual Burrendong storage in 2030. Also shown are the individual scenarios, which are given equal probability of occurring. The resultant probability distributions for six-monthly and annual sampling produce higher flows ...
... monthly and annual sampling on the probability distribution for changes to mean annual Burrendong storage in 2030. Also shown are the individual scenarios, which are given equal probability of occurring. The resultant probability distributions for six-monthly and annual sampling produce higher flows ...
Highlights Brochure - Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
... These climate changes are being experienced particularly intensely in the Arctic. Arctic average temperature has risen at almost twice the rate as the rest of the world in the past few decades. Widespread melting of glaciers and sea ice and rising permafrost temperatures present additional evidence ...
... These climate changes are being experienced particularly intensely in the Arctic. Arctic average temperature has risen at almost twice the rate as the rest of the world in the past few decades. Widespread melting of glaciers and sea ice and rising permafrost temperatures present additional evidence ...
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.