Climate Change and the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
... change, related to higher or lower streamflow, sea level rise, larger waves, or changes in the magnitude, intensity or location of storms are likely to influence freshwater and nearshore and shallow water habitats most directly. In all cases, though, there was no clear trend related to these changes ...
... change, related to higher or lower streamflow, sea level rise, larger waves, or changes in the magnitude, intensity or location of storms are likely to influence freshwater and nearshore and shallow water habitats most directly. In all cases, though, there was no clear trend related to these changes ...
Polish National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change
... phenomena, taking place in the last few decades, tend to deepen and therefore they have become a matter of interest to governments and the international community. The results of scientific research clearly indicate that phenomena caused by climate change are a threat to the social and economic deve ...
... phenomena, taking place in the last few decades, tend to deepen and therefore they have become a matter of interest to governments and the international community. The results of scientific research clearly indicate that phenomena caused by climate change are a threat to the social and economic deve ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Wales February 2013
... 2020.21 It established a system of ‘carbon budgeting’ every five years, during which time greenhouse gas emissions must be within predetermined limits. In addition, the Act also established the Committee on Climate Change, an independent body which advises the UK and Welsh Governments and reports to ...
... 2020.21 It established a system of ‘carbon budgeting’ every five years, during which time greenhouse gas emissions must be within predetermined limits. In addition, the Act also established the Committee on Climate Change, an independent body which advises the UK and Welsh Governments and reports to ...
climate variability and change in canada
... peak flows (high confidence), reduction in summer flows (medium confidence) and reduced lake levels and outflows for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence under most scenarios (medium confidence); adaptive responses would offset some, but not all, of the impacts on water users and on aquatic ecosystems (medi ...
... peak flows (high confidence), reduction in summer flows (medium confidence) and reduced lake levels and outflows for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence under most scenarios (medium confidence); adaptive responses would offset some, but not all, of the impacts on water users and on aquatic ecosystems (medi ...
Module 11: Groundwater and climate change
... impact of climate change on groundwater resources and the role that groundwater can play in adapting to the impacts of climate change. Although the focus is on Africa, it is important to recall the global extent of climate change, and to consider the impacts on the scale of the global hydrologic cyc ...
... impact of climate change on groundwater resources and the role that groundwater can play in adapting to the impacts of climate change. Although the focus is on Africa, it is important to recall the global extent of climate change, and to consider the impacts on the scale of the global hydrologic cyc ...
How trees and people can co-adapt to climate change
... symbionts and wild plants and animals. Ignoring the issue or refusing to adapt to a changing climate is no longer possible for governments, communities and anyone planning investment in land-use systems. The issues are even more pronounced when considering trees because the climate in which a tree w ...
... symbionts and wild plants and animals. Ignoring the issue or refusing to adapt to a changing climate is no longer possible for governments, communities and anyone planning investment in land-use systems. The issues are even more pronounced when considering trees because the climate in which a tree w ...
SECOND-ORDER DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 3 Do Not Cite
... exposure and vulnerability of human beings against water related risks, and non-climatic drivers changing water management in terms of quantity and quality, as well as emissions and concentration of Green House Gases (GHGs) and Aerosol, that will lead to changes in precipitation, temperature, and se ...
... exposure and vulnerability of human beings against water related risks, and non-climatic drivers changing water management in terms of quantity and quality, as well as emissions and concentration of Green House Gases (GHGs) and Aerosol, that will lead to changes in precipitation, temperature, and se ...
ADB-40253-012_Final
... Figure 21. Preliminary sea-level rise results (mm) for oceans near Cambodia under RCP 8.5 for the end of the 21st century (2081-2100) compared to a 1986-2005 baseline. The star indicates the location of Vung Tau, Vietnam, which is the sea-level station closest to Cambodia with data available. ...... ...
... Figure 21. Preliminary sea-level rise results (mm) for oceans near Cambodia under RCP 8.5 for the end of the 21st century (2081-2100) compared to a 1986-2005 baseline. The star indicates the location of Vung Tau, Vietnam, which is the sea-level station closest to Cambodia with data available. ...... ...
the effects of climate change in the netherlands: 2012
... The climate is changing; average temperatures in the Netherlands have increased by 1.7 °C over the past century and extreme precipitation events occur more often than before. According to current insights, climate change is set to continue in the centuries to come. Not only are global temperatures a ...
... The climate is changing; average temperatures in the Netherlands have increased by 1.7 °C over the past century and extreme precipitation events occur more often than before. According to current insights, climate change is set to continue in the centuries to come. Not only are global temperatures a ...
The Value of Linking Mitigation and Adaptation: A Case Study of
... 2007b). Spatially, the benefits of mitigation are perceived to be greater at the global scale and external to a local area, while adaptation necessitates locally appropriate actions that have context-specific benefits for the countries and regions that implement them; temporally, adaptation reduces ...
... 2007b). Spatially, the benefits of mitigation are perceived to be greater at the global scale and external to a local area, while adaptation necessitates locally appropriate actions that have context-specific benefits for the countries and regions that implement them; temporally, adaptation reduces ...
Climate politics in the lower Mekong basin
... degree of political priority accorded to the climate agenda. Perception of risk is influenced by climate scenarios, vulnerabilities and ‘felt impacts’. Regional and local climate scenarios are developed from global models with different assumed carbon concentrations which cloak predicted impacts in ...
... degree of political priority accorded to the climate agenda. Perception of risk is influenced by climate scenarios, vulnerabilities and ‘felt impacts’. Regional and local climate scenarios are developed from global models with different assumed carbon concentrations which cloak predicted impacts in ...
proof pdf
... implicitly simulate microbial decomposition through firstorder kinetics that determine turnover rates of soil C pools1,2 . Although such models can replicate extant soil C pools on various scales9,10 , their ability to project soil C response in a changing environment remains unresolved11,12 . In th ...
... implicitly simulate microbial decomposition through firstorder kinetics that determine turnover rates of soil C pools1,2 . Although such models can replicate extant soil C pools on various scales9,10 , their ability to project soil C response in a changing environment remains unresolved11,12 . In th ...
Integrating Climate-Change Adaptation into Sectoral Policies in Ireland Report Series No. 10
... This report is published as part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Research Programme 2007-2013. The programme is financed by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 2007–2013. It is administered on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Loca ...
... This report is published as part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Research Programme 2007-2013. The programme is financed by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 2007–2013. It is administered on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Loca ...
PERSPECTIVE: Potential responses to climate change in organisms
... northern California to southern British Columbia, Fig. 1), warming is projected to be near the global average. Most climate models project modest increases in winter precipitation for this region (on average, 10%), but projections for summer precipitation form no consistent pattern (Salathé 2006). ...
... northern California to southern British Columbia, Fig. 1), warming is projected to be near the global average. Most climate models project modest increases in winter precipitation for this region (on average, 10%), but projections for summer precipitation form no consistent pattern (Salathé 2006). ...
Atlantic National Seashores in Peril
... the Atlantic national seashores could become as a result need not get as hot as those of Key West, and summers of human emissions of heat-trapping gases. Projections in Cape Hatteras NS need not get as hot as those of were made for two different possible futures: one scenario Galveston. As indicated ...
... the Atlantic national seashores could become as a result need not get as hot as those of Key West, and summers of human emissions of heat-trapping gases. Projections in Cape Hatteras NS need not get as hot as those of were made for two different possible futures: one scenario Galveston. As indicated ...
Climate Scenario Development
... The objective of this study was to estimate how global food supply might be affected by greenhouse gas induced climate change up to the year 2060. The method adopted involved estimating the change in yield of major crop staples under various scenarios using crop models at 112 representative sites di ...
... The objective of this study was to estimate how global food supply might be affected by greenhouse gas induced climate change up to the year 2060. The method adopted involved estimating the change in yield of major crop staples under various scenarios using crop models at 112 representative sites di ...
SoG for Climate Applications
... minimum of three months of data at the shortest-available recovery period (hourly or one minute data) should be logged on-site, and 12 months for a GCOS site. This reflects the fact that data loss is a serious problem for climate, and it may take some months to recover data from a remote site. This ...
... minimum of three months of data at the shortest-available recovery period (hourly or one minute data) should be logged on-site, and 12 months for a GCOS site. This reflects the fact that data loss is a serious problem for climate, and it may take some months to recover data from a remote site. This ...
The Geography of Solving Global Environmental Problems
... In approaching the symposium topic of "solving global environmental problems,"' I faced three dilemmas regarding the problem-climate change-that has occupied much of my time over the past several years. First, I do not regard it as "global." While certainly climate change has global dimensions, whic ...
... In approaching the symposium topic of "solving global environmental problems,"' I faced three dilemmas regarding the problem-climate change-that has occupied much of my time over the past several years. First, I do not regard it as "global." While certainly climate change has global dimensions, whic ...
MCCIP Briefing Note Ocean uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2)
... levels between the ocean surface waters and the atmosphere. This is then exported to the deep ocean, mainly via mixing and the solubility pump. 3. Can the ocean maintain this rate of atmospheric CO2 removal? As atmospheric CO2 concentrations continue to rise, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
... levels between the ocean surface waters and the atmosphere. This is then exported to the deep ocean, mainly via mixing and the solubility pump. 3. Can the ocean maintain this rate of atmospheric CO2 removal? As atmospheric CO2 concentrations continue to rise, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Global Climate Change:
... wind system over the North Atlantic Ocean, and of the nature of fluid motion on a rotating planet. The only way to produce an ocean circulation without a Gulf Stream is either to turn off the wind system, or to stop the Earth's rotation, or both. ...
... wind system over the North Atlantic Ocean, and of the nature of fluid motion on a rotating planet. The only way to produce an ocean circulation without a Gulf Stream is either to turn off the wind system, or to stop the Earth's rotation, or both. ...
Climate Risk Management for Agriculture in Peru
... Climate change has the potential to exacerbate conflict, cause humanitarian crises, displace people, destroy livelihoods and set-back development and the fight against poverty for millions of people across the globe. For example it is estimated that over 20 million people in the Mekong Delta and 20 ...
... Climate change has the potential to exacerbate conflict, cause humanitarian crises, displace people, destroy livelihoods and set-back development and the fight against poverty for millions of people across the globe. For example it is estimated that over 20 million people in the Mekong Delta and 20 ...
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.