An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat
... a few reach close to the 50 °C global record. Shifting either of these curves warmer by a few degrees would only move a tiny fraction of their area into uncharted territory (above 50 °C). By constrast, the highest instantaneous T W anywhere on Earth today is about 30 °C (with a tiny fraction of valu ...
... a few reach close to the 50 °C global record. Shifting either of these curves warmer by a few degrees would only move a tiny fraction of their area into uncharted territory (above 50 °C). By constrast, the highest instantaneous T W anywhere on Earth today is about 30 °C (with a tiny fraction of valu ...
2013 Highlights - California Climate Commons
... Kristin Byrd, Lorraine Flint, Pelayo Alvarez and Frank Casey What are your 3 successes over this last year? How have you delivered science to managers? How did the CA LCC funding make a difference? Three Successes 1. Completion of a web-based map visualization tool This is a Google maps-based web ap ...
... Kristin Byrd, Lorraine Flint, Pelayo Alvarez and Frank Casey What are your 3 successes over this last year? How have you delivered science to managers? How did the CA LCC funding make a difference? Three Successes 1. Completion of a web-based map visualization tool This is a Google maps-based web ap ...
Global Warming Frontcover - Saddleback Educational Publishing
... Copyright © 2009 by Saddleback Educational Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publi ...
... Copyright © 2009 by Saddleback Educational Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publi ...
The Big Picture: The Earth at Risk
... conflicts with human land uses in its high altitude homes in Central Asia. Now a new threat has appeared in these mountains: climate change. As the snow line recedes, imperiled snow leopards – which are adapted to hunt on snowy terrain – move higher, where vegetation is scarcer. Fewer plants mean le ...
... conflicts with human land uses in its high altitude homes in Central Asia. Now a new threat has appeared in these mountains: climate change. As the snow line recedes, imperiled snow leopards – which are adapted to hunt on snowy terrain – move higher, where vegetation is scarcer. Fewer plants mean le ...
The Big Picture: The Earth at Risk
... conflicts with human land uses in its high altitude homes in Central Asia. Now a new threat has appeared in these mountains: climate change. As the snow line recedes, imperiled snow leopards – which are adapted to hunt on snowy terrain – move higher, where vegetation is scarcer. Fewer plants mean le ...
... conflicts with human land uses in its high altitude homes in Central Asia. Now a new threat has appeared in these mountains: climate change. As the snow line recedes, imperiled snow leopards – which are adapted to hunt on snowy terrain – move higher, where vegetation is scarcer. Fewer plants mean le ...
Evaluation of Climate Change
... Brief Review of Climate Change • Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases warm the planet • Greenhouse gases have been increasing (CO2 up 30%) and will increase for a long time as a result of human activities • The planet has warmed ~1°F since 1900, in part due to human activities • Further warmin ...
... Brief Review of Climate Change • Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases warm the planet • Greenhouse gases have been increasing (CO2 up 30%) and will increase for a long time as a result of human activities • The planet has warmed ~1°F since 1900, in part due to human activities • Further warmin ...
Dias nummer 1 - Integrated Arctic Observation System
... • Extreme or hazardous weather events themselves have low predictability, but the conditions in which they form might be predictable at subseasonal-to-seasonal time scales • … and these conditions are identifiable in global climate models (e.g., Ramos et al., 2015). • In addition, future Arctic warm ...
... • Extreme or hazardous weather events themselves have low predictability, but the conditions in which they form might be predictable at subseasonal-to-seasonal time scales • … and these conditions are identifiable in global climate models (e.g., Ramos et al., 2015). • In addition, future Arctic warm ...
Debate 9: Stop Climate Chaos Now - VT Scholar
... the earth warm and more inhabitable. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, such as methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons, allow heat from the sun to penetrate the atmosphere and then trap it close to the earth’s surface, creating a warming affect around the earth. This is a natural pro ...
... the earth warm and more inhabitable. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, such as methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons, allow heat from the sun to penetrate the atmosphere and then trap it close to the earth’s surface, creating a warming affect around the earth. This is a natural pro ...
Globally Averaged CO 2 Levels Reach 400 parts per million in 2015
... impact well into 2016. This triggered droughts in tropical regions and reduced the capacity of “sinks” like forests, vegetation and the oceans to absorb CO2. These sinks currently absorb about half of CO2 emissions but there is a risk that they may become saturated, which would increase the fraction ...
... impact well into 2016. This triggered droughts in tropical regions and reduced the capacity of “sinks” like forests, vegetation and the oceans to absorb CO2. These sinks currently absorb about half of CO2 emissions but there is a risk that they may become saturated, which would increase the fraction ...
Ireland and the Kyoto Protocol
... (1990) ‘climate change is a real threat’ SAR (1995) ‘balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate’ FAR ...
... (1990) ‘climate change is a real threat’ SAR (1995) ‘balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate’ FAR ...
How is climate change affecting life on Earth?
... A. Climate is going to get warmer according to this model. B. Volcanic eruptions effect climate for two generations. C. There is only one possibility for warming in the 21st C. D. All areas of the planet will warm equally over time. ...
... A. Climate is going to get warmer according to this model. B. Volcanic eruptions effect climate for two generations. C. There is only one possibility for warming in the 21st C. D. All areas of the planet will warm equally over time. ...
What is Climate Change?
... and Europe becoming relatively cooler. Even if this were to occur, it would take many years or decades because oceans move heat and cold much more slowly than the atmosphere. (Some ocean changes, however, such as the periodic warming of Pacific Ocean waters known as El Niño, may affect regional weat ...
... and Europe becoming relatively cooler. Even if this were to occur, it would take many years or decades because oceans move heat and cold much more slowly than the atmosphere. (Some ocean changes, however, such as the periodic warming of Pacific Ocean waters known as El Niño, may affect regional weat ...
2. - MfE
... Is there any further information you wish the Government to consider. Please explain. The Government is part of the problem. They and Act are the parties of climate change deniers. They have been dragging their feet on climate change, protecting businesses and farmers from the costs of mitigating fo ...
... Is there any further information you wish the Government to consider. Please explain. The Government is part of the problem. They and Act are the parties of climate change deniers. They have been dragging their feet on climate change, protecting businesses and farmers from the costs of mitigating fo ...
Future Changes in ENSO Discussion
... Chapter 14: Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change ...
... Chapter 14: Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change ...
Adaptation Fund Offers Hope for Caribbean Countries Threatened
... Board of the Fund meets in Europe to finalise their discussions. Already predictions are that countries the likes of Barbuda here in the Caribbean could sink in 60 years, necessitating speedy adaptation to the changing climate. Still, sea levels continue to rise and certainly in the region, there ha ...
... Board of the Fund meets in Europe to finalise their discussions. Already predictions are that countries the likes of Barbuda here in the Caribbean could sink in 60 years, necessitating speedy adaptation to the changing climate. Still, sea levels continue to rise and certainly in the region, there ha ...
Climate change and climatic variability in West Africa
... opposite. In the first, measures will have to be oriented at increasing the buffering capacity for the region for larger fluctuations and a progressive decline in food production. In the other, increasing rainfall will pose enormous challenges in the form of floods, erosion and possibly adaptations ...
... opposite. In the first, measures will have to be oriented at increasing the buffering capacity for the region for larger fluctuations and a progressive decline in food production. In the other, increasing rainfall will pose enormous challenges in the form of floods, erosion and possibly adaptations ...
Downscaling of Global Climate Model
... Arctic Sea Ice Prediction using community climate system model ...
... Arctic Sea Ice Prediction using community climate system model ...
Document
... Miner’s Canary of Climate Change “Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shifts from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere…” Felix Cohen (1953) ...
... Miner’s Canary of Climate Change “Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shifts from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere…” Felix Cohen (1953) ...
Climate Change in Antarctica
... to further isolate much of Antarctica from the rest of the planet. As a result there has been little change in either surface temperature or levels of snowfall across most of the continent over the last 30 years. This isolating effect of the polar vortex has also resulted in an increase in sea ice c ...
... to further isolate much of Antarctica from the rest of the planet. As a result there has been little change in either surface temperature or levels of snowfall across most of the continent over the last 30 years. This isolating effect of the polar vortex has also resulted in an increase in sea ice c ...
FOSSIL SUNLIGHT* VS RENEWABLE SUNLIGHT John Cairns, Jr
... C. 2012. U.S. will not surpass Saudi Arabia’s oil production by 2020. Smart Planet 28Nov http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/take/us-will-not-surpass-saudi-arabias-oilproduction-by-2020/268. 2 Cairns, J., Jr. 2007. Phantom land and ghost slaves: humankind’s addiction to fossil energy. Asian Journal of E ...
... C. 2012. U.S. will not surpass Saudi Arabia’s oil production by 2020. Smart Planet 28Nov http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/take/us-will-not-surpass-saudi-arabias-oilproduction-by-2020/268. 2 Cairns, J., Jr. 2007. Phantom land and ghost slaves: humankind’s addiction to fossil energy. Asian Journal of E ...
GWP and Carbon Dioxide Equivalents
... GWPs are used to convert emissions of non-CO2 gases into their CO2 warming equivalents (CO2Es). The CO2E of a non-CO2 gas is calculated by multiplying the mass of the emissions of the non-CO2 gas by its GWP. A 100-year GWP of 21 for CH4 (see Table 1) means that each gram of CH4 emitted is considered ...
... GWPs are used to convert emissions of non-CO2 gases into their CO2 warming equivalents (CO2Es). The CO2E of a non-CO2 gas is calculated by multiplying the mass of the emissions of the non-CO2 gas by its GWP. A 100-year GWP of 21 for CH4 (see Table 1) means that each gram of CH4 emitted is considered ...
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.