Climate Change Affirmative - St. Louis Urban Debate League
... an entire planet, it is actually high, which explains why much of the world’s land ice is starting to melt and the oceans are rising at an accelerating pace. The heat accumulating in the Earth because of human emissions is roughly equal to the heat that would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima atomic ...
... an entire planet, it is actually high, which explains why much of the world’s land ice is starting to melt and the oceans are rising at an accelerating pace. The heat accumulating in the Earth because of human emissions is roughly equal to the heat that would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima atomic ...
6. Climate change in the Arctic: A discussion of the impact on
... observation that climate impacts may be neither linear nor smooth seems to be particularly appropriate for the Arctic. In the Arctic, the sea ice cover is an important climatic factor. It affects surface reflection of solar radiation, cloud cover, humidity, exchanges of heat and moisture at the ocea ...
... observation that climate impacts may be neither linear nor smooth seems to be particularly appropriate for the Arctic. In the Arctic, the sea ice cover is an important climatic factor. It affects surface reflection of solar radiation, cloud cover, humidity, exchanges of heat and moisture at the ocea ...
Cryosphere, Instability, Sea Level Rise Session 1
... Since the industrial revolution, the natural cycles of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and other greenhouse gases have been strongly unbalanced by human activities. For CO2, this has led to carbon sinks in land and ocean systems which together absorb more than half of anthropogenic emissions, represen ...
... Since the industrial revolution, the natural cycles of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and other greenhouse gases have been strongly unbalanced by human activities. For CO2, this has led to carbon sinks in land and ocean systems which together absorb more than half of anthropogenic emissions, represen ...
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... about future climate change, one should be clearly aware of the underlying hypotheses used to produce such projections. Therefore, it is important to present, very briefly, the hypotheses of the four broad families of scenarios in the words of the SRES. The A1 scenario adopts a storyline that assume ...
... about future climate change, one should be clearly aware of the underlying hypotheses used to produce such projections. Therefore, it is important to present, very briefly, the hypotheses of the four broad families of scenarios in the words of the SRES. The A1 scenario adopts a storyline that assume ...
Climate Scientists Respond
... as positive, and shifting increasingly towards the negative the higher that CO2 concentrations rise. Rising CO2 fertilization of productivity (and of carbon sequestration) of forests, grasslands, savannas of the world is also likely to be less than previously anticipated from overly simplistic model ...
... as positive, and shifting increasingly towards the negative the higher that CO2 concentrations rise. Rising CO2 fertilization of productivity (and of carbon sequestration) of forests, grasslands, savannas of the world is also likely to be less than previously anticipated from overly simplistic model ...
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... about future climate change, one should be clearly aware of the underlying hypotheses used to produce such projections. Therefore, it is important to present, very briefly, the hypotheses of the four broad families of scenarios in the words of the SRES. The A1 scenario adopts a storyline that assume ...
... about future climate change, one should be clearly aware of the underlying hypotheses used to produce such projections. Therefore, it is important to present, very briefly, the hypotheses of the four broad families of scenarios in the words of the SRES. The A1 scenario adopts a storyline that assume ...
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... yields to characterize the nonlinear and asymmetric relationship between temperatures and yields for these crops. In particular, yields increase until certain temperature thresholds and decline steeply above these thresholds: 29°C for corn, 30°C for soybeans, and 32°C for cotton. The results are ro ...
... yields to characterize the nonlinear and asymmetric relationship between temperatures and yields for these crops. In particular, yields increase until certain temperature thresholds and decline steeply above these thresholds: 29°C for corn, 30°C for soybeans, and 32°C for cotton. The results are ro ...
Africa and Climate: Report
... existing upon one of the driest landmasses of the globe. Future economic development across the continent, development in all terms including agriculture and industry, and with it reduction in levels of poverty, has a high level of dependency upon water availability. In turn, water availability is r ...
... existing upon one of the driest landmasses of the globe. Future economic development across the continent, development in all terms including agriculture and industry, and with it reduction in levels of poverty, has a high level of dependency upon water availability. In turn, water availability is r ...
Making the Connection: Population Dynamics and Climate
... would put the world on a path to slower population growth, leading to substantial reductions in future carbon dioxide emissions.5 Furthermore, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading intergovernmental body for the assessment of climate change, in their 5th assessment report ...
... would put the world on a path to slower population growth, leading to substantial reductions in future carbon dioxide emissions.5 Furthermore, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading intergovernmental body for the assessment of climate change, in their 5th assessment report ...
Responses to Changing Atmosphere and Climate
... climatic change, because their current ranges are limited and their potential ranges are bounded by the coast or other topographical features (Snyder et al. 2002). To better understand the degree to which California’s climate may change in the near future, climate modelers apply greenhouse gas emis ...
... climatic change, because their current ranges are limited and their potential ranges are bounded by the coast or other topographical features (Snyder et al. 2002). To better understand the degree to which California’s climate may change in the near future, climate modelers apply greenhouse gas emis ...
Climate Change Fact Sheet Series
... world, on land and at sea have revealed that during the last 100 years the Earth’s surface and lowest part of the atmosphere have warmed up on average by about 0.6oC. During this period, manmade emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased, largel ...
... world, on land and at sea have revealed that during the last 100 years the Earth’s surface and lowest part of the atmosphere have warmed up on average by about 0.6oC. During this period, manmade emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased, largel ...
2 Echoes of 1983 `Weather Alert` report
... Climatic disasters are on the increase as the Earth warms up – in line with scientific observations and computer simulations that model future climate. 2007 has been a year of climatic crises, especially floods, often of an unprecedented nature. They included Africa’s worst floods in three decades, ...
... Climatic disasters are on the increase as the Earth warms up – in line with scientific observations and computer simulations that model future climate. 2007 has been a year of climatic crises, especially floods, often of an unprecedented nature. They included Africa’s worst floods in three decades, ...
The Spatial Dimensions of Climate Change at the Mega
... To draw up a well-considered climate adaptation strategy or to enable an assessment of its effects, certain tools to enable decision-making are needed. These include vulnerability assessment tools – which play a role particularly in policy preparatory work of spatial planning, such as urban developm ...
... To draw up a well-considered climate adaptation strategy or to enable an assessment of its effects, certain tools to enable decision-making are needed. These include vulnerability assessment tools – which play a role particularly in policy preparatory work of spatial planning, such as urban developm ...
GILDED WP3 report – draft
... Plans have been made for five peer-reviewed journal papers drawing on the qualitative data, each involving researchers from multiple research teams, on the following topics, which can be used as a convenient framework for reporting our main results: (1) Representations of the energy, climate change ...
... Plans have been made for five peer-reviewed journal papers drawing on the qualitative data, each involving researchers from multiple research teams, on the following topics, which can be used as a convenient framework for reporting our main results: (1) Representations of the energy, climate change ...
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... affected by their expectations about future climatic conditions and the associated level of uncertainty in weather patterns. Current estimates of climate change impacts are generally characterized by large uncertainties that depend on limited knowledge we have of many physical, biological, and socio ...
... affected by their expectations about future climatic conditions and the associated level of uncertainty in weather patterns. Current estimates of climate change impacts are generally characterized by large uncertainties that depend on limited knowledge we have of many physical, biological, and socio ...
Inuit vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in
... Northwest Territories and the adaptive strategies employed. It is based on collaborative research involving semistructured interviews, secondary sources of information, and participant observations. In the context of subsistence hunting, changes in temperature, seasonal patterns (for example timing ...
... Northwest Territories and the adaptive strategies employed. It is based on collaborative research involving semistructured interviews, secondary sources of information, and participant observations. In the context of subsistence hunting, changes in temperature, seasonal patterns (for example timing ...
Greenhouse Gangsters vs. Climate Justice
... Recent weather events show that the theory of man-made greenhouse gases causing global warming is not only correct, but that the climate has already been affected. Greenhouse gas concentrations are higher now than anytime in the last 220,000 years. Seven of this century’s hottest years were in the 1 ...
... Recent weather events show that the theory of man-made greenhouse gases causing global warming is not only correct, but that the climate has already been affected. Greenhouse gas concentrations are higher now than anytime in the last 220,000 years. Seven of this century’s hottest years were in the 1 ...
The use of the aridity index to assess climate
... could occur for given climatic conditions. Values of potential evaporation in this study are easily obtained using net radiation from the GCM since the land surface scheme takes into accounts the energy balance. In practice, however, estimation of potential evaporation could be a large source of err ...
... could occur for given climatic conditions. Values of potential evaporation in this study are easily obtained using net radiation from the GCM since the land surface scheme takes into accounts the energy balance. In practice, however, estimation of potential evaporation could be a large source of err ...
The use of the aridity index to assess climate change effect on
... could occur for given climatic conditions. Values of potential evaporation in this study are easily obtained using net radiation from the GCM since the land surface scheme takes into accounts the energy balance. In practice, however, estimation of potential evaporation could be a large source of err ...
... could occur for given climatic conditions. Values of potential evaporation in this study are easily obtained using net radiation from the GCM since the land surface scheme takes into accounts the energy balance. In practice, however, estimation of potential evaporation could be a large source of err ...
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... Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, India, Yemen, Indonesia, and Vietnam. We included additional locations suitable to produce Arabica coffee based on information provided by national coffee research institutes and a literature review. We the ...
... Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, India, Yemen, Indonesia, and Vietnam. We included additional locations suitable to produce Arabica coffee based on information provided by national coffee research institutes and a literature review. We the ...
The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
... enough.1 (By recent calculations, the total amount of carbon laid up in coal and other fossil deposits that humanity can readily get at and burn is some ten times greater than the total amount in the atmosphere.) So the next CO2 change might not be a cooling decrease, but an increase. Arrhenius made ...
... enough.1 (By recent calculations, the total amount of carbon laid up in coal and other fossil deposits that humanity can readily get at and burn is some ten times greater than the total amount in the atmosphere.) So the next CO2 change might not be a cooling decrease, but an increase. Arrhenius made ...
This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The
... 1995; Williams et al., 2005; Denny and Harley, 2006; Marshall et al., 2010), for example when invertebrates and algae are aerially exposed at low tide. Subtidally, tissue temperatures can be hotter than water temperature when water flow is sufficiently slow (Fabricius, 2006; Jimenez et al., 2008), and ...
... 1995; Williams et al., 2005; Denny and Harley, 2006; Marshall et al., 2010), for example when invertebrates and algae are aerially exposed at low tide. Subtidally, tissue temperatures can be hotter than water temperature when water flow is sufficiently slow (Fabricius, 2006; Jimenez et al., 2008), and ...
Managing for climate change on federal lands of the western United
... Managing for climate change on federal lands of the western United States: perceived usefulness of climate science, effectiveness of adaptation strategies, and barriers to implementation Kerry B. Kemp 1, Jarod J. Blades 2, P. Zion Klos 1, Troy E. Hall 3, Jo Ellen Force 1, Penelope Morgan 1 and Wade ...
... Managing for climate change on federal lands of the western United States: perceived usefulness of climate science, effectiveness of adaptation strategies, and barriers to implementation Kerry B. Kemp 1, Jarod J. Blades 2, P. Zion Klos 1, Troy E. Hall 3, Jo Ellen Force 1, Penelope Morgan 1 and Wade ...