Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate
... and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that occurred in 2013. The findings indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased the risk for the extreme heat waves assessed in this rep ...
... and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that occurred in 2013. The findings indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased the risk for the extreme heat waves assessed in this rep ...
REGULATING GREENHOUSE GASES UNDER THE CLEAN AIR
... The earth continues to get hotter as a result of anthropogenic climate change and adverse effects will increase in frequency and severity for populations and economies across the United States. There is clear scientific consensus that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be dramatically decreased to ...
... The earth continues to get hotter as a result of anthropogenic climate change and adverse effects will increase in frequency and severity for populations and economies across the United States. There is clear scientific consensus that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be dramatically decreased to ...
Understanding public complacency about climate
... less the rate at which GHGs are removed from the atmosphere. Anthropogenic GHG emissions are now roughly double the net rate of GHG removal by natural processes (net uptake by biomass, the ocean, and other sinks) (Houghton et al. 2001). Even if policies to mitigate climate change caused GHG emission ...
... less the rate at which GHGs are removed from the atmosphere. Anthropogenic GHG emissions are now roughly double the net rate of GHG removal by natural processes (net uptake by biomass, the ocean, and other sinks) (Houghton et al. 2001). Even if policies to mitigate climate change caused GHG emission ...
Reducing Human Vulnerability
... many ecosystems will come under increasing stress, patterns of pests and disease will continue to change, and agriculture will require significant changes in practice or displacement in location. On the higher temperature trajectory most of the negative trends will be even worse, and the few positiv ...
... many ecosystems will come under increasing stress, patterns of pests and disease will continue to change, and agriculture will require significant changes in practice or displacement in location. On the higher temperature trajectory most of the negative trends will be even worse, and the few positiv ...
national climate change policy
... of Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad, Advisor Science and Technology. The report of that Task Force has been used as a building block for the preparation of this policy. Furthermore, extensive consultations with provincial and federal ministries, institutions and civil society provided valuable inputs to the policy ...
... of Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad, Advisor Science and Technology. The report of that Task Force has been used as a building block for the preparation of this policy. Furthermore, extensive consultations with provincial and federal ministries, institutions and civil society provided valuable inputs to the policy ...
explaining extreme events of 2013
... greatly increased the risk for the extreme heat waves assessed in this report. How human influence affected other types of events such as droughts, heavy rain events, and storms was less clear, indicating that natural variability likely played a much larger role in these extremes. Multiple groups ch ...
... greatly increased the risk for the extreme heat waves assessed in this report. How human influence affected other types of events such as droughts, heavy rain events, and storms was less clear, indicating that natural variability likely played a much larger role in these extremes. Multiple groups ch ...
Osman-Elasha_IPCC_5AR_Adaptation needs
... Africa Specific Findings (3) Despite implementation limitations, Africa’s adaptation experiences nonetheless highlight valuable lessons for enhancing and scaling up the adaptation response, including principles for good practice and integrated approaches to adaptation (high confidence). Strengthe ...
... Africa Specific Findings (3) Despite implementation limitations, Africa’s adaptation experiences nonetheless highlight valuable lessons for enhancing and scaling up the adaptation response, including principles for good practice and integrated approaches to adaptation (high confidence). Strengthe ...
What Controls the Strength of Snow-Albedo Feedback?
... TABLE 1. Eighteen models used for AR4 climate change experiments and the description of surface-albedo parameterizations incorporated in the models. The “snow albedo” column describes how snow albedo is calculated, including the way metamorphosis effects are parameterized, either with an explicit te ...
... TABLE 1. Eighteen models used for AR4 climate change experiments and the description of surface-albedo parameterizations incorporated in the models. The “snow albedo” column describes how snow albedo is calculated, including the way metamorphosis effects are parameterized, either with an explicit te ...
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... climatic zones and their associated agricultural activity toward the poles and to higher elevations. Hughes (2003) points out that a 3°C change in mean annual temperature corresponds to a shift in isotherms of approximately 300 to 400 kilometres in latitude (in the temperate zone) or 500 metres in a ...
... climatic zones and their associated agricultural activity toward the poles and to higher elevations. Hughes (2003) points out that a 3°C change in mean annual temperature corresponds to a shift in isotherms of approximately 300 to 400 kilometres in latitude (in the temperate zone) or 500 metres in a ...
El Niño Southern Oscillation
... Assuming human-induced climate change has played a role in the overall bias in the Southern Oscillation index towards more negative values over the past 30 years, by shifting the Southern Oscillation index by 3 units, El Niño dominance disappears – this interpretation is at least consistent with mod ...
... Assuming human-induced climate change has played a role in the overall bias in the Southern Oscillation index towards more negative values over the past 30 years, by shifting the Southern Oscillation index by 3 units, El Niño dominance disappears – this interpretation is at least consistent with mod ...
NAP-GSP Support to Developing Countries
... Decision-makers from Environment, Planning and Finance Ministries from LDCs oriented on the steps for National Adaptation Planning as well as on leveraging finance by NAP GSP team and partners with the participation of the GEF Asia (teams trained from 8 countries) Pacific (trained from 4 count ...
... Decision-makers from Environment, Planning and Finance Ministries from LDCs oriented on the steps for National Adaptation Planning as well as on leveraging finance by NAP GSP team and partners with the participation of the GEF Asia (teams trained from 8 countries) Pacific (trained from 4 count ...
Hosted by: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Program
... moved from sewage sludge to the transport of N from septic effluent into coastal waters for my post-doc. I then later spent nearly 20 years examining nitrogen cycling in sediments as part of the Boston sewage outfall relocation project. In spite of spending much of my career "going down the toilet" ...
... moved from sewage sludge to the transport of N from septic effluent into coastal waters for my post-doc. I then later spent nearly 20 years examining nitrogen cycling in sediments as part of the Boston sewage outfall relocation project. In spite of spending much of my career "going down the toilet" ...
Beyond Science: ENERGY forum
... To examine climate change issues from a policy and scientific perspective, the Science and Technology Policy, Energy Forum, and Health Economics programs of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, together with the Energy & Environmental Systems Institute and the Shell Center for Sustain ...
... To examine climate change issues from a policy and scientific perspective, the Science and Technology Policy, Energy Forum, and Health Economics programs of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, together with the Energy & Environmental Systems Institute and the Shell Center for Sustain ...
Simulating the Impact of Climate Change on Rice
... seeding dates reduced crop yield and yield stability significantly because of spikelet sterility induced by both high and low temperatures. As the grain yield of SD varieties could be adversely affected by climate change, rice breeding programs for central Asia should focus on developing appropriate ...
... seeding dates reduced crop yield and yield stability significantly because of spikelet sterility induced by both high and low temperatures. As the grain yield of SD varieties could be adversely affected by climate change, rice breeding programs for central Asia should focus on developing appropriate ...
Competition and drought limit the response of water-use
... main agents controlling tree growth and WUEi (Boisvenue and Running 2006). However, variables related to stand structure like tree-to-tree competition have seldom been considered as concurrent influences when interpreting changes in tree growth and the inferred changes in WUEi. Although radial growt ...
... main agents controlling tree growth and WUEi (Boisvenue and Running 2006). However, variables related to stand structure like tree-to-tree competition have seldom been considered as concurrent influences when interpreting changes in tree growth and the inferred changes in WUEi. Although radial growt ...
Current and Projected Climate Change Impacts for the Colorado
... States. Science 319:1080–3. Topic: Observed climate change impacts to water in the western United States. Using global climate and regional hydrologic models, this study reviewed observed changes in the hydrologic cycle of the western United States, including timing of river flow and snowpack, as a ...
... States. Science 319:1080–3. Topic: Observed climate change impacts to water in the western United States. Using global climate and regional hydrologic models, this study reviewed observed changes in the hydrologic cycle of the western United States, including timing of river flow and snowpack, as a ...
- Bipartisan Policy Center
... on such projects as a planned natural gas pipeline. Many assumptions about future warming as well as its impacts on infrastructure had to be extrapolated from a limited number of data points. Sea-level rise was not taken into account in this analysis. ...
... on such projects as a planned natural gas pipeline. Many assumptions about future warming as well as its impacts on infrastructure had to be extrapolated from a limited number of data points. Sea-level rise was not taken into account in this analysis. ...
This is climaTe change in europe
... conservative institutions, such as the World Bank, to become outspoken on the dangers of climate change. The World Bank’s Turn Down the Heat report concludes that if the world warms by 2°C, a warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years, there will be widespread food shortages, unprecedented heatw ...
... conservative institutions, such as the World Bank, to become outspoken on the dangers of climate change. The World Bank’s Turn Down the Heat report concludes that if the world warms by 2°C, a warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years, there will be widespread food shortages, unprecedented heatw ...
A climate change report card for water Working Technical Paper 9
... freshwater ecological status. With increased flows there will be changes in stream power, water depths, water velocity and sediment loads. These will alter the morphology of rivers and the transfer of sediments to lakes, thereby impacting water quality and freshwater habitats in both lake and stream ...
... freshwater ecological status. With increased flows there will be changes in stream power, water depths, water velocity and sediment loads. These will alter the morphology of rivers and the transfer of sediments to lakes, thereby impacting water quality and freshwater habitats in both lake and stream ...
Draft 1:Layout 1.qxd - Defenders of Wildlife
... affects how plants grow, function, and compete for water and other resources. Generally, higher concentrations of CO2 are associated with greater plant productivity and more efficient water use. This may seem like good news, but it also appears to be changing competition between species, resulting i ...
... affects how plants grow, function, and compete for water and other resources. Generally, higher concentrations of CO2 are associated with greater plant productivity and more efficient water use. This may seem like good news, but it also appears to be changing competition between species, resulting i ...
Can marine cloud brightening reduce coral bleaching?
... when DHW = 3–5, and severe when DHW ≥ 6. These values are slightly lower than the 7-day DHW of 4 and 8, respectively. Bleaching events were calculated separately for the 1 ◦ C and 2.45 × SDmax heat-stress thresholds (Figure 1). ...
... when DHW = 3–5, and severe when DHW ≥ 6. These values are slightly lower than the 7-day DHW of 4 and 8, respectively. Bleaching events were calculated separately for the 1 ◦ C and 2.45 × SDmax heat-stress thresholds (Figure 1). ...
Climate Change Aspects in Agriculture
... Some work has been done to address climate change in Armenia and in the Southern Caucasus region. Armenia, as a transition country (Non-Annex 1), has submitted two National Communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Climate change is an essential issue for ...
... Some work has been done to address climate change in Armenia and in the Southern Caucasus region. Armenia, as a transition country (Non-Annex 1), has submitted two National Communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Climate change is an essential issue for ...
Climate Change and Its Impact on Groundwater
... quality hydrogeologic and climatic data. Determining the potential impact of climate change on groundwater resources, in particular, is difficult due to the complexity of the recharge process, and the variation of recharge within and between different climatic zones. Attempts have been made to calcu ...
... quality hydrogeologic and climatic data. Determining the potential impact of climate change on groundwater resources, in particular, is difficult due to the complexity of the recharge process, and the variation of recharge within and between different climatic zones. Attempts have been made to calcu ...
Insights to Key Questions about Climate Change
... and extreme precipitation events across the country are reported to be no more frequent than they were a century ago. Important conclusions from these data are that i) regional climate trends over the past 50-100 years that are consistent with theoretical expectations of an enhanced greenhouse effec ...
... and extreme precipitation events across the country are reported to be no more frequent than they were a century ago. Important conclusions from these data are that i) regional climate trends over the past 50-100 years that are consistent with theoretical expectations of an enhanced greenhouse effec ...