Climate Change and the Global Economy
... dramatically by the end of the century. The IPCC projects that, in the absence of emission control policies, global temperatures will increase by 2.8°C on average over the next century, with best-guess increases ranging from 1.8°C to 4°C across SRES scenarios (IPCC, 2007). The probability of higher ...
... dramatically by the end of the century. The IPCC projects that, in the absence of emission control policies, global temperatures will increase by 2.8°C on average over the next century, with best-guess increases ranging from 1.8°C to 4°C across SRES scenarios (IPCC, 2007). The probability of higher ...
Vulnerability and climate change hotspots in Africa
... ADC-CSC)), Gaboronee, Botswanna, in work king with th he Nationaal Meteorollogical and Center (SA ...
... ADC-CSC)), Gaboronee, Botswanna, in work king with th he Nationaal Meteorollogical and Center (SA ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Saskatchewan`s Water Resources
... infrastructure to minimize the risk associated with the impacts of climate change. Prairie province hydrology is dominated by cold regions processes so that snowmelt is the primary hydrological event of the year for both the major rivers that derive from the Rocky Mountains and small streams and riv ...
... infrastructure to minimize the risk associated with the impacts of climate change. Prairie province hydrology is dominated by cold regions processes so that snowmelt is the primary hydrological event of the year for both the major rivers that derive from the Rocky Mountains and small streams and riv ...
Effects of climate change on European ducks: what do we know and
... sometimes show very clear peaks of mass emergence has lead to the belief that ducks time their breeding to such superabundance in food (e.g. chironomids in Danell & Sjöberg 1977). This could cause a mismatch if ducks were not able to track potential shifts in emergence dates following climate chang ...
... sometimes show very clear peaks of mass emergence has lead to the belief that ducks time their breeding to such superabundance in food (e.g. chironomids in Danell & Sjöberg 1977). This could cause a mismatch if ducks were not able to track potential shifts in emergence dates following climate chang ...
How are extreme temperatures changing in Sweden
... There is often a multitude of factors that result in the rate of extremes on local, regional or a global scale. The hydrological cycle is closely coupled to the feedback systems such as soil moisture and evaporation which enhances cloud cover and result in a change in the radiation. In wet or snow c ...
... There is often a multitude of factors that result in the rate of extremes on local, regional or a global scale. The hydrological cycle is closely coupled to the feedback systems such as soil moisture and evaporation which enhances cloud cover and result in a change in the radiation. In wet or snow c ...
Against the Grain: The United States and the Global Climate
... culture is generally averse to ‘conspicuous government intervention’.8 Potential policies to mitigate climate change, such as taxation on energy intensive goods and services, efficiency standards or regulations to promote low carbon energy, have often been interpreted as unacceptable restrictions on ...
... culture is generally averse to ‘conspicuous government intervention’.8 Potential policies to mitigate climate change, such as taxation on energy intensive goods and services, efficiency standards or regulations to promote low carbon energy, have often been interpreted as unacceptable restrictions on ...
What Are Climate Forcings?
... sufficient portion of an ice sheet can spark a cataclysm. Ice sheet and ocean inertia provides only moderate delay to ice sheet disintegration and a burst of added global warming. Recent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of ...
... sufficient portion of an ice sheet can spark a cataclysm. Ice sheet and ocean inertia provides only moderate delay to ice sheet disintegration and a burst of added global warming. Recent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of ...
... aid in the development of appropriate preventative measures. Regional climate modelling can provide high resolution climate projections for areas, and thus begin to spatially resolve the variability in risk across the continent. Regional modelling tailored for specific areas is particularly importan ...
The impacts of climate change on human rights and forced migration
... rendered infertile by salinisation. Oceans are becoming warmer, more acidic and sea levels are rising. The climate is naturally dynamic and environmental conditions have changed dramatically throughout the planet’s history, however, the changes observed in the past few hundred years do not fit the b ...
... rendered infertile by salinisation. Oceans are becoming warmer, more acidic and sea levels are rising. The climate is naturally dynamic and environmental conditions have changed dramatically throughout the planet’s history, however, the changes observed in the past few hundred years do not fit the b ...
Resilience
... adaptive strategies. We deal with the adaptation of the integrated social-ecological system, and we analyze change through the lens of resilience. To clarify our terminology, we use the term “adaptive” in the usual evolutionary ecological sense to mean any response that increases a population's prob ...
... adaptive strategies. We deal with the adaptation of the integrated social-ecological system, and we analyze change through the lens of resilience. To clarify our terminology, we use the term “adaptive” in the usual evolutionary ecological sense to mean any response that increases a population's prob ...
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... nuclear waste transportation in Southern Nevada. The authors found the coefficient of the ambiguity variable to be negative and significant, suggesting that as ambiguity regarding transport related mortality and morbidity increased, people were less likely to accept the offered compensation. These e ...
... nuclear waste transportation in Southern Nevada. The authors found the coefficient of the ambiguity variable to be negative and significant, suggesting that as ambiguity regarding transport related mortality and morbidity increased, people were less likely to accept the offered compensation. These e ...
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... station was analyzed from the beginning of the observation (1871) until 2014, from the point of view of climate change. Simple climate-statistical analysis has been made in purpose to discover local climate alternations. Linear and exponential trends were fitted, and it was concluded that linear tre ...
... station was analyzed from the beginning of the observation (1871) until 2014, from the point of view of climate change. Simple climate-statistical analysis has been made in purpose to discover local climate alternations. Linear and exponential trends were fitted, and it was concluded that linear tre ...
New York, 1 August (Martin Khor) -
... waves, wildfires and severe tropical storms. The WHO estimated that in 2000 climate change caused 150,000 premature deaths a year. Continuing with business as usual in fossil fuel burning and deforestation will lead to much greater disruption and harm not decades from now, but soon. This would incl ...
... waves, wildfires and severe tropical storms. The WHO estimated that in 2000 climate change caused 150,000 premature deaths a year. Continuing with business as usual in fossil fuel burning and deforestation will lead to much greater disruption and harm not decades from now, but soon. This would incl ...
Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean
... extend peoples’ life expectancies. We have also achieved important gains in political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights. And yet, never before have the life forms that share this extraordinary planet – humans among them – been as threatened as they are today. The terrifying forec ...
... extend peoples’ life expectancies. We have also achieved important gains in political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights. And yet, never before have the life forms that share this extraordinary planet – humans among them – been as threatened as they are today. The terrifying forec ...
Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean
... extend peoples’ life expectancies. We have also achieved important gains in political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights. And yet, never before have the life forms that share this extraordinary planet – humans among them – been as threatened as they are today. The terrifying forec ...
... extend peoples’ life expectancies. We have also achieved important gains in political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights. And yet, never before have the life forms that share this extraordinary planet – humans among them – been as threatened as they are today. The terrifying forec ...
FiELDiNG CLiMATE CHANGE iN CULTURAL
... with the harvest, chatting with mothers outside the primary school, attending a wedding celebration or school graduation. None of these methods and data sources would have been sufficient on their own to understand the full complexity of the farmers’ vulnerability.” Accordingly, most chapters in her ...
... with the harvest, chatting with mothers outside the primary school, attending a wedding celebration or school graduation. None of these methods and data sources would have been sufficient on their own to understand the full complexity of the farmers’ vulnerability.” Accordingly, most chapters in her ...
Temperature and Heat-Related Mortality Trends in the Sonoran and
... the estimation error (i.e., the difference between observed and model estimated data), is rarely greater than 2 ◦ C, although individual models can show errors close to 3 ◦ C [17]. Furthermore, the reported trends and forecasts from general circulation models focus particularly on average values. Fo ...
... the estimation error (i.e., the difference between observed and model estimated data), is rarely greater than 2 ◦ C, although individual models can show errors close to 3 ◦ C [17]. Furthermore, the reported trends and forecasts from general circulation models focus particularly on average values. Fo ...
Using Concept Maps for Assessing Adult Learners in Training
... The historical monthly streamflow, precipitation, and temperature of the tributary areas for the Rio Grande from Del Norte, Colorado, to Elephant Butte, New Mexico were collected to calibrate an HEC-HMS hydrologic model for the period of 1971-2000. With the projection for temperature and precipitati ...
... The historical monthly streamflow, precipitation, and temperature of the tributary areas for the Rio Grande from Del Norte, Colorado, to Elephant Butte, New Mexico were collected to calibrate an HEC-HMS hydrologic model for the period of 1971-2000. With the projection for temperature and precipitati ...
- Wiley Online Library
... constructed and updates this dataset from observations at meteorological stations across the world0 s land areas. Harris et al. (2014) compared it with other datasets and found a very good agreement for South America. Gridded data matched observations of temperatures much better than those of precip ...
... constructed and updates this dataset from observations at meteorological stations across the world0 s land areas. Harris et al. (2014) compared it with other datasets and found a very good agreement for South America. Gridded data matched observations of temperatures much better than those of precip ...
Climate Change Mitigation«WHAT DO WE DO?
... of investing in abatement-related R&D, raising such spending four-fold from current levels as a share of global GDP back to the peak levels observed in the early 1980s, but without applying any other policies to reduce emissions. While such an R&D-led approach clearly yields some results, OECD estim ...
... of investing in abatement-related R&D, raising such spending four-fold from current levels as a share of global GDP back to the peak levels observed in the early 1980s, but without applying any other policies to reduce emissions. While such an R&D-led approach clearly yields some results, OECD estim ...
policy framework antigua and barbuda
... 2. Annex I Parties are permitted to trade in emission reduction units, which can be used to meet their emission reduction targets. 3. The CDM permits non-Annex I Parties to participate in projects with Annex I Parties to meet their emission reduction targets. The rules under which these flexibility ...
... 2. Annex I Parties are permitted to trade in emission reduction units, which can be used to meet their emission reduction targets. 3. The CDM permits non-Annex I Parties to participate in projects with Annex I Parties to meet their emission reduction targets. The rules under which these flexibility ...
Business development meeting
... • Very low confidence that annual and seasonal rainfall totals have changed in either direction over the past 50 years, but also very low confidence that there has been no change; • Very low confidence regarding changes in rainfall extremes (due to limited evidence & rarity of such events); • High c ...
... • Very low confidence that annual and seasonal rainfall totals have changed in either direction over the past 50 years, but also very low confidence that there has been no change; • Very low confidence regarding changes in rainfall extremes (due to limited evidence & rarity of such events); • High c ...
An analysis of climate trends in the Susquehanna River basin
... Long term climate analyses have shown an increase in global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels since the Industrial Revolution. This increase in carbon dioxide not only increases temperatures but also accelerates the hydrologic cycle. Within the last century, global average temperatures have increase ...
... Long term climate analyses have shown an increase in global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels since the Industrial Revolution. This increase in carbon dioxide not only increases temperatures but also accelerates the hydrologic cycle. Within the last century, global average temperatures have increase ...