States (and Cities) as Actors in Global Climate Regulation: Unitary
... This essay argues that U.S. States, cities, and other sub-national actors (SNAs) in the U.S., as well as other jurisdictions, can and should play important long-term roles in climate regulation at both the domestic and global levels, even after strong national and international climate regulatory re ...
... This essay argues that U.S. States, cities, and other sub-national actors (SNAs) in the U.S., as well as other jurisdictions, can and should play important long-term roles in climate regulation at both the domestic and global levels, even after strong national and international climate regulatory re ...
Modelling the effects of climate and land cover change on
... Abstract. The groundwater resource contained within the sandy aquifers of the Swan Coastal Plain, south-west Western Australia, provides approximately 60 percent of the drinking water for the metropolitan population of Perth. Rainfall decline over the past three decades coupled with increasing water ...
... Abstract. The groundwater resource contained within the sandy aquifers of the Swan Coastal Plain, south-west Western Australia, provides approximately 60 percent of the drinking water for the metropolitan population of Perth. Rainfall decline over the past three decades coupled with increasing water ...
Visual Salience in Climate Change Imagery is in the Eye of the
... Complex phenomena like climate change are often communicated visually. In this paper, we investigated the effectiveness of common visuals used to convey key messages about climate change. We also present a new methodology for analysis of eye tracking data that takes advantage of functionalities alre ...
... Complex phenomena like climate change are often communicated visually. In this paper, we investigated the effectiveness of common visuals used to convey key messages about climate change. We also present a new methodology for analysis of eye tracking data that takes advantage of functionalities alre ...
states and cities as actors in global climate regulation: unitary vs
... undertake any climate regulation. By virtue of these initiatives, U.S. SNAs have become significant global climate regulatory actors. First, a substantial number of states or groups of states are globally significant GHG emitters and are taking regulatory steps to limit their emissions. They have al ...
... undertake any climate regulation. By virtue of these initiatives, U.S. SNAs have become significant global climate regulatory actors. First, a substantial number of states or groups of states are globally significant GHG emitters and are taking regulatory steps to limit their emissions. They have al ...
Climate Risk Screening and Management Tool for Strategy Design
... 5.2 Opportunities Related to Climate Change Mitigation USAID efforts can help reduce the magnitude of global climate change through climate change mitigation, i.e., reductions in greenhouse gas emissions or removal of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the atmosphere (e.g., via tree planting). Address the ...
... 5.2 Opportunities Related to Climate Change Mitigation USAID efforts can help reduce the magnitude of global climate change through climate change mitigation, i.e., reductions in greenhouse gas emissions or removal of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the atmosphere (e.g., via tree planting). Address the ...
here. - PSR: Iowa
... Climate change is one of the greatest health threats facing humanity in the 21st century. As worldwide patterns of temperature, precipitation and weather events change, the delicate balance of climate and life is disrupted, with serious impacts on food and agriculture, water sources, and health. -- ...
... Climate change is one of the greatest health threats facing humanity in the 21st century. As worldwide patterns of temperature, precipitation and weather events change, the delicate balance of climate and life is disrupted, with serious impacts on food and agriculture, water sources, and health. -- ...
Climate variability, ecological gradient and the Northeast China
... mean annual temperature (MAT), mean monthly temperature (MMT), mean annual precipitation (MAP), mean monthly precipitation (MMP), mean annual potential evapotranspiration (MAPET) calculated following Monteith (1995), mean monthly potential evapotranspiration (MMPET), mean annual potential evapotrans ...
... mean annual temperature (MAT), mean monthly temperature (MMT), mean annual precipitation (MAP), mean monthly precipitation (MMP), mean annual potential evapotranspiration (MAPET) calculated following Monteith (1995), mean monthly potential evapotranspiration (MMPET), mean annual potential evapotrans ...
Araujo et al. 2006 - Keck Science Department
... change includes changes in breeding phenology. Most temperate amphibian species spend a large portion of the year inactive, avoiding either cold winters or hot summers. Subtle increases in temperature or moisture trigger them to emerge from hibernation. Immediately upon emergence, they migrate to ne ...
... change includes changes in breeding phenology. Most temperate amphibian species spend a large portion of the year inactive, avoiding either cold winters or hot summers. Subtle increases in temperature or moisture trigger them to emerge from hibernation. Immediately upon emergence, they migrate to ne ...
Text - Reading`s CentAUR
... and zonal wind (through thermal wind balance), which could in turn affect wave propagation and the residual circulation. Since changes in both GHGs and ODSs are required for this to happen (i.e., ozone loss in the extended region would not occur if only one of the forcings were to vary), the respons ...
... and zonal wind (through thermal wind balance), which could in turn affect wave propagation and the residual circulation. Since changes in both GHGs and ODSs are required for this to happen (i.e., ozone loss in the extended region would not occur if only one of the forcings were to vary), the respons ...
City of North Vancouver Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... Judging the success of climate change adaptation can be difficult because it is never over and deals with uncertain future events. Therefore, rather than aiming for a specific endpoint, the goals of adaptation are to increase the City’s resilience and to reduce the risks of climate change. Resilienc ...
... Judging the success of climate change adaptation can be difficult because it is never over and deals with uncertain future events. Therefore, rather than aiming for a specific endpoint, the goals of adaptation are to increase the City’s resilience and to reduce the risks of climate change. Resilienc ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... levels in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as in much of the Sahelian region. Overall, this has led to a decreasing trend of an average 2.3 mm per month (2.4%) per decade from 1960 to 2006. ...
... levels in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as in much of the Sahelian region. Overall, this has led to a decreasing trend of an average 2.3 mm per month (2.4%) per decade from 1960 to 2006. ...
Modeling plant ranges over 75 years of climate change in California
... SDMs for 133 vascular plant species using data from the mountain ranges of California (USA) from two time periods: the 1930s and the present day. We forecast historical models over 75 years of measured climate change and assessed their projections against current distributions. Similarly, we hindcas ...
... SDMs for 133 vascular plant species using data from the mountain ranges of California (USA) from two time periods: the 1930s and the present day. We forecast historical models over 75 years of measured climate change and assessed their projections against current distributions. Similarly, we hindcas ...
Report on Fifth Assessment Report 6
... November 2014. In May 2011, the IPCC Special Report on ‘Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation’ was launched. The IPCC Special Report on ‘Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation’ was released in November 2011. These special reports also ...
... November 2014. In May 2011, the IPCC Special Report on ‘Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation’ was launched. The IPCC Special Report on ‘Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation’ was released in November 2011. These special reports also ...
Valuing the Ocean: Draft Executive Summary
... more effectively account for these services when assessing the economic implications of global environmental change and what to do about it. In the final chapters, a discussion of different ways to plan for a future fraught with risk and uncertainty is presented, followed by a case study of the Paci ...
... more effectively account for these services when assessing the economic implications of global environmental change and what to do about it. In the final chapters, a discussion of different ways to plan for a future fraught with risk and uncertainty is presented, followed by a case study of the Paci ...
3-2-9 Initiatives in the Insurance Sector:
... Actually, these products—weather derivatives and weather index insurance—function almost identically. Products sold in Japan as weather derivatives are being sold in Thailand and other countries as insurance, with essentially the same contents. Because weather derivatives (weather index insurance) a ...
... Actually, these products—weather derivatives and weather index insurance—function almost identically. Products sold in Japan as weather derivatives are being sold in Thailand and other countries as insurance, with essentially the same contents. Because weather derivatives (weather index insurance) a ...
The Economics of Global Climate Change
... the negative externalities associated with local and regional pollutants have to some degree been internalized. But, until recently, few controls existed for carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas. This global air pollutant has no short-term damaging effects at ground level, but atmospheric ...
... the negative externalities associated with local and regional pollutants have to some degree been internalized. But, until recently, few controls existed for carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas. This global air pollutant has no short-term damaging effects at ground level, but atmospheric ...
1 Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches in Climate Change and
... plausible way to reduce GHG emissions (which is the whole purpose of the exercise) is to involve major GHG emitters, irrespective of their GDP. International law is fragmented. The case of international trade law is a good illustration of the fact that international law, generally speaking, operates ...
... plausible way to reduce GHG emissions (which is the whole purpose of the exercise) is to involve major GHG emitters, irrespective of their GDP. International law is fragmented. The case of international trade law is a good illustration of the fact that international law, generally speaking, operates ...
Reducing the Future to Climate: a Story of Climate Determinism and
... claimed, either implicitly or explicitly, by such modelling activities 27, climate becomes the one ‘known’ variable in an otherwise unknowable future. The openness, contingency and multiple possibilities of the future are closed off as these predicted virtual climates assert their influence over eve ...
... claimed, either implicitly or explicitly, by such modelling activities 27, climate becomes the one ‘known’ variable in an otherwise unknowable future. The openness, contingency and multiple possibilities of the future are closed off as these predicted virtual climates assert their influence over eve ...
this paper
... measurements in the North Pacific Ocean [26] and [27]. These methods have a number of attractive properties [27] and [28]. They are inherently spatially averaging, suppressing the effects of mesoscale variability and directly providing measures of depth-integrated temperature that extend into the de ...
... measurements in the North Pacific Ocean [26] and [27]. These methods have a number of attractive properties [27] and [28]. They are inherently spatially averaging, suppressing the effects of mesoscale variability and directly providing measures of depth-integrated temperature that extend into the de ...
Climate change - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
... Greenhouse gases effectively absorb infrared radiation, emitted by the Earth’s surface, by the atmosphere itself due to the same gases, and by clouds. Atmospheric radiation is emitted to all sides, including downward to the Earth’s surface. Thus greenhouse gases trap heat within the surfacetroposphe ...
... Greenhouse gases effectively absorb infrared radiation, emitted by the Earth’s surface, by the atmosphere itself due to the same gases, and by clouds. Atmospheric radiation is emitted to all sides, including downward to the Earth’s surface. Thus greenhouse gases trap heat within the surfacetroposphe ...
urbanization and climate change in small island developing states
... development resource. Most SIDS cities and towns in the tropics are also now experiencing the more immediate impacts of climate change: increasing frequency and magnitude of cyclones, storms and hurricanes resulting in losses of life, houses, crucial urban infrastructure and natural resources. These ...
... development resource. Most SIDS cities and towns in the tropics are also now experiencing the more immediate impacts of climate change: increasing frequency and magnitude of cyclones, storms and hurricanes resulting in losses of life, houses, crucial urban infrastructure and natural resources. These ...
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... archaeological and historical evidences support a solaroutput model for climate change44 during a large part of the Holocene. As inferred from biological and geological proxies, terrestrial palaeotemperature may have been higher45 due to natural variability. Just before the Holocene, SSTs increased ...
... archaeological and historical evidences support a solaroutput model for climate change44 during a large part of the Holocene. As inferred from biological and geological proxies, terrestrial palaeotemperature may have been higher45 due to natural variability. Just before the Holocene, SSTs increased ...
Training Your People How to Think About Climate Change
... often presented with careless or even deliberately deceitful semantics. An example is the question, “don’t you believe in global warming?” This phraseology immediately misdirects the conversation. The climate change debate isn’t about global warming per se. Everyone agrees that global warming has o ...
... often presented with careless or even deliberately deceitful semantics. An example is the question, “don’t you believe in global warming?” This phraseology immediately misdirects the conversation. The climate change debate isn’t about global warming per se. Everyone agrees that global warming has o ...
Future climate warming and changes to mountain permafrost in the
... 2011), present understanding of Andean permafrost distribution and resilience is limited (Azócar and Brenning 2010). Most mountain regions have warmed faster than the global average (Bradley et al. 2006); for instance, warming in the European Alps since the 1980s has been reported as 0.5 °C per deca ...
... 2011), present understanding of Andean permafrost distribution and resilience is limited (Azócar and Brenning 2010). Most mountain regions have warmed faster than the global average (Bradley et al. 2006); for instance, warming in the European Alps since the 1980s has been reported as 0.5 °C per deca ...
Forecasting global climate change: A scientific approach Kesten C
... By 2007, there still had been no proper validation of the IPCC’s forecasts. To generate interest in the importance of validation, one of us (Armstrong) proposed a bet to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore that a “no-change” forecast of global average temperature would be more accurate than any mode ...
... By 2007, there still had been no proper validation of the IPCC’s forecasts. To generate interest in the importance of validation, one of us (Armstrong) proposed a bet to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore that a “no-change” forecast of global average temperature would be more accurate than any mode ...