Camouflage mismatch in seasonal coat color due to decreased
... change. Further, we used the model to test for other potential modifiers of the circannual coat color rhythm, including temperature, percent snow around hares, and sex. To quantify how these 3 y differed in snow cover and how they compared with the recent past and expected future, we developed ecolog ...
... change. Further, we used the model to test for other potential modifiers of the circannual coat color rhythm, including temperature, percent snow around hares, and sex. To quantify how these 3 y differed in snow cover and how they compared with the recent past and expected future, we developed ecolog ...
A Climate Chronology - University of Maine
... and the rate is increasing every year. Today this factor is larger than any contribution from the inorganic world. Thus today man by his own activities is increasing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at the rate of 30 per cent a century….Even if there may be some question as to whether or not the ...
... and the rate is increasing every year. Today this factor is larger than any contribution from the inorganic world. Thus today man by his own activities is increasing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at the rate of 30 per cent a century….Even if there may be some question as to whether or not the ...
Perceptions of Obvious and Disruptive Climate Change: Community
... community voices in their own development efforts [37]. An underlying assumption with CBA initiatives is that people know their local risks and vulnerabilities better than non-locals; in this case, residents of Savoonga and Shaktoolik are capable of determining what climatic changes are more obvious ...
... community voices in their own development efforts [37]. An underlying assumption with CBA initiatives is that people know their local risks and vulnerabilities better than non-locals; in this case, residents of Savoonga and Shaktoolik are capable of determining what climatic changes are more obvious ...
Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism: Working Paper 42 (830 kB) (opens in new window)
... Asheim and Mitra (2010), time periods correspond to non-overlapping generations assumed to follow each other in sequence. In the empirical analysis of this paper, time periods are shorter, set to ten years (given by the time-step of the DICE model). As long as the discount factor is properly adjuste ...
... Asheim and Mitra (2010), time periods correspond to non-overlapping generations assumed to follow each other in sequence. In the empirical analysis of this paper, time periods are shorter, set to ten years (given by the time-step of the DICE model). As long as the discount factor is properly adjuste ...
Financing an efficient adaptation programme to climate change: A
... and society. For example, an estimated RM 84 million (RM 10 = $ 2.4) worth of agricultural production was damaged due to the recent flood that affected 7000 farmers of Malaysia (Singh, 2014). According to the Initial National Communication (INC) (2000), the rainfall and temperature are projected to ...
... and society. For example, an estimated RM 84 million (RM 10 = $ 2.4) worth of agricultural production was damaged due to the recent flood that affected 7000 farmers of Malaysia (Singh, 2014). According to the Initial National Communication (INC) (2000), the rainfall and temperature are projected to ...
Climate change and mammals: evolutionary
... Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ...
... Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ...
1 CV KAREN L. O`BRIEN Department of Sociology and Human
... Thesis: An Evaluation of the Uncertainties in Using General Circulation Models to Assess the Impacts of Global Warming: The Case of Mexico. International Relations, College of William and Mary in Virginia. ...
... Thesis: An Evaluation of the Uncertainties in Using General Circulation Models to Assess the Impacts of Global Warming: The Case of Mexico. International Relations, College of William and Mary in Virginia. ...
copenhagen, climate change `refugees` and the need for a global
... different contexts and forms that such migration is likely to take (Kalin 2008). There are three kinds of climate change impacts that are likely to have the greatest consequences in terms of human movement: sea level rise; increasing severe weather events; and drought and desertification (Dochert ...
... different contexts and forms that such migration is likely to take (Kalin 2008). There are three kinds of climate change impacts that are likely to have the greatest consequences in terms of human movement: sea level rise; increasing severe weather events; and drought and desertification (Dochert ...
“Smart Climate Change” for Professional Societies Workshop WORKSHOP REPORT
... Normally extreme events used to have a 20 year frequency but now climate models show that in East Africa the frequency of hot years is 1-2 year and 1 year for wet years. This will affect socioeconomic development because countries will always be in a recovery mode. Some examples of disasters from wh ...
... Normally extreme events used to have a 20 year frequency but now climate models show that in East Africa the frequency of hot years is 1-2 year and 1 year for wet years. This will affect socioeconomic development because countries will always be in a recovery mode. Some examples of disasters from wh ...
Energy research and the contributions of the social sciences: A
... observational evidence of human influence on the climate [79]. In the most recent assessment report, the IPCC found that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature since 1951 was extremely likely (>95% chance) to have been caused by human influence [80]. Strides in c ...
... observational evidence of human influence on the climate [79]. In the most recent assessment report, the IPCC found that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature since 1951 was extremely likely (>95% chance) to have been caused by human influence [80]. Strides in c ...
Predicting responses of the Adélie penguin population of Edmonson
... ice environment and in atmospheric precipitations over larger areas of Antarctica. These changes are expected to affect the population dynamics of seabirds and marine mammals, but the extent of this influence is not clear. We investigated the future population trajectories of the colony of Adélie pe ...
... ice environment and in atmospheric precipitations over larger areas of Antarctica. These changes are expected to affect the population dynamics of seabirds and marine mammals, but the extent of this influence is not clear. We investigated the future population trajectories of the colony of Adélie pe ...
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... emissions scenarios, but impacts will depend critically on local manifestations. The average results across a collection of global circulation models in terms of global averages and the associated global distributions for three SRES (Special Report on Emission Scenarios) scenarios for the 2020s and ...
... emissions scenarios, but impacts will depend critically on local manifestations. The average results across a collection of global circulation models in terms of global averages and the associated global distributions for three SRES (Special Report on Emission Scenarios) scenarios for the 2020s and ...
Key Meteorological Indicators of Climate Change in Ireland Environmental Research Centre Report
... records for these sites extend back to 1890. Figure 2 shows an air temperature ...
... records for these sites extend back to 1890. Figure 2 shows an air temperature ...
Impact of climate change on marine and coastal
... along the coast. These emerging countries are all the more vulnerable as they are not properly equipped in terms of technical and financial means in order to improve their store of knowledge and implement adaptive measures to prevent or to mitigate the effects of climate change. Climate change is th ...
... along the coast. These emerging countries are all the more vulnerable as they are not properly equipped in terms of technical and financial means in order to improve their store of knowledge and implement adaptive measures to prevent or to mitigate the effects of climate change. Climate change is th ...
Lash et al 2014 RWH and Adaptation final submitted
... is more conservative than the IPCC A1FI scenario used for this study. While annual rainfall in the UK is not predicted to change by more than a few per cent the distribution of rainfall is. It is projected that there will be significantly more rainfall in winter and a reduction in summer. The intens ...
... is more conservative than the IPCC A1FI scenario used for this study. While annual rainfall in the UK is not predicted to change by more than a few per cent the distribution of rainfall is. It is projected that there will be significantly more rainfall in winter and a reduction in summer. The intens ...
Climate Change Policy Jason Shogren and Michael Toman •
... vapor, which naturally occur in Earth’s atmosphere, trap heat—like a greenhouse. CO2 released from use of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) is the most plentiful humancreated greenhouse gas (GHG). Other gases—including methane (CH4),2 chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs; now banned) and their substitu ...
... vapor, which naturally occur in Earth’s atmosphere, trap heat—like a greenhouse. CO2 released from use of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) is the most plentiful humancreated greenhouse gas (GHG). Other gases—including methane (CH4),2 chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs; now banned) and their substitu ...
Impact of bark beetle (Ips typographus L.) disturbance on timber
... climate series based on observed climate data of the period 1961– 1990 (mean annual temperature 7.6 8C, mean annual precipitation 1013 mm) which had been interpolated from nearby weather stations of the Austrian weather service. This generic approach was chosen in order to obtain a baseline for the ...
... climate series based on observed climate data of the period 1961– 1990 (mean annual temperature 7.6 8C, mean annual precipitation 1013 mm) which had been interpolated from nearby weather stations of the Austrian weather service. This generic approach was chosen in order to obtain a baseline for the ...
Anticipated Effects of Climate Change on Coastal
... (more land) and southern (less land) mid-latitude oceans, combined with tropical warming, the Northern Hemisphere Hadley Cell is predicted to decrease in intensity while that of the Southern Hemisphere will increase in intensity [9]. It is still unclear how these future shifts in the Hadley Cell mig ...
... (more land) and southern (less land) mid-latitude oceans, combined with tropical warming, the Northern Hemisphere Hadley Cell is predicted to decrease in intensity while that of the Southern Hemisphere will increase in intensity [9]. It is still unclear how these future shifts in the Hadley Cell mig ...
PDF-B Document - Global Environment Facility
... The UNFCCC and Systematic Observation. The potential problems associated with global climate change are now widely recognized. The UNFCCC was negotiated in 1992 because countries were "concerned that human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas ...
... The UNFCCC and Systematic Observation. The potential problems associated with global climate change are now widely recognized. The UNFCCC was negotiated in 1992 because countries were "concerned that human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas ...
WP C /Gap Analysis
... infrastructure as a whole. The resulting synthesis report, which is due about 1 year after the start of the SIOS-PP project, is envisaged to become the baseline for a common scientific strategy for the future SIOS infrastructure, with a prioritized list of infrastructure investments and an estimate ...
... infrastructure as a whole. The resulting synthesis report, which is due about 1 year after the start of the SIOS-PP project, is envisaged to become the baseline for a common scientific strategy for the future SIOS infrastructure, with a prioritized list of infrastructure investments and an estimate ...
Climate change and Tourism in the Alps: a position paper in view of
... Data about past average trends is certainly informative but its usefulness can be questioned when it comes to the estimation of future climate dynamics at the local level. This is because (a) the climate system exhibits a complex and non linear behaviour, and (b) different micro-climates may coexist ...
... Data about past average trends is certainly informative but its usefulness can be questioned when it comes to the estimation of future climate dynamics at the local level. This is because (a) the climate system exhibits a complex and non linear behaviour, and (b) different micro-climates may coexist ...
Cosmic rays and space weather: effects on global climate change
... obtained important information can be used for investigation of the link between cosmic ray intensity and the Earth’s climate change. Also important in the relationship between CR and climate, is the influence of long term changes in the geomagnetic field on CR intensity through the changes of cutof ...
... obtained important information can be used for investigation of the link between cosmic ray intensity and the Earth’s climate change. Also important in the relationship between CR and climate, is the influence of long term changes in the geomagnetic field on CR intensity through the changes of cutof ...
Vulnerability of New Zealand pastoral farming to the impacts of
... that the scenarios produced should be regarded as plausible climate futures. Recognising that the future is unknowable (conjointly because of uncertainties about human actions and incomplete science) MfE (2008) recommends an initial screening phase in climate change impact assessment to identify the ...
... that the scenarios produced should be regarded as plausible climate futures. Recognising that the future is unknowable (conjointly because of uncertainties about human actions and incomplete science) MfE (2008) recommends an initial screening phase in climate change impact assessment to identify the ...
An NPS Framework for Addressing Climate Change with Cultural
... changes on cultural resources, but this has not yet been clearly demonstrated. In some cases, finer-scale data likely would be more useful (for example, timing of rainfall intensity per adobe stress, such as analyzed in Moss 2010). Vulnerability assessments are analyses of the sensitivity and expos ...
... changes on cultural resources, but this has not yet been clearly demonstrated. In some cases, finer-scale data likely would be more useful (for example, timing of rainfall intensity per adobe stress, such as analyzed in Moss 2010). Vulnerability assessments are analyses of the sensitivity and expos ...