Climate Change and the Skiing Industry: Impacts and Potential
... tourists exercising winter sports. Most glaciers worldwide are subject to retreat. Reasons for retreat include anthropogenic global warming and natural climatic variability. Some maritime glaciers are in advance due to favourable precipitation trends. It is projected that half of the alpine glaciers ...
... tourists exercising winter sports. Most glaciers worldwide are subject to retreat. Reasons for retreat include anthropogenic global warming and natural climatic variability. Some maritime glaciers are in advance due to favourable precipitation trends. It is projected that half of the alpine glaciers ...
Climate change during the last 150 million years: reconstruction
... both the past 100 Ma [3,4,9,15,16] and the Phanerozoic [5–7]. This indicates a significant role of the carbon cycle on the long-term climate change. The middle to Late Cretaceous is known to have been one of the warmest periods during the Phanerozoic: the average global temperature was probably >6ºC ...
... both the past 100 Ma [3,4,9,15,16] and the Phanerozoic [5–7]. This indicates a significant role of the carbon cycle on the long-term climate change. The middle to Late Cretaceous is known to have been one of the warmest periods during the Phanerozoic: the average global temperature was probably >6ºC ...
Global change and eutrophication of coastal waters
... trophic interactions, and habitat ranges and migration patterns of many species. Most GCC scenarios project predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem goods and services (Figure 1). The major drivers of these changes are increased temperature, sea level rise, enhanced hydrolo ...
... trophic interactions, and habitat ranges and migration patterns of many species. Most GCC scenarios project predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem goods and services (Figure 1). The major drivers of these changes are increased temperature, sea level rise, enhanced hydrolo ...
Climate change drives a shift in peatland ecosystem plant
... plant community structure is predicted to change under future climate change, making the quantification of the direction and magnitude of this change a research priority. We subjected intact, replicated vegetated poor fen peat monoliths to elevated temperatures, increased atmospheric carbon dioxide ...
... plant community structure is predicted to change under future climate change, making the quantification of the direction and magnitude of this change a research priority. We subjected intact, replicated vegetated poor fen peat monoliths to elevated temperatures, increased atmospheric carbon dioxide ...
Communicating the risks of global warming
... rationales for their disbelief, ranging from acceptance of the reality of climate change (although naturally-caused or overblown) to flat denials and outright conspiracy theories. This interpretive community is thus predisposed to discount or flatly reject scientific assessments of climate change. W ...
... rationales for their disbelief, ranging from acceptance of the reality of climate change (although naturally-caused or overblown) to flat denials and outright conspiracy theories. This interpretive community is thus predisposed to discount or flatly reject scientific assessments of climate change. W ...
weather and climate: engaging youth
... Adaptation: Adaptation strategies need to be developed as the world is already committed to a substantial amount of additional warming, acidification and deoxygenation, even if atmospheric CO2 could be stabilized at the current level. A key strategy is to ensure maximum potential for resilience in t ...
... Adaptation: Adaptation strategies need to be developed as the world is already committed to a substantial amount of additional warming, acidification and deoxygenation, even if atmospheric CO2 could be stabilized at the current level. A key strategy is to ensure maximum potential for resilience in t ...
Climate change science and Victoria
... regions of Victoria. The table compares the 10th to 90th percentile range extracted directly from 35 global climate models (GCM) to those from the statistical downscaling models (SDM) sourced from 22 of the global climate models. ......................................................... 41 Table 5: ...
... regions of Victoria. The table compares the 10th to 90th percentile range extracted directly from 35 global climate models (GCM) to those from the statistical downscaling models (SDM) sourced from 22 of the global climate models. ......................................................... 41 Table 5: ...
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... Physical Phenomena: Climate Change is Intrinsically Difficult to Understand Some fundamental attributes of climate change make it hard to understand. The main causes of climate change (greenhouse gases) are invisible, its impacts are geographically and temporally distant for most Americans, and, as ...
... Physical Phenomena: Climate Change is Intrinsically Difficult to Understand Some fundamental attributes of climate change make it hard to understand. The main causes of climate change (greenhouse gases) are invisible, its impacts are geographically and temporally distant for most Americans, and, as ...
Evolutionary and plastic responses of freshwater invertebrates to
... freshwater invertebrates and not in the context of climate change. Yet, both a higher salinity and a shorter hydroperiod are potentially strong selective pressures that may cause local extinctions (Wellborn et al. 1996; Halse et al. 2003; Loureiro et al. 2013). The typical responses of freshwater in ...
... freshwater invertebrates and not in the context of climate change. Yet, both a higher salinity and a shorter hydroperiod are potentially strong selective pressures that may cause local extinctions (Wellborn et al. 1996; Halse et al. 2003; Loureiro et al. 2013). The typical responses of freshwater in ...
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... – a serious short-coming considering that numeric and stylized models generally find uncertainty to be highly relevant. I introduce non-logarithmic risk attitude and EZW preferences to improve the market calibration of the economic model, leading to non-trivial uncertainty implications while retaini ...
... – a serious short-coming considering that numeric and stylized models generally find uncertainty to be highly relevant. I introduce non-logarithmic risk attitude and EZW preferences to improve the market calibration of the economic model, leading to non-trivial uncertainty implications while retaini ...
1. dia - The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern
... projections for Europe The impact of climate change was studied in six sectors: tourism, Mediterranean agriculture, forestry, water and property insurance. ...
... projections for Europe The impact of climate change was studied in six sectors: tourism, Mediterranean agriculture, forestry, water and property insurance. ...
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... and marginal costs. Outputs of the emissions model are fed as inputs into the climate model. Estimated climate changes under different scenarios are used to estimate the climatic impacts on food production and infectious diseases focusing on the Asia-Pacific region. Atmospheric stabilization scenari ...
... and marginal costs. Outputs of the emissions model are fed as inputs into the climate model. Estimated climate changes under different scenarios are used to estimate the climatic impacts on food production and infectious diseases focusing on the Asia-Pacific region. Atmospheric stabilization scenari ...
Producing the Climate: States, Scientists, and the
... The core institutions of global climate governance are built on a geophysical model that presents a gradualist, determinist, and predictable image of the climate rooted in Newtonian laws. This model suggests that manipulating greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere can precisely control glob ...
... The core institutions of global climate governance are built on a geophysical model that presents a gradualist, determinist, and predictable image of the climate rooted in Newtonian laws. This model suggests that manipulating greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere can precisely control glob ...
How closely do changes in surface and column water vapor follow
... also the top panels of figure 2). A temperature-of-lastsaturation analysis suggests that subtropical decreases in freetropospheric relative humidity in climate model simulations of global warming are primarily related to changes in the circulation (Wright et al 2010). It has also been argued that cr ...
... also the top panels of figure 2). A temperature-of-lastsaturation analysis suggests that subtropical decreases in freetropospheric relative humidity in climate model simulations of global warming are primarily related to changes in the circulation (Wright et al 2010). It has also been argued that cr ...
Community and ecosystem responses to recent climate change
... behaviour, there is also ample evidence for distributional changes of plants and animals owing to recent climate change, but species do not respond synchronously in space. This will result in shifting dominances of species within communities, but also to the formation of non-analogue communities, wh ...
... behaviour, there is also ample evidence for distributional changes of plants and animals owing to recent climate change, but species do not respond synchronously in space. This will result in shifting dominances of species within communities, but also to the formation of non-analogue communities, wh ...
Multilateral Climate Change Mitigation
... Hansen points out that "[w]e have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree. That will be warmer than it has been for half a million years, and many things could become unstoppable."30 He concludes that we must proceed with mitigation ...
... Hansen points out that "[w]e have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree. That will be warmer than it has been for half a million years, and many things could become unstoppable."30 He concludes that we must proceed with mitigation ...
- The University of Liverpool Repository
... of future climate change. Much of China’s existing buildings are not considered energy-efficient, and retrofitting these buildings to perform in the future would be a much less energy-intensive strategy than demolishing them and building new replacements. This paper aims to investigate the feasibili ...
... of future climate change. Much of China’s existing buildings are not considered energy-efficient, and retrofitting these buildings to perform in the future would be a much less energy-intensive strategy than demolishing them and building new replacements. This paper aims to investigate the feasibili ...
Eurasian Arctic greening reveals teleconnections and the potential
... over different spatial and temporal scales, such as fluvial valleys and cryogenic landslides. Whereas fluvial landscapes are dominant west of the Urals, cryogenic landslides are the leading landscapeforming process in the continuous permafrost zone of northwestern Siberia18 . Cryogenic landslides ar ...
... over different spatial and temporal scales, such as fluvial valleys and cryogenic landslides. Whereas fluvial landscapes are dominant west of the Urals, cryogenic landslides are the leading landscapeforming process in the continuous permafrost zone of northwestern Siberia18 . Cryogenic landslides ar ...
Climate Change Impacts on Australia and the Benefits of Early
... flooding. Global large-scale singularities, such as a slowing or collapse of the ocean’s thermohaline circulation or the collapse of the ice sheets of West Antarctica or Greenland, would also have important long-term implications for Australia’s climate and coastline. Avoiding, or at the very least ...
... flooding. Global large-scale singularities, such as a slowing or collapse of the ocean’s thermohaline circulation or the collapse of the ice sheets of West Antarctica or Greenland, would also have important long-term implications for Australia’s climate and coastline. Avoiding, or at the very least ...
Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... unavailable and people may move from vulnerable areas, stressing the social and infrastructural capacity of surrounding areas. This migration also happens in response to extreme events such as Hurricane Katrina, when more than 200,000 migrants were temporarily housed in Houston and 42% indicated the ...
... unavailable and people may move from vulnerable areas, stressing the social and infrastructural capacity of surrounding areas. This migration also happens in response to extreme events such as Hurricane Katrina, when more than 200,000 migrants were temporarily housed in Houston and 42% indicated the ...
What do realists think about climate change?
... 1970s more attention has been given to the threat of climate change. In the recent decade it has become one of the main talking points on the international political agenda. From floods in Bangladesh and Brazil, severe drought in Syria and California, and agricultural crises in southern Italy, to da ...
... 1970s more attention has been given to the threat of climate change. In the recent decade it has become one of the main talking points on the international political agenda. From floods in Bangladesh and Brazil, severe drought in Syria and California, and agricultural crises in southern Italy, to da ...
Rapid attribution of the August 2016 flood
... Weather Service, 2016; New Orleans area forecast discussions (PIL=AFDLIX), 2016). Historic freshwater flooding in the region encompassing Baton Rouge, Louisiana, followed the extreme precipitation event. Provisional reports from 18 August 2016 showed stream gauges managed by the United States Geolog ...
... Weather Service, 2016; New Orleans area forecast discussions (PIL=AFDLIX), 2016). Historic freshwater flooding in the region encompassing Baton Rouge, Louisiana, followed the extreme precipitation event. Provisional reports from 18 August 2016 showed stream gauges managed by the United States Geolog ...
The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: The World After 2012
... Bank has financed will over the next 20 to 50 years add carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere equivalent to 1.3 times the total amount emitted by all the world’s countries in 1995.21 To achieve a higher level of policy integration then, climate objectives, and environmental goals more broadly, ...
... Bank has financed will over the next 20 to 50 years add carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere equivalent to 1.3 times the total amount emitted by all the world’s countries in 1995.21 To achieve a higher level of policy integration then, climate objectives, and environmental goals more broadly, ...
Response of hydrological processes to land
... has altered water flows and resources in river basins (Chen et al., 2006; Rees and Collins, 2006). Current research into the effects of land-cover/climate changes on hydrological processes and water-related environmental services, and who are the winners and losers on different scales, is insufficie ...
... has altered water flows and resources in river basins (Chen et al., 2006; Rees and Collins, 2006). Current research into the effects of land-cover/climate changes on hydrological processes and water-related environmental services, and who are the winners and losers on different scales, is insufficie ...
Bayesian Networks: Learning from Data
... � The received definition of causal sufficiency (Suppes, 1970) states that a relation is causal if: � There is correlation between the variables; � There is temporal asymmetry (precedence); � There is no hidden variable explaining correlation. � Hidden variables explain statisticians’ reluctance to ...
... � The received definition of causal sufficiency (Suppes, 1970) states that a relation is causal if: � There is correlation between the variables; � There is temporal asymmetry (precedence); � There is no hidden variable explaining correlation. � Hidden variables explain statisticians’ reluctance to ...