global climate change and presidential leadership
... often disagreeing about the magnitude, timing, and location of long-term impacts.”11 Kraft describes the third generation problems as “politically controversial,” and are more “difficult to address than the environmental issues of earlier eras.” 12 Kraft argues that it is this category of environmen ...
... often disagreeing about the magnitude, timing, and location of long-term impacts.”11 Kraft describes the third generation problems as “politically controversial,” and are more “difficult to address than the environmental issues of earlier eras.” 12 Kraft argues that it is this category of environmen ...
Pluralising climate change solutions? Views held and voiced by
... “the elements of a deliberative system can be discerned, even if only in putative or compromised form” (Dryzek and Stevenson, 2011, pp. 1873). Their study provides a first assessment of climate discourses voiced at climate change side-events. They conclude that the range of perspectives, some of whic ...
... “the elements of a deliberative system can be discerned, even if only in putative or compromised form” (Dryzek and Stevenson, 2011, pp. 1873). Their study provides a first assessment of climate discourses voiced at climate change side-events. They conclude that the range of perspectives, some of whic ...
The Abrahamic Religions and Climate Change - e
... a disturbing warming of the climatic system. In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientifically determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon (§23). He ...
... a disturbing warming of the climatic system. In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientifically determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon (§23). He ...
Financing adaptation
... growth, access to potable water, food security, sanitation, improved health status, etc., take precedence. Hence, the concept of mainstreaming – integration of policies and measures to address climate change into ongoing sectoral and development planning and decisionmaking – so as to ensure long-ter ...
... growth, access to potable water, food security, sanitation, improved health status, etc., take precedence. Hence, the concept of mainstreaming – integration of policies and measures to address climate change into ongoing sectoral and development planning and decisionmaking – so as to ensure long-ter ...
Planning for Change: Climate Adaptation Survey Results
... conditions in their locales, including temperature, precipitation patterns, storm patterns, water supply, water quality, runoff, flooding, sea level rise, and the geographic ranges of land and marine species. As Figure 2 shows, the majority of respondents believe that climate change will likely caus ...
... conditions in their locales, including temperature, precipitation patterns, storm patterns, water supply, water quality, runoff, flooding, sea level rise, and the geographic ranges of land and marine species. As Figure 2 shows, the majority of respondents believe that climate change will likely caus ...
Audubon`s Birds and Climate Change Report
... Audubon’s Climate Science The National Audubon Society has completed a continental analysis of how North America’s birds may respond to future climate change. Using extensive citizen science data and detailed climate layers, we developed models that characterize the relationship between the distrib ...
... Audubon’s Climate Science The National Audubon Society has completed a continental analysis of how North America’s birds may respond to future climate change. Using extensive citizen science data and detailed climate layers, we developed models that characterize the relationship between the distrib ...
Climate Change Policy
... These climate change risks and opportunities have the potential to impact investment risks and returns and as such, considering these issues alongside traditional financial and business risk factors in making investment decisions can improve long-term risk-adjusted returns to members. In this way, ...
... These climate change risks and opportunities have the potential to impact investment risks and returns and as such, considering these issues alongside traditional financial and business risk factors in making investment decisions can improve long-term risk-adjusted returns to members. In this way, ...
Three Ways to Understand State Actors in International Negotiations
... In short, in prolonged international negotiations, what factors determine a state’s negotiating position, and its preparedness to sign an agreement? And how and why are such decisions made? This article addresses these questions by considering the role of the US across almost a decade of internation ...
... In short, in prolonged international negotiations, what factors determine a state’s negotiating position, and its preparedness to sign an agreement? And how and why are such decisions made? This article addresses these questions by considering the role of the US across almost a decade of internation ...
Climate Change North | Signs of Change: Studying Tree Rings
... rings can tell us stories about relative temperatures, precipitation and growing seasons, and about extraordinary events, such as fires, that may have affected tree growth. Before this lesson, go over the basics of climate change and the potential impacts outlined in Intermediate Backgrounders #1 an ...
... rings can tell us stories about relative temperatures, precipitation and growing seasons, and about extraordinary events, such as fires, that may have affected tree growth. Before this lesson, go over the basics of climate change and the potential impacts outlined in Intermediate Backgrounders #1 an ...
FFESCsynthesisJune7 - Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural
... 2. Global Overview of Climate Change Adaptation Science and Management The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessment of climate change. It builds the scientific foundation, sets international standards, and defines a common vocabulary for clima ...
... 2. Global Overview of Climate Change Adaptation Science and Management The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessment of climate change. It builds the scientific foundation, sets international standards, and defines a common vocabulary for clima ...
Projected Heat-Related Mortality in the US Urban Northeast
... disaggregated (BCSD) climate projections at 1/8° resolution derived from the WCRP CMIP5 multi-model data set. BCSD projections were obtained online [29] for 33 global-scale general circulation models (GCMs) used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), ...
... disaggregated (BCSD) climate projections at 1/8° resolution derived from the WCRP CMIP5 multi-model data set. BCSD projections were obtained online [29] for 33 global-scale general circulation models (GCMs) used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), ...
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... disaggregated (BCSD) climate projections at 1/8° resolution derived from the WCRP CMIP5 multi-model data set. BCSD projections were obtained online [29] for 33 global-scale general circulation models (GCMs) used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), ...
... disaggregated (BCSD) climate projections at 1/8° resolution derived from the WCRP CMIP5 multi-model data set. BCSD projections were obtained online [29] for 33 global-scale general circulation models (GCMs) used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), ...
Climate Resilient Planning : A Tool for Long
... has increased significantly (66.3 years) in the last four decades. Hydropower generation has reached 691 MW and over 2.3 million people have access to telephone services. More than 19,700 km of road provide access to 73 of Nepal’s 75 districts. Domestic airlines operate more than 30,000 flights a ye ...
... has increased significantly (66.3 years) in the last four decades. Hydropower generation has reached 691 MW and over 2.3 million people have access to telephone services. More than 19,700 km of road provide access to 73 of Nepal’s 75 districts. Domestic airlines operate more than 30,000 flights a ye ...
Research Note Effects of Warming Conditions in Eastern North
... are increasingly being evaluated (Root et al. 2003): 62% of nearly 700 species examined have exhibited shifts in phenological timing and 80% of nearly 450 species showed changes in range boundaries in the direction predicted by climate change (Parmesan & Yohe 2003). Amphibians are of particular inte ...
... are increasingly being evaluated (Root et al. 2003): 62% of nearly 700 species examined have exhibited shifts in phenological timing and 80% of nearly 450 species showed changes in range boundaries in the direction predicted by climate change (Parmesan & Yohe 2003). Amphibians are of particular inte ...
Desert dust and anthropogenic aerosol interactions
... coupled carbon-climate models. Aerosols are solids or liquids suspended in the atmosphere. They interfere with incoming and outgoing radiation, and potentially impact cloud formation (e.g. Forster et al., 2007). Sulfate and volcanic aerosols have been implemented in one coupled-carbon cycle model, r ...
... coupled carbon-climate models. Aerosols are solids or liquids suspended in the atmosphere. They interfere with incoming and outgoing radiation, and potentially impact cloud formation (e.g. Forster et al., 2007). Sulfate and volcanic aerosols have been implemented in one coupled-carbon cycle model, r ...
Global Meteorological Drought: A Synthesis of Current
... drought—the processes responsible for the long-term disruptions of local and regional precipitation-producing phenomena. These processes often act over large distances via various large-scale atmospheric motions such as the Hadley and Walker circulations, Rossby waves, and other atmospheric teleconn ...
... drought—the processes responsible for the long-term disruptions of local and regional precipitation-producing phenomena. These processes often act over large distances via various large-scale atmospheric motions such as the Hadley and Walker circulations, Rossby waves, and other atmospheric teleconn ...
http://eureka.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/66/1/TheWrongTrousers.pdf
... impossible to predict which of these approaches might stimulate the necessary fundamental change. This is a process of social learning in which we must be always alert to maintain our trajectory towards the goal by constant course corrections and improvements which, by definition, cannot be prescrib ...
... impossible to predict which of these approaches might stimulate the necessary fundamental change. This is a process of social learning in which we must be always alert to maintain our trajectory towards the goal by constant course corrections and improvements which, by definition, cannot be prescrib ...
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... energy consumption from air conditioning (plus 70% by 2100). The net forecasted effect of climate change would be a small decrease in energy use. However, because the carbon emission factor of the electricity used by air-conditioners could be higher than the one of the secondary fuels used for heati ...
... energy consumption from air conditioning (plus 70% by 2100). The net forecasted effect of climate change would be a small decrease in energy use. However, because the carbon emission factor of the electricity used by air-conditioners could be higher than the one of the secondary fuels used for heati ...
Maldives Climate Change Policy Framework
... approximately 300 sq. km. Even though the land area is small, it has a relatively large, exclusive economic zone, measuring approximately 895,0000 sq. km, with 330,652 people located on the equator in the Indian Ocean, and consist of roughly 1,297 islands, 188 of which are populated, 105 are tourist ...
... approximately 300 sq. km. Even though the land area is small, it has a relatively large, exclusive economic zone, measuring approximately 895,0000 sq. km, with 330,652 people located on the equator in the Indian Ocean, and consist of roughly 1,297 islands, 188 of which are populated, 105 are tourist ...
hewitson_regionalcl
... For example (empirical downscaling): if local temperature is well determined by synoptic scale sea level pressure (SLP), which shows minimal change into the future. An effective empirical downscaling may be derived, but, what if atmospheric moisture content goes up? The downscaled DT from SLP may be ...
... For example (empirical downscaling): if local temperature is well determined by synoptic scale sea level pressure (SLP), which shows minimal change into the future. An effective empirical downscaling may be derived, but, what if atmospheric moisture content goes up? The downscaled DT from SLP may be ...
High-latitude cooling associated with landscape
... coupled to an Earth system model, younger vegetation from increased burning cooled the high-latitude atmosphere, primarily in the winter and spring, with noticeable feedbacks from the ocean and sea ice. Results from multiple scenarios suggest that a doubling of burn area would cool the surface by 0. ...
... coupled to an Earth system model, younger vegetation from increased burning cooled the high-latitude atmosphere, primarily in the winter and spring, with noticeable feedbacks from the ocean and sea ice. Results from multiple scenarios suggest that a doubling of burn area would cool the surface by 0. ...
- American Meteorological Society
... Adam et al. 2009; Hidalgo et al. 2009; Stewart 2009; Rasmussen et al. 2011). These climate change impacts can be considered predictable, at least to some extent, because of growing confidence that temperatures will increase throughout much of the globe in the coming decades (e.g., Meehl et al. 2007) ...
... Adam et al. 2009; Hidalgo et al. 2009; Stewart 2009; Rasmussen et al. 2011). These climate change impacts can be considered predictable, at least to some extent, because of growing confidence that temperatures will increase throughout much of the globe in the coming decades (e.g., Meehl et al. 2007) ...