2005 Exxon Foundation 990 vs Exxon Giving Report
... Under increasing scrutiny and pressure over the past two years from scientists, policy makers and the public, the company was forced to reveal that it had stopped funding a handful of organizations identified as part of the company’s denial campaign on global warming. In July 2006, ExxonMobil met wi ...
... Under increasing scrutiny and pressure over the past two years from scientists, policy makers and the public, the company was forced to reveal that it had stopped funding a handful of organizations identified as part of the company’s denial campaign on global warming. In July 2006, ExxonMobil met wi ...
DRACULA AND THE ECO WARRIOR Teacher`s Notes Synopsis 1
... money - he will invest in Ecotown if only he can frack for oil and gas under his own properties. She agrees, she is changing. Mina is in hospital after being hurt in the tanker wreck, Harker appears but is mad, a servant now of Dracula and obsessed with eating flies. Mina is shocked but survives his ...
... money - he will invest in Ecotown if only he can frack for oil and gas under his own properties. She agrees, she is changing. Mina is in hospital after being hurt in the tanker wreck, Harker appears but is mad, a servant now of Dracula and obsessed with eating flies. Mina is shocked but survives his ...
Meeting the needs of Future Generations
... Intergenerational equity informing indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) As the international community works to finalise the Sustainable Development Goals there will be a focus on defining indicators to assess their implementation at international and national level. The inclusion ...
... Intergenerational equity informing indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) As the international community works to finalise the Sustainable Development Goals there will be a focus on defining indicators to assess their implementation at international and national level. The inclusion ...
The Influence of Climate Change on Global Crop Productivity
... and P over a 50-year period (2040–2060 versus 1990– 2010) from 16 climate models. Results from each climate model are averaged across crop areas in five continents. The average model-projected rates of warming are similar to the mean observed rates since 1980 of roughly 0.3°C per decade (Fig. 2). The ...
... and P over a 50-year period (2040–2060 versus 1990– 2010) from 16 climate models. Results from each climate model are averaged across crop areas in five continents. The average model-projected rates of warming are similar to the mean observed rates since 1980 of roughly 0.3°C per decade (Fig. 2). The ...
Consequences of Climate Warming and Altered Precipitation
... Thus, climate warming may result in positive, negative, or potentially no effect on forest productivity, depending on individual species responses under different climate change scenarios as well as interacting climate change factors (Kirschbaum, 2000). In particular, the effects of warming may dif ...
... Thus, climate warming may result in positive, negative, or potentially no effect on forest productivity, depending on individual species responses under different climate change scenarios as well as interacting climate change factors (Kirschbaum, 2000). In particular, the effects of warming may dif ...
Long-Term Ecological Records and Their Relevance to Climate
... modeling output and data from fossil and molecular records paint a bleak picture (Loarie et al. 2009). In Malcolm et al. (2002), which examined output from 14 general circulation models (GCMs) and global vegetation models (GVMs), the results indicated that for many plant species, rates of up to 1,00 ...
... modeling output and data from fossil and molecular records paint a bleak picture (Loarie et al. 2009). In Malcolm et al. (2002), which examined output from 14 general circulation models (GCMs) and global vegetation models (GVMs), the results indicated that for many plant species, rates of up to 1,00 ...
effective cross-border monitoring systems for waterborne microbial
... outfalls and daily shoreline sampling at a limited number of beach sites. Remote sensing and the development of species-specific in situ sensors for waterborne pathogens and HABs have great potential for providing the means to address these challenges. For example, satellite-based Synthetic Aperture ...
... outfalls and daily shoreline sampling at a limited number of beach sites. Remote sensing and the development of species-specific in situ sensors for waterborne pathogens and HABs have great potential for providing the means to address these challenges. For example, satellite-based Synthetic Aperture ...
Reading and Comprehension Questions for Chapter 11
... Answer – a. Removing a nonsignificant regressor may improve the fit of the model to the data. 12. The extra sum of squares method is used to test hypotheses about a subset of parameters in the multiple regression model. True False True 13. A 95% confidence interval on the mean response at a specifi ...
... Answer – a. Removing a nonsignificant regressor may improve the fit of the model to the data. 12. The extra sum of squares method is used to test hypotheses about a subset of parameters in the multiple regression model. True False True 13. A 95% confidence interval on the mean response at a specifi ...
post-print version of article
... Nations after World War I, which he had put so much effort into negotiating (Fiorina et al. 2004). To circumvent the required senatorial ratification, presidents often negotiate executive agreements instead of treaties. The Constitution does not explicitly give the president the right to make execut ...
... Nations after World War I, which he had put so much effort into negotiating (Fiorina et al. 2004). To circumvent the required senatorial ratification, presidents often negotiate executive agreements instead of treaties. The Constitution does not explicitly give the president the right to make execut ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... Global Climate Models (GCMs) are our primary source of information about future climate. GCMs comprise simplified but systematically rigorous interacting mathematical descriptions of important physical and chemical processes governing climate, including the role of the atmosphere, land, oceans, and ...
... Global Climate Models (GCMs) are our primary source of information about future climate. GCMs comprise simplified but systematically rigorous interacting mathematical descriptions of important physical and chemical processes governing climate, including the role of the atmosphere, land, oceans, and ...
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... agricultural research (Schlenker et al. 2006, Schlenker and Roberts 2009) reports that extreme temperatures, not averages, are especially harmful to crop yields. Third, following methods introduced by Bajari and Benkard (2005), we model unobserved heterogeneity in households’ preferences, thereby al ...
... agricultural research (Schlenker et al. 2006, Schlenker and Roberts 2009) reports that extreme temperatures, not averages, are especially harmful to crop yields. Third, following methods introduced by Bajari and Benkard (2005), we model unobserved heterogeneity in households’ preferences, thereby al ...
May, 2008 - India Environment Portal
... benefit would have if it had come to a poor person. Prioritarianism gives priority to the less well off. According to an alternative ethical theory known as utilitarianism, however, a benefit has the same value no matter who receives it. Society should simply aim to maximize the total of people’s we ...
... benefit would have if it had come to a poor person. Prioritarianism gives priority to the less well off. According to an alternative ethical theory known as utilitarianism, however, a benefit has the same value no matter who receives it. Society should simply aim to maximize the total of people’s we ...
This GREEEN guide is not a manual on how to deal with climate
... A first point to face climate change teaching is analysing the main causes: variations in solar energy reaching Earth; changes in the reflectivity of Earth’s atmosphere and surface; and changes in the greenhouse effect, which affects the amount of heat retained by Earth’s atmosphere. A second point ...
... A first point to face climate change teaching is analysing the main causes: variations in solar energy reaching Earth; changes in the reflectivity of Earth’s atmosphere and surface; and changes in the greenhouse effect, which affects the amount of heat retained by Earth’s atmosphere. A second point ...
7. Nature, “Soot a major contributor to climate change” (15 Jan 2013)
... 2°C threshold by the middle of this century even with strong CO2 mitigation. Reducing SLCPs is the most effective strategy for constraining warming in the short-term, since most of their warming effect disappears within weeks to a decade and a half after emissions are reduced. Third is the recogn ...
... 2°C threshold by the middle of this century even with strong CO2 mitigation. Reducing SLCPs is the most effective strategy for constraining warming in the short-term, since most of their warming effect disappears within weeks to a decade and a half after emissions are reduced. Third is the recogn ...
Today
... There is unequivocal evidence that the Earth is warming. This warming can be seen in increases in global-average surface air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, rising sea level, and changes in many other climate-related variables and impacts. 1 Most of the observed increases ...
... There is unequivocal evidence that the Earth is warming. This warming can be seen in increases in global-average surface air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, rising sea level, and changes in many other climate-related variables and impacts. 1 Most of the observed increases ...
Financing Climate Policies through Climate Bonds
... According to the most recent IPCC report, average global temperatures have risen 0.85 degrees Celsius since 1880. IPCC (2015) suggests that the period 1983 2012 was likely the warmest 20 year period in the last 1400 years. The trajectory of future global temperatures then is highly dependent on the ...
... According to the most recent IPCC report, average global temperatures have risen 0.85 degrees Celsius since 1880. IPCC (2015) suggests that the period 1983 2012 was likely the warmest 20 year period in the last 1400 years. The trajectory of future global temperatures then is highly dependent on the ...
Climate Change Impacts on Rural Based Women
... change. Women in the course of their daily tasks have developed an intimate knowledge of the prevailing climatic conditions. However, their knowledge and capabilities have not been fully recognized and they often face social and economic exclusion in development issues (Kipuri and Ridgewell, 2008). ...
... change. Women in the course of their daily tasks have developed an intimate knowledge of the prevailing climatic conditions. However, their knowledge and capabilities have not been fully recognized and they often face social and economic exclusion in development issues (Kipuri and Ridgewell, 2008). ...
Proceedings Report - Government of New Brunswick
... Improve the relevance and usability of information on impacts of climate variability and climate change, so that it can be used appropriately by development practitioners. 5.2.1. Utilize digital elevation mapping (such as LIDAR) to provide data to investigate the magnitude of coastal changes and pro ...
... Improve the relevance and usability of information on impacts of climate variability and climate change, so that it can be used appropriately by development practitioners. 5.2.1. Utilize digital elevation mapping (such as LIDAR) to provide data to investigate the magnitude of coastal changes and pro ...
Pathways for balancing CO2 emissions and sinks
... to ‘pursue efforts to limit the (global average) temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change’. The text of the Paris Agreement further specifies ‘Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse g ...
... to ‘pursue efforts to limit the (global average) temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change’. The text of the Paris Agreement further specifies ‘Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse g ...
... The key subsectors in agriculture are expected to have mixed impacts under the A2 and B2 scenarios. Banana, fisheries and root crop outputs are expected to fall with climate change, but tree crop and vegetable production are expected to rise. In aggregate, in every decade up to 2050, these sub-secto ...
FFESCsynthesisAppendixIkwedit
... conservation and carbon storage. Local communities are interested in diversifying economic opportunities through non-timber activities such as forest-based tourism and seek changes in community forest tenure policies that will allow them to make long-term adaptation decisions in response to climate ...
... conservation and carbon storage. Local communities are interested in diversifying economic opportunities through non-timber activities such as forest-based tourism and seek changes in community forest tenure policies that will allow them to make long-term adaptation decisions in response to climate ...