DICE 2013R - Yale Economics
... desirability of the distribution of incomes over space or time of existing conditions, any more than a marine biologist makes a moral judgment on the equity of the eating habits of sharks or guppies. We can put this point differently in terms of welfare improvements. The calculations of the potentia ...
... desirability of the distribution of incomes over space or time of existing conditions, any more than a marine biologist makes a moral judgment on the equity of the eating habits of sharks or guppies. We can put this point differently in terms of welfare improvements. The calculations of the potentia ...
The Reinforced Strategy for Europe
... adaptation in their area of jurisdiction, both for the corporate area or for community-related activities, addressing all sectors. The Reinforced Strategy recognises and respects the local government democratic decision-making process, to set its own targets. However, there is also a need for an inc ...
... adaptation in their area of jurisdiction, both for the corporate area or for community-related activities, addressing all sectors. The Reinforced Strategy recognises and respects the local government democratic decision-making process, to set its own targets. However, there is also a need for an inc ...
An overview of regional land-use and land
... (National Agricultural Statistics Service, 1998). This rapid landuse change was achieved largely by converting rain-fed corn areas to irrigated areas. To investigate the likely impacts of this agriculture-related land-use change on surface energy partitioning and summer climate, as reported in Adego ...
... (National Agricultural Statistics Service, 1998). This rapid landuse change was achieved largely by converting rain-fed corn areas to irrigated areas. To investigate the likely impacts of this agriculture-related land-use change on surface energy partitioning and summer climate, as reported in Adego ...
Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) Report card
... The time that it takes to collect data and recognise a trend varies between all of the topics covered in this card. There are also challenges with attributing these trends directly to climate change. Below we provide two illustrations highlighting some of the issues; the collation of physical time s ...
... The time that it takes to collect data and recognise a trend varies between all of the topics covered in this card. There are also challenges with attributing these trends directly to climate change. Below we provide two illustrations highlighting some of the issues; the collation of physical time s ...
The science of climate change - Australian Academy of Science
... predictions, and some uncertainty is likely to remain for considerable time. Uncertainty in climate science is no greater than in other areas where policy decisions are routinely taken to minimise risk. Also, the uncertainty means that the magnitude of future climate change could be either greater o ...
... predictions, and some uncertainty is likely to remain for considerable time. Uncertainty in climate science is no greater than in other areas where policy decisions are routinely taken to minimise risk. Also, the uncertainty means that the magnitude of future climate change could be either greater o ...
Hansen1998-ClimateForcings-in-the-IndustrialEra.p+
... probably contribute most to the anthropogenic aerosol optical depth: sulfates, organic aerosols, and soil dust. But we use realistic aerosol absorption, and thus we also implicitly include the principal radiative effect of minor aerosol constituents such as black carbon (soot). Aerosol optical depth ...
... probably contribute most to the anthropogenic aerosol optical depth: sulfates, organic aerosols, and soil dust. But we use realistic aerosol absorption, and thus we also implicitly include the principal radiative effect of minor aerosol constituents such as black carbon (soot). Aerosol optical depth ...
Identification of knowledge needs on climate policy
... The results from the proposed approach can also be considered as realistic, since they were subsequently validated through a series of workshops, where stakeholders reflected upon the derived list of knowledge needs. Although the approach adopted assisted this specific problem, the analysis prov ...
... The results from the proposed approach can also be considered as realistic, since they were subsequently validated through a series of workshops, where stakeholders reflected upon the derived list of knowledge needs. Although the approach adopted assisted this specific problem, the analysis prov ...
Weather, Climate, and Worldviews: The Sources
... in Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth). But other dimensions of weather—notably patterns of precipitation that result in droughts and floods—are of great importance in characterizations of climate change and may also act as potent signals to individuals about larger trends in climate. Therefore a ...
... in Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth). But other dimensions of weather—notably patterns of precipitation that result in droughts and floods—are of great importance in characterizations of climate change and may also act as potent signals to individuals about larger trends in climate. Therefore a ...
PRACTICE TOWARD A DEEPER ENGAGEMENT OF THE U.S.
... While only 39% of the American public had “heard or read anything about the greenhouse effect”5 in 1986, by the late 1990s a high and relatively stable segment of the population showed at least some level of problem awareness: in the 1990s and early 2000s, around 80% said they were aware of global w ...
... While only 39% of the American public had “heard or read anything about the greenhouse effect”5 in 1986, by the late 1990s a high and relatively stable segment of the population showed at least some level of problem awareness: in the 1990s and early 2000s, around 80% said they were aware of global w ...
Presentation ()
... Expect phenotypic changes that depart from the historical condition, for example More resident fish Smaller fish Different out-migration timing Different return timing ...
... Expect phenotypic changes that depart from the historical condition, for example More resident fish Smaller fish Different out-migration timing Different return timing ...
Internalizing Climate Change—Scientific Resource Management and the Climate Change Challenges
... Because of the interconnectedness of the systems, CALFED also pursues efforts and restoration in the downstream San Francisco Bay and on its large upstream watershed (Figure 1). The Delta, in which populations for several key pelagic organisms are declining, is the nexus of California’s state-scale ...
... Because of the interconnectedness of the systems, CALFED also pursues efforts and restoration in the downstream San Francisco Bay and on its large upstream watershed (Figure 1). The Delta, in which populations for several key pelagic organisms are declining, is the nexus of California’s state-scale ...
Managing the Climate Change Liability Risk Facing Greenhouse
... Mississippi Gulf coast, filed a putative class action against the named defendants, corporations that have principal offices in other states but are doing business in Mississippi. 【Claim】： defendants' operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emi ...
... Mississippi Gulf coast, filed a putative class action against the named defendants, corporations that have principal offices in other states but are doing business in Mississippi. 【Claim】： defendants' operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emi ...
Polar Voices: Relaying the Science and Story of Polar Climate Change
... will highlight a) increased fire activity in the North, b) food insecurity issues resulting from shifting and disappearing wildlife habitats, and c) the potential release of greenhouse gases stored in thawing permafrost. In the future, we will be examining the impact of climate change in the Antarct ...
... will highlight a) increased fire activity in the North, b) food insecurity issues resulting from shifting and disappearing wildlife habitats, and c) the potential release of greenhouse gases stored in thawing permafrost. In the future, we will be examining the impact of climate change in the Antarct ...
Understanding the Social Cost of Carbon
... Diagnostic Scenarios: We standardize the set of emissions & radiative forcing inputs (CO2 & non-CO2) and run deterministic and probabilistic scenarios ...
... Diagnostic Scenarios: We standardize the set of emissions & radiative forcing inputs (CO2 & non-CO2) and run deterministic and probabilistic scenarios ...
The Effect of Potential Future Climate Change on the Marine
... This idealized approach, which assumes that the prescribed hydrate inventory reacts instantaneously to changes in temperature, neglects important physical aspects of the hydrate system such as fluid flow, solubility effects, the presence of dissolved and gaseous methane (i.e., Xu and Ruppel 1999), a ...
... This idealized approach, which assumes that the prescribed hydrate inventory reacts instantaneously to changes in temperature, neglects important physical aspects of the hydrate system such as fluid flow, solubility effects, the presence of dissolved and gaseous methane (i.e., Xu and Ruppel 1999), a ...
Mainstreaming Water In Climate Change Adaptation
... – Reduce uncertainty and knowledge gaps – Co-generation of knowledge ...
... – Reduce uncertainty and knowledge gaps – Co-generation of knowledge ...
Trend and Change Analysis of Monthly and Seasonal Temperature
... to the other? Yobe recorded the highest mean temperature, followed by Bauchi, Gombe, Borno, Adamawa and Taraba (Fig. 2). The high temperature observed in Yobe is influenced by climatic fluctuation that is reflected by superficial deposit of quaternary Chad formation being a common feature of deserti ...
... to the other? Yobe recorded the highest mean temperature, followed by Bauchi, Gombe, Borno, Adamawa and Taraba (Fig. 2). The high temperature observed in Yobe is influenced by climatic fluctuation that is reflected by superficial deposit of quaternary Chad formation being a common feature of deserti ...
Climate change and mountain ecosystems Martin F. Price and John
... millennia. Ice cores from these glaciers show that concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (NO2), and methane (CH4) have increased over the past three centuries. For the past two to three decades, these upward trends have been corroborated by analysis of air samples collected at isolat ...
... millennia. Ice cores from these glaciers show that concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (NO2), and methane (CH4) have increased over the past three centuries. For the past two to three decades, these upward trends have been corroborated by analysis of air samples collected at isolat ...
- Global Support Programme
... as systemic information that allows them to anticipate possible damages of the productive systems exacerbated by climate change. This result aims at generating an evaluation methodology on local damages, at revaluing the use of local or traditional knowledge of bio-indicators in agricultural and liv ...
... as systemic information that allows them to anticipate possible damages of the productive systems exacerbated by climate change. This result aims at generating an evaluation methodology on local damages, at revaluing the use of local or traditional knowledge of bio-indicators in agricultural and liv ...
Climate Change / Global Warming and Its Impacts on Parasitology
... 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999 respectively in London, Nairobi, Copenhagen, Bangkok, Vienna, Montreal and Beijing [11]. The accord is widely adopted internationally and it is believed that at that rate Ozone could recover at 2050 [12]. In 1997 the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Japan committin ...
... 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999 respectively in London, Nairobi, Copenhagen, Bangkok, Vienna, Montreal and Beijing [11]. The accord is widely adopted internationally and it is believed that at that rate Ozone could recover at 2050 [12]. In 1997 the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Japan committin ...
RAM, PRAM, and LogP models
... • All are fairly simple and can be used to guide parallel algorithm development. • Simplicity is necessary to be useful for guiding algorithm development, but results in inaccuracy for performance modeling. – Many extensions have proposed to refine the models: trade simplicity for accuracy. ...
... • All are fairly simple and can be used to guide parallel algorithm development. • Simplicity is necessary to be useful for guiding algorithm development, but results in inaccuracy for performance modeling. – Many extensions have proposed to refine the models: trade simplicity for accuracy. ...
Print Version
... predictions are more relevant to management decisions, whereas decadal predictions could be useful to planning decisions. So, how is it that two vastly different time scales could work so well together in a climate services and research perspective? Despite the obvious differences, there are also co ...
... predictions are more relevant to management decisions, whereas decadal predictions could be useful to planning decisions. So, how is it that two vastly different time scales could work so well together in a climate services and research perspective? Despite the obvious differences, there are also co ...
Climate scientists need to set the record straight
... This is not a call for scientists to become policy advocates, but rather a request that scientists take the initiative to inform the public about the empirically determined conclusions of their field—consistent with several recent prominent calls by climate scientists asking their peers to get more i ...
... This is not a call for scientists to become policy advocates, but rather a request that scientists take the initiative to inform the public about the empirically determined conclusions of their field—consistent with several recent prominent calls by climate scientists asking their peers to get more i ...