An Eclectic and Incomplete Bibliography on Climate Change and
... Methodology Report on national greenhouse gas inventories and the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The Fifth assessment report, Working Group II (2008-2014) and earlier assessment reports are available at Harvard University, Papers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) http://hcl.har ...
... Methodology Report on national greenhouse gas inventories and the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The Fifth assessment report, Working Group II (2008-2014) and earlier assessment reports are available at Harvard University, Papers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) http://hcl.har ...
PPT
... A Multi-State GHG Registry Collaboration • As state GHG registries emerge companies are confused about where and how to report leading to: • decreased participation • lack of standardization in accounting standards and procedures • competition between voluntary programs ...
... A Multi-State GHG Registry Collaboration • As state GHG registries emerge companies are confused about where and how to report leading to: • decreased participation • lack of standardization in accounting standards and procedures • competition between voluntary programs ...
Climate Change Country Risk Assessment
... Changes in phenological characteristics of plants are also likely. Soil erosion causing landslides can result in habitat loss and irreversible land degradation. ...
... Changes in phenological characteristics of plants are also likely. Soil erosion causing landslides can result in habitat loss and irreversible land degradation. ...
Quantification of hydrologic impacts of climate change in a
... Changes on the Hydrology of Mediterranean Basins (CLIMB), was funded by the 7th Framework Program of the European Union (Ludwig et al., 2010). The CLIMB project focused on seven study sites encompassing different conditions. An approach based on simulations of various climate and hydrologic models, ...
... Changes on the Hydrology of Mediterranean Basins (CLIMB), was funded by the 7th Framework Program of the European Union (Ludwig et al., 2010). The CLIMB project focused on seven study sites encompassing different conditions. An approach based on simulations of various climate and hydrologic models, ...
On the Chopping Block - Allegheny Highlands Climate Change
... 12 crayfish species, 20 insect species, and 21 plant species as “extremely vulnerable” to “moderately vulnerable” to the impacts of climate change. One species classified by the DNR as highly vulnerable is the West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel, or “Ginny,” as she is called by people who are wo ...
... 12 crayfish species, 20 insect species, and 21 plant species as “extremely vulnerable” to “moderately vulnerable” to the impacts of climate change. One species classified by the DNR as highly vulnerable is the West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel, or “Ginny,” as she is called by people who are wo ...
Climate Change Impacts on Water and Security
... The current potential to develop appropriate regional adaptation measures towards climate change impacts suffers heavily from large uncertainties. These spread along a long chain of components, starting from the definition of emission scenarios to global and regional climate modelling to impact mode ...
... The current potential to develop appropriate regional adaptation measures towards climate change impacts suffers heavily from large uncertainties. These spread along a long chain of components, starting from the definition of emission scenarios to global and regional climate modelling to impact mode ...
The Greenhouse Effect – A New Zealand perspective on
... The human population is increasing, as is energy use per person. Total energy use has grown 16fold in the last century and, because most of this is from fossil fuels, has led to dramatic increases in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. We know that the level of greenhouse gases, su ...
... The human population is increasing, as is energy use per person. Total energy use has grown 16fold in the last century and, because most of this is from fossil fuels, has led to dramatic increases in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. We know that the level of greenhouse gases, su ...
Introduction to mitigation assessments
... activities should be carefully crafted over time but that mitigation action at any level should start in the near term. ...
... activities should be carefully crafted over time but that mitigation action at any level should start in the near term. ...
Climate change in the Himalayas
... Nepal’s MAT is often given as 15oC,15 providing a textbook example of how misleading a mean average value can be. Equally misleading is the statistic sometimes given for mean annual precipitation as 1.5m.16 The same source provides projections of atmospheric warming as 1.2oC by 2030 and 3oC by 2100. ...
... Nepal’s MAT is often given as 15oC,15 providing a textbook example of how misleading a mean average value can be. Equally misleading is the statistic sometimes given for mean annual precipitation as 1.5m.16 The same source provides projections of atmospheric warming as 1.2oC by 2030 and 3oC by 2100. ...
WHAT‘S UP Make the change – show that you care
... e, children of the world, should have a strong voice in the international climate change debate because we are the future as well as a big part of the world’s population today. Between 28th November and 4th December, 164 children from 44 countries were gathered in Copenhagen for the first Children's ...
... e, children of the world, should have a strong voice in the international climate change debate because we are the future as well as a big part of the world’s population today. Between 28th November and 4th December, 164 children from 44 countries were gathered in Copenhagen for the first Children's ...
Chapter XX Collapse of IPCC
... My professional problems in this field started in 1993 – more than ten years ago – with the submission of my paper Floods, droughts and climate change to the SA Journal of Science (SAJS) and the subsequent long, unexplained delay of 18 months before publication. In June 2001 after my return from the ...
... My professional problems in this field started in 1993 – more than ten years ago – with the submission of my paper Floods, droughts and climate change to the SA Journal of Science (SAJS) and the subsequent long, unexplained delay of 18 months before publication. In June 2001 after my return from the ...
Robert H. Socolow, Professor, Co-Director, The Carbon Mitigation
... research focuses on global carbon management and fossil-carbon sequestration. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), www.princeton.edu/~cmi/, a fifteen-year (2000-2015) research project supported by BP and Fo ...
... research focuses on global carbon management and fossil-carbon sequestration. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), www.princeton.edu/~cmi/, a fifteen-year (2000-2015) research project supported by BP and Fo ...
Global climate change and non
... the goal of 2°C atmospheric stabilization for temperature increase requires several highly optimistic but plausible conditions; plausible only if we take immediate action. First, that deforestation peaks in 2015 and rapidly falls afterward to about half the current level by 2040 and close to zero by ...
... the goal of 2°C atmospheric stabilization for temperature increase requires several highly optimistic but plausible conditions; plausible only if we take immediate action. First, that deforestation peaks in 2015 and rapidly falls afterward to about half the current level by 2040 and close to zero by ...
Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome
... centuries. In seasonal climates, they form annual growth rings, allowing analysis of radial growth over time. Many shrub species are widely distributed across the tundra biome and are often dominant, owing to their canopy height, longevity and ability to outcompete low-growing plants. With wide geog ...
... centuries. In seasonal climates, they form annual growth rings, allowing analysis of radial growth over time. Many shrub species are widely distributed across the tundra biome and are often dominant, owing to their canopy height, longevity and ability to outcompete low-growing plants. With wide geog ...
Managing our Debt: Changing Context Reduces Misunderstanding of Global Warming ()
... emissions trajectory in the bottom graph so that the stabilization of atmospheric CO 2 shown in the top graph is achieved. The solid blue sketched line in the bottom graph shows a correct response trajectory in which the emissions and absorption lines converge at the point of stabilization (2100). T ...
... emissions trajectory in the bottom graph so that the stabilization of atmospheric CO 2 shown in the top graph is achieved. The solid blue sketched line in the bottom graph shows a correct response trajectory in which the emissions and absorption lines converge at the point of stabilization (2100). T ...
Uncertainties of Climate Observation Data and Simulation Modelling
... aerosol-induced atmospheric cooling holds a SAT increase (new estimates suggest the conclusion about a weaker manifestation of the aerosol impact); 4) the presence of the warming minima in the North Atlantic and in the circumpolar regions of the oceans in the Southern Hemisphere due to mixing in the ...
... aerosol-induced atmospheric cooling holds a SAT increase (new estimates suggest the conclusion about a weaker manifestation of the aerosol impact); 4) the presence of the warming minima in the North Atlantic and in the circumpolar regions of the oceans in the Southern Hemisphere due to mixing in the ...
... and surface pressure. These variables were provided in a six-hourly interval within a relaxation zone in the lateral boundaries. The regional model was run in a Mercator grid with approximately 40 km resolution in both horizontal directions, with 158 points in the west-east direction and 150 points ...
2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change Briefing
... change. Integrating commitment to climate change across all departments and sectors in global health institutions will help build the necessary health expertise and capacity needed to respond to climate change. 2. Support and encourage an international agreement on climate change, which protects pu ...
... change. Integrating commitment to climate change across all departments and sectors in global health institutions will help build the necessary health expertise and capacity needed to respond to climate change. 2. Support and encourage an international agreement on climate change, which protects pu ...
Chapter 3: Climate observations and projections
... mostly water vapor, but some carbon dioxide), this balance would be achieved at temperatures of approximately −33◦ F (−18◦ C). An atmosphere containing GHGs, however, is relatively transparent to solar radiation, but relatively opaque to terrestrial radiation. Such a planet achieves radiative balanc ...
... mostly water vapor, but some carbon dioxide), this balance would be achieved at temperatures of approximately −33◦ F (−18◦ C). An atmosphere containing GHGs, however, is relatively transparent to solar radiation, but relatively opaque to terrestrial radiation. Such a planet achieves radiative balanc ...
Greenhouse Effect - Scientist in Residence
... By how many degrees has it changed since 1750? ____ 3 – What is going to happen in the future? Will the temperature keep increasing? Well, it depends how much greenhouse gas we emit. Since the 1990s the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by ~2 ppm every year. Emission of greenhouse ...
... By how many degrees has it changed since 1750? ____ 3 – What is going to happen in the future? Will the temperature keep increasing? Well, it depends how much greenhouse gas we emit. Since the 1990s the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by ~2 ppm every year. Emission of greenhouse ...
IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SPECIES
... The survival of the polar bear is threatened by climate change. The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the speed of the global average, which is shrinking polar bear habitat by causing the sea ice to melt and remaining ice cover to be thinner. As polar bears are specialised in hunting seals, w ...
... The survival of the polar bear is threatened by climate change. The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the speed of the global average, which is shrinking polar bear habitat by causing the sea ice to melt and remaining ice cover to be thinner. As polar bears are specialised in hunting seals, w ...
Call for Abstracts The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP
... Economic Commission for Africa’s Africa Climate Policy Center (ACPC) will host the first ever Pan-Africa Climate Research Conference on 15-18 October, 2013 in Arusha (Tanzania), themed the “Africa Climate Conference 2013: Advancing African Climate Science Research & Knowledge”. The Africa Climate Co ...
... Economic Commission for Africa’s Africa Climate Policy Center (ACPC) will host the first ever Pan-Africa Climate Research Conference on 15-18 October, 2013 in Arusha (Tanzania), themed the “Africa Climate Conference 2013: Advancing African Climate Science Research & Knowledge”. The Africa Climate Co ...
The Effects of Global Warming
... fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal, which release a tremendous amount of greenhouse gas, subsequently trapping more heat near the earth’s surface. The greenhouse effect is a natural occurrence that helps regulate the temperature of our planet (EPA, 2009). The greenhouse gas emissions cause the ...
... fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal, which release a tremendous amount of greenhouse gas, subsequently trapping more heat near the earth’s surface. The greenhouse effect is a natural occurrence that helps regulate the temperature of our planet (EPA, 2009). The greenhouse gas emissions cause the ...
Evidence in support of the climate change–Atlantic hurricane
... dramatically and the increase is correlated with an increase in the late summer/early fall sea surface temperature over the North Atlantic. A debate concerns the nature of these increases with some studies attributing them to a natural climate fluctuation, known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillat ...
... dramatically and the increase is correlated with an increase in the late summer/early fall sea surface temperature over the North Atlantic. A debate concerns the nature of these increases with some studies attributing them to a natural climate fluctuation, known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillat ...