Climate Change and Our Environment
... approximately 60 ppb,12 and healthy young adults experience significant decrements in lung function and increased inflammation in the airways when experimentally exposed to ozone at 60 ppb.32 In most US cities, warnings are issued when monitors for ozone reach or exceed 125 ppb, averaged over 1 hour. ...
... approximately 60 ppb,12 and healthy young adults experience significant decrements in lung function and increased inflammation in the airways when experimentally exposed to ozone at 60 ppb.32 In most US cities, warnings are issued when monitors for ozone reach or exceed 125 ppb, averaged over 1 hour. ...
Impact of Climate Change on Outdoor Thermal Comfort and Health
... The question of climate change on outdoor comfort is sustainable and installed at the first news plan and concerns of public opinions. Long confined to the scientific community, at ecological progress, it has emerged since some years at government level with recently the signing of Kyoto protocol. T ...
... The question of climate change on outdoor comfort is sustainable and installed at the first news plan and concerns of public opinions. Long confined to the scientific community, at ecological progress, it has emerged since some years at government level with recently the signing of Kyoto protocol. T ...
Climate system complexity and vulnerability approach: A broader perspective on climate change
... concentration of well-mixed greenhouse gases. Surface temperatures are the most appropriate metric to assess “global warming.” The global average temperature provides a useful assessment of climate. The surface temperature data has been adequately homogenized in the regional scale using adjustments ...
... concentration of well-mixed greenhouse gases. Surface temperatures are the most appropriate metric to assess “global warming.” The global average temperature provides a useful assessment of climate. The surface temperature data has been adequately homogenized in the regional scale using adjustments ...
Andrews LTER Central Question
... to PIs (modification of the ppt shared with exec team). Ask people to notify us about their interest in specific groups. Fine tune group organizations based on ...
... to PIs (modification of the ppt shared with exec team). Ask people to notify us about their interest in specific groups. Fine tune group organizations based on ...
Gathering information about climate change
... Throughout the week, pupils will be building up a portfolio of information about climate change, either individually or in groups. At the end of the second day they will decide what they would like to do with this information and how they should present it. There are a number of useful, child-friend ...
... Throughout the week, pupils will be building up a portfolio of information about climate change, either individually or in groups. At the end of the second day they will decide what they would like to do with this information and how they should present it. There are a number of useful, child-friend ...
BCC Syllabus
... At the end of this training session, learners will be able to: • Explain the need for and utility of models, their limitations, and the role of uncertainty • Describe the structure, inputs, and outputs of climate models • Explain the components of climate models, including climate feedback mechanism ...
... At the end of this training session, learners will be able to: • Explain the need for and utility of models, their limitations, and the role of uncertainty • Describe the structure, inputs, and outputs of climate models • Explain the components of climate models, including climate feedback mechanism ...
Inaugural Lecture
... – 20th century climate change is likely to be human driven with greenhouse gas warming being offset by natural and other human drivers – That external drivers are an important driver of natural climate ...
... – 20th century climate change is likely to be human driven with greenhouse gas warming being offset by natural and other human drivers – That external drivers are an important driver of natural climate ...
File - Climatelinks
... McSweeney, C., New, M., and Lizcano, G. UNDP Country Climate Profi les: Kenya. 2008. [cited 10 July 2011]. Available from: http://country-profi les.geog.ox.ac.uk/index.html?country=Kenya&d1=Reports. McSweeney, C., New, M., and Lizcano, G. UNDP Country Climate Profiles: Kenya. 2008. [cited 10 July 201 ...
... McSweeney, C., New, M., and Lizcano, G. UNDP Country Climate Profi les: Kenya. 2008. [cited 10 July 2011]. Available from: http://country-profi les.geog.ox.ac.uk/index.html?country=Kenya&d1=Reports. McSweeney, C., New, M., and Lizcano, G. UNDP Country Climate Profiles: Kenya. 2008. [cited 10 July 201 ...
A decade of weather extremes - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
... Sea surface temperatures around Australia had been breaking records for several months running. In January 2011, the record rainfall caused some of the worst flooding in the country’s history. In September 2011, Typhoon Talas set a new Japanese 72-hour rainfall record of 1,625 mm (previous record: 1 ...
... Sea surface temperatures around Australia had been breaking records for several months running. In January 2011, the record rainfall caused some of the worst flooding in the country’s history. In September 2011, Typhoon Talas set a new Japanese 72-hour rainfall record of 1,625 mm (previous record: 1 ...
Climate change activities in Kazakhstan
... Projects related to phase-out Ozone Depleting Substances ...
... Projects related to phase-out Ozone Depleting Substances ...
Ecosystems
... In the past 200 years, the oceans have absorbed approximately 50% of the CO2 produced by fossil fuel burning and cement production. This has led to a reduction of the pH of surface sea water of 0.1 units, equivalent to a 30% increase in the concentration of hydrogen ions. If global emissions of CO2 ...
... In the past 200 years, the oceans have absorbed approximately 50% of the CO2 produced by fossil fuel burning and cement production. This has led to a reduction of the pH of surface sea water of 0.1 units, equivalent to a 30% increase in the concentration of hydrogen ions. If global emissions of CO2 ...
How is Circulation in Puget Sound Projected to Change?
... Warm phases of both ENSO (El Niño) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillatin (PDO) are correlated with a delay and shortening of summer upwelling along the Pacific Northwest coast. El Niño conditions are also ...
... Warm phases of both ENSO (El Niño) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillatin (PDO) are correlated with a delay and shortening of summer upwelling along the Pacific Northwest coast. El Niño conditions are also ...
Effects of global climate change on freshwater biota: A review with
... such as shading from riparian vegetation, watershed storage in wetlands, land cover, and groundwater connections (Mohseni et al. 1999). Water temperature has important effects on freshwater organism life, both directly and indirectly (for example, because the solubility of oxygen in water decreases ...
... such as shading from riparian vegetation, watershed storage in wetlands, land cover, and groundwater connections (Mohseni et al. 1999). Water temperature has important effects on freshwater organism life, both directly and indirectly (for example, because the solubility of oxygen in water decreases ...
Guest editorial: Climate change as a complex phenomenon and the
... in his book (2009) Why We Disagree About Climate Change observes that climate change means different things to different people in different locations as evident in recent debates around the implementation of a carbon tax in Australia. That is why we disagree about the risks the phenomenon poses and ...
... in his book (2009) Why We Disagree About Climate Change observes that climate change means different things to different people in different locations as evident in recent debates around the implementation of a carbon tax in Australia. That is why we disagree about the risks the phenomenon poses and ...
Climate Change and Individual Behavior
... minimize their own responsibility and rationalize their failure to act. Drastic calls for the need for an international response tend to play down the fact that domestic action will be required in any case. And uncertainty about dynamics and impacts can be overplayed to justified inaction. These for ...
... minimize their own responsibility and rationalize their failure to act. Drastic calls for the need for an international response tend to play down the fact that domestic action will be required in any case. And uncertainty about dynamics and impacts can be overplayed to justified inaction. These for ...
IS GLOBAL WARMING A THREAT?
... - Newsweek April 28, 1975 Present climate is “highly abnormal…[There is] a finite possibility that a serious worldwide cooling could befall the earth within the next hundred years.” - National Academy of Sciences, 1975 “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the ...
... - Newsweek April 28, 1975 Present climate is “highly abnormal…[There is] a finite possibility that a serious worldwide cooling could befall the earth within the next hundred years.” - National Academy of Sciences, 1975 “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the ...
NSW Climate Change Adaptation Newsletter
... communicating the science of climate change for more than 20 years. Professor Hughes notes "Climate science is a very wide and broad topic but it's so important that speaking out about climate change and the impacts that it will have not just on the environment but on our economy, on our agriculture ...
... communicating the science of climate change for more than 20 years. Professor Hughes notes "Climate science is a very wide and broad topic but it's so important that speaking out about climate change and the impacts that it will have not just on the environment but on our economy, on our agriculture ...
Presentation
... Consequently, Munich Re will now drive forward its own initiatives with even greater commitment – investments of up to €2bn in renewable energy, for instance, or the Desertec desert-power project. "We will do our utmost to ensure that DII GmbH, the Desertec project planning entity, can put forward f ...
... Consequently, Munich Re will now drive forward its own initiatives with even greater commitment – investments of up to €2bn in renewable energy, for instance, or the Desertec desert-power project. "We will do our utmost to ensure that DII GmbH, the Desertec project planning entity, can put forward f ...
LCCARL232_en.pdf
... noticeable increases in global average air and ocean temperatures. These rises in temperature are supported by widespread melting of snow and ice and an increase in global average sea level of 1.8 mm yr-1 between 1961 and 2003. The report also noted that the rate of sea level rise was faster between ...
... noticeable increases in global average air and ocean temperatures. These rises in temperature are supported by widespread melting of snow and ice and an increase in global average sea level of 1.8 mm yr-1 between 1961 and 2003. The report also noted that the rate of sea level rise was faster between ...
Three views of two degrees - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
... reasonable to argue that the climatic effects of carbon dioxide should be kept within the normal range of long-term climatic variation. According to most sources the range of variation between distinct climatic regimes is in the order of ±5C, and at the present time the global climate is at the hig ...
... reasonable to argue that the climatic effects of carbon dioxide should be kept within the normal range of long-term climatic variation. According to most sources the range of variation between distinct climatic regimes is in the order of ±5C, and at the present time the global climate is at the hig ...
CLIMATE AND HEALTH COUNTRY PROFILE – 2015 MYANMAR
... Under a high emissions scenario, and without large investments in adaptation, an annual average of 18 million people are projected to be affected by flooding due to sea level rise between 2070 and 2100. If global emissions decrease rapidly and there is a major scale up in protection (i.e. continued ...
... Under a high emissions scenario, and without large investments in adaptation, an annual average of 18 million people are projected to be affected by flooding due to sea level rise between 2070 and 2100. If global emissions decrease rapidly and there is a major scale up in protection (i.e. continued ...
Uncertainties of Climate Change in Arid Environments of Central Asia
... carbon from the desert-zone carbon reservoir. Great uncertainties still exist about carbon pools in the desert soils. Figures on soil organic carbon given for this region in some widely used global datasets (Zinke et al., 1984) seem to be seriously overestimated (Adams and Lioubimtseva, 2002) and, a ...
... carbon from the desert-zone carbon reservoir. Great uncertainties still exist about carbon pools in the desert soils. Figures on soil organic carbon given for this region in some widely used global datasets (Zinke et al., 1984) seem to be seriously overestimated (Adams and Lioubimtseva, 2002) and, a ...