Dr. Jorge Cortés-4
... according to different climate models, ranges from 1 to 4°C for the SRES emissions scenario B2 and from 2 to 6°C for scenario A2 (medium confidence). Under future climate change, there is a risk of significant species extinctions in many areas of tropical Latin America (high confidence). The expecte ...
... according to different climate models, ranges from 1 to 4°C for the SRES emissions scenario B2 and from 2 to 6°C for scenario A2 (medium confidence). Under future climate change, there is a risk of significant species extinctions in many areas of tropical Latin America (high confidence). The expecte ...
Global Warming and Renewable Energy
... Building: 536M, Room 3209 650.281.9126 (Cell) [email protected] ...
... Building: 536M, Room 3209 650.281.9126 (Cell) [email protected] ...
the speech - Mary Robinson Foundation
... population3 - global inequality is rapidly worsening. Business as usual, the fossil-fuel based development paradigm, is driving the world towards large scale, catastrophic climate change and increasing inequality. From the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we know that ...
... population3 - global inequality is rapidly worsening. Business as usual, the fossil-fuel based development paradigm, is driving the world towards large scale, catastrophic climate change and increasing inequality. From the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we know that ...
VazquezSpr15
... In this poster we have shown that greater acceptance of climate change realities and a higher level of concern among Chinese respondents translates into greater support for joining an international climate change treaty compared to respondents in the United States. We have also shown that environmen ...
... In this poster we have shown that greater acceptance of climate change realities and a higher level of concern among Chinese respondents translates into greater support for joining an international climate change treaty compared to respondents in the United States. We have also shown that environmen ...
Debate The Midas Effect: A Critique of Climate Change Economics
... of sea level rise are higher than expected, and climate impacts around the world are appearing with increasingly frequency’ (Kintisch, 2009: 1546). The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has increased from the pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million (ppm) to 387 ppm today (higher t ...
... of sea level rise are higher than expected, and climate impacts around the world are appearing with increasingly frequency’ (Kintisch, 2009: 1546). The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has increased from the pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million (ppm) to 387 ppm today (higher t ...
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... will be the largest emitter very soon, countries like India, South Africa, Mexico or Brazil also being among the larger emitters. Therefore, any successful climate policy depends crucially on a limitation of the increase in greenhouse gas emissions in emerging countries. According to the Internation ...
... will be the largest emitter very soon, countries like India, South Africa, Mexico or Brazil also being among the larger emitters. Therefore, any successful climate policy depends crucially on a limitation of the increase in greenhouse gas emissions in emerging countries. According to the Internation ...
What is the top priority on climate change? Paul Klemperer
... obtained at 378 ppm CO2 equivalent even using calculations that ‘do not take into account the full range of biogeophysical feedbacks that may occur’. The claim that temperature increases should not exceed 2 °C above preindustrial levels is now routine in official documents (see, e. g., EU, 2005), as ...
... obtained at 378 ppm CO2 equivalent even using calculations that ‘do not take into account the full range of biogeophysical feedbacks that may occur’. The claim that temperature increases should not exceed 2 °C above preindustrial levels is now routine in official documents (see, e. g., EU, 2005), as ...
full poll (PDF)
... Populus interviewed a random sample of 1,001 adults aged 18+ by telephone between February 3 and 4 2010. Interviews were conducted across the country and the results have been weighted to be representative of all adults. Populus is a member of the British Polling Council ...
... Populus interviewed a random sample of 1,001 adults aged 18+ by telephone between February 3 and 4 2010. Interviews were conducted across the country and the results have been weighted to be representative of all adults. Populus is a member of the British Polling Council ...
Climate change and the long-term viability of the World`s busiest
... (RCPs) to perturb observed monthly temperature values at the Yellowknife climate station. This form of SD is referred to as ‘change factor’ (CF) downscaling. CF is an established and conceptually straightforward technique for downscaling future climate projections (Arnell and Reynard 1996; Arnell 19 ...
... (RCPs) to perturb observed monthly temperature values at the Yellowknife climate station. This form of SD is referred to as ‘change factor’ (CF) downscaling. CF is an established and conceptually straightforward technique for downscaling future climate projections (Arnell and Reynard 1996; Arnell 19 ...
Priem-klima
... reductionistic and deterministic. Many climate forcing factors and feedbacks are not or incompletely understood – for example the roles of clouds, the biosphere, and the most important natural greenhouse gas: water vapour. The different factors influential in climate change also ...
... reductionistic and deterministic. Many climate forcing factors and feedbacks are not or incompletely understood – for example the roles of clouds, the biosphere, and the most important natural greenhouse gas: water vapour. The different factors influential in climate change also ...
Global Warming — Scientific Facts, Problems and
... years (Figure 3). They are tree-ring proxies after Briffa [11] (NHB) and Esper et al. [30] (NHE), non tree-ring proxy after Loehle [51] (NHL) and multi-proxies after Jones et al. [43] (NHJ), Mann et al. [54] (NHM), Crowley and Lowery [24] (NHC), and Moberg et al. [67] (NHMb). The millennial climate ...
... years (Figure 3). They are tree-ring proxies after Briffa [11] (NHB) and Esper et al. [30] (NHE), non tree-ring proxy after Loehle [51] (NHL) and multi-proxies after Jones et al. [43] (NHJ), Mann et al. [54] (NHM), Crowley and Lowery [24] (NHC), and Moberg et al. [67] (NHMb). The millennial climate ...
State of The Climate 2016
... agriculturally and hydrologically important time of the year, is associated with a trend towards higher mean sea level pressure in the region. This shift in pressure is in turn associated with a shift in large-scale weather patterns. There has been a reduction in the number of cold fronts impacting ...
... agriculturally and hydrologically important time of the year, is associated with a trend towards higher mean sea level pressure in the region. This shift in pressure is in turn associated with a shift in large-scale weather patterns. There has been a reduction in the number of cold fronts impacting ...
eScience
... the change, policy-makers will end up doing too little, too late in the mistaken belief that the changes will be manageably small and gradual. To cope with this problem scientists need to evaluate their confidence in climate model predictions. In other words, they need to quantify the uncertainty in ...
... the change, policy-makers will end up doing too little, too late in the mistaken belief that the changes will be manageably small and gradual. To cope with this problem scientists need to evaluate their confidence in climate model predictions. In other words, they need to quantify the uncertainty in ...
Climate change DRAFT
... will experience temperatures more like those currently experienced in Julia Creek. To find out what the future climate will be like where you live, use the climate analogues tool on the Climate Change in Australia website at www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au. The tool matches projected rainfall an ...
... will experience temperatures more like those currently experienced in Julia Creek. To find out what the future climate will be like where you live, use the climate analogues tool on the Climate Change in Australia website at www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au. The tool matches projected rainfall an ...
Climate change and environment
... to 2004 (Source: Petit & Prudent 2008, p. 42, from Webster et al 2005) ...
... to 2004 (Source: Petit & Prudent 2008, p. 42, from Webster et al 2005) ...
PROTECT OUR PLANET Why the POP Movement?
... Energy production remains the primary driver of GHG emissions ...
... Energy production remains the primary driver of GHG emissions ...
1 - Kansas Energy Information Network
... change, belief systems drive media, politics, and group thinking, keeping alive a debate that has no further useful purpose, but which distracts governments and the people from mitigating the effects of natural processes and enhancing public education. Much of problem lies in the resurgence of a new ...
... change, belief systems drive media, politics, and group thinking, keeping alive a debate that has no further useful purpose, but which distracts governments and the people from mitigating the effects of natural processes and enhancing public education. Much of problem lies in the resurgence of a new ...
West_9.13.14
... Reducing GHG emissions also reduces co-emitted air pollutants - Air quality and health co-benefits shown to be substantial compared to GHG abatement costs. “$2-175 / ton CO2 … all studies agree that monetized health benefits make up a substantial fraction of mitigation costs.” IPCC AR4 “$2-196 / ton ...
... Reducing GHG emissions also reduces co-emitted air pollutants - Air quality and health co-benefits shown to be substantial compared to GHG abatement costs. “$2-175 / ton CO2 … all studies agree that monetized health benefits make up a substantial fraction of mitigation costs.” IPCC AR4 “$2-196 / ton ...
Armenia First NDC
... Intended Nationally Determined Contribution of the Republic of Armenia under the UN Climate Change Framework Convention The Republic of Armenia ratified the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in May 1993 as a developing country not included in Annex I to the Convention. In December 2 ...
... Intended Nationally Determined Contribution of the Republic of Armenia under the UN Climate Change Framework Convention The Republic of Armenia ratified the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in May 1993 as a developing country not included in Annex I to the Convention. In December 2 ...
THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON MAMMAL DIVERSITY IN
... as the number of distinctive species found within a given region. At a regional scale, therefore, it is possible to accurately predict the number of vertebrate or tree species that are present given information on regional energy balance alone. No large-scale hypothesis has been proposed that provid ...
... as the number of distinctive species found within a given region. At a regional scale, therefore, it is possible to accurately predict the number of vertebrate or tree species that are present given information on regional energy balance alone. No large-scale hypothesis has been proposed that provid ...
Future Climate Impact on the Desertification in the Dry Land Asia
... Dry lands are areas of land with low amounts of water in the soil; they encompass hyper-arid, arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas [1]. A large majority of dry lands are located in Asia (34.4%) and Africa (24.1%), followed by the Americas (24%), Australia (15%) and Europe (2.5%) [2]. Dry lands oc ...
... Dry lands are areas of land with low amounts of water in the soil; they encompass hyper-arid, arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas [1]. A large majority of dry lands are located in Asia (34.4%) and Africa (24.1%), followed by the Americas (24%), Australia (15%) and Europe (2.5%) [2]. Dry lands oc ...
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Rapid climate change in the ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula
... trends as surface-induced responses to atmospheric and cryospheric changes. Other possible theories, such as enhanced upwelling of underlying warmer waters, do not explain the observations, in particular the surface intensification of the trends. The pattern of response is consistent with a trend to ...
... trends as surface-induced responses to atmospheric and cryospheric changes. Other possible theories, such as enhanced upwelling of underlying warmer waters, do not explain the observations, in particular the surface intensification of the trends. The pattern of response is consistent with a trend to ...
the Earths radiation budget
... amount of reflected solar radiation, more radiation will be absorbed by the Earth’s surface, ultimately leading to further warming. Changing the Earth’s albedo to combat climate change Several people have proposed ways to artificially ‘engineer’ the climate to combat man-made climate change by incr ...
... amount of reflected solar radiation, more radiation will be absorbed by the Earth’s surface, ultimately leading to further warming. Changing the Earth’s albedo to combat climate change Several people have proposed ways to artificially ‘engineer’ the climate to combat man-made climate change by incr ...