Climate Change, Political Truth, and the Marketplace of Ideas
... the uncertainties associated with common law liability, leaving only whatever legitimate scientific uncertainty exists. Like CERCLA, such liability could be made strict, joint, and several. Legislation establishing such future liability might meet less political resistance than regulatory measures b ...
... the uncertainties associated with common law liability, leaving only whatever legitimate scientific uncertainty exists. Like CERCLA, such liability could be made strict, joint, and several. Legislation establishing such future liability might meet less political resistance than regulatory measures b ...
Climate Change and Conservation: A Primer for Assessing Impacts
... Scarcely a day passes when we don’t hear or read about a new impact of climate change on the environment. Conservancy scientists, practitioners, and managers now find themselves wrestling with how to best adapt our conservation work to a changing climate. Not long ago, many environmental and cons ...
... Scarcely a day passes when we don’t hear or read about a new impact of climate change on the environment. Conservancy scientists, practitioners, and managers now find themselves wrestling with how to best adapt our conservation work to a changing climate. Not long ago, many environmental and cons ...
Extreme Temperatures and Precipitation in Europe
... coarse horizontal resolution, general circulation models (GCMs) do not resolve sub-grid meso-scale weather systems and are therefore not able to capture any extreme events very well. Statistical downscaling of the GCM simulations by deriving statistical relationships with observed small-scale (usual ...
... coarse horizontal resolution, general circulation models (GCMs) do not resolve sub-grid meso-scale weather systems and are therefore not able to capture any extreme events very well. Statistical downscaling of the GCM simulations by deriving statistical relationships with observed small-scale (usual ...
Climate Change and Collective Responsibility
... virtue of their capacity and proximity alone. This kind of capacity-based responsibility does not involve assessments of vicarious responsibility, where some are held morally responsible for the actions of others, since it can be assigned even when none are at fault for some potentially bad outcome ...
... virtue of their capacity and proximity alone. This kind of capacity-based responsibility does not involve assessments of vicarious responsibility, where some are held morally responsible for the actions of others, since it can be assigned even when none are at fault for some potentially bad outcome ...
Faith Based Statements on Climate Change
... framework to help developing nations curb their carbon output and cope with climate change. The Cancun talks stopped short of coming up with an agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The protocol commits 37 industrialized nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent ...
... framework to help developing nations curb their carbon output and cope with climate change. The Cancun talks stopped short of coming up with an agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The protocol commits 37 industrialized nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent ...
Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise and the Vulnerability of
... metres. Figure 1 shows the history of global sea level1 over the past 140,000 years (covering the last glacial cycle), inferred from proxy records such as fossil corals and coastal morphology. After the peak of the last ice age (the "glacial maximum"), 21,000 years ago, sea level rose at rates up to ...
... metres. Figure 1 shows the history of global sea level1 over the past 140,000 years (covering the last glacial cycle), inferred from proxy records such as fossil corals and coastal morphology. After the peak of the last ice age (the "glacial maximum"), 21,000 years ago, sea level rose at rates up to ...
Climate Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas - HimalDoc
... Are the data available today sufficient to evaluate climate change in the region? What do the available data tell us? On 18 and 19 August 2011, leading experts in the different fields of climate science (including climatology, hydrology, and environmental science) from across the region and abroad g ...
... Are the data available today sufficient to evaluate climate change in the region? What do the available data tell us? On 18 and 19 August 2011, leading experts in the different fields of climate science (including climatology, hydrology, and environmental science) from across the region and abroad g ...
Partisan Group Identity and Belief in Human
... from oil companies. Comparing our consensus information condition to the control, among differently knowledgeable partisans, will allow us to test Hypotheses 1a, 1b, and 2. Those assigned to the politicization condition read the same information as the consensus condition. However, between the intr ...
... from oil companies. Comparing our consensus information condition to the control, among differently knowledgeable partisans, will allow us to test Hypotheses 1a, 1b, and 2. Those assigned to the politicization condition read the same information as the consensus condition. However, between the intr ...
An Analysis of the Impacts of Temperature on Diarrheal Disease in
... related to diarrhea-associated morbidity. The impact of maximum temperature on diarrheaassociated morbidity appeared primarily among children (0-14years) and older adults (4064years) but had less of an effect on adults (15-39years). Kolstad and Johansson (2011) combined a range of linear regression ...
... related to diarrhea-associated morbidity. The impact of maximum temperature on diarrheaassociated morbidity appeared primarily among children (0-14years) and older adults (4064years) but had less of an effect on adults (15-39years). Kolstad and Johansson (2011) combined a range of linear regression ...
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... uncertainty about the magnitude of damages. This uncertainty rapidly increases when the temperature hike exceeds the threshold of 3 degrees centigrade. For an increase of 3 degrees centigrade, the current estimates of the welfare effects range from slight gains to losses of around 10 percent of worl ...
... uncertainty about the magnitude of damages. This uncertainty rapidly increases when the temperature hike exceeds the threshold of 3 degrees centigrade. For an increase of 3 degrees centigrade, the current estimates of the welfare effects range from slight gains to losses of around 10 percent of worl ...
NO. EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. CLAUDE EARL
... pretextual use of law enforcement power to deter ExxonMobil from participating in ongoing public deliberations about climate change and to fish through decades of ExxonMobil’s documents with the hope of finding some ammunition to enhance Attorney General Walker’s position in the policy debate. Attor ...
... pretextual use of law enforcement power to deter ExxonMobil from participating in ongoing public deliberations about climate change and to fish through decades of ExxonMobil’s documents with the hope of finding some ammunition to enhance Attorney General Walker’s position in the policy debate. Attor ...
Radiolaria and pollen records from 0 to 50ka at ODP Site 1233
... latitude longitude grid rather than a regional-scale circulation model. Monthly SSTs were specified over the seasonal cycle based on the combined LGM reconstruction of CLIMAP (1981) and Mix et al. (1999), with modifications that adjust tropical and subtropical temperatures with smooth geographic pat ...
... latitude longitude grid rather than a regional-scale circulation model. Monthly SSTs were specified over the seasonal cycle based on the combined LGM reconstruction of CLIMAP (1981) and Mix et al. (1999), with modifications that adjust tropical and subtropical temperatures with smooth geographic pat ...
China`s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change
... accountability system in this regard. According to the Circular of the State Council on Approving and Forwarding the Plan and Measures for Implementing the Statistics, Monitoring and Assessment of Energy Conservation and Pollution Reduction, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) toge ...
... accountability system in this regard. According to the Circular of the State Council on Approving and Forwarding the Plan and Measures for Implementing the Statistics, Monitoring and Assessment of Energy Conservation and Pollution Reduction, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) toge ...
V. Objectives of the Inter-Regional Technical Support Component
... species, hunting, and deforestation. About half of the sub-humid and semi-arid parts of southern Africa are already at moderate to high risk of desertification. In West Africa, the long-term declines in rainfall from the 1970s to 1990s have caused a 25-35 km southward shift of the Sahel, Sudan, and ...
... species, hunting, and deforestation. About half of the sub-humid and semi-arid parts of southern Africa are already at moderate to high risk of desertification. In West Africa, the long-term declines in rainfall from the 1970s to 1990s have caused a 25-35 km southward shift of the Sahel, Sudan, and ...
MCCA Regulations and Syllabus -Masters
... natural activities that influence the alteration of the living earth’s environment. As a result of the anthropogenic climate change drivers, the global mean surface temperature is projected to increase between 1.5°C and 5.8°C by 2100. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its 4th A ...
... natural activities that influence the alteration of the living earth’s environment. As a result of the anthropogenic climate change drivers, the global mean surface temperature is projected to increase between 1.5°C and 5.8°C by 2100. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its 4th A ...
A daily soil temperature model based on air temperature and
... Air temperature correlates well with soil temperature because both are determined by the energy balance at the ground surface. The daily amplitude of soil tempzrature at the surface i s greater than the daily amplitude of air temperature for clear days and is less for cloudy days. A depth of 10 cm w ...
... Air temperature correlates well with soil temperature because both are determined by the energy balance at the ground surface. The daily amplitude of soil tempzrature at the surface i s greater than the daily amplitude of air temperature for clear days and is less for cloudy days. A depth of 10 cm w ...
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... society, writes Sven Kullander, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. According to studies carried out within the Academy’s energy committee, it is esti mated that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil energy sources could be reduced from the current figure of 28 billion tonnes per year to 20 billion t ...
... society, writes Sven Kullander, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. According to studies carried out within the Academy’s energy committee, it is esti mated that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil energy sources could be reduced from the current figure of 28 billion tonnes per year to 20 billion t ...
Effects of Global Climate Change at the Virginia Coast Reserve
... developed hypotheses of how the resources might change due to specific climate factors and, where possible, identified key thresholds where ecosystems are likely to undergo a state change. For the purposes of this project, we have made the following assumptions: • By 2100, sea level will rise by app ...
... developed hypotheses of how the resources might change due to specific climate factors and, where possible, identified key thresholds where ecosystems are likely to undergo a state change. For the purposes of this project, we have made the following assumptions: • By 2100, sea level will rise by app ...
Hegemony – Dartmouth 2012
... Administration, Boulder Gian-Kasper Plattner, Deputy Head, Director of Science, Technical Support Unit Working Group I, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Affiliated Scientist, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland Reto Knutti, Institute for At ...
... Administration, Boulder Gian-Kasper Plattner, Deputy Head, Director of Science, Technical Support Unit Working Group I, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Affiliated Scientist, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland Reto Knutti, Institute for At ...
English - unfccc
... 1992. The climate Convention entered into force globally on 21 March, 1994 and specifically for Ghana on 5 December 1995 after ratification on 6 September 1995. There is clear evidence that the potential negative impacts of climate change are immense, and Ghana is particularly vulnerable due to lack ...
... 1992. The climate Convention entered into force globally on 21 March, 1994 and specifically for Ghana on 5 December 1995 after ratification on 6 September 1995. There is clear evidence that the potential negative impacts of climate change are immense, and Ghana is particularly vulnerable due to lack ...
Reasonably foreseeable futures
... and other effects related to induced changes in the pattern of land use, population density or growth rate, and related effects on air and water and other natural systems, including ecosystems. 40 C.F.R. § ...
... and other effects related to induced changes in the pattern of land use, population density or growth rate, and related effects on air and water and other natural systems, including ecosystems. 40 C.F.R. § ...