August 2012 - CREE
... The two dimensions of equity in climate change polices can be referred to as intra- and intergenerational. The first is primarily about how we should distribute the burdens within a generation, either within the generation living today or in the future, see Kverndokk and Rose (2008). Two examples of ...
... The two dimensions of equity in climate change polices can be referred to as intra- and intergenerational. The first is primarily about how we should distribute the burdens within a generation, either within the generation living today or in the future, see Kverndokk and Rose (2008). Two examples of ...
CLIMATE ASSESSMENT REPORT
... wet conditions alone provided a modicum of predictability that 2011 would more likely be a high rather than a low runoff year in the upper basin. Such a prediction is not synonymous with forecasting a flood event, however, and its limited predictive power was apparent in 2012 when the same anteceden ...
... wet conditions alone provided a modicum of predictability that 2011 would more likely be a high rather than a low runoff year in the upper basin. Such a prediction is not synonymous with forecasting a flood event, however, and its limited predictive power was apparent in 2012 when the same anteceden ...
UN report: The coming financial climate
... business and the economy. Finance is a keystone in meeting these challenges and opportunities. The financial system exists to support our choices to save, consume and invest. When it works efficiently and effectively, it deploys finance in ways that creates dynamic, inclusive and sustainable economi ...
... business and the economy. Finance is a keystone in meeting these challenges and opportunities. The financial system exists to support our choices to save, consume and invest. When it works efficiently and effectively, it deploys finance in ways that creates dynamic, inclusive and sustainable economi ...
Brown, Lessons Learned From The Climate Change Disinformation
... July, 2012 to Present, Scholar In Residence and Professor, Sustainability Ethics and Law, Widener University School of Law. Oct. 2014 to Dec. 2014, Visiting Lecturer, Griffith University, Brisbane Australia Sep. 2013 to Jan. 2014, Visiting Professor, Nagoya University School of Law, Nagoya, Japan Oc ...
... July, 2012 to Present, Scholar In Residence and Professor, Sustainability Ethics and Law, Widener University School of Law. Oct. 2014 to Dec. 2014, Visiting Lecturer, Griffith University, Brisbane Australia Sep. 2013 to Jan. 2014, Visiting Professor, Nagoya University School of Law, Nagoya, Japan Oc ...
Education sector responses to climate change - UNESDOC
... eleven out of the last twelve years have been the hottest on record since 1850. The IPCC also estimated that the average global surface temperature from 1850/1899 to 2001/2005 has increased by 0.760C. The global sea level increased at an average rate of 1.8 mm per year over the period 1961 to 2003 a ...
... eleven out of the last twelve years have been the hottest on record since 1850. The IPCC also estimated that the average global surface temperature from 1850/1899 to 2001/2005 has increased by 0.760C. The global sea level increased at an average rate of 1.8 mm per year over the period 1961 to 2003 a ...
Climate change in the Arctic: current and future
... such that the community is more or less exposed, or exposed in a different way. In this conceptualisation, vulnerability at a local level is viewed as being conditioned by social, economic, cultural, political and climatic conditions and processes, operating at multiple scales over time and space, w ...
... such that the community is more or less exposed, or exposed in a different way. In this conceptualisation, vulnerability at a local level is viewed as being conditioned by social, economic, cultural, political and climatic conditions and processes, operating at multiple scales over time and space, w ...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF AKKAD BY A COSMIC
... asteroid, crashing into Mesopotamia. The 4.2 kiloyear climate change event aEracted the interest of climate modellers. But all their models, peer ©2013 Joachim Seifert ...
... asteroid, crashing into Mesopotamia. The 4.2 kiloyear climate change event aEracted the interest of climate modellers. But all their models, peer ©2013 Joachim Seifert ...
Treeline dynamics with climate change at the central Nepal Himalaya
... monthly mean minimum temperature was decreasing while monthly mean maximum temperature was increasing significantly (Supplementary Fig. S1). Similarly, mean annual rainfall at Larke, Gorkha, was 1252 mm (SD = 535). In Larke, during the past 30 years (1980–2009) there was a significant (n = 30, R 2 = ...
... monthly mean minimum temperature was decreasing while monthly mean maximum temperature was increasing significantly (Supplementary Fig. S1). Similarly, mean annual rainfall at Larke, Gorkha, was 1252 mm (SD = 535). In Larke, during the past 30 years (1980–2009) there was a significant (n = 30, R 2 = ...
Precipitation and temperatures extremes in East Africa in past and
... users to the risk of increased extreme climatic events. There is also a growing interest for climate change information on regional to local scales and at high spatial resolution. RCMs are suitable tools for the assessment of climate variability and change particularly with respect to high magnitude ...
... users to the risk of increased extreme climatic events. There is also a growing interest for climate change information on regional to local scales and at high spatial resolution. RCMs are suitable tools for the assessment of climate variability and change particularly with respect to high magnitude ...
Complex coastlines responding to climate change
... emergent dynamic-equilibrium coastline morphology (Ashton and Murray, 2006b); we discuss a relevant measure of dynamic equilibrium below. Rhythmic coastline features retain a self-similar shape under a constant wave climate, even though the scale of the shape increases slowly through time (Ashton an ...
... emergent dynamic-equilibrium coastline morphology (Ashton and Murray, 2006b); we discuss a relevant measure of dynamic equilibrium below. Rhythmic coastline features retain a self-similar shape under a constant wave climate, even though the scale of the shape increases slowly through time (Ashton an ...
ccaf.gc.ca
... In 1992 Canada signed and ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). The ultimate objective of the FCCC is the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human-induced interference with the climate system. ...
... In 1992 Canada signed and ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). The ultimate objective of the FCCC is the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human-induced interference with the climate system. ...
Climate Change Helplessness and Efficacy
... their personal energy use to prevent the worst-case climate scenarios (EPA, 2014; IPCC, 2014). But ironically, the gravity of the threat may be too great for people to believe their actions matter. That is, people experience climate change helplessness and so fail to see the harmful effects of their ...
... their personal energy use to prevent the worst-case climate scenarios (EPA, 2014; IPCC, 2014). But ironically, the gravity of the threat may be too great for people to believe their actions matter. That is, people experience climate change helplessness and so fail to see the harmful effects of their ...
Climate Trends, Hazards and Extremes – Taranaki Synthesis Report
... Figure 25. Accumulated July-June PED (mm) calculated from 0.05° gridded data set: average over 31-year period 1972/73 to 2002/03 (left), and PED levels in extreme drought year of 1997/98 El Niño (right) .............................................. 47 Figure 26. IPCC projections of global temperatu ...
... Figure 25. Accumulated July-June PED (mm) calculated from 0.05° gridded data set: average over 31-year period 1972/73 to 2002/03 (left), and PED levels in extreme drought year of 1997/98 El Niño (right) .............................................. 47 Figure 26. IPCC projections of global temperatu ...
Clathrate gun hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free
... puncturing by open taliks. They conclude that "release of up to 50 Gt of predicted amount of hydrate storage [is] highly possible for abrupt release at any time". That would increase the methane content of the planet's atmosphere by a factor of twelve,[26][27] equivalent in greenhouse effect to a do ...
... puncturing by open taliks. They conclude that "release of up to 50 Gt of predicted amount of hydrate storage [is] highly possible for abrupt release at any time". That would increase the methane content of the planet's atmosphere by a factor of twelve,[26][27] equivalent in greenhouse effect to a do ...
GDI 12 – Warming Core – Final
... climate sensitivity. That includes computer models, yes, but also observations from the past 150 years, measurements of the effects of volcanic ...
... climate sensitivity. That includes computer models, yes, but also observations from the past 150 years, measurements of the effects of volcanic ...
References and Index - UN
... act globally: How curbing global warming emissions can improve local public health’, American Journal of Preventative Medicine 35(5): 414–423 Boardman, B. (2007) ‘Examining the carbon agenda via the 40% house scenario’, Building Research & Information 35(4): 363–378 Bodansky, D. (2001) ‘The history ...
... act globally: How curbing global warming emissions can improve local public health’, American Journal of Preventative Medicine 35(5): 414–423 Boardman, B. (2007) ‘Examining the carbon agenda via the 40% house scenario’, Building Research & Information 35(4): 363–378 Bodansky, D. (2001) ‘The history ...
CLIMATE CHANGE HELPLESSNESS 1 Running head: CLIMATE
... their personal energy use to prevent the worst-case climate scenarios (EPA, 2014; IPCC, 2014). But ironically, the gravity of the threat may be too great for people to believe their actions matter. That is, people experience climate change helplessness and so fail to see the harmful effects of their ...
... their personal energy use to prevent the worst-case climate scenarios (EPA, 2014; IPCC, 2014). But ironically, the gravity of the threat may be too great for people to believe their actions matter. That is, people experience climate change helplessness and so fail to see the harmful effects of their ...
climate change adaptation guided by the law
... The Pacific is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to the impacts of climate change. Climate change is already affecting Pacific Island Countries and their people, and although much is being done to find solutions, any truly effective solution must be bound with, or driven by, a robust legal ...
... The Pacific is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to the impacts of climate change. Climate change is already affecting Pacific Island Countries and their people, and although much is being done to find solutions, any truly effective solution must be bound with, or driven by, a robust legal ...
A 5˚C Arctic in a 2˚C World
... tool is solar radiation management (SRM), i.e., the dimming of the incoming solar radiation. Because global GHG concentrations are determined by emissions, which emission scenario the world embarks on is critical for the future state of the Arctic. The best case outlined in the Paris Climate Agreeme ...
... tool is solar radiation management (SRM), i.e., the dimming of the incoming solar radiation. Because global GHG concentrations are determined by emissions, which emission scenario the world embarks on is critical for the future state of the Arctic. The best case outlined in the Paris Climate Agreeme ...
Australia`s future emissions reduction targets
... Future levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere will depend largely on the effectiveness of policies to reduce emissions, and on changes in population and technology. The precise temperature response to future greenhouse gas concentrations is also uncertain; climate models project f ...
... Future levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere will depend largely on the effectiveness of policies to reduce emissions, and on changes in population and technology. The precise temperature response to future greenhouse gas concentrations is also uncertain; climate models project f ...
TSRA Climate Change Strategy-2014-2018
... Torres Strait region, along with the geographic, ecological, social and cultural characteristics make Torres Strait communities amongst the most vulnerable in Australia. The effects of climate change threaten the islands themselves as well as marine and coastal ecosystems and resources, and therefor ...
... Torres Strait region, along with the geographic, ecological, social and cultural characteristics make Torres Strait communities amongst the most vulnerable in Australia. The effects of climate change threaten the islands themselves as well as marine and coastal ecosystems and resources, and therefor ...
Key Adaptation Concepts and Terms
... them in terms of criteria such as availability, benefits, costs, effectiveness, efficiency, and feasibility.(IPCC TAR, 2001 a) The term ‘Adaptation Assessment’ while appearing to be clear on paper can be difficult in some cases to apply in practice.5 Currently, there is no set of criteria or metrics ...
... them in terms of criteria such as availability, benefits, costs, effectiveness, efficiency, and feasibility.(IPCC TAR, 2001 a) The term ‘Adaptation Assessment’ while appearing to be clear on paper can be difficult in some cases to apply in practice.5 Currently, there is no set of criteria or metrics ...
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... specifically increase yields by 20%. Elliott et al. (2014) identifies potential yield changes under expanded irrigation with and without CO2 fertilization. For RCP 8.5 the yield increases are in the range of approximately 10-40% across the Corn Belt region. Additionally, they suggest that, without a ...
... specifically increase yields by 20%. Elliott et al. (2014) identifies potential yield changes under expanded irrigation with and without CO2 fertilization. For RCP 8.5 the yield increases are in the range of approximately 10-40% across the Corn Belt region. Additionally, they suggest that, without a ...