Pre-Workshop scoping document
... The Foresight ‘Future Flooding’ report of 2004 (Evans et al. 2004a and b) in the UK is an example of scientific research being used to inform policy and decision making at a national and regional level. The approach and methodologies developed and applied in the project have elicited interest abroad ...
... The Foresight ‘Future Flooding’ report of 2004 (Evans et al. 2004a and b) in the UK is an example of scientific research being used to inform policy and decision making at a national and regional level. The approach and methodologies developed and applied in the project have elicited interest abroad ...
Update on Selected Climate Issues of Concern
... bon dioxide being released to the air but also more being absorbed in the ocean and by growing plants on land and in the ocean. The change in net releases of carbon dioxide and methane is difficult to predict. It appears unlikely, however, that changes in the Arctic carbon cycle will have more than ...
... bon dioxide being released to the air but also more being absorbed in the ocean and by growing plants on land and in the ocean. The change in net releases of carbon dioxide and methane is difficult to predict. It appears unlikely, however, that changes in the Arctic carbon cycle will have more than ...
Climate warming will reduce growth and survival of Scots pine
... to those derived when the slopes were related to the values of growth and survival at 0! DMAT (i.e. the intercept). Using data from all sites with significant (P < 0.1) linear relations, the percent change in growth and survival was related to the MAT and latitude of the site (see Figures 3 and 4). ...
... to those derived when the slopes were related to the values of growth and survival at 0! DMAT (i.e. the intercept). Using data from all sites with significant (P < 0.1) linear relations, the percent change in growth and survival was related to the MAT and latitude of the site (see Figures 3 and 4). ...
Integrated assessment of global water scarcity over the 21st century
... most existing global hydrologic models) are river and reservoir routing, and a crop growth model that is simulated at the same temporal and spatial scale as the hydrology model. The former component is generally an important feature to achieve accurate monthly estimates of runoff, but it is less cru ...
... most existing global hydrologic models) are river and reservoir routing, and a crop growth model that is simulated at the same temporal and spatial scale as the hydrology model. The former component is generally an important feature to achieve accurate monthly estimates of runoff, but it is less cru ...
2015 Conference Final Program - Climate Change: Impacts and
... It is now widely accepted that the most recent phase of human society has had an impact on the earth’s climate. Greenhouse gases are heating up the earth. Ice that was permanent until recently, is rapidly melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are occurring with greater frequency. Di ...
... It is now widely accepted that the most recent phase of human society has had an impact on the earth’s climate. Greenhouse gases are heating up the earth. Ice that was permanent until recently, is rapidly melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are occurring with greater frequency. Di ...
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection`s Action
... (ii) Prepare and implement a plan to ensure that, starting in 2013, statewide fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by an aggregate 6% per year taking into account the current Massachusetts emissions reductions already underway, or the annual percent necessary to meet targets set forth in ...
... (ii) Prepare and implement a plan to ensure that, starting in 2013, statewide fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by an aggregate 6% per year taking into account the current Massachusetts emissions reductions already underway, or the annual percent necessary to meet targets set forth in ...
Climate Change Law in Latin America
... Climate Change Law,9 and its regulatory Decree,10 provide a leading example of climate change law in Latin America given that they design a complete architecture for climate change regulation for Brazil. They establish institutional arrangements and legal mechanisms to fulfil mitigation and adaptati ...
... Climate Change Law,9 and its regulatory Decree,10 provide a leading example of climate change law in Latin America given that they design a complete architecture for climate change regulation for Brazil. They establish institutional arrangements and legal mechanisms to fulfil mitigation and adaptati ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in Management of Prairie Grasslands
... adaptive capacity – potential or capability of a system to adapt to climatic stimuli Perhaps the most widely used concept is resilience. In the context of rangelands, Walker et al. (2009) considered resilience to be the capacity of a system to experience shocks while retaining the same structure, fu ...
... adaptive capacity – potential or capability of a system to adapt to climatic stimuli Perhaps the most widely used concept is resilience. In the context of rangelands, Walker et al. (2009) considered resilience to be the capacity of a system to experience shocks while retaining the same structure, fu ...
Man made Global Warming
... has been carried out in the U.S.A comparing temperature readings taken from monitoring stations in urban areas with those in rural areas. The results are startling. Those taken in urban areas show a small increase in temperature (the Urban Heat Island effect) whereas those from the rural areas shown ...
... has been carried out in the U.S.A comparing temperature readings taken from monitoring stations in urban areas with those in rural areas. The results are startling. Those taken in urban areas show a small increase in temperature (the Urban Heat Island effect) whereas those from the rural areas shown ...
Diverse policy implications for future ozone and surface UV in a
... where µo is the cosine of the solar zenith angle at solar noon on the 15th of each month, and Ω is the total column ozone. Note that the noon UVI ranges from zero at the poles to ~12 at the equator, and varies substantially with latitude and season, with the highest values in the extratropical summe ...
... where µo is the cosine of the solar zenith angle at solar noon on the 15th of each month, and Ω is the total column ozone. Note that the noon UVI ranges from zero at the poles to ~12 at the equator, and varies substantially with latitude and season, with the highest values in the extratropical summe ...
RASSEGNA STAMPA PRESS REVIEW
... Practices Award. The project’s developer is Roots Up, a young organization based in Gondar, in Northern Ethiopia. Their multifunctional greenhouse is designed to capture dew, fog and rain water, which can be used for both irrigation and domestic needs. Roots Up’ ...
... Practices Award. The project’s developer is Roots Up, a young organization based in Gondar, in Northern Ethiopia. Their multifunctional greenhouse is designed to capture dew, fog and rain water, which can be used for both irrigation and domestic needs. Roots Up’ ...
Aviation and global climate change in the 21st century
... Aviation emissions contribute to the radiative forcing (RF) of climate. Of importance are emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), aerosols and their precursors (soot and sulphate), and increased cloudiness in the form of persistent linear contrails and induced-cirrus cloudiness. Th ...
... Aviation emissions contribute to the radiative forcing (RF) of climate. Of importance are emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), aerosols and their precursors (soot and sulphate), and increased cloudiness in the form of persistent linear contrails and induced-cirrus cloudiness. Th ...
LCCARL398_en.pdf
... produced in the Caribbean. Estimates focused on sugarcane, rice, banana/plantain, cassava, yam, sweet potato and tomato. Estimates were calculated of percentage changes in annual average income, and changes in land suitability for specific crops. Initial results indicated that significant losses in ...
... produced in the Caribbean. Estimates focused on sugarcane, rice, banana/plantain, cassava, yam, sweet potato and tomato. Estimates were calculated of percentage changes in annual average income, and changes in land suitability for specific crops. Initial results indicated that significant losses in ...
Importance of carbon dioxide physiological forcing to future climate
... for the last 70-year simulations: The drift in surface air temperature is at most on the order of 1 × 10−3 K per year and the interannual variability as measured by the standard deviation of global mean surface temperature is 0.07 K (Fig. S1). The effect of CO2 -physiological forcing is represented ...
... for the last 70-year simulations: The drift in surface air temperature is at most on the order of 1 × 10−3 K per year and the interannual variability as measured by the standard deviation of global mean surface temperature is 0.07 K (Fig. S1). The effect of CO2 -physiological forcing is represented ...
Entire Report - Center for Climate and Energy
... If, for example, the total GHG emissions reduction required to meet a target were on the order of 10 or 15 percent, as would be the case if total GHG emissions in the United States were held at year 2000 levels through 2010, nearly all of the cost-effective reductions would come from the non-CO2 gr ...
... If, for example, the total GHG emissions reduction required to meet a target were on the order of 10 or 15 percent, as would be the case if total GHG emissions in the United States were held at year 2000 levels through 2010, nearly all of the cost-effective reductions would come from the non-CO2 gr ...
Climate change and the natural heritage
... SNH will encourage all forms of active travel as a way for people to enjoy the outdoors, and at the same time improve health and reduce travel by road vehicles. A high-quality and safe natural environment can help to make such journeys more attractive. Good path networks in urban areas can enable pe ...
... SNH will encourage all forms of active travel as a way for people to enjoy the outdoors, and at the same time improve health and reduce travel by road vehicles. A high-quality and safe natural environment can help to make such journeys more attractive. Good path networks in urban areas can enable pe ...
2. coral reefs and climate change: susceptibility and consequences
... The cascading effects on ocean chemistry of rising atmospheric CO2 levels are referred to as ‘ocean acidification’. This does not generally invoke the same sense of urgency as coral bleaching, probably because: zx it is a creeping environmental problem; zx ocean acidification has only recently b ...
... The cascading effects on ocean chemistry of rising atmospheric CO2 levels are referred to as ‘ocean acidification’. This does not generally invoke the same sense of urgency as coral bleaching, probably because: zx it is a creeping environmental problem; zx ocean acidification has only recently b ...
2015-02-05-Zero-Carbon-Zero-Poverty-the-Climate-Justice-Way
... irreversibility, long time lags, and uncontrollable feedbacks. In contrast, the threats posed by mitigation activities are generally of limited scale, more predictable, are not generally masked by long time-lags, and are governed primarily by socio-economic process under human control rather than bi ...
... irreversibility, long time lags, and uncontrollable feedbacks. In contrast, the threats posed by mitigation activities are generally of limited scale, more predictable, are not generally masked by long time-lags, and are governed primarily by socio-economic process under human control rather than bi ...
Possible impacts of climate change on freezing rain in south
... relative humidity, which, in the early morning from summer to winter, remains at a relatively high constant. Although there was no missing data within the reanalysis dataset, there were a few cases where relative humidity values were identically zero, even in the lower levels. These values were not ...
... relative humidity, which, in the early morning from summer to winter, remains at a relatively high constant. Although there was no missing data within the reanalysis dataset, there were a few cases where relative humidity values were identically zero, even in the lower levels. These values were not ...
Cognitive and affective risk judgements related to climate change
... attention in the last decades. The attention is motivated by claims that GCC will cause enormous worldwide problems in the future, and that it constitutes a challenge for humanity to mitigate or adapt to (United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2007a, 2007b). Attention is ...
... attention in the last decades. The attention is motivated by claims that GCC will cause enormous worldwide problems in the future, and that it constitutes a challenge for humanity to mitigate or adapt to (United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2007a, 2007b). Attention is ...
Equator-to-pole temperature differences and the extra
... Numerous mechanisms have been discussed in the literature by which the storm tracks could respond to an altered climate (e.g. Lunkeit et al. 1998; Geng and Sugi 2003; Lim and Simmonds 2009; Butler et al. 2010). Individual storms extract energy from horizontal temperature gradients, therefore any cha ...
... Numerous mechanisms have been discussed in the literature by which the storm tracks could respond to an altered climate (e.g. Lunkeit et al. 1998; Geng and Sugi 2003; Lim and Simmonds 2009; Butler et al. 2010). Individual storms extract energy from horizontal temperature gradients, therefore any cha ...
Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
... The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis. While we understand the evidence that has led them to ...
... The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis. While we understand the evidence that has led them to ...
FREE Sample Here
... Answer: Break-even volume can be arrived at by setting TC (manufacturing) = TC (outsourcing) and solving for Q. F+V×Q=C×Q Q = F / (C - V) = 2,400 / (5 - 3) = 1,200 Thus, if the anticipated production volume is greater than 1,200, it is more economical to manufacture the refills; if it is less than 1 ...
... Answer: Break-even volume can be arrived at by setting TC (manufacturing) = TC (outsourcing) and solving for Q. F+V×Q=C×Q Q = F / (C - V) = 2,400 / (5 - 3) = 1,200 Thus, if the anticipated production volume is greater than 1,200, it is more economical to manufacture the refills; if it is less than 1 ...
Modeling the Links between Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and
... Scenario B1 shows that environmental and social consciousness can be combined in a more sustainable development manner, offering a more favorable perspective for biodiversity than the Atype scenarios. Moreover, technological development is expected to shift towards renewable energy and higher produc ...
... Scenario B1 shows that environmental and social consciousness can be combined in a more sustainable development manner, offering a more favorable perspective for biodiversity than the Atype scenarios. Moreover, technological development is expected to shift towards renewable energy and higher produc ...