Reduced solar activity as a trigger for the start of the Younger Dryas?
... a shallower THC and in surface cooling that would be less than in the case of a shutdown. This would be consistent with ocean core evidence for N Atlantic ventilation during the YD (Charles and Fairbanks, 1992) and with climate modelling (Rahmstorf, 1994). However, a shallower THC would mean less su ...
... a shallower THC and in surface cooling that would be less than in the case of a shutdown. This would be consistent with ocean core evidence for N Atlantic ventilation during the YD (Charles and Fairbanks, 1992) and with climate modelling (Rahmstorf, 1994). However, a shallower THC would mean less su ...
Gulf Warehousing Company Dividend Policy
... It is the Policy of this company that: 1. The company maintains a minimum of 5% share capital dividend payment for each financial year. (i.e. Qr 0.50 per share owned); 2. In all cases the company shall maintain a 75% pay-out ratio for each financial year and where the Pay-out ratio is less than 5% s ...
... It is the Policy of this company that: 1. The company maintains a minimum of 5% share capital dividend payment for each financial year. (i.e. Qr 0.50 per share owned); 2. In all cases the company shall maintain a 75% pay-out ratio for each financial year and where the Pay-out ratio is less than 5% s ...
Handbook for Local Elected Officials on Climate Change
... Adapting to climate change is the new reality. Time and again we are witnessing the varied impacts that extreme weather events have on our communities, from wide-spread infrastructure failure to isolated senior citizens without access to life’s essentials. However, it’s not just the storms and hurri ...
... Adapting to climate change is the new reality. Time and again we are witnessing the varied impacts that extreme weather events have on our communities, from wide-spread infrastructure failure to isolated senior citizens without access to life’s essentials. However, it’s not just the storms and hurri ...
Chicago Area Climate Change Quick Guide
... approaches are prominent in the Chicago Climate Action Plan. Vegetated roofs, for instance, cool the city as temperatures rise and retain water during storms (adaptation), while they also help increase the energy efficiency of buildings (mitigation). Increasing the size of the Chicago urban forest c ...
... approaches are prominent in the Chicago Climate Action Plan. Vegetated roofs, for instance, cool the city as temperatures rise and retain water during storms (adaptation), while they also help increase the energy efficiency of buildings (mitigation). Increasing the size of the Chicago urban forest c ...
Working Group on Carbon Pricing Mechanisms
... decisions. For example, higher gasoline prices encourage public transit and make electric or hybrid vehicles more attractive alternatives for travel and commuting. Households will also opt for low-carbon solutions for home heating or air conditioning and will consume less energy by improving the ins ...
... decisions. For example, higher gasoline prices encourage public transit and make electric or hybrid vehicles more attractive alternatives for travel and commuting. Households will also opt for low-carbon solutions for home heating or air conditioning and will consume less energy by improving the ins ...
“The role of conflict for optimal climate and immigration policy
... the North would take in the GDP maximizing level of immigrants. Policy making becomes more complicated if there is reason to be believe that both conflicts co-exist. In this case multiple steady states exist and they are all subject to an active mitigation policy. More specifically, depending on par ...
... the North would take in the GDP maximizing level of immigrants. Policy making becomes more complicated if there is reason to be believe that both conflicts co-exist. In this case multiple steady states exist and they are all subject to an active mitigation policy. More specifically, depending on par ...
Cost Summary Slides
... power plant emissions that contribute to ozone and/or fine particle pollution in other states • On April 29, 2014, the Supreme Court reversed the DC Circuit opinion and remanded it back to the appeals court for further proceedings “Today’s Supreme Court decision is a resounding victory for public he ...
... power plant emissions that contribute to ozone and/or fine particle pollution in other states • On April 29, 2014, the Supreme Court reversed the DC Circuit opinion and remanded it back to the appeals court for further proceedings “Today’s Supreme Court decision is a resounding victory for public he ...
amazonia mapping essential natural capital
... We also conducted our own analysis, focusing on one dimension of importance for biodiversity: endemism, generally defined as species that are restricted to a particular area. Areas with high endemism, therefore, are home to unique and irreplaceable species. Species range data from the IUCN Red List ...
... We also conducted our own analysis, focusing on one dimension of importance for biodiversity: endemism, generally defined as species that are restricted to a particular area. Areas with high endemism, therefore, are home to unique and irreplaceable species. Species range data from the IUCN Red List ...
The Carbon Majors Database
... collaboration with the CAI to maintain the Database and share its important data and insights with all stakeholders. This report looks at industrial carbon dioxide and methane emissions deriving from fossil fuel producers in the past, present, and future. In 1988, human-induced climate change was of ...
... collaboration with the CAI to maintain the Database and share its important data and insights with all stakeholders. This report looks at industrial carbon dioxide and methane emissions deriving from fossil fuel producers in the past, present, and future. In 1988, human-induced climate change was of ...
IOC and COP21 - UNESDOC
... ocean basins (the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Southern). This global ocean has absorbed more than 25% of the CO2 and 93% of excess heat generated by humans since industrialization. But its climate regulating role is threatened: warmer atmosphere and increasing concentration of greenhouse g ...
... ocean basins (the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Southern). This global ocean has absorbed more than 25% of the CO2 and 93% of excess heat generated by humans since industrialization. But its climate regulating role is threatened: warmer atmosphere and increasing concentration of greenhouse g ...
climate change at risk - WWF
... disturbing and must be avoided. This is the first study of its kind to outline how the future might unfold and how specific actions taken today will craft tomorrow’s world. Strong action to ...
... disturbing and must be avoided. This is the first study of its kind to outline how the future might unfold and how specific actions taken today will craft tomorrow’s world. Strong action to ...
Here - Lawrence Torcello
... about how we ought to live in relation to others. We may draw from the sciences in order to offer a moral analysis (as I do here), but our obligation is to offer sound arguments about viable ways to engage in moral decision making and to debunk unsound arguments.1 Drawing attention to the relationsh ...
... about how we ought to live in relation to others. We may draw from the sciences in order to offer a moral analysis (as I do here), but our obligation is to offer sound arguments about viable ways to engage in moral decision making and to debunk unsound arguments.1 Drawing attention to the relationsh ...
Climate change drives a shift in peatland ecosystem plant
... 750 ppm. This additional CO2 was supplied by a compressed CO2 source, and the elevated CO2 condition was maintained dynamically by the environmental control system. The CO2 regulating system was calibrated weekly against a known gas standard. Water table. In each of the experimental greenhouses, sev ...
... 750 ppm. This additional CO2 was supplied by a compressed CO2 source, and the elevated CO2 condition was maintained dynamically by the environmental control system. The CO2 regulating system was calibrated weekly against a known gas standard. Water table. In each of the experimental greenhouses, sev ...
Re-Investigating Climate Change
... There is no doubt that human activity is damaging the environment. For example, industrial pollution and “industrialized” fishing and agricultural practices have, it is clear, destroyed habitat and caused the extinction of a number of species of flora and fauna – in various ways, and for various rea ...
... There is no doubt that human activity is damaging the environment. For example, industrial pollution and “industrialized” fishing and agricultural practices have, it is clear, destroyed habitat and caused the extinction of a number of species of flora and fauna – in various ways, and for various rea ...
Scottish Government Consultation Response
... fulfilment of their climate change duties and reporting smooth transition, the required reporting form and guidance is already on carbon emissions. available online for public sector users to use on a trial basis for the 2014/15 reporting year, and practical support is available from SSN. They highl ...
... fulfilment of their climate change duties and reporting smooth transition, the required reporting form and guidance is already on carbon emissions. available online for public sector users to use on a trial basis for the 2014/15 reporting year, and practical support is available from SSN. They highl ...
Climate Change Aspects in Agriculture
... deficit – others are associated with a low level of economic development in the sector, but if addressed they would also improve the sector’s Figure 8: Average Wheat Yields in Select Countries, Averaged from 2007adaptive capacity. The challenges created by ...
... deficit – others are associated with a low level of economic development in the sector, but if addressed they would also improve the sector’s Figure 8: Average Wheat Yields in Select Countries, Averaged from 2007adaptive capacity. The challenges created by ...
The European carbon balance. Part 4
... McNaughton, 1986; Schulze et al., 2002). The evaporation and sensible heat fluxes were estimated by upscaling eddy-covariance measurements (Baldocchi, 2003) based on the approach of Jung et al. (2009) using satellite and meteorological data. A first-order correction of the measurements was applied t ...
... McNaughton, 1986; Schulze et al., 2002). The evaporation and sensible heat fluxes were estimated by upscaling eddy-covariance measurements (Baldocchi, 2003) based on the approach of Jung et al. (2009) using satellite and meteorological data. A first-order correction of the measurements was applied t ...
19. Global change
... development of the greenhouse effect share some similarities, the two are unrelated. The global response to these issues has been very different. ...
... development of the greenhouse effect share some similarities, the two are unrelated. The global response to these issues has been very different. ...
Realizing the human right to adequate food in times of climate
... importantly, focusing on the right to food provides a rallying point around which to mobilize the starving masses. For, in the final analysis, appropriate policies will be adopted not as a result of technocratic altruism but only in response to widespread and insistent popular outrage. For that reas ...
... importantly, focusing on the right to food provides a rallying point around which to mobilize the starving masses. For, in the final analysis, appropriate policies will be adopted not as a result of technocratic altruism but only in response to widespread and insistent popular outrage. For that reas ...
Distribution-wide effects of climate on population densities of a
... 1996; Porneluzi & Faaborg 1999), and these endogenous factors are now known to be important in limiting migratory populations. In contrast, there is no evidence for an effect of climate on annual population densities in these species, despite several studies that have found climatic effects on pheno ...
... 1996; Porneluzi & Faaborg 1999), and these endogenous factors are now known to be important in limiting migratory populations. In contrast, there is no evidence for an effect of climate on annual population densities in these species, despite several studies that have found climatic effects on pheno ...
Please amend title - International Association for Impact
... But we could see 5 times the number of very hot days & the hottest day of the year could be up RESTRICTED to 10ºC higher ...
... But we could see 5 times the number of very hot days & the hottest day of the year could be up RESTRICTED to 10ºC higher ...
DICE 2013R - Yale Economics
... The prior fully documented versions are the RICE-2010 and DICE-2007 model. The present version is an update of those earlier models, with several changes in structure and a full updating of the underlying data. This section draws heavily on earlier expositions Nordhaus (1994, 2008, 2010, 2012), alon ...
... The prior fully documented versions are the RICE-2010 and DICE-2007 model. The present version is an update of those earlier models, with several changes in structure and a full updating of the underlying data. This section draws heavily on earlier expositions Nordhaus (1994, 2008, 2010, 2012), alon ...
Climate Change Effects on North American Inland Fish Populations
... 2009; Schneider and Hook 2010), although response will also vary with local conditions (O’Reilly et al. 2015). On average, freeze and breakup dates of lake ice in the Northern Hemisphere have become later and earlier, respectively, and interannual variability in ice dynamics has increased over the p ...
... 2009; Schneider and Hook 2010), although response will also vary with local conditions (O’Reilly et al. 2015). On average, freeze and breakup dates of lake ice in the Northern Hemisphere have become later and earlier, respectively, and interannual variability in ice dynamics has increased over the p ...