6. Atolls in the ocean— canaries in the mine?
... the launch, various scientist co-authors were quoted in the press making statements such as ‘[t]hings are worse than we had predicted [in 2007]’, ‘[w]e are going to see more and more impacts, faster and sooner than we had anticipated’ and ‘[t]he horrible is something quite likely, and we won’t be ab ...
... the launch, various scientist co-authors were quoted in the press making statements such as ‘[t]hings are worse than we had predicted [in 2007]’, ‘[w]e are going to see more and more impacts, faster and sooner than we had anticipated’ and ‘[t]he horrible is something quite likely, and we won’t be ab ...
- Wiley Online Library
... (45o N and polewards) for the period 1900–2100. The LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ-DGVM) was run under contemporary and future climates from four Special Report Emission Scenarios (SRES), A1FI, A2, B1, and B2, based on the Hadley Centre General Circulation Model (GCM), and six climate scen ...
... (45o N and polewards) for the period 1900–2100. The LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ-DGVM) was run under contemporary and future climates from four Special Report Emission Scenarios (SRES), A1FI, A2, B1, and B2, based on the Hadley Centre General Circulation Model (GCM), and six climate scen ...
Scientific aspects - Wageningen UR E
... economic, communicative and juridical steering mechanisms. A governance arrangement is defined as the ensemble of rules, processes and instruments that structure interactions between actors for a specific domain or issue (Arts & Leroy, 2006). This concept will be used for both analysing existing and ...
... economic, communicative and juridical steering mechanisms. A governance arrangement is defined as the ensemble of rules, processes and instruments that structure interactions between actors for a specific domain or issue (Arts & Leroy, 2006). This concept will be used for both analysing existing and ...
s ustainability
... Both the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and National Park Service (NPS) have highlighted climate change as an agency priority and issued direction to administrative units for responding to climate change [8,9]. The overarching goal of the USFS climate change strategy is to "ensure our national forests a ...
... Both the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and National Park Service (NPS) have highlighted climate change as an agency priority and issued direction to administrative units for responding to climate change [8,9]. The overarching goal of the USFS climate change strategy is to "ensure our national forests a ...
Climate influences the demography of three dominant sagebrush
... model assumes that recruitment increases linearly with genet area and that the size distribution of recruits is not influenced by maternal genet area (Weiner et al. 1997). We combined the vital rate functions to create the kernel (Eq. 1) and projected the model using a ‘‘kernel selection’’ approach. ...
... model assumes that recruitment increases linearly with genet area and that the size distribution of recruits is not influenced by maternal genet area (Weiner et al. 1997). We combined the vital rate functions to create the kernel (Eq. 1) and projected the model using a ‘‘kernel selection’’ approach. ...
SEMIQUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF REGIONAL CLIMATE
... NRW to a greater extent than in other regions. In addition, revenue equalization on the state and community level presupposes similar adaptive capacity. If we account for the minor spatial scale and assume that the high degree of “business as usual” preparedness for weather-related extreme events is ...
... NRW to a greater extent than in other regions. In addition, revenue equalization on the state and community level presupposes similar adaptive capacity. If we account for the minor spatial scale and assume that the high degree of “business as usual” preparedness for weather-related extreme events is ...
Accurate Answers to Professor Plimer`s 101 Climate Change
... However, since 1975 solar activity has shown little to no long-term increase while temperatures continue to rise (see the figure below). Therefore, the current rising temperatures cannot be explained by changes in the sun alone. In fact 2010, which is one of the hottest years on record, happens to c ...
... However, since 1975 solar activity has shown little to no long-term increase while temperatures continue to rise (see the figure below). Therefore, the current rising temperatures cannot be explained by changes in the sun alone. In fact 2010, which is one of the hottest years on record, happens to c ...
Carbon-nitrogen interactions regulate climate
... regions, than predicted by a similar AOGCM implemented without land carbon-nitrogen interactions. We expect that the between-model uncertainty in predictions of future atmospheric CO2 concentration and associated anthropogenic climate change will be reduced as additional climate models introduce car ...
... regions, than predicted by a similar AOGCM implemented without land carbon-nitrogen interactions. We expect that the between-model uncertainty in predictions of future atmospheric CO2 concentration and associated anthropogenic climate change will be reduced as additional climate models introduce car ...
A values-based approach to vulnerability and adaptation to climate
... linkages between values, worldviews, and political and socioeconomic variables such as democracy and economic growth rates, resulting in some predictable patterns of change in values and belief systems. This body of research finds that fundamental value changes most often take place as a younger gen ...
... linkages between values, worldviews, and political and socioeconomic variables such as democracy and economic growth rates, resulting in some predictable patterns of change in values and belief systems. This body of research finds that fundamental value changes most often take place as a younger gen ...
PDF - sudan academy of sciences
... Rainfall, which supports the great majority of the agricultural activity, is erratic and varies significantly from the northern to southern ranges of the country. Sudan can be ecologically divided into five vegetation zones according to rainfall patterns from North to South. The diversity of the Sud ...
... Rainfall, which supports the great majority of the agricultural activity, is erratic and varies significantly from the northern to southern ranges of the country. Sudan can be ecologically divided into five vegetation zones according to rainfall patterns from North to South. The diversity of the Sud ...
Vulnerability to climate change and adaptation strategies of local
... biofuel plantations bought by foreign investors has triggered a debate on land grabbing in Africa (Matondi, 2011). Most important, if people are forced to relocate due to large infrastructure projects or land-use change, their economic potential and environmental vulnerability need to be evaluated f ...
... biofuel plantations bought by foreign investors has triggered a debate on land grabbing in Africa (Matondi, 2011). Most important, if people are forced to relocate due to large infrastructure projects or land-use change, their economic potential and environmental vulnerability need to be evaluated f ...
A comprehensive set of high-resolution grids of monthly climate for
... The SRES report (IPCC, 2000) provides a comprehensive set of 40 socio-economic futures, and details their consequences for anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. The full set is too large for our purpose, so we adopt four of the six illustrative scenarios (A1FI, A2, B2, B1 ...
... The SRES report (IPCC, 2000) provides a comprehensive set of 40 socio-economic futures, and details their consequences for anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. The full set is too large for our purpose, so we adopt four of the six illustrative scenarios (A1FI, A2, B2, B1 ...
Now Naomi Klein has written This Changes Everything, a book she
... A few weeks ago Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the 21st Century could have sold out the Paradiso Pop Temple three times over. Today Naomi Klein fills Tuschinski theater to the brim. Literally hundreds of people had to be turned away and together with thousands of others they are watching the l ...
... A few weeks ago Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the 21st Century could have sold out the Paradiso Pop Temple three times over. Today Naomi Klein fills Tuschinski theater to the brim. Literally hundreds of people had to be turned away and together with thousands of others they are watching the l ...
Adapting to climate change: A perspective from evolutionary
... Many traits also show plasticity (Pigliucci 2005), which can result in the alteration of direct and indirect interactions among individuals and their environments, so affecting population and community dynamics, and aspects of community and ecosystem functioning (Pertoldi et al. 2007). Hence, to pre ...
... Many traits also show plasticity (Pigliucci 2005), which can result in the alteration of direct and indirect interactions among individuals and their environments, so affecting population and community dynamics, and aspects of community and ecosystem functioning (Pertoldi et al. 2007). Hence, to pre ...
Less Snow, Less Water: Climate Disruption in the West
... For this report, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO) conducted a new analysis of government temperature and snowpack records for the upper basins of the Columbia River, Missouri River, Colorado River, and Rio Grande for evidence of human-caused climate change. Increased temperatures. In e ...
... For this report, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO) conducted a new analysis of government temperature and snowpack records for the upper basins of the Columbia River, Missouri River, Colorado River, and Rio Grande for evidence of human-caused climate change. Increased temperatures. In e ...
The Carbon Cycle: Implications for Climate Change and Congress June 25, 2007
... In short, the oceans, vegetation, and soils cannot consume carbon released from human activities quickly enough to stop CO2 from accumulating in the atmosphere. Humans tap the huge pool of fossil carbon for energy, and affect the global carbon cycle by transferring fossil carbon — which took million ...
... In short, the oceans, vegetation, and soils cannot consume carbon released from human activities quickly enough to stop CO2 from accumulating in the atmosphere. Humans tap the huge pool of fossil carbon for energy, and affect the global carbon cycle by transferring fossil carbon — which took million ...
An Initial Look at DoD`s Activities Toward Climate Change Resiliency
... Many White House and departmental reports and studies have identified and assessed these high-level effects, and the Department has responded with strategy and policy statements, most recently in the 2014 Defense Quadrennial Review, Defense Science Board study Trends and Implications of Climate Chan ...
... Many White House and departmental reports and studies have identified and assessed these high-level effects, and the Department has responded with strategy and policy statements, most recently in the 2014 Defense Quadrennial Review, Defense Science Board study Trends and Implications of Climate Chan ...
Flood hazard maps in Matucana village under climate change
... Arithmetic mean values of the precipitation for the periods 2010–2039, 2040–2069 and 2070– 2099 were estimated by using projected percentage changes according to the ECHAM4 (European Center – Hamburg 4), NCAR PCM (National Center for Atmospheric Research – Parallel Climate Model) and HADCM3 (Hadley ...
... Arithmetic mean values of the precipitation for the periods 2010–2039, 2040–2069 and 2070– 2099 were estimated by using projected percentage changes according to the ECHAM4 (European Center – Hamburg 4), NCAR PCM (National Center for Atmospheric Research – Parallel Climate Model) and HADCM3 (Hadley ...
Global 500 Greenhouse Gas Report: The Fossil
... significantly to the welfare of humanity. They have organized massive resources and explored for much-needed energy in the most inhospitable parts of our planet. They have responded to global demand for highly useful energy sources, and have done so using an incredibly successful business model. Now ...
... significantly to the welfare of humanity. They have organized massive resources and explored for much-needed energy in the most inhospitable parts of our planet. They have responded to global demand for highly useful energy sources, and have done so using an incredibly successful business model. Now ...
Global Responsibilities: Ethics, Public Health, and Global
... The first issue I will address concerns why the potential health effects of climate change have succeeded in capturing public attention when other dimensions of the problem have not. The gravity of the anticipated health problems and the growth of knowledge regarding them are certainly part of the e ...
... The first issue I will address concerns why the potential health effects of climate change have succeeded in capturing public attention when other dimensions of the problem have not. The gravity of the anticipated health problems and the growth of knowledge regarding them are certainly part of the e ...
Managing water in the MDB under a variable and changing climate
... Development of the MDBA’s response to climate change in the Basin Plan was in the context of significant uncertainties in climate science (e.g. emission trajectories, modelling of the climate system) and how climatic influences would play out in the MDB (e.g. lack of suitable down-scaled models rele ...
... Development of the MDBA’s response to climate change in the Basin Plan was in the context of significant uncertainties in climate science (e.g. emission trajectories, modelling of the climate system) and how climatic influences would play out in the MDB (e.g. lack of suitable down-scaled models rele ...
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... This project is fully in line with LDCF/SCCF focal area objective 2 “Increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability, at local, national, regional and global level” and objective 3: Promote transfer and adoption of adaptation technology. It is specifical ...
... This project is fully in line with LDCF/SCCF focal area objective 2 “Increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability, at local, national, regional and global level” and objective 3: Promote transfer and adoption of adaptation technology. It is specifical ...
climate change and emissions pathways
... rticle 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change states its ultimate objective as: ‘‘stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference (DAI) with the climate system.’’ This level should be achieved ...
... rticle 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change states its ultimate objective as: ‘‘stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference (DAI) with the climate system.’’ This level should be achieved ...
Science Plan for LTEO - Ministry of Environment and Forests
... the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. According to the UNFCCC, climate change refers to the change in climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity, beyond the natural climate variability observed over compara ...
... the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. According to the UNFCCC, climate change refers to the change in climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity, beyond the natural climate variability observed over compara ...