Nullifying the climate null hypothesis
... argued that null hypothesis testing leads to relatively little increase in understanding and diverts attention from issues of estimation of effect size and meaningful mechanistic understanding and modeling of predictive and causal relationships. A frequent criticism of null hypothesis testing is the ...
... argued that null hypothesis testing leads to relatively little increase in understanding and diverts attention from issues of estimation of effect size and meaningful mechanistic understanding and modeling of predictive and causal relationships. A frequent criticism of null hypothesis testing is the ...
Climate Change Science - Stephen Schneider
... engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matt ...
... engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matt ...
Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions
... engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matt ...
... engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matt ...
Global climate change impacts on Australia`s wheat crops
... Atmospheric CO2 levels may rise from current levels (378 ppm) to between 520 ppm to 750 ppm by the year 2100. At the same time, temperatures across Australia may increase by a range of 1ºC to almost 6ºC. Large changes in rainfall are possible with changes of up to 60% by 2100—noting that there is ma ...
... Atmospheric CO2 levels may rise from current levels (378 ppm) to between 520 ppm to 750 ppm by the year 2100. At the same time, temperatures across Australia may increase by a range of 1ºC to almost 6ºC. Large changes in rainfall are possible with changes of up to 60% by 2100—noting that there is ma ...
Paris Agreement and Marrakech Climate Conference
... However. It was reported by Bloomberg on 13 September 2016 that there were discussions at EU Council of Ministers level about the possibility of the EU ratifying the agreement before individual Member States, to allow the EU to become a founder member. However, some Member States, including Poland, ...
... However. It was reported by Bloomberg on 13 September 2016 that there were discussions at EU Council of Ministers level about the possibility of the EU ratifying the agreement before individual Member States, to allow the EU to become a founder member. However, some Member States, including Poland, ...
Demographic models and IPCC climate projections predict the
... observation period; these thresholds range from $0.32 for model IPSL-CM4 to $0.02 for model UKMO-HadGEM1, with 50% of the threshold values falling in the range [$0.14,$0.07]. The same calculation applied to SIE from satellite data yields a threshold of $0.15. Thus, we used a range of SIE threshold v ...
... observation period; these thresholds range from $0.32 for model IPSL-CM4 to $0.02 for model UKMO-HadGEM1, with 50% of the threshold values falling in the range [$0.14,$0.07]. The same calculation applied to SIE from satellite data yields a threshold of $0.15. Thus, we used a range of SIE threshold v ...
national latino climate leadership forum
... a relevant climate platform, along with resources and opportunities that support their efforts. The National Latino Climate Leadership Forum was designed to be a platform for collaboration to advance Latino voices and leadership for climate action with major Latino institutions, leaders, and organiz ...
... a relevant climate platform, along with resources and opportunities that support their efforts. The National Latino Climate Leadership Forum was designed to be a platform for collaboration to advance Latino voices and leadership for climate action with major Latino institutions, leaders, and organiz ...
powerpoint presentation
... Biological and chemical cycles (Moon, in its effect on tidal cycles and hence mixing) ...
... Biological and chemical cycles (Moon, in its effect on tidal cycles and hence mixing) ...
The climate of the United Kingdom and recent trends
... both across the earth’s surface and through the atmosphere, and of other climate variables, provide more powerful evidence of the effect of human activities on climate, and enabled IPCC AR4-WG1 to say that “it is very likely (>90% probability) that anthropogenic greenhouse gas increases caused most ...
... both across the earth’s surface and through the atmosphere, and of other climate variables, provide more powerful evidence of the effect of human activities on climate, and enabled IPCC AR4-WG1 to say that “it is very likely (>90% probability) that anthropogenic greenhouse gas increases caused most ...
Are there pre-Quaternary geological analogues for a future
... (a) Extending uniformitarianism Uniformitarianism, the observation that, fundamentally, the same geological processes that operate today also operated in the distant past is a key principle of modern geology. The methodological significance of the principle is summarized in the statement the present ...
... (a) Extending uniformitarianism Uniformitarianism, the observation that, fundamentally, the same geological processes that operate today also operated in the distant past is a key principle of modern geology. The methodological significance of the principle is summarized in the statement the present ...
Assessing EU Leadership on Climate Change - Userpage
... policies, or institutions of a respected actor in order to “do the right thing”. Normative emulation can, in a pure form, involve a somewhat automatic “downloading” of institutional “software” simply because this is what everybody does in a given community. Which of these mechanisms are likely to co ...
... policies, or institutions of a respected actor in order to “do the right thing”. Normative emulation can, in a pure form, involve a somewhat automatic “downloading” of institutional “software” simply because this is what everybody does in a given community. Which of these mechanisms are likely to co ...
PETITION To the Commission on Human Rights
... letter on the implications of climate change for human rights, which stated in part: [W]e call on the State Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to ensure full coherence between their solemn human rights obligations and their efforts to address climate change ...
... letter on the implications of climate change for human rights, which stated in part: [W]e call on the State Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to ensure full coherence between their solemn human rights obligations and their efforts to address climate change ...
Questioning the Global Warming Science
... Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt-down etc) endangering human societies world-wide. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN Body of scientists (primarily working with various nations’ meteorological & environmental Agencies) was established in 1988 and has been assessing the ...
... Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt-down etc) endangering human societies world-wide. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN Body of scientists (primarily working with various nations’ meteorological & environmental Agencies) was established in 1988 and has been assessing the ...
open access
... protection, nutrient cycling, carbon storage, shoreline protection, timber and agricultural production, recreational opportunities, and habitats for wild species. Goals related to sustaining or enhancing the delivery of these and other benefits are firmly embedded in federal, state, and local public ...
... protection, nutrient cycling, carbon storage, shoreline protection, timber and agricultural production, recreational opportunities, and habitats for wild species. Goals related to sustaining or enhancing the delivery of these and other benefits are firmly embedded in federal, state, and local public ...
Responses to Climate Change and their Implications on
... amplification, leading to large shifts in climate over important agricultural lands worldwide. 14 The only event necessary to destroy the Bay is complete melting of the Greenland ice sheet. If permitted to occur, the land surrounding the Bay would eventually flood and the Bay itself would become no ...
... amplification, leading to large shifts in climate over important agricultural lands worldwide. 14 The only event necessary to destroy the Bay is complete melting of the Greenland ice sheet. If permitted to occur, the land surrounding the Bay would eventually flood and the Bay itself would become no ...
stoten2014a
... activities, in particular tourism, agriculture, industry, mining, and energy (hydropower). These sectors are all sensitive to climate change, since climate exerts the essential controls on the availability of snow for ski tourism (e.g., Uhlmann et al., 2009; Morrison and Pickering, 2013), or of wate ...
... activities, in particular tourism, agriculture, industry, mining, and energy (hydropower). These sectors are all sensitive to climate change, since climate exerts the essential controls on the availability of snow for ski tourism (e.g., Uhlmann et al., 2009; Morrison and Pickering, 2013), or of wate ...
An Agricultural Law Research Article on U.S. Forests, Regions, and the
... amounts of human intervention in the form of planting, thinning, or other management activities. Both natural and managed forests are important for the range of attributes society values from forests. Further, the ecological changes caused by climate change could have large implications both for non ...
... amounts of human intervention in the form of planting, thinning, or other management activities. Both natural and managed forests are important for the range of attributes society values from forests. Further, the ecological changes caused by climate change could have large implications both for non ...
151725 Public Policy Text - A Convention For Persons Displaced By
... when Kyoto’s first commitment period, which runs from 2008 to 2012, comes to an end. The result of the Copenhagen conference was a non-binding agreement which, while it contains emissions reduction pledges by all major economies (including China), ‘charts no clear path toward a treaty with binding c ...
... when Kyoto’s first commitment period, which runs from 2008 to 2012, comes to an end. The result of the Copenhagen conference was a non-binding agreement which, while it contains emissions reduction pledges by all major economies (including China), ‘charts no clear path toward a treaty with binding c ...
A financial director`s guide to the carbon reduction
... reduced their carbon footprint and committed to reducing it year on year. Over 150 organisations have now achieved the Carbon Trust Standard including public sector organisations such as London Fire Brigade, Fife Council and University of Manchester to household names such as B&Q, O2, first direct a ...
... reduced their carbon footprint and committed to reducing it year on year. Over 150 organisations have now achieved the Carbon Trust Standard including public sector organisations such as London Fire Brigade, Fife Council and University of Manchester to household names such as B&Q, O2, first direct a ...
Climate Change and Geohazards in South West England
... Orbital variations: Over the period of many thousands of years, the Earth’s orbit around the sun changes in a quasiperiodic manner. There are three principal cycles, called ‘Milankovitch cycles’ after the Serbian mathematician who first described them in mathematical detail (Milanković, 1941)3, whic ...
... Orbital variations: Over the period of many thousands of years, the Earth’s orbit around the sun changes in a quasiperiodic manner. There are three principal cycles, called ‘Milankovitch cycles’ after the Serbian mathematician who first described them in mathematical detail (Milanković, 1941)3, whic ...
2011 CO Basin Assessment Capacity - CLIMAS
... The workshop, Evaluating Our Capacity: A Discussion of Capability for Ongoing Climate Assessment in the Colorado River Basin, was held in Boulder, CO, June 6-8, 2011. Sponsored by the Climate Assessment for the Southwest, the Western Water Assessment, and the California Nevada Applications Program, ...
... The workshop, Evaluating Our Capacity: A Discussion of Capability for Ongoing Climate Assessment in the Colorado River Basin, was held in Boulder, CO, June 6-8, 2011. Sponsored by the Climate Assessment for the Southwest, the Western Water Assessment, and the California Nevada Applications Program, ...
Contribution of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
... dioxide emissions originating from fossil fuel burning, cement production and farmland plowFIGURE 1. Relative contribution to the greenhouse effect. Adapted from Kiehl & Trenberth, 1997. ...
... dioxide emissions originating from fossil fuel burning, cement production and farmland plowFIGURE 1. Relative contribution to the greenhouse effect. Adapted from Kiehl & Trenberth, 1997. ...
annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin
... is larger than the average of the last 10 years, despite evidence that global anthropogenic emissions remained essentially static between 2014 and 2015. According to the most recent data, increased growth rates have persisted far into 2016, consistent with the expected lag between CO2 growth and the ...
... is larger than the average of the last 10 years, despite evidence that global anthropogenic emissions remained essentially static between 2014 and 2015. According to the most recent data, increased growth rates have persisted far into 2016, consistent with the expected lag between CO2 growth and the ...
Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... other hand, is a long-term statistical average of weather and is determined by larger-scale forces, such as the level of heattrapping gases in the atmosphere and the energy coming from the sun. Thus it is actually easier to project how climate will change in the future. By analogy, while it is impos ...
... other hand, is a long-term statistical average of weather and is determined by larger-scale forces, such as the level of heattrapping gases in the atmosphere and the energy coming from the sun. Thus it is actually easier to project how climate will change in the future. By analogy, while it is impos ...