The Strategic Threat of Inevitable Climate Change
... mitigate the warming of the earth’s surface. The situation, however, has advanced beyond the point where mitigation efforts can succeed in limiting global warming and concomitant climate change to levels that would avert the significant and potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change. Climate ...
... mitigate the warming of the earth’s surface. The situation, however, has advanced beyond the point where mitigation efforts can succeed in limiting global warming and concomitant climate change to levels that would avert the significant and potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change. Climate ...
Warsaw: On the Road to Paris
... South Africa, countries reaffirmed their resolve to tackle climate change. They further built on those decisions at COP 18 in Doha, Qatar. This resolve is yet to be put into action as global emissions continue to push the world towards warming of 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the ...
... South Africa, countries reaffirmed their resolve to tackle climate change. They further built on those decisions at COP 18 in Doha, Qatar. This resolve is yet to be put into action as global emissions continue to push the world towards warming of 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the ...
Terrestrial Ecosystem Adaptation
... The most direct and observable connection between climate and terrestrial ecosystems is in certain life‐cycle timing of seasonal phenology and in plant growth responses—annually in primary productivity and decadal over changes in the biogeographical range. These impacts on seasonality and primary ...
... The most direct and observable connection between climate and terrestrial ecosystems is in certain life‐cycle timing of seasonal phenology and in plant growth responses—annually in primary productivity and decadal over changes in the biogeographical range. These impacts on seasonality and primary ...
Scenario and modelling uncertainty in global mean temperature
... that we could only afford to run an ensemble of 68 members. To sample a broad range of combinations and minimise the correlations between pairings of individual Earth system components, the 68-member ensemble was generated using four 17-member Latin Hypercube designs. This means that each of the 17 ...
... that we could only afford to run an ensemble of 68 members. To sample a broad range of combinations and minimise the correlations between pairings of individual Earth system components, the 68-member ensemble was generated using four 17-member Latin Hypercube designs. This means that each of the 17 ...
Signed, but not ratified: Limits to U
... their concerns, and provide realistic alternatives to their home state economies and workforces dependant on fossil-fuel energy. In 2008, the group came together to write to the Democratic leadership expressing their concerns on some key issues in the Lieberman-Warner bill being discussed at the tim ...
... their concerns, and provide realistic alternatives to their home state economies and workforces dependant on fossil-fuel energy. In 2008, the group came together to write to the Democratic leadership expressing their concerns on some key issues in the Lieberman-Warner bill being discussed at the tim ...
Climate change and animal health in Africa
... water bodies for irrigation in drier areas may facilitate the survival of the intermediate snail host of F. gigantica. Although diseases transmitted directly between animals in close contact are less related to climate, changes in the ecosystem resulting in the disappearance or intermittent availabi ...
... water bodies for irrigation in drier areas may facilitate the survival of the intermediate snail host of F. gigantica. Although diseases transmitted directly between animals in close contact are less related to climate, changes in the ecosystem resulting in the disappearance or intermittent availabi ...
Understanding the Arctic Climate System
... grew out of regional Arctic climate modelling work at the Naval Postgraduate School, the University of Colorado, Iowa State University and the University of Washington. Currently, our team involves 30 researchers, including students, from 10 institutions, and this number is growing. Members from eac ...
... grew out of regional Arctic climate modelling work at the Naval Postgraduate School, the University of Colorado, Iowa State University and the University of Washington. Currently, our team involves 30 researchers, including students, from 10 institutions, and this number is growing. Members from eac ...
Revised text - Harvard Kennedy School
... reflecting the reality of current emission levels that by then had risen very far above their 1990 levels. But our Latecomer Catchup Factor fulfills the same function. ...
... reflecting the reality of current emission levels that by then had risen very far above their 1990 levels. But our Latecomer Catchup Factor fulfills the same function. ...
Report on WCRP developments/response post Review
... •The aim of WCRP is to facilitate analysis and prediction of Earth’s climate system variability and change for use in an increasing range of practical applications of direct relevance, benefit and value to society. • The Open Science Conference will thus assemble the scientific community working to ...
... •The aim of WCRP is to facilitate analysis and prediction of Earth’s climate system variability and change for use in an increasing range of practical applications of direct relevance, benefit and value to society. • The Open Science Conference will thus assemble the scientific community working to ...
Regional assessment of climate change impacts on maize
... when positive effects of a doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration are taken into account. They also found that the coefficient of yield variation could increase by as much as a factor of two, implying depressed yield stability and thus higher production risks. Changes in yield behavior in rel ...
... when positive effects of a doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration are taken into account. They also found that the coefficient of yield variation could increase by as much as a factor of two, implying depressed yield stability and thus higher production risks. Changes in yield behavior in rel ...
the intergovernmental panel on climate change assessment process
... Our review was conducted from April to August 2010 and was informed by public presentations from the IPCC and UN officials, as well as by scientists with wide-ranging views of the IPCC processes and procedures. In addition, a widely disseminated questionnaire yielded over 400 thoughtful responses fr ...
... Our review was conducted from April to August 2010 and was informed by public presentations from the IPCC and UN officials, as well as by scientists with wide-ranging views of the IPCC processes and procedures. In addition, a widely disseminated questionnaire yielded over 400 thoughtful responses fr ...
National Sustainable Materials Management Action Plan
... After Background, do separate section on: "National SMM Plan Recommendations." ...
... After Background, do separate section on: "National SMM Plan Recommendations." ...
DOC version - New Zealand climate change information
... Climate change impacts How could climate change affect my region? Adapting to climate change About adapting to climate change Roles and responsibilities Climate change adaptation technical working group Adapting to sea level rise International forums and agreements New Zealand's in ...
... Climate change impacts How could climate change affect my region? Adapting to climate change About adapting to climate change Roles and responsibilities Climate change adaptation technical working group Adapting to sea level rise International forums and agreements New Zealand's in ...
Sea Level Rise: Risk and Resilience in Coastal Cities
... Erin A. Thead is a Graduate Research Fellow at the Climate Institute and a doctoral candidate in Earth and ...
... Erin A. Thead is a Graduate Research Fellow at the Climate Institute and a doctoral candidate in Earth and ...
Section 115 of the Clean Air Act
... need for immediate and significant action, call for a well-coordinated, comprehensive national program to reduce GHG emissions. The success of the recent climate negotiations in Paris provides a strong basis for invoking a powerful tool available to help achieve the country’s climate change goals: S ...
... need for immediate and significant action, call for a well-coordinated, comprehensive national program to reduce GHG emissions. The success of the recent climate negotiations in Paris provides a strong basis for invoking a powerful tool available to help achieve the country’s climate change goals: S ...
Impact of Climate Change on Outdoor Thermal Comfort and Health
... ecological progress, it has emerged since some years at government level with recently the signing of Kyoto protocol. The global awareness about climate change is now a fact some. This awareness has led the international community to seek a scientific consensus around for this sensitive question whi ...
... ecological progress, it has emerged since some years at government level with recently the signing of Kyoto protocol. The global awareness about climate change is now a fact some. This awareness has led the international community to seek a scientific consensus around for this sensitive question whi ...
Beyond long-term averages: making biological sense of a rapidly
... means, or making assumptions such as poleward and altitudinal range shifts, is likely to be misleading when designing or implementing climate adaptation strategies. Ironically, such reliance on generalized average changes may have impeded our ability to communicate climate change impacts to nonscien ...
... means, or making assumptions such as poleward and altitudinal range shifts, is likely to be misleading when designing or implementing climate adaptation strategies. Ironically, such reliance on generalized average changes may have impeded our ability to communicate climate change impacts to nonscien ...
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... the use of offsets, however, of 3.3% in each compliance period. Offsets are allowable anywhere within the United States provided that offsets outside of participating RGGI states are also participants in a greenhouse gas reduction cap-and-trade system and have entered into an MOU with implementing e ...
... the use of offsets, however, of 3.3% in each compliance period. Offsets are allowable anywhere within the United States provided that offsets outside of participating RGGI states are also participants in a greenhouse gas reduction cap-and-trade system and have entered into an MOU with implementing e ...
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... Precautionary Principle to guide decision-making in climate risk management. As a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the State adopts the ultimate objective of the Convention which is the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level tha ...
... Precautionary Principle to guide decision-making in climate risk management. As a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the State adopts the ultimate objective of the Convention which is the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level tha ...
Evo Morales, Climate Change and the Paradoxes of a Social
... The summit was fundamentally a space for international social movements and secondarily for government delegations from the Global South. While he was at the UN in early May to present the summit’s ...
... The summit was fundamentally a space for international social movements and secondarily for government delegations from the Global South. While he was at the UN in early May to present the summit’s ...
Reportforthe IADB(Draft)
... countries in the Region Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama, increasingly rely on fossil fuels for transportation and power generation, meanwhile the use of wood, mainly used for cooking, continues to be high. All this at the cost of increasing greenhouse gas ...
... countries in the Region Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama, increasingly rely on fossil fuels for transportation and power generation, meanwhile the use of wood, mainly used for cooking, continues to be high. All this at the cost of increasing greenhouse gas ...
03_MATCH_paper2_May17 - Modelling and assessment of
... Uncertainties in absolute attribution of climate change SB-24 17 May 2006 Joyce Penner University of Michigan ...
... Uncertainties in absolute attribution of climate change SB-24 17 May 2006 Joyce Penner University of Michigan ...
Analysis and Use of Information and Communication Tools in the
... (GIS) and telecommunication networks. Data stored are applied for example in meteorological observation and disaster early warning systems based on real-time information platforms. In the modeling and simulation area, computational and processing tools are used to model climate, socio-economic impac ...
... (GIS) and telecommunication networks. Data stored are applied for example in meteorological observation and disaster early warning systems based on real-time information platforms. In the modeling and simulation area, computational and processing tools are used to model climate, socio-economic impac ...
