Demographic Amplification of Climate Change Experienced by the
... been previously argued to be strongly associated with coastal zones and navigable rivers and only weakly with climate conditions [19] we included distance from waterway (calculated as the shortest distance between the centroid of each county and the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, or the Great Lakes ...
... been previously argued to be strongly associated with coastal zones and navigable rivers and only weakly with climate conditions [19] we included distance from waterway (calculated as the shortest distance between the centroid of each county and the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, or the Great Lakes ...
Climate Change: Federal Laws and Policies Updated January 28, 2008
... past 15 years, a variety of voluntary and regulatory actions have been proposed or undertaken in the United States, including monitoring of electric utility carbon dioxide emissions, improved appliance efficiency, and incentives for developing renewable energy sources. This report provides backgroun ...
... past 15 years, a variety of voluntary and regulatory actions have been proposed or undertaken in the United States, including monitoring of electric utility carbon dioxide emissions, improved appliance efficiency, and incentives for developing renewable energy sources. This report provides backgroun ...
The Psychology of Global Warming - American Meteorological Society
... smelled like methane, we would never have allowed it to increase to around 390 ppmv, but like most chemicals it becomes a pollutant when increased beyond its normal concentration. It is a natural gas, part of the natural carbon cycle, and essential to plant life. There is no single significant sourc ...
... smelled like methane, we would never have allowed it to increase to around 390 ppmv, but like most chemicals it becomes a pollutant when increased beyond its normal concentration. It is a natural gas, part of the natural carbon cycle, and essential to plant life. There is no single significant sourc ...
What shapes perceptions of climate change?
... decisions than warranted by their probability. This makes learning and decisions from experience more volatile across respondents and past outcome histories than learning and decisions from description.19 The public’s perceptions of climate change over time (as reflected by Gallup or Pew opinion pol ...
... decisions than warranted by their probability. This makes learning and decisions from experience more volatile across respondents and past outcome histories than learning and decisions from description.19 The public’s perceptions of climate change over time (as reflected by Gallup or Pew opinion pol ...
Yesterday`s dinner, tomorrow`s weather, today`s news? US
... Results: There were 4582 ‘climate change’ articles in these newspapers during this period. Of these, 2?4 % mentioned food or agriculture contributions, with 0?4 % coded as substantially focused on the issue and 0?5 % mentioning food animal contributions. The level of content on food contributions to ...
... Results: There were 4582 ‘climate change’ articles in these newspapers during this period. Of these, 2?4 % mentioned food or agriculture contributions, with 0?4 % coded as substantially focused on the issue and 0?5 % mentioning food animal contributions. The level of content on food contributions to ...
Effects of climate change on agriculture - Deltaproof
... national exploration of fresh water supply. It is linked to the het NHI (Nederlands Hydrologisch Instrumentarium) and it uses the following data: groundwater levels, potential and actual evaporation, irrigation with ground and surface water, salt concentrations in soil moisture and/or irrigation wat ...
... national exploration of fresh water supply. It is linked to the het NHI (Nederlands Hydrologisch Instrumentarium) and it uses the following data: groundwater levels, potential and actual evaporation, irrigation with ground and surface water, salt concentrations in soil moisture and/or irrigation wat ...
Dietz et al. 2007. Support for CC Policy
... movement in political struggles. The lack of public mobilization about climate change, in contrast to mobilization about many other environmental issues, is an important problem for environmental social science, and one that can be addressed from several perspectives. Here we examine how social psyc ...
... movement in political struggles. The lack of public mobilization about climate change, in contrast to mobilization about many other environmental issues, is an important problem for environmental social science, and one that can be addressed from several perspectives. Here we examine how social psyc ...
1. a) Climate Variability-Bd-Frog Extinctions b) Hydric restriction, Te
... • If there is a true relationship between climate and Bd-related extinctions, fluctuations around temporal trends in temperature and extinctions should also positively correlate • There would many fewer non-causal explanations for this correlation than the multidecadal relationship between declines ...
... • If there is a true relationship between climate and Bd-related extinctions, fluctuations around temporal trends in temperature and extinctions should also positively correlate • There would many fewer non-causal explanations for this correlation than the multidecadal relationship between declines ...
Rapid Climate Change
... the Colorado School of Mines, his M.S. in geoIce, the Museum of Climate physics from the University of Wisconsin, One can learn a lot about what controls Madison, and his Ph.D. in hydrogeology/hydroloclimate by studying glacial ice. When Ice as Thermometer gy from the University of Nevada, Reno. Tay ...
... the Colorado School of Mines, his M.S. in geoIce, the Museum of Climate physics from the University of Wisconsin, One can learn a lot about what controls Madison, and his Ph.D. in hydrogeology/hydroloclimate by studying glacial ice. When Ice as Thermometer gy from the University of Nevada, Reno. Tay ...
Challenging the current climate change – migration nexus: exploring
... 1. Introduction: migrants and climate change In the current discussion revolving around climate change and migration, migrants are either framed as victims or as a threat for their hosting country: in most cases, they are not conceived as individuals and appear as numbers in statistical reports. In ...
... 1. Introduction: migrants and climate change In the current discussion revolving around climate change and migration, migrants are either framed as victims or as a threat for their hosting country: in most cases, they are not conceived as individuals and appear as numbers in statistical reports. In ...
Keith Brander
... changes in global biogeochemistry will take tens or hundreds of thousands of years to reverse even if the rise in greenhouse gases is halted. Awareness of biogeochemical changes (e.g. in pH, oxygen) is very recent and therefore the implications for marine life are only now being studied and evaluate ...
... changes in global biogeochemistry will take tens or hundreds of thousands of years to reverse even if the rise in greenhouse gases is halted. Awareness of biogeochemical changes (e.g. in pH, oxygen) is very recent and therefore the implications for marine life are only now being studied and evaluate ...
IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (IOSRJMCE)
... of intercultural communication skills among stakeholders, officials and local societies in one hand, encourage active interaction between researchers with sophisticated scientific background and communities with different education levels so that all would meet in a common point of understanding. Ba ...
... of intercultural communication skills among stakeholders, officials and local societies in one hand, encourage active interaction between researchers with sophisticated scientific background and communities with different education levels so that all would meet in a common point of understanding. Ba ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Liberia
... with transportation consuming 61%, and electricity generation (which uses gasoline and diesel oil) 29% in 2008. During the civil war, which devastated the road network, the number of vehicles (sedans, Jeeps, trailers, trucks, and buses) declined to 5,660 in 2003. By 2005, the vehicle population had ...
... with transportation consuming 61%, and electricity generation (which uses gasoline and diesel oil) 29% in 2008. During the civil war, which devastated the road network, the number of vehicles (sedans, Jeeps, trailers, trucks, and buses) declined to 5,660 in 2003. By 2005, the vehicle population had ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Tourism in Spain
... not reveal any studies that specifically analyzed how changes in the regional climate would affect the numbers of tourists visiting specific countries. This paper focuses on the impacts of climate change on tourism in Spain. The tourism sector is of major economic importance in Spain. Spain is the c ...
... not reveal any studies that specifically analyzed how changes in the regional climate would affect the numbers of tourists visiting specific countries. This paper focuses on the impacts of climate change on tourism in Spain. The tourism sector is of major economic importance in Spain. Spain is the c ...
New York, 1 August (Martin Khor) -
... force by the expiry of the current Kyoto Protocol commitment period in 2012. On his recent initiatives, Ban said he had consulted with various political leaders throughout the year in an effort to build momentum ahead of the Bali conference and the broader Convention process. He had also reached out ...
... force by the expiry of the current Kyoto Protocol commitment period in 2012. On his recent initiatives, Ban said he had consulted with various political leaders throughout the year in an effort to build momentum ahead of the Bali conference and the broader Convention process. He had also reached out ...
19. spain - European Commission
... provides the current framework for evaluating the impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Spain. The overall objective of the plan is to integrate adaptation to climate change in the planning processes of all relevant sectors or systems (e.g. water management, agriculture, forests ...
... provides the current framework for evaluating the impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Spain. The overall objective of the plan is to integrate adaptation to climate change in the planning processes of all relevant sectors or systems (e.g. water management, agriculture, forests ...
Adaptation to climate change in the developing world
... Negotiators from many of the world’s industrialized and developing countries meet each year in an ongoing evolution of one of the most contentious and critical international environmental agreements, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This convention encapsulates the major dilemmas of de ...
... Negotiators from many of the world’s industrialized and developing countries meet each year in an ongoing evolution of one of the most contentious and critical international environmental agreements, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This convention encapsulates the major dilemmas of de ...
The weather and climate of the tropics: Part 10
... make beer. The crop type depends partly on climate, but also on its familiarity to the population. Among the cereals, oats and barley are resistant to periodic cold, including frosts, whereas maize requires warmer, wetter conditions and millet is adapted to drier environments. Barley is salt-toleran ...
... make beer. The crop type depends partly on climate, but also on its familiarity to the population. Among the cereals, oats and barley are resistant to periodic cold, including frosts, whereas maize requires warmer, wetter conditions and millet is adapted to drier environments. Barley is salt-toleran ...
CULTURAL THEORY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLUMSINESS
... by the other solidarities. Yet, since each distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the others, and since each provides a clear expression of the way in which a significant portion of the populace feels we should live with one another and with nature, it is important that ...
... by the other solidarities. Yet, since each distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the others, and since each provides a clear expression of the way in which a significant portion of the populace feels we should live with one another and with nature, it is important that ...
36x48 Horizontal Poster
... presently occurring from the recent observational record on global and continental scales. How these changes bear on the hydroclimate at the river basin scale is still uncertain. Observed streamflow declines in the Colorado Basin in recent years are likely due to a synergistic combination of anthrop ...
... presently occurring from the recent observational record on global and continental scales. How these changes bear on the hydroclimate at the river basin scale is still uncertain. Observed streamflow declines in the Colorado Basin in recent years are likely due to a synergistic combination of anthrop ...
Environmental Policy and Politics: Trends in Public Debate
... Climate change is not just the focus of the Sierra Club; television commercials expressing concern about climate change are coming from some of the world’s largest and oldest petroleum producers and automobile manufacturers. People are beginning to think about their carbon footprint almost as much a ...
... Climate change is not just the focus of the Sierra Club; television commercials expressing concern about climate change are coming from some of the world’s largest and oldest petroleum producers and automobile manufacturers. People are beginning to think about their carbon footprint almost as much a ...
Can Green Growth Really Work and what are the True
... and lead to drastic changes in its energy and material mix (replacing exhaustible by renewable materials), with corresponding structural changes.3 “Green growth” advocates argue that such paradigm change would unleash new wealth creation and employment opportunities; provided that there was sufficie ...
... and lead to drastic changes in its energy and material mix (replacing exhaustible by renewable materials), with corresponding structural changes.3 “Green growth” advocates argue that such paradigm change would unleash new wealth creation and employment opportunities; provided that there was sufficie ...
Climate Change in Germany - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
... The probability of overshooting the 2-degree target in the long term rises rapidly under concentrations that lie much higher than today’s values. To reach the 2-degree target, today’s global emissions need to be lowered from 7 Gt carbon per year to 2 Gt per year. This is a formidable challenge, in v ...
... The probability of overshooting the 2-degree target in the long term rises rapidly under concentrations that lie much higher than today’s values. To reach the 2-degree target, today’s global emissions need to be lowered from 7 Gt carbon per year to 2 Gt per year. This is a formidable challenge, in v ...