Issue 04 Autumn 2006
... rapid warming (+1.5°C over ten years) experienced in this region since the decrease of the NAO index in 1996. We have estimated an increasing rate of +2.8 µatm/yr for wintertime pCO2oc (Corbière et al., 2006). If the change of wintertime pCO2oc is assumed to be constant at multidecadal time scales, ...
... rapid warming (+1.5°C over ten years) experienced in this region since the decrease of the NAO index in 1996. We have estimated an increasing rate of +2.8 µatm/yr for wintertime pCO2oc (Corbière et al., 2006). If the change of wintertime pCO2oc is assumed to be constant at multidecadal time scales, ...
The geography of climate change: implications
... Note that for the analyses presented here, we use log10 transformed precipitation because of the highly skewed distribution of values in California and the biological importance of relative changes in water availability (i.e., a change from 100 to 200 mm has a much larger biological impact than 1100 ...
... Note that for the analyses presented here, we use log10 transformed precipitation because of the highly skewed distribution of values in California and the biological importance of relative changes in water availability (i.e., a change from 100 to 200 mm has a much larger biological impact than 1100 ...
Global warming in the American mind
... warming, strong bipartisan support for international treaties and national mitigation policies, and strong opposition to higher energy or gasoline prices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Relatively few Americans have undertaken individual mitigation behaviors. While global warming does have negat ...
... warming, strong bipartisan support for international treaties and national mitigation policies, and strong opposition to higher energy or gasoline prices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Relatively few Americans have undertaken individual mitigation behaviors. While global warming does have negat ...
Call for Abstracts The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP
... c) Better understanding of vulnerability to recent climate events, and improved impacts modeling, towards better-informed and targeted regional and national planning to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of global climate change. The lack of adequate ground-based observational networks over much of t ...
... c) Better understanding of vulnerability to recent climate events, and improved impacts modeling, towards better-informed and targeted regional and national planning to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of global climate change. The lack of adequate ground-based observational networks over much of t ...
Potential Impacts of Contemporary Changing Climate on Caribbean
... expanded use of wood and fossil fuels for combustion--have been used as inputs to mathematical models to examine global climate changes. The mathematical models are, in general, based upon imperfectlyknown geophysical and geochemical relationships and data. Yet, estimates of global climate change ha ...
... expanded use of wood and fossil fuels for combustion--have been used as inputs to mathematical models to examine global climate changes. The mathematical models are, in general, based upon imperfectlyknown geophysical and geochemical relationships and data. Yet, estimates of global climate change ha ...
Death by Degrees: North Carolina
... illnesses that already affect North Carolina’s residents. Global warming also may change the chemical composition of the water that fish and shellfish inhabit, causing the amount of life-sustaining oxygen in the water to decline, while dangerous pollution and salt levels increase.18 Climate change m ...
... illnesses that already affect North Carolina’s residents. Global warming also may change the chemical composition of the water that fish and shellfish inhabit, causing the amount of life-sustaining oxygen in the water to decline, while dangerous pollution and salt levels increase.18 Climate change m ...
Waste - Cumbria County Council
... climate change projections suggest that in future F&RS may need the capacity to respond to increasingly frequent and severe weather events. A study for CLG in 2006 into the Effects of Climate Change on Fire and Rescue Services in the UK, concluded that:Climate change will lead to an increase in the ...
... climate change projections suggest that in future F&RS may need the capacity to respond to increasingly frequent and severe weather events. A study for CLG in 2006 into the Effects of Climate Change on Fire and Rescue Services in the UK, concluded that:Climate change will lead to an increase in the ...
CV - Princeton University
... Measuring time in the greenhouse: an editorial essay (with B. C. O’Neill and S. R. Gaffin). Climatic Change, 37, 491. ...
... Measuring time in the greenhouse: an editorial essay (with B. C. O’Neill and S. R. Gaffin). Climatic Change, 37, 491. ...
the calm before the storm
... Deforestation, land degradation, high-input monocultures and the overexploitation of ground water have led to high yields up to now, but also make the coffee plantations particularly susceptible to extreme weather events. An unusually severe period of drought in 2009/2010 also affected coffee produc ...
... Deforestation, land degradation, high-input monocultures and the overexploitation of ground water have led to high yields up to now, but also make the coffee plantations particularly susceptible to extreme weather events. An unusually severe period of drought in 2009/2010 also affected coffee produc ...
Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS)/ Climate and Cryosphere
... CPA2. Glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets, and their relation to sea level (Koni Steffen, JZ) CPA3. High Latitude oceans and the marine cryosphere (Ian Allison, CM, AW) ...
... CPA2. Glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets, and their relation to sea level (Koni Steffen, JZ) CPA3. High Latitude oceans and the marine cryosphere (Ian Allison, CM, AW) ...
Field methodological approaches to investigate the short
... surface layers became drier (e.g. Cognettia sphagnetorum), others were not able to withstand the adverse conditions and their populations were dramatically reduced (e.g. Cernosvitoviella atrata). Consequently, this resulted in alterations of the community structure in response to changing environmen ...
... surface layers became drier (e.g. Cognettia sphagnetorum), others were not able to withstand the adverse conditions and their populations were dramatically reduced (e.g. Cernosvitoviella atrata). Consequently, this resulted in alterations of the community structure in response to changing environmen ...
Climate in the Pacific: a regional summary of new science and
... adaptation in this region. It follows that enhanced scientific knowledge facilitates more effective and efficient decisions by all stakeholders at regional, national, sectoral and local community levels, thereby facilitating sustainable and resilient development for the benefit of all. Over the peri ...
... adaptation in this region. It follows that enhanced scientific knowledge facilitates more effective and efficient decisions by all stakeholders at regional, national, sectoral and local community levels, thereby facilitating sustainable and resilient development for the benefit of all. Over the peri ...
Impact of Climate Change on Pavement Performance: Preliminary Lessons Learned through the Infrastructure and Climate Network (ICNet). Climate Effects on Pavement and Geotechnical Infrastructure.
... loading, reducing their serviceable life span, and increasing maintenance costs, all of which would have a major negative impact on the nation’s economy. An increase in pavement temperature as a result of rising air temperature, reduction in subgrade and hot mix asphalt (HMA) modulus due to high rai ...
... loading, reducing their serviceable life span, and increasing maintenance costs, all of which would have a major negative impact on the nation’s economy. An increase in pavement temperature as a result of rising air temperature, reduction in subgrade and hot mix asphalt (HMA) modulus due to high rai ...
Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse
... historical anthropogenic and natural forcings, and future greenhouse gas emission scenarios (Methods), each covering a 200-year period. We determine Niño3 rainfall skewness over the 200-year period in each model. Using skewness greater than 1 and Niño3 rainfall exceeding 5 mm per day as criteria for ...
... historical anthropogenic and natural forcings, and future greenhouse gas emission scenarios (Methods), each covering a 200-year period. We determine Niño3 rainfall skewness over the 200-year period in each model. Using skewness greater than 1 and Niño3 rainfall exceeding 5 mm per day as criteria for ...
Climate change vulnerability assessment for aquatic ecosystems in
... Climate change is significantly affecting aquatic ecosystems around the world. In wetlands, these effects are evident through the melting of permafrost peatlands (Parish et al. 2008). In the Great Lakes region, projected declines in water levels are expected to change the water budgets of wetlands a ...
... Climate change is significantly affecting aquatic ecosystems around the world. In wetlands, these effects are evident through the melting of permafrost peatlands (Parish et al. 2008). In the Great Lakes region, projected declines in water levels are expected to change the water budgets of wetlands a ...
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... these issues, we focus on climate/weather-related risk for two additional reasons. First, the growing availability of high quality geo-referenced data on weather makes this important and exogenous component of the environment riskiness measurable, along with the related household’s response. Second ...
... these issues, we focus on climate/weather-related risk for two additional reasons. First, the growing availability of high quality geo-referenced data on weather makes this important and exogenous component of the environment riskiness measurable, along with the related household’s response. Second ...
Interacting Regional-Scale Regime Shifts for Biodiversity and
... ecosystem services over the twenty-first century could be far greater than was previously predicted. We identify key policy and management opportunities at regional to global scales to avoid these shifts. Keywords: biodiversity change, human–environment interactions, tipping points, South America, S ...
... ecosystem services over the twenty-first century could be far greater than was previously predicted. We identify key policy and management opportunities at regional to global scales to avoid these shifts. Keywords: biodiversity change, human–environment interactions, tipping points, South America, S ...
Economic Impacts Of Climate Change On Georgia
... referred to as greenhouse gases (GHGs) because they can trap radiation on Earth in a manner analogous to that of the glass of a greenhouse and have a warming effect on the globe. Among the other most notable GHGs are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and chlorofluorocarbons (C ...
... referred to as greenhouse gases (GHGs) because they can trap radiation on Earth in a manner analogous to that of the glass of a greenhouse and have a warming effect on the globe. Among the other most notable GHGs are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and chlorofluorocarbons (C ...
2 The scientification of climate politics
... that if you wait until you know for sure, it will be too late to intervene. It is also frequently argued that early implementation of measures is in the end cheaper than taking measures at a later stage or even after the fact. Although there is increasing scientific knowledge about global warming, t ...
... that if you wait until you know for sure, it will be too late to intervene. It is also frequently argued that early implementation of measures is in the end cheaper than taking measures at a later stage or even after the fact. Although there is increasing scientific knowledge about global warming, t ...
Climate and Happiness
... requirements, determines clothing and nutritional needs and limits recreational activities. As such it is to be expected that individuals will have a preference for particular types of climate. These preferences have indeed been observed using a variety of approaches including regional analyses of w ...
... requirements, determines clothing and nutritional needs and limits recreational activities. As such it is to be expected that individuals will have a preference for particular types of climate. These preferences have indeed been observed using a variety of approaches including regional analyses of w ...
The study - WWF
... emission reduction targets they should set to stay within their long-term carbon budget. Using a global carbon budget consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2C above preindustrial levels, this policy brief draws on new research by international consulting firm, Ecofys, ...
... emission reduction targets they should set to stay within their long-term carbon budget. Using a global carbon budget consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2C above preindustrial levels, this policy brief draws on new research by international consulting firm, Ecofys, ...
Global warming hiatus
A global warming hiatus, also sometimes referred to as a global warming pause or a global warming slowdown, is a period of relatively little change in globally averaged surface temperatures. In the current episode of global warming many such periods are evident in the surface temperature record, along with robust evidence of the long term warming trend.The exceptionally warm El Niño year of 1998 was an outlier from the continuing temperature trend, and so gave the appearance of a hiatus: by January 2006 assertions had been made that this showed that global warming had stopped. A 2009 study showed that decades without warming were not exceptional, and in 2011 a study showed that if allowances were made for known variability, the rising temperature trend continued unabated. There was increased public interest in 2013 in the run-up to publication of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, and despite concerns that a 15-year period was too short to determine a meaningful trend, the IPCC included a section on a hiatus, which it defined as a much smaller increasing linear trend over the 15 years from 1998 to 2012, than over the 60 years from 1951 to 2012. Various studies examined possible causes of the short term slowdown. Even though the overall climate system had continued to accumulate energy due to Earth's positive energy budget, the available temperature readings at the earth's surface indicated slower rates of increase in surface warming than in the prior decade. Since measurements at the top of the atmosphere show that Earth is receiving more energy than it is radiating back into space, the retained energy should be producing warming in at least one of the five parts of Earth's climate system.A July 2015 paper on the updated NOAA dataset cast doubt on the existence of this supposed hiatus, and found no indication of a slowdown. This analysis incorporated the latest corrections for known biases in ocean temperature measurements, and new land temperature data. Scientists working on other datasets welcomed this study, though the view was expressed that the short term warming trend had been slower than in previous periods of the same length.