climate change - American Museum of Natural History
... other ways. On a broader scale, governments can encourage the development of non-fossil fuel-based energy sources like solar, wind, and nuclear power; investigate strategies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere; and support sustainable development. While there is no single way to address climate change ...
... other ways. On a broader scale, governments can encourage the development of non-fossil fuel-based energy sources like solar, wind, and nuclear power; investigate strategies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere; and support sustainable development. While there is no single way to address climate change ...
hamlet_harc_oct_2003 - UW Hydro
... Analyze impacts of climate variations on natural and human systems Investigate institutional responses to climatic stresses Assess societal sensitivity, adaptability and vulnerability to climate variability Use evidence from retrospective studies as basis for projecting sensitivity, adaptability and ...
... Analyze impacts of climate variations on natural and human systems Investigate institutional responses to climatic stresses Assess societal sensitivity, adaptability and vulnerability to climate variability Use evidence from retrospective studies as basis for projecting sensitivity, adaptability and ...
impact of climate change on the management of district heating
... day concerns all parts of the world, with the exception of a few regions (north-eastern Canada, southern Argentina, south-eastern Australia). These findings from the study by Vose et al. (2005) have been confirmed by several regional studies (Bonsal et al. 2001; Wibig and Glowicki, 2002; Kruger and ...
... day concerns all parts of the world, with the exception of a few regions (north-eastern Canada, southern Argentina, south-eastern Australia). These findings from the study by Vose et al. (2005) have been confirmed by several regional studies (Bonsal et al. 2001; Wibig and Glowicki, 2002; Kruger and ...
Assessing the impact of late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions on
... the behavior of present-day megafauna in the African savanna (Owen-Smith, 1987). For example, today a large elephant in South Africa consumes 300 kg of vegetation daily (U. Schutte, personal communication, 2012). Therefore, the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna could have allowed an additional ...
... the behavior of present-day megafauna in the African savanna (Owen-Smith, 1987). For example, today a large elephant in South Africa consumes 300 kg of vegetation daily (U. Schutte, personal communication, 2012). Therefore, the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna could have allowed an additional ...
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... Climate change represents far more than just changes in temperature, with changes expected in a broad set of variables relevant to agriculture—temperature, precipitation, CO2 levels, extreme weather, and potential extreme events. Also, climate change will vary by country, potentially favoring some c ...
... Climate change represents far more than just changes in temperature, with changes expected in a broad set of variables relevant to agriculture—temperature, precipitation, CO2 levels, extreme weather, and potential extreme events. Also, climate change will vary by country, potentially favoring some c ...
VLAB_CC_CV_SM_ct (1)
... Module I - Difference between climate change and climate variability • According to the WMO: • Climate variability - Changes that occur within smaller timeframes, such as a month, a season or a year • Climate change - Changes that occur over a longer period of time, typically over decades or longer ...
... Module I - Difference between climate change and climate variability • According to the WMO: • Climate variability - Changes that occur within smaller timeframes, such as a month, a season or a year • Climate change - Changes that occur over a longer period of time, typically over decades or longer ...
JOURNEY TO PLANET EARTH Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
... The damage created by Human-caused climate change costs us money! We have to pay to clean up the aftermaths of deadly storms, heat waves, drought, and flooding, and we have to pay for the loss of biodiversity that climate change is bringing about. Businesses incur costs in manufacturing for, among o ...
... The damage created by Human-caused climate change costs us money! We have to pay to clean up the aftermaths of deadly storms, heat waves, drought, and flooding, and we have to pay for the loss of biodiversity that climate change is bringing about. Businesses incur costs in manufacturing for, among o ...
Analysis of 3 decades temperature data for Athens and Thessaloniki
... In a research for the Zurich-Kloten location in Switzerland [8], which is representative for the climatic situation in the Swiss Central Plateau, an analysis of hourly weather data during the period 1981-2002 was performed. The results showed that both the mean annual and (winter/summer) seasonal ai ...
... In a research for the Zurich-Kloten location in Switzerland [8], which is representative for the climatic situation in the Swiss Central Plateau, an analysis of hourly weather data during the period 1981-2002 was performed. The results showed that both the mean annual and (winter/summer) seasonal ai ...
JOURNEY TO PLANET EARTH Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
... The damage created by Human-caused climate change costs us money! We have to pay to clean up the aftermaths of deadly storms, heat waves, drought, and flooding, and we have to pay for the loss of biodiversity that climate change is bringing about. Businesses incur costs in manufacturing for, among o ...
... The damage created by Human-caused climate change costs us money! We have to pay to clean up the aftermaths of deadly storms, heat waves, drought, and flooding, and we have to pay for the loss of biodiversity that climate change is bringing about. Businesses incur costs in manufacturing for, among o ...
MARINE_ECO_ISAB_030209
... Northward velocity averaged in the top 100 m in August is shaded [cm s-1]. Vectors show ocean velocity averaged in the top 100 m and their unit vector is 50 cm s-1. ...
... Northward velocity averaged in the top 100 m in August is shaded [cm s-1]. Vectors show ocean velocity averaged in the top 100 m and their unit vector is 50 cm s-1. ...
View/Open - Sokoine University of Agriculture
... Two of the strongest El Nino events are evident in the temperature anomalies of 1978 and 1998. The long duration and heavy rainfalls which started in October 1997 and continued through May 1998, greatly reduced temperature extremes which is most evident in the significantly lower maximums and higher ...
... Two of the strongest El Nino events are evident in the temperature anomalies of 1978 and 1998. The long duration and heavy rainfalls which started in October 1997 and continued through May 1998, greatly reduced temperature extremes which is most evident in the significantly lower maximums and higher ...
Greenhouse Effect - Stephen Schneider
... fuel combustion and land use (largely deforestation) are not controversial; levels of other trace greenhouse gases such as methane and chlorofluorocarbons have increased by even larger factors. Estimates of present and future effects, however, have significant uncertainties. There have also recently ...
... fuel combustion and land use (largely deforestation) are not controversial; levels of other trace greenhouse gases such as methane and chlorofluorocarbons have increased by even larger factors. Estimates of present and future effects, however, have significant uncertainties. There have also recently ...
How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War
... amplification,” and predicted effects included thinning and decreased extent of sea ice, and of the Greenland ice sheet, decreased extent of permafrost regions, earlier spring thaws, and ramifying effects of these changes on indigenous peoples who depend on native species for their survival—all of w ...
... amplification,” and predicted effects included thinning and decreased extent of sea ice, and of the Greenland ice sheet, decreased extent of permafrost regions, earlier spring thaws, and ramifying effects of these changes on indigenous peoples who depend on native species for their survival—all of w ...
Summary - CH2014
... the challenge of producing quantitative data on Switzerland within a tight time frame, and with the tools and resources at hand. The coverage of impacts, scenario space, and impact uncertainty is thus not yet comprehensive nor representative. Current limitations also stem from the CH2011 climate sce ...
... the challenge of producing quantitative data on Switzerland within a tight time frame, and with the tools and resources at hand. The coverage of impacts, scenario space, and impact uncertainty is thus not yet comprehensive nor representative. Current limitations also stem from the CH2011 climate sce ...
Coffea arabica yields decline in Tanzania due to climate change
... and list-wise deletion was used to ensure unbiased parameter estimates. All-subsets regression was used as a complementary data mining technique to select parameters for each model. Similar to regression subsets, it performs an exhaustive analysis of all possible variables and presents the best cand ...
... and list-wise deletion was used to ensure unbiased parameter estimates. All-subsets regression was used as a complementary data mining technique to select parameters for each model. Similar to regression subsets, it performs an exhaustive analysis of all possible variables and presents the best cand ...
Geo-engineering the climate
... Now there’s a number of standard objections to geoengineering. Some are geo-political, so it’s been argued that solar radiation management in particular will reduce precipitation, destruct the Asian and African monsoons and consequently have very severe effects on food production and there’ve been a ...
... Now there’s a number of standard objections to geoengineering. Some are geo-political, so it’s been argued that solar radiation management in particular will reduce precipitation, destruct the Asian and African monsoons and consequently have very severe effects on food production and there’ve been a ...
Lab Handout
... 1895 to the present (Menne et al. 2010). These data are particularly useful for climate change studies as the weather stations have remained in the same location for the entirety of the collection period and are situated away from urban areas. This eliminates false temperature trends due to altitudi ...
... 1895 to the present (Menne et al. 2010). These data are particularly useful for climate change studies as the weather stations have remained in the same location for the entirety of the collection period and are situated away from urban areas. This eliminates false temperature trends due to altitudi ...
implications for ecosystem function and structure
... environmental changes continue to affect forest ecosystems, species-specific strategies and responses to changes in the N cycle may become increasingly important in determining plant–soil interactions, forest species composition and the associated long-term feedbacks to the climate system. Models th ...
... environmental changes continue to affect forest ecosystems, species-specific strategies and responses to changes in the N cycle may become increasingly important in determining plant–soil interactions, forest species composition and the associated long-term feedbacks to the climate system. Models th ...
Parallels in reactionary argumentation in the US congressional
... droughts, hurricanes and precipitation levels; changes in biodiversity; increased human morbidity and premature mortality; and human migration. What makes climate change pre-eminently a moral issue is that due to the inertia of the climatic system the bulk of impacts of climate change will clearly n ...
... droughts, hurricanes and precipitation levels; changes in biodiversity; increased human morbidity and premature mortality; and human migration. What makes climate change pre-eminently a moral issue is that due to the inertia of the climatic system the bulk of impacts of climate change will clearly n ...
Sea level rise in the Arctic Ocean
... during the 1950s to 1980s can be explained by atmospheric forcing and by changes in the thermohaline circulation due to changes in the T-S distribution in the ocean. Thermohaline and wind-driven effects are equally important in influencing the ocean circulation and both significantly contribute to t ...
... during the 1950s to 1980s can be explained by atmospheric forcing and by changes in the thermohaline circulation due to changes in the T-S distribution in the ocean. Thermohaline and wind-driven effects are equally important in influencing the ocean circulation and both significantly contribute to t ...
Ocean Model Working Group
... physically similar in their abrupt near-coast orography, upwelling favorable equatorward coastal winds, and non-precipitating stratus clouds, which suggests a common cause for the biases. Numerical experiments indicate that these biases are more the cause of, rather than a passive response to, long ...
... physically similar in their abrupt near-coast orography, upwelling favorable equatorward coastal winds, and non-precipitating stratus clouds, which suggests a common cause for the biases. Numerical experiments indicate that these biases are more the cause of, rather than a passive response to, long ...
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.