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 ...
Coherence among the Northern Hemisphere land, cryosphere, and
... control on sea ice extent dynamics. This is assuming the trend in anthropogenic CO2 emission remains constant, or the interannual changes in the trends are negligible. Our analysis suggests that sea ice decline-related CO2 release may outweigh increased CO2 uptake through longer growing seasons and ...
... control on sea ice extent dynamics. This is assuming the trend in anthropogenic CO2 emission remains constant, or the interannual changes in the trends are negligible. Our analysis suggests that sea ice decline-related CO2 release may outweigh increased CO2 uptake through longer growing seasons and ...
climate change - University of Alaska Southeast
... that use mathematic equations to represent climate processes. Information about regional geography, such as elevation, slope, and coastlines, can be integrated into global climate models so that they better reflect the projected changes at a regional scale. This process is called downscaling, and it ...
... that use mathematic equations to represent climate processes. Information about regional geography, such as elevation, slope, and coastlines, can be integrated into global climate models so that they better reflect the projected changes at a regional scale. This process is called downscaling, and it ...
Why (what) do policy makers need to know about uncertainties
... Most scientists that I know are convinced that climate change is real. That there is an overwhelming ‘consensus’ of scientists who are convinced of the same. We can provide ample evidence to justify this belief. Most of us are happy to sign up to the IPCC key conclusion that: Warming of the climate ...
... Most scientists that I know are convinced that climate change is real. That there is an overwhelming ‘consensus’ of scientists who are convinced of the same. We can provide ample evidence to justify this belief. Most of us are happy to sign up to the IPCC key conclusion that: Warming of the climate ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Why the
... international organizations and selected for a specific task according to their expertise. They come from universities, research centers, business and environmental associations and other organizations from more than 100 countries. Several hundred experts from all over the world are normally involve ...
... international organizations and selected for a specific task according to their expertise. They come from universities, research centers, business and environmental associations and other organizations from more than 100 countries. Several hundred experts from all over the world are normally involve ...
Presentation slides
... * Mima S, Criqui P, and Watkiss P (2011). The Impacts and Economic Costs of Climate Change on Enery in Europe. Summary of Results from the EC RTD ClimateCost Project. In Watkiss, P (Editor), 2011. The ClimateCost Project. Final Report. Volume 1: Europe. Published by the Stockholm Environment Institu ...
... * Mima S, Criqui P, and Watkiss P (2011). The Impacts and Economic Costs of Climate Change on Enery in Europe. Summary of Results from the EC RTD ClimateCost Project. In Watkiss, P (Editor), 2011. The ClimateCost Project. Final Report. Volume 1: Europe. Published by the Stockholm Environment Institu ...
Teaching Notes - Enduring Legacies Native Cases
... What evidence do we have that sea level is rising? What is the projected sea level rise for Seattle by 2050? ‘By 2100? What is the range of those projections? Why does a massive amount of river runoff during storms cause the tidal level to rise in parts of Puget Sound (mostly the southern part of th ...
... What evidence do we have that sea level is rising? What is the projected sea level rise for Seattle by 2050? ‘By 2100? What is the range of those projections? Why does a massive amount of river runoff during storms cause the tidal level to rise in parts of Puget Sound (mostly the southern part of th ...
Slide 1
... Causes of Recent Climate Change • There is very high confidence that humangenerated increases in greenhouse gas concentrations are responsible for most of the global warming observed during the past 50 years ...
... Causes of Recent Climate Change • There is very high confidence that humangenerated increases in greenhouse gas concentrations are responsible for most of the global warming observed during the past 50 years ...
03_MATCH_paper2_May17 - Modelling and assessment of
... for both global mean values and OECD Annex I GHG emissions • We examined the consistency between the emissions and observed concentrations • We estimated forcing and forcing uncertainty from all other known climate factors • We examined the implications of this uncertainty for predicted global avera ...
... for both global mean values and OECD Annex I GHG emissions • We examined the consistency between the emissions and observed concentrations • We estimated forcing and forcing uncertainty from all other known climate factors • We examined the implications of this uncertainty for predicted global avera ...
Cryosphere
... Older sea ice is thicker and more resistant to melt than new ice, so it protects the ice cap from summer melting. In September 1984, 1.86 106 km2 of sea ice was 5 years or older. In September 2016, this area was reduced to 0.110106 km2 (-94%). ...
... Older sea ice is thicker and more resistant to melt than new ice, so it protects the ice cap from summer melting. In September 1984, 1.86 106 km2 of sea ice was 5 years or older. In September 2016, this area was reduced to 0.110106 km2 (-94%). ...
Introduction. Climate change and urban areas: research dialogue in
... temperatures also affect the development of cyclones. They present a detailed analysis of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season which provides support for the Webster et al. study. For example, the 1991–1993 combined seasons had a total of 22 storms, 12 of which were hurricanes, and of those two were c ...
... temperatures also affect the development of cyclones. They present a detailed analysis of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season which provides support for the Webster et al. study. For example, the 1991–1993 combined seasons had a total of 22 storms, 12 of which were hurricanes, and of those two were c ...
... In fact, the proper discount rate might be quite small. First, given that a disaster implies a large drop in consumption, it also implies a high marginal utility of consumption. Second, one can think of a GHG abatement policy as a form of insurance: society is paying for a guarantee that the low-pro ...
Yamba paper V2 - NSW Coastal Conference
... climatic events over years and decades (climate variability) allowing longer term analysis over centuries of sea level trends from climate change. When compared to the variability shown for the last 200 years, recent decades appear unrepresentative of long term patterns. Over the next few decades, s ...
... climatic events over years and decades (climate variability) allowing longer term analysis over centuries of sea level trends from climate change. When compared to the variability shown for the last 200 years, recent decades appear unrepresentative of long term patterns. Over the next few decades, s ...
Regional Climate Messages for Southern Africa
... climate system”. The study uses tree ring proxy climate data to demonstrate the existence of cyclical patterns of variability on time scales of approximately 18 and 80 years. Decadal and longer term variability in the climate system results from natural processes both internal and external to the cl ...
... climate system”. The study uses tree ring proxy climate data to demonstrate the existence of cyclical patterns of variability on time scales of approximately 18 and 80 years. Decadal and longer term variability in the climate system results from natural processes both internal and external to the cl ...
Agriculture in the Midwest
... Potential Future Impacts temperatures from 14 to 23°C which in turn leads to lower harvest indices (Prasad et al., 2008). In their studies, when The chances for continued impacts for climate change are nighttime temperatures increased above 20°C there was a increasing according to a recent study by ...
... Potential Future Impacts temperatures from 14 to 23°C which in turn leads to lower harvest indices (Prasad et al., 2008). In their studies, when The chances for continued impacts for climate change are nighttime temperatures increased above 20°C there was a increasing according to a recent study by ...
SSL 1105 LAND - Makerere University Courses
... The course introduces students to the relationship between land and the atmosphere and how they influence each other. It looks at the energy budget of the earth, fundamental cycles of N, water and carbon. It equips them with knowledge on causes of atmospheric pollution and how it can be mitigated. T ...
... The course introduces students to the relationship between land and the atmosphere and how they influence each other. It looks at the energy budget of the earth, fundamental cycles of N, water and carbon. It equips them with knowledge on causes of atmospheric pollution and how it can be mitigated. T ...
Developing and Applying Scenarios: A summary from the Third
... climate, impacts and outcomes to describe the coping range. • Address adaptation to climate variability and extremes as part of reducing vulnerability to longer-term climate change. • Assess risk according to how far climate change, in conjunction with other drivers of change, may drive activities b ...
... climate, impacts and outcomes to describe the coping range. • Address adaptation to climate variability and extremes as part of reducing vulnerability to longer-term climate change. • Assess risk according to how far climate change, in conjunction with other drivers of change, may drive activities b ...
- UCSB Sustainability
... percent chance that the official United Nations target of limiting the rise in average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius by the year 2050 would effectively avert irreversible climate change. The latest reports of the IPCC and in particular, the view of Dr. James Hansen, the world’s bestknown climate ...
... percent chance that the official United Nations target of limiting the rise in average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius by the year 2050 would effectively avert irreversible climate change. The latest reports of the IPCC and in particular, the view of Dr. James Hansen, the world’s bestknown climate ...
The Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta in a Changing Climate
... on assumed sedimentation rates, subsidence and sea-level rise. The margins were compared with observational evidence, and empirical corrections were made to the sedimentation and subsidence rates. • Using the publicly available Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, we have generated different scena ...
... on assumed sedimentation rates, subsidence and sea-level rise. The margins were compared with observational evidence, and empirical corrections were made to the sedimentation and subsidence rates. • Using the publicly available Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, we have generated different scena ...
Research Paper: Climate Change and Resource Sustainability
... 5.4 Impact of Low-Carbon Economy on Investments – Stranded Assets ................................. 32 5.5 Challenges in Implementing the Mitigation Measures ....................................................... 32 5.6 Adaptation to Climate Change .................................................. ...
... 5.4 Impact of Low-Carbon Economy on Investments – Stranded Assets ................................. 32 5.5 Challenges in Implementing the Mitigation Measures ....................................................... 32 5.6 Adaptation to Climate Change .................................................. ...
ABBE Level 3 Diploma in Domestic Green Deal Advice Annex D
... Training Material © Stroma Certification 2012 | Version 1.0 ...
... Training Material © Stroma Certification 2012 | Version 1.0 ...
Variability properties of daily and monthly observed near-surface
... where Nj is the number of regional stations for the year j. The use of regional average, in general, provides a time series that is a better representation of large-scale climatic processes (Partal and Kahya, 2006), thus making it easier to deal with one index series in a region. Before using the M ...
... where Nj is the number of regional stations for the year j. The use of regional average, in general, provides a time series that is a better representation of large-scale climatic processes (Partal and Kahya, 2006), thus making it easier to deal with one index series in a region. Before using the M ...
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.