The positive impact of human CO2 emissions on the survival of life
... environmental field for over 40 years. Dr. Moore is a Co-Founder of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. Following his time with Greenpeace, Dr. Moore joined the Forest Alliance of BC where he worked for ten ...
... environmental field for over 40 years. Dr. Moore is a Co-Founder of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. Following his time with Greenpeace, Dr. Moore joined the Forest Alliance of BC where he worked for ten ...
here - DeSmogBlog
... their eyes will glaze quickly. It is very hard to make those simple. Skim Front Matter for background, mostly to see the Topics for later reference. Readers unused to non-profits and may spend some time learning about 501(c) organizations, §0.4 and see the IRS-?? codes used to tag alleged violatio ...
... their eyes will glaze quickly. It is very hard to make those simple. Skim Front Matter for background, mostly to see the Topics for later reference. Readers unused to non-profits and may spend some time learning about 501(c) organizations, §0.4 and see the IRS-?? codes used to tag alleged violatio ...
Chapter 2: Climate and Air Quality of Dutchess County, NY
... microclimates across the county. Areas along and just east of the Hudson River, including Red Hook, Rhinebeck, Hyde Park, Poughkeepsie, and Beacon, are generally milder than the rest of the county. Cooler temperatures prevail in higher elevations across the eastern and especially northeastern sectio ...
... microclimates across the county. Areas along and just east of the Hudson River, including Red Hook, Rhinebeck, Hyde Park, Poughkeepsie, and Beacon, are generally milder than the rest of the county. Cooler temperatures prevail in higher elevations across the eastern and especially northeastern sectio ...
Building resilience to climate-related shocks: farmers` vulnerability to
... 2011; Vincent and Cull 2014). Thus, the occurrence of climate shocks and extreme climatic events such as floods, droughts, strong winds, heat waves, earthquakes, hurricanes is widespread. However, it is not easy to attribute any extreme weather event and climate shock to a change in the climate, as ...
... 2011; Vincent and Cull 2014). Thus, the occurrence of climate shocks and extreme climatic events such as floods, droughts, strong winds, heat waves, earthquakes, hurricanes is widespread. However, it is not easy to attribute any extreme weather event and climate shock to a change in the climate, as ...
Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report The Core Writing Team Rajendra K. Pachauri
... and growing, with impacts observed across all continents and oceans. Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The IPCC is now 95 percent certain that humans are the main cause of current global warming. In addition, the SYR finds that the more human a ...
... and growing, with impacts observed across all continents and oceans. Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The IPCC is now 95 percent certain that humans are the main cause of current global warming. In addition, the SYR finds that the more human a ...
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... range over several orders of magnitude. A total of 12 GCMs were retained (35 runs of 20C3M) with the lowest error for use in the ensemble analyses [6]. Changes are expressed in terms of percentage variation from current runoff figures. The runoff changes are assessed at a national scale. On average, ...
... range over several orders of magnitude. A total of 12 GCMs were retained (35 runs of 20C3M) with the lowest error for use in the ensemble analyses [6]. Changes are expressed in terms of percentage variation from current runoff figures. The runoff changes are assessed at a national scale. On average, ...
Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services
... likely to become a net source of carbon during the course of this century (medium confidence), possibly earlier than projected by the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) (low confidence) [4.1, Figure 4.2]. Methane emissions from tundra frozen loess (‘yedoma’, comprising about 500 Pg C) and permafrost ...
... likely to become a net source of carbon during the course of this century (medium confidence), possibly earlier than projected by the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) (low confidence) [4.1, Figure 4.2]. Methane emissions from tundra frozen loess (‘yedoma’, comprising about 500 Pg C) and permafrost ...
The impact of urban heat islands: assessing vulnerability in
... Asian Cities Climate Resilience ...
... Asian Cities Climate Resilience ...
Climate Change Induced Vulnerability to Malaria and
... Cholera epidemics have recorded history in eastern Africa region dating back to 1836. Cholera is now endemic in the Lake Victoria basin, at least since the early 1970s. Thus in 1998 more than 72% of global total number of cholera cases was reported in Africa. Analyses of climate parameters (precipit ...
... Cholera epidemics have recorded history in eastern Africa region dating back to 1836. Cholera is now endemic in the Lake Victoria basin, at least since the early 1970s. Thus in 1998 more than 72% of global total number of cholera cases was reported in Africa. Analyses of climate parameters (precipit ...
Frequently asked questions about ocean acidification
... concentration and the pH scale seawater. There are several reactions that can occur between is logarithmic — for every drop carbon dioxide (CO2), water (H2O), carbonic acid (H2CO3), of 1 pH unit, hydrogen ion bicarbonate ion (HCO3-), and carbonate ion (CO32-). One of the levels increase by a factor ...
... concentration and the pH scale seawater. There are several reactions that can occur between is logarithmic — for every drop carbon dioxide (CO2), water (H2O), carbonic acid (H2CO3), of 1 pH unit, hydrogen ion bicarbonate ion (HCO3-), and carbonate ion (CO32-). One of the levels increase by a factor ...
What is causing rapid change in the Arctic at the moment?
... influenced by the Earth’s surface, clouds, overlying sea ice and water can lead to a number of feedback mechanisms. These interactions are not well understood due to variability and inaccurate parameterisation, brought about by a paucity of data, when used in global climate models but clouds are imp ...
... influenced by the Earth’s surface, clouds, overlying sea ice and water can lead to a number of feedback mechanisms. These interactions are not well understood due to variability and inaccurate parameterisation, brought about by a paucity of data, when used in global climate models but clouds are imp ...
gcos regional action plan for south and southwest asia
... have readily available to them the climate data and related information that they need to manage the impacts of climate. However, the problem is that systematic climate observation programmes in South and Southwest Asia are, at present, inadequate to permit reliable assessment, quantification and pr ...
... have readily available to them the climate data and related information that they need to manage the impacts of climate. However, the problem is that systematic climate observation programmes in South and Southwest Asia are, at present, inadequate to permit reliable assessment, quantification and pr ...
key issues relevant to capacity building for climate services
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... maintains copyright on its materials, as long as attribution is preserved, the resources or any portion of them, including graphics, illlustrations, and text contents, are available for reuse. This makes them highly adaptable to meet many needseven if portions are deemed not appropriate for a pa ...
Do Not Cite, Quote, or Distribute IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 7
... especially over the 100 year time frame, it is possible to read the chapter and come away with the impression that, really, the risk may not be so large -- the situation not too bad. This impression contrasts starkly with papers like Battisti and Naylor (2009). From their abstract: "We used observat ...
... especially over the 100 year time frame, it is possible to read the chapter and come away with the impression that, really, the risk may not be so large -- the situation not too bad. This impression contrasts starkly with papers like Battisti and Naylor (2009). From their abstract: "We used observat ...
Chapter 18 - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
... 2001). Projections of climate change over the 21st century, based on emissions scenarios and computer model simulations (Chapter 4) are described, as are the observed and projected changes in stratospheric ozone and UV radiation levels (Chapter 5). Next, the chapter summarizes arctic-wide consequenc ...
... 2001). Projections of climate change over the 21st century, based on emissions scenarios and computer model simulations (Chapter 4) are described, as are the observed and projected changes in stratospheric ozone and UV radiation levels (Chapter 5). Next, the chapter summarizes arctic-wide consequenc ...
PDF - World Agroforestry Centre
... Sichuan and northwest Yunnan. The total land area of the Plateau is around 2.5 million km2, accounting for about 26% of China’s land area (Zhang et al. 2002). The average altitude of the Plateau is above 4000 masl, and lying between 26º and 40º latitude, the Plateau is characterized by cold temperat ...
... Sichuan and northwest Yunnan. The total land area of the Plateau is around 2.5 million km2, accounting for about 26% of China’s land area (Zhang et al. 2002). The average altitude of the Plateau is above 4000 masl, and lying between 26º and 40º latitude, the Plateau is characterized by cold temperat ...
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.