Oxfam-Diamond Valley Newsletter December 2015
... meat/chicken/vegie burgers to cook, a dessert/salad to share, plate, cutlery, wine and glass, fold up chairs (in cars unless needed). As Cathie and Reg are moving in February, it will be the last event here. Planning is well underway for the 2016 Oxfam-D.V. program, so come along and help us remembe ...
... meat/chicken/vegie burgers to cook, a dessert/salad to share, plate, cutlery, wine and glass, fold up chairs (in cars unless needed). As Cathie and Reg are moving in February, it will be the last event here. Planning is well underway for the 2016 Oxfam-D.V. program, so come along and help us remembe ...
Science of Climate Change
... been caused by the rapid increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations due to human activities since the start of the industrial revolution. In addition, the IPCC found that climate change had influenced an increase in ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and a rising global ave ...
... been caused by the rapid increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations due to human activities since the start of the industrial revolution. In addition, the IPCC found that climate change had influenced an increase in ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and a rising global ave ...
Long Term Temperature Trends in Four Different Climatic Zones of
... 1.1 Global Climate Variations Most of the studies related to climatic pattern at global and local scales are based on temperature and precipitation data. Studies using temperature records have shown that the annual global combined land and ocean surface temperature was 0.62° C above the 20th century ...
... 1.1 Global Climate Variations Most of the studies related to climatic pattern at global and local scales are based on temperature and precipitation data. Studies using temperature records have shown that the annual global combined land and ocean surface temperature was 0.62° C above the 20th century ...
Potential impacts of climate change on the Wet Tropics
... climatic changes per se, as they will have to deal with a variety of new competitors, predators, diseases and introduced species for which they have no natural defence. Existing ecosystems are predicted to undergo major changes: some may entirely disappear; some totally new or novel ecosystems may a ...
... climatic changes per se, as they will have to deal with a variety of new competitors, predators, diseases and introduced species for which they have no natural defence. Existing ecosystems are predicted to undergo major changes: some may entirely disappear; some totally new or novel ecosystems may a ...
Lake Baikal as possible sentinel of the Climate Change
... It is necessary to remind that Earth climate is the result of extremely complex interaction of atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and lithosphere and such external for them forces as planet rotation velocity, heat flow from the magma, solar activity and many others. There have been two sustained p ...
... It is necessary to remind that Earth climate is the result of extremely complex interaction of atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and lithosphere and such external for them forces as planet rotation velocity, heat flow from the magma, solar activity and many others. There have been two sustained p ...
Climate Variability and Weather
... years of observation, consistent patterns have emerged. Certain changes become more (or less) likely when either warming or cooling occurs (Box 1). ENSO is even large enough to change globally averaged temperature. During an El Niño episode energy moves from the ocean to the atmosphere, and the glob ...
... years of observation, consistent patterns have emerged. Certain changes become more (or less) likely when either warming or cooling occurs (Box 1). ENSO is even large enough to change globally averaged temperature. During an El Niño episode energy moves from the ocean to the atmosphere, and the glob ...
West_9.13.14
... Reducing GHG emissions also reduces co-emitted air pollutants - Air quality and health co-benefits shown to be substantial compared to GHG abatement costs. “$2-175 / ton CO2 … all studies agree that monetized health benefits make up a substantial fraction of mitigation costs.” IPCC AR4 “$2-196 / ton ...
... Reducing GHG emissions also reduces co-emitted air pollutants - Air quality and health co-benefits shown to be substantial compared to GHG abatement costs. “$2-175 / ton CO2 … all studies agree that monetized health benefits make up a substantial fraction of mitigation costs.” IPCC AR4 “$2-196 / ton ...
Current and future climate of Tuvalu
... component of the Australian Government’s International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative. This information and research conducted by the Pacific Climate Change Science Program builds on the findings of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. For more detailed information on the climate of Tuvalu ...
... component of the Australian Government’s International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative. This information and research conducted by the Pacific Climate Change Science Program builds on the findings of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. For more detailed information on the climate of Tuvalu ...
“Fertile Crescent” will disappear in this century
... increasing horizontal resolution to better express topographical effects and physical processes without degrading the representation of global climate. Model topography of the target region in this study is shown in Figure 1a. ...
... increasing horizontal resolution to better express topographical effects and physical processes without degrading the representation of global climate. Model topography of the target region in this study is shown in Figure 1a. ...
Days(T1)
... This has been facilitated in recent years by the availability of large number of spatial analysis tools. Software: A number of GIS S/W are available. Soil data: A number of sources of spatial soil data are available e.g. FAO 1:5 million soil map of the world, WISE database, District wise 1:10,000 so ...
... This has been facilitated in recent years by the availability of large number of spatial analysis tools. Software: A number of GIS S/W are available. Soil data: A number of sources of spatial soil data are available e.g. FAO 1:5 million soil map of the world, WISE database, District wise 1:10,000 so ...
GLOBAL WARMING - Galileo Movement
... ‘consensus’. Secondly, the controversy with human caused global warming relates to the alarming, catastrophic, or ‘planet threatening’ changes being predicted by some scientists. Exactly why Doran an Zimmerman refused to pose a more relevant question, such as follows, has not been explained: Is huma ...
... ‘consensus’. Secondly, the controversy with human caused global warming relates to the alarming, catastrophic, or ‘planet threatening’ changes being predicted by some scientists. Exactly why Doran an Zimmerman refused to pose a more relevant question, such as follows, has not been explained: Is huma ...
getting to know humanity`s life support system: earth`s biosphere
... [1603-1867], JAPAN WAS CLOSED TO THE WORLD. . .”5 Japan had a stable population of about 30 million and was self sufficient in all resources during the Edo Period. “As a result, everything was treated as a valuable resource, including materials that would otherwise be considered a nuisance, such ...
... [1603-1867], JAPAN WAS CLOSED TO THE WORLD. . .”5 Japan had a stable population of about 30 million and was self sufficient in all resources during the Edo Period. “As a result, everything was treated as a valuable resource, including materials that would otherwise be considered a nuisance, such ...
freshwater ecosystems
... The zone of intense biogeochemical activity at the land-water interface will expand and contract with fluctuations in the water supply (169). This interface is especially important in streams, temporary ponds, and small lakes because of their large perimeter-to-volume ratio. Stream ecologists have p ...
... The zone of intense biogeochemical activity at the land-water interface will expand and contract with fluctuations in the water supply (169). This interface is especially important in streams, temporary ponds, and small lakes because of their large perimeter-to-volume ratio. Stream ecologists have p ...
Changes in Arctic vegetation amplify high
... response that may depend on vegetation type. It has been suggested that broad-leaf deciduous trees may invade warming tundra more effectively than boreal evergreen trees (4) and, due to the higher rates of transpiration and a higher albedo of deciduous broad-leaf trees compared to needle-leaf evergr ...
... response that may depend on vegetation type. It has been suggested that broad-leaf deciduous trees may invade warming tundra more effectively than boreal evergreen trees (4) and, due to the higher rates of transpiration and a higher albedo of deciduous broad-leaf trees compared to needle-leaf evergr ...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
... lauded as sacrosanct, or sacrificed to the higher gods of political ideology and material interest. However, some have argued that despite the symbolic and political power of scientific consensus, it may tarnish the process of producing objective assessments. A famous case concerned the production o ...
... lauded as sacrosanct, or sacrificed to the higher gods of political ideology and material interest. However, some have argued that despite the symbolic and political power of scientific consensus, it may tarnish the process of producing objective assessments. A famous case concerned the production o ...
ClimateJustice
... What is a Teach-in? •Educational Forum to communicate a complicated current issues ...
... What is a Teach-in? •Educational Forum to communicate a complicated current issues ...
Less Developed Countries
... Hydrosphere: more droughts in inlands, more flooding in low-lying areas, rising sea levels and death of countries Biosphere: More spread of infectious diseases, extinction of animals and loss of biodiversity ...
... Hydrosphere: more droughts in inlands, more flooding in low-lying areas, rising sea levels and death of countries Biosphere: More spread of infectious diseases, extinction of animals and loss of biodiversity ...
Implications of global warming for the climate of African rainforests
... especially at 48C. This is further complicated by projected increases in local temperature, which could allow rainforests to move into regions with higher elevations, but might also have an influence via changing rates of transpiration, photosynthesis and respiration. The present study aims to explo ...
... especially at 48C. This is further complicated by projected increases in local temperature, which could allow rainforests to move into regions with higher elevations, but might also have an influence via changing rates of transpiration, photosynthesis and respiration. The present study aims to explo ...
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.