Future Sea Level Rise Sources
... 2. Lists factors contributing to uncertainty: 1. the assumed future greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions, 2. the resulting greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, which depends on the various sources and sinks of the various gases, 3. the effect of the changed concentrations on the radiativ ...
... 2. Lists factors contributing to uncertainty: 1. the assumed future greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions, 2. the resulting greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, which depends on the various sources and sinks of the various gases, 3. the effect of the changed concentrations on the radiativ ...
Climate Change
... initiatives (e.g., community action with industry, non-governmental organizations) to address climate change NEW_666666 0010208 describe the greenhouse effect and recognize its importance for life ES2.06D describe the natural and human causes of climate change on the planet and in particular to Cana ...
... initiatives (e.g., community action with industry, non-governmental organizations) to address climate change NEW_666666 0010208 describe the greenhouse effect and recognize its importance for life ES2.06D describe the natural and human causes of climate change on the planet and in particular to Cana ...
The Impact of Climate Change and Forest Management on the
... • Hydrometoerological changes are predicted to have significant impacts on hydrology – Cold region hydrological processes are very temperaturesensitive ...
... • Hydrometoerological changes are predicted to have significant impacts on hydrology – Cold region hydrological processes are very temperaturesensitive ...
Climate change and Sea-level rise
... witnessed now to gas emissions from our use of fossil fuels. These emissions have caused an increase in heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. A number of researchers using advanced mathematical models of atmospheric and oceanic circulation have shown that human carbon emissions ...
... witnessed now to gas emissions from our use of fossil fuels. These emissions have caused an increase in heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. A number of researchers using advanced mathematical models of atmospheric and oceanic circulation have shown that human carbon emissions ...
Thermal Expansion Activity (Teacher version)
... Discuss Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise in class. Students will be performing an experiment on how thermal expansion of water contributes to sea level rise. 1. Add water to the flask so that there is some water in its neck (ignore the fill line stamped/etched onto the flask). 2. Place the thermome ...
... Discuss Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise in class. Students will be performing an experiment on how thermal expansion of water contributes to sea level rise. 1. Add water to the flask so that there is some water in its neck (ignore the fill line stamped/etched onto the flask). 2. Place the thermome ...
Climate Scientists Virtually Unanimous: Anthropogenic Global
... omitted it from their calculation. Of the 11,944 articles in their database, they labelled 7,930 (66.4%) as taking no position and ruled them out of the consensus. But since the consensus, ipso facto, is what the majority agree with, one cannot rule out a two-thirds majority and still derive the con ...
... omitted it from their calculation. Of the 11,944 articles in their database, they labelled 7,930 (66.4%) as taking no position and ruled them out of the consensus. But since the consensus, ipso facto, is what the majority agree with, one cannot rule out a two-thirds majority and still derive the con ...
powerpoint presentation
... possibly in response? Bryden et al. (Nature, 2005) measurements at 25°N suggested a slowdown. They have since withdrawn this conclusion – their results were probably aliased by the large seasonal cycle. ...
... possibly in response? Bryden et al. (Nature, 2005) measurements at 25°N suggested a slowdown. They have since withdrawn this conclusion – their results were probably aliased by the large seasonal cycle. ...
UNEP 2009 Global Outlook on Ice and Snow Highlights
... Sea ice is vital habitat for organisms ranging from tiny bacteria, algae, worms and crustaceans to sea birds, penguins, seals, walrus, polar bears and whales. Some sea-ice dependent animals are already at risk and the predicted declines in sea ice may lead to extinctions. Shrinking sea ice is forcin ...
... Sea ice is vital habitat for organisms ranging from tiny bacteria, algae, worms and crustaceans to sea birds, penguins, seals, walrus, polar bears and whales. Some sea-ice dependent animals are already at risk and the predicted declines in sea ice may lead to extinctions. Shrinking sea ice is forcin ...
Chapter 18 Multiple Choice Questions Name: 18.4 Multiple
... 2) The atmosphere around Earth is warmed because ________. A) warm air cannot escape, as in a greenhouse B) molecules in the atmosphere are warmed by radiation from Earth and retain that heat C) fossil fuels release heat D) plants absorb CO2 E) plants release CO2 Answer: B Diff: 2 Objective: 18.1 Fa ...
... 2) The atmosphere around Earth is warmed because ________. A) warm air cannot escape, as in a greenhouse B) molecules in the atmosphere are warmed by radiation from Earth and retain that heat C) fossil fuels release heat D) plants absorb CO2 E) plants release CO2 Answer: B Diff: 2 Objective: 18.1 Fa ...
PDF > Chapter 1
... Climate will change very slowly in the future because the oceans with their immense volumes of water react very gradually to change. Therefore, many but not all of the consequences of climate change triggered by human activity will only gradually become noticeable. Some of these consequences could a ...
... Climate will change very slowly in the future because the oceans with their immense volumes of water react very gradually to change. Therefore, many but not all of the consequences of climate change triggered by human activity will only gradually become noticeable. Some of these consequences could a ...
Week 7, Part 2 - Atmospheric Sciences at UNBC
... been retreating during the past decades: Syslov (1961) reports that the permafrost extent at Mezen (Russia) has retreated northward at an average rate of 400 m per year since 1837, whereas similar findings have been reported for the Mackenzie Valley of Canada. • Although permafrost is temperature de ...
... been retreating during the past decades: Syslov (1961) reports that the permafrost extent at Mezen (Russia) has retreated northward at an average rate of 400 m per year since 1837, whereas similar findings have been reported for the Mackenzie Valley of Canada. • Although permafrost is temperature de ...
Off the charts: Extreme Australian summer heat
... over 39°C. This is the longest period ever for such high temperatures. It broke the previous record of four days set in 1973. A four day sequence had only occurred once in the historical record. The length, extent and severity of this heatwave are unprecedented in the measurement record. Although Au ...
... over 39°C. This is the longest period ever for such high temperatures. It broke the previous record of four days set in 1973. A four day sequence had only occurred once in the historical record. The length, extent and severity of this heatwave are unprecedented in the measurement record. Although Au ...
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... The CBSE has taken cognizance of environmental problems much earlier and introduced Environmental Education for all classes (secondary as well as senior secondary) in its schools. Since the subject is transacted through the activity and the project mode it is evaluated both qualitatively and quantit ...
... The CBSE has taken cognizance of environmental problems much earlier and introduced Environmental Education for all classes (secondary as well as senior secondary) in its schools. Since the subject is transacted through the activity and the project mode it is evaluated both qualitatively and quantit ...
from 1950 to 2006 - Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts
... WI averaged for all 14 GCM’s) (Future projections (Averaged over all models.) ...
... WI averaged for all 14 GCM’s) (Future projections (Averaged over all models.) ...
1.1. Adaptive Governance And Scientific Management
... our future vulnerability to flood under climate change, even as we improve our ability to forecast individual flood events, is quite limited: uncertainties in each of the many vulnerability factors in an extreme event are compounded in their conjunction, and no conjunction is replicated even in the ...
... our future vulnerability to flood under climate change, even as we improve our ability to forecast individual flood events, is quite limited: uncertainties in each of the many vulnerability factors in an extreme event are compounded in their conjunction, and no conjunction is replicated even in the ...
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
... 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap warned: “Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict. They will likely lead to food and water shortages, pan ...
... 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap warned: “Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict. They will likely lead to food and water shortages, pan ...
Oceans and Global Climate
... Lab exercises: Two days during the semester have been set aside for lab exercises. One exercise covers surface ocean circulation, the other covers deep ocean circulation. Both will require some computer work outside of class. The purpose of these exercises is to give you an opportunity to work with ...
... Lab exercises: Two days during the semester have been set aside for lab exercises. One exercise covers surface ocean circulation, the other covers deep ocean circulation. Both will require some computer work outside of class. The purpose of these exercises is to give you an opportunity to work with ...
Climate Change: Lessons for our Future from the Distant Past
... Greenhouse gases are crucial to life on earth, as they are fundamental to maintaining the planet’s temperature within limits supportive of life. There are four important greenhouse gases: water vapour (H2 O), carbon dioxide (CO2 ), nitrous oxide (N2 O), and methane (CH4 ). The last two gases have ca ...
... Greenhouse gases are crucial to life on earth, as they are fundamental to maintaining the planet’s temperature within limits supportive of life. There are four important greenhouse gases: water vapour (H2 O), carbon dioxide (CO2 ), nitrous oxide (N2 O), and methane (CH4 ). The last two gases have ca ...
Global warming as an asymmetric public bad
... To our knowledge, the question of asymmetries between countries, which we are specifically interested in in this paper, is only addressed by Farnham and Kennedy (2014). Yet the authors confine their attention to the size of the countries. No analysis seems to take into account the fact that some ada ...
... To our knowledge, the question of asymmetries between countries, which we are specifically interested in in this paper, is only addressed by Farnham and Kennedy (2014). Yet the authors confine their attention to the size of the countries. No analysis seems to take into account the fact that some ada ...
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.