EPS position on energy and environment
... e eighties were dominated by the nuclear debate with public concern on the health effects of low dose radiation, reactor safety and the problem of long term storage of nuclear waste. e argument was sealed by the nuclear reactor accident in Chernobyl in April 1986 leading to a moratorium on nuclear ...
... e eighties were dominated by the nuclear debate with public concern on the health effects of low dose radiation, reactor safety and the problem of long term storage of nuclear waste. e argument was sealed by the nuclear reactor accident in Chernobyl in April 1986 leading to a moratorium on nuclear ...
The Myth of Dangerous Human
... about how climate works? The answer – as detailed in such useful references as Philander (1998), IPCC (2001), Ruddiman (2001), Kininmonth (2004) and Singer and Avery (2006) – is ‘a very great deal, though not yet enough to predict its future with any certainty’. And we would certainly hope that the ...
... about how climate works? The answer – as detailed in such useful references as Philander (1998), IPCC (2001), Ruddiman (2001), Kininmonth (2004) and Singer and Avery (2006) – is ‘a very great deal, though not yet enough to predict its future with any certainty’. And we would certainly hope that the ...
climate change in the american mind
... Overall, Americans' beliefs and attitudes about global warming have remained relatively stable over the past several months, with a few exceptions. There has been a slight increase in the proportion of people that believe global warming is happening and a slight decrease in the proportion that belie ...
... Overall, Americans' beliefs and attitudes about global warming have remained relatively stable over the past several months, with a few exceptions. There has been a slight increase in the proportion of people that believe global warming is happening and a slight decrease in the proportion that belie ...
Climate change drives warming in the Hudson River Estuary, New
... a significant long-term warming trend with a magnitude of 0.015 C per year which equates to a 0.945 C warming of annual mean temperature over the course of the 63 year series 1946–2008. The rate of warming is faster than previously reported annual warming trends for the Hudson14,15 but is relati ...
... a significant long-term warming trend with a magnitude of 0.015 C per year which equates to a 0.945 C warming of annual mean temperature over the course of the 63 year series 1946–2008. The rate of warming is faster than previously reported annual warming trends for the Hudson14,15 but is relati ...
Jeremy D. Shakun
... and regional climate modes during the last deglaciation and their forcing mechanisms University of Vermont, Geology Department, Burlington, VT: A warm-up to global warming: What the last 21,000 years tells us about 21st century climate change ACER-INTIMATE workshop, Bordeaux, France: Global and regi ...
... and regional climate modes during the last deglaciation and their forcing mechanisms University of Vermont, Geology Department, Burlington, VT: A warm-up to global warming: What the last 21,000 years tells us about 21st century climate change ACER-INTIMATE workshop, Bordeaux, France: Global and regi ...
Teacher notes and student sheets
... 10 How does he account for the low values of the costs in Bjorn Lomberg’s argument? Three points: costs are balanced by benefits even though the two do not affect the same people; the costs of impacts in 2100 are very heavily discounted and so priced at a very low value compared to current costs; un ...
... 10 How does he account for the low values of the costs in Bjorn Lomberg’s argument? Three points: costs are balanced by benefits even though the two do not affect the same people; the costs of impacts in 2100 are very heavily discounted and so priced at a very low value compared to current costs; un ...
Climate Change
... • important to consider non-climate risks in order to identify any interactions between climate and non-climate risks and ensure that adaptation measures taken are reasonable and proportional. • consider adaptation to climate change in the context of other ...
... • important to consider non-climate risks in order to identify any interactions between climate and non-climate risks and ensure that adaptation measures taken are reasonable and proportional. • consider adaptation to climate change in the context of other ...
20 - Department of Economics
... atmosphere is estimated to be about 3C. Thus, according to the IPCC climate sensitivity, if the atmospheric concentration of CO2-equivalent rises to 550 ppm, it should lead to an increase in global average temperature by about 3C from the pre-industrial time (IPCC 2007b). However, new developments ...
... atmosphere is estimated to be about 3C. Thus, according to the IPCC climate sensitivity, if the atmospheric concentration of CO2-equivalent rises to 550 ppm, it should lead to an increase in global average temperature by about 3C from the pre-industrial time (IPCC 2007b). However, new developments ...
NITIN GAWALI & PATIL PRAVIN
... faced with. It is fast becoming very evident that humans have caused most of the past century’s warming through the release of heat - trapping gases called green house gases, as we power our modern lives. Their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years. It must be recalled that excessive ...
... faced with. It is fast becoming very evident that humans have caused most of the past century’s warming through the release of heat - trapping gases called green house gases, as we power our modern lives. Their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years. It must be recalled that excessive ...
climate change research at the smithsonian
... http://paleobiology.si.edu/staff/individuals/toscano.html National Museum of Natural History: Deep-Sea Temperature Changes during the Cretaceous “Supergreenhouse” Brian Huber uses marine fossils to examine climate and the carbon cycle during a period of “supergreenhouse” warming about 90 million yea ...
... http://paleobiology.si.edu/staff/individuals/toscano.html National Museum of Natural History: Deep-Sea Temperature Changes during the Cretaceous “Supergreenhouse” Brian Huber uses marine fossils to examine climate and the carbon cycle during a period of “supergreenhouse” warming about 90 million yea ...
Scaling
... b. Arrhenius equation quantifies the relationship between activation energy, temperature and reaction rate. c. Arrhenius plot shows relationship between temp and reaction rate. 4. Arrhenius also one of the first to quantify impact of greenhouse gases a. Calculated that if CO2 ↑ 3 times then temp ↑ 8 ...
... b. Arrhenius equation quantifies the relationship between activation energy, temperature and reaction rate. c. Arrhenius plot shows relationship between temp and reaction rate. 4. Arrhenius also one of the first to quantify impact of greenhouse gases a. Calculated that if CO2 ↑ 3 times then temp ↑ 8 ...
Global Resource Pack
... According to the IPCC, clean solutions have to replace fossil fuels - the main driver of global emissions and dangerous climate change. The report highlights that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to rise, and have risen faster over the past ten years than during the thirty year period precedi ...
... According to the IPCC, clean solutions have to replace fossil fuels - the main driver of global emissions and dangerous climate change. The report highlights that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to rise, and have risen faster over the past ten years than during the thirty year period precedi ...
How warm was the last interglacial? New model–data comparisons
... atmospheric model and includes specified but multiple land covers and plant functional types within a grid cell [29]. The ocean model is the NCAR implementation of the Parallel Ocean Program (POP), a three-dimensional primitive equation model in vertical z-coordinate [30]. The ×1 ocean grid has 320 × ...
... atmospheric model and includes specified but multiple land covers and plant functional types within a grid cell [29]. The ocean model is the NCAR implementation of the Parallel Ocean Program (POP), a three-dimensional primitive equation model in vertical z-coordinate [30]. The ×1 ocean grid has 320 × ...
12Aug2016CSIR_Climate Change and Health
... Perform regional and global climate modelling – Working towards improving representation of Africa in global climate model that we run (CCAM) – Understanding impacts and risks of climate projections – Working across timescales – weather (days lead time), seasonal (1-3 months lead time), climate chan ...
... Perform regional and global climate modelling – Working towards improving representation of Africa in global climate model that we run (CCAM) – Understanding impacts and risks of climate projections – Working across timescales – weather (days lead time), seasonal (1-3 months lead time), climate chan ...
full text pdf
... Climate change impacts in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region and downstream areas, including the Indo-Gangetic plains are particularly threatened by climate change. A large section of the population depends on climate sensitive livelihoods which increase their vulnerability to climate change. Poverty an ...
... Climate change impacts in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region and downstream areas, including the Indo-Gangetic plains are particularly threatened by climate change. A large section of the population depends on climate sensitive livelihoods which increase their vulnerability to climate change. Poverty an ...
Changes in Ecologically Critical Terrestrial Climate Conditions. N
... changes; the behavioral, evolutionary, and ecological responses to those changes; and other interacting stresses can provide a starting point for managing evolving risks (20, 21). Since the beginning of the 20th century, global mean temperature has increased by ~0.8°C and has been accompanied by ris ...
... changes; the behavioral, evolutionary, and ecological responses to those changes; and other interacting stresses can provide a starting point for managing evolving risks (20, 21). Since the beginning of the 20th century, global mean temperature has increased by ~0.8°C and has been accompanied by ris ...
Appendix S1
... A2 scenario following the methodology and forcings defined in Somot et al. (2006). NEMOMED8 is a state-of-the-art regional ocean circulation model designed to study the long-term variability of the Mediterranean Sea (Beuvier et al., 2010; Herrmann et al., 2010; Albouy et al., 2012; L’Hévéder et al., ...
... A2 scenario following the methodology and forcings defined in Somot et al. (2006). NEMOMED8 is a state-of-the-art regional ocean circulation model designed to study the long-term variability of the Mediterranean Sea (Beuvier et al., 2010; Herrmann et al., 2010; Albouy et al., 2012; L’Hévéder et al., ...
Greenhouse Gases: The Climate Change Culprit
... to fill any space available, irrespective of its quantity ...
... to fill any space available, irrespective of its quantity ...
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.