NASA/UCAR: Effects of Climate Change: Oceans and Ice
... Answer: A y This statement is true and can be deduced from this graph. Glaciers in all regions have been getting smaller since the mid19th Century. ...
... Answer: A y This statement is true and can be deduced from this graph. Glaciers in all regions have been getting smaller since the mid19th Century. ...
How is climate change affecting life on Earth?
... The map at left shows in orange/red areas where there were higher than average number of melt days in 2007. There is evidence that both the rate of ice melt and area of ice melt are increasing. There is evidence that melt water under the ice is increasing glacier movement towards ocean (basal ...
... The map at left shows in orange/red areas where there were higher than average number of melt days in 2007. There is evidence that both the rate of ice melt and area of ice melt are increasing. There is evidence that melt water under the ice is increasing glacier movement towards ocean (basal ...
ClimateChangeHealth_CLewis
... Climate Change – by the Numbers 1979 – First international summit on climate change 1988 – identified as an issue caused by human activities 2014– UN Intergovernmental panel report on Climate Change 2015 - COP 21 (Paris) - goal of keeping global temperature increase below2 degrees. Expected rise in ...
... Climate Change – by the Numbers 1979 – First international summit on climate change 1988 – identified as an issue caused by human activities 2014– UN Intergovernmental panel report on Climate Change 2015 - COP 21 (Paris) - goal of keeping global temperature increase below2 degrees. Expected rise in ...
Observed climate - Climatic Research Unit
... Total rainfall shows high inter-annual variability for the period November-June (growing season), with a coefficient of variation of 21.4%. Rainfall was particularly variable between 1978 and 1989 and between 2000 and 2007. In general, rainfall variability for the reproductive period is similar to t ...
... Total rainfall shows high inter-annual variability for the period November-June (growing season), with a coefficient of variation of 21.4%. Rainfall was particularly variable between 1978 and 1989 and between 2000 and 2007. In general, rainfall variability for the reproductive period is similar to t ...
Climate Change
... black: observed temperature anomaly red: modelled temperature anomaly, with anthropogenic factors blue: modelled temperature anomaly, without anthropogenic factors Prologue ...
... black: observed temperature anomaly red: modelled temperature anomaly, with anthropogenic factors blue: modelled temperature anomaly, without anthropogenic factors Prologue ...
Abrupt Climate Change: Should We Be Worried?
... superseded these weather ships. The demise of the OWS network and the end of the Cold War have left oceanographers with access to far fewer data in recent years. Initial efforts to remedy this deficit are under way,7 but these efforts are nascent and time is of the essence. Satellites can measure wi ...
... superseded these weather ships. The demise of the OWS network and the end of the Cold War have left oceanographers with access to far fewer data in recent years. Initial efforts to remedy this deficit are under way,7 but these efforts are nascent and time is of the essence. Satellites can measure wi ...
The Impacts of the Oceans on Climate Change - CHARLIE
... levels of the partial pressure1 of CO2 (pCO2) in the water are increasing at a much faster rate than the increase of atmospheric CO2, with an especially pronounced reduction in the Northeast Atlantic since ~1995. If these trends continue atmospheric levels of CO2 will further accelerate and temperat ...
... levels of the partial pressure1 of CO2 (pCO2) in the water are increasing at a much faster rate than the increase of atmospheric CO2, with an especially pronounced reduction in the Northeast Atlantic since ~1995. If these trends continue atmospheric levels of CO2 will further accelerate and temperat ...
Climate Change: the atmosphere as an impaired air
... the close relationship between the physical, chemical and biological components of the Earth. Modern human beings viz. Homo sapiens emerged during the second-last cold period. Agriculture emerged roughly 10,000 years ago at the peak of the latest warm episode. Empirically one would expect cooling to ...
... the close relationship between the physical, chemical and biological components of the Earth. Modern human beings viz. Homo sapiens emerged during the second-last cold period. Agriculture emerged roughly 10,000 years ago at the peak of the latest warm episode. Empirically one would expect cooling to ...
Fish Decline, Caused by Global Warming, May Leave Many Hungry
... changes caused by climate change (21). Deforestation and shifting temperature patterns are making the Amazon region drier and hotter. Since the mid-1970s, all tropical rainforest regions have experienced a strong warming at the mean rate of 0.26 + 0.05°C per decade, in synchrony with a global rise i ...
... changes caused by climate change (21). Deforestation and shifting temperature patterns are making the Amazon region drier and hotter. Since the mid-1970s, all tropical rainforest regions have experienced a strong warming at the mean rate of 0.26 + 0.05°C per decade, in synchrony with a global rise i ...
Threats to the Biosphere: Eight Interactive Global
... In 1927, the global human population was 2 billion; in 2010, it is nearly 7 billion, which is over a 3-fold increase in a single human lifetime on a finite planet. In 2009, the number of starving people and the number of malnourished people each exceeded 1 billion. In addition, billions of people la ...
... In 1927, the global human population was 2 billion; in 2010, it is nearly 7 billion, which is over a 3-fold increase in a single human lifetime on a finite planet. In 2009, the number of starving people and the number of malnourished people each exceeded 1 billion. In addition, billions of people la ...
PART ONE
... pavor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), ozone (O3), etc. that present in the atmosphere. This fenomenon known as greenhouse gasses (GHGs). Regarding to climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents data that the warming accured la ...
... pavor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), ozone (O3), etc. that present in the atmosphere. This fenomenon known as greenhouse gasses (GHGs). Regarding to climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents data that the warming accured la ...
the Word document - LDC Group at UN climate change
... Assessment and Communication of Scientific Information: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a well established role in the Convention process in communicating scientific information to the Convention through its regular assessment reports and its wide range of special reports an ...
... Assessment and Communication of Scientific Information: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a well established role in the Convention process in communicating scientific information to the Convention through its regular assessment reports and its wide range of special reports an ...
A Changing Climate: Cold adventures
... Trapped in a remote frozen bay, Mawson's exploration party, which was only meant to stay for a year, ended up living on the ice and snow for three years. Mawson later said he nearly gave up. But being the good scientist that he was, no matter how hard things became he kept taking notes and making ob ...
... Trapped in a remote frozen bay, Mawson's exploration party, which was only meant to stay for a year, ended up living on the ice and snow for three years. Mawson later said he nearly gave up. But being the good scientist that he was, no matter how hard things became he kept taking notes and making ob ...
20090302_SPM_Discuss..
... This is an advance since the TAR’s conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continentalaverage tempe ...
... This is an advance since the TAR’s conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continentalaverage tempe ...
Interactive comment on “Northern high
... of sites that the authors base their study on. They present maps of climate anomalies for the Pan-Arctic region north of 60N, but as the authors acknowledge, their data has a strong spatial bias towards the Fennoscandia region. They use only a very limited number of sites to represent other regions, ...
... of sites that the authors base their study on. They present maps of climate anomalies for the Pan-Arctic region north of 60N, but as the authors acknowledge, their data has a strong spatial bias towards the Fennoscandia region. They use only a very limited number of sites to represent other regions, ...
Menu of Learning Experiences
... petrol. Tuning our cars improves air quality and health. And better insulation for our homes means they are warmer and we get sick less often…….” “An increase in human activities like driving cars, farming, burning cola and cutting down trees…….is increasing greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosph ...
... petrol. Tuning our cars improves air quality and health. And better insulation for our homes means they are warmer and we get sick less often…….” “An increase in human activities like driving cars, farming, burning cola and cutting down trees…….is increasing greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosph ...
paper
... the compilation of polling data over multiple years and therefore cannot account for changes in public opinion over time. An alternative approach, multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP), also involves compiling data from multiple national surveys, but incorporates demographic, geographic ...
... the compilation of polling data over multiple years and therefore cannot account for changes in public opinion over time. An alternative approach, multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP), also involves compiling data from multiple national surveys, but incorporates demographic, geographic ...
El Niño – tracking a global climate phenomenon
... world – some devastating and some beneficial, having various impacts on water supply and food production. The last major El Niño emerged in 1997/98, followed by weak and moderate ones in 2002/03, 2004/05, 2006/07 and 2009/10. In 2015 this global, disruptive climate phenomenon might be on its way aga ...
... world – some devastating and some beneficial, having various impacts on water supply and food production. The last major El Niño emerged in 1997/98, followed by weak and moderate ones in 2002/03, 2004/05, 2006/07 and 2009/10. In 2015 this global, disruptive climate phenomenon might be on its way aga ...
Clean Energy and Climate Action
... to promote efficiency and renewable energy, along with a sharp limit on global warming emissions, would save U.S. households an average of $900 annually by 2030, while businesses would save a total of $126 billion annually. To garner those savings, the nation will need to make some up-front investme ...
... to promote efficiency and renewable energy, along with a sharp limit on global warming emissions, would save U.S. households an average of $900 annually by 2030, while businesses would save a total of $126 billion annually. To garner those savings, the nation will need to make some up-front investme ...
Advance briefing: IPCC report on climate impacts
... September 2013. A Friends of the Earth summary of its findings is available here. The second group Working Group 2 will publish their report on 31st March 2014. This Questions and Answers briefing – produced in advance of the Working Group 2 report – explains what the report will cover, what their l ...
... September 2013. A Friends of the Earth summary of its findings is available here. The second group Working Group 2 will publish their report on 31st March 2014. This Questions and Answers briefing – produced in advance of the Working Group 2 report – explains what the report will cover, what their l ...
Planning in the face of uncertainty: weather and water
... 21st century, and we don’t know how active volcanoes are going to be in the 21st century. So here are the greenhouse gas concentrations that come out of a lot of different emissions scenarios that are created The punch line here is that no matter what choices we make—up at the top are CO2 concentrat ...
... 21st century, and we don’t know how active volcanoes are going to be in the 21st century. So here are the greenhouse gas concentrations that come out of a lot of different emissions scenarios that are created The punch line here is that no matter what choices we make—up at the top are CO2 concentrat ...
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.