Asia - IPCC
... will inundate low-lying areas and will especially affect rice growing regions. Many potential adaptation strategies are being practiced and proposed but research studies on their effectiveness are still few. Terrestrial systems in many parts of Asia have responded to recent climate change with shift ...
... will inundate low-lying areas and will especially affect rice growing regions. Many potential adaptation strategies are being practiced and proposed but research studies on their effectiveness are still few. Terrestrial systems in many parts of Asia have responded to recent climate change with shift ...
Theme 1: Responding Climate Change through Managing Climatic Variability
... Impact assessment of projected climate change on wheat in Saurashtra region of Gujarat Rainfall variability and its influence on Rice and Maize production in Karnataka ...
... Impact assessment of projected climate change on wheat in Saurashtra region of Gujarat Rainfall variability and its influence on Rice and Maize production in Karnataka ...
An Inconvenient Trial - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... no court has authority to enforce remedies, then there is little motivation to expend resources to support this effort. If climate-change proponents are able to prove their case, but the court does not have the authority to enforce remedies, then you might ask why even bother with this proposal. The ...
... no court has authority to enforce remedies, then there is little motivation to expend resources to support this effort. If climate-change proponents are able to prove their case, but the court does not have the authority to enforce remedies, then you might ask why even bother with this proposal. The ...
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... Whether föhn events are becoming more frequent or intense is difficult to quantify since variability between years is so great and because the King Edward Point AWS record is so short (Figure 5b). Owing to the lack of meteorological data in this region, it is clear that future work is required to un ...
... Whether föhn events are becoming more frequent or intense is difficult to quantify since variability between years is so great and because the King Edward Point AWS record is so short (Figure 5b). Owing to the lack of meteorological data in this region, it is clear that future work is required to un ...
A trend analysis of normalized insured damage from natural disasters
... upward trend once insured natural disaster loss has been normalized. By scaling up loss from past disasters, normalization adjusts for the fact that a hazard event of equal strength will typically cause more damage nowadays than in past years because of wealth accumulation over time. A trend analysi ...
... upward trend once insured natural disaster loss has been normalized. By scaling up loss from past disasters, normalization adjusts for the fact that a hazard event of equal strength will typically cause more damage nowadays than in past years because of wealth accumulation over time. A trend analysi ...
here - Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
... framework for broader engagement while offering a legal analysis of why and how to structure this framework. Part III introduces a structure of metrics to support initiatives taken by subnational and non-nation-state actors. Part IV identifies mechanisms for mobilizing the private capital needed to ...
... framework for broader engagement while offering a legal analysis of why and how to structure this framework. Part III introduces a structure of metrics to support initiatives taken by subnational and non-nation-state actors. Part IV identifies mechanisms for mobilizing the private capital needed to ...
Phasing Down the Use of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
... in air conditioners and other products, to make insulating foams, and as solvents. Unlike the chemicals they replaced, HFCs do not harm the ozone layer, but are potent greenhouse gases, with much greater short-term climate impact than carbon dioxide.2 Recent scientific estimates suggest that phasing ...
... in air conditioners and other products, to make insulating foams, and as solvents. Unlike the chemicals they replaced, HFCs do not harm the ozone layer, but are potent greenhouse gases, with much greater short-term climate impact than carbon dioxide.2 Recent scientific estimates suggest that phasing ...
The cost of inaction: Recognising the value at risk
... reduced, but fortunately, mitigation can greatly reduce these risks. Lower greenhouse gas emissions decrease the probability of temperature increases and thus the expected harms. Provided that warming from climate change can be kept under 2°C, the average projected losses can be cut in half, while t ...
... reduced, but fortunately, mitigation can greatly reduce these risks. Lower greenhouse gas emissions decrease the probability of temperature increases and thus the expected harms. Provided that warming from climate change can be kept under 2°C, the average projected losses can be cut in half, while t ...
Developing a climate change analysis
... knowledge so that these past events end up looking more predictable than they actually were. So a statement such as ‘up to 10 years ago, we always had good rains and they always arrived without fail at the beginning of every October’ may well contains both types of bias. b) Using extreme or atypi ...
... knowledge so that these past events end up looking more predictable than they actually were. So a statement such as ‘up to 10 years ago, we always had good rains and they always arrived without fail at the beginning of every October’ may well contains both types of bias. b) Using extreme or atypi ...
HENRY N. POLLACK, PhD Professor of Geophysics
... Henry Pollack is a geophysicist engaged in research on many aspects of Earth’s changing climate. As a contributing author to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice-President Al Gore and IPPC colleagues. He cre ...
... Henry Pollack is a geophysicist engaged in research on many aspects of Earth’s changing climate. As a contributing author to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice-President Al Gore and IPPC colleagues. He cre ...
a 2017 national survey of broadcast meteorologists
... management responds, or was expected to respond, to their reporting on climate change. About one quarter (27%) felt they get or would get few reactions either way. About two in ten (22%) felt they get or would get predominantly positive reactions from management. Another two in ten (21%) felt the fe ...
... management responds, or was expected to respond, to their reporting on climate change. About one quarter (27%) felt they get or would get few reactions either way. About two in ten (22%) felt they get or would get predominantly positive reactions from management. Another two in ten (21%) felt the fe ...
STRIVE Ireland in a Warmer Report Series No.27
... a particular focus on coastal regions surrounding Ireland. While the impact is seasonally dependent, there is evidence that extreme wave heights may increase by up to 10% in some Irish waters. Chapter 5 describes an investigation into the impact of warmer ocean temperatures on storminess. The result ...
... a particular focus on coastal regions surrounding Ireland. While the impact is seasonally dependent, there is evidence that extreme wave heights may increase by up to 10% in some Irish waters. Chapter 5 describes an investigation into the impact of warmer ocean temperatures on storminess. The result ...
Permafrost and Changing Climate: The Russian
... Permafrost and Changing Climate: The Russian Perspective The permafrost regions occupy about 25% of the Northern Hemisphere’s terrestrial surface, and more than 60% of that of Russia. Warming, thawing, and degradation of permafrost have been observed in many locations in recent decades and are likel ...
... Permafrost and Changing Climate: The Russian Perspective The permafrost regions occupy about 25% of the Northern Hemisphere’s terrestrial surface, and more than 60% of that of Russia. Warming, thawing, and degradation of permafrost have been observed in many locations in recent decades and are likel ...
Learning about climate changethe Pacific way
... that are specific to Pacific islands. The focus of this resource is on the effects of changes in air and seasurface temperature, rainfall, sea-level rise and extreme weather events on island environments, economies and people. It is vital to enhance individual and community skills to adapt to these ...
... that are specific to Pacific islands. The focus of this resource is on the effects of changes in air and seasurface temperature, rainfall, sea-level rise and extreme weather events on island environments, economies and people. It is vital to enhance individual and community skills to adapt to these ...
Vulnerability and Feedbacks of Permafrost to Climate Change
... section shows the size and distribution of carbon pools in and under permafrost (Figure 1). However, high uncertainties related to soil spatial distribution and depth, organic carbon content, and organic matter lability remain. Several other permafrost-related carbon pool components are also lacking ...
... section shows the size and distribution of carbon pools in and under permafrost (Figure 1). However, high uncertainties related to soil spatial distribution and depth, organic carbon content, and organic matter lability remain. Several other permafrost-related carbon pool components are also lacking ...
Climate Change and Vector-borne Diseases: An Economic Impact
... and 8 days to mature at 30 degrees Celsius. Apart from the African highlands and the farthest southern and northern African regions, the annual mean temperature on the African continent is above 25 degrees Celsius [19]. Therefore, the projected increase in mean temperature of about 1.4 to 5.8 degree ...
... and 8 days to mature at 30 degrees Celsius. Apart from the African highlands and the farthest southern and northern African regions, the annual mean temperature on the African continent is above 25 degrees Celsius [19]. Therefore, the projected increase in mean temperature of about 1.4 to 5.8 degree ...
Change - UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... •Changes in some types of extreme events have already been observed . Other… Heat waves become more frequent and longer lasting in a future warmer climate. Increased summer dryness and winter wetness in most parts of the northern middle and high latitudes Precipitation tends concentrated into more i ...
... •Changes in some types of extreme events have already been observed . Other… Heat waves become more frequent and longer lasting in a future warmer climate. Increased summer dryness and winter wetness in most parts of the northern middle and high latitudes Precipitation tends concentrated into more i ...
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.