global warming, human-induced carbon emissions,and their
... in the past 25 years, and hence suggested that the previous projection may have underestimated the warming trend for the past 10 years. A literature-based analysis showed that 1999 to 2008 is still the warmest period over the past 30 years, despite the average temperature not rising in this period. ...
... in the past 25 years, and hence suggested that the previous projection may have underestimated the warming trend for the past 10 years. A literature-based analysis showed that 1999 to 2008 is still the warmest period over the past 30 years, despite the average temperature not rising in this period. ...
Slide 1
... Estimates of the impacts of climate change (and related adaptation measures) can be obtained from scenarios of the future climate, produced by Global Climate Models (GCMs) forced by projected Greenhouse Gas (GHG) concentrations. Although GCMs contain all the important physical processes of the clima ...
... Estimates of the impacts of climate change (and related adaptation measures) can be obtained from scenarios of the future climate, produced by Global Climate Models (GCMs) forced by projected Greenhouse Gas (GHG) concentrations. Although GCMs contain all the important physical processes of the clima ...
PPT Slides - Appalachian State University
... For example, climate change or global warming … OR the role of CO 2 emissions in it … OR the role of CH 4 (methane) emissions in it … ...
... For example, climate change or global warming … OR the role of CO 2 emissions in it … OR the role of CH 4 (methane) emissions in it … ...
UN-RCO-Statement-COP-21
... nature. How? By following development strategies that combine clean energy and lower energy consumption with forest and nature conservation. The choice is not between Green or Growth; we have to make growth environmentally and climate friendly. This also makes business sense as the costs of climate ...
... nature. How? By following development strategies that combine clean energy and lower energy consumption with forest and nature conservation. The choice is not between Green or Growth; we have to make growth environmentally and climate friendly. This also makes business sense as the costs of climate ...
Scenario building in climate science
... Press release 30 October 2005 "The Calm before the Storm Storm surges in the North Sea could become more dangerous from the middle of the century. Scientists from the Institute for Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht in Germany have analysed the past history of storms and storm ...
... Press release 30 October 2005 "The Calm before the Storm Storm surges in the North Sea could become more dangerous from the middle of the century. Scientists from the Institute for Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht in Germany have analysed the past history of storms and storm ...
November 2010 - Climate change - evidence from the geological
... Paleocene, there was a sudden warming event in which temperatures rose by about 6ºC globally and by 10-20ºC at the poles22. Carbon isotopic data show that this warming event (called by some the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM) was accompanied by a major release of 1500-2000 billion tonnes ...
... Paleocene, there was a sudden warming event in which temperatures rose by about 6ºC globally and by 10-20ºC at the poles22. Carbon isotopic data show that this warming event (called by some the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM) was accompanied by a major release of 1500-2000 billion tonnes ...
Climate Change and Agricultural Sustainability – A Global Assessment
... impacts of climate change pose an additional stress on food production systems under pressure to satisfy the food needs of a rapidly growing and progressively wealthier world.” FAO Water Report 36: Climate Change, water and food security – Int’l Food Policy Res. Inst. (IFPRI): “Although there will b ...
... impacts of climate change pose an additional stress on food production systems under pressure to satisfy the food needs of a rapidly growing and progressively wealthier world.” FAO Water Report 36: Climate Change, water and food security – Int’l Food Policy Res. Inst. (IFPRI): “Although there will b ...
Slide 1
... • GHGs are rising with CO2 concentrations increasing over 30% within the last 130 years, that there is a growing consensus on the need for urgent action to reduce the Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. The understanding is that we adopt the global objective to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least ...
... • GHGs are rising with CO2 concentrations increasing over 30% within the last 130 years, that there is a growing consensus on the need for urgent action to reduce the Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. The understanding is that we adopt the global objective to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least ...
Modern Global Climate Change
... sions to have much effect. This means the predictions. They contribute to an uncerwill affect the climate system, how long it atmosphere still has unrealized warming (estitainty in the sensitivity of models to changwill last, and how large the effects will be. mated to be at least another 0.5°C) and ...
... sions to have much effect. This means the predictions. They contribute to an uncerwill affect the climate system, how long it atmosphere still has unrealized warming (estitainty in the sensitivity of models to changwill last, and how large the effects will be. mated to be at least another 0.5°C) and ...
Global Warming Frontcover - Saddleback Educational Publishing
... Copyright © 2009 by Saddleback Educational Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publi ...
... Copyright © 2009 by Saddleback Educational Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publi ...
Explaining how the water vapor greenhouse effect works
... studies examining how climate has responded to various forcings in the past (Knutti & Hegerl ...
... studies examining how climate has responded to various forcings in the past (Knutti & Hegerl ...
Case Studies: Planning and Adaptation
... Dallas Water Utilities, regression equations were developed by HDR that describe the relationship between cumulative estimated gross pan evaporation and monthly average daily maximum temperature. These regression equations are utilized along with projections of increased daily maximum temperature ...
... Dallas Water Utilities, regression equations were developed by HDR that describe the relationship between cumulative estimated gross pan evaporation and monthly average daily maximum temperature. These regression equations are utilized along with projections of increased daily maximum temperature ...
lettenmaier_utexas_western_water_mar13
... Grid-based simulations of land-surface processes using principles of energy and water balance Selected LSMs that have been widely applied at regional to global scales Diverse heritages: • Sac and VIC developed specifically for streamflow simulation purposes • Noah, Catchment, CLM developed for use i ...
... Grid-based simulations of land-surface processes using principles of energy and water balance Selected LSMs that have been widely applied at regional to global scales Diverse heritages: • Sac and VIC developed specifically for streamflow simulation purposes • Noah, Catchment, CLM developed for use i ...
The Impacts of global Warming
... Arctic perennial sea ice has been diminishing at a rate of 9% per decade. The ice of frozen freshwater on Greenland melts to dilute and lower the salinity of the arctic ocean. This would have significant effects (slower or stop) on the ocean conveyor. Ice from land could raise sea level Reduced ice ...
... Arctic perennial sea ice has been diminishing at a rate of 9% per decade. The ice of frozen freshwater on Greenland melts to dilute and lower the salinity of the arctic ocean. This would have significant effects (slower or stop) on the ocean conveyor. Ice from land could raise sea level Reduced ice ...
Find some land, build a house?
... There is also significant uncertainty about the possible contribution of ANTHROPOGENIC changes in land water storage to changes in sea level, including groundwater extraction (and eventual discharge to the ocean), destruction of wetlands and other land-use changes (again adding to ocean storage), in ...
... There is also significant uncertainty about the possible contribution of ANTHROPOGENIC changes in land water storage to changes in sea level, including groundwater extraction (and eventual discharge to the ocean), destruction of wetlands and other land-use changes (again adding to ocean storage), in ...
BOOK REVIEWS INTRODUCTION TO MODERN CLIMATE CHANGE
... few devote more than a concluding chapter to the topic. The converse is generally true of climate policy textbooks. Dessler’s textbook is unique in that nearly half of the text is devoted to an overview of the fundamentals of climate policy. The result is a textbook that covers the majority of issue ...
... few devote more than a concluding chapter to the topic. The converse is generally true of climate policy textbooks. Dessler’s textbook is unique in that nearly half of the text is devoted to an overview of the fundamentals of climate policy. The result is a textbook that covers the majority of issue ...
Some Pressing Global Environmental Problems of Our
... According to received wisdom, such behaviour is the defining characteristic of the proverbial “village idiot” and of the seriously demented who cuts off the branch of the tall tree he is sitting on, not of the Humankind that claims to possess supreme intelligence. It is hard to find an animal of low ...
... According to received wisdom, such behaviour is the defining characteristic of the proverbial “village idiot” and of the seriously demented who cuts off the branch of the tall tree he is sitting on, not of the Humankind that claims to possess supreme intelligence. It is hard to find an animal of low ...
Is a breakthrough on climate change governance on the - KIT
... Figure 13.3. Global map showing the different categories of reduction proposals or commitments for 2020 under the Cancún Agreements and Kyoto Protocol, IPCC Fifth Assessment Report IPCC 2014. Climate Change 2014- Mitigation O Climate Change, 5th Assessment Report. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
... Figure 13.3. Global map showing the different categories of reduction proposals or commitments for 2020 under the Cancún Agreements and Kyoto Protocol, IPCC Fifth Assessment Report IPCC 2014. Climate Change 2014- Mitigation O Climate Change, 5th Assessment Report. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Southern Hemisphere intermediate water formation and the bi
... Water that prevails in the abyssal Atlantic off Portugal. One likely mechanism for the climatic asynchronicity involves an interhemispheric imbalance in heat storage (Stocker and Johnsen, 2003). Surface ocean records from the South Atlantic Ocean (Barker et al., 2009) indeed show a climate change pa ...
... Water that prevails in the abyssal Atlantic off Portugal. One likely mechanism for the climatic asynchronicity involves an interhemispheric imbalance in heat storage (Stocker and Johnsen, 2003). Surface ocean records from the South Atlantic Ocean (Barker et al., 2009) indeed show a climate change pa ...
An Enduring Conundrum for Wise Policy Advice
... were that the total precipitation was not changing but there was a weak tendency towards more extreme single incidents of precipitation. A separate study on precipitation comes to a similar conclusion, a 7% rise in daily precipitation maxima per degree C rise in temperature, but a result that masks ...
... were that the total precipitation was not changing but there was a weak tendency towards more extreme single incidents of precipitation. A separate study on precipitation comes to a similar conclusion, a 7% rise in daily precipitation maxima per degree C rise in temperature, but a result that masks ...
the Overview
... evaporation of surface waters. At the same time, the warmer air expands to hold more water. So when the normal atmospheric turbulence comes through, it dumps much more of our rain and snow in severe, intense downpours than it did a few years ago.[12]In July, 1996, Aurora, Ill., received 17 inches o ...
... evaporation of surface waters. At the same time, the warmer air expands to hold more water. So when the normal atmospheric turbulence comes through, it dumps much more of our rain and snow in severe, intense downpours than it did a few years ago.[12]In July, 1996, Aurora, Ill., received 17 inches o ...
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.