Journal of Geography Agnotology as a Teaching Tool: Learning
... distinct from other climate changes, but does not identify a particular cause. The term “global warming” could refer to natural changes in temperature, such as those that occurred at the end of the last glacial period. “Anthropogenic global warming” refers explicitly to a global-scale increase in te ...
... distinct from other climate changes, but does not identify a particular cause. The term “global warming” could refer to natural changes in temperature, such as those that occurred at the end of the last glacial period. “Anthropogenic global warming” refers explicitly to a global-scale increase in te ...
Link to Chapter 4
... increase of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere, including CO2. A warming atmosphere can hold greater amounts of water vapor, which in turn influences both the increase in average precipitation as well as the associated increase in the frequency of large precipitation events ...
... increase of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere, including CO2. A warming atmosphere can hold greater amounts of water vapor, which in turn influences both the increase in average precipitation as well as the associated increase in the frequency of large precipitation events ...
PP Presentation
... F. Stephen Dobson Department of Biological Sciences College of Science & Mathematics ...
... F. Stephen Dobson Department of Biological Sciences College of Science & Mathematics ...
Paleoclimatology - Printer-friendly
... closely corresponds to the duration of changes in Earth's orbital position relative to the Sun. Evidence from deep-sea sediments reveals a pattern of slow advance of the polar ice caps, followed by sudden retreat due to rapid warming at the end of each glacial episode. The last major glaciation—10,7 ...
... closely corresponds to the duration of changes in Earth's orbital position relative to the Sun. Evidence from deep-sea sediments reveals a pattern of slow advance of the polar ice caps, followed by sudden retreat due to rapid warming at the end of each glacial episode. The last major glaciation—10,7 ...
Sivan -AOSIS background paper Kartha
... As Figure 1 makes immediately clear, in order for each of these three pathways to keep within its respective budget (as given in Table 1), emissions must peak very soon, and decline rapidly thereafter. All three pathways shown in Figure 1 have global carbon emissions peaking in the next five years ( ...
... As Figure 1 makes immediately clear, in order for each of these three pathways to keep within its respective budget (as given in Table 1), emissions must peak very soon, and decline rapidly thereafter. All three pathways shown in Figure 1 have global carbon emissions peaking in the next five years ( ...
Anthropogenic Climate Change –Connections to
... The atmosphere admits of the entrance of the solar heat, but checks its exit; and the result is a tendency to accumulate heat at the surface of the planet. The aqueous vapour constitutes a local dam, by which the temperature at the earth's surface is deepened; the dam, however, finally overflows, an ...
... The atmosphere admits of the entrance of the solar heat, but checks its exit; and the result is a tendency to accumulate heat at the surface of the planet. The aqueous vapour constitutes a local dam, by which the temperature at the earth's surface is deepened; the dam, however, finally overflows, an ...
L1 Biosphere
... • Time is usually at least 30 years. • The weather today may be very different than the weather one year ago, but the climate is an average. ...
... • Time is usually at least 30 years. • The weather today may be very different than the weather one year ago, but the climate is an average. ...
CALVIN Model - California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum
... "Change has considerable psychological impact …. To the fearful it is threatening because …things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. … One’s character and frame of mind de ...
... "Change has considerable psychological impact …. To the fearful it is threatening because …things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. … One’s character and frame of mind de ...
Natural Science
... “Although the last decade of 1995–2005 was relatively warm, almost all decades within 1915 to 1965 were even warmer…Although there has been a considerable temperature increase during the last decade (1995 to 2005) a similar increase and at a faster rate occurred during the early part of the 20th cen ...
... “Although the last decade of 1995–2005 was relatively warm, almost all decades within 1915 to 1965 were even warmer…Although there has been a considerable temperature increase during the last decade (1995 to 2005) a similar increase and at a faster rate occurred during the early part of the 20th cen ...
Climate change and emerging infectious diseases
... sensitive to meteorological conditions. These relationships were described in the 1920s [18, 19] and quantified in the 1950s [20]. Excessive heat kills mosquitoes, but within their survivable range, warmer temperatures increase their reproduction and biting activity [21], and the rate at which patho ...
... sensitive to meteorological conditions. These relationships were described in the 1920s [18, 19] and quantified in the 1950s [20]. Excessive heat kills mosquitoes, but within their survivable range, warmer temperatures increase their reproduction and biting activity [21], and the rate at which patho ...
This lecture will help you understand:
... • Scientists test their models by entering real data from the past and seeing how well their model would have predicted past trends. • They generally find: Models that incorporate only natural factors or only anthropogenic (human-caused) factors predict poorly. • But models including both natural an ...
... • Scientists test their models by entering real data from the past and seeing how well their model would have predicted past trends. • They generally find: Models that incorporate only natural factors or only anthropogenic (human-caused) factors predict poorly. • But models including both natural an ...
past, present and future climates
... Not unlike the increase GHGs at Paleocene-Eocene causing a significant warming, there appears to be a strong suggestion that this Azolla sequestration of carbon GHGs for a period of about 800,000 years correlates to an ensuing cooling of the globe. ...
... Not unlike the increase GHGs at Paleocene-Eocene causing a significant warming, there appears to be a strong suggestion that this Azolla sequestration of carbon GHGs for a period of about 800,000 years correlates to an ensuing cooling of the globe. ...
Part-1
... and reduce the realizable potential • Removal of barriers during capital stock turnover and periods of rapid social change can minimize disruption and mitigation ...
... and reduce the realizable potential • Removal of barriers during capital stock turnover and periods of rapid social change can minimize disruption and mitigation ...
Global Warming 2
... The idea that the human species could alter something as huge and complex as the earth's climate was once the subject of an esoteric scientific debate. But now even attorneys general more used to battling corporate malfeasance are taking up the cause. On July 21, New York Attorney General Eliot Spit ...
... The idea that the human species could alter something as huge and complex as the earth's climate was once the subject of an esoteric scientific debate. But now even attorneys general more used to battling corporate malfeasance are taking up the cause. On July 21, New York Attorney General Eliot Spit ...
A more reasoned - nick g. glumac
... This study is very interesting because it analyzes the frames of reference (Kuhn’s “different worlds”) in which opinions are formed. Skeptical geologists are most likely to view climate change as overwhelmingly natural. Skeptical engineers are more likely to view it as a matter of economics or fatal ...
... This study is very interesting because it analyzes the frames of reference (Kuhn’s “different worlds”) in which opinions are formed. Skeptical geologists are most likely to view climate change as overwhelmingly natural. Skeptical engineers are more likely to view it as a matter of economics or fatal ...
Week 10 Review
... Climate models (and our simple feedback analysis) suggest that there is an instability in our climate system that would produce an ice-covered planet (snowball) Instability could be triggered by a reduction in greenhouse gas concentrations, especially coupled with a fainter sun (about -6% in Neoprot ...
... Climate models (and our simple feedback analysis) suggest that there is an instability in our climate system that would produce an ice-covered planet (snowball) Instability could be triggered by a reduction in greenhouse gas concentrations, especially coupled with a fainter sun (about -6% in Neoprot ...
Global Warming Resources to Sustain a Collection
... affecting the climate significantly over the past eight thousand years (primarily because of deforestation and farming), not just in the last two hundred years. The book is footnoted with references to many peer-reviewed publications but written in a very accessible style. It is sure to become a cla ...
... affecting the climate significantly over the past eight thousand years (primarily because of deforestation and farming), not just in the last two hundred years. The book is footnoted with references to many peer-reviewed publications but written in a very accessible style. It is sure to become a cla ...
Louisiana Climate Change - Southern Climate Impacts Planning
... Louisiana lost 1,900 square miles of coast during the last century - or enough land area to cover the entire state of Delaware (NCA). Today, Louisiana loses a football-fieldsized piece of wetlands every 35 minutes (USGS). Global sea level has risen about 8 inches during the last 100 years (NCA). Sea ...
... Louisiana lost 1,900 square miles of coast during the last century - or enough land area to cover the entire state of Delaware (NCA). Today, Louisiana loses a football-fieldsized piece of wetlands every 35 minutes (USGS). Global sea level has risen about 8 inches during the last 100 years (NCA). Sea ...
Potential Climate Change impacts on Sugar Maple Trees in NEW
... home for wildlife produce sweet sap beautiful autumn colors ...
... home for wildlife produce sweet sap beautiful autumn colors ...
Climate Skeptics - Dalton State College
... What if we tax the bad stuff? (not the current policy in the U.S.) Reforming the Tax System to Promote Environmental Objectives : An Application to Mauritius ...
... What if we tax the bad stuff? (not the current policy in the U.S.) Reforming the Tax System to Promote Environmental Objectives : An Application to Mauritius ...
Global warming is dead - Nottingham ePrints
... The OED has no entry for ‘global heating’, but when we checked the Lexis Nexis News database we found a first use in 1975, from the magazine Chemical Week (Hester, 1975), in the context of a discussion of ‘propellants’: “The global heating, Ramanathan explains, would result from the ‘greenhouse effe ...
... The OED has no entry for ‘global heating’, but when we checked the Lexis Nexis News database we found a first use in 1975, from the magazine Chemical Week (Hester, 1975), in the context of a discussion of ‘propellants’: “The global heating, Ramanathan explains, would result from the ‘greenhouse effe ...
doha - save the planet
... The implication is obvious: due to green rent seeking, Ontario will become less competitive and relatively poorer. Another Canadian example of rent seeking is the $1.35 billion Quest carbon capture and storage project, sponsored by Shell Canada, with partners Chevron Corp. and Marathon Oil Corp. The ...
... The implication is obvious: due to green rent seeking, Ontario will become less competitive and relatively poorer. Another Canadian example of rent seeking is the $1.35 billion Quest carbon capture and storage project, sponsored by Shell Canada, with partners Chevron Corp. and Marathon Oil Corp. The ...
Ch 14 Climate
... Do the United Nations IPCC and Al Gore think that climate change is caused by carbon dioxide emissions or variations in solar radiation (the sun)? Do the scientists William Gray, Willie Soon, and Joe Bastardi think that climate change is caused by carbon dioxide emissions or variations in solar radi ...
... Do the United Nations IPCC and Al Gore think that climate change is caused by carbon dioxide emissions or variations in solar radiation (the sun)? Do the scientists William Gray, Willie Soon, and Joe Bastardi think that climate change is caused by carbon dioxide emissions or variations in solar radi ...
Hydrological Impacts of Global Climate Change
... Identify potential linkages between climate and resource management that could affect outcomes in the long term. What’s being left out? Are there future “deal breakers” in these omissions? (e.g. ocean productivity, glaciers maintaining summer streamflow in the short term) Design for Robustness and S ...
... Identify potential linkages between climate and resource management that could affect outcomes in the long term. What’s being left out? Are there future “deal breakers” in these omissions? (e.g. ocean productivity, glaciers maintaining summer streamflow in the short term) Design for Robustness and S ...
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.