Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world
... they are not homogenized for climate trend analysis. Models generally have poor spatial resolution and require observational data for validation, making it difficult to be sure that simulations are accurate. Notwithstanding these limitations, there have been many studies that have attempted to ident ...
... they are not homogenized for climate trend analysis. Models generally have poor spatial resolution and require observational data for validation, making it difficult to be sure that simulations are accurate. Notwithstanding these limitations, there have been many studies that have attempted to ident ...
The year 2007 to be the hottest ever
... small variation, but is one which will certainly bring (6) ______ weather conditions to many parts of the world. The world’s leading climate scientists (7) ______ agree that human activity is accelerating global warming. It is a fact that the world's ten warmest years have all occurred in the last t ...
... small variation, but is one which will certainly bring (6) ______ weather conditions to many parts of the world. The world’s leading climate scientists (7) ______ agree that human activity is accelerating global warming. It is a fact that the world's ten warmest years have all occurred in the last t ...
Slide 1 - climateknowledge.org
... – If CO2 increases in the atmosphere, there will be enhanced surface warming, but is the increase large enough to change temperature beyond other sources of variability? – If T increases, there could be CO2 increases associated with, for instance, release from solution in the ocean – CO2 increases c ...
... – If CO2 increases in the atmosphere, there will be enhanced surface warming, but is the increase large enough to change temperature beyond other sources of variability? – If T increases, there could be CO2 increases associated with, for instance, release from solution in the ocean – CO2 increases c ...
4 Climate Change and Place Nancy Rottle, Marina
... winning proposal offers a typological response to an anticipated 36-inch rise in the waters around Manhattan by the end of the century based on a new infrastructure of “vanes” and water-circulation towers. A third article, by Kiel Moe, steps back to discuss how contemporary fictional narratives pres ...
... winning proposal offers a typological response to an anticipated 36-inch rise in the waters around Manhattan by the end of the century based on a new infrastructure of “vanes” and water-circulation towers. A third article, by Kiel Moe, steps back to discuss how contemporary fictional narratives pres ...
Aerosol Effects Direct Effect
... Definition Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continenta ...
... Definition Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continenta ...
1) Indications of changes in global temperatures
... sediment measures, etc., record climate events such as the medieval warm period and little ice age.3 These measures also indicate that the recent temperature increase is greater than in any other measured time. ...
... sediment measures, etc., record climate events such as the medieval warm period and little ice age.3 These measures also indicate that the recent temperature increase is greater than in any other measured time. ...
appendix f: glossary of terms
... Advanced Technology Vehicle: A vehicle that combines new engine, power, or drivetrain systems to significantly improve fuel economy. This includes hybrid power systems and fuel cells, as well as some specialized electric vehicles. Baseline Emissions: The amount of GHG emissions released in a designa ...
... Advanced Technology Vehicle: A vehicle that combines new engine, power, or drivetrain systems to significantly improve fuel economy. This includes hybrid power systems and fuel cells, as well as some specialized electric vehicles. Baseline Emissions: The amount of GHG emissions released in a designa ...
3.2 Climate and Precipitation - Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
... More recently, 2010 from January to August is tied with 1998 as the warmest year on record. Temperature records dates back to 1880. Furthermore the summer of 2010 was the hottest on record in New York City as well as 10 other states. In comparison to other decades, the 2000’s were the hottest for th ...
... More recently, 2010 from January to August is tied with 1998 as the warmest year on record. Temperature records dates back to 1880. Furthermore the summer of 2010 was the hottest on record in New York City as well as 10 other states. In comparison to other decades, the 2000’s were the hottest for th ...
National Research Council. 2011. Climate
... Figure 4: The Carbon Cycle Carbon is continually exchanged between the atmosphere, ocean, biosphere, and land on a variety of timescales. In the short term, CO2 is exchanged continuously among plants, trees, animals, and the air through respiration and photosynthesis, and between the ocean and the ...
... Figure 4: The Carbon Cycle Carbon is continually exchanged between the atmosphere, ocean, biosphere, and land on a variety of timescales. In the short term, CO2 is exchanged continuously among plants, trees, animals, and the air through respiration and photosynthesis, and between the ocean and the ...
Inconvenient/Inclement Weather (Al Gore`s Fight
... Over the past two decades the melt area has increased about 16% from 1979 to 2002, with the total surface area melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet breaking all past records in 2002. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment models indicate regional warming will be much higher by the end of the 21st century, ...
... Over the past two decades the melt area has increased about 16% from 1979 to 2002, with the total surface area melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet breaking all past records in 2002. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment models indicate regional warming will be much higher by the end of the 21st century, ...
July/August 2001 - Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC) is a body created by the United Nations to reach scientific consensus about the magnitude and nature of the climate problem. In its Third Assessment Report, approved in January of this year, the IPCC said it now expects the global average surfa ...
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC) is a body created by the United Nations to reach scientific consensus about the magnitude and nature of the climate problem. In its Third Assessment Report, approved in January of this year, the IPCC said it now expects the global average surfa ...
The Science and Ethics of Global warming
... oceans. Photosynthetic organisms (plants, algae and bacteria) take in about 120 Pg each year, while all living things breathe out a little less than this (accounting for the storage of carbon in growing things). Our understanding of ocean carbon chemistry yields a prediction that, if all emissions o ...
... oceans. Photosynthetic organisms (plants, algae and bacteria) take in about 120 Pg each year, while all living things breathe out a little less than this (accounting for the storage of carbon in growing things). Our understanding of ocean carbon chemistry yields a prediction that, if all emissions o ...
Main Natural Factors that Affect Climate
... • The climate system is made up of many components that all affect climate: this includes ocean currents, atmospheric circulation, sea ice and land covers (trees, grass…) ...
... • The climate system is made up of many components that all affect climate: this includes ocean currents, atmospheric circulation, sea ice and land covers (trees, grass…) ...
Main Natural Factors that Affect Climate
... • The climate system is made up of many components that all affect climate: this includes ocean currents, atmospheric circulation, sea ice and land covers (trees, grass…) ...
... • The climate system is made up of many components that all affect climate: this includes ocean currents, atmospheric circulation, sea ice and land covers (trees, grass…) ...
Agriculture as % of GDP 1993
... concentration of carbon dioxide at about 450ppm or less and stabilization or decreases in the atmospheric concentrations of other GHGs (see next slide) • this would require a global emissions target – the challenge would be to agree on intermediate emissions targets and an equitable allocation of em ...
... concentration of carbon dioxide at about 450ppm or less and stabilization or decreases in the atmospheric concentrations of other GHGs (see next slide) • this would require a global emissions target – the challenge would be to agree on intermediate emissions targets and an equitable allocation of em ...
Model selection and uncertainty in climate change mitigation research
... • How much do we care about the future? • If we wish to perform a cost-benefit analysis on a future public sector project, such as climate change mitigation, we must choose a discount rate that reflects society’s preference for present benefits over future ...
... • How much do we care about the future? • If we wish to perform a cost-benefit analysis on a future public sector project, such as climate change mitigation, we must choose a discount rate that reflects society’s preference for present benefits over future ...
Reading Group Guide - Bloomsbury Publishing
... by 2080, the total disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet could be set in motion in a matter of decades, and Iceland—where there have been glaciers for at least the last two million years—will be virtually ice-free by the next century. Based on what you’ve read here and elsewhere, do you think th ...
... by 2080, the total disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet could be set in motion in a matter of decades, and Iceland—where there have been glaciers for at least the last two million years—will be virtually ice-free by the next century. Based on what you’ve read here and elsewhere, do you think th ...
Climate change tendencies in Georgia under global warming
... global warming conditions are not of uniform nature due to complicated physical and geographic, and basically, orographic and landscape-climate conditions. Largest spots and territories of strong warming, when an average annual temperature increased by more than 0.1ՕС during 10 years, are observed i ...
... global warming conditions are not of uniform nature due to complicated physical and geographic, and basically, orographic and landscape-climate conditions. Largest spots and territories of strong warming, when an average annual temperature increased by more than 0.1ՕС during 10 years, are observed i ...
Global Climate Change
... Radiation that has a wavelength that is longer than that of visible light, but shorter than that of radio waves ...
... Radiation that has a wavelength that is longer than that of visible light, but shorter than that of radio waves ...
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.