Windpower in the US
... by rising oceans, but also the residents of the Siamese Pond Wilderness. The birch and beech and maple that turn this place glorious in the fall won't survive a rapid warming; the computer modeling for this part of the ...
... by rising oceans, but also the residents of the Siamese Pond Wilderness. The birch and beech and maple that turn this place glorious in the fall won't survive a rapid warming; the computer modeling for this part of the ...
MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION (MAD): THE BIOSPHERE
... “The [U.S.] National Academy of Sciences reports that the hottest days are now hotter. And the fingerprint of global warming behind this change has been firmly identified.”2 “In the past several years, the global areas hit by extremely unusual hot summertime temperatures has increased 50-fold.”2 ...
... “The [U.S.] National Academy of Sciences reports that the hottest days are now hotter. And the fingerprint of global warming behind this change has been firmly identified.”2 “In the past several years, the global areas hit by extremely unusual hot summertime temperatures has increased 50-fold.”2 ...
Opstel Anders Climate change Changes Changes in the
... exceeded the natural range over the past 650000 years. This natural range is determined to be 180 to 300 ppm. In the last 10 years, the annual growth rate of carbon dioxide concentrations (1.9 ppm annually) has been larger than any growth rate ever seen since 1960, when the average rate was 1.4 ppm ...
... exceeded the natural range over the past 650000 years. This natural range is determined to be 180 to 300 ppm. In the last 10 years, the annual growth rate of carbon dioxide concentrations (1.9 ppm annually) has been larger than any growth rate ever seen since 1960, when the average rate was 1.4 ppm ...
Lecture 12
... Nations Environment Program (UNEP) formed an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). • The panel analyzed the available data and came to the consensus that worldwide average temperatures have significantly increased over the past century. ...
... Nations Environment Program (UNEP) formed an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). • The panel analyzed the available data and came to the consensus that worldwide average temperatures have significantly increased over the past century. ...
Slide 1
... underlying theory (including cloud formation and dissipation), and processes which are not resolved on the model grid (including transfer of heat, moisture and momentum from the surface, convection and cloud processes) There remain model parameters which cannot be measured or do not correspond to an ...
... underlying theory (including cloud formation and dissipation), and processes which are not resolved on the model grid (including transfer of heat, moisture and momentum from the surface, convection and cloud processes) There remain model parameters which cannot be measured or do not correspond to an ...
Secrets of the Sediments - Student Page
... grandparents about any climate changes they recall. 2. Brainstorm and record some ideas for this essential question: a. How can we study global climate changes? b. What pieces of evidence can we look for to see how the Earth’s climate has changed over the planet’s long history? Vocabulary stable ...
... grandparents about any climate changes they recall. 2. Brainstorm and record some ideas for this essential question: a. How can we study global climate changes? b. What pieces of evidence can we look for to see how the Earth’s climate has changed over the planet’s long history? Vocabulary stable ...
Final_studyguide
... review questions. At the end of this guide, I’ve also included some ‘overview’ type of questions. Of course, this list is not intended to be comprehensive, rather some good points to focus your studies. ...
... review questions. At the end of this guide, I’ve also included some ‘overview’ type of questions. Of course, this list is not intended to be comprehensive, rather some good points to focus your studies. ...
The Geological Triggers of Climate Change
... geophysical in nature, covering volcanic eruptions, faults, landslides, and methane hydrates in 12 chapters. It does not cover the more geomorphology- oriented processes, such as debris flows, riverine environments, or coastal shorelines, that might be of more direct interest to biologists. However ...
... geophysical in nature, covering volcanic eruptions, faults, landslides, and methane hydrates in 12 chapters. It does not cover the more geomorphology- oriented processes, such as debris flows, riverine environments, or coastal shorelines, that might be of more direct interest to biologists. However ...
Met 112: Final Exam Study Notes Part I: Climate Change: Natural
... review questions. At the end of this guide, I’ve also included some ‘overview’ type of questions. Of course, this list is not intended to be comprehensive, rather some good points to focus your studies. ...
... review questions. At the end of this guide, I’ve also included some ‘overview’ type of questions. Of course, this list is not intended to be comprehensive, rather some good points to focus your studies. ...
Provisional WMO Statement on the Status of the Global Climate in
... Johannesburg on 7 January. Thailand saw a national record of 44.6°C on 28 April. Phalodi saw a new record for India of 51.0°C on 19 May. Record or near-record temperatures occurred in parts of the Middle East and north Africa on a number of occasions in summer. Mitribah (Kuwait) recorded 54.0°C on ...
... Johannesburg on 7 January. Thailand saw a national record of 44.6°C on 28 April. Phalodi saw a new record for India of 51.0°C on 19 May. Record or near-record temperatures occurred in parts of the Middle East and north Africa on a number of occasions in summer. Mitribah (Kuwait) recorded 54.0°C on ...
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy
... innovative clean technology representing a steadily growing market likely to subsist well into the future as the collective effort works to reduce the effects of global warming. 23 The book, however, is not without weakness. One downside is that occasionally the authors summarize the scientific pri ...
... innovative clean technology representing a steadily growing market likely to subsist well into the future as the collective effort works to reduce the effects of global warming. 23 The book, however, is not without weakness. One downside is that occasionally the authors summarize the scientific pri ...
Influential climate denial: A massive human rights violation?
... Clive Hamilton Requiem for a Species (2010) • It’s already too late - even if global emissions growth stopped by 2020 and emissions stopped by 2070 • Earth’s climate will enter a chaotic period lasting thousands of years. • There will be far fewer humans, if we survive at all. ...
... Clive Hamilton Requiem for a Species (2010) • It’s already too late - even if global emissions growth stopped by 2020 and emissions stopped by 2070 • Earth’s climate will enter a chaotic period lasting thousands of years. • There will be far fewer humans, if we survive at all. ...
Grantham Briefing Note 4 – September 2013 The Earth`s energy
... The amount of solar energy absorbed by the system depends on the strength of the solar radiation (which was only about 75 per cent of its current strength 4 billion years ago), the regular changes in the Earth’s orbit around the sun and how much of that radiation is reflected by clouds, aerosols and ...
... The amount of solar energy absorbed by the system depends on the strength of the solar radiation (which was only about 75 per cent of its current strength 4 billion years ago), the regular changes in the Earth’s orbit around the sun and how much of that radiation is reflected by clouds, aerosols and ...
Part I - Icecap
... “Warming is causing sea-level to rise as land-based ice melts and the warmer oceans expand. “Many of these observed changes are occurring more rapidly than projected even a few years ago. “The specific patterns of recent climatic change show that it is primarily human-induced CORRECTON REQUIRED In ...
... “Warming is causing sea-level to rise as land-based ice melts and the warmer oceans expand. “Many of these observed changes are occurring more rapidly than projected even a few years ago. “The specific patterns of recent climatic change show that it is primarily human-induced CORRECTON REQUIRED In ...
Climate Change - WordPress.com
... • It will face varying impact of climate change – heat waves, floods, storms and cyclone, drought • Has high share of climate dependent livelihood sectors (mainly agriculture and ancillary industries) • Differing vulnerability amongst better off and poor people living in ...
... • It will face varying impact of climate change – heat waves, floods, storms and cyclone, drought • Has high share of climate dependent livelihood sectors (mainly agriculture and ancillary industries) • Differing vulnerability amongst better off and poor people living in ...
Our Fragile Earth - Portfolio of Jenni Riesz
... You don't say, 'for heavens sake, how certain are you of this Diagnostic? I want this as a statistical probability density function. I want to know what the costs to me are going to be of taking this action, of cutting out red meat and no more fat, no more McDonalds, and I want to know how much the ...
... You don't say, 'for heavens sake, how certain are you of this Diagnostic? I want this as a statistical probability density function. I want to know what the costs to me are going to be of taking this action, of cutting out red meat and no more fat, no more McDonalds, and I want to know how much the ...
ATM S 211 Final Examination June 4, 2007 Name This examination
... 1. The Antarctic ozone hole is caused by a combination of meteorology and chemistry. Explain how each of these factors contributes to the ozone hole. The meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere winter creates an intense symmetric circulation (vortex) around the SH polar region that prevents horizonta ...
... 1. The Antarctic ozone hole is caused by a combination of meteorology and chemistry. Explain how each of these factors contributes to the ozone hole. The meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere winter creates an intense symmetric circulation (vortex) around the SH polar region that prevents horizonta ...
Updating Climate Metrics: The Need for Consistency with
... climate change (WG 1), its impacts (WG 2), and options for addressing it (WG 3). IPCC does not conduct its own research, nor does it monitor climate related data. ...
... climate change (WG 1), its impacts (WG 2), and options for addressing it (WG 3). IPCC does not conduct its own research, nor does it monitor climate related data. ...
It`s a Hard-Knock Butterfly`s Life
... In any case, there is abundant evidence that the attacks on the science and the scientists have contributed to a pullback in public support for national and international efforts to find a path forward that would lead to the large reductions in emissions that are needed to stabilize climate and pro ...
... In any case, there is abundant evidence that the attacks on the science and the scientists have contributed to a pullback in public support for national and international efforts to find a path forward that would lead to the large reductions in emissions that are needed to stabilize climate and pro ...
ppt - WMO
... CLIMATE VARIABILITY (Cont’d) Pacific Decadal Oscillation: More El Nino-like or La Nina-like behaviour for periods up to 20-30 years. Strong influence in AustNew Zealand in 20th Century. No practical predictability. However, interannual (ENSO) predictability adversely affected during “warm” phase of ...
... CLIMATE VARIABILITY (Cont’d) Pacific Decadal Oscillation: More El Nino-like or La Nina-like behaviour for periods up to 20-30 years. Strong influence in AustNew Zealand in 20th Century. No practical predictability. However, interannual (ENSO) predictability adversely affected during “warm” phase of ...
Separating forcing from feedback
... IPCC models match 20C climate, but vary on 21C warming IPCC 2007 ...
... IPCC models match 20C climate, but vary on 21C warming IPCC 2007 ...
Climate change & arctic plants
... • increased growing season (up to 7 days earlier) is correlated with increased photosynthetically active period • modeling results versus field results ...
... • increased growing season (up to 7 days earlier) is correlated with increased photosynthetically active period • modeling results versus field results ...
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.