Global climate change--implications for indigenous
... Human impacts on habitat fragmentation and the loss of species In New Zealand more indigenous land habitat has been converted to pastoral and horticultural farmland (c.51%) than the given world average (37%) for similar agricultural practice. Our forest cover, once greater than 85% of land area, has ...
... Human impacts on habitat fragmentation and the loss of species In New Zealand more indigenous land habitat has been converted to pastoral and horticultural farmland (c.51%) than the given world average (37%) for similar agricultural practice. Our forest cover, once greater than 85% of land area, has ...
the_science - The Global Change Program at the University of
... • impact (negatively) methane and HFC concentrations in the atmosphere. • deposition of nitrogen oxides - “fertilizing the biosphere” --> may reduce atmospheric CO2 (ecosystem N-limited) --> may increase atmospheric CO2 (ecosystem N-saturated or poorly buffered) ...
... • impact (negatively) methane and HFC concentrations in the atmosphere. • deposition of nitrogen oxides - “fertilizing the biosphere” --> may reduce atmospheric CO2 (ecosystem N-limited) --> may increase atmospheric CO2 (ecosystem N-saturated or poorly buffered) ...
Document
... of force, but world conflicts I do not believe will happen any longer. But the environment, that is a creeping danger. I’m more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.” Hans Blix in an interview on MTV News, Reported in New York Times, Sunday March 15 2003 “Hans Blix’s ...
... of force, but world conflicts I do not believe will happen any longer. But the environment, that is a creeping danger. I’m more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.” Hans Blix in an interview on MTV News, Reported in New York Times, Sunday March 15 2003 “Hans Blix’s ...
Report_-_Session_1_E - biodiversity
... • Proposed measures must be based on communities and on bottom-up approaches. • Proposed measures must be based on thorough analysis of causes. • Coordination among agencies and sectors at all levels and all social strata: efforts of the Government and environmental agencies are not enough. Efforts ...
... • Proposed measures must be based on communities and on bottom-up approaches. • Proposed measures must be based on thorough analysis of causes. • Coordination among agencies and sectors at all levels and all social strata: efforts of the Government and environmental agencies are not enough. Efforts ...
Icelandic perspectives on adaptation to climate change and variability
... Creative commons license ...
... Creative commons license ...
Daniel Johns presentation
... UK sea-level index for the period since 1901, using sea-level data from Aberdeen, North Shields, Sheerness, Newlyn and Liverpool ...
... UK sea-level index for the period since 1901, using sea-level data from Aberdeen, North Shields, Sheerness, Newlyn and Liverpool ...
Is the Earth still recovering from the “Little Ice Age”?
... Figure 10: The mean sea level record from the nine tide gauges over the period 1904-2003 based on the decadal trend values for 1907-1999. The sea level curve here is the integral of the rates; (Holgate, 2007). ...
... Figure 10: The mean sea level record from the nine tide gauges over the period 1904-2003 based on the decadal trend values for 1907-1999. The sea level curve here is the integral of the rates; (Holgate, 2007). ...
Powerpoint
... Source: Pew Center on Global Climate Change. 2009. Climate Change 101: Understanding and Responding to Global Climate Change. Arlington, VA. ...
... Source: Pew Center on Global Climate Change. 2009. Climate Change 101: Understanding and Responding to Global Climate Change. Arlington, VA. ...
World must urgently up action to cut a further 25% from predicted
... World must urgently up action to cut a further 25% from predicted 2030 emissions, says UN Environment report ...
... World must urgently up action to cut a further 25% from predicted 2030 emissions, says UN Environment report ...
The Heat Is On - Climate Central
... and the Atlantic coast are warming faster and more significantly (from a statistical point of view) than the Ohio Valley, South, Southeast and Northwest. A more recent study2 showed via climate model simulations that aerosol pollutants emitted into the atmosphere over the past 60 years from industri ...
... and the Atlantic coast are warming faster and more significantly (from a statistical point of view) than the Ohio Valley, South, Southeast and Northwest. A more recent study2 showed via climate model simulations that aerosol pollutants emitted into the atmosphere over the past 60 years from industri ...
economic and environmental costs of climate change
... and state level. Detailed assessments of potential climate outcomes and how they will affect various industries and ecosystems provide policymakers with the knowledge to create effective policies that will help the state adapt to changes while protecting its economy. Since climate change touches on ...
... and state level. Detailed assessments of potential climate outcomes and how they will affect various industries and ecosystems provide policymakers with the knowledge to create effective policies that will help the state adapt to changes while protecting its economy. Since climate change touches on ...
Capotondi
... observations can address the climate-ecosystem interaction over time periods, typically a few decades or less, which may be too short to draw conclusions that are statistically significant. In the presence of climate change it is also important to understand how climate impacts on ecosystems may evo ...
... observations can address the climate-ecosystem interaction over time periods, typically a few decades or less, which may be too short to draw conclusions that are statistically significant. In the presence of climate change it is also important to understand how climate impacts on ecosystems may evo ...
Global Warming - Scientific Controversies in Climate Variability
... For regional mean temperatures we have a signal and attribute it to GHGs (see also Jonas‘ talk). What about precip? ...
... For regional mean temperatures we have a signal and attribute it to GHGs (see also Jonas‘ talk). What about precip? ...
State of the Climate: New Jersey 2013
... greenhouse gas with the largest effect on half of the 20th and early 21st centuries was climate, has been measured continuously caused by increasing greenhouse gas since 1958 at Mauna Loa in Hawaii. These concentrations (3). This long-term trend is measurements show increases in concentrations of CO ...
... greenhouse gas with the largest effect on half of the 20th and early 21st centuries was climate, has been measured continuously caused by increasing greenhouse gas since 1958 at Mauna Loa in Hawaii. These concentrations (3). This long-term trend is measurements show increases in concentrations of CO ...
LECTURE 17 Energy
... greenhouse effect because the process resembles the way thermal energy is held in a greenhouse on a sunny day. Atmospheric substances that effectively absorb infrared radiation are known as greenhouse gases. (Chemistry in the Community 4th Ed., American Chemical Society, p. 281) Without water and ca ...
... greenhouse effect because the process resembles the way thermal energy is held in a greenhouse on a sunny day. Atmospheric substances that effectively absorb infrared radiation are known as greenhouse gases. (Chemistry in the Community 4th Ed., American Chemical Society, p. 281) Without water and ca ...
Global_Temperature_Change_in_the_21st_Century
... cell are updated as the cell receives radiation from the sun and Earth, exchanges energy and materials with adjacent cells, etc. One can use such models to predict changes in any of these physical and chemical parameters, in any location within the Earth-atmosphere system. In these exercises, you wi ...
... cell are updated as the cell receives radiation from the sun and Earth, exchanges energy and materials with adjacent cells, etc. One can use such models to predict changes in any of these physical and chemical parameters, in any location within the Earth-atmosphere system. In these exercises, you wi ...
Chapter 12
... The report concluded that (1) Earth's average surface temperature has in- creased; (2) glaciers and snow cover were melting around the world; and (3) hundreds of species were shifting their geographic ranges and the timing of their life cycles. Storm surges, temporary rises in sea level caused by v ...
... The report concluded that (1) Earth's average surface temperature has in- creased; (2) glaciers and snow cover were melting around the world; and (3) hundreds of species were shifting their geographic ranges and the timing of their life cycles. Storm surges, temporary rises in sea level caused by v ...
Study Guide for Climate Change Test
... What was the approximate largest amount of CO2 in the atmosphere before the Industrial Revolution? What is the current value for atmospheric CO2? Be able to define greenhouse effect. Why do greenhouse gases block out-going radiation from Earth, but not incoming radiation from the sun? What makes a ...
... What was the approximate largest amount of CO2 in the atmosphere before the Industrial Revolution? What is the current value for atmospheric CO2? Be able to define greenhouse effect. Why do greenhouse gases block out-going radiation from Earth, but not incoming radiation from the sun? What makes a ...
CCCI FS1b What is Climate Change?
... The sun is vital to the Earth’s climate. The sun’s rays or sunlight passes through the atmosphere towards the planet. A portion of this heat energy is then absorbed by the Earth’s surface to help warm the planet, with the remainder of the heat reflected upwards by the earth’s surface and atmosphere ...
... The sun is vital to the Earth’s climate. The sun’s rays or sunlight passes through the atmosphere towards the planet. A portion of this heat energy is then absorbed by the Earth’s surface to help warm the planet, with the remainder of the heat reflected upwards by the earth’s surface and atmosphere ...
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.