Climate Change 2007 Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth
... the [2001 IPCC assessment report]. Many risks are identified with higher confidence. Some risks are projected to be larger or to occur at lower increases in temperature. 1. Risks to unique and threatened systems. There is new and stronger evidence of observed impacts of climate change on unique and ...
... the [2001 IPCC assessment report]. Many risks are identified with higher confidence. Some risks are projected to be larger or to occur at lower increases in temperature. 1. Risks to unique and threatened systems. There is new and stronger evidence of observed impacts of climate change on unique and ...
Sustainable Responses to Climate Change MKE July 2016
... • CO2 and other GHG (Greenhouse Gases) • Great Acceleration since (1750) and more obvious since 1950s • Warming due to CO2 known since 1812.. Confirmed in 1988 (Hansen) • Attempts to “do something about it” since ...
... • CO2 and other GHG (Greenhouse Gases) • Great Acceleration since (1750) and more obvious since 1950s • Warming due to CO2 known since 1812.. Confirmed in 1988 (Hansen) • Attempts to “do something about it” since ...
Indicators of global warming
... Use of the term “global warming" generally implies a human influence — the more neutral term “climate change” should be used for a change in climate with no presumption as to cause and no characterization of the kind of change involved. Sometimes the term "anthropogenic climate change" is used to in ...
... Use of the term “global warming" generally implies a human influence — the more neutral term “climate change” should be used for a change in climate with no presumption as to cause and no characterization of the kind of change involved. Sometimes the term "anthropogenic climate change" is used to in ...
IPCC - ohchr
... • Assignment of probabilities to specific key impacts – can be very difficult • Mitigation reduces risks, delay in action increases risks • Adaptation reduces risk of negative impacts • More difficult to adapt to larger magnitudes and faster rates of warming • Some impacts cannot be avoided – sea le ...
... • Assignment of probabilities to specific key impacts – can be very difficult • Mitigation reduces risks, delay in action increases risks • Adaptation reduces risk of negative impacts • More difficult to adapt to larger magnitudes and faster rates of warming • Some impacts cannot be avoided – sea le ...
The Economics of Sustainability
... • A situation in which the market system produces an allocation of resources which is not Pareto-efficient • Yawn and What? • But market failures are very important and can have very real effects • Stern: Climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen ...
... • A situation in which the market system produces an allocation of resources which is not Pareto-efficient • Yawn and What? • But market failures are very important and can have very real effects • Stern: Climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen ...
ESS15 Winter 2016 supplementary study guide by Dianne Sanchez
... -How long does CO2 stay in the atmosphere? -How large are land, atmosphere, and ocean reservoirs of carbon (GtC)? Which is the largest? -Describe the solubility pump in the ocean -Describe the biological pump in the ocean -Describe the CO2 fertilization effect -Describe the nutrient fertilization ef ...
... -How long does CO2 stay in the atmosphere? -How large are land, atmosphere, and ocean reservoirs of carbon (GtC)? Which is the largest? -Describe the solubility pump in the ocean -Describe the biological pump in the ocean -Describe the CO2 fertilization effect -Describe the nutrient fertilization ef ...
Slide 1 - climateknowledge.org
... – The average global temperature of the Earth’s surface will continue to rise because of the continued addition into the atmosphere of gases that hold heat close to the surface. – Historically stable masses of ice on land will melt. – Sea level will rise. – The weather will change. ...
... – The average global temperature of the Earth’s surface will continue to rise because of the continued addition into the atmosphere of gases that hold heat close to the surface. – Historically stable masses of ice on land will melt. – Sea level will rise. – The weather will change. ...
USI Library News Information Service Statesman, 19-08
... governance, which may push the number of migrants into Europe from currently one million to tens of millions annually. The most comprehensive study on the risks from climate change, commissioned by the UK, China and Indian authorities (Centre for Science and Policy 2015), concluded that climate chan ...
... governance, which may push the number of migrants into Europe from currently one million to tens of millions annually. The most comprehensive study on the risks from climate change, commissioned by the UK, China and Indian authorities (Centre for Science and Policy 2015), concluded that climate chan ...
PPT file - Regional Climate Modeling Laboratory
... Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001 Report ...
... Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001 Report ...
6 - rguhs
... level rise, higher local temperatures, and changes in rainfall patterns, but synergistic affects such as warming causing the release of methane hydrates or clathrates; oceans and forests and species dying off create many unforeseen impacts such as a decrease in the amount of oxygen in the earth's at ...
... level rise, higher local temperatures, and changes in rainfall patterns, but synergistic affects such as warming causing the release of methane hydrates or clathrates; oceans and forests and species dying off create many unforeseen impacts such as a decrease in the amount of oxygen in the earth's at ...
Slide 1 - climateknowledge.org
... This predisposition for parts of the globe to be warm and parts of the globe to be cold means that measuring global warming is difficult. Some parts of the world could, in fact, get cooler because this warm and cool pattern could be changed. What is a scenario for record cold temperatures in norther ...
... This predisposition for parts of the globe to be warm and parts of the globe to be cold means that measuring global warming is difficult. Some parts of the world could, in fact, get cooler because this warm and cool pattern could be changed. What is a scenario for record cold temperatures in norther ...
Slide 1 - GLISAclimate.org
... This predisposition for parts of the globe to be warm and parts of the globe to be cold means that measuring global warming is difficult. Some parts of the world could, in fact, get cooler because this warm and cool pattern could be changed. What is a scenario for record cold temperatures in norther ...
... This predisposition for parts of the globe to be warm and parts of the globe to be cold means that measuring global warming is difficult. Some parts of the world could, in fact, get cooler because this warm and cool pattern could be changed. What is a scenario for record cold temperatures in norther ...
Illinois Fact Sheet
... Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, U.S. Global Change Research Program) ...
... Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, U.S. Global Change Research Program) ...
Does pre-industrial warming double the anthropogenic total?
... the greenhouse-gas values for 1850 measured in ice cores and the lower concentrations proposed for 1850 in the absence of pre-industrial anthropogenic emissions. The models in these experiments have used two kinds of representation of the ocean: (1) simplified versions with the ocean represented as ...
... the greenhouse-gas values for 1850 measured in ice cores and the lower concentrations proposed for 1850 in the absence of pre-industrial anthropogenic emissions. The models in these experiments have used two kinds of representation of the ocean: (1) simplified versions with the ocean represented as ...
Chapter 20
... permafrost releasing more CO2 and CH4 into the troposphere. During the last century, the world’s sea level rose by 10-20 cm, mostly due to runoff from melting and land-based ice and the expansion of ocean water as temperatures rise. ...
... permafrost releasing more CO2 and CH4 into the troposphere. During the last century, the world’s sea level rose by 10-20 cm, mostly due to runoff from melting and land-based ice and the expansion of ocean water as temperatures rise. ...
No Slide Title
... There can be no denying the basic physics that increasing greenhouse gases cause global warming. We are likely to pay a heavy price if we keep emitting them. ...
... There can be no denying the basic physics that increasing greenhouse gases cause global warming. We are likely to pay a heavy price if we keep emitting them. ...
Health Implications of Global Warming: Impacts on Vulnerable
... children and grandchildren will inherit. The more we postpone action, the more we increase the costs that future generations will have to pay to cope with the consequences of global warming. v ...
... children and grandchildren will inherit. The more we postpone action, the more we increase the costs that future generations will have to pay to cope with the consequences of global warming. v ...
Document
... But it has also been subject to criticism as it is much more political. In principle, this process is designed to provide a report in which the content is determined by the science while how it is stated is determined jointly with the governments. Hence it aids communication between scientists and p ...
... But it has also been subject to criticism as it is much more political. In principle, this process is designed to provide a report in which the content is determined by the science while how it is stated is determined jointly with the governments. Hence it aids communication between scientists and p ...
Finding Traction for Ethical Principles to Guide Climate Change Policy
... Signs of "positive climate feedbacks"—are appearing, in particular, those associated with greenhouse gas releases from soils, tundra, or ocean sediments; sea-ice and ice sheet disintegration; and vegetation migration--could make the climate system warm twice as much over the long term than previousl ...
... Signs of "positive climate feedbacks"—are appearing, in particular, those associated with greenhouse gas releases from soils, tundra, or ocean sediments; sea-ice and ice sheet disintegration; and vegetation migration--could make the climate system warm twice as much over the long term than previousl ...
Reason_IPCC_5AR_Ugandas Climate_Change and
... Light hatching denotes where more than 66% of models (or members) have the same sign with the ensemble mean changes, while dense hatching denotes where more than 90% of models (or members) have the same sign with the ensemble mean changes. ...
... Light hatching denotes where more than 66% of models (or members) have the same sign with the ensemble mean changes, while dense hatching denotes where more than 90% of models (or members) have the same sign with the ensemble mean changes. ...
Gwynne Dyer, Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World
... reforestation, and ocean fertilization might buy time while international solutions are worked out, or possibly not. ...
... reforestation, and ocean fertilization might buy time while international solutions are worked out, or possibly not. ...
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.