In the hot seat. Science, 342, 688-689.
... ing power.” Indeed, surveys coming out on Home.” Actually, Inhofe’s taunt was baseless; particular extreme weather much faster. the 1-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy’s global warming favors heavier precipitation, Allen, a climate scientist at the University landfall (29 October) show the concern ...
... ing power.” Indeed, surveys coming out on Home.” Actually, Inhofe’s taunt was baseless; particular extreme weather much faster. the 1-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy’s global warming favors heavier precipitation, Allen, a climate scientist at the University landfall (29 October) show the concern ...
Climate change and mountain environments
... on rare alpine meadows and other highaltitude habitats. High-elevation plants and animals have limited space available for new habitat as they move higher on mountains in response to long-term changes in temperature. Changes in the depth of mountain snowpacks and glaciers, and changes in their seaso ...
... on rare alpine meadows and other highaltitude habitats. High-elevation plants and animals have limited space available for new habitat as they move higher on mountains in response to long-term changes in temperature. Changes in the depth of mountain snowpacks and glaciers, and changes in their seaso ...
Climate Change - Section 3.1 and 3.2
... Second Assessment Report (SAR) - 1995 • Climate Change 1995, the IPCC Second Assessment Report (SAR) • Greenhouse gas concentrations have continued to increase • Anthropogenic aerosols tend to ...
... Second Assessment Report (SAR) - 1995 • Climate Change 1995, the IPCC Second Assessment Report (SAR) • Greenhouse gas concentrations have continued to increase • Anthropogenic aerosols tend to ...
Letter to Representative Smith 8 July 2014 (opens in new window)
... least 5% of global GDP each year, now and forever. If a wider range of risks and impacts is taken into account, the estimates of damage could rise to 20% of GDP or more”. ...
... least 5% of global GDP each year, now and forever. If a wider range of risks and impacts is taken into account, the estimates of damage could rise to 20% of GDP or more”. ...
New York Review of Books - Yale Economics
... temperature are so volatile, declines over a decade contain little information. Here is a useful way to see this point: We have a reading of average global temperature from 1880 to 2011 (shown in the figure of my earlier article). Take the ten-year change in temperature for each of the 122 years for ...
... temperature are so volatile, declines over a decade contain little information. Here is a useful way to see this point: We have a reading of average global temperature from 1880 to 2011 (shown in the figure of my earlier article). Take the ten-year change in temperature for each of the 122 years for ...
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... the Earth, and then is sent back into space as heat radiation. Greenhouse gases trap this heat in the atmosphere and thereby warm the Earth’s surface as we are warmed when blankets are piled on our bed. Carbon dioxide (CO2), produced mainly by burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), is th ...
... the Earth, and then is sent back into space as heat radiation. Greenhouse gases trap this heat in the atmosphere and thereby warm the Earth’s surface as we are warmed when blankets are piled on our bed. Carbon dioxide (CO2), produced mainly by burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), is th ...
New York Times - City Tech OpenLab
... Agriculture severely impacted. What other affects from this? • Other sectors of the economy affected? 2. Recreation – ski resorts: “Mountain snow packs are shrinking. In recent decades, rising winter temperatures have increasingly changed snows to rain.” Tourism dollars shrink 3. Population: Many de ...
... Agriculture severely impacted. What other affects from this? • Other sectors of the economy affected? 2. Recreation – ski resorts: “Mountain snow packs are shrinking. In recent decades, rising winter temperatures have increasingly changed snows to rain.” Tourism dollars shrink 3. Population: Many de ...
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... The Public Policy Debate and Future Directions “Catholic social teaching calls for bold and generous action on behalf of the common good.” "Interdependence," as Pope John Paul II has written, "must be transformed into solidarity. . . . Surmounting every type of imperialism and determination to pres ...
... The Public Policy Debate and Future Directions “Catholic social teaching calls for bold and generous action on behalf of the common good.” "Interdependence," as Pope John Paul II has written, "must be transformed into solidarity. . . . Surmounting every type of imperialism and determination to pres ...
The energy imbalance cause by human and natural activities
... Full de-carbonisation of energy and sustainable land and biomass management are key parts of this ...
... Full de-carbonisation of energy and sustainable land and biomass management are key parts of this ...
CODE: PPI-KLIM - Plant Dynamics
... For Europeans the forecasts are not alarming at present. Grasses will be able to compensate the water shortage in periods of drought by the raised CO2 as that improves its efficiency. The expected increase in temperature willenable a more economicand probably even large-scale cultivation of maize fo ...
... For Europeans the forecasts are not alarming at present. Grasses will be able to compensate the water shortage in periods of drought by the raised CO2 as that improves its efficiency. The expected increase in temperature willenable a more economicand probably even large-scale cultivation of maize fo ...
global warming is happening
... Red herring: quibbling over technical definitions of pollutant is a distraction from the realities of the negative impacts of global warming. ...
... Red herring: quibbling over technical definitions of pollutant is a distraction from the realities of the negative impacts of global warming. ...
Melting Snow, Ice and Glaciers
... • The temperature on earth has increased gradually over the past 100 years, and more rapidly over the past 60-70 years • Surrounding the earth is a layer of atmosphere or gases • The atmosphere protects life on earth by both retaining and releasing solar radiation • However, because human beings ove ...
... • The temperature on earth has increased gradually over the past 100 years, and more rapidly over the past 60-70 years • Surrounding the earth is a layer of atmosphere or gases • The atmosphere protects life on earth by both retaining and releasing solar radiation • However, because human beings ove ...
Climate Science FAQ
... http://www.skepticalscience.com/OISM-Petition-Project.htm Big Business has a vested interest in hiding the truth, often to the detriment of our planet and its people. It funds much of the contrary research. http://priceofoil.org/2009/07/02/exxon-stillfunding-sceptics Remember tobacco and asbestos! ...
... http://www.skepticalscience.com/OISM-Petition-Project.htm Big Business has a vested interest in hiding the truth, often to the detriment of our planet and its people. It funds much of the contrary research. http://priceofoil.org/2009/07/02/exxon-stillfunding-sceptics Remember tobacco and asbestos! ...
Tiger Newsletter Vol. 1 November 21, 2011
... And that focuses only on those who can decrease their emissions. When your average is 20 tons per year, going down to 18 tons is as easy as taking a staycation. But if you are among the four billion on the planet who each emit one ton a year, you have nowhere to go but up. Leading scientific groups ...
... And that focuses only on those who can decrease their emissions. When your average is 20 tons per year, going down to 18 tons is as easy as taking a staycation. But if you are among the four billion on the planet who each emit one ton a year, you have nowhere to go but up. Leading scientific groups ...
Exam1_Key - Gamon Lab
... warming. Depending upon how these are implemented in models, one scenario that results is a “runaway greenhouse” (rapid and accelerating climate warming) due to the large reservoir of stored carbon locked ...
... warming. Depending upon how these are implemented in models, one scenario that results is a “runaway greenhouse” (rapid and accelerating climate warming) due to the large reservoir of stored carbon locked ...
1 - FORCLIM PROJECT
... the important factors for forestry (Szalai, S., OMSz) Objectives Climate has been changed in the past and will change in the future. These changes happened relatively fast. Some changes were very fast, but it occurred slower modifications, too. There are evidences of the human influence on climate, ...
... the important factors for forestry (Szalai, S., OMSz) Objectives Climate has been changed in the past and will change in the future. These changes happened relatively fast. Some changes were very fast, but it occurred slower modifications, too. There are evidences of the human influence on climate, ...
AOSS_NRE_480_L10_Feedbacks_20100216
... matters to what they do. • They have many different, often episodic sources. • They generally fall out or rainout of the atmosphere; they don’t stay there very long compared with greenhouse gases. • They often have large regional effects. • They are an indicator of dirty air, which brings its own se ...
... matters to what they do. • They have many different, often episodic sources. • They generally fall out or rainout of the atmosphere; they don’t stay there very long compared with greenhouse gases. • They often have large regional effects. • They are an indicator of dirty air, which brings its own se ...
wk3class ch6-2012C.Tv2 - Iowa State University Department of
... By the year 2030, developing nations will produce more than half of the world’s emissions, with China and India leading the way. It is much cheaper to use fuel efficiently as you develop an industrial base than it is to “retrofit” an existing industrial base to use fuel efficiently. By some estima ...
... By the year 2030, developing nations will produce more than half of the world’s emissions, with China and India leading the way. It is much cheaper to use fuel efficiently as you develop an industrial base than it is to “retrofit” an existing industrial base to use fuel efficiently. By some estima ...
Global Warming
... effects add to natural influences that have been present over Earth's history. Scientific evidence strongly indicates that natural influences cannot explain the rapid increase in global near-surface temperatures observed during the second half of the 20th century. ...
... effects add to natural influences that have been present over Earth's history. Scientific evidence strongly indicates that natural influences cannot explain the rapid increase in global near-surface temperatures observed during the second half of the 20th century. ...
Climate Change - Cloudfront.net
... It is evident that climate has been changing without humans but do we have an impact on climate change? ...
... It is evident that climate has been changing without humans but do we have an impact on climate change? ...
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.