Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change
... to climate change is described in terms of not only exposure to elevated temperatures, but also crop yield sensitivity to the elevated temperatures and the ability of farmers to adapt to the effects of that sensitivity, e.g. by planting more heat-resistant cultivars or by ceasing to plant their curr ...
... to climate change is described in terms of not only exposure to elevated temperatures, but also crop yield sensitivity to the elevated temperatures and the ability of farmers to adapt to the effects of that sensitivity, e.g. by planting more heat-resistant cultivars or by ceasing to plant their curr ...
The Evangelical Debate Over Climate Change
... "Climate change refers to any significant change in measures of climate (such as temperature, precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period (decades or longer)."15 The basic science behind the earth's retention of heat is as follows: Energy from the Sun drives the Earth's weather and climat ...
... "Climate change refers to any significant change in measures of climate (such as temperature, precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period (decades or longer)."15 The basic science behind the earth's retention of heat is as follows: Energy from the Sun drives the Earth's weather and climat ...
Media coverage of climate change: current trends, strengths
... Asia, Eastern Europe and South Africa during the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. At the meetings in Kyoto, Japan, registrants included 3,500 journalists from over 400 media organizations in 160 countries (Leggett 2001). Many factors contributed to the initial rise in coverage in 1988. Among them was NASA scien ...
... Asia, Eastern Europe and South Africa during the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. At the meetings in Kyoto, Japan, registrants included 3,500 journalists from over 400 media organizations in 160 countries (Leggett 2001). Many factors contributed to the initial rise in coverage in 1988. Among them was NASA scien ...
Changing Risk Perceptions Policy Brief
... agricultural industry could face significant challenges with more frequent summer water shortages and reduced quality and production of valuable goods such as wine grapes and dairy products. These and other climate impacts have the potential to substantially affect key economic sectors and the quali ...
... agricultural industry could face significant challenges with more frequent summer water shortages and reduced quality and production of valuable goods such as wine grapes and dairy products. These and other climate impacts have the potential to substantially affect key economic sectors and the quali ...
(GCOS) PROGRAM Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS, Office of
... the region; a regional program officer is desired but not necessarily required. In the Pacific Region, SPREP was a natural for this. Need a solid and consolidated planning mechanism to advance projects in the region Need to identify partners and donors willing to participate in regional projects and ...
... the region; a regional program officer is desired but not necessarily required. In the Pacific Region, SPREP was a natural for this. Need a solid and consolidated planning mechanism to advance projects in the region Need to identify partners and donors willing to participate in regional projects and ...
On multiple solutions of the atmosphere–vegetation system in
... North Africa and Central East Asia and thereby a northward shift of vegetation particularly in the south-western Sahara. The first solution is obtained with initial condition 4, and the second with 1, 2, 3. When comparing these results with an earlier study of biogeophysical feedback in the African ...
... North Africa and Central East Asia and thereby a northward shift of vegetation particularly in the south-western Sahara. The first solution is obtained with initial condition 4, and the second with 1, 2, 3. When comparing these results with an earlier study of biogeophysical feedback in the African ...
Evans - NERC
... the emergence of novel plant-pollinator interactions. It thus seems likely to over-estimate the risk of plant extinctions. Indeed, studies based on a space for time substitution approach indicate that there is often considerable flexibility in the species comprising plant-pollinator interactions whi ...
... the emergence of novel plant-pollinator interactions. It thus seems likely to over-estimate the risk of plant extinctions. Indeed, studies based on a space for time substitution approach indicate that there is often considerable flexibility in the species comprising plant-pollinator interactions whi ...
- CSIRO Publishing
... Climate change is one of the greatest ecological, economic, and social challenges facing us today. The scientific evidence that human activities are contributing to climate change is compelling, but society is increasingly seeking information about the nature of the evidence and what can be done in ...
... Climate change is one of the greatest ecological, economic, and social challenges facing us today. The scientific evidence that human activities are contributing to climate change is compelling, but society is increasingly seeking information about the nature of the evidence and what can be done in ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... permafrost thawing, increased cloudiness and increased precipitation. The polar sea ice will break open and the polar regions will experience an increase in fresh-water run-off. The temperate, mediterranean and tropical regions will experience sea level rise, flooding, increased land erosion and an ...
... permafrost thawing, increased cloudiness and increased precipitation. The polar sea ice will break open and the polar regions will experience an increase in fresh-water run-off. The temperate, mediterranean and tropical regions will experience sea level rise, flooding, increased land erosion and an ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INCORPORATING CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY INTO ESTIMATES OF CLIMATE
... As a consequence of this failure to incorporate climate uncertainty, the rapidly growing literature on the economics of climate change – while influential within economics – is unfortunately all too often disregarded outright by climate scientists, both among researchers and those advising public p ...
... As a consequence of this failure to incorporate climate uncertainty, the rapidly growing literature on the economics of climate change – while influential within economics – is unfortunately all too often disregarded outright by climate scientists, both among researchers and those advising public p ...
Final CHNEP Vulnerability Assessment.indd
... Figure 7: Climate Change Drivers and Stressors Figure 8: Hurricanes within 50 miles of Fort Myers Figure 9: Intense Wildfires can burn Wetlands Figure 10: A new inlet (Charley Pass) Figure 11: Sea Level Rates (6000 years) Figure 12: Global Sea Level Rise 1860-2009 Figure 13: Charlotte Harbor Regiona ...
... Figure 7: Climate Change Drivers and Stressors Figure 8: Hurricanes within 50 miles of Fort Myers Figure 9: Intense Wildfires can burn Wetlands Figure 10: A new inlet (Charley Pass) Figure 11: Sea Level Rates (6000 years) Figure 12: Global Sea Level Rise 1860-2009 Figure 13: Charlotte Harbor Regiona ...
U. S. Senate Minority Report:
... alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 publish ...
... alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 publish ...
High Resolution Version - American Meteorological Society
... extremes for society? We consider these questions in more detail. The Science. When launched in 2012, an original aim of this report was to encourage the development of the science of event attribution. In this endeavor, we continue to be encouraged by the response from the climate community. The re ...
... extremes for society? We consider these questions in more detail. The Science. When launched in 2012, an original aim of this report was to encourage the development of the science of event attribution. In this endeavor, we continue to be encouraged by the response from the climate community. The re ...
Climate: Observations, projections and impacts
... climate has changed and will continue to change in future in response to human activities. Across the world, this is already being felt as changes to the local weather that people experience every day. Our ability to provide useful information to help everyone understand how their environment has ch ...
... climate has changed and will continue to change in future in response to human activities. Across the world, this is already being felt as changes to the local weather that people experience every day. Our ability to provide useful information to help everyone understand how their environment has ch ...
- NERC Open Research Archive
... 2213-3054/ ã 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ...
... 2213-3054/ ã 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ...
Making Climate Data Relevant to Decision Making: The important
... models) outputs focus mostly on changes to temperature and precipitation rather than specific impacts relevant to people; and 3) almost all of the climate change information available is stored in difficult to access formats (e.g. NetCDF Files). Climate models projecting future conditions need to be ...
... models) outputs focus mostly on changes to temperature and precipitation rather than specific impacts relevant to people; and 3) almost all of the climate change information available is stored in difficult to access formats (e.g. NetCDF Files). Climate models projecting future conditions need to be ...
Climate change, growing season water deficit and vegetation activity
... al. (2003) found the largest net primary production (NPP) increase was in tropical forest owing to increased solar radiation. Recently, Zhao and Running (2010) found that frequent regional droughts became the main constraint of plant growth and NPP in the last decade. Consequently, we questioned whe ...
... al. (2003) found the largest net primary production (NPP) increase was in tropical forest owing to increased solar radiation. Recently, Zhao and Running (2010) found that frequent regional droughts became the main constraint of plant growth and NPP in the last decade. Consequently, we questioned whe ...
APPENDIX 1 - Curriculum Education and Training Program in
... warming evidence of past climate changes and climate projections for the future. Participants will be introduced to methods and tools that are used in projecting future climate changes, including projections of changes at global and regional scales, and uncertainties in the projections. Observed and ...
... warming evidence of past climate changes and climate projections for the future. Participants will be introduced to methods and tools that are used in projecting future climate changes, including projections of changes at global and regional scales, and uncertainties in the projections. Observed and ...
World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan Climate Change in the
... World wide observations show that changes are occurring in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation (Trenberth. et al. 2007). These generally exhibit large natural fluctuation induced by teleconnections like El Nino and changes in atmospheric circulation patterns like the North Atl ...
... World wide observations show that changes are occurring in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation (Trenberth. et al. 2007). These generally exhibit large natural fluctuation induced by teleconnections like El Nino and changes in atmospheric circulation patterns like the North Atl ...
Faculty of Science and Agriculture Dissertation submitted in partial
... the subject. A Kruskal-Wallis H test on demographic data for water access revealed that the demographic results are independent of choice of data acquired from different data providers (χ2(2) = 1.26, p = 0.533, with a mean ranked population scores of 7.4 for ECSECC, 6.8 for Quantec and 9.8 for Stats ...
... the subject. A Kruskal-Wallis H test on demographic data for water access revealed that the demographic results are independent of choice of data acquired from different data providers (χ2(2) = 1.26, p = 0.533, with a mean ranked population scores of 7.4 for ECSECC, 6.8 for Quantec and 9.8 for Stats ...
Sun exposure, nest temperature and loggerhead
... exposure and nest temperatures at the Mon Repos turtle rookery, south east Queensland, Australia was explored and the relationship between nest temperature and hatchling attributes examined. Shading decreased nest temperature, and higher nest temperatures were associated with smaller sized hatchling ...
... exposure and nest temperatures at the Mon Repos turtle rookery, south east Queensland, Australia was explored and the relationship between nest temperature and hatchling attributes examined. Shading decreased nest temperature, and higher nest temperatures were associated with smaller sized hatchling ...
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.