CLIMATE POLICY IN LIGHT OF CLIMATE SCIENCE: THE ICLIPS
... to different domains in the climate-society system. But why do we need a new decision-analytical framework in the first place? Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) developed in climate change research incorporate the full cycle of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the options and costs of ...
... to different domains in the climate-society system. But why do we need a new decision-analytical framework in the first place? Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) developed in climate change research incorporate the full cycle of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the options and costs of ...
Application of Self-Organizing-Maps Technique in Downscaling
... assessments are needed to complement the broad impact assessments such as those provided by Global Climate Models (GCMs) (Feenstra et al., 1997). GCMs represent physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and land surface. They are widely known to be the most advanced tools currently av ...
... assessments are needed to complement the broad impact assessments such as those provided by Global Climate Models (GCMs) (Feenstra et al., 1997). GCMs represent physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and land surface. They are widely known to be the most advanced tools currently av ...
Global Warming and Science
... Fig. 6. Climate reconstructions over the last two centuries [SIC : millennia]. Medieval warm period missing – Little Ice Age ??? ...
... Fig. 6. Climate reconstructions over the last two centuries [SIC : millennia]. Medieval warm period missing – Little Ice Age ??? ...
Choosing and Using Climate-Change Scenarios for Ecological
... climate driver is well correlated with variables the CM simulates well. For instance, better projections of coastal upwelling changes may be developed from well-resolved CM projections of atmospheric sea-level pressure (e.g., Wang et al. 2010) than from direct CM simulation of upwelling. Cross-scale ...
... climate driver is well correlated with variables the CM simulates well. For instance, better projections of coastal upwelling changes may be developed from well-resolved CM projections of atmospheric sea-level pressure (e.g., Wang et al. 2010) than from direct CM simulation of upwelling. Cross-scale ...
Australians` views of climate change
... change is happening and that it is caused by human activity has declined over the past three years. The sources of information on changes over time in Australia were Newspoll, Australian Gallup Poll, Essential Media and Thermometer surveys (see Tables 2 and 3). There were two limitations on comparis ...
... change is happening and that it is caused by human activity has declined over the past three years. The sources of information on changes over time in Australia were Newspoll, Australian Gallup Poll, Essential Media and Thermometer surveys (see Tables 2 and 3). There were two limitations on comparis ...
Northern New Hampshire
... EARTH’S CLIMATE CHANGES. It always has and always will. However, an extensive and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that human activities—including the burning of fossil fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are no ...
... EARTH’S CLIMATE CHANGES. It always has and always will. However, an extensive and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that human activities—including the burning of fossil fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are no ...
Adapting to Climate Change in Australia
... Even if climate change can be contained to around 2°C of global warming, Australia will have to manage serious and pervasive risks from climate change impacts. In 2007 the IPCC concluded that, for Australia, “Ecosystems, water security and coastal communities ... have a narrow coping range. Even if ...
... Even if climate change can be contained to around 2°C of global warming, Australia will have to manage serious and pervasive risks from climate change impacts. In 2007 the IPCC concluded that, for Australia, “Ecosystems, water security and coastal communities ... have a narrow coping range. Even if ...
Climate Change Impacts and Vulnerability in the Eastern Himalayas
... local biodiversity, and reduced ground and surface water quantity and quality. These changes will impact on everything from the natural landscape to human health, built infrastructure, and socioeconomic conditions. The global community is currently trying to understand the nexus between climate chan ...
... local biodiversity, and reduced ground and surface water quantity and quality. These changes will impact on everything from the natural landscape to human health, built infrastructure, and socioeconomic conditions. The global community is currently trying to understand the nexus between climate chan ...
Climate Change is a Geographic Problem
... datasets in detail, which are combined for the comprehensive study and analysis of spatial problems. This methodology parallels the well-known scientific method and includes a research-focused, iterative process for examining diverse datasets and uncovering potential solutions. GIS augments the anal ...
... datasets in detail, which are combined for the comprehensive study and analysis of spatial problems. This methodology parallels the well-known scientific method and includes a research-focused, iterative process for examining diverse datasets and uncovering potential solutions. GIS augments the anal ...
Tropospheric adjustment induces a cloud component in
... both FLC and FSC are significantly different from zero at the 5% level; FLC < 0 and FSC > 0. As these terms have similar sizes, the net F = 3.3 ± 0.2 W m−2 is not very different from the clear-sky forcing. The partition of F into longwave FL = 2.52 ± 0.16 W m−2 and shortwave FS = 0.78 ± 0.10 W m−2 i ...
... both FLC and FSC are significantly different from zero at the 5% level; FLC < 0 and FSC > 0. As these terms have similar sizes, the net F = 3.3 ± 0.2 W m−2 is not very different from the clear-sky forcing. The partition of F into longwave FL = 2.52 ± 0.16 W m−2 and shortwave FS = 0.78 ± 0.10 W m−2 i ...
Sea-level rise and climate change
... managers adapting to climate change and sea-level rise. This online tool, known as CoastAdapt, provides information on all aspects of coastal adaptation as well as a decision support framework. It can be accessed at www.coastadapt.com.au. Coastal adaptation encompasses many disciplines ranging from ...
... managers adapting to climate change and sea-level rise. This online tool, known as CoastAdapt, provides information on all aspects of coastal adaptation as well as a decision support framework. It can be accessed at www.coastadapt.com.au. Coastal adaptation encompasses many disciplines ranging from ...
UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
... climate could reduce the number of people visiting small islands in low latitudes, it could have the reverse effect in middle and high latitude islands. However, water shortages and increased incidence of vector-borne diseases may also deter tourists” ([IPCC, 2007b]). Under this scenario, climate ch ...
... climate could reduce the number of people visiting small islands in low latitudes, it could have the reverse effect in middle and high latitude islands. However, water shortages and increased incidence of vector-borne diseases may also deter tourists” ([IPCC, 2007b]). Under this scenario, climate ch ...
Scenario Planning for Solar Radiation Management
... important ecosystem effects of high atmospheric carbon dioxide—particularly ocean acidification, which is a chemical process not driven by solar radiation—would not be ameliorated by a SRM approach. Deploying SRM could also affect a variety of other human activities and ecosystems, for example by re ...
... important ecosystem effects of high atmospheric carbon dioxide—particularly ocean acidification, which is a chemical process not driven by solar radiation—would not be ameliorated by a SRM approach. Deploying SRM could also affect a variety of other human activities and ecosystems, for example by re ...
DISCUSSION PAPER: Cross Cutting Climate Change
... and storms – have increased at an alarming rate. People living in poverty will suffer first and worst from climate change. The cost of taking action now will be much less than the cost of dealing with the consequences later.” Report of the HLP of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda’ ...
... and storms – have increased at an alarming rate. People living in poverty will suffer first and worst from climate change. The cost of taking action now will be much less than the cost of dealing with the consequences later.” Report of the HLP of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda’ ...
Climate Justice in Rural Southeastern United States: A Review of
... populations within rural regions in the U.S. because climate change health threats are not expected to affect all populations equally [20]. Lal et al. assert that “the literature specifically related to how climate change will affect rural communities, their resilience, and adaptive capacity in the ...
... populations within rural regions in the U.S. because climate change health threats are not expected to affect all populations equally [20]. Lal et al. assert that “the literature specifically related to how climate change will affect rural communities, their resilience, and adaptive capacity in the ...
KidsCall-Climate Change
... http://www.pik-potsdam.de/infodesk/climatechange-knowledge-in-a-nutshell ...
... http://www.pik-potsdam.de/infodesk/climatechange-knowledge-in-a-nutshell ...
Climate variability, plankton and seabirds: a discussion on trophic
... Frederiksen et al., 2006; Lauria et al., 2012), and less comprehensive studies also show important linkages between climate and trophic levels (Weimerskirch et al., 2001; Österblom et al., 2006; Arnott and Ruxton, 2002; Astthorson and Gislason, 1998). In the northeast Atlantic, Durant et al. (2003) ...
... Frederiksen et al., 2006; Lauria et al., 2012), and less comprehensive studies also show important linkages between climate and trophic levels (Weimerskirch et al., 2001; Österblom et al., 2006; Arnott and Ruxton, 2002; Astthorson and Gislason, 1998). In the northeast Atlantic, Durant et al. (2003) ...
Treeline dynamics with climate change at the central Nepal Himalaya
... monthly mean minimum temperature was decreasing while monthly mean maximum temperature was increasing significantly (Supplementary Fig. S1). Similarly, mean annual rainfall at Larke, Gorkha, was 1252 mm (SD = 535). In Larke, during the past 30 years (1980–2009) there was a significant (n = 30, R 2 = ...
... monthly mean minimum temperature was decreasing while monthly mean maximum temperature was increasing significantly (Supplementary Fig. S1). Similarly, mean annual rainfall at Larke, Gorkha, was 1252 mm (SD = 535). In Larke, during the past 30 years (1980–2009) there was a significant (n = 30, R 2 = ...
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.