MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
... What will happen to the future climate of our world? Man-induced increases in greenhouses gases (the most important of which is carbon dioxide) is leading to changes in the amount of sun energy that is trapped in the earth system and therefore to changes in the earth’s climate itself. Predictions of ...
... What will happen to the future climate of our world? Man-induced increases in greenhouses gases (the most important of which is carbon dioxide) is leading to changes in the amount of sun energy that is trapped in the earth system and therefore to changes in the earth’s climate itself. Predictions of ...
An HSI Report: The Impact of Animal Agriculture on Global Warming
... The farm animal production sector is the single largest anthropogenic user of land, contributing to soil degradation, dwindling water supplies, and air pollution. The breadth of this sector’s impacts has been largely underappreciated. Meat, egg, and milk production are not narrowly focused on the re ...
... The farm animal production sector is the single largest anthropogenic user of land, contributing to soil degradation, dwindling water supplies, and air pollution. The breadth of this sector’s impacts has been largely underappreciated. Meat, egg, and milk production are not narrowly focused on the re ...
PDF - Durham Research Online
... flies that land on a face, and the proportion of these flyhuman contacts that leads to infection. The development, survival and activity of flies is likely to be associated with ambient temperature and humidity. There is also an optimum range of temperature and humidity for the fly, above and below ...
... flies that land on a face, and the proportion of these flyhuman contacts that leads to infection. The development, survival and activity of flies is likely to be associated with ambient temperature and humidity. There is also an optimum range of temperature and humidity for the fly, above and below ...
Pacific Islands Framework for Action on Climate Change
... In 2007 the Pacific Islands Leaders called on the international community to reach agreement urgently on an effective global response to deliver on the ultimate objective of the UNFCCC to avoid dangerous levels of interference with the climate system, including further commitments in the future by a ...
... In 2007 the Pacific Islands Leaders called on the international community to reach agreement urgently on an effective global response to deliver on the ultimate objective of the UNFCCC to avoid dangerous levels of interference with the climate system, including further commitments in the future by a ...
Climate Engineering under the Paris Agreement
... challenges and concerns. Crucially, CDR and SRM are performing quite different roles within the climate regime.6 CDR approaches supplement existing mitigation strategies by lowering GHG levels but, unlike emission mitigation measures, decouple reductions from emissions both temporally and spatially. ...
... challenges and concerns. Crucially, CDR and SRM are performing quite different roles within the climate regime.6 CDR approaches supplement existing mitigation strategies by lowering GHG levels but, unlike emission mitigation measures, decouple reductions from emissions both temporally and spatially. ...
AAA vol 2 CD.indb - Department of Geography
... warming of the lower atmosphere is an increase in activelayer thickness, which induces permafrost degradation and amplifies the rates of geomorphic processes. As a consequence, thermokarst features are prone to occur in icerich and unconsolidated sediments, active-layer detachment slides and debris ...
... warming of the lower atmosphere is an increase in activelayer thickness, which induces permafrost degradation and amplifies the rates of geomorphic processes. As a consequence, thermokarst features are prone to occur in icerich and unconsolidated sediments, active-layer detachment slides and debris ...
The Science of Geoengineering - Carnegie Department of Global
... Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas are increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. These increased concentrations cause additional energy to be retained in Earth’s climate system, thus increasing Earth’s temperature. Various methods have been proposed to preven ...
... Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas are increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. These increased concentrations cause additional energy to be retained in Earth’s climate system, thus increasing Earth’s temperature. Various methods have been proposed to preven ...
Toward Extreme Weather and Climate Resilience in the Region of
... will depend on level of expertise required for this more detailed analysis and ...
... will depend on level of expertise required for this more detailed analysis and ...
Arctic Paleoclimate Synthesis Thematic Papers
... As the planet cooled from peak warmth in the early Cenozoic, extensive Northern Hemisphere ice sheets developed by 2.6 Ma ago, leading to changes in the circulation of both the atmosphere and oceans. From w2.6 to w1.0 Ma ago, ice sheets came and went about every 41 ka, in pace with cycles in the til ...
... As the planet cooled from peak warmth in the early Cenozoic, extensive Northern Hemisphere ice sheets developed by 2.6 Ma ago, leading to changes in the circulation of both the atmosphere and oceans. From w2.6 to w1.0 Ma ago, ice sheets came and went about every 41 ka, in pace with cycles in the til ...
Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change
... Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling; Susan Clayton, Department of Psychology, College of Wooster. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Thomas J. Doherty, Department of Counseling Psychology, Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, P.O. Box 31 ...
... Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling; Susan Clayton, Department of Psychology, College of Wooster. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Thomas J. Doherty, Department of Counseling Psychology, Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, P.O. Box 31 ...
The Impact of Animal Agriculture on Global Warming and Climate
... The farm animal production sector is the single largest anthropogenic user of land, contributing to soil degradation, dwindling water supplies, and air pollution. The breadth of this sector‘s impacts has been largely underappreciated. Meat, egg, and milk production are not narrowly focused on the re ...
... The farm animal production sector is the single largest anthropogenic user of land, contributing to soil degradation, dwindling water supplies, and air pollution. The breadth of this sector‘s impacts has been largely underappreciated. Meat, egg, and milk production are not narrowly focused on the re ...
Animal Agriculture and Climate Change
... The farm animal production sector is the single largest anthropogenic user of land, contributing to soil degradation, dwindling water supplies, and air pollution. The breadth of this sector‘s impacts has been largely underappreciated. Meat, egg, and milk production are not narrowly focused on the re ...
... The farm animal production sector is the single largest anthropogenic user of land, contributing to soil degradation, dwindling water supplies, and air pollution. The breadth of this sector‘s impacts has been largely underappreciated. Meat, egg, and milk production are not narrowly focused on the re ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES UNCERTAINTY AND DECISION IN CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS
... data, some use the cooling from the aerosols released by large volcanic eruptions, and some use only the instrumental record over the 20th century. Finally, and most importantly, even if we pooled all the data, and used a single consistent weighting scheme to evaluate model predictions, there would ...
... data, some use the cooling from the aerosols released by large volcanic eruptions, and some use only the instrumental record over the 20th century. Finally, and most importantly, even if we pooled all the data, and used a single consistent weighting scheme to evaluate model predictions, there would ...
A Narrative Analysis of Climate Change Coverage in the New York
... modern information society. As people use news to educate themselves on issues to become active citizens, media have a responsibility to ethically inform them if they are in danger and impose meaning upon uncertainties for their readers. In reporting on issues of scientific risk, the audience become ...
... modern information society. As people use news to educate themselves on issues to become active citizens, media have a responsibility to ethically inform them if they are in danger and impose meaning upon uncertainties for their readers. In reporting on issues of scientific risk, the audience become ...
Modeling Climate Change Impacts on Viti Levu (Fiji) and Aitutaki
... Fig. 1.4: Inter-related components of the AIACC project for Pacific islands........................................................ 3 Fig. 2.1: Scenarios of CO2 gas emissions and consequential atmospheric concentrations of CO2 (from IPCC, 2001)........................................................ ...
... Fig. 1.4: Inter-related components of the AIACC project for Pacific islands........................................................ 3 Fig. 2.1: Scenarios of CO2 gas emissions and consequential atmospheric concentrations of CO2 (from IPCC, 2001)........................................................ ...
Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the
... Received: 24 July 2012 – Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 9 August 2012 Revised: 25 January 2013 – Accepted: 11 February 2013 – Published: 8 March 2013 ...
... Received: 24 July 2012 – Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 9 August 2012 Revised: 25 January 2013 – Accepted: 11 February 2013 – Published: 8 March 2013 ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DESIGNING CLIMATE MITIGATION POLICY Joseph E. Aldy
... As for U.S. CO2 emissions, in the reference case they increase by about 30–100 percent above 2000 levels (of approximately 6 billion tons) by midcentury (Table 1). Under the 550 ppm target, emissions initially rise, fall to roughly 2000 levels by 2050, and fall rapidly thereafter. Under the 450 ppm ...
... As for U.S. CO2 emissions, in the reference case they increase by about 30–100 percent above 2000 levels (of approximately 6 billion tons) by midcentury (Table 1). Under the 550 ppm target, emissions initially rise, fall to roughly 2000 levels by 2050, and fall rapidly thereafter. Under the 450 ppm ...
Single PDF in small font of the following:
... Instructors: P.I. Cohen and P. Imbertson Lab TA: Nick Gabriel ([email protected]) Time: 11:15 12:30 Tues and Thurs Prerequisites: EE3161, IT, or consent of instructor Goal: To develop an understanding of the physics and applications of devices that are key to a clean energy environment with a ...
... Instructors: P.I. Cohen and P. Imbertson Lab TA: Nick Gabriel ([email protected]) Time: 11:15 12:30 Tues and Thurs Prerequisites: EE3161, IT, or consent of instructor Goal: To develop an understanding of the physics and applications of devices that are key to a clean energy environment with a ...
Misdefining ``climate change``: consequences for science and action
... whereas the FCCC listener will reasonably interpret such a statement as the scientific community affirming that human influence has changed climate over the past century (Zillman, 1997).3 So if the sun were to get a little more intense resulting in ‘‘climate changes,’’ these would in fact not qualif ...
... whereas the FCCC listener will reasonably interpret such a statement as the scientific community affirming that human influence has changed climate over the past century (Zillman, 1997).3 So if the sun were to get a little more intense resulting in ‘‘climate changes,’’ these would in fact not qualif ...
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.