Strategic Framework 2014–2017: SDC Global Programme Climate
... Climate Change 1 is a major global challenge and a key underlying factor in many global risks including food shortage, water supply crises and the impacts of extreme weather events. Additionally, Climate Change is a most relevant development challenge, as it affects developing countries far more tha ...
... Climate Change 1 is a major global challenge and a key underlying factor in many global risks including food shortage, water supply crises and the impacts of extreme weather events. Additionally, Climate Change is a most relevant development challenge, as it affects developing countries far more tha ...
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 ...
Expert Consensus on the Economics of Climate Change
... of economics has developed, focusing on these issues. Many economists have developed significant expertise on a host of relevant topics, including: • The speed, severity, and regional distribution of climate change’s potential economic impacts; • The nature of low-probability climate risks with po ...
... of economics has developed, focusing on these issues. Many economists have developed significant expertise on a host of relevant topics, including: • The speed, severity, and regional distribution of climate change’s potential economic impacts; • The nature of low-probability climate risks with po ...
Dynamics of the coupled human-climate system resulting from
... response yields λ = 1.2 W m−2 K−1 , τ = β 2/(λ2 κ) = 13 years, and C = 3.2 × 106 J m−2 K−1 . Note that the small estimated heat capacity C is only the value needed to correct the highfrequency behaviour of the diffusion model and not the full heat capacity of the ocean mixed layer; most of the mixed ...
... response yields λ = 1.2 W m−2 K−1 , τ = β 2/(λ2 κ) = 13 years, and C = 3.2 × 106 J m−2 K−1 . Note that the small estimated heat capacity C is only the value needed to correct the highfrequency behaviour of the diffusion model and not the full heat capacity of the ocean mixed layer; most of the mixed ...
Early-Holocene warming in Beringia and its mediation by sea
... and/or treeless biomes as a transient response to warming (Chapin and Starfield, 1997). Ultimately these changes and the land-surface interactions inherent in them must be modeled in a realistic way to project future change in the Earth system. One approach for adding to our understanding of the Ear ...
... and/or treeless biomes as a transient response to warming (Chapin and Starfield, 1997). Ultimately these changes and the land-surface interactions inherent in them must be modeled in a realistic way to project future change in the Earth system. One approach for adding to our understanding of the Ear ...
How The Wall Street Journal Opinion Section
... or means a writer is de facto being dishonest. But the op-eds published by the Wall Street Journal are debunked by fact checkers for making “several incorrect claims”86 and routinely panned by academics. Over the past two decades, the scientific understanding of climate change has evolved and reache ...
... or means a writer is de facto being dishonest. But the op-eds published by the Wall Street Journal are debunked by fact checkers for making “several incorrect claims”86 and routinely panned by academics. Over the past two decades, the scientific understanding of climate change has evolved and reache ...
Predicting regional climate change: living with uncertainty
... These recent model experiments exhibit biases in the same range as those in the IPCC First assessment report for control simulations with older models (Gates et al., 1990). If we compare the models we find that over most regions the intermodel range of temperature bias is of the order of 10 °K, and ...
... These recent model experiments exhibit biases in the same range as those in the IPCC First assessment report for control simulations with older models (Gates et al., 1990). If we compare the models we find that over most regions the intermodel range of temperature bias is of the order of 10 °K, and ...
Man made Global Warming
... So, we are asked to believe that manmade carbon dioxide, which is barely one tenth of one percent of the atmosphere, is responsible for man made global warming. Ask yourself if this is really likely. 2. Is there any actual warming? I think we can all agree that there are natural fluctuations in the ...
... So, we are asked to believe that manmade carbon dioxide, which is barely one tenth of one percent of the atmosphere, is responsible for man made global warming. Ask yourself if this is really likely. 2. Is there any actual warming? I think we can all agree that there are natural fluctuations in the ...
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... eruption in 1991 injected huge volumes of sulphur into the stratosphere. The particles produced in subsequent reactions cooled the planet by about 0:5 C over the next two years by re‡ecting sunlight back into space (e.g., Randel ...
... eruption in 1991 injected huge volumes of sulphur into the stratosphere. The particles produced in subsequent reactions cooled the planet by about 0:5 C over the next two years by re‡ecting sunlight back into space (e.g., Randel ...
Assessing the climate impact of trends in stratospheric water vapor
... Figure 3 shows the temperature anomaly both with and without the SWV forcing, with the water vapor forcing assumed to increase linearly from zero to 0.63 Wm 2 between 1960 and 2000. It is recognized that both the forcing series and the climate sensitivity are significantly uncertain [IPCC, 2001] and ...
... Figure 3 shows the temperature anomaly both with and without the SWV forcing, with the water vapor forcing assumed to increase linearly from zero to 0.63 Wm 2 between 1960 and 2000. It is recognized that both the forcing series and the climate sensitivity are significantly uncertain [IPCC, 2001] and ...
Business in a Climate- Constrained World
... cumulatively add up to significant ambition to address climate change. We also offer an open invitation to collaborate on bold collective action. Identifying the right combination of interventions or wedges will require partnership, creativity, dialogue, and piloting approaches over the coming month ...
... cumulatively add up to significant ambition to address climate change. We also offer an open invitation to collaborate on bold collective action. Identifying the right combination of interventions or wedges will require partnership, creativity, dialogue, and piloting approaches over the coming month ...
Erler, A.R., Peltier, W.R., dOrgeville, M. Dynamically downscaled
... (CORDEX; Giorgi et al. 2009) is now also encouraging the use of higher resolutions, close to 10 km or finer (Arritt and Rummukainen 2011). While it is relatively simple to perform regional climate simulations with reanalysis data as boundary forcing, downscaling climate projections is more challengi ...
... (CORDEX; Giorgi et al. 2009) is now also encouraging the use of higher resolutions, close to 10 km or finer (Arritt and Rummukainen 2011). While it is relatively simple to perform regional climate simulations with reanalysis data as boundary forcing, downscaling climate projections is more challengi ...
Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change
... exposure does not account for the specific dynamics of local systems that result in differences between rates of atmospheric warming and surface water heat uptake. However, we note that for the United Kingdom the projected spatial pattern of annual surface warming is similar to the SST warming patte ...
... exposure does not account for the specific dynamics of local systems that result in differences between rates of atmospheric warming and surface water heat uptake. However, we note that for the United Kingdom the projected spatial pattern of annual surface warming is similar to the SST warming patte ...
Link-Securitization - Open Evidence Archive
... This K argues that representing the environment through an apocalyptic lens generates both fascist discourses and undermines human agency/will to solve. It also argues that it fuels skeptics by allowing them to label environmental alarmists as loons, which undermines/polarizes the entire warming deb ...
... This K argues that representing the environment through an apocalyptic lens generates both fascist discourses and undermines human agency/will to solve. It also argues that it fuels skeptics by allowing them to label environmental alarmists as loons, which undermines/polarizes the entire warming deb ...
Climate Change Presentation
... Documented observed trends in surface temperature, precipitation patterns, snow and ice cover, sea levels, storm intensity, etc. Predicted impacts of current and future climate change on wildlife, ecosystems, and human societies Discussed strategies to pursue in response to climate change ...
... Documented observed trends in surface temperature, precipitation patterns, snow and ice cover, sea levels, storm intensity, etc. Predicted impacts of current and future climate change on wildlife, ecosystems, and human societies Discussed strategies to pursue in response to climate change ...
Climate Systems Regional Report: Southern Africa
... Southern Africa's continental climate is generally hot and rainy in summer with cold and dry winters. This largely results from the atmospheric systems that dominate the regional climate; namely an anticyclonic high pressure system over the continent during winter and an intermittent thermal trough ...
... Southern Africa's continental climate is generally hot and rainy in summer with cold and dry winters. This largely results from the atmospheric systems that dominate the regional climate; namely an anticyclonic high pressure system over the continent during winter and an intermittent thermal trough ...
Spain - Met Office
... 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 ...
Environmental Education Research.
... reduced willingness to take pro-environmental behavior (Bamberg and Möser 2007; Fortner et al. 2000; de Kwaadsteniet et al. 2007). Malka and colleagues (2009) found that when skeptical language was introduced into a scientific message about climate change, it not only resulted in less favor for publi ...
... reduced willingness to take pro-environmental behavior (Bamberg and Möser 2007; Fortner et al. 2000; de Kwaadsteniet et al. 2007). Malka and colleagues (2009) found that when skeptical language was introduced into a scientific message about climate change, it not only resulted in less favor for publi ...
Peter Lee: Ethics of Climate Change Policy
... While scientific theories are often developed on intuitive and expert speculative grounds, they have ultimately to answer at the bar of experimental evidence. A year or so ago I was fortunate to be present in the physics department of one of our leading universities, when the professors were discuss ...
... While scientific theories are often developed on intuitive and expert speculative grounds, they have ultimately to answer at the bar of experimental evidence. A year or so ago I was fortunate to be present in the physics department of one of our leading universities, when the professors were discuss ...
Climate Change Planning in Alaska`s National Parks
... NPS and the University of Alaska’s Scenarios Network for ...
... NPS and the University of Alaska’s Scenarios Network for ...
pdf - Climate Change in Australia
... Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal 65:1 October 2015 127–149 ...
... Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal 65:1 October 2015 127–149 ...
Transportation, Air Pollution, and Climate Change | US EPA
... and population) pathways. These emissions are translated into concentrations using the carbon cycle built into each model, and concentrations are translated into warming based on each model’s simplified representation of the climate and a key parameter, climate sensitivity. Each model uses a differe ...
... and population) pathways. These emissions are translated into concentrations using the carbon cycle built into each model, and concentrations are translated into warming based on each model’s simplified representation of the climate and a key parameter, climate sensitivity. Each model uses a differe ...
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.