Vulnerability of Modiolus reefs to climate change
... The marine bivalve, Modiolus modiolus (horse mussel) is an Arctic-Boreal species with a distribution range that extends from the seas around Scandinavia and Iceland southward to the Bay of Biscay. Horse mussel reefs are more limited in their distribution as compared to the species as a whole with cu ...
... The marine bivalve, Modiolus modiolus (horse mussel) is an Arctic-Boreal species with a distribution range that extends from the seas around Scandinavia and Iceland southward to the Bay of Biscay. Horse mussel reefs are more limited in their distribution as compared to the species as a whole with cu ...
Hasan, F.A. Human Agency, Climate Change, and Culture
... techniques have improved our current understanding of climate change. Data retrieved over the last two decades have shown that climate change is not always gradual or cyclical, but that dramatic shifts in climate can take place rapidly (Allen and Anderson 1993; Street-Perrott and Perrott 1990). Such ...
... techniques have improved our current understanding of climate change. Data retrieved over the last two decades have shown that climate change is not always gradual or cyclical, but that dramatic shifts in climate can take place rapidly (Allen and Anderson 1993; Street-Perrott and Perrott 1990). Such ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... Abstract: Transport sector is one of the biggest contributors to changing climate in cities around the world. Prior studies on many urban locations both in Asia as well as EU have reported that there is a strong positive relation between number of vehicles and temperature change in a given location. ...
... Abstract: Transport sector is one of the biggest contributors to changing climate in cities around the world. Prior studies on many urban locations both in Asia as well as EU have reported that there is a strong positive relation between number of vehicles and temperature change in a given location. ...
solidarity, justice and climate change law
... gains in water, typically in the form of flooding that threatens hundreds of millions of people, particularly those living in coastal areas. In addition to water and food availability, the changing climate has direct consequences for human health. Malnutrition poses perhaps the biggest risk, but the ...
... gains in water, typically in the form of flooding that threatens hundreds of millions of people, particularly those living in coastal areas. In addition to water and food availability, the changing climate has direct consequences for human health. Malnutrition poses perhaps the biggest risk, but the ...
Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Indian Policy Planning
... Climate change is now recognised as one of the most pressing global issues of our planet (El Sioufi (2010). A review of climate science by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS, 2010) concludes that “the Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities” ...
... Climate change is now recognised as one of the most pressing global issues of our planet (El Sioufi (2010). A review of climate science by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS, 2010) concludes that “the Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities” ...
Strengthening southern Africa`s response to global change
... continent will be one of the worst impacted by climate change; in fact, the results of a changing climate on Africa are already being documented. In this ScienceScope, we focus on science and technology that contribute to a better understanding of our changing planet. The CSIR’s work in this area co ...
... continent will be one of the worst impacted by climate change; in fact, the results of a changing climate on Africa are already being documented. In this ScienceScope, we focus on science and technology that contribute to a better understanding of our changing planet. The CSIR’s work in this area co ...
Ireland’s Climate: the road ahead IR E
... this may be offset by increases due to heat stress during summer. Winters are expected to become wetter with increases of up to 14% in precipitation under the high emission scenarios by mid-century; summers will become drier (up to 20% reduction in precipitation under the high emission scenarios). T ...
... this may be offset by increases due to heat stress during summer. Winters are expected to become wetter with increases of up to 14% in precipitation under the high emission scenarios by mid-century; summers will become drier (up to 20% reduction in precipitation under the high emission scenarios). T ...
climate change, sea-level rise and extreme events
... Historical sea-level reconstruction is shown by the thin black line, with grey shading indicating ±95% confidence limits. Magenta dots and arrows indicate the estimate of sea-level rise from 1842–2001 from Port Arthur, Tasmania (Hunter et al.2003). Dashed grey lines indicate the upper and lower limi ...
... Historical sea-level reconstruction is shown by the thin black line, with grey shading indicating ±95% confidence limits. Magenta dots and arrows indicate the estimate of sea-level rise from 1842–2001 from Port Arthur, Tasmania (Hunter et al.2003). Dashed grey lines indicate the upper and lower limi ...
Climate change, wine, and conservation
... will also show a decrease in available water discharge ranging between 20% and 30% by 2050 (30, 31). The increasing demand on water resources will place Chile’s freshwater ecosystems at risk. Western North America has the greatest area of increasing ecological footprint, especially in the Rocky Moun ...
... will also show a decrease in available water discharge ranging between 20% and 30% by 2050 (30, 31). The increasing demand on water resources will place Chile’s freshwater ecosystems at risk. Western North America has the greatest area of increasing ecological footprint, especially in the Rocky Moun ...
Apocalypse Nicked! - Geoengineering Governance Research
... Concerns that prevailing linear models of climate change could be wrong were first voiced in the late 1980’s. Scientists started to warn that environmental changes would not be smooth, gradual events, but sudden “sharp jumps” (Broeker 1987:123). Since then, warnings of abrupt, nonlinear climate chan ...
... Concerns that prevailing linear models of climate change could be wrong were first voiced in the late 1980’s. Scientists started to warn that environmental changes would not be smooth, gradual events, but sudden “sharp jumps” (Broeker 1987:123). Since then, warnings of abrupt, nonlinear climate chan ...
Public perception of cold weather events as evidence for
... being placed in direct, personal experiences than in secondary information sources (e.g. through the media) (Bickerstaff and Walker 2001). Given the salience of a climate-weather connection in public perceptions and the increase in doubts about climate change concurrent with severe cold weather, it ...
... being placed in direct, personal experiences than in secondary information sources (e.g. through the media) (Bickerstaff and Walker 2001). Given the salience of a climate-weather connection in public perceptions and the increase in doubts about climate change concurrent with severe cold weather, it ...
Clathrate gun hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free
... 100 times normal levels.[22][23] The excess methane has been detected in localized hotspots in the outfall of the Lena River and the border between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea. Some melting may be the result of geological heating, but more thawing is believed to be due to the greatly in ...
... 100 times normal levels.[22][23] The excess methane has been detected in localized hotspots in the outfall of the Lena River and the border between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea. Some melting may be the result of geological heating, but more thawing is believed to be due to the greatly in ...
The Gaia Hypothesis: Fact, Theory, and Wishful
... that most would consider outlandish. The weak forms of the Gaia hypothesis hold that life collectively has a significant effect on Earth’s environment (‘Influential Gaia’), and that therefore the evolution of life and the evolution of its environment are intertwined, with each affecting the other (‘ ...
... that most would consider outlandish. The weak forms of the Gaia hypothesis hold that life collectively has a significant effect on Earth’s environment (‘Influential Gaia’), and that therefore the evolution of life and the evolution of its environment are intertwined, with each affecting the other (‘ ...
Downscaling climate change scenarios for apple pest and disease
... (Buser et al., 2009), the simulations were processed and aggregated to obtain seasonal probabilistic climate change signals of changes in temperature and precipitation for three domains in Switzerland (see Fig. 1). The spatial extent of the domains was determined semi-empirically based on the spatia ...
... (Buser et al., 2009), the simulations were processed and aggregated to obtain seasonal probabilistic climate change signals of changes in temperature and precipitation for three domains in Switzerland (see Fig. 1). The spatial extent of the domains was determined semi-empirically based on the spatia ...
Climate change and Arctic ecosystems II
... in a scenario with unchecked atmospheric CO2 concentration increase. We compare the modeled vegetation to a map of present-day potential vegetation distribution, and to paleovegetation distributions inferred from pollen data. The future scenario allows us then to assess the sensitivity of Arctic veg ...
... in a scenario with unchecked atmospheric CO2 concentration increase. We compare the modeled vegetation to a map of present-day potential vegetation distribution, and to paleovegetation distributions inferred from pollen data. The future scenario allows us then to assess the sensitivity of Arctic veg ...
Working Paper - University of Sussex
... about as good/bad for welfare as a year of economic growth. Statements that climate change is the biggest (environmental) problem of humankind are unfounded: We can readily think of bigger problems. For example, the people of Greece lost a third of their income in five years’ time, arguably because ...
... about as good/bad for welfare as a year of economic growth. Statements that climate change is the biggest (environmental) problem of humankind are unfounded: We can readily think of bigger problems. For example, the people of Greece lost a third of their income in five years’ time, arguably because ...
- Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc.
... Michigan Tribes are currently experiencing the impacts of climate change: warmer average annual air and surface water temperatures, more volatile weather characterized by extreme precipitation events, decreases in duration and extremity of winter temperatures, and increases in duration of summer tem ...
... Michigan Tribes are currently experiencing the impacts of climate change: warmer average annual air and surface water temperatures, more volatile weather characterized by extreme precipitation events, decreases in duration and extremity of winter temperatures, and increases in duration of summer tem ...
English - Inter-American Development Bank
... Earth, sometimes called interrelated, coupled, or concatenated systems. Integration has become an important indicator of the models we use to understand climate behavior. You can find more information on this topic at www.springerlink.com. ...
... Earth, sometimes called interrelated, coupled, or concatenated systems. Integration has become an important indicator of the models we use to understand climate behavior. You can find more information on this topic at www.springerlink.com. ...
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.