Is climate change causing increased rockfall frequency in
... avalanche are also in use. We restrict our evaluation to the mid-magnitude range from boulder fall to cliff fall (“Felssturz” in German) for the following reasons: (1) small-scale debris falls are usually not reported in the media and are a minor threat to infrastructure (even if they are of interes ...
... avalanche are also in use. We restrict our evaluation to the mid-magnitude range from boulder fall to cliff fall (“Felssturz” in German) for the following reasons: (1) small-scale debris falls are usually not reported in the media and are a minor threat to infrastructure (even if they are of interes ...
how does the theologizing of physics contribute to - Philsci
... run under the assumption that the concentrations of greenhouse gases and other atmospheric constituents correspond to a particular emission scenario. Multiple such models are run, and the results are averaged to produce a multi-model mean for each of a range of possible emissions scenarios. Clearly, ...
... run under the assumption that the concentrations of greenhouse gases and other atmospheric constituents correspond to a particular emission scenario. Multiple such models are run, and the results are averaged to produce a multi-model mean for each of a range of possible emissions scenarios. Clearly, ...
Climate Variability, Climate Change and Western Water
... Rivers index, northern California .............................. 8 Darwin Southern Oscillation Index ....................... follows 10 Change (from 1955-74 to 1975-94) of annual land-surface air temperature and sea surface temperature ............. follows 12 The pattern of surface temperature chan ...
... Rivers index, northern California .............................. 8 Darwin Southern Oscillation Index ....................... follows 10 Change (from 1955-74 to 1975-94) of annual land-surface air temperature and sea surface temperature ............. follows 12 The pattern of surface temperature chan ...
Please amend title - International Association for Impact
... South-East England central estimate Medium emissions ...
... South-East England central estimate Medium emissions ...
Marine Ecology Progress Series 394:1
... vertically integrated samples. At the Port Hacking 100 m station, a 35 µm mesh plankton net was hauled from 100 m to the surface (Ajani et al. 2001), samples were settled (after Lund et al. 1958) and the first 100 cells observed were identified and counted. A maximum of 30 fields of view or 400 cell ...
... vertically integrated samples. At the Port Hacking 100 m station, a 35 µm mesh plankton net was hauled from 100 m to the surface (Ajani et al. 2001), samples were settled (after Lund et al. 1958) and the first 100 cells observed were identified and counted. A maximum of 30 fields of view or 400 cell ...
Current and Projected Climate Change Impacts for the Colorado
... Using national weather data from 1950-2010, this study found a national decline in the annual number of days with snow cover. Regionally, the study identified trends in later snow-cover onset in the western United States but earlier snow-cover onset in the eastern United States. When combined with a ...
... Using national weather data from 1950-2010, this study found a national decline in the annual number of days with snow cover. Regionally, the study identified trends in later snow-cover onset in the western United States but earlier snow-cover onset in the eastern United States. When combined with a ...
Climatic Threat Spaces as a Tool to Assess Current and Future
... A series of crop production years are analyzed, and years showing relevant decreases or increases are searched within the threat space for a potentially responsible climatic factor. Years with extreme climatic conditions are expected to have an impact on agricultural yields and production. The clim ...
... A series of crop production years are analyzed, and years showing relevant decreases or increases are searched within the threat space for a potentially responsible climatic factor. Years with extreme climatic conditions are expected to have an impact on agricultural yields and production. The clim ...
Empathy and Climate Change
... individuals who do not yet exist and whom we shall never meet. While we are aware of some impacts of global warming today, the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict with strong certainty that the problems will get worse for future generations. Even if we take concerted act ...
... individuals who do not yet exist and whom we shall never meet. While we are aware of some impacts of global warming today, the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict with strong certainty that the problems will get worse for future generations. Even if we take concerted act ...
Nitrogen Flows in Agricultural Systems: A Modeling Perspective
... a The 800,000-year records of atmospheric carbon dioxide (red; parts per million, p.p.m.) and methane (green; parts per billion, p.p.b.) from the EPICA Dome C ice core together with a temperature reconstruction (relative to the average of the past millennium) based on the deuterium– hydrogen ratio o ...
... a The 800,000-year records of atmospheric carbon dioxide (red; parts per million, p.p.m.) and methane (green; parts per billion, p.p.b.) from the EPICA Dome C ice core together with a temperature reconstruction (relative to the average of the past millennium) based on the deuterium– hydrogen ratio o ...
module 1 - National Open University of Nigeria
... heat trapping gases known as greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. These greenhouse gases occur naturally in the environment and also result from human activities. By far, the most abundant greenhouse gas is water vapour, which reaches the atmosphere through evaporation from oceans, lakes and rivers. ...
... heat trapping gases known as greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. These greenhouse gases occur naturally in the environment and also result from human activities. By far, the most abundant greenhouse gas is water vapour, which reaches the atmosphere through evaporation from oceans, lakes and rivers. ...
Greenhouse Gangsters vs. Climate Justice
... Kyoto Protocol, this paper does not review the scientific arguments of the climate skeptics.8 Recent weather events show that the theory of man-made greenhouse gases causing global warming is not only correct, but that the climate has already been affected. Greenhouse gas concentrations are higher n ...
... Kyoto Protocol, this paper does not review the scientific arguments of the climate skeptics.8 Recent weather events show that the theory of man-made greenhouse gases causing global warming is not only correct, but that the climate has already been affected. Greenhouse gas concentrations are higher n ...
Philosophy of Climate Science Part II: Modelling
... have predictive skill and those we do not; confirmation concerns only the former. That is, model confirmation concerns certain variables of a model but does not extend to others (cf. Parker 2009). For example, one might claim that a certain climate model adequately predicts the global temperature in ...
... have predictive skill and those we do not; confirmation concerns only the former. That is, model confirmation concerns certain variables of a model but does not extend to others (cf. Parker 2009). For example, one might claim that a certain climate model adequately predicts the global temperature in ...
The effects of climate change on Merriam`s kangaroo rat, Dipodomys
... south-western United States, both summer and winter temperatures have increased at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge LTER by 2)5–33C for the years 1989 through 1996 (Smith et al., 1998). These figures are important since temperature increases like these may influence animal communities by alter ...
... south-western United States, both summer and winter temperatures have increased at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge LTER by 2)5–33C for the years 1989 through 1996 (Smith et al., 1998). These figures are important since temperature increases like these may influence animal communities by alter ...
Special events
... Heinrich Events The graph shows how the lithic fraction would oscillate in a hypothetical core extracted from a continental shelf margin in the North Atlantic. The environmental conditions during sediment deposition on the ocean floor changed rapidly over time as the position and dynamics of the la ...
... Heinrich Events The graph shows how the lithic fraction would oscillate in a hypothetical core extracted from a continental shelf margin in the North Atlantic. The environmental conditions during sediment deposition on the ocean floor changed rapidly over time as the position and dynamics of the la ...
Climate change and water resources
... the total. Fossil fuels are expected to dominate this increase, and the subsequent GHG emissions will in turn lead to rising temperatures. The EU has defined dangerous climate change as an increase in 2 degrees Celsius of average global temperatures. Since 1900, global temperatures have risen by 0.7 ...
... the total. Fossil fuels are expected to dominate this increase, and the subsequent GHG emissions will in turn lead to rising temperatures. The EU has defined dangerous climate change as an increase in 2 degrees Celsius of average global temperatures. Since 1900, global temperatures have risen by 0.7 ...
Vulnerability and climate change hotspots in Africa
... This working paper is prepared as an input to foster dialogue and discussion in African climate change debate. The findings, interpretations and conclusions presented in this working paper are the sole responsibility of the contributing authors and do not in any way reflect the official position of ...
... This working paper is prepared as an input to foster dialogue and discussion in African climate change debate. The findings, interpretations and conclusions presented in this working paper are the sole responsibility of the contributing authors and do not in any way reflect the official position of ...
Public attitudes and behavior about climate change: what shapes
... An in-depth study of selected groups of Americans and of a group drawn from the general public found that most Americans believed that we should follow a less materialistic way of life and that a reduction in consumption is necessary in order to prevent global climate change. However, large majoriti ...
... An in-depth study of selected groups of Americans and of a group drawn from the general public found that most Americans believed that we should follow a less materialistic way of life and that a reduction in consumption is necessary in order to prevent global climate change. However, large majoriti ...
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.