National Landmarks at Risk - Union of Concerned Scientists
... Founded in 1630 by English Puritans seeking religious freedom, Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States and the birthplace of the American Revolution.5 But in the city where the Sons of Liberty plotted independence from Great Britain, some cherished landmarks and historic districts ar ...
... Founded in 1630 by English Puritans seeking religious freedom, Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States and the birthplace of the American Revolution.5 But in the city where the Sons of Liberty plotted independence from Great Britain, some cherished landmarks and historic districts ar ...
Special events
... hydrate in the upper hundreds of m of continental slope sediments before the latest Paleocene thermal maximum, during which ocean waters warmed by 7 to 14 degrees. ...
... hydrate in the upper hundreds of m of continental slope sediments before the latest Paleocene thermal maximum, during which ocean waters warmed by 7 to 14 degrees. ...
How the Second Delta Committee Set the
... programme’s implementation. The committee has contributed much to the awareness of the potential impact of climate change on Dutch water management, and the Dutch Cabinet accepted all the main recommendations. The report was also warmly accepted by politics and in the media (Anonymous, 2008; van Kal ...
... programme’s implementation. The committee has contributed much to the awareness of the potential impact of climate change on Dutch water management, and the Dutch Cabinet accepted all the main recommendations. The report was also warmly accepted by politics and in the media (Anonymous, 2008; van Kal ...
Climate change and land suitability for potato production in England
... suitability classes at each point might alter due to changes in rainfall, temperature and other agroclimatic variables, and thus potential impacts on current centres of production. Finally, the relationships between land suitability and water resource availability were assessed, to identify catchmen ...
... suitability classes at each point might alter due to changes in rainfall, temperature and other agroclimatic variables, and thus potential impacts on current centres of production. Finally, the relationships between land suitability and water resource availability were assessed, to identify catchmen ...
Can Social Protection Increase Resilience to Climate Change?
... programmes contribute to strengthening the resilience of their recipients to climate change. The framework moves from earlier simplified approaches of ASP to a more systematic framework that highlights the importance of a dynamic approach to resilience and social protection which considers time and ...
... programmes contribute to strengthening the resilience of their recipients to climate change. The framework moves from earlier simplified approaches of ASP to a more systematic framework that highlights the importance of a dynamic approach to resilience and social protection which considers time and ...
Climate Change in Kiana, Alaska - Alaska Native Tribal Health
... forest and tundra conditions. Wildfire smoke and dust from wind and summer road traffic can increase the risk of respiratory ailments, as can allergens like tree pollen that may be increasing in Kiana. Air quality monitoring, advisories, and control measures are recommended. Points of contact: ADEC, ...
... forest and tundra conditions. Wildfire smoke and dust from wind and summer road traffic can increase the risk of respiratory ailments, as can allergens like tree pollen that may be increasing in Kiana. Air quality monitoring, advisories, and control measures are recommended. Points of contact: ADEC, ...
No Additionality, New Conditionality
... The Clean Technology Fund (CTF) will aim to provide new financing and complement existing financing for the purposes of transformation to low-carbon economies and mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to promote ‘international cooperation on climate change to support progress towards a po ...
... The Clean Technology Fund (CTF) will aim to provide new financing and complement existing financing for the purposes of transformation to low-carbon economies and mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to promote ‘international cooperation on climate change to support progress towards a po ...
Expect Above Average Temperatures: Identifying the Economic
... optimum; (4) therefore beliefs do not matter for payoffs; (5) therefore a change in climate has identical effects as a change in weather. I highlight two challenges to this argument. First, I show that this argument ignores how expectations of climate change affect past controls. Past controls (i.e. ...
... optimum; (4) therefore beliefs do not matter for payoffs; (5) therefore a change in climate has identical effects as a change in weather. I highlight two challenges to this argument. First, I show that this argument ignores how expectations of climate change affect past controls. Past controls (i.e. ...
FAO, forests and climate change
... Forests support the livelihoods of more than a billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide and provide paid employment for over 100 million people. They are home to more than 80 percent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and help protect watersheds that are critical for the supply of cl ...
... Forests support the livelihoods of more than a billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide and provide paid employment for over 100 million people. They are home to more than 80 percent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and help protect watersheds that are critical for the supply of cl ...
Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle
... will often reduce evapotranspiration and its cooling effect and thereby causes a positive local feedback on warming (e.g. Seneviratne et al., 2010; Teuling et al., 2010; Mueller & Seneviratne, 2012; Peng et al., 2014). Regional assessments clearly indicate the relevance of climate extremes on the ca ...
... will often reduce evapotranspiration and its cooling effect and thereby causes a positive local feedback on warming (e.g. Seneviratne et al., 2010; Teuling et al., 2010; Mueller & Seneviratne, 2012; Peng et al., 2014). Regional assessments clearly indicate the relevance of climate extremes on the ca ...
Chapter 5: Climate Change, Water, and Wastewater in Cities
... water resources, few have focused on an assessment of the specific effects and needed adaptation and mitigation for water systems in cities across the globe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the water sector (IPCC, 2008) summarizes links between climate change and water ...
... water resources, few have focused on an assessment of the specific effects and needed adaptation and mitigation for water systems in cities across the globe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the water sector (IPCC, 2008) summarizes links between climate change and water ...
The importance of ENSO phase during volcanic eruptions
... 2015; Maher et al., 2015; Chikamoto et al., 2016]. Many studies rely at least in part on the dynamical thermostat mechanism to explain this [Clement et al., 1996]. However, some modeling studies suggest that the initial tropical Pacific sea surface temperature response to a volcanic eruption resemble ...
... 2015; Maher et al., 2015; Chikamoto et al., 2016]. Many studies rely at least in part on the dynamical thermostat mechanism to explain this [Clement et al., 1996]. However, some modeling studies suggest that the initial tropical Pacific sea surface temperature response to a volcanic eruption resemble ...
Review of FAO Strategic Framework and preparation of Medium Term Plan 2018-21 - Regional Priorities
... Term Plan (MTP) 2018-21 will take place during 2016, through the Regional Conferences and Technical Committees, for approval by the Council and Conference in the first half of 2017. This document provides a synthesis of the regional trends, challenges and priorities for consideration by the Programm ...
... Term Plan (MTP) 2018-21 will take place during 2016, through the Regional Conferences and Technical Committees, for approval by the Council and Conference in the first half of 2017. This document provides a synthesis of the regional trends, challenges and priorities for consideration by the Programm ...
Namakwa District Municipality
... Figure 30: Remaining intact areas of Centres of Endemism in the Namakwa District ............................. 38 Figure 31: Gorges/kloofs in the Namakwa District ................................................................................................. 38 Figure 32: South facing slopes in t ...
... Figure 30: Remaining intact areas of Centres of Endemism in the Namakwa District ............................. 38 Figure 31: Gorges/kloofs in the Namakwa District ................................................................................................. 38 Figure 32: South facing slopes in t ...
Civil Society Guide to Healthy Rivers and Climate
... on-the-ground observations are used to first identify how the climate is changing, and then the impact of those changes on systems such as river basin dynamics or community livelihoods are assessed, through, for instance, hydrologic modeling and community-level consultations. River basin: Also known ...
... on-the-ground observations are used to first identify how the climate is changing, and then the impact of those changes on systems such as river basin dynamics or community livelihoods are assessed, through, for instance, hydrologic modeling and community-level consultations. River basin: Also known ...
Climate Action Team Report to Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature December 2010
... a working group to accelerate the use of forestry offset credits to prevent tropical deforestation. Participating in, and building capacity for global action is a necessary component of California’s response to this global problem. Protecting the state requires regional and global engagement. These ...
... a working group to accelerate the use of forestry offset credits to prevent tropical deforestation. Participating in, and building capacity for global action is a necessary component of California’s response to this global problem. Protecting the state requires regional and global engagement. These ...
Key factors governing uncertainty in the response to sunshade
... their results and allowing the potential climate consequences of solar geoengineering and its uncertainties to be evaluated. GeoMIP was envisioned as a way to create a multimodel ensemble (MME) of many different GCMs, but the strategy is equally applicable to perturbed parameter ensembles (PPE) of s ...
... their results and allowing the potential climate consequences of solar geoengineering and its uncertainties to be evaluated. GeoMIP was envisioned as a way to create a multimodel ensemble (MME) of many different GCMs, but the strategy is equally applicable to perturbed parameter ensembles (PPE) of s ...
Forests and climate change in Latin America : linking
... Ecosystem-based adaptation projects can directly benefit climate change mitigation, through either increasing or maintaining carbon stocks. This is the case of the adaptation project in Honduras accepted by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund and described above (‘Addressing Climate Change Risks on Water Res ...
... Ecosystem-based adaptation projects can directly benefit climate change mitigation, through either increasing or maintaining carbon stocks. This is the case of the adaptation project in Honduras accepted by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund and described above (‘Addressing Climate Change Risks on Water Res ...
Impact of Climate Change on North Cascade Alpine Glaciers, and
... Analysis of key components of the alpine North Cascade hydrologic system indicate significant changes in glacier mass balance, terminus behavior, alpine snowpack, and alpine streamflow from 1950 to 2005. North Cascade glacier retreat is rapid and ubiquitous. All 47 monitored glaciers are currently u ...
... Analysis of key components of the alpine North Cascade hydrologic system indicate significant changes in glacier mass balance, terminus behavior, alpine snowpack, and alpine streamflow from 1950 to 2005. North Cascade glacier retreat is rapid and ubiquitous. All 47 monitored glaciers are currently u ...
The Geopolitics of Climate Change
... scientific community this is a good thing since our knowledge is constantly growing. However, from the perspective of the individual researcher it is rather problematic since it is well nigh impossible to keep up with the existing state of research. As this report was being finalised, the latest Wor ...
... scientific community this is a good thing since our knowledge is constantly growing. However, from the perspective of the individual researcher it is rather problematic since it is well nigh impossible to keep up with the existing state of research. As this report was being finalised, the latest Wor ...
Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Area
... regional and local and should aim to reduce the negative effects of climate change. In order to balance management decisions between the precautionary principle and scientific evidence, a robust basis of environmental observations and model projections should be developed to support policy-making an ...
... regional and local and should aim to reduce the negative effects of climate change. In order to balance management decisions between the precautionary principle and scientific evidence, a robust basis of environmental observations and model projections should be developed to support policy-making an ...
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... we neither make temperature a state variable nor do we model CO2 concentrations in the oceans explicitly. The first simplification does not permit us to capture the delay between a radiative forcing increase and a temperature increase (caused by feedback processes). The second simplification replace ...
... we neither make temperature a state variable nor do we model CO2 concentrations in the oceans explicitly. The first simplification does not permit us to capture the delay between a radiative forcing increase and a temperature increase (caused by feedback processes). The second simplification replace ...
About observed and future climate changes in Flanders and Belgium
... worldwide and in Belgium. Climate change is only one of the possible factors responsible for this increase. In fact, the rise in population and welfare determines to a great extent the damage caused by floods. Improved data collection may also play a role. The total surface area of recently flooded ...
... worldwide and in Belgium. Climate change is only one of the possible factors responsible for this increase. In fact, the rise in population and welfare determines to a great extent the damage caused by floods. Improved data collection may also play a role. The total surface area of recently flooded ...
Sensitivity and response of northern hemisphere altitudinal and
... advance of tree growth to higher elevations in the same way as in the undisturbed treeline ecotone (cf. Climatic treelines). Tree invasion usually follows on suitable sites, particularly on areas with convex topography and not too long-lasting snow cover, where they may have already reached their pr ...
... advance of tree growth to higher elevations in the same way as in the undisturbed treeline ecotone (cf. Climatic treelines). Tree invasion usually follows on suitable sites, particularly on areas with convex topography and not too long-lasting snow cover, where they may have already reached their pr ...
View/Open
... of its effects on livestock (Reilly et al., 1996; McCarthy et al., 2001). Yet livestock is important. Almost 80% of African agricultural land is grazing land. African farmers depend on livestock for income, food and animal products (Nin et al., 2007), and are known to keep cattle as an insurance pol ...
... of its effects on livestock (Reilly et al., 1996; McCarthy et al., 2001). Yet livestock is important. Almost 80% of African agricultural land is grazing land. African farmers depend on livestock for income, food and animal products (Nin et al., 2007), and are known to keep cattle as an insurance pol ...