Climate change and its impact on the livelihood of farmers and
... endangering climate change. The relationship between a stabilization point and temperature change is uncertain: CO2 once emitted into the atmosphere remains trapped there and it cannot be estimated when the effects will materialize3. The long-term negative effects of global warming are a reality. Th ...
... endangering climate change. The relationship between a stabilization point and temperature change is uncertain: CO2 once emitted into the atmosphere remains trapped there and it cannot be estimated when the effects will materialize3. The long-term negative effects of global warming are a reality. Th ...
Climate Change Impact on Public Health in the Russian Arctic
... is taking place throughout the world [Climate Change…, 2007]. The Report emphasizes the human health implications of climate change, which are already observed everywhere. The IPCC’s data on global warming according to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sound as a call for action. The ...
... is taking place throughout the world [Climate Change…, 2007]. The Report emphasizes the human health implications of climate change, which are already observed everywhere. The IPCC’s data on global warming according to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sound as a call for action. The ...
Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook MODULE 12: Local institutions
... Sample CSA actions for local institutions When establishing CSA, local organizations and institutions can play positive roles in: 1. Producing and sharing technical knowledge • Identify the main vulnerabilities in local agricultural and food systems, and the most vulnerable households. • Consider ...
... Sample CSA actions for local institutions When establishing CSA, local organizations and institutions can play positive roles in: 1. Producing and sharing technical knowledge • Identify the main vulnerabilities in local agricultural and food systems, and the most vulnerable households. • Consider ...
Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement`s Impact on U.S.
... (IPCC), regarding the reality of climate change. The most prestigious “arbiters” of scientific evidence, including the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the United States and the Royal Society in the United Kingdom, endorse this consensus. In the mid-1990s, the IPCC (1995) claimed, “the balance ...
... (IPCC), regarding the reality of climate change. The most prestigious “arbiters” of scientific evidence, including the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the United States and the Royal Society in the United Kingdom, endorse this consensus. In the mid-1990s, the IPCC (1995) claimed, “the balance ...
Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement`s Impact
... (IPCC), regarding the reality of climate change. The most prestigious “arbiters” of scientific evidence, including the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the United States and the Royal Society in the United Kingdom, endorse this consensus. In the mid-1990s, the IPCC (1995) claimed, “the balance ...
... (IPCC), regarding the reality of climate change. The most prestigious “arbiters” of scientific evidence, including the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the United States and the Royal Society in the United Kingdom, endorse this consensus. In the mid-1990s, the IPCC (1995) claimed, “the balance ...
PALSEA2 2016 Workshop: Sea-level budgets at decadal to
... and are therefore characterized by different rates of the recent vertical movements of the Earth's crust. To study their mechanisms and velocities, relative sea level changes (RSL) in several regions can be analyzed and compared. As the RSL changes consist of changes due to the vertical movements of ...
... and are therefore characterized by different rates of the recent vertical movements of the Earth's crust. To study their mechanisms and velocities, relative sea level changes (RSL) in several regions can be analyzed and compared. As the RSL changes consist of changes due to the vertical movements of ...
The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change
... The radiation absorbed by these gases is re-emitted in all directions, some back toward the surface leading to a net warming of the surface. Through what is widely, but inaccurately, referred to as the greenhouse effect, these so-called greenhouse gases trap heat in the near surface layers of the at ...
... The radiation absorbed by these gases is re-emitted in all directions, some back toward the surface leading to a net warming of the surface. Through what is widely, but inaccurately, referred to as the greenhouse effect, these so-called greenhouse gases trap heat in the near surface layers of the at ...
climate change law: the emergence of a new legal discipline
... retailers drawing on different sources of power generation to supply consumers. In addition, climate change presents enormous challenges for socioeconomic governance systems. (The federal government’s leading climate change adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut, has recently described climate change as ‘a ...
... retailers drawing on different sources of power generation to supply consumers. In addition, climate change presents enormous challenges for socioeconomic governance systems. (The federal government’s leading climate change adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut, has recently described climate change as ‘a ...
ISSN 1392-2785 Inzinerine Ekonomika
... has seen an increase in the number of adverse weather related events in the past decade (Stern, 2006). The EU‟s climate policy is in keeping with the target of limiting the global temperature rise to 2°C in relation to its preindustrial level (EC White Paper, 2009). This level is considered sufficie ...
... has seen an increase in the number of adverse weather related events in the past decade (Stern, 2006). The EU‟s climate policy is in keeping with the target of limiting the global temperature rise to 2°C in relation to its preindustrial level (EC White Paper, 2009). This level is considered sufficie ...
come heat and high water: climate risk in the southeastern us and
... When assessing risk related to climate change, it is particularly important to consider outlier events and not just the most likely scenarios. Indeed, the outlier onein-100-year event today will become the one-in-10-year event as the earth continues to warm. Put another way, over time the extremes w ...
... When assessing risk related to climate change, it is particularly important to consider outlier events and not just the most likely scenarios. Indeed, the outlier onein-100-year event today will become the one-in-10-year event as the earth continues to warm. Put another way, over time the extremes w ...
Federal Decision-Making on the Uncertain Impacts of Climate Change
... impacts information needs of federal decision‐making, and discusses the challenges associated with the information currently available for decisions that can have either minor or significant climate implications. The paper draws a clear distinction between policies with incremental climate effect ...
... impacts information needs of federal decision‐making, and discusses the challenges associated with the information currently available for decisions that can have either minor or significant climate implications. The paper draws a clear distinction between policies with incremental climate effect ...
Paper - Wharton Marketing
... We propose that legacy motivations, which have been previously under-studied, represent a powerful mechanism by which to circumvent the otherwise detrimental psychological barriers that inhibit preventive action on climate change. Our predictions are grounded in existing data, which show a positive ...
... We propose that legacy motivations, which have been previously under-studied, represent a powerful mechanism by which to circumvent the otherwise detrimental psychological barriers that inhibit preventive action on climate change. Our predictions are grounded in existing data, which show a positive ...
Melting icebergs boost sea-level rise” by Kate McAlpine
... The lay-out is simple, clear and direct, in fact the article develops in mid-page, and it has got a photo that illustrates an iceberg. The text is divided into two sequences each of which is divided into four microsequences. ...
... The lay-out is simple, clear and direct, in fact the article develops in mid-page, and it has got a photo that illustrates an iceberg. The text is divided into two sequences each of which is divided into four microsequences. ...
Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples and the Arctic: The Changing
... everybody wants a piece of the pie. Increased access has its own impacts – the possibility for another ‘Exxon Valdez-type incident’15 cannot be ruled out. Drilling can upset the pristine environment of the Arctic as well as its wildlife. Unlike the Antarctic, the Arctic is home to approximately 4 mi ...
... everybody wants a piece of the pie. Increased access has its own impacts – the possibility for another ‘Exxon Valdez-type incident’15 cannot be ruled out. Drilling can upset the pristine environment of the Arctic as well as its wildlife. Unlike the Antarctic, the Arctic is home to approximately 4 mi ...
The Critical Decade 2013
... rising emissions of greenhouse gases, and putting us on the pathway to stabilising the climate system. One quarter of the way through the Critical Decade, many consequences of climate change are already evident, and the risks of further climate change are better understood. It is clear that global s ...
... rising emissions of greenhouse gases, and putting us on the pathway to stabilising the climate system. One quarter of the way through the Critical Decade, many consequences of climate change are already evident, and the risks of further climate change are better understood. It is clear that global s ...
Technical Summary - Climate Change 2013
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This comprehensive assessment of the physical aspects of climate change puts a focus on those elements that are relevant to understand past, document current and project future climate change. The assessment builds on the IPCC Fourth Assessment Repor ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This comprehensive assessment of the physical aspects of climate change puts a focus on those elements that are relevant to understand past, document current and project future climate change. The assessment builds on the IPCC Fourth Assessment Repor ...
Increase of carbon cycle feedback with climate sensitivity
... coupled climate and carbon cycle model (Thompson et al., 2004). The NCAR/DOE PCTM model (Meehl et al., 2004; Washington et al., 2000) was used as the physical ocean–atmosphere model; this is a version of the NCAR CCM 3.2 model (Kiehl et al., 1996) coupled to the LANL POP ocean model (Dukowicz and Sm ...
... coupled climate and carbon cycle model (Thompson et al., 2004). The NCAR/DOE PCTM model (Meehl et al., 2004; Washington et al., 2000) was used as the physical ocean–atmosphere model; this is a version of the NCAR CCM 3.2 model (Kiehl et al., 1996) coupled to the LANL POP ocean model (Dukowicz and Sm ...
Mid-21st century projections in temperature extremes in
... Following exactly the same method as for the NCEPforced runs, we also computed biases in Tmin and Tmax for the RCM experiments forced by different GCMs (Figs. 2b, 3b). We examine the influence of inherent biases in different RCMs, as found in Figs. 2a and 3a, on RCM projections when forced with diff ...
... Following exactly the same method as for the NCEPforced runs, we also computed biases in Tmin and Tmax for the RCM experiments forced by different GCMs (Figs. 2b, 3b). We examine the influence of inherent biases in different RCMs, as found in Figs. 2a and 3a, on RCM projections when forced with diff ...
Robust institutional arrangements for national mitigation efforts
... – Inter-sectoral – Multidisciplinary ...
... – Inter-sectoral – Multidisciplinary ...
Simulating Picea schrenkiana forest productivity under climatic
... A process-based model, BIOME-BGC, was used to investigate the response of Picea schrenkiana forest to future climate changes and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration increases in the Tianshan Mountains of northwestern China. The model was validated by comparing simulated net primary produc ...
... A process-based model, BIOME-BGC, was used to investigate the response of Picea schrenkiana forest to future climate changes and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration increases in the Tianshan Mountains of northwestern China. The model was validated by comparing simulated net primary produc ...