drainage development in a changing environment:overview
... allow for timely land preparation: agricultural machinery can access to land early in the season, cultivate and prepare it for sowing. The cultivation period is thus extended, which is of importance because the daily sunlight periods in parts of the temperate zone represent the crucial production fa ...
... allow for timely land preparation: agricultural machinery can access to land early in the season, cultivate and prepare it for sowing. The cultivation period is thus extended, which is of importance because the daily sunlight periods in parts of the temperate zone represent the crucial production fa ...
Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy
... Tennekes [13]). That said, it is not at all clear how one is to extract probabilities from computer simulations of any kind, much less from those that extrapolate an entire planet to regimes which have never been observed. The diversity of our current climate models, or of any set of models to be de ...
... Tennekes [13]). That said, it is not at all clear how one is to extract probabilities from computer simulations of any kind, much less from those that extrapolate an entire planet to regimes which have never been observed. The diversity of our current climate models, or of any set of models to be de ...
Global Warming False Alarms - Institute of Economic Affairs
... Professor Bob Carter. It was headlined “There is a problem with global warming …it stopped in 1998”. More recently came a refreshing note of dissent from the festival of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA). In a debate on climate change Nick Brooks of the University of East A ...
... Professor Bob Carter. It was headlined “There is a problem with global warming …it stopped in 1998”. More recently came a refreshing note of dissent from the festival of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA). In a debate on climate change Nick Brooks of the University of East A ...
A climate of uncertainty: accounting for error in climate variables for
... tends to occur at locations far from stations, in areas within transition zones between two or more climatic regimes (such as coastal temperature boundaries), or at elevations in the vertical transition between the boundary layer and free atmosphere during temperature inversions. PI70 also increases ...
... tends to occur at locations far from stations, in areas within transition zones between two or more climatic regimes (such as coastal temperature boundaries), or at elevations in the vertical transition between the boundary layer and free atmosphere during temperature inversions. PI70 also increases ...
chapter one - Open University of Tanzania Repository
... in Dar es Salaam. It covers the period between December 2010 up to June 2011.The participatory community assessment conducted in the village using participatory methods and tools like Focus Group Discussions (FGD) , semi-structured Interviews and Field visit survey came out with five major community ...
... in Dar es Salaam. It covers the period between December 2010 up to June 2011.The participatory community assessment conducted in the village using participatory methods and tools like Focus Group Discussions (FGD) , semi-structured Interviews and Field visit survey came out with five major community ...
Status of Coastal and Marine ecosystem management in South Asia
... Five countries in South Asia - Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have extensive mangroves, coral reefs, and sand dunes that harbor some of the world’s most significant coastal and marine biodiversity. The coastal sub-region of South Asia is home to about 400 million people, man ...
... Five countries in South Asia - Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have extensive mangroves, coral reefs, and sand dunes that harbor some of the world’s most significant coastal and marine biodiversity. The coastal sub-region of South Asia is home to about 400 million people, man ...
improving climate change reporting AN ACCA AND FTSE GROUP DiSCUSSiON PAPER
... reporting. The evolution of sustainability reporting has been fast-paced. Within two decades, the first movement to produce reports on environmental impacts has moved through a number of phases: impact on society and economies; the concept of the ‘triple bottom line’; external verification to provid ...
... reporting. The evolution of sustainability reporting has been fast-paced. Within two decades, the first movement to produce reports on environmental impacts has moved through a number of phases: impact on society and economies; the concept of the ‘triple bottom line’; external verification to provid ...
Framework for City Climate Risk Assessment
... for cities stem primarily from extreme events—implying that cities need to assess risk for droughts, floods, storms, and heat waves, in order to plan and implement adaptation strategies. However, gradual changes such as rise in mean temperature do affect cities in at least two ...
... for cities stem primarily from extreme events—implying that cities need to assess risk for droughts, floods, storms, and heat waves, in order to plan and implement adaptation strategies. However, gradual changes such as rise in mean temperature do affect cities in at least two ...
Global Warming False Alarms
... Professor Bob Carter. It was headlined “There is a problem with global warming …it stopped in 1998”. More recently came a refreshing note of dissent from the festival of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA). In a debate on climate change Nick Brooks of the University of East A ...
... Professor Bob Carter. It was headlined “There is a problem with global warming …it stopped in 1998”. More recently came a refreshing note of dissent from the festival of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA). In a debate on climate change Nick Brooks of the University of East A ...
Climate change and timing of avian breeding and migration
... to produce different phenotypes in different environments (Pigliucci 2001, 2005). Many traits are phenotypically plastic and while ‘non-labile’ traits are stable during the lifetime of an individual, for example, morphological traits which are influenced by conditions during ontogeny, ‘labile’ trait ...
... to produce different phenotypes in different environments (Pigliucci 2001, 2005). Many traits are phenotypically plastic and while ‘non-labile’ traits are stable during the lifetime of an individual, for example, morphological traits which are influenced by conditions during ontogeny, ‘labile’ trait ...
The Availability Heuristic, Intuitive Cost
... It has become standard to say that with respect to risks, Europe and the United States can be distinguished along a single axis: Europe accepts the Precautionary Principle, and the United States does not. On this view, Europeans attempt to build a “margin of safety” into public decisions, taking car ...
... It has become standard to say that with respect to risks, Europe and the United States can be distinguished along a single axis: Europe accepts the Precautionary Principle, and the United States does not. On this view, Europeans attempt to build a “margin of safety” into public decisions, taking car ...
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... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 and entered into force on 21 March 1994. The objective of the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions "at a level that would prevent dangerous ...
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 and entered into force on 21 March 1994. The objective of the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions "at a level that would prevent dangerous ...
Testing the robustness of the anthropogenic climate change detection statements using different empirical models
... about the observed climate changes, the signals of interest, and a representation of the residual internal variability of the climate system. As mentioned in section 1, our aim is to test the robustness of the anthropogenic climate change detection statements under different characterizations of int ...
... about the observed climate changes, the signals of interest, and a representation of the residual internal variability of the climate system. As mentioned in section 1, our aim is to test the robustness of the anthropogenic climate change detection statements under different characterizations of int ...
The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science
... the World Meteorological Organization’s 1985 Villach conference, at which years of previous scientific research and technical debate crystallized into one of the first widely publicized warnings about an anthropogenically enhanced greenhouse effect due to rising concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2 ...
... the World Meteorological Organization’s 1985 Villach conference, at which years of previous scientific research and technical debate crystallized into one of the first widely publicized warnings about an anthropogenically enhanced greenhouse effect due to rising concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2 ...
The role of mineral-dust aerosols in polar temperature amplification
... The surface cooling effect of mineral-dust aerosols calculated here for specific sites in Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be of similar amplitude in the rest of the polar regions covered by snow or ice. In the polar atmosphere, dust aerosols tend to cool the lower and warm the higher troposphe ...
... The surface cooling effect of mineral-dust aerosols calculated here for specific sites in Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be of similar amplitude in the rest of the polar regions covered by snow or ice. In the polar atmosphere, dust aerosols tend to cool the lower and warm the higher troposphe ...
Regional Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the Eyre Peninsula
... management and biodiversity conservation, both of which will be impacted by declining rainfall and projected increased temperatures. The adaptation pathways analysis focussed on eight issues and areas of decision making (described in italics below). These were then considered in a regional context t ...
... management and biodiversity conservation, both of which will be impacted by declining rainfall and projected increased temperatures. The adaptation pathways analysis focussed on eight issues and areas of decision making (described in italics below). These were then considered in a regional context t ...
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... Health Practitioners Act - 16.11 of the Revised Laws of Saint Lucia Police Act 2004 Chapter 14.01 of the Revised Laws of Saint Lucia Education Act No. 41 of 1999 Employees [Occupational Health and Safety] Act No. 10 of 1985 Industrial and Commercial Buildings [Fire Safety] Act No. 14 of 1972 ...
... Health Practitioners Act - 16.11 of the Revised Laws of Saint Lucia Police Act 2004 Chapter 14.01 of the Revised Laws of Saint Lucia Education Act No. 41 of 1999 Employees [Occupational Health and Safety] Act No. 10 of 1985 Industrial and Commercial Buildings [Fire Safety] Act No. 14 of 1972 ...
Climate evolution in the last five centuries
... 4 National Center of Competence in Research on Climate, University of Bern, Switzerland 5 Max-Planck-Institute of Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany 2 Universidad ...
... 4 National Center of Competence in Research on Climate, University of Bern, Switzerland 5 Max-Planck-Institute of Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany 2 Universidad ...
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
... The outcome of this project is the production of three key reports: this Impact Assessment Technical Report, a preliminary Adaptation Strategy Report, and a Community Action Plan with recommendations for future adaptation options and strategies. This technical report comprises the first milestone of ...
... The outcome of this project is the production of three key reports: this Impact Assessment Technical Report, a preliminary Adaptation Strategy Report, and a Community Action Plan with recommendations for future adaptation options and strategies. This technical report comprises the first milestone of ...
The Impacts of Climate Change on River Flow and Riparian
... climatic variations. Additionally, Arora and Boer (2001) simulated the discharge for twenty-three major catchments in the world and concluded that a general reduction on annual mean discharge over some dry regions at mid-latitudes and dry tropics may occur as a result of projected climate changes. O ...
... climatic variations. Additionally, Arora and Boer (2001) simulated the discharge for twenty-three major catchments in the world and concluded that a general reduction on annual mean discharge over some dry regions at mid-latitudes and dry tropics may occur as a result of projected climate changes. O ...
(2003) Weed Management Guide: Orange Hawkweed (Hieracium
... conditions is presented, based on invader attributes and biogeography in combination with projections of future climate. We illustrate the framework using the CLIMEX niche model to identify future climate suitability for three species of Hawkweed that are currently present in the Australian Alps reg ...
... conditions is presented, based on invader attributes and biogeography in combination with projections of future climate. We illustrate the framework using the CLIMEX niche model to identify future climate suitability for three species of Hawkweed that are currently present in the Australian Alps reg ...
Mediterranean Sea response to climate change in an
... et al. (1998) in the historical simulations, with a Newtonian damping term in the tracer equation. River discharges are explicitly prescribed for the main 33 rivers of the model according to the 12-month climatology derived from the RivDis dataset (Vörösmarty et al. 1998) for the historical period. ...
... et al. (1998) in the historical simulations, with a Newtonian damping term in the tracer equation. River discharges are explicitly prescribed for the main 33 rivers of the model according to the 12-month climatology derived from the RivDis dataset (Vörösmarty et al. 1998) for the historical period. ...
Climate Change and Security in Africa - The Africa
... learned and best practices will play important roles. The initiative fits in very much with the EU’s own recognition that climate change is a “threat multiplier which exacerbates existing trends, tensions and instability” in developing countries1. Such tensions include conflict over resources such a ...
... learned and best practices will play important roles. The initiative fits in very much with the EU’s own recognition that climate change is a “threat multiplier which exacerbates existing trends, tensions and instability” in developing countries1. Such tensions include conflict over resources such a ...
Effect of climate change on air quality
... episodes between 1988 and 1992 in Fig. 1 is a factor of 10. If ...
... episodes between 1988 and 1992 in Fig. 1 is a factor of 10. If ...