Role of Ocean in Global Warming - J
... upon the study, they conjectured that the response of surface temperature in the Southern Hemisphere should be delayed as compared to that in the Northern Hemisphere because of the inter-hemispheric difference in the fraction of the area covered by oceans. Using a coupled ocean-atmosphere model, in ...
... upon the study, they conjectured that the response of surface temperature in the Southern Hemisphere should be delayed as compared to that in the Northern Hemisphere because of the inter-hemispheric difference in the fraction of the area covered by oceans. Using a coupled ocean-atmosphere model, in ...
Top-down vs bottom-up - working paper version
... Second, whereas for some collective efforts the most relevant basis for effort-sharing is a country’s capacity to pay, in the climate change context this is complicated by additional factors, including varying degrees of responsibility for past and current emissions. Survey data suggest that there i ...
... Second, whereas for some collective efforts the most relevant basis for effort-sharing is a country’s capacity to pay, in the climate change context this is complicated by additional factors, including varying degrees of responsibility for past and current emissions. Survey data suggest that there i ...
an inconvenient burden of proof? co2 nuisance plaintiffs will face
... cause global warming.23 In 1988, the UN formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).24 The IPCC issued four reports from 1990 to 2007, each sounding an increased alarm and calling for policy makers world-wide to act to curb global CO2 emissions.25 A fifth report is now in preparation ...
... cause global warming.23 In 1988, the UN formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).24 The IPCC issued four reports from 1990 to 2007, each sounding an increased alarm and calling for policy makers world-wide to act to curb global CO2 emissions.25 A fifth report is now in preparation ...
Ecosystem-based approaches to building resilience in urban areas
... effects of climate change at the local level is critical to saving lives and livelihoods as well as to maintain social and economic well-being. In the global south, where Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only just starting to be met, this is an extremely pressing challenge and there is a subs ...
... effects of climate change at the local level is critical to saving lives and livelihoods as well as to maintain social and economic well-being. In the global south, where Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only just starting to be met, this is an extremely pressing challenge and there is a subs ...
Partisan Group Identity and Belief in Human
... aforementioned effects of the consensus information on low knowledge partisans (i.e., their opinions on human-caused climate change are no longer affected by the consensus information). However, it has no effect on Democrats with more knowledge; we present suggestive evidence that the non-effect in ...
... aforementioned effects of the consensus information on low knowledge partisans (i.e., their opinions on human-caused climate change are no longer affected by the consensus information). However, it has no effect on Democrats with more knowledge; we present suggestive evidence that the non-effect in ...
How positive is the feedback between climate change and the
... able to reproduce the observed increases in temperature and CO2 (within the error bars on the net land-use emissions). This experiment produces a similar positive feedback in the future because anthropogenic sulfate aerosols are predicted to reduce sharply through the 21st century. In this study we ...
... able to reproduce the observed increases in temperature and CO2 (within the error bars on the net land-use emissions). This experiment produces a similar positive feedback in the future because anthropogenic sulfate aerosols are predicted to reduce sharply through the 21st century. In this study we ...
- Open University of Tanzania Repository
... life style and whose hope is relaying on educating their children so that after completing their duties they will be beneficiaries of the acquired knowledge and skills so as to be able to solve their global climate – change crisis. Improving links between climate change education curriculum and coun ...
... life style and whose hope is relaying on educating their children so that after completing their duties they will be beneficiaries of the acquired knowledge and skills so as to be able to solve their global climate – change crisis. Improving links between climate change education curriculum and coun ...
The Climate Change Tort Suits
... – A draft interim (3-month) and draft final (6-month) written report is to be delivered and deliberated upon by the CAAAC for submission to the US EPA. – The draft interim report should be completed on or before December 31, 2009, be approximately ten pages (or less) and identify technical, economic ...
... – A draft interim (3-month) and draft final (6-month) written report is to be delivered and deliberated upon by the CAAAC for submission to the US EPA. – The draft interim report should be completed on or before December 31, 2009, be approximately ten pages (or less) and identify technical, economic ...
Chapter 3: Natural Resources - Ressources naturelles Canada
... longer growing seasons and increasing CO2 levels where other factors (e.g. soil, water or nutrients) are not limiting, but will be negatively impacted by increased drought and more frequent and severe disturbances and extreme weather events. ...
... longer growing seasons and increasing CO2 levels where other factors (e.g. soil, water or nutrients) are not limiting, but will be negatively impacted by increased drought and more frequent and severe disturbances and extreme weather events. ...
Emerging Vibrio risk in the Baltic Sea in response to ocean warming
... EURL for monitoring bacteriological and viral contamination of bivalve molluscs. ...
... EURL for monitoring bacteriological and viral contamination of bivalve molluscs. ...
ipcc – saving the climate is possible
... Literature that IPCC is drawing on was also used when compiling the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, published by the British government in October 2006. In it Nicholas Stern showed that the cost of inaction on climate change could be as high as 5 - 20% of global consumption. The co ...
... Literature that IPCC is drawing on was also used when compiling the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, published by the British government in October 2006. In it Nicholas Stern showed that the cost of inaction on climate change could be as high as 5 - 20% of global consumption. The co ...
Beyond Science: ENERGY forum
... To examine climate change issues from a policy and scientific perspective, the Science and Technology Policy, Energy Forum, and Health Economics programs of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, together with the Energy & Environmental Systems Institute and the Shell Center for Sustain ...
... To examine climate change issues from a policy and scientific perspective, the Science and Technology Policy, Energy Forum, and Health Economics programs of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, together with the Energy & Environmental Systems Institute and the Shell Center for Sustain ...
Climate Commitments: Assessing the Options
... with certain legal benefits. For example, if a country reduced its emissions by more than its non-binding target, then it could sell the surplus emissions to other countries.4 Project baselines established under Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are, in essence, one-way “commitments,” since ...
... with certain legal benefits. For example, if a country reduced its emissions by more than its non-binding target, then it could sell the surplus emissions to other countries.4 Project baselines established under Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are, in essence, one-way “commitments,” since ...
European summer temperatures since Roman times
... statistical reconstruction methods. These advances allow more rigorous regional past temperature reconstructions and, in turn, the possibility of evaluating climate models on policy-relevant, spatiotemporal scales. Here we provide a new proxy-based, annually-resolved, spatial reconstruction of the E ...
... statistical reconstruction methods. These advances allow more rigorous regional past temperature reconstructions and, in turn, the possibility of evaluating climate models on policy-relevant, spatiotemporal scales. Here we provide a new proxy-based, annually-resolved, spatial reconstruction of the E ...
Anthony Patt ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
... Patt, Anthony, Detlef van Vuuren, Frans Berkhout, Asbjørn Aaheim, Andries Hof, Morna Isaac, and Reinhard Mechler (2010). Adaptation in integrated assessment modeling: where do we stand? Climatic Change 99: 383 – 402. Patt, Anthony, Mark Tadross, Patrick Nussbaumer, Kwabena Asante, Marc Metzger, José ...
... Patt, Anthony, Detlef van Vuuren, Frans Berkhout, Asbjørn Aaheim, Andries Hof, Morna Isaac, and Reinhard Mechler (2010). Adaptation in integrated assessment modeling: where do we stand? Climatic Change 99: 383 – 402. Patt, Anthony, Mark Tadross, Patrick Nussbaumer, Kwabena Asante, Marc Metzger, José ...
Atlantic National Seashores in Peril
... the Atlantic national seashores could become as a result need not get as hot as those of Key West, and summers of human emissions of heat-trapping gases. Projections in Cape Hatteras NS need not get as hot as those of were made for two different possible futures: one scenario Galveston. As indicated ...
... the Atlantic national seashores could become as a result need not get as hot as those of Key West, and summers of human emissions of heat-trapping gases. Projections in Cape Hatteras NS need not get as hot as those of were made for two different possible futures: one scenario Galveston. As indicated ...
Hydrologic impacts of climate change on the Nile River Basin
... semi-distributed grid-based land surface hydrological model which parameterizes the dominant hydrometeorological processes taking place at the land surface– atmosphere interface. The VIC model forcings were daily precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature, and daily average wind speed, for each ...
... semi-distributed grid-based land surface hydrological model which parameterizes the dominant hydrometeorological processes taking place at the land surface– atmosphere interface. The VIC model forcings were daily precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature, and daily average wind speed, for each ...
Future Weather
... On a regional scale we look at differences in precipitation within the Netherlands. In the KNMI’06 scenarios it was assumed that changes in precipitation due to climate change over the Netherlands were uniform in space. (The same assumption has been made for all other variables as well.) Thus, the s ...
... On a regional scale we look at differences in precipitation within the Netherlands. In the KNMI’06 scenarios it was assumed that changes in precipitation due to climate change over the Netherlands were uniform in space. (The same assumption has been made for all other variables as well.) Thus, the s ...
(Un)Natural Disasters: Communicating Linkages Between Extreme
... increases the risk of lung cancer. Similarly, evaluating how much climate change alters the probabilities of certain classes of extreme weather events is central to the science of extreme event attribution. Scientists calculate the probability of an extreme weather event occurring in climate model e ...
... increases the risk of lung cancer. Similarly, evaluating how much climate change alters the probabilities of certain classes of extreme weather events is central to the science of extreme event attribution. Scientists calculate the probability of an extreme weather event occurring in climate model e ...
Risk-based assessment of climate change impacts
... assessment reports (Interis 2005, 2012) which provided preliminary assessments of the impacts of climate change on DFO’s strategic outcomes; these assessments served as the departure point for the four LAB assessments. Following these CSAS meetings, the results of the SSRP for each LAB, along with t ...
... assessment reports (Interis 2005, 2012) which provided preliminary assessments of the impacts of climate change on DFO’s strategic outcomes; these assessments served as the departure point for the four LAB assessments. Following these CSAS meetings, the results of the SSRP for each LAB, along with t ...
The nature of climate change report
... elevations where it becomes too cold for the species, and at lower latitudes or elevations beyond which it becomes too warm. Even if a thermal limit is not reached, a species’ range may be bounded by other factors such as moisture availability, habitat suitability, or availability of land. As temper ...
... elevations where it becomes too cold for the species, and at lower latitudes or elevations beyond which it becomes too warm. Even if a thermal limit is not reached, a species’ range may be bounded by other factors such as moisture availability, habitat suitability, or availability of land. As temper ...