- The University of Liverpool Repository
... of future climate change. Much of China’s existing buildings are not considered energy-efficient, and retrofitting these buildings to perform in the future would be a much less energy-intensive strategy than demolishing them and building new replacements. This paper aims to investigate the feasibili ...
... of future climate change. Much of China’s existing buildings are not considered energy-efficient, and retrofitting these buildings to perform in the future would be a much less energy-intensive strategy than demolishing them and building new replacements. This paper aims to investigate the feasibili ...
AN EVALUATION OF FARMERS` PERCEPTIONS OF AND
... sea level. Therefore, the district’s topography covers both the eastern part of Kyuso with lower and drier climate that is popular with livestock production and the western part of Kyuso with higher climate that offers more rainfall and increased crop cultivation. Kyuso is hot and dry for most part ...
... sea level. Therefore, the district’s topography covers both the eastern part of Kyuso with lower and drier climate that is popular with livestock production and the western part of Kyuso with higher climate that offers more rainfall and increased crop cultivation. Kyuso is hot and dry for most part ...
UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
... climate could reduce the number of people visiting small islands in low latitudes, it could have the reverse effect in middle and high latitude islands. However, water shortages and increased incidence of vector-borne diseases may also deter tourists” ([IPCC, 2007b]). Under this scenario, climate ch ...
... climate could reduce the number of people visiting small islands in low latitudes, it could have the reverse effect in middle and high latitude islands. However, water shortages and increased incidence of vector-borne diseases may also deter tourists” ([IPCC, 2007b]). Under this scenario, climate ch ...
V. Objectives of the Inter-Regional Technical Support Component
... Development Report (HDR) on Climate Change are all in Africa. Despite the commitment of their governments, African countries are struggling to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – and climate change is increasing their risk of falling short of these goals. Integrated and comprehensive appr ...
... Development Report (HDR) on Climate Change are all in Africa. Despite the commitment of their governments, African countries are struggling to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – and climate change is increasing their risk of falling short of these goals. Integrated and comprehensive appr ...
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... sea level. Therefore, the district’s topography covers both the eastern part of Kyuso with lower and drier climate that is popular with livestock production and the western part of Kyuso with higher climate that offers more rainfall and increased crop cultivation. Kyuso is hot and dry for most part ...
... sea level. Therefore, the district’s topography covers both the eastern part of Kyuso with lower and drier climate that is popular with livestock production and the western part of Kyuso with higher climate that offers more rainfall and increased crop cultivation. Kyuso is hot and dry for most part ...
Sea Level Rise on the Florida Keys
... basis for the simplistic “bathtub” modeling to follow. See Figures 1 through 14. Acquisition of the high-resolution elevation data corresponded with the release of the IPCC 4th Assessment Synthesis Report in February 2007. The IPCC was established in 1988 as an objective source to summarize peer-rev ...
... basis for the simplistic “bathtub” modeling to follow. See Figures 1 through 14. Acquisition of the high-resolution elevation data corresponded with the release of the IPCC 4th Assessment Synthesis Report in February 2007. The IPCC was established in 1988 as an objective source to summarize peer-rev ...
O b s e rved Impacts climate change in the U.S.
... interactions are preserved, and the system may remain healthy. On the other hand, if responses to temperature increases vary across species (for example, if butterflies emerge before the flowers they depend on for survival), then species’ interactions may become out of synchrony and could lead to po ...
... interactions are preserved, and the system may remain healthy. On the other hand, if responses to temperature increases vary across species (for example, if butterflies emerge before the flowers they depend on for survival), then species’ interactions may become out of synchrony and could lead to po ...
international legal implications of climate change for the polar
... Council and the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings. So far, discussion within these institutions has focused on the science of climate change, and it is certainly the case that research done within both regions has made important contributions to regional and global knowledge. The development of ...
... Council and the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings. So far, discussion within these institutions has focused on the science of climate change, and it is certainly the case that research done within both regions has made important contributions to regional and global knowledge. The development of ...
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... Natural Disaster Reduction. Since 2005, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA, 2005-2015) provided guidance for reducing the loss of life and assets in the event of disaster, and making the world safer from natural hazards. Although HFA prompted considerable progress towards a more proactive and holis ...
... Natural Disaster Reduction. Since 2005, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA, 2005-2015) provided guidance for reducing the loss of life and assets in the event of disaster, and making the world safer from natural hazards. Although HFA prompted considerable progress towards a more proactive and holis ...
The role of biospheric feedbacks in the simulation of the... historical land cover change on the Australian January climate
... Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia Received 27 July 2003; revised 16 September 2003; accepted 25 September 2003; published 26 November 2003. ...
... Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia Received 27 July 2003; revised 16 September 2003; accepted 25 September 2003; published 26 November 2003. ...
Macedonia: National Climate Vulnerability Assessment
... The influence of climate change represents an important social, ecological and economic threat to European and global community. The frequent extreme weather conditions – rains and flood, heat waves and droughts – reduced snow falls, increased temperatures and rising sea level will increasingly have ...
... The influence of climate change represents an important social, ecological and economic threat to European and global community. The frequent extreme weather conditions – rains and flood, heat waves and droughts – reduced snow falls, increased temperatures and rising sea level will increasingly have ...
Predicting population consequences of ocean climate
... Farallon Island colony in central California. Our study projected that the auklet population growth rate will experience an absolute decline of 11–45% by the end of the century, placing this population on a trajectory toward extinction. In addition, future changes in upwelling intensity and timing o ...
... Farallon Island colony in central California. Our study projected that the auklet population growth rate will experience an absolute decline of 11–45% by the end of the century, placing this population on a trajectory toward extinction. In addition, future changes in upwelling intensity and timing o ...
11 Appendix A part 2 - Kettering Borough Council
... that whatever we do now we cannot escape some climate change, but the worst effects can be avoided if the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are stabilised instead of being allowed to continue to increase. At the same time it will also be necessary to adapt to the changes to ensure that their impact ...
... that whatever we do now we cannot escape some climate change, but the worst effects can be avoided if the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are stabilised instead of being allowed to continue to increase. At the same time it will also be necessary to adapt to the changes to ensure that their impact ...
The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
... that would later be called, by an inaccurate analogy, the "greenhouse effect." The equations and data available to 19th-century scientists were far too poor to allow an accurate calculation. Yet the physics was straightforward enough to show that a bare, airless rock at the Earth's distance from the ...
... that would later be called, by an inaccurate analogy, the "greenhouse effect." The equations and data available to 19th-century scientists were far too poor to allow an accurate calculation. Yet the physics was straightforward enough to show that a bare, airless rock at the Earth's distance from the ...
Final Background paper UNFCCC Latin American workshop on a…
... the International Development Bank. ...
... the International Development Bank. ...
The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
... that would later be called, by an inaccurate analogy, the "greenhouse effect." The equations and data available to 19th-century scientists were far too poor to allow an accurate calculation. Yet the physics was straightforward enough to show that a bare, airless rock at the Earth's distance from the ...
... that would later be called, by an inaccurate analogy, the "greenhouse effect." The equations and data available to 19th-century scientists were far too poor to allow an accurate calculation. Yet the physics was straightforward enough to show that a bare, airless rock at the Earth's distance from the ...
How much risk ought we to take? Exploring the possibilities of
... expected well-being approach in conjunction with threshold levels for establishing moral permissibility could avoid the counterintuitive outcome discussed above. Second, even if we leave extreme cases like the treatment dilemma aside and focus on situations in which we simply have a range of option ...
... expected well-being approach in conjunction with threshold levels for establishing moral permissibility could avoid the counterintuitive outcome discussed above. Second, even if we leave extreme cases like the treatment dilemma aside and focus on situations in which we simply have a range of option ...
as a PDF
... 10been an unprecedented increase in the number of bathing infections that have been associated with 11warm water Vibrio species. For example, during the hot summer of 2006 wound infections linked to 12contact with Baltic and North Sea waters were reported from Germany (V. vulnificus) (Frank et al., ...
... 10been an unprecedented increase in the number of bathing infections that have been associated with 11warm water Vibrio species. For example, during the hot summer of 2006 wound infections linked to 12contact with Baltic and North Sea waters were reported from Germany (V. vulnificus) (Frank et al., ...
Climate change effects on migration phenology may mismatch
... both p , 0.022; main SDM hosts: p ¼ 0.039; main LDM hosts: p ¼ 0.070). If the cuckoo and its hosts are similarly sensitive to the phenomena (unrelated to parasitism) that cause a generalized decline in migratory species abundance, the larger decline in cuckoo populations may result from the additive ...
... both p , 0.022; main SDM hosts: p ¼ 0.039; main LDM hosts: p ¼ 0.070). If the cuckoo and its hosts are similarly sensitive to the phenomena (unrelated to parasitism) that cause a generalized decline in migratory species abundance, the larger decline in cuckoo populations may result from the additive ...
pdf file - Polar Science Center
... climatic subsystems significant. This holds especially for high warming scenarios but numbers are still far from small for a moderate temperature increase within this century. Here we provide an attempt of a condensed assessment of the tipping potential in figure 15. Tipping elements are sorted acco ...
... climatic subsystems significant. This holds especially for high warming scenarios but numbers are still far from small for a moderate temperature increase within this century. Here we provide an attempt of a condensed assessment of the tipping potential in figure 15. Tipping elements are sorted acco ...
Evaluating sun–climate relationships since the Little Ice Age
... From the coldest period of the Little Ice Age to the present time\ the surface temperature of the Earth increased by perhaps 9[7>C[ Solar variability may account for part of this warming which\ during the past 249 years\ generally tracks ~uctuating solar activity levels[ While increases in greenhous ...
... From the coldest period of the Little Ice Age to the present time\ the surface temperature of the Earth increased by perhaps 9[7>C[ Solar variability may account for part of this warming which\ during the past 249 years\ generally tracks ~uctuating solar activity levels[ While increases in greenhous ...
The Economics of "When" Flexibility in the Design of Greenhouse Gas
... treatment accorded RFF books and other publications. ...
... treatment accorded RFF books and other publications. ...
56 - University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
... baseline, but have modified four of the indicators applied in that work and omitted one of the ten indicators originally used. In this study we have provided an indicator-based analysis of the relative vulnerabilities of 173 countries to climate change impacts on fisheries. We have been able to incl ...
... baseline, but have modified four of the indicators applied in that work and omitted one of the ten indicators originally used. In this study we have provided an indicator-based analysis of the relative vulnerabilities of 173 countries to climate change impacts on fisheries. We have been able to incl ...
Comparing impacts of climate change on streamflow in four large
... are between 10 and 100 Mm3 (LBPTC, 2010). In addition, there is a lot of mining activity in the Limpopo River basin with about 1900 mines over the years (Ashton et al., 2001b), and many of them have extensive impacts on water resources (Ashton et al., 2001a). In the Niger, water management infrastru ...
... are between 10 and 100 Mm3 (LBPTC, 2010). In addition, there is a lot of mining activity in the Limpopo River basin with about 1900 mines over the years (Ashton et al., 2001b), and many of them have extensive impacts on water resources (Ashton et al., 2001a). In the Niger, water management infrastru ...