Why models run hot: results from an irreducibly simple climate
... outsider to climate science has no rational choice but to accept that, on a balance of probabilities, the mainstream science is right in pointing to high risks from unmitigated climate change.’’ However, as Sir Fred Hoyle put it, ‘‘Understanding the Earth’s greenhouse effect does not require complex ...
... outsider to climate science has no rational choice but to accept that, on a balance of probabilities, the mainstream science is right in pointing to high risks from unmitigated climate change.’’ However, as Sir Fred Hoyle put it, ‘‘Understanding the Earth’s greenhouse effect does not require complex ...
UNEP Topic A: New Perspectives on the Kyoto Protocol FEMUN V III
... feature that must change in order to solve this problem within all possible scenarios. ...
... feature that must change in order to solve this problem within all possible scenarios. ...
Are observed changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the
... that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.” The so called “evidence” cited in Chapter 8 of the main report was based on one paper that at the time had not been published in the refereed scientific literature. Moreover, one of the authors of this paper was also the convening lead ...
... that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.” The so called “evidence” cited in Chapter 8 of the main report was based on one paper that at the time had not been published in the refereed scientific literature. Moreover, one of the authors of this paper was also the convening lead ...
Of Montreal and Kyoto: A Tale of Two Protocols
... entirely a function of Republican leadership. The difference depends instead on assessments of national interest, public opinion, and the role of powerful private actors.34 The American position on the Kyoto Protocol was heavily influenced by the unanimously adopted 1997 Senate Resolution 98, which ...
... entirely a function of Republican leadership. The difference depends instead on assessments of national interest, public opinion, and the role of powerful private actors.34 The American position on the Kyoto Protocol was heavily influenced by the unanimously adopted 1997 Senate Resolution 98, which ...
Social capital, climate change and soil conservation investment: panel data evidence from the Highlands of Ethiopia: Working Paper 115 (325 kB) (opens in new window)
... The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to bring together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy to create ...
... The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to bring together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy to create ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in Management of Prairie Grasslands
... changes in average grassland productivity increased frequency of drought years with low productivity shifts in biodiversity including migration of new species and emergence of new communities. increased risk of exotic invasion loss of wetlands The current report examines adaptation options for addre ...
... changes in average grassland productivity increased frequency of drought years with low productivity shifts in biodiversity including migration of new species and emergence of new communities. increased risk of exotic invasion loss of wetlands The current report examines adaptation options for addre ...
Climate change impacts on the livestock sector
... any accelerated private adaptation decision-making. That is, how changing patterns of autonomous or private on-farm adaptation responses might exacerbate external impacts in terms of animal welfare from heat stress, disease and diffuse pollution to water and air. In relation to the latter, an import ...
... any accelerated private adaptation decision-making. That is, how changing patterns of autonomous or private on-farm adaptation responses might exacerbate external impacts in terms of animal welfare from heat stress, disease and diffuse pollution to water and air. In relation to the latter, an import ...
E C A
... given dominion over creation, they were also asked to be stewards of creation. They feel that climate change, along with other environmental problems, are a result of squandering this responsibility of stewardship, and will have effects on all of creation. “Christians must care about climate change ...
... given dominion over creation, they were also asked to be stewards of creation. They feel that climate change, along with other environmental problems, are a result of squandering this responsibility of stewardship, and will have effects on all of creation. “Christians must care about climate change ...
Observed Climate Variations and Change
... 1975 in the Northern Hemisphere, a more general warming has been observed, concentrated into the period 1975-1982, with little global warming between 1982 and 1989. However, changes of surface temperature in different regions of the two hemispheres have shown considerable contrasts for periods as lo ...
... 1975 in the Northern Hemisphere, a more general warming has been observed, concentrated into the period 1975-1982, with little global warming between 1982 and 1989. However, changes of surface temperature in different regions of the two hemispheres have shown considerable contrasts for periods as lo ...
Review Copy
... and CDD the largest relative sensitivity to warming (albeit starting from relatively low levels). Weather data currently used for building design increasingly lead to an overestimation of heating and underestimation of cooling demand in buildings and thus require periodic adaptation. Projections wer ...
... and CDD the largest relative sensitivity to warming (albeit starting from relatively low levels). Weather data currently used for building design increasingly lead to an overestimation of heating and underestimation of cooling demand in buildings and thus require periodic adaptation. Projections wer ...
Applying the VFM framework to business case design and appraisal
... not provide ex-ante advice to design teams on what type of resilience interventions might provide early socio-economic returns prior to their appraisal. In response, DFID more recently commissioned work to identify potential approaches to identifying early VfM options. A report on Early VfM Adaptati ...
... not provide ex-ante advice to design teams on what type of resilience interventions might provide early socio-economic returns prior to their appraisal. In response, DFID more recently commissioned work to identify potential approaches to identifying early VfM options. A report on Early VfM Adaptati ...
Origin of agriculture and domestication of plants and animals linked
... agriculture is not that clear. Experiments suggest that it was most likely because of the more energy required for hunting and gathering, than for agricultural practices to obtain the same calories of food energy (e.g. MacDonald10, p. 357). The external pressure from environmental change and intrins ...
... agriculture is not that clear. Experiments suggest that it was most likely because of the more energy required for hunting and gathering, than for agricultural practices to obtain the same calories of food energy (e.g. MacDonald10, p. 357). The external pressure from environmental change and intrins ...
Annotated draft outline of the 2016 EEA CCIV report
... German vulnerability indicators (Source: UBA, DE) 5.6 Vulnerability to Birgit Georgi (ACC4) Revised section climate change in urban regions 6. Strengthening the knowledge base 6.1 Indicator and data Andre Jol (ACC4) needs 6.2 Copernicus Climate Andre Jol (ACC4) New section describing the current sta ...
... German vulnerability indicators (Source: UBA, DE) 5.6 Vulnerability to Birgit Georgi (ACC4) Revised section climate change in urban regions 6. Strengthening the knowledge base 6.1 Indicator and data Andre Jol (ACC4) needs 6.2 Copernicus Climate Andre Jol (ACC4) New section describing the current sta ...
Kyoto and Beyond - European Business Council for Sustainable
... • The global average surface temperature has increased over the 20th century by about 0.6°C. Globally, it is very likely that the 1990s was the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year in the instrumental record, since 1861 (See Figure 1). Furthermore, when the instrumental record is extended using ...
... • The global average surface temperature has increased over the 20th century by about 0.6°C. Globally, it is very likely that the 1990s was the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year in the instrumental record, since 1861 (See Figure 1). Furthermore, when the instrumental record is extended using ...
Alpine strategy for adaptation to climate change in the field of natural
... at the Xth Alpine Conference in Evian, France in 2009. The action plan aims to make the Alps an exemplary territory for both the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to the impacts of climate change on water resources and biodiversity, mountain forests and farming, tourism, settlemen ...
... at the Xth Alpine Conference in Evian, France in 2009. The action plan aims to make the Alps an exemplary territory for both the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to the impacts of climate change on water resources and biodiversity, mountain forests and farming, tourism, settlemen ...
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... these general characteristics will persist until the current interglacial ends. If the sea bottom warms, possibly in response to global climate change, there could be a significant reduction to complete loss of GH stability, especially on the shallow parts of the continental shelf. The interglacial ...
... these general characteristics will persist until the current interglacial ends. If the sea bottom warms, possibly in response to global climate change, there could be a significant reduction to complete loss of GH stability, especially on the shallow parts of the continental shelf. The interglacial ...
Selected International Legal Materials on Global Warming and
... terms of resources, but also in the vital dimension of attitudes and perceptions." The same consideration applies to the vital issue of protecting the global atmospheric commons from the growing peril of climate change and other atmospheric changes. Unanticipated and unplanned change may well become ...
... terms of resources, but also in the vital dimension of attitudes and perceptions." The same consideration applies to the vital issue of protecting the global atmospheric commons from the growing peril of climate change and other atmospheric changes. Unanticipated and unplanned change may well become ...
Implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change in
... its Aichi Targets, known as Aichi Plan was adopted. The 10 and 15 targets of this plan are linked to climate change mitigation and adaptation issues. They provide for conservation and restoration by 2020 of at least 15 per cent of degraded ecosystems, thereby contributing to the reduction of anthrop ...
... its Aichi Targets, known as Aichi Plan was adopted. The 10 and 15 targets of this plan are linked to climate change mitigation and adaptation issues. They provide for conservation and restoration by 2020 of at least 15 per cent of degraded ecosystems, thereby contributing to the reduction of anthrop ...
Climateâ•`induced changes in the distribution of freshwater fish
... devoted to cold-water fish species (mainly salmonids). Our knowledge is still incomplete, however, particularly due to taxonomic and geographic biases. 5. Observed and expected responses are well correlated among families, suggesting that model predictions are supported by empirical evidence. The ob ...
... devoted to cold-water fish species (mainly salmonids). Our knowledge is still incomplete, however, particularly due to taxonomic and geographic biases. 5. Observed and expected responses are well correlated among families, suggesting that model predictions are supported by empirical evidence. The ob ...
A Global Warming: Correcting the Data Surface temperatures are rising, but probably
... We examine only land temperatures. Land areas should respond more to changes in the climate “forcing” factors, such as the greenhouse effect, than oceanic regions, for two reasons: First, temperature responds most to the first increments of a greenhouse gas, or to the first increments of greenhouse ...
... We examine only land temperatures. Land areas should respond more to changes in the climate “forcing” factors, such as the greenhouse effect, than oceanic regions, for two reasons: First, temperature responds most to the first increments of a greenhouse gas, or to the first increments of greenhouse ...
Recommendations on Early Actions on Climate Change for the 44th
... unacceptable economic and ecological damage; • Our strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are fundamentally linked to U.S. energy policy; • A new and constructive approach to climate is critical to re-establishing U.S leadership in the world; • A properly designed greenhouse gas emissions ...
... unacceptable economic and ecological damage; • Our strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are fundamentally linked to U.S. energy policy; • A new and constructive approach to climate is critical to re-establishing U.S leadership in the world; • A properly designed greenhouse gas emissions ...
OPEN CLIMATE LETTER TO UN SECRETARY
... H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations First Avenue and East 44 Street, New York, New York, U.S.A. November 29, 2012 th ...
... H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations First Avenue and East 44 Street, New York, New York, U.S.A. November 29, 2012 th ...
Follow-up Report - Ministry of Tourism
... A: Fisheries regulations allow fishing from house reefs, including those of resort islands, that tourism operators make efforts to conserve. This is one of the apparent examples of regulations with conflicting objectives. The issue of conflicting use of resources by multiple stakeholders has already ...
... A: Fisheries regulations allow fishing from house reefs, including those of resort islands, that tourism operators make efforts to conserve. This is one of the apparent examples of regulations with conflicting objectives. The issue of conflicting use of resources by multiple stakeholders has already ...
Here - MtnClim 2016
... Changing climatic patterns have been affecting the western US in a variety of ways: overall decreases in yearly precipitation, decreased snowpack, earlier spring snowmelt, increased sustained winds, and increased lightning strikes have created a drier and more fire-prone system, despite variability ...
... Changing climatic patterns have been affecting the western US in a variety of ways: overall decreases in yearly precipitation, decreased snowpack, earlier spring snowmelt, increased sustained winds, and increased lightning strikes have created a drier and more fire-prone system, despite variability ...