Science Communication - Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program
... a strong influence on U.S. readers. Journalists with a high degree of specialization may enjoy greater freedom in choosing topics and angles for their reporting. Personal preferences, role conceptions, and interpretations might thus exert a stronger influence on their reporting (Detjen et al., 2000) ...
... a strong influence on U.S. readers. Journalists with a high degree of specialization may enjoy greater freedom in choosing topics and angles for their reporting. Personal preferences, role conceptions, and interpretations might thus exert a stronger influence on their reporting (Detjen et al., 2000) ...
31 Meaningful technology development and transfer: A
... This chapter investigates whether and how meaningful provisions for technology development and transfer in a climate regime can contribute to broad participation from developed and developing countries. This translates into what individual countries stand to gain from the overall agreement, and from ...
... This chapter investigates whether and how meaningful provisions for technology development and transfer in a climate regime can contribute to broad participation from developed and developing countries. This translates into what individual countries stand to gain from the overall agreement, and from ...
Integrating Climate Change into Strategic Environmental Assessment in Ireland A Guidance Note
... system is unequivocal” (IPCC 2013). Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have already triggered substantial and long-lived change, bringing about atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations that are “unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years”. Climate policy must move to limit carbon em ...
... system is unequivocal” (IPCC 2013). Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have already triggered substantial and long-lived change, bringing about atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations that are “unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years”. Climate policy must move to limit carbon em ...
Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation
... ecosystems means that climate change can have various impacts in different parts of the country. ● Deforestation: contrary to many people’s perceptions of Bolivia as an essentially Andean country, it is also an Amazonian country. More than 60 per cent of its surface area is rainforest or savannah. S ...
... ecosystems means that climate change can have various impacts in different parts of the country. ● Deforestation: contrary to many people’s perceptions of Bolivia as an essentially Andean country, it is also an Amazonian country. More than 60 per cent of its surface area is rainforest or savannah. S ...
Climate-human-environment interactions: resolving our past
... Humans continue to experience the impacts of environmental change directly at a local/regional scale, through for example meteorological extremes, flooding, sea-level rise, drought, soil erosion, fire and pollution. As such, there is a need for a full understanding of climate-human-environment inter ...
... Humans continue to experience the impacts of environmental change directly at a local/regional scale, through for example meteorological extremes, flooding, sea-level rise, drought, soil erosion, fire and pollution. As such, there is a need for a full understanding of climate-human-environment inter ...
Peatlands and Their Role in the Global Carbon Cycle
... peak C accumulation rates occurred during warmer climate intervals. This raises the possibility that northern peatlands, or at least significant portions of them, may serve as a negative feedback to climate change in the future, causing a cooling effect if hydrological and disturbance-induced surpri ...
... peak C accumulation rates occurred during warmer climate intervals. This raises the possibility that northern peatlands, or at least significant portions of them, may serve as a negative feedback to climate change in the future, causing a cooling effect if hydrological and disturbance-induced surpri ...
Migration and Climate Change - Development Research Centre on
... and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country”.14 There are other problems with using the term “refugee”. Strictly speaking, categorization as a refugee is reliant on crossing an internationally recognized border: someone displaced within th ...
... and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country”.14 There are other problems with using the term “refugee”. Strictly speaking, categorization as a refugee is reliant on crossing an internationally recognized border: someone displaced within th ...
A Vast Machine - Paul N. Edwards
... internationalism and powerful popular appeal; the Earth-orbiting satellites Sputnik, Telstar, and TIROS; the many variants of systems thinking descending from operations research, cybernetics, and early computer science; scientific ecology; and what I have called the “closed world discourse” of Cold ...
... internationalism and powerful popular appeal; the Earth-orbiting satellites Sputnik, Telstar, and TIROS; the many variants of systems thinking descending from operations research, cybernetics, and early computer science; scientific ecology; and what I have called the “closed world discourse” of Cold ...
How do carbon cycle uncertainties affect IPCC temperature
... asymmetric distribution biased to higher temperature increases, implying higher levels of risk if the uncertainties stemming from the carbon cycle are included. The lower temperature-change results in the AR5 projections may be partly due to the choice of carbon cycle settings used to generate the R ...
... asymmetric distribution biased to higher temperature increases, implying higher levels of risk if the uncertainties stemming from the carbon cycle are included. The lower temperature-change results in the AR5 projections may be partly due to the choice of carbon cycle settings used to generate the R ...
The Climate Change Performance Index Results 2016
... from deforestation and forest degradation was one of the major steps in this process, made possible due to the data provided by the FAO Global Forest Resource Assessment 2015. Alongside energy-based emissions, deforestation and forest degradation are another important source of anthropogenic CO2. By ...
... from deforestation and forest degradation was one of the major steps in this process, made possible due to the data provided by the FAO Global Forest Resource Assessment 2015. Alongside energy-based emissions, deforestation and forest degradation are another important source of anthropogenic CO2. By ...
Simulations show decreasing carbon stocks and potential for carbon
... for our purposes, provide an atmospheric CO2 concentration for our simulation horizon. Monthly temperatures and precipitation predictions from CGM3.1(T63), PCM, and GFDL-CM2.0 under SRES scenario A1B (Table 1) were the basis for the three scenarios under which we explored the temperature and precipi ...
... for our purposes, provide an atmospheric CO2 concentration for our simulation horizon. Monthly temperatures and precipitation predictions from CGM3.1(T63), PCM, and GFDL-CM2.0 under SRES scenario A1B (Table 1) were the basis for the three scenarios under which we explored the temperature and precipi ...
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... they belong and that more literate individuals can think their way to conclusions that are better for them as individuals but not necessarily better for society. Thus, it may be more informative to analyze climate change perceptions in the context of social/cultural groups or stakeholders. An import ...
... they belong and that more literate individuals can think their way to conclusions that are better for them as individuals but not necessarily better for society. Thus, it may be more informative to analyze climate change perceptions in the context of social/cultural groups or stakeholders. An import ...
Climate Resilient Development - EDA
... the world. India has reasons to be concerned about climate change. Its large population depends upon climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture and forestry for its livelihood. Any adverse impact on water availability due to changes in Himalayan ecosystem, decrease in rainfall and increased flooding ...
... the world. India has reasons to be concerned about climate change. Its large population depends upon climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture and forestry for its livelihood. Any adverse impact on water availability due to changes in Himalayan ecosystem, decrease in rainfall and increased flooding ...
Weathering the Storm: the impact of climate change
... and the economy.”1 It follows that, alongside working to reduce climate change, we must also develop strategic responses to it to guarantee the continued resilience of our economic and social wellbeing. 1.2. However, there remains considerable uncertainty about what level of global warming will occu ...
... and the economy.”1 It follows that, alongside working to reduce climate change, we must also develop strategic responses to it to guarantee the continued resilience of our economic and social wellbeing. 1.2. However, there remains considerable uncertainty about what level of global warming will occu ...
Climate Change Negative - St. Louis Urban Debate League
... from industries and regions with high concentrations of coal mining and steel production, and faster than expected growth in oil demand in the transport sector. Avoiding dangerous climate change The new outlook for China’s carbon dioxide emissions is welcome news for the world. If the double digit r ...
... from industries and regions with high concentrations of coal mining and steel production, and faster than expected growth in oil demand in the transport sector. Avoiding dangerous climate change The new outlook for China’s carbon dioxide emissions is welcome news for the world. If the double digit r ...
Atmospheric composition, irreversible climate change, and
... aerosols, chemical precursors, etc.), it is a challenging task to compare the climate effect ...
... aerosols, chemical precursors, etc.), it is a challenging task to compare the climate effect ...
Migration, Environment and Climate Change
... migration is often unclear, and decision-making on the subject is complex. This is particularly so when population movements are associated with slow-onset disasters or gradual environmental change, and when populations lead traditionally nomadic, pastoral ways of life (IDMC and NRC, 2016:50; IDMC, ...
... migration is often unclear, and decision-making on the subject is complex. This is particularly so when population movements are associated with slow-onset disasters or gradual environmental change, and when populations lead traditionally nomadic, pastoral ways of life (IDMC and NRC, 2016:50; IDMC, ...
10 IISD (17 March 2016):Arctic Council Addresses
... An irreversible change in the energy pattern in periods of climate change Climate change mitigation necessitates that at most only 20 % of global fossil fuel reserves can be exploited by 2050 in order to keep the average temperature increase below two degrees Celsius. At the same time it is estimate ...
... An irreversible change in the energy pattern in periods of climate change Climate change mitigation necessitates that at most only 20 % of global fossil fuel reserves can be exploited by 2050 in order to keep the average temperature increase below two degrees Celsius. At the same time it is estimate ...
backgrounder - The Heritage Foundation
... dollars over the next 80 years but will have minimal real-world impact on global warming.6 Specifically, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change projects that the Paris Agreement would avert a mere 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming by the ye ...
... dollars over the next 80 years but will have minimal real-world impact on global warming.6 Specifically, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change projects that the Paris Agreement would avert a mere 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming by the ye ...
S08-2 Mistimed reproduction due to global climate change
... early laying great tits will produce more recruits in the following year than late laying birds. For the Hoge Veluwe great tits, there is a clear decrease in selection differentials for laying date (Fig. 2; Visser et al., 1998). In the early years of the study, there was no directional selection (se ...
... early laying great tits will produce more recruits in the following year than late laying birds. For the Hoge Veluwe great tits, there is a clear decrease in selection differentials for laying date (Fig. 2; Visser et al., 1998). In the early years of the study, there was no directional selection (se ...
Climate Change Impact on Flow Discharge of Kunhar River
... measurement equipment and gauges are being installed on these new higher elevation stations and one need to identify these data sources to be used in SRM on other basins. ...
... measurement equipment and gauges are being installed on these new higher elevation stations and one need to identify these data sources to be used in SRM on other basins. ...
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... is likely to be further worsened by the potential impacts of global warming and climate change on growing conditions. Hence, sustainable agricultural development is not just an option, it is an imperative in a world of interdependence, interpenetration, and reciprocity. Between now and the year 2050 ...
... is likely to be further worsened by the potential impacts of global warming and climate change on growing conditions. Hence, sustainable agricultural development is not just an option, it is an imperative in a world of interdependence, interpenetration, and reciprocity. Between now and the year 2050 ...