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... The U.S. biofuel industry, namely the conversion of ethanol from corn, has increased the demand for corn as a result of government initiatives to increase alternative fuel productions to 35 billion gallons annually by 2017. Currently, a third of the corn crop grown nationally is used for ethanol pro ...
... The U.S. biofuel industry, namely the conversion of ethanol from corn, has increased the demand for corn as a result of government initiatives to increase alternative fuel productions to 35 billion gallons annually by 2017. Currently, a third of the corn crop grown nationally is used for ethanol pro ...
The trade-off between intra- and intergenerational equity in climate
... some poor, and that economic activity will result in greenhouse gas emissions that will have a negative impact on them in terms of climate change. However, they do not know if they are going to live in a rich or in a poor country. ...
... some poor, and that economic activity will result in greenhouse gas emissions that will have a negative impact on them in terms of climate change. However, they do not know if they are going to live in a rich or in a poor country. ...
The Relevance of the No-Harm Principle to Climate Change Law
... projects with a focus on certain environmental issues, contrasts sharply with the restorative obligations of a state responsible for an internationally wrongful act. Although the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) requires developed states to “assist [developing states] that are part ...
... projects with a focus on certain environmental issues, contrasts sharply with the restorative obligations of a state responsible for an internationally wrongful act. Although the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) requires developed states to “assist [developing states] that are part ...
Communicating the Impacts of Potential Future Climate Change on
... Numerous studies attempt to identify the implications of climate change with respect to hydrologic extremes (e.g., IPCC, 2007; CCSP, 2008; Milly et al., 2008). These studies project future climate conditions with more frequent extreme precipitation events in many regions around the world, including ...
... Numerous studies attempt to identify the implications of climate change with respect to hydrologic extremes (e.g., IPCC, 2007; CCSP, 2008; Milly et al., 2008). These studies project future climate conditions with more frequent extreme precipitation events in many regions around the world, including ...
Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries
... years. From 1840 to the mid-20th century, the Arctic warmed to the highest temperatures in four centuries. This warming ended the Little Ice Age in the Arctic and has caused retreats of glaciers, melting of permafrost and sea ice, and alteration of terrestrial and lake ecosystems. Although warming, ...
... years. From 1840 to the mid-20th century, the Arctic warmed to the highest temperatures in four centuries. This warming ended the Little Ice Age in the Arctic and has caused retreats of glaciers, melting of permafrost and sea ice, and alteration of terrestrial and lake ecosystems. Although warming, ...
Coherence among the Northern Hemisphere land, cryosphere, and
... formation through atmospheric ionization and during periods of low solar activity, more cosmic rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere affecting the Earth’s climate system (Svensmark and FriisChristensen, 1997; Svensmark, 1998; Carslaw et al., 2002). Solar and cosmic ray activities have now been monitored ...
... formation through atmospheric ionization and during periods of low solar activity, more cosmic rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere affecting the Earth’s climate system (Svensmark and FriisChristensen, 1997; Svensmark, 1998; Carslaw et al., 2002). Solar and cosmic ray activities have now been monitored ...
The Partnership of Weather and Air Quality
... Estimated radiative forcings since preindustrial times for the Earth and Troposphere system (TOA) radiative forcing with adjusted stratospheric temperatures). The height of the rectangular bar denotes a central or best estimate of the forcing, while each vertical line is an estimate of the uncertai ...
... Estimated radiative forcings since preindustrial times for the Earth and Troposphere system (TOA) radiative forcing with adjusted stratospheric temperatures). The height of the rectangular bar denotes a central or best estimate of the forcing, while each vertical line is an estimate of the uncertai ...
- Wiley Online Library
... of the winter temperature change to the annual mean temperature change might have become the most important factor in the annual variation. We also suspected that the direct causes for the winter temperature dynamics might be related to those regional atmospheric circulations, particularly the Siber ...
... of the winter temperature change to the annual mean temperature change might have become the most important factor in the annual variation. We also suspected that the direct causes for the winter temperature dynamics might be related to those regional atmospheric circulations, particularly the Siber ...
CGE Training Materials for Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment
... national communications project team, or through an extended process using a broader group of stakeholders. Often, if such broader engagement processes are used there is wider view taken of all sectoral dependencies and interactions – rather than just between one or two sectors – and as such these p ...
... national communications project team, or through an extended process using a broader group of stakeholders. Often, if such broader engagement processes are used there is wider view taken of all sectoral dependencies and interactions – rather than just between one or two sectors – and as such these p ...
Author`s personal copy - University of Alberta
... that can be benchmarked against early, pre-disturbance, time intervals (Smol 2008). In this paper, we review how palaeolimnological records of remote lakes have contributed to the global change science agenda, and comment on their current and future role in global change monitoring and processual un ...
... that can be benchmarked against early, pre-disturbance, time intervals (Smol 2008). In this paper, we review how palaeolimnological records of remote lakes have contributed to the global change science agenda, and comment on their current and future role in global change monitoring and processual un ...
climate engineering: which role for space?
... to the pre-industrial climate by applying geoengineering methods to decrease global temperatures [5–11]. Although the deliberate and global manipulation of Earth’s climate has long been ignored as a serious option to counteract global warming, recent advances in atmospheric and climate system scienc ...
... to the pre-industrial climate by applying geoengineering methods to decrease global temperatures [5–11]. Although the deliberate and global manipulation of Earth’s climate has long been ignored as a serious option to counteract global warming, recent advances in atmospheric and climate system scienc ...
Adapting to Climate Change - City of Sydney
... actions to address these risks such as a Heatwave Response Plan, flood management plans, and a Sea Level Rise Adaptation Action Plan. It is a collaborative strategy which establishes a framework to work with leading scientists, other levels of government, businesses, utilities, the not-for-profit se ...
... actions to address these risks such as a Heatwave Response Plan, flood management plans, and a Sea Level Rise Adaptation Action Plan. It is a collaborative strategy which establishes a framework to work with leading scientists, other levels of government, businesses, utilities, the not-for-profit se ...
Presents
... Methods for Selecting an Option From a Set • Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) • Cost-effective analysis (CEA) • Multi-criteria analysis (MCA). The criteria for selecting between CBA, CEA and MCA are based on which outcome attributes are of interest to the decision maker. If all attributes can be assigne ...
... Methods for Selecting an Option From a Set • Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) • Cost-effective analysis (CEA) • Multi-criteria analysis (MCA). The criteria for selecting between CBA, CEA and MCA are based on which outcome attributes are of interest to the decision maker. If all attributes can be assigne ...
Dynamic and thermodynamic changes in mean and extreme
... (SE) was at the Hadley Centre as a visiting scientist. We thank people at the Hadley Centre as well as the K-1 Japan project members for support and discussion. Thanks are extended to Ian Watterson, Isaac Held, Julia Slingo, Chris Ferro, Richard Jones, Myles Allen, William Ingram, Pardeep Pall and a ...
... (SE) was at the Hadley Centre as a visiting scientist. We thank people at the Hadley Centre as well as the K-1 Japan project members for support and discussion. Thanks are extended to Ian Watterson, Isaac Held, Julia Slingo, Chris Ferro, Richard Jones, Myles Allen, William Ingram, Pardeep Pall and a ...
The Surveyor’s Role in Monitoring, Mitigating, and Adapting to Climate Change FIG REPORT
... disasters increasingly afflict agricultural land, people will tend to migrate to periurban lands, thus creating a new suite of problems. To what extent will unplanned urban encroachment be allowed versus the development of planned urban areas? How will those with existing land rights be treated? Wha ...
... disasters increasingly afflict agricultural land, people will tend to migrate to periurban lands, thus creating a new suite of problems. To what extent will unplanned urban encroachment be allowed versus the development of planned urban areas? How will those with existing land rights be treated? Wha ...
Low Carbon Lake District Conference Summary (Word document)
... growth through use of renewable and low carbon technologies. The Agency is already driving the growth of our low carbon technology businesses through developing an international trade strategy for our environmental technology sector. In the coming year, we will be seeking to assist with the market d ...
... growth through use of renewable and low carbon technologies. The Agency is already driving the growth of our low carbon technology businesses through developing an international trade strategy for our environmental technology sector. In the coming year, we will be seeking to assist with the market d ...
Climate change and drought policy in Victoria: context and
... events and, most significantly, reduced rainfall and inflows into river systems and increased incidence and severity of drought. If greenhouse gas emissions are not stabilised and reduced, these impacts are predicted to be more severe. Currently, drought in Australia is largely treated as a business ...
... events and, most significantly, reduced rainfall and inflows into river systems and increased incidence and severity of drought. If greenhouse gas emissions are not stabilised and reduced, these impacts are predicted to be more severe. Currently, drought in Australia is largely treated as a business ...
Americans` Knowledge of Climate Change
... A majority of Americans (73%) correctly understands that current conditions are not colder than ever before in Earth’s history, but a majority (55%) incorrectly believes the opposite – that the Earth’s climate is now warmer than it has ever been before (this is false – global temperatures have been ...
... A majority of Americans (73%) correctly understands that current conditions are not colder than ever before in Earth’s history, but a majority (55%) incorrectly believes the opposite – that the Earth’s climate is now warmer than it has ever been before (this is false – global temperatures have been ...
the caribbean and climate change
... costs of climate inaction for all countries surrounding the Caribbean is beyond the scope of this report, we look briefly at the impacts on one of the coastal countries, Colombia. Unlike our examination of the Caribbean island nations, however, our discussion of Colombia is solely qualitative and do ...
... costs of climate inaction for all countries surrounding the Caribbean is beyond the scope of this report, we look briefly at the impacts on one of the coastal countries, Colombia. Unlike our examination of the Caribbean island nations, however, our discussion of Colombia is solely qualitative and do ...
Bureaucratic Land Rush - Global Public Policy Institute
... (NEPA). When the Earth Summit of 1992 produced the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and thereby initiated a formalized process of international climate change negotiations, the MFA established a specialized climate change unit within its Department of Treaty and Law whi ...
... (NEPA). When the Earth Summit of 1992 produced the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and thereby initiated a formalized process of international climate change negotiations, the MFA established a specialized climate change unit within its Department of Treaty and Law whi ...
Dynamics of the Subarctic Gyre and physical/biological interactions
... NAO and the Atlantic water temperature in the Barents Sea ...
... NAO and the Atlantic water temperature in the Barents Sea ...
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... is also included, which will be administered annually to all households in the main sample identified during the main interview as being involved in crop and/or livestock or fishery production. The Agriculture Questionnaire will allow, among other things, for the estimation of land area, both owned ...
... is also included, which will be administered annually to all households in the main sample identified during the main interview as being involved in crop and/or livestock or fishery production. The Agriculture Questionnaire will allow, among other things, for the estimation of land area, both owned ...
Link to full document - Joint Program on the Science and Policy of
... change impacts on a river downstream of a small reservoir and accounts for kinematic wave flow routing, atmosphere and stream-bed heat exchange fluxes. This allows for a more in-depth analysis at a single location. Herb and Stefan (2010) includes wetlands and groundwater along with atmospheric heat ...
... change impacts on a river downstream of a small reservoir and accounts for kinematic wave flow routing, atmosphere and stream-bed heat exchange fluxes. This allows for a more in-depth analysis at a single location. Herb and Stefan (2010) includes wetlands and groundwater along with atmospheric heat ...