Livestock and climate change
... overwhelmingly convincing that climate change is real, that it will become worse, and that the poorest and most vulnerable people will be the worst affected. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) acknowledges climate change as one of the factors affecting rural poverty and as on ...
... overwhelmingly convincing that climate change is real, that it will become worse, and that the poorest and most vulnerable people will be the worst affected. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) acknowledges climate change as one of the factors affecting rural poverty and as on ...
Cosmic Rays, Carbon Dioxide, and Climate
... feedback; this in no way questions the effect of CO on temperature. The dependence of climate sensitivity on the mean state (caveat iii) cannot be avoided, but it is a more serious problem for the time period considered by Shaviv and Veizer [2003] with conditions very different from the modern clima ...
... feedback; this in no way questions the effect of CO on temperature. The dependence of climate sensitivity on the mean state (caveat iii) cannot be avoided, but it is a more serious problem for the time period considered by Shaviv and Veizer [2003] with conditions very different from the modern clima ...
Agriculture and Climate Change
... At the sector level: Policies in the agriculture sector should be internally consistent. This requires reforming misaligned and distortive policies which encourage intensification and the overuse of natural resources and potentially damaging inputs. Further investment in research and development on ...
... At the sector level: Policies in the agriculture sector should be internally consistent. This requires reforming misaligned and distortive policies which encourage intensification and the overuse of natural resources and potentially damaging inputs. Further investment in research and development on ...
Attribution of the record high Central England temperature of
... FAR estimates could be made. The PDFs of the model historicalNat and RCP8.5 simulations (figure 2(b)) are significantly different at the 5% level as measured by a KS-test. The return periods for years hotter than 2006 in the historicalNat and RCP8.5 simulations are 121 years and five years respectively ...
... FAR estimates could be made. The PDFs of the model historicalNat and RCP8.5 simulations (figure 2(b)) are significantly different at the 5% level as measured by a KS-test. The return periods for years hotter than 2006 in the historicalNat and RCP8.5 simulations are 121 years and five years respectively ...
Estimating the impact of traffic on the UTLS QUANTIFY
... Central and Eastern Europe Climate Change Impact and VulnerabiLIty Assessment The primary objective of the project is to integrate results from different previous and ongoing modelling activities and approaches to provide the basis for very high resolution climate change impact and vulnerability ass ...
... Central and Eastern Europe Climate Change Impact and VulnerabiLIty Assessment The primary objective of the project is to integrate results from different previous and ongoing modelling activities and approaches to provide the basis for very high resolution climate change impact and vulnerability ass ...
LCCARL263_en.pdf
... disproportionately spread across the various regions of the world. Temperature is considered to be the most important climate variable in the analysis of tourism demand because, outside a certain range, it affects comfort. There is evidence to show that other weather parameters are also important, f ...
... disproportionately spread across the various regions of the world. Temperature is considered to be the most important climate variable in the analysis of tourism demand because, outside a certain range, it affects comfort. There is evidence to show that other weather parameters are also important, f ...
Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change
... The longest records of direct phenological observations are for flowering of cherry trees Prunus jamasakura and for grape harvests. Menzel & Dose (2005) show that timing of cherry blossom in Japan was highly variable among years, but no clear trends were discerned from 1400 to 1900. A statistically s ...
... The longest records of direct phenological observations are for flowering of cherry trees Prunus jamasakura and for grape harvests. Menzel & Dose (2005) show that timing of cherry blossom in Japan was highly variable among years, but no clear trends were discerned from 1400 to 1900. A statistically s ...
Environmental prices, uncertainty and learning
... which follows from the preceding discussion, is that policy makers should look to many models for evidence on the benefits and costs of environmental protection. Indeed, they should also look beyond the full set of models, taking, with due care paid to familiar weaknesses in human judgement under un ...
... which follows from the preceding discussion, is that policy makers should look to many models for evidence on the benefits and costs of environmental protection. Indeed, they should also look beyond the full set of models, taking, with due care paid to familiar weaknesses in human judgement under un ...
The Human Condition in the Anthropocene
... why global response to climate change has not been as forthcoming as many would like it to be. Some persuasive explanations have been proffered including the argument that climate change is a classic instance of a “wicked problem,” a problem you can diagnose rationally but not practically solve as ...
... why global response to climate change has not been as forthcoming as many would like it to be. Some persuasive explanations have been proffered including the argument that climate change is a classic instance of a “wicked problem,” a problem you can diagnose rationally but not practically solve as ...
The Second Annual Report
... http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/sternreview_index.htm 15 The World Bank, November 2012: 'Turn down the Heat: Why a 4o warmer world must be avoided 16 Climate Change Commission for Wales meetings: http://www.cynnalcymru.com/5-december-2012 17 The Met Office, Jun ...
... http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/sternreview_index.htm 15 The World Bank, November 2012: 'Turn down the Heat: Why a 4o warmer world must be avoided 16 Climate Change Commission for Wales meetings: http://www.cynnalcymru.com/5-december-2012 17 The Met Office, Jun ...
Climate change impacts on global agriculture | SpringerLink
... conditions for the rural poor (Commission for Africa 2005). The World Bank (2007) identifies five main factors through which climate change will affect the productivity of agricultural crops: changes in precipitation, temperature, carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization, climate variability, and surface ...
... conditions for the rural poor (Commission for Africa 2005). The World Bank (2007) identifies five main factors through which climate change will affect the productivity of agricultural crops: changes in precipitation, temperature, carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization, climate variability, and surface ...
Dangerous human-made interference with climate
... 2006), but tropical SST has less east-west contrast than observed and the model yields only slight El Nino-like variability (Fig. 17, Efficacy, 2005). Also the Southern Ocean is too well-mixed near Antarctica (Liu et al., 2003), deep water production in the North Atlantic Ocean does not go deep enou ...
... 2006), but tropical SST has less east-west contrast than observed and the model yields only slight El Nino-like variability (Fig. 17, Efficacy, 2005). Also the Southern Ocean is too well-mixed near Antarctica (Liu et al., 2003), deep water production in the North Atlantic Ocean does not go deep enou ...
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... peer- reviewed scientific papers concerning climate change published between 1993 and 2003, noting the scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change]; J. Hansen, et al., Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications, Sciencexpress (April 28, 2004) (available at http:/ ...
... peer- reviewed scientific papers concerning climate change published between 1993 and 2003, noting the scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change]; J. Hansen, et al., Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications, Sciencexpress (April 28, 2004) (available at http:/ ...
Water management for wheat grown in sandy soil under climate
... treatments, in addition to farmer irrigation were tested. Two climate change scenarios obtained from Hadley climate change model were incorporated in CropSyst model to assess wheat yield responses to fertigation regimes under these scenarios. The results showed that the highest yield and the highest ...
... treatments, in addition to farmer irrigation were tested. Two climate change scenarios obtained from Hadley climate change model were incorporated in CropSyst model to assess wheat yield responses to fertigation regimes under these scenarios. The results showed that the highest yield and the highest ...
Good practice for the usage of climate model simulation results
... and consequently determine the radiative forcing (see definition below). This constitutes the input to a GCM that may then be used to force an RCM. The results of the latter are ultimately used as driving data for, e.g., climate impact models. Radiative forcing ...
... and consequently determine the radiative forcing (see definition below). This constitutes the input to a GCM that may then be used to force an RCM. The results of the latter are ultimately used as driving data for, e.g., climate impact models. Radiative forcing ...
LOCAL INSTITUTIONS IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
... sequestration and carbon substitution (Pokharel and Byrne 2009) which are all directly related to trees. But such technical solutions have social and policy dimensions--- through effective inclusion in decentralization programmes, local communities are able to play a big role in climate change mitig ...
... sequestration and carbon substitution (Pokharel and Byrne 2009) which are all directly related to trees. But such technical solutions have social and policy dimensions--- through effective inclusion in decentralization programmes, local communities are able to play a big role in climate change mitig ...
Links between early Holocene ice-sheet decay
... Studies of ice-sheet–sea-level interactions cannot be successful unless the response of the solid Earth to mass redistributions, known as glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), is fully accounted for. In view of the critical role of GIA corrections for the interpretation of present-day sea-level change ...
... Studies of ice-sheet–sea-level interactions cannot be successful unless the response of the solid Earth to mass redistributions, known as glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), is fully accounted for. In view of the critical role of GIA corrections for the interpretation of present-day sea-level change ...
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... citizens cannot be satisfied without significantly increasing global energy use, and CO2 emissions. Therefore, the author asserts that climate engineering and adaptation are preferable to mitigation, particularly since the science is less than adequate for making firm statements about the Earth’s fu ...
... citizens cannot be satisfied without significantly increasing global energy use, and CO2 emissions. Therefore, the author asserts that climate engineering and adaptation are preferable to mitigation, particularly since the science is less than adequate for making firm statements about the Earth’s fu ...
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... gases we can emit into the atmosphere. The perceived necessity on global warming is developing fast, and becoming ever more concrete for people. It used to be about how many parts of greenhouse gases per million (ppm) a livable atmosphere could endure. In 2006, the United Nations “Intergovernmental ...
... gases we can emit into the atmosphere. The perceived necessity on global warming is developing fast, and becoming ever more concrete for people. It used to be about how many parts of greenhouse gases per million (ppm) a livable atmosphere could endure. In 2006, the United Nations “Intergovernmental ...
Call for proposals - Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural
... understand the impacts of such solutions and draw lessons for scaling them up. It will gather and disseminate evidence in appropriate forms to key audiences, with a view to strengthening the capacity of farmers and stakeholders to develop, identify and adopt policies and practices that help agricul ...
... understand the impacts of such solutions and draw lessons for scaling them up. It will gather and disseminate evidence in appropriate forms to key audiences, with a view to strengthening the capacity of farmers and stakeholders to develop, identify and adopt policies and practices that help agricul ...
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... environmental externalities. Rural and urban populations in developed countries often value agricultural land as open space and as a source of countryside amenities. Agricultural land is also an important habitat for remaining wildlife species in many countries. These values are reflected in public ...
... environmental externalities. Rural and urban populations in developed countries often value agricultural land as open space and as a source of countryside amenities. Agricultural land is also an important habitat for remaining wildlife species in many countries. These values are reflected in public ...
Vulnerability Assessment of the North East Atlantic Shelf Marine
... cetaceans and seabirds as well as commercially important fish stocks. There are highly productive plankton and bottom-dwelling communities, kelp forests, sea grass beds and even cold water coral reefs. However, this fragile marine environment is at risk from a number of threats not least climate cha ...
... cetaceans and seabirds as well as commercially important fish stocks. There are highly productive plankton and bottom-dwelling communities, kelp forests, sea grass beds and even cold water coral reefs. However, this fragile marine environment is at risk from a number of threats not least climate cha ...