Model estimates of climate controls on pan-Arctic
... emissions increased by 20 %, the majority of which can be attributed to an increasing trend in summer air temperature. We estimated future emissions in response to 21st century warming as predicted by CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) model projections to result in end-of-century ...
... emissions increased by 20 %, the majority of which can be attributed to an increasing trend in summer air temperature. We estimated future emissions in response to 21st century warming as predicted by CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) model projections to result in end-of-century ...
EFFECTS OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON FISHING
... distribution and productivity are known to be influenced by climate dynamics. Research has shown that small-scale fisher-folk in the developing countries are more vulnerable to climate variability due to their high reliance on fisheries and poor adaptive capacity. However most studies so far have co ...
... distribution and productivity are known to be influenced by climate dynamics. Research has shown that small-scale fisher-folk in the developing countries are more vulnerable to climate variability due to their high reliance on fisheries and poor adaptive capacity. However most studies so far have co ...
Strategic Plan for 2014-2017
... WRI was founded in 1982 with the purpose of bringing cutting edge analysis to global environment and development challenges. For the past three decades, we have worked with government, business, and civil society to drive ambitious action based on high-quality data and objective analysis. With our p ...
... WRI was founded in 1982 with the purpose of bringing cutting edge analysis to global environment and development challenges. For the past three decades, we have worked with government, business, and civil society to drive ambitious action based on high-quality data and objective analysis. With our p ...
Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptations in Canadian Arctic
... robustness of decision-making in their case study on water resources in Georgia Basin, Canada, Taeihagh et al. (2013) combine an MCDA composed of several performance and implementation attributes used to rank each measure, with a network-centric approach examining five types of relations between eac ...
... robustness of decision-making in their case study on water resources in Georgia Basin, Canada, Taeihagh et al. (2013) combine an MCDA composed of several performance and implementation attributes used to rank each measure, with a network-centric approach examining five types of relations between eac ...
• Foreward (Mike Depledge)
... findings that may have important implications for our understanding of variations in nutrients and fish larval abundance and could therefore be of importance to fisheries management policies. Data from the English Channel compared with data from other regions and time series maintained by Dove Marin ...
... findings that may have important implications for our understanding of variations in nutrients and fish larval abundance and could therefore be of importance to fisheries management policies. Data from the English Channel compared with data from other regions and time series maintained by Dove Marin ...
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO: annual
... of Climate: the Essential Role of the IOC”, one can be informed of the timeline of events that has brought us to 2010 - without clear and bold commitments on emissions that will cap global temperature rise to 2 degrees C. In a changing world, IOC has nevertheless striven to address climate from seve ...
... of Climate: the Essential Role of the IOC”, one can be informed of the timeline of events that has brought us to 2010 - without clear and bold commitments on emissions that will cap global temperature rise to 2 degrees C. In a changing world, IOC has nevertheless striven to address climate from seve ...
Assessing the Consequences of Climate Change for Alaska and the
... Marine fisheries are very vulnerable to climate change. Most of the research to date on the relationship between climate change and fisheries focuses specifically on how climate change may affect marine ecosystems and in turn abundance and harvests of specific marine species. This paper focuses on t ...
... Marine fisheries are very vulnerable to climate change. Most of the research to date on the relationship between climate change and fisheries focuses specifically on how climate change may affect marine ecosystems and in turn abundance and harvests of specific marine species. This paper focuses on t ...
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO: annual
... of Climate: the Essential Role of the IOC”, one can be informed of the timeline of events that has brought us to 2010 - without clear and bold commitments on emissions that will cap global temperature rise to 2 degrees C. In a changing world, IOC has nevertheless striven to address climate from seve ...
... of Climate: the Essential Role of the IOC”, one can be informed of the timeline of events that has brought us to 2010 - without clear and bold commitments on emissions that will cap global temperature rise to 2 degrees C. In a changing world, IOC has nevertheless striven to address climate from seve ...
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of the Galápagos Islands
... the impacts of climate change. It is predicted that climate change will cause rising sea level, higher ocean temperatures and more acidic waters. As the ocean largely regulates the climate, changes in ocean temperatures and currents are already altering the frequency, intensity, and distribution of ...
... the impacts of climate change. It is predicted that climate change will cause rising sea level, higher ocean temperatures and more acidic waters. As the ocean largely regulates the climate, changes in ocean temperatures and currents are already altering the frequency, intensity, and distribution of ...
Migration as Societal Response to Climate Change and Land
... changes of their natural environments. These actions and decisions are influenced by social, cultural, political and economic settings, and environmental changes in turn influence these settings. Causes and motives for migration overlap and thus cannot be strictly separated into single factors. Base ...
... changes of their natural environments. These actions and decisions are influenced by social, cultural, political and economic settings, and environmental changes in turn influence these settings. Causes and motives for migration overlap and thus cannot be strictly separated into single factors. Base ...
Land Conflict and Climate Patterns in Nigeria
... Conflicts surrounding land issues in Nigeria are multi-‐faceted and complex, with dynamics that change over time and depending on the area of the country where they occur. To fully understand land conflic ...
... Conflicts surrounding land issues in Nigeria are multi-‐faceted and complex, with dynamics that change over time and depending on the area of the country where they occur. To fully understand land conflic ...
ProgressReport 2003-2004
... agricultural ecosystems. In addition to improving predictions of the future land sink, this model will predict nutrient inputs into coastal waters. CICS is also performing a series of modeling experiments to investigate the causes of the current terrestrial sink (e.g., CO2 fertilization vs. land use ...
... agricultural ecosystems. In addition to improving predictions of the future land sink, this model will predict nutrient inputs into coastal waters. CICS is also performing a series of modeling experiments to investigate the causes of the current terrestrial sink (e.g., CO2 fertilization vs. land use ...
Green Allies: Speculative Realism, Evangelical Christianity, and
... have ever known. The political challenge, in turn, is creating the political will to change, for instance, human reliance on coal, gas, and oil. For years, environmentalists have tried to convince politicians and CEOs that humans are destroying the planet, but moral cajoling alone has not worked. ‘‘ ...
... have ever known. The political challenge, in turn, is creating the political will to change, for instance, human reliance on coal, gas, and oil. For years, environmentalists have tried to convince politicians and CEOs that humans are destroying the planet, but moral cajoling alone has not worked. ‘‘ ...
Phenological shifts and the fate of mutualisms
... as well as demographic responses that can lead to changes in partner densities (Hegland et al. 2009). Ultimately, these effects could result in rapid population declines, potentially leading to local extinction of interacting species (Burkle et al. 2013). At the evolutionary time scale, one can envis ...
... as well as demographic responses that can lead to changes in partner densities (Hegland et al. 2009). Ultimately, these effects could result in rapid population declines, potentially leading to local extinction of interacting species (Burkle et al. 2013). At the evolutionary time scale, one can envis ...
China in the International Politics of Climate Change
... to as ‘G77 and China’). ‘G77 and China’ have acted as a surprisingly unified block in the climate negotiations, despite being a rather heterogeneous group with largely differing interests.6 As the largest and most populous developing country, China has played a major role in forming the position of ...
... to as ‘G77 and China’). ‘G77 and China’ have acted as a surprisingly unified block in the climate negotiations, despite being a rather heterogeneous group with largely differing interests.6 As the largest and most populous developing country, China has played a major role in forming the position of ...
A Technological Solution for Climate Change? Storage
... Carbon Capture and Storage (hereafter CCS), increasingly being framed as part of innovation for a low carbon energy future (Markusson et al., 2012) 1.2 DISCOURSES OF ENGAGEMENT Public engagement with discussions on climate change mitigation options is important (Leiserowitz, 2007) as it may lead to ...
... Carbon Capture and Storage (hereafter CCS), increasingly being framed as part of innovation for a low carbon energy future (Markusson et al., 2012) 1.2 DISCOURSES OF ENGAGEMENT Public engagement with discussions on climate change mitigation options is important (Leiserowitz, 2007) as it may lead to ...
explaining extreme events of 2013
... Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that occurred in 2013. The findings indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased t ...
... Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that occurred in 2013. The findings indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased t ...
Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate
... Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that occurred in 2013. The findings indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased t ...
... Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that occurred in 2013. The findings indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased t ...
The Precautionary Principle: Relevance in International Law
... leaders decided to enact numerous international agreements, in particular, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which provides for the precautionary principle. The principle meant that if there is a probability of adverse damage, we should not wait until the risk can be scienti ...
... leaders decided to enact numerous international agreements, in particular, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which provides for the precautionary principle. The principle meant that if there is a probability of adverse damage, we should not wait until the risk can be scienti ...
Florida and Climate Change
... case assumes steadily increasing emissions, along with bad luck with the uncertain impacts of extreme weather. Specifically, it rests on the worst of what the IPCC calls its “likely” predictions for the A2 scenario, in which atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide exceed the critical 450 ppm th ...
... case assumes steadily increasing emissions, along with bad luck with the uncertain impacts of extreme weather. Specifically, it rests on the worst of what the IPCC calls its “likely” predictions for the A2 scenario, in which atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide exceed the critical 450 ppm th ...
climate change adaptation and investment statement
... UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) prove correct, there is a risk of the costs of damage in Copenhagen over the next 100 years totalling DKK 16 billion. This is a conservative estimate. Before the downpour in the summer of 2014, the cost of damage from extreme rainfall ...
... UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) prove correct, there is a risk of the costs of damage in Copenhagen over the next 100 years totalling DKK 16 billion. This is a conservative estimate. Before the downpour in the summer of 2014, the cost of damage from extreme rainfall ...
Climate Change and Invertebrate Genetic Resources for Food
... 11. Edible soil invertebrate consumption in tropical areas of South America ...................................................... 84 12. Edible caterpillars of the miombo woodland, southern Africa ....................................................................... 85 13. Functional shifts in co ...
... 11. Edible soil invertebrate consumption in tropical areas of South America ...................................................... 84 12. Edible caterpillars of the miombo woodland, southern Africa ....................................................................... 85 13. Functional shifts in co ...
Comparing bias correction methods in downscaling meteorological
... River basin, northwestern China, and expected to be vulnerable to climate change. It has been demonstrated that regional climate models (RCMs) provide more reliable results for a regional impact study of climate change (e.g., on water resources) than general circulation models (GCMs). However, due t ...
... River basin, northwestern China, and expected to be vulnerable to climate change. It has been demonstrated that regional climate models (RCMs) provide more reliable results for a regional impact study of climate change (e.g., on water resources) than general circulation models (GCMs). However, due t ...