Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons
... industry became front-page news in the 1990s. The headlines did not tout the fact that tobacco causes lung cancer, which had already been widely reported; instead, they focused on the tobacco industry’s lies to the public, its efforts to target children in its marketing campaigns, and its manipulati ...
... industry became front-page news in the 1990s. The headlines did not tout the fact that tobacco causes lung cancer, which had already been widely reported; instead, they focused on the tobacco industry’s lies to the public, its efforts to target children in its marketing campaigns, and its manipulati ...
Climate and Weather - AHS * Humanities 11
... • EPA: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ and http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/causes.html • NOAA: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information • IPCC: http://www.ipcc.ch/ • NASA: http://climate.nasa.gov/ ...
... • EPA: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ and http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/causes.html • NOAA: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information • IPCC: http://www.ipcc.ch/ • NASA: http://climate.nasa.gov/ ...
Evolutionary response of the egg hatching date of LETTERS *
... alter the reaction norm elevation). Thus, it is the winter moth’s response to temperature that has genetically changed. The genetic change in reaction norm is mainly a change in elevation and to a lesser extent in slope (Fig. 1b). Whereas the quantitative genetic model predicts the largest shift at ...
... alter the reaction norm elevation). Thus, it is the winter moth’s response to temperature that has genetically changed. The genetic change in reaction norm is mainly a change in elevation and to a lesser extent in slope (Fig. 1b). Whereas the quantitative genetic model predicts the largest shift at ...
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... New York City The climate is changing in many ways, and there is a growing body of literature documenting these changes. Recent observations reported in the National Climate Assessment Public Review Version (NCA; USGCRP, 2013) show that the Northeast of the U.S. is warming and that heavy downpours a ...
... New York City The climate is changing in many ways, and there is a growing body of literature documenting these changes. Recent observations reported in the National Climate Assessment Public Review Version (NCA; USGCRP, 2013) show that the Northeast of the U.S. is warming and that heavy downpours a ...
acadia national park in peril - Rocky Mountain Climate Organization
... more damaging than described in this report. As a key U.S. government report pointed out last year, in recent years emissions of heat-trapping pollutants have been actually climbing faster than assumed in even the highest-emission scenarios developed by scientists. If we continue on our current cour ...
... more damaging than described in this report. As a key U.S. government report pointed out last year, in recent years emissions of heat-trapping pollutants have been actually climbing faster than assumed in even the highest-emission scenarios developed by scientists. If we continue on our current cour ...
Georgia`s Climate Variability vs Climate Change
... Continuing infrastructure development, especially in vulnerable zones, will likely lead to continuing increases in economic damage from extreme weather ...
... Continuing infrastructure development, especially in vulnerable zones, will likely lead to continuing increases in economic damage from extreme weather ...
Local Economic Recovery in a crisis situation: a bridge between
... Disasters impact economic growth Average GDP loss in disasters: 2-15% (WB case studies) ...
... Disasters impact economic growth Average GDP loss in disasters: 2-15% (WB case studies) ...
... change as a first-order climate forcing. Land-use/land-cover change, while highlighted as a major climate forcing in National Research Council (2005), is still not generally recognized in international climate assessments as having a role on precipitation that is at least as large as caused by the r ...
pdf - Framsenteret AS
... The results show that they respond quickly and reach positive photosynthesis rates within very short time after thawing, and are not as dormant under the snowpack as previously assumed. The results were published in the journal Plant Ecology & Diversity. Two of the project partners (Tømmervik and Ca ...
... The results show that they respond quickly and reach positive photosynthesis rates within very short time after thawing, and are not as dormant under the snowpack as previously assumed. The results were published in the journal Plant Ecology & Diversity. Two of the project partners (Tømmervik and Ca ...
TIEE Global Temperature Change in the 21 Century ISSUES : DATA SET
... Background on the data In these exercises, you will work with output from one set of climate models, created by the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis (CCCma), who have kindly made the results of a number of runs of their models available online. Information on the models can be found ...
... Background on the data In these exercises, you will work with output from one set of climate models, created by the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis (CCCma), who have kindly made the results of a number of runs of their models available online. Information on the models can be found ...
to US agricultural resources A review of impacts
... ETTER CLIMATE CHANGE FORECASTS ARE KEY TO IMPROVED ASSESSMENTS OF THE IMPACTS OF ...
... ETTER CLIMATE CHANGE FORECASTS ARE KEY TO IMPROVED ASSESSMENTS OF THE IMPACTS OF ...
Global Massive Change
... Management, Organisational Theory and Operational Analysis. It is applied in these domains to understand how organisations or enterprises adapt to their environment. The theory treats organizations and firms as collections of strategies and structures. When organisations or enterprises demonstrate p ...
... Management, Organisational Theory and Operational Analysis. It is applied in these domains to understand how organisations or enterprises adapt to their environment. The theory treats organizations and firms as collections of strategies and structures. When organisations or enterprises demonstrate p ...
WRS-08 Presentation
... provides for the radio-frequency spectrum and orbit resources for radio systems and applications used for climate monitoring, weather forecasting, disaster prediction, detection, mitigation of negative effect of disasters and data exchange and dissimilation systems; develops mandatory and volunt ...
... provides for the radio-frequency spectrum and orbit resources for radio systems and applications used for climate monitoring, weather forecasting, disaster prediction, detection, mitigation of negative effect of disasters and data exchange and dissimilation systems; develops mandatory and volunt ...
Solar Irradiance Variability
... 1980 of about 50 mWm-2 /decade. Comparing the minima values this is most pronounced in cycle 23. This recent decrease cannot be explained by the changes deduced from MgII index or F10.7. The only solar parameter showing such a decrease is the open magnetic field of the Sun. Comparison with the obser ...
... 1980 of about 50 mWm-2 /decade. Comparing the minima values this is most pronounced in cycle 23. This recent decrease cannot be explained by the changes deduced from MgII index or F10.7. The only solar parameter showing such a decrease is the open magnetic field of the Sun. Comparison with the obser ...
Here - Pole to Pole campaign
... Did you read the 'did you know' on the previous page? Do you think the country you live in will flood if the whole Antarctic ice cap melted? Yes / no, because..……………………………………………………. ...
... Did you read the 'did you know' on the previous page? Do you think the country you live in will flood if the whole Antarctic ice cap melted? Yes / no, because..……………………………………………………. ...
Theoretical mechanism for natural radiative forcing of El Nino
... •Observations of an El Nino-like response to explosive tropical volcanic eruptions are consistent with results based on simulations with the Cane-Zebiak model •Coral evidence of La Nina-like anomalies during the 12thearly 13th centuries, and El Nino-like anomalies during the late 17th century, are r ...
... •Observations of an El Nino-like response to explosive tropical volcanic eruptions are consistent with results based on simulations with the Cane-Zebiak model •Coral evidence of La Nina-like anomalies during the 12thearly 13th centuries, and El Nino-like anomalies during the late 17th century, are r ...
Key concepts
... The impacts of climate change are brought from the global back to the local. To lead into the next lesson, students discuss: What do you think the impacts of climate change would be for people in London? Do you think we are prepared in this country for flooding, movements of people or rapid changes ...
... The impacts of climate change are brought from the global back to the local. To lead into the next lesson, students discuss: What do you think the impacts of climate change would be for people in London? Do you think we are prepared in this country for flooding, movements of people or rapid changes ...
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... Over the last decades, climate models have been developed to an impressive level of complexity. Over a similar period, there has been growing interest in the uncertainty of future climate scenarios. Future climate projections are uncertain because both the initial conditions and the computational re ...
... Over the last decades, climate models have been developed to an impressive level of complexity. Over a similar period, there has been growing interest in the uncertainty of future climate scenarios. Future climate projections are uncertain because both the initial conditions and the computational re ...
open access
... The California context California provides a particularly good place for understanding and rapidly piloting approaches for addressing climatedriven ecosystem changes. The needs arising in California are common to many other places, and the levels of scientific knowledge and capacity are high (CNRA 2 ...
... The California context California provides a particularly good place for understanding and rapidly piloting approaches for addressing climatedriven ecosystem changes. The needs arising in California are common to many other places, and the levels of scientific knowledge and capacity are high (CNRA 2 ...
Full Text - American University of Beirut
... renowned publishers of internationally acclaimed research on global climate change. Its recent Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water (IPCC Working Group II, 2008) outlines some general statements that are relevant for the Middle East region – such as, “many semi-arid and arid areas (for exampl ...
... renowned publishers of internationally acclaimed research on global climate change. Its recent Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water (IPCC Working Group II, 2008) outlines some general statements that are relevant for the Middle East region – such as, “many semi-arid and arid areas (for exampl ...
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... sun’s energy output can temporarily warm/cool the earth How Do the Oceans Affect Climate? oceans amplify global warming by releasing more CO2 into the atmos/dampen it by absorbing more heat o currently help moderate tropospheric temp by removing 29% of excess CO2 humans add to atmos o unknown if ...
... sun’s energy output can temporarily warm/cool the earth How Do the Oceans Affect Climate? oceans amplify global warming by releasing more CO2 into the atmos/dampen it by absorbing more heat o currently help moderate tropospheric temp by removing 29% of excess CO2 humans add to atmos o unknown if ...
Physiological Basis of Climate Change Impacts on North American
... environment (i.e., ectothermic) and can vary greatly across time and space (i.e., poikilothermic; Box 1). The influence of ambient temperature on the rate of physiological processes (Fry 1947) leaves fishes vulnerable to climate-induced changes in temperature and other environmental factors. The con ...
... environment (i.e., ectothermic) and can vary greatly across time and space (i.e., poikilothermic; Box 1). The influence of ambient temperature on the rate of physiological processes (Fry 1947) leaves fishes vulnerable to climate-induced changes in temperature and other environmental factors. The con ...
FAME
... Changes in tuna distribution and abundance of skipjack tuna may lead to changes in fishery distribution and catch rates which could have potential impacts on Pacific economies, food security and social capital. The strong interaction between environment and tuna species, necessitates the inclusion o ...
... Changes in tuna distribution and abundance of skipjack tuna may lead to changes in fishery distribution and catch rates which could have potential impacts on Pacific economies, food security and social capital. The strong interaction between environment and tuna species, necessitates the inclusion o ...
LCCARL265_en.pdf
... or more), other methods should be used to represent finer climate details, as those needed for the small islands that comprise the Caribbean and for extreme climatic events. Therefore, regional climate modelling activities have become increasingly important as a mechanism to produce relevant informa ...
... or more), other methods should be used to represent finer climate details, as those needed for the small islands that comprise the Caribbean and for extreme climatic events. Therefore, regional climate modelling activities have become increasingly important as a mechanism to produce relevant informa ...