Feedbacks and climate sensitivity
... The relative importance of two different feedbacks must be evaluated relative to the same reference system. There is a danger is comparing separate studies where only one piece of physics has been isolated. ...
... The relative importance of two different feedbacks must be evaluated relative to the same reference system. There is a danger is comparing separate studies where only one piece of physics has been isolated. ...
Against the Grain: The United States and the Global Climate
... Since announcing its repudiation of the Protocol in March 2001, the US has repeatedly reconfirmed and reinforced this position through policy actions on the international stage. In doing so, the US has isolated itself from almost all of the rest of the world; 129 countries have ratified the Kyoto Pr ...
... Since announcing its repudiation of the Protocol in March 2001, the US has repeatedly reconfirmed and reinforced this position through policy actions on the international stage. In doing so, the US has isolated itself from almost all of the rest of the world; 129 countries have ratified the Kyoto Pr ...
Velocity of climate change algorithms for guiding conservation and
... speed and direction do not point toward climatic culde-sacs or result in infinite velocities. Instead, infinite velocities should indicate no-analogue climate conditions within the entire study area. Second, the algorithm should be expanded from a univariate temperature analysis to more appropriatel ...
... speed and direction do not point toward climatic culde-sacs or result in infinite velocities. Instead, infinite velocities should indicate no-analogue climate conditions within the entire study area. Second, the algorithm should be expanded from a univariate temperature analysis to more appropriatel ...
Report 4A - Land and water use options for climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture
... with mitigation activities [2.2]. The benefits of adaptation of land and water management are most pronounced with low to moderate warming. This effective response has been characterized as ‘buying time’, i.e. a way to provide successful, albeit temporary, coping strategies to reduce production loss ...
... with mitigation activities [2.2]. The benefits of adaptation of land and water management are most pronounced with low to moderate warming. This effective response has been characterized as ‘buying time’, i.e. a way to provide successful, albeit temporary, coping strategies to reduce production loss ...
Management Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change Annex
... 2.1 Dominica: Climate Trends and Projections Model simulations of future climate change scenarios for the last half of the twenty first (21 st) century for the Caribbean was carried out using data obtained from a super-high resolution Atmospheric General Circulation Model (AGCM) developed at the Met ...
... 2.1 Dominica: Climate Trends and Projections Model simulations of future climate change scenarios for the last half of the twenty first (21 st) century for the Caribbean was carried out using data obtained from a super-high resolution Atmospheric General Circulation Model (AGCM) developed at the Met ...
Strategy for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Clilmate Change
... At the regional and subregional levels, FAO’s commitment to decentralized action and to cross-agency linkages also leads to important directions for development responses to climate change. This presents the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department with challenges in linking global programmes and strate ...
... At the regional and subregional levels, FAO’s commitment to decentralized action and to cross-agency linkages also leads to important directions for development responses to climate change. This presents the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department with challenges in linking global programmes and strate ...
Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
... Michael Mann is a pudgy, bald man in a rumpled suit, but his vanity is revealed by the fact his shoes had two inch heals and lifts. His power point presentation began with these words, “The science is straightforward”. He said that last year atmospheric CO2 passed the 400 parts per million level (to ...
... Michael Mann is a pudgy, bald man in a rumpled suit, but his vanity is revealed by the fact his shoes had two inch heals and lifts. His power point presentation began with these words, “The science is straightforward”. He said that last year atmospheric CO2 passed the 400 parts per million level (to ...
Impact of climate change on the timing of strawberry phenological
... Cesaraccio et al. 2001), also in the climate in the Baltic Sea region (Kalvāns et al. 2014). Vegetation models for perennial plants can include dormancy release that is based on the accumulation of chilling units similar to GDD but accounting for temperatures below a specified base temperature. Howe ...
... Cesaraccio et al. 2001), also in the climate in the Baltic Sea region (Kalvāns et al. 2014). Vegetation models for perennial plants can include dormancy release that is based on the accumulation of chilling units similar to GDD but accounting for temperatures below a specified base temperature. Howe ...
Climate change policies and the WTO: Greening the GATT
... Here we are dealing with a border measure, and the likeness test will revolve around the (inadequate) HS classification of the product. Horn and Mavroidis (2011) discuss this issue in substantial detail. Now, Home opts to adjust the level of taxation on the content of CO2, such as a tax of $10 per t ...
... Here we are dealing with a border measure, and the likeness test will revolve around the (inadequate) HS classification of the product. Horn and Mavroidis (2011) discuss this issue in substantial detail. Now, Home opts to adjust the level of taxation on the content of CO2, such as a tax of $10 per t ...
NAFTA and Climate Change - Peterson Institute for International
... country and between the NAFTA partners—that could generate a backlash against climate policies and raise new barriers to trade and investment in North America. A key problem is the potential for “carbon leakage,” or the displacement of carbon emissions from regulated areas to unregulated areas, whic ...
... country and between the NAFTA partners—that could generate a backlash against climate policies and raise new barriers to trade and investment in North America. A key problem is the potential for “carbon leakage,” or the displacement of carbon emissions from regulated areas to unregulated areas, whic ...
http://www.fao.org/3/a-am434e.pdf
... At the regional and subregional levels, FAO’s commitment to decentralized action and to cross-agency linkages also leads to important directions for development responses to climate change. This presents the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department with challenges in linking global programmes and strate ...
... At the regional and subregional levels, FAO’s commitment to decentralized action and to cross-agency linkages also leads to important directions for development responses to climate change. This presents the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department with challenges in linking global programmes and strate ...
Changing weather and climate in Northern Ghana
... analyzing the local impacts of climate change (Barros 2014). However, important gaps remain in our collective understanding of how to best merge different sources of knowledge of local climate change effects. Specifically, what is the role of local knowledge and perceptions in this process? How shou ...
... analyzing the local impacts of climate change (Barros 2014). However, important gaps remain in our collective understanding of how to best merge different sources of knowledge of local climate change effects. Specifically, what is the role of local knowledge and perceptions in this process? How shou ...
Evo Morales, Climate Change and the Paradoxes of a Social
... participants in attendance, approximately 9,000 had come from outside South America, together representing 140 countries, including 56 Government delegations. The concluding document that came out of the People’s C ...
... participants in attendance, approximately 9,000 had come from outside South America, together representing 140 countries, including 56 Government delegations. The concluding document that came out of the People’s C ...
the bali action plan: key issues in the climate negotiations
... Summary of “Climate change mitigation negotiations, with an emphasis on options for developing countries” by Harald Winkler, Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town Mitigation – the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) – has been at the heart of the climate negotiations from the ...
... Summary of “Climate change mitigation negotiations, with an emphasis on options for developing countries” by Harald Winkler, Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town Mitigation – the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) – has been at the heart of the climate negotiations from the ...
Coupled Simulations of the 20th-Century including External Forcing
... et al., 1999), which are shown in their annual range. These time series are anomalies to their 1961-90 average. They overlay the ± 2σ range from CON shown in the gray shaded horizontal bar. Without forcing, the simulation would be expected to remain within this region. The simulation and observation ...
... et al., 1999), which are shown in their annual range. These time series are anomalies to their 1961-90 average. They overlay the ± 2σ range from CON shown in the gray shaded horizontal bar. Without forcing, the simulation would be expected to remain within this region. The simulation and observation ...
Children`s health and Climate Change
... As doctors we make daily decisions on whether to start treatment based on available evidence. In the case of climate change we have more than enough information to act. We therefore must speak up on behalf of our children, who cannot take action themselves, yet whose health will be the most affected ...
... As doctors we make daily decisions on whether to start treatment based on available evidence. In the case of climate change we have more than enough information to act. We therefore must speak up on behalf of our children, who cannot take action themselves, yet whose health will be the most affected ...
a post-IPCC AR4 update on sea- level rise
... Australian sea levels Sea level is rising around Australia • Coastal observations confirm that sea levels have been rising around Australia since at least 1920. 21 • Sea-level rise off the east and west coast of Australia has already resulted in extreme sea-level events of a given magnitude occurr ...
... Australian sea levels Sea level is rising around Australia • Coastal observations confirm that sea levels have been rising around Australia since at least 1920. 21 • Sea-level rise off the east and west coast of Australia has already resulted in extreme sea-level events of a given magnitude occurr ...
Terms of Reference for the Climate Support Facility under the GCCA
... Change Alliance (GCCA) was set in motion by the adoption of the Communication on Building a Global Climate Change Alliance between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change. The joint Africa/EU Strategy and first Action Plan (2008-2010) endorsed by the Lisbon ...
... Change Alliance (GCCA) was set in motion by the adoption of the Communication on Building a Global Climate Change Alliance between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change. The joint Africa/EU Strategy and first Action Plan (2008-2010) endorsed by the Lisbon ...
Precipitation and temperature regime over Cyprus as a result of
... annual Tmin of about 1.5 ◦ C, whereas the 2071–2100 an increase of about 4 ◦ C is noted. In both simulations the lowest increases (about 1.3 ◦ C for the 2021–2050 simulation, and about 3.1 ◦ C for the 2071–2100 simulation) of the average annual Tmin are distributed in the coastal area of the island ...
... annual Tmin of about 1.5 ◦ C, whereas the 2071–2100 an increase of about 4 ◦ C is noted. In both simulations the lowest increases (about 1.3 ◦ C for the 2021–2050 simulation, and about 3.1 ◦ C for the 2071–2100 simulation) of the average annual Tmin are distributed in the coastal area of the island ...
CHAPTER 9 POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE FOR THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
... Pacific and cools it in the central North Pacific, deepening the winter low-pressure system off the Aleutians and bringing substantial changes in midlatitude atmospheric circulation (Trenberth,1997). A more recently identified pattern of longer-term variability is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PD ...
... Pacific and cools it in the central North Pacific, deepening the winter low-pressure system off the Aleutians and bringing substantial changes in midlatitude atmospheric circulation (Trenberth,1997). A more recently identified pattern of longer-term variability is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PD ...
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... 1994). The Kyoto Protocol, a major result of the UNFCCC advocacy, represents a first attempt to achieve a world‐wide agreement on emission reduction paths. Still, its ratification confirms once more the point just illustrated. When commitments become tougher, countries are less willing to stay in ...
... 1994). The Kyoto Protocol, a major result of the UNFCCC advocacy, represents a first attempt to achieve a world‐wide agreement on emission reduction paths. Still, its ratification confirms once more the point just illustrated. When commitments become tougher, countries are less willing to stay in ...
Beyond the Tipping Point: Understanding Perceptions of Abrupt
... these changes present an imminent and dangerous threat to humanity, while opponents argue the unknowns are too great to justify allocating resources. Uncertainty also presents opportunities for abrupt climate change to be framed using different linguistic repertoires to engage with different audienc ...
... these changes present an imminent and dangerous threat to humanity, while opponents argue the unknowns are too great to justify allocating resources. Uncertainty also presents opportunities for abrupt climate change to be framed using different linguistic repertoires to engage with different audienc ...
Genetic adaptive response: missing issue in climate change
... Adaptation is the dynamic evolutionary process that leads to a trait becoming adapted to local environmental conditions by means of natural selection, i.e. differential survival as a consequence of differences in values of the trait under selection. Adaptive capacity in its genetic sense is potentia ...
... Adaptation is the dynamic evolutionary process that leads to a trait becoming adapted to local environmental conditions by means of natural selection, i.e. differential survival as a consequence of differences in values of the trait under selection. Adaptive capacity in its genetic sense is potentia ...
Humanists For Revolutionary Socialism
... result of immense stress on a normal brain that is breaking down under the pressure of a level of stress on the individual that never existed before the present day capitalist society. In the last 30 years in particular, “negative” and antagonistic emotions and relationships have reached new, sicken ...
... result of immense stress on a normal brain that is breaking down under the pressure of a level of stress on the individual that never existed before the present day capitalist society. In the last 30 years in particular, “negative” and antagonistic emotions and relationships have reached new, sicken ...