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... change and adaptation of livestock farmers in different parts of the world (Hassan and Nhemachena, 2008; Deressa et al., 2005; Kabubo-Mariara, 2007). Various research findings indicate that the damaging effects of global temperature is increasing and most damages are predicted to occur in sub-Sahara ...
... change and adaptation of livestock farmers in different parts of the world (Hassan and Nhemachena, 2008; Deressa et al., 2005; Kabubo-Mariara, 2007). Various research findings indicate that the damaging effects of global temperature is increasing and most damages are predicted to occur in sub-Sahara ...
MARINE_ECO_ISAB_030209
... Seasonal cycle of transport of the virtual Pacific water tracer across the dashed line [Sv]. ...
... Seasonal cycle of transport of the virtual Pacific water tracer across the dashed line [Sv]. ...
The effect of development on the climate sensitivity of agriculture
... development, D, and (aW bW2*Dc) measures the interaction between climate, W, and development. In general, dG/dK 0, d2G/dK2 0, dH/dT 0, and d2H/dT2 0. With respect to temperature, we expect that a 0 and b 0, so agriculture would exhibit a hill-shaped relationship with respect to tempera ...
... development, D, and (aW bW2*Dc) measures the interaction between climate, W, and development. In general, dG/dK 0, d2G/dK2 0, dH/dT 0, and d2H/dT2 0. With respect to temperature, we expect that a 0 and b 0, so agriculture would exhibit a hill-shaped relationship with respect to tempera ...
Climate Change Resources Working Group
... and other bilateral mechanisms where necessary. The Representative invited views on how to best represent the challenges of Pacific SIDS in the design phase of the Transitional Committee. He also requested CROP agencies to provide internationally credible data to assist in the call for a special win ...
... and other bilateral mechanisms where necessary. The Representative invited views on how to best represent the challenges of Pacific SIDS in the design phase of the Transitional Committee. He also requested CROP agencies to provide internationally credible data to assist in the call for a special win ...
Phillip_Staddon___Winter_Mortality
... to move beyond time-series analysis and develop and test metrics for "long-term cold weather" and for "long-term health outcomes". This has been attempted in air pollution over four decades, and much can be learned from those approaches. ...
... to move beyond time-series analysis and develop and test metrics for "long-term cold weather" and for "long-term health outcomes". This has been attempted in air pollution over four decades, and much can be learned from those approaches. ...
WMO The Global Climate in 2011–2015
... climate resilience and mainstreaming climate adaptation into national development policies. While the Paris Agreement engages governments in pursuing efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, this report confirms that the average temperature in 2015 had ...
... climate resilience and mainstreaming climate adaptation into national development policies. While the Paris Agreement engages governments in pursuing efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, this report confirms that the average temperature in 2015 had ...
Climate change impacts on water quality outcomes
... 3.2 Climate change scenarios The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988, with a purpose to evaluate the most up-to-date scientific, technical, and socioeconomic research on climate change. Approximately every 6 years since 1988, the IPCC has produced an assessment o ...
... 3.2 Climate change scenarios The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988, with a purpose to evaluate the most up-to-date scientific, technical, and socioeconomic research on climate change. Approximately every 6 years since 1988, the IPCC has produced an assessment o ...
Collected Climate Quotes
... Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don’t pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy. - William H. Calvin, Climate change is the most severe ...
... Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don’t pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy. - William H. Calvin, Climate change is the most severe ...
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... changes forecast for the next few decades – there are good opportunities for human populations to adapt. When it comes to cardio-vascular cold and heat stress, however, it isn’t the average temperature that kills, it’s temperature extremes. As our climate warms, the most important impact of temperat ...
... changes forecast for the next few decades – there are good opportunities for human populations to adapt. When it comes to cardio-vascular cold and heat stress, however, it isn’t the average temperature that kills, it’s temperature extremes. As our climate warms, the most important impact of temperat ...
TIBET`S NOMADIC PASTORALISTS
... imperative” of climate change adaptation and the need to act on behalf of “the one third of the world’s population – two billion people – who are potential victims of desertification”. He also declared that the climate negotiations, both in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( ...
... imperative” of climate change adaptation and the need to act on behalf of “the one third of the world’s population – two billion people – who are potential victims of desertification”. He also declared that the climate negotiations, both in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( ...
PREDICTING ECOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE FLORIDA
... For resource managers, a major point is that climate change needs to be explicitly considered while the multi-billion dollar Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) is implemented, or else that project may not achieve its intended outcomes. A careful process is needed that: (1) acknowledges ...
... For resource managers, a major point is that climate change needs to be explicitly considered while the multi-billion dollar Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) is implemented, or else that project may not achieve its intended outcomes. A careful process is needed that: (1) acknowledges ...
Marine Organism Population Dynamics
... • Stranding records: distribution of cetaceans • Occurrence and abundance from previous studies • Documented ocean temperature increase: – 0.2‐0.4oC since 1981 (Fisheries Research Service, 2003) ...
... • Stranding records: distribution of cetaceans • Occurrence and abundance from previous studies • Documented ocean temperature increase: – 0.2‐0.4oC since 1981 (Fisheries Research Service, 2003) ...
Appetite for Change - Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
... climate, high temperatures in summer but much lower temperatures in winter, low rainfall and high evaporation. It has a highly variable climate with some very wet years leading to large-scale flooding, such as in 2010-11 and 1974-75. Temperatures in the region have increased significantly over th ...
... climate, high temperatures in summer but much lower temperatures in winter, low rainfall and high evaporation. It has a highly variable climate with some very wet years leading to large-scale flooding, such as in 2010-11 and 1974-75. Temperatures in the region have increased significantly over th ...
Climate in the 21st century - four scenarios for
... of the observations. The thick coloured and dashed lines connect each climate scenario with the baseline year 1990. The grey band represents the year-to-year variation, derived from the observations. ...
... of the observations. The thick coloured and dashed lines connect each climate scenario with the baseline year 1990. The grey band represents the year-to-year variation, derived from the observations. ...
Farmer beliefs and concerns about climate change and attitudes
... taxes, and market-based cap and trade (CAST 2011). Because each of these options requires substantial government intervention to implement, we use a general measure of support for government action to address the anthropogenic causes of climate change. Farmers were provided with the statement, “Gove ...
... taxes, and market-based cap and trade (CAST 2011). Because each of these options requires substantial government intervention to implement, we use a general measure of support for government action to address the anthropogenic causes of climate change. Farmers were provided with the statement, “Gove ...
Climate, Grapes, and Wine: Structure and Suitability in
... Further refining the climate suitability for many of the world’s most recognizable cultivars, Jones (2006) shows that high quality wine production is more realistically limited to 13-21°C average growing season temperatures (Fig. 2). The climate-maturity zoning in Figure 2 was developed based upon b ...
... Further refining the climate suitability for many of the world’s most recognizable cultivars, Jones (2006) shows that high quality wine production is more realistically limited to 13-21°C average growing season temperatures (Fig. 2). The climate-maturity zoning in Figure 2 was developed based upon b ...
Climate Change in Perspective The current warm period is
... Venus has a surface temperature of about 900EF and an atmosphere composed of 96% carbon dioxide. The temperature is the same from equator to poles, from day to night (Venus rotates on its axis in 2,802 hours rather than 24 hours). Venus is often touted as the extreme example of run-away greenhouse w ...
... Venus has a surface temperature of about 900EF and an atmosphere composed of 96% carbon dioxide. The temperature is the same from equator to poles, from day to night (Venus rotates on its axis in 2,802 hours rather than 24 hours). Venus is often touted as the extreme example of run-away greenhouse w ...
Sea-ice switches and abrupt climate change
... heat transport by a weakened THC. However, several other mechanisms may lead to sea-ice formation even without variations in the THC. For example, lower insolation (Rind 2002), reduced atmospheric CO2 , volcanic eruption, which may cause temporal cooling, or variations in land-ice sheets through the ...
... heat transport by a weakened THC. However, several other mechanisms may lead to sea-ice formation even without variations in the THC. For example, lower insolation (Rind 2002), reduced atmospheric CO2 , volcanic eruption, which may cause temporal cooling, or variations in land-ice sheets through the ...
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... • Limit threats to shareholder liability • Demonstrate corporate and environmental transparency • Obtain first-mover advantage in emissions trading ...
... • Limit threats to shareholder liability • Demonstrate corporate and environmental transparency • Obtain first-mover advantage in emissions trading ...
PLATE TECTONICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
... Panthalasia Ocean. In central Pangea, mean summer temperatures were at least 6–10 C warmer than today’s continental interiors, with daytime high temperatures reaching 50 C in some locations (Crowley and North, 1996). Extreme aridity dominated the continental interiors because most atmospheric wa ...
... Panthalasia Ocean. In central Pangea, mean summer temperatures were at least 6–10 C warmer than today’s continental interiors, with daytime high temperatures reaching 50 C in some locations (Crowley and North, 1996). Extreme aridity dominated the continental interiors because most atmospheric wa ...
The role of the global ocean in changes of the Earth`s climate system
... Energy flows alter clouds, and weather and internal climate modes can temporarily alter the energy balance for periods of days to several decades. ...
... Energy flows alter clouds, and weather and internal climate modes can temporarily alter the energy balance for periods of days to several decades. ...
Peak energy and climate change: the double bind
... In this article, I do not have the word space to defend further my neo-Malthusian convictions. Therefore, I simply ask the gentle reader to take the perspective of ‘‘Limits to Growth’’ as a highly plausible hypothesis. The most immediate limit can be either the depletion of a non-substitutable resou ...
... In this article, I do not have the word space to defend further my neo-Malthusian convictions. Therefore, I simply ask the gentle reader to take the perspective of ‘‘Limits to Growth’’ as a highly plausible hypothesis. The most immediate limit can be either the depletion of a non-substitutable resou ...
Emergent Properties of Scale in Global Environmental Modeling
... This essay argues that much of the concern over issues of scale in the modeling of complex human-environment systems – of which integrated assessment models are a special case – tends to be preoccupied with bottom-up aggregation and top-down disaggregation. Deep analysis of the underlying explanatio ...
... This essay argues that much of the concern over issues of scale in the modeling of complex human-environment systems – of which integrated assessment models are a special case – tends to be preoccupied with bottom-up aggregation and top-down disaggregation. Deep analysis of the underlying explanatio ...