Venice and climate change
... Carbognin et al (2009) refer to research by Holgate (2007) showing that the eustatic rate in the northern Adriatic Sea is consistently lower (approximately 35 percent) than the global mean. Similarly, the OECD (2010) notes that, “since the Mediterranean has registered stationary and even falling sea ...
... Carbognin et al (2009) refer to research by Holgate (2007) showing that the eustatic rate in the northern Adriatic Sea is consistently lower (approximately 35 percent) than the global mean. Similarly, the OECD (2010) notes that, “since the Mediterranean has registered stationary and even falling sea ...
Water storage change in the Himalayas from the Gravity Recovery
... [Immerzeel et al., 2010]. [4] Despite its strategic importance as Asia’s main source of water, the Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau snow and glaciers are fast retreating [Tang and Li, 1992; China National Committee on Climate Change, 2007]. While 82% of the Tibetan glaciers have retreated in the past h ...
... [Immerzeel et al., 2010]. [4] Despite its strategic importance as Asia’s main source of water, the Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau snow and glaciers are fast retreating [Tang and Li, 1992; China National Committee on Climate Change, 2007]. While 82% of the Tibetan glaciers have retreated in the past h ...
New perspectives on Beringian Quaternary paleogeography
... Without doubt, at no time during the middle or late Pleistocene did an East Siberian Sea ice sheet #ow south across Chukotka to calve into the deeper regions of the Bering Sea as suggested by Grosswald (1998). In fact the lack of any isostatically uplifted shorelines or marine terraces anywhere on C ...
... Without doubt, at no time during the middle or late Pleistocene did an East Siberian Sea ice sheet #ow south across Chukotka to calve into the deeper regions of the Bering Sea as suggested by Grosswald (1998). In fact the lack of any isostatically uplifted shorelines or marine terraces anywhere on C ...
The Economic Impacts of Climate Change for Canada
... range of physical impacts of a warming climate on Canada. With these reports, we can better understand the growing economic impacts of climate change to Canada and assess both the costs we could face and the adaptation choices we can make. Degrees of Change showed what the physical impacts of climat ...
... range of physical impacts of a warming climate on Canada. With these reports, we can better understand the growing economic impacts of climate change to Canada and assess both the costs we could face and the adaptation choices we can make. Degrees of Change showed what the physical impacts of climat ...
Relevant Science What do we know about the potential impacts of
... What do we know about the potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity, ecosystem processes, and conservation generally? How might climate change affect the goals of conservation easements and private conservation efforts? A. CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN CONTEXT There are 1,50 ...
... What do we know about the potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity, ecosystem processes, and conservation generally? How might climate change affect the goals of conservation easements and private conservation efforts? A. CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN CONTEXT There are 1,50 ...
An Economic Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations
... $2,998-6,098 million. These figures understate the aggregate expected costs, especially for heavily developed coastal areas, because they are for selected elements of the sectors for which extrapolations relating to climate data could be made. (Because of differences in method and data availability ...
... $2,998-6,098 million. These figures understate the aggregate expected costs, especially for heavily developed coastal areas, because they are for selected elements of the sectors for which extrapolations relating to climate data could be made. (Because of differences in method and data availability ...
CPF - AWG/LCA - Strategic framework for forests and climate change (February 2009)
... The Collaborative Partnership on Forests has prepared this document to support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process, particularly the Bali Action Plan, as well as the NonLegally Binding Instrument on All Types of Forests of the United Nations Forum on Forests an ...
... The Collaborative Partnership on Forests has prepared this document to support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process, particularly the Bali Action Plan, as well as the NonLegally Binding Instrument on All Types of Forests of the United Nations Forum on Forests an ...
Coastal Hazards and Climate Change
... potential impacts and consequences of coastal hazards also increase. Managing this escalating risk over the coming decades now presents a significant challenge for planning authorities in New Zealand. Climate change will exacerbate existing coastal hazards Risk will be exacerbated in many places by ...
... potential impacts and consequences of coastal hazards also increase. Managing this escalating risk over the coming decades now presents a significant challenge for planning authorities in New Zealand. Climate change will exacerbate existing coastal hazards Risk will be exacerbated in many places by ...
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... under different (carsharing) pricing scenarios • Get hints on the interactions between traditional station based carsharing and free-floating carsharing under such scenarios ...
... under different (carsharing) pricing scenarios • Get hints on the interactions between traditional station based carsharing and free-floating carsharing under such scenarios ...
Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic
... LIA reflects a response to natural volcanic and solar forcing15–17 , and if anything this surface cooling strengthened the AMOC at least during the first part of the LIA. The fact that LIA coldness seems to have been even more pronounced in South America than in Europe18 further argues against a wea ...
... LIA reflects a response to natural volcanic and solar forcing15–17 , and if anything this surface cooling strengthened the AMOC at least during the first part of the LIA. The fact that LIA coldness seems to have been even more pronounced in South America than in Europe18 further argues against a wea ...
The Stern Review - Productivity Commission
... water availability, sea levels, biodiversity, food production and human health. No monetary values are ascribed to impacts in this bottom-up analysis. 2. Overall damage estimates are derived using an Integrated Assessment Model, PAGE2002. The model deals with uncertainty through a ‘Monte Carlo’ simu ...
... water availability, sea levels, biodiversity, food production and human health. No monetary values are ascribed to impacts in this bottom-up analysis. 2. Overall damage estimates are derived using an Integrated Assessment Model, PAGE2002. The model deals with uncertainty through a ‘Monte Carlo’ simu ...
Impact of Antarctic Ozone Depletion and Recovery on Southern
... extreme precipitation and evaporation is examined using multimodel output from the Climate Model Intercomparison Project 3 (CMIP3). By grouping models into four sets, those with and without ozone depletion in twentieth-century climate simulations and those with and without ozone recovery in twenty-f ...
... extreme precipitation and evaporation is examined using multimodel output from the Climate Model Intercomparison Project 3 (CMIP3). By grouping models into four sets, those with and without ozone depletion in twentieth-century climate simulations and those with and without ozone recovery in twenty-f ...
CSPR Briefing C SP R B
... Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research The Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research is a joint venture between Linköping University and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. We conduct interdisciplinary research on the consequences of climate change as well as measur ...
... Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research The Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research is a joint venture between Linköping University and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. We conduct interdisciplinary research on the consequences of climate change as well as measur ...
Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation
... Step 4 Start with the most feasible initiatives ................................................................... 62 Step 5 Consolidate risk assessments and adaptation measures based on monitoring and the latest knowledge .................................................................... 62 3.3 ...
... Step 4 Start with the most feasible initiatives ................................................................... 62 Step 5 Consolidate risk assessments and adaptation measures based on monitoring and the latest knowledge .................................................................... 62 3.3 ...
A georeferenced agent-based model to analyze the
... Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Received 21 January 2014; final version received 1 June 2014) ABSTRACT ...
... Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Received 21 January 2014; final version received 1 June 2014) ABSTRACT ...
Future risk of record-breaking summer temperatures and its
... mitigation in light of different emission scenarios. A common approach to exploring the range of potential future climate outcomes is to consider different GHG emissions scenarios. Contrasting those scenarios and highlighting their relative costs and benefits has become a standard practice for the d ...
... mitigation in light of different emission scenarios. A common approach to exploring the range of potential future climate outcomes is to consider different GHG emissions scenarios. Contrasting those scenarios and highlighting their relative costs and benefits has become a standard practice for the d ...
a guidebook on climate scenarios
... Climate change is unequivocal. There is ample evidence from around the globe that changes have already occurred. This reality is forcing decision-makers to evaluate the potential impacts, risks, vulnerabilities and opportunities that climate change presents. The development of adaptation plans and a ...
... Climate change is unequivocal. There is ample evidence from around the globe that changes have already occurred. This reality is forcing decision-makers to evaluate the potential impacts, risks, vulnerabilities and opportunities that climate change presents. The development of adaptation plans and a ...
Climate change adaptation in Norway
... years. Figures for insurance claims show that stormwater is already causing a great deal of damage, and this is increasing, particularly in towns where population density is high. Higher precipitation in the future is expected to exacerbate these problems. Norway seeks to maintain high safety standa ...
... years. Figures for insurance claims show that stormwater is already causing a great deal of damage, and this is increasing, particularly in towns where population density is high. Higher precipitation in the future is expected to exacerbate these problems. Norway seeks to maintain high safety standa ...
Ehlers and Poulsen, Influence of Andean uplift on climate and
... by the Nazca Plate. In this model, the progressive removal of lithospheric mantle results in a slow and steady plateau rise. Thermal weakening models (Fig. 1B) also suggest a slow and steady rise of the plateau (e.g., Isacks, 1988; James and Sacks, 1999). In this model, initial flat-slab subduction i ...
... by the Nazca Plate. In this model, the progressive removal of lithospheric mantle results in a slow and steady plateau rise. Thermal weakening models (Fig. 1B) also suggest a slow and steady rise of the plateau (e.g., Isacks, 1988; James and Sacks, 1999). In this model, initial flat-slab subduction i ...
Climate Factsheets - Public Interest Research Centre
... --Short or interrupted records. Old thermometers are replaced with new ones, or with better technology. Weather stations are closed down, break or are moved to different sites.29 Interruptions are often identifiable during analysis (for example a sudden ‘jump’ in temperature), and the record at that ...
... --Short or interrupted records. Old thermometers are replaced with new ones, or with better technology. Weather stations are closed down, break or are moved to different sites.29 Interruptions are often identifiable during analysis (for example a sudden ‘jump’ in temperature), and the record at that ...
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007). More precisely, we asked for their WTP to reduce the level of CO2 emissions by 30%, 60%, and 85% by the year 2050. While there is an existing literature on WTP estimates for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and avoiding the consequences of ...
... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007). More precisely, we asked for their WTP to reduce the level of CO2 emissions by 30%, 60%, and 85% by the year 2050. While there is an existing literature on WTP estimates for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and avoiding the consequences of ...
Cool Response: The seC & CoRpoRaTe ClimaTe Change RepoRTing SEC Climate Guidance &
... õ The SEC issued 49 comment letters that addressed the adequacy of climate change disclosure in 2010 and 2011, but only 3 comment letters in 2012 and none in 2013. Most comment letters—38—were issued in 2010 following the release of the interpretive guidance. Since then, there has been a significan ...
... õ The SEC issued 49 comment letters that addressed the adequacy of climate change disclosure in 2010 and 2011, but only 3 comment letters in 2012 and none in 2013. Most comment letters—38—were issued in 2010 following the release of the interpretive guidance. Since then, there has been a significan ...