(Still) Disagreeing about Climate Change: What Way
... system. The future risks for society and ecology resulting from this influence are known by experts and analysts much more diffusely. I have written elsewhere about the dangers of climate reductionism (Hulme 2011), about the dangers of elevating climate as a predictor of future social and ecological ...
... system. The future risks for society and ecology resulting from this influence are known by experts and analysts much more diffusely. I have written elsewhere about the dangers of climate reductionism (Hulme 2011), about the dangers of elevating climate as a predictor of future social and ecological ...
Content Analysis - University of Wisconsin
... debate is how much of it is due to mankind's activity. Britain's Channel 4 television has just produced "The Great Global Warming Swindle," a documentary that devastates most of the claims made by the environmentalist movement. The scientists interviewed include top climatologists from MIT and other ...
... debate is how much of it is due to mankind's activity. Britain's Channel 4 television has just produced "The Great Global Warming Swindle," a documentary that devastates most of the claims made by the environmentalist movement. The scientists interviewed include top climatologists from MIT and other ...
Changing Northern Hemisphere Storm Tracks in an Ensemble of
... general bias in the MSLP storm track. The agreement of the simulated storm-track pattern with its NCEP counterpart can be quantified by pattern correlations over all Northern Hemisphere grid points. All 16 models are able to reproduce the observed storm-track pattern, with correlation coefficients r ...
... general bias in the MSLP storm track. The agreement of the simulated storm-track pattern with its NCEP counterpart can be quantified by pattern correlations over all Northern Hemisphere grid points. All 16 models are able to reproduce the observed storm-track pattern, with correlation coefficients r ...
Global warming
... Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and the oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.[] The Intergovernmental P ...
... Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and the oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.[] The Intergovernmental P ...
Debates over the new climate change agreement By Meena
... Previous articles in the Global Health Watch series have focused on the relevance and importance of climate change to health, as well on the climate crisis and efforts for its resolution, including the consideration of a fair-sharing of the remaining atmospheric space or ‘carbon-budget’ among all co ...
... Previous articles in the Global Health Watch series have focused on the relevance and importance of climate change to health, as well on the climate crisis and efforts for its resolution, including the consideration of a fair-sharing of the remaining atmospheric space or ‘carbon-budget’ among all co ...
Does cold weather disprove global warming?
... expect to see record cold temperatures even during global warming. Nevertheless, who hasn't heard someone on a cold day mutter "what happened to global warming?!" It's human nature to remember unusual events: record heat waves and freezing cold spells. Mentally calculating long term statistical tren ...
... expect to see record cold temperatures even during global warming. Nevertheless, who hasn't heard someone on a cold day mutter "what happened to global warming?!" It's human nature to remember unusual events: record heat waves and freezing cold spells. Mentally calculating long term statistical tren ...
The EPA and Climate Change Contents
... fires and oil spills and minimise the impacts they have on the environment though improved response. They are also being to monitor land use change and habitats. The National Climate Change Strategy expressed its commitment to ensuring that Ireland has an adequate and modern capability for climate o ...
... fires and oil spills and minimise the impacts they have on the environment though improved response. They are also being to monitor land use change and habitats. The National Climate Change Strategy expressed its commitment to ensuring that Ireland has an adequate and modern capability for climate o ...
urbanization and climate change in small island developing states
... development resource. Most SIDS cities and towns in the tropics are also now experiencing the more immediate impacts of climate change: increasing frequency and magnitude of cyclones, storms and hurricanes resulting in losses of life, houses, crucial urban infrastructure and natural resources. These ...
... development resource. Most SIDS cities and towns in the tropics are also now experiencing the more immediate impacts of climate change: increasing frequency and magnitude of cyclones, storms and hurricanes resulting in losses of life, houses, crucial urban infrastructure and natural resources. These ...
pices xiv - North Pacific Marine Science Organization
... On the other hand, it is well known that strong barotrophic tidal currents, the steep topography and stratification structures influence the generation of internal tides. These internal waves, which have a semidiurnal period and the wavelength generally about several tens kilometers, is thought to b ...
... On the other hand, it is well known that strong barotrophic tidal currents, the steep topography and stratification structures influence the generation of internal tides. These internal waves, which have a semidiurnal period and the wavelength generally about several tens kilometers, is thought to b ...
2. arctic warming and its consequences have major implications for
... most of the Sun's incoming radiation. If not for the atmosphere and oceans moving energy from the tropics to the poles, the tropics would overheat and the polar regions freeze solid. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Atlantic Ocean is the major carrier of the oceanic component of this energy transfer, ...
... most of the Sun's incoming radiation. If not for the atmosphere and oceans moving energy from the tropics to the poles, the tropics would overheat and the polar regions freeze solid. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Atlantic Ocean is the major carrier of the oceanic component of this energy transfer, ...
SCAR`s Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE
... 25. Antarctic radiosonde temperature profiles show that the troposphere has warmed at 5 km above sea level, and that the stratosphere above it has cooled over the last 30 years. This pattern would be expected from increasing greenhouse gases. The tropospheric warming in winter is the largest on Eart ...
... 25. Antarctic radiosonde temperature profiles show that the troposphere has warmed at 5 km above sea level, and that the stratosphere above it has cooled over the last 30 years. This pattern would be expected from increasing greenhouse gases. The tropospheric warming in winter is the largest on Eart ...
April - Smithers Web Page
... Australia is clearing native vegetation at a rate that amounts to a $2.4 billion annual loss of stored carbon, a Senate climate change inquiry heard yesterday. ''We are still logging native vegetation at a rate of something like 60million tonnes of carbon a year,'' CSIRO climate scientist Michael Ra ...
... Australia is clearing native vegetation at a rate that amounts to a $2.4 billion annual loss of stored carbon, a Senate climate change inquiry heard yesterday. ''We are still logging native vegetation at a rate of something like 60million tonnes of carbon a year,'' CSIRO climate scientist Michael Ra ...
Natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, droughts
... Climate change scientists say that while summer rainfall in Britain will reduce, the storms that come will be more severe, causing more flooding. ...
... Climate change scientists say that while summer rainfall in Britain will reduce, the storms that come will be more severe, causing more flooding. ...
Social vulnerability and climate justice
... topics related to environmental education and watershed management. For example, staff from ECOAR contacted groups of elementary school teachers, public health extension agents, and other community-based workers and provided in-service training for them about water and health, basic ecology, and pub ...
... topics related to environmental education and watershed management. For example, staff from ECOAR contacted groups of elementary school teachers, public health extension agents, and other community-based workers and provided in-service training for them about water and health, basic ecology, and pub ...
Climate Change: The Need to Consider Human Forcings in Addition to Greenhouse Gases by
... warming involves the accumulation of heat in Joules within the components of the climate system This accumulation is climate system. This accumulation is dominated by the heating and cooling within the upper layers of the oceans the upper layers of the oceans. ...
... warming involves the accumulation of heat in Joules within the components of the climate system This accumulation is climate system. This accumulation is dominated by the heating and cooling within the upper layers of the oceans the upper layers of the oceans. ...
Impact of climate change on marine and coastal
... The Mediterranean region has 21 bordering States with different geo- political, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. The Mediterranean has a 2.51 million km² surface area and a 46 000 km coastline not counting the 19 000 km of coast of the islands. From the hydrological viewpoint, the Medi ...
... The Mediterranean region has 21 bordering States with different geo- political, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. The Mediterranean has a 2.51 million km² surface area and a 46 000 km coastline not counting the 19 000 km of coast of the islands. From the hydrological viewpoint, the Medi ...
IFAD - unfccc
... – Switching to no-tillage or low-tillage techniques to preserve carbon stored in soil; – Reducing methane’s emissions from rice production through better tillage practices, water management and crop rotation; – Using more efficiently nitrogen fertilizer to reduce nitrous oxide; – Improving land ...
... – Switching to no-tillage or low-tillage techniques to preserve carbon stored in soil; – Reducing methane’s emissions from rice production through better tillage practices, water management and crop rotation; – Using more efficiently nitrogen fertilizer to reduce nitrous oxide; – Improving land ...
Global Warming Is Here: The Scientific Evidence
... no known natural phenomenon can explain the record 20th century warmth,” Overpeck said. “Twentieth Century global warming is a reality and should be taken seriously.”17 This conclusion is reinforced by a completely independent line of evidence in which scientists looked at temperature readings glean ...
... no known natural phenomenon can explain the record 20th century warmth,” Overpeck said. “Twentieth Century global warming is a reality and should be taken seriously.”17 This conclusion is reinforced by a completely independent line of evidence in which scientists looked at temperature readings glean ...
Rapid climate change did not cause population collapse at
... BC to 400 cal. AD (14, Supplementary Table 2). For the period 1200 cal. BC to 500 cal. BC the results (Fig. 3) demonstrate clear patterns in relative levels of human activity that appear to reflect demographic fluctuations (14). There appears to be a distinct peak in human activity in Ireland at aro ...
... BC to 400 cal. AD (14, Supplementary Table 2). For the period 1200 cal. BC to 500 cal. BC the results (Fig. 3) demonstrate clear patterns in relative levels of human activity that appear to reflect demographic fluctuations (14). There appears to be a distinct peak in human activity in Ireland at aro ...
Analysis of trends in temperature and rainfall in selected
... is insufficient to prevent climate-induced disasters. Solomon et al. (2009) pointed out that severity of damage due to climate change depends not only on magnitude, but on irreversibility also. The effect of GHG emissions is largely irreversible for hundreds of years after the emissions have stopped ...
... is insufficient to prevent climate-induced disasters. Solomon et al. (2009) pointed out that severity of damage due to climate change depends not only on magnitude, but on irreversibility also. The effect of GHG emissions is largely irreversible for hundreds of years after the emissions have stopped ...
ICARUS IV ABSTRACTS
... households due to an extreme flood event. The study uses primary data collected from a survey of households in the affected areas and disaggregates the losses into monetary damage to property, physical ...
... households due to an extreme flood event. The study uses primary data collected from a survey of households in the affected areas and disaggregates the losses into monetary damage to property, physical ...
Update on the Carbon Mitigation Initiative Robert Socolow
... •A new analysis shows that, in the absence of a historical CO2 fertilization sink, the concentration of atmospheric CO2 would have been 80% greater than observed, and warming would have been 40% larger. •New models are explaining how nutrient limitation and nitrogen fixation affect CO2 fertilization ...
... •A new analysis shows that, in the absence of a historical CO2 fertilization sink, the concentration of atmospheric CO2 would have been 80% greater than observed, and warming would have been 40% larger. •New models are explaining how nutrient limitation and nitrogen fixation affect CO2 fertilization ...
Update on the Carbon Mitigation Initiative Robert Socolow Princeton
... •A new analysis shows that, in the absence of a historical CO2 fertilization sink, the concentration of atmospheric CO2 would have been 80% greater than observed, and warming would have been 40% larger. •New models are explaining how nutrient limitation and nitrogen fixation affect CO2 fertilization ...
... •A new analysis shows that, in the absence of a historical CO2 fertilization sink, the concentration of atmospheric CO2 would have been 80% greater than observed, and warming would have been 40% larger. •New models are explaining how nutrient limitation and nitrogen fixation affect CO2 fertilization ...
AEE newsletter March 00 - Association of Energy Engineers | New
... increased heat and CO2 accelerated and perverted the succession of species within the plots. Typically, a cleared area in the Eastern United States, if left to itself, returns to native woodland. This process varies with the site and circumstances, but in its archetypical form fast-growing annual we ...
... increased heat and CO2 accelerated and perverted the succession of species within the plots. Typically, a cleared area in the Eastern United States, if left to itself, returns to native woodland. This process varies with the site and circumstances, but in its archetypical form fast-growing annual we ...