UK Climate Change Programme 2006
... There is strong and indisputable evidence that climate change is happening and that man-made emissions are its main cause. The ten warmest years globally since formal records began in 1861 have all occurred since 1994. If left unchecked, climate change will have profound impacts on our societies and ...
... There is strong and indisputable evidence that climate change is happening and that man-made emissions are its main cause. The ten warmest years globally since formal records began in 1861 have all occurred since 1994. If left unchecked, climate change will have profound impacts on our societies and ...
Chile`s Third National Communication on Climate
... set of plans has allowed the different ministries organizing to work systematically and jointly to improve the country’s climate adaptation. Currently Chile has also a Forestry Policy 2015-2035 and a new Energy Policy (Energy 2050), both published this year in which climate change is a part of their ...
... set of plans has allowed the different ministries organizing to work systematically and jointly to improve the country’s climate adaptation. Currently Chile has also a Forestry Policy 2015-2035 and a new Energy Policy (Energy 2050), both published this year in which climate change is a part of their ...
Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: Scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments
... storm tracks, genesis locations, speeds, sizes and landfall locations. Knutson et al. reported that few studies have explored the affects of climate change on these characteristics and there is little consensus in projections. While it is important to continue to refine projections, some types of ada ...
... storm tracks, genesis locations, speeds, sizes and landfall locations. Knutson et al. reported that few studies have explored the affects of climate change on these characteristics and there is little consensus in projections. While it is important to continue to refine projections, some types of ada ...
Written submissions received for the Adapting to Climate Change in
... communities have different capacities to adapt to these impacts. Local government is concerned about its ability to undertake adaptation responses in these communities due to liability issues. There is also concern about the ability of key public infrastructure to cope with climate change impacts. S ...
... communities have different capacities to adapt to these impacts. Local government is concerned about its ability to undertake adaptation responses in these communities due to liability issues. There is also concern about the ability of key public infrastructure to cope with climate change impacts. S ...
Climate Change Risk Analysis: Assessment of Future Natural
... Based on the above assessment, the following are the natural disaster threats and hazards that are likely to occur in Springfield as a result of climate change: 1) rising temperatures and heat waves, 2) increased precipitation and flooding, and 3) extreme storm events (which would also result in flo ...
... Based on the above assessment, the following are the natural disaster threats and hazards that are likely to occur in Springfield as a result of climate change: 1) rising temperatures and heat waves, 2) increased precipitation and flooding, and 3) extreme storm events (which would also result in flo ...
Promising Practices on cLimate cHange in UrBan sUB
... rainfall; (2) influents are scarce and the surface area of the lake is large compared with its volume, both factors suggesting that it can dry up quite easily. A direct source of livelihoods and fresh water, the lake also serves as the main receiving body for domestic and industrial waste. Increasin ...
... rainfall; (2) influents are scarce and the surface area of the lake is large compared with its volume, both factors suggesting that it can dry up quite easily. A direct source of livelihoods and fresh water, the lake also serves as the main receiving body for domestic and industrial waste. Increasin ...
Climate Action Plan
... financial and social impacts. Tourism would suffer, as would San Francisco’s fishing industry and the regional agricultural industry, which is expected to be greatly disrupted by a warmer climate. Food costs would rise, property damage would be more prevalent, and insurance rates would increase acco ...
... financial and social impacts. Tourism would suffer, as would San Francisco’s fishing industry and the regional agricultural industry, which is expected to be greatly disrupted by a warmer climate. Food costs would rise, property damage would be more prevalent, and insurance rates would increase acco ...
Summary for Policymakers
... preceding decade since 1850 (see Figure SPM.1). In the Northern Hemisphere, 1983–2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period of the last 1400 years (medium confidence). {2.4, 5.3} [INSERT FIGURE SPM.1 HERE] Figure SPM.1: (a) Observed global mean combined land and ocean surface temperature anomalies, ...
... preceding decade since 1850 (see Figure SPM.1). In the Northern Hemisphere, 1983–2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period of the last 1400 years (medium confidence). {2.4, 5.3} [INSERT FIGURE SPM.1 HERE] Figure SPM.1: (a) Observed global mean combined land and ocean surface temperature anomalies, ...
Climate Change Detection and Attribution: Beyond Mean
... on smaller spatial and temporal scales and with nontemperature variables, new challenges arise that are related to noise and uncertainty in signal patterns, dealing with non-Gaussian variables and facing data limitations. These are now discussed. ...
... on smaller spatial and temporal scales and with nontemperature variables, new challenges arise that are related to noise and uncertainty in signal patterns, dealing with non-Gaussian variables and facing data limitations. These are now discussed. ...
Environment and Development Challenges
... the atmosphere have increased, to over 400ppm of CO2e today (even after taking the offsetting radiative effects of aerosols into account) and increasing at a rate of around 2.5ppm per year. Thus we have a flow-stock problem. Without strong action to reduce emissions, over the course of this century ...
... the atmosphere have increased, to over 400ppm of CO2e today (even after taking the offsetting radiative effects of aerosols into account) and increasing at a rate of around 2.5ppm per year. Thus we have a flow-stock problem. Without strong action to reduce emissions, over the course of this century ...
First National Communication to UNFCCC
... Tajikistan has minor influence on global warming . On the other hand, Tajikistan’s natural resources and sectors of economy are vulnerable to climatic changes, especially its fragile biodiversity, water and land resources, agriculture, public health etc. The First National Communication represents t ...
... Tajikistan has minor influence on global warming . On the other hand, Tajikistan’s natural resources and sectors of economy are vulnerable to climatic changes, especially its fragile biodiversity, water and land resources, agriculture, public health etc. The First National Communication represents t ...
Author`s personal copy - Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange
... We identify and examine how policy intervention can help Canada’s Inuit population adapt to climate change. The policy responses are based on an understanding of the determinants of vulnerability identified in research conducted with 15 Inuit communities. A consistent approach was used in each case ...
... We identify and examine how policy intervention can help Canada’s Inuit population adapt to climate change. The policy responses are based on an understanding of the determinants of vulnerability identified in research conducted with 15 Inuit communities. A consistent approach was used in each case ...
Planning for bushfire risk in a changing climate: Ku-ring
... built infrastructure includes the north shore railway line, the University of Technology Sydney (Kuring-gai Campus), the CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics facilities, the National Measurement Laboratory and a number of community service facilities such as aged-care centres and hospital ...
... built infrastructure includes the north shore railway line, the University of Technology Sydney (Kuring-gai Campus), the CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics facilities, the National Measurement Laboratory and a number of community service facilities such as aged-care centres and hospital ...
Climate change in Australia | Monsoonal North cluster report
... This cluster report is part of a suite of products. These include a brochure for each cluster that provides the key projection statements in a brief format. There is also the Australian climate change projections Technical Report, which describes the underlying scientific basis for the climate chang ...
... This cluster report is part of a suite of products. These include a brochure for each cluster that provides the key projection statements in a brief format. There is also the Australian climate change projections Technical Report, which describes the underlying scientific basis for the climate chang ...
Towards indicators for resilient architecture and infrastructure
... and water bodies, and even public space, are designed to last for decades and are expensive to renovate ...
... and water bodies, and even public space, are designed to last for decades and are expensive to renovate ...
4.3.1. Atmospheric changes - Ensembles RT3
... The SRES emission scenarios (Nakićenović et al., 2000) were used in CMIP3 that is the basis for IPCC (2007). Hence, most existing climate change scenarios builds on these emission scenarios that are based on different storylines for the future development of world population and economy. All SRES sc ...
... The SRES emission scenarios (Nakićenović et al., 2000) were used in CMIP3 that is the basis for IPCC (2007). Hence, most existing climate change scenarios builds on these emission scenarios that are based on different storylines for the future development of world population and economy. All SRES sc ...
Risk, uncertainty and the institutional geographies of
... Risk, uncertainty and governance Risk is a generative concept whose meaning and significance are understood in a variety of different ways. The sociologist Ulrich Beck (1992) famously theorized that new incalculable risks like climate change are triggering a more reflexive phase of modernization con ...
... Risk, uncertainty and governance Risk is a generative concept whose meaning and significance are understood in a variety of different ways. The sociologist Ulrich Beck (1992) famously theorized that new incalculable risks like climate change are triggering a more reflexive phase of modernization con ...
A Profile of the Greenhouse Industry in British Columbia and Clues
... principle of sustainable development” (Olson 2009: 29). By adaption he means measures ranging from changing types of crops to financial assistance for people who have lost their agricultural employment. Mitigation focuses on addressing climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas emission ...
... principle of sustainable development” (Olson 2009: 29). By adaption he means measures ranging from changing types of crops to financial assistance for people who have lost their agricultural employment. Mitigation focuses on addressing climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas emission ...
Climate Change: Costs and Benefits of S. 2191
... This report examines six studies that project the costs of S. 2191 to 2030 or 2050. It is difficult (and some would consider it unwise) to project costs up to the year 2030, much less beyond. The already tenuous assumption that current regulatory standards will remain constant becomes more unrealist ...
... This report examines six studies that project the costs of S. 2191 to 2030 or 2050. It is difficult (and some would consider it unwise) to project costs up to the year 2030, much less beyond. The already tenuous assumption that current regulatory standards will remain constant becomes more unrealist ...
The shape of things to come: why is climate change so predictable?
... of the probability distribution of global mean surface temperature response to climate forcing. It is shown that ocean heat uptake, which delays and damps the temperature rise, can be represented as a transient negative feedback. This transient negative feedback causes the transient climate change t ...
... of the probability distribution of global mean surface temperature response to climate forcing. It is shown that ocean heat uptake, which delays and damps the temperature rise, can be represented as a transient negative feedback. This transient negative feedback causes the transient climate change t ...
Turning Up the Heat - Environmental Investigation Agency
... fragile state in recorded history, leaving the Earth exposed to unprecedented levels of harmful ultraviolet radiation. The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic has reappeared each austral spring since its initial discovery, and has generally grown larger and lasted longer each year. The 2005 o ...
... fragile state in recorded history, leaving the Earth exposed to unprecedented levels of harmful ultraviolet radiation. The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic has reappeared each austral spring since its initial discovery, and has generally grown larger and lasted longer each year. The 2005 o ...
Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of
... displacement and planned relocation of communities as areas become uninhabitable because of the effects of global warming. While considerable attention has been directed toward the first two categories – particularly from humanitarian actors and migration specialists – the third form of movement has ...
... displacement and planned relocation of communities as areas become uninhabitable because of the effects of global warming. While considerable attention has been directed toward the first two categories – particularly from humanitarian actors and migration specialists – the third form of movement has ...
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... emissions and atmospheric greenhouse concentrations demonstrates strong growth despite the current concerns regarding climate change and international agreements, such as the UNFCCC. For example, data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center through 2010 illustrates steady increases in fo ...
... emissions and atmospheric greenhouse concentrations demonstrates strong growth despite the current concerns regarding climate change and international agreements, such as the UNFCCC. For example, data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center through 2010 illustrates steady increases in fo ...
trees on the move - the National Sea Grant Library
... consists of crops that people plant, we can expect that people will just try to plant them elsewhere or find a better crop for the new climate. With forest vegetation, it’s a different story. Trees can’t migrate very rapidly to the places where climate is favorable! In past ice ages, the changes in ...
... consists of crops that people plant, we can expect that people will just try to plant them elsewhere or find a better crop for the new climate. With forest vegetation, it’s a different story. Trees can’t migrate very rapidly to the places where climate is favorable! In past ice ages, the changes in ...
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (or CPRS) was a proposed cap-and-trade system of emissions trading for anthropogenic greenhouse gases, due to be introduced in Australia in 2010 by the Rudd government, as part of its climate change policy. It marked a major change in the energy policy of Australia. The policy began when the Australian Labor Party was in opposition and the six Labor-controlled states commissioned an independent review on energy policy, the Garnaut Climate Change Review, which published a number of reports. Labor, after winning the federal election and forming a government, published a Green paper for discussion and comment. The Federal Treasury then modelled some of the financial and economic impacts of the proposed scheme.The Rudd Government published a final white paper on 15 December 2008. The Government announced that the legislation was intended to take effect in July 2010; but the legislation for the CPRS (aka ETS) failed to gain adequate support and was twice rejected creating a double dissolution election trigger. After a bitter political debate which saw former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull lose his leadership of the opposition to the anti-CPRS Tony Abbott. The Rudd government did not call an election and the CPRS lost public support. In April 2010, Labor then deferred the CPRS. A successor to the CPRS, the Carbon Pricing Mechanism (CPM) was passed into law as part of the Clean Energy Futures Package (CEF) in 2011, but was repealed in July 2014 following a change in government.