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... The key distinguishing feature of the ‘spatial-analogue’ approach is that it is more explicit in taking into consideration spatial variation in climate change (e.g. Darwin et al. 1995). In our paper we apply the first approach. The advantage of this approach is that it provides a more explicit repre ...
... The key distinguishing feature of the ‘spatial-analogue’ approach is that it is more explicit in taking into consideration spatial variation in climate change (e.g. Darwin et al. 1995). In our paper we apply the first approach. The advantage of this approach is that it provides a more explicit repre ...
Impacts Second National Communications
... climate change into their areas of work - Changes in legislation or specific regulations to address climate change at national or local levels - Concrete efforts to address climate change at a broader level, for instance joint initiative to address climate risks management and ...
... climate change into their areas of work - Changes in legislation or specific regulations to address climate change at national or local levels - Concrete efforts to address climate change at a broader level, for instance joint initiative to address climate risks management and ...
Agriculture and food systems in sub
... were scaled to a global temperature increase of +5◦ C. The climate differences were downloaded at a resolution of 1◦ latitude–longitude. There are several ways to increase the spatial resolution of climate model outputs, all of which have their own strengths and weaknesses, recently reviewed by Wilb ...
... were scaled to a global temperature increase of +5◦ C. The climate differences were downloaded at a resolution of 1◦ latitude–longitude. There are several ways to increase the spatial resolution of climate model outputs, all of which have their own strengths and weaknesses, recently reviewed by Wilb ...
Climate Change Projections for the United States Midwest
... most previous assessments of national and regional climate change. However, these scenarios contain a number of inconsistencies and assumptions that are considered limited in the face of current uncertainty as to how the world will develop over the next century2 . The more recent SRES scenarios (Spe ...
... most previous assessments of national and regional climate change. However, these scenarios contain a number of inconsistencies and assumptions that are considered limited in the face of current uncertainty as to how the world will develop over the next century2 . The more recent SRES scenarios (Spe ...
Paper 4: Climate Change and Biodiversity in High
... The planetary architecture, the pattern of continents and ocean basins, also has an important influence on the transport of heat from low to high latitudes in each hemisphere, and accounts for much of the difference between the climate of North America and South America at equivalent latitudes. The ...
... The planetary architecture, the pattern of continents and ocean basins, also has an important influence on the transport of heat from low to high latitudes in each hemisphere, and accounts for much of the difference between the climate of North America and South America at equivalent latitudes. The ...
Climate change, food, water and population health in China
... of the country, which is similar in land area and population to the south, holds only 18% of the total fresh water despite having 65% of the total arable land. The Huanghe – or Yellow – and Yangtze Rivers are the two largest rivers in China. In the south, the Yangtze River has shown a small and stat ...
... of the country, which is similar in land area and population to the south, holds only 18% of the total fresh water despite having 65% of the total arable land. The Huanghe – or Yellow – and Yangtze Rivers are the two largest rivers in China. In the south, the Yangtze River has shown a small and stat ...
Co2 calcs 4-11 v - Digging in the Clay
... Proportions of current Greenhouse Effect By far the greatest bulk of the greenhouse effect is caused by water vapour, approximately 95%. Of the remaining 5% Greenhouse effect caused by other Greenhouse Gases only ¾ is attributable to CO2, both Man-made and Naturally occurring. This differential [¾ ...
... Proportions of current Greenhouse Effect By far the greatest bulk of the greenhouse effect is caused by water vapour, approximately 95%. Of the remaining 5% Greenhouse effect caused by other Greenhouse Gases only ¾ is attributable to CO2, both Man-made and Naturally occurring. This differential [¾ ...
Australian rangelands and climate change – pastoral production
... grazing and a fundamental recognition of the requirement for conservative use of these available resources through time. Thus, various and mixed management tactics may be applied but these are underpinned by such sentiments as ‘managing for every year as though it were dry’, ‘living within one’s mea ...
... grazing and a fundamental recognition of the requirement for conservative use of these available resources through time. Thus, various and mixed management tactics may be applied but these are underpinned by such sentiments as ‘managing for every year as though it were dry’, ‘living within one’s mea ...
Increasing bioenergy production on arable land - CLM
... from different vegetation types and of agricultural practices. The ease of which energy and matter can be exchanged between the soil and the atmosphere depends on the vegetation density and vegetation type. As such, evapotranspiration is a critical variable in the context of terrestrial vegetation in ...
... from different vegetation types and of agricultural practices. The ease of which energy and matter can be exchanged between the soil and the atmosphere depends on the vegetation density and vegetation type. As such, evapotranspiration is a critical variable in the context of terrestrial vegetation in ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CLIMATE ECONOMICS: A META-REVIEW AND SOME SUGGESTIONS Geoffrey Heal
... topic: we have probably seen more economics papers on climate change in the last year than in all preceding history, including an entire issue of The Economists’Voice and a large collection in World Economics.1 And many of them were by very distinguished colleagues, so the Stern Review provoked not ...
... topic: we have probably seen more economics papers on climate change in the last year than in all preceding history, including an entire issue of The Economists’Voice and a large collection in World Economics.1 And many of them were by very distinguished colleagues, so the Stern Review provoked not ...
The Science of Climate Change, Questions and Answers
... discuss climate. It is at this intersection of the disciplines where uncertainty can and will arise, both because of the yet poorly understood feedbacks between the different components of the climate system and because of the difficulty of bringing these components together into a single descriptiv ...
... discuss climate. It is at this intersection of the disciplines where uncertainty can and will arise, both because of the yet poorly understood feedbacks between the different components of the climate system and because of the difficulty of bringing these components together into a single descriptiv ...
Resistance to change: A social psychological
... is largely shared by friends and family members (see also Hardin and Higgins 1996). Because of this, attitudes, once formed, tend to be “frozen” in place, and the only way to create real change is to temporarily “unfreeze” the individual’s attitudes, ideally in a social setting in which one’s frien ...
... is largely shared by friends and family members (see also Hardin and Higgins 1996). Because of this, attitudes, once formed, tend to be “frozen” in place, and the only way to create real change is to temporarily “unfreeze” the individual’s attitudes, ideally in a social setting in which one’s frien ...
as a PDF
... now beginning to realise as an immediate threat to the continued success of society. Fossil fuel sourced carbon dioxide emissions are ever increasing, as are global temperature averages, polar ice melting is accelerating and the consequences of the impacts are constantly being revised by the experts ...
... now beginning to realise as an immediate threat to the continued success of society. Fossil fuel sourced carbon dioxide emissions are ever increasing, as are global temperature averages, polar ice melting is accelerating and the consequences of the impacts are constantly being revised by the experts ...
Status of the Copenhagen Climate Change Negotiations CRS Report for Congress
... be a “framework” decision among high-level officials that spells out a plausible mandate for a future treaty—an outline more likely than the current one to gain broad consensus among nations. Another alternative could be a breakdown of negotiations. While all parties may contribute to a potential br ...
... be a “framework” decision among high-level officials that spells out a plausible mandate for a future treaty—an outline more likely than the current one to gain broad consensus among nations. Another alternative could be a breakdown of negotiations. While all parties may contribute to a potential br ...
Climate Models for the Layman - The Global Warming Policy
... required to do the calculations increases substantially – a doubling of resolution requires about 10 times more computing power, which is currently infeasible at many climate modelling centers. The coarseness of the model resolution is driven by the available computer resources, with tradeoffs made ...
... required to do the calculations increases substantially – a doubling of resolution requires about 10 times more computing power, which is currently infeasible at many climate modelling centers. The coarseness of the model resolution is driven by the available computer resources, with tradeoffs made ...
The future is here: climate change in the Pacific
... RECOMMENDATION 3: The Australian and New Zealand governments must provide new and additional money for adaptation focused on the Pacific. As high per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases, Australia and New Zealand are among the developed nations collectively responsible for the damage that climate ch ...
... RECOMMENDATION 3: The Australian and New Zealand governments must provide new and additional money for adaptation focused on the Pacific. As high per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases, Australia and New Zealand are among the developed nations collectively responsible for the damage that climate ch ...
Student Conceptions about Global Warming and Climate Change
... that global warming causes the ozone hole. Although a number of students believed that increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide causes global warming and climate change they rarely identified methane or nitrous oxides as greenhouse gases or as a cause of global warming and climate change. Fur ...
... that global warming causes the ozone hole. Although a number of students believed that increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide causes global warming and climate change they rarely identified methane or nitrous oxides as greenhouse gases or as a cause of global warming and climate change. Fur ...
Building Climate Resilience in the Blue Nile/Abay Highlands: A
... linked to changes in precipitation patterns: some regions will see marked decreases in precipitation, while others will be affected by increases in total precipitation or changes in seasonality. An increase in the incidence and severity of extreme events (e.g., hurricanes and floods) has been report ...
... linked to changes in precipitation patterns: some regions will see marked decreases in precipitation, while others will be affected by increases in total precipitation or changes in seasonality. An increase in the incidence and severity of extreme events (e.g., hurricanes and floods) has been report ...
CLIMATE OF DISPLACEMENT, CLIMATE FOR PROTECTION
... character in situations of natural disaster. In the aftermath of the tsunami in 2004 “UNHCR’s call for suspension of return to the areas affected by the December 2004 tsunami, though not based on a legal obligation, was well respected.”24 Best practice on cross-border environmental displacement coul ...
... character in situations of natural disaster. In the aftermath of the tsunami in 2004 “UNHCR’s call for suspension of return to the areas affected by the December 2004 tsunami, though not based on a legal obligation, was well respected.”24 Best practice on cross-border environmental displacement coul ...
Public open house summary
... o Some of these comments questioned the science related to climate change, suggesting climate change is natural, unpreventable, and/or the science is not settled. These ideas appeared to be more prevalent at the Calgary open house relative to the Edmonton open house. o Some of these comments also in ...
... o Some of these comments questioned the science related to climate change, suggesting climate change is natural, unpreventable, and/or the science is not settled. These ideas appeared to be more prevalent at the Calgary open house relative to the Edmonton open house. o Some of these comments also in ...
Paper on Enforcement with regard to the Adaptation to Climate
... At this moment, reporting at EU level of information on climate action takes place under Decisions 280/2004/EC4 and 2005/166/EC5, commonly known as the Monitoring Mechanism Decision or ‘MMD’. The MMD aims, inter alia, to ensure timely, accurate, complete, consistent, comparable and transparent (‘TAC ...
... At this moment, reporting at EU level of information on climate action takes place under Decisions 280/2004/EC4 and 2005/166/EC5, commonly known as the Monitoring Mechanism Decision or ‘MMD’. The MMD aims, inter alia, to ensure timely, accurate, complete, consistent, comparable and transparent (‘TAC ...
People as sensors: Mass media and local temperature influence
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... 0959-3780/ß 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ...
who left carbon footprints in my greenhouse?
... environment. Plants combine carbon dioxide from the air, water and sunlight to create a new compound called carbohydrates. When the plant dies, decomposers break down the plant and respire the carbon as carbon dioxide back into the air for other plants to absorb. If the plant is instead eaten by a h ...
... environment. Plants combine carbon dioxide from the air, water and sunlight to create a new compound called carbohydrates. When the plant dies, decomposers break down the plant and respire the carbon as carbon dioxide back into the air for other plants to absorb. If the plant is instead eaten by a h ...
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.