Climate challenge – the safety`s off
... in the way of experience. The critics describe this technology as a smokescreen created by the energy industry in order to continue burning fossil fuels. They feel that the technology is complicated and expensive and the actual storage process is uncertain. Advocates believe that carbon dioxide can ...
... in the way of experience. The critics describe this technology as a smokescreen created by the energy industry in order to continue burning fossil fuels. They feel that the technology is complicated and expensive and the actual storage process is uncertain. Advocates believe that carbon dioxide can ...
Vulnerability of coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef to
... Bleaching was also reported from 31 other nations around the world during 1997–1998. For example, about 50 percent of reefs in the Indian Ocean and south Asia lost much of their coral cover, and an estimated 16 percent of the world’s area of coral reefs was severely damaged43. The event coincided wi ...
... Bleaching was also reported from 31 other nations around the world during 1997–1998. For example, about 50 percent of reefs in the Indian Ocean and south Asia lost much of their coral cover, and an estimated 16 percent of the world’s area of coral reefs was severely damaged43. The event coincided wi ...
The effects of climate changes on aquifer storage
... deficits is assumed either to recharge the underlying aquifer or to generate surface flow, and it is further assumed for the current study that the ratio of these volumes remains constant throughout the year. There is also no explicit allowance for the attenuating effect of the unsaturated zone. Thi ...
... deficits is assumed either to recharge the underlying aquifer or to generate surface flow, and it is further assumed for the current study that the ratio of these volumes remains constant throughout the year. There is also no explicit allowance for the attenuating effect of the unsaturated zone. Thi ...
Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting
... developing countries because they have produced most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions so far.” A median of just 38% believe that “Developing countries should do just as much as rich countries because they will produce most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions in the future.” However, in si ...
... developing countries because they have produced most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions so far.” A median of just 38% believe that “Developing countries should do just as much as rich countries because they will produce most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions in the future.” However, in si ...
Climate change response strategies for agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the 21st century
... changes. Modeling studies that incorporate key staple crops indicate that adaptation benefits are highly species-specific. For example, the potential benefits of adaptation for wheat are similar in temperate and tropical systems, increasing average yields by 18 percent when compared with the scenari ...
... changes. Modeling studies that incorporate key staple crops indicate that adaptation benefits are highly species-specific. For example, the potential benefits of adaptation for wheat are similar in temperate and tropical systems, increasing average yields by 18 percent when compared with the scenari ...
Rising Temperatures, Worsening Ozone Pollution
... (the chemical precursors to ozone), ozone’s formation is dependent on temperature, among other conditions. As a result, climate change has the potential to increase ozone pollution—and its health and economic burdens—across large parts of the country both now and in the future. This report from the ...
... (the chemical precursors to ozone), ozone’s formation is dependent on temperature, among other conditions. As a result, climate change has the potential to increase ozone pollution—and its health and economic burdens—across large parts of the country both now and in the future. This report from the ...
They Say “NOPP Has Sufficient Funding Now”
... an interagency organization that collaborates research between agencies such as NASA, NOAA, and the MMS. That would result in increased exploration of the oceans through instruments like satellites and submersible exploration vehicles, especially in international waters like the Pacific and the Atla ...
... an interagency organization that collaborates research between agencies such as NASA, NOAA, and the MMS. That would result in increased exploration of the oceans through instruments like satellites and submersible exploration vehicles, especially in international waters like the Pacific and the Atla ...
Climate change and communicable diseases in the EU
... This handbook was developed as an aid for European Union (EU) Member States to assess and manage changes in the risk of infectious disease transmission posed by climate change. The handbook draws on current scientific knowledge as well as experiences and best practices from previous national risk, v ...
... This handbook was developed as an aid for European Union (EU) Member States to assess and manage changes in the risk of infectious disease transmission posed by climate change. The handbook draws on current scientific knowledge as well as experiences and best practices from previous national risk, v ...
Climate Change Scenarios + cov.
... extent, rise in sea level, regional variations of precipitation patterns, and changes in extremes of weather and climate. These recent regional changes, particularly temperature increases, have already affected many physical and biological systems. The rising socio-economic costs coming from climate ...
... extent, rise in sea level, regional variations of precipitation patterns, and changes in extremes of weather and climate. These recent regional changes, particularly temperature increases, have already affected many physical and biological systems. The rising socio-economic costs coming from climate ...
Climate Extremes Communications Guidebook
... • “Some climate extremes (e.g., droughts) may be the result of an accumulation of weather or climate events that are, individually, not extreme themselves (though their accumulation is extreme). • “Compound events, that is, two or more events occurring simultaneously, can lead to high impacts, even ...
... • “Some climate extremes (e.g., droughts) may be the result of an accumulation of weather or climate events that are, individually, not extreme themselves (though their accumulation is extreme). • “Compound events, that is, two or more events occurring simultaneously, can lead to high impacts, even ...
anthropology and climate change - North Atlantic Biocultural
... camels.’” Although it seems completely plausible that such highly adaptive cultures as the reindeer-herding Eveny of northeastern Siberia will find ways to feed themselves even if their reindeer cannot survive the projected climactic shifts, as anthropologists we need to grapple with the implication ...
... camels.’” Although it seems completely plausible that such highly adaptive cultures as the reindeer-herding Eveny of northeastern Siberia will find ways to feed themselves even if their reindeer cannot survive the projected climactic shifts, as anthropologists we need to grapple with the implication ...
Local Climate Change Governance
... presented issues are not set by pregiven limits of a discipline—but derive from the author’s idea of what to include1. Included in this review are studies that may bolster the scientific body of knowledge on how local climate change governance contributes to global transformations towards a low carb ...
... presented issues are not set by pregiven limits of a discipline—but derive from the author’s idea of what to include1. Included in this review are studies that may bolster the scientific body of knowledge on how local climate change governance contributes to global transformations towards a low carb ...
Total aerosol effect: radiative forcing or radiative flux perturbation?
... anthropogenic aerosols for a constant liquid water content (Twomey, 1977). These more numerous and smaller cloud droplets increase the total droplet surface area and thus cloud albedo. The cloud albedo effect can be calculated as a forcing because of the assumption of a constant liquid water content ...
... anthropogenic aerosols for a constant liquid water content (Twomey, 1977). These more numerous and smaller cloud droplets increase the total droplet surface area and thus cloud albedo. The cloud albedo effect can be calculated as a forcing because of the assumption of a constant liquid water content ...
SECOND-ORDER DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 24 Do Not Cite
... Major Conclusions from Previous Assessments 24.2.1. Climate Change Impacts 24.2.2. Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Strategies ...
... Major Conclusions from Previous Assessments 24.2.1. Climate Change Impacts 24.2.2. Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Strategies ...
AN ASSESSMEN T OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE LIMITED
... Climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon in which the earth‘s climate goes through cycles of warming and cooling; these changes usually take place incrementally over millennia. Over the past century, there has been an anomalous increase in global temperature, giving rise to accelerated cli ...
... Climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon in which the earth‘s climate goes through cycles of warming and cooling; these changes usually take place incrementally over millennia. Over the past century, there has been an anomalous increase in global temperature, giving rise to accelerated cli ...
Migration and Climate Change - Development Research Centre on
... accepted figure—cited in respected publications from the IPCC to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.7 This is a daunting figure; representing a ten-fold increase over today’s entire documented refugee and internally displaced populations.8 To put the number in perspective it would m ...
... accepted figure—cited in respected publications from the IPCC to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.7 This is a daunting figure; representing a ten-fold increase over today’s entire documented refugee and internally displaced populations.8 To put the number in perspective it would m ...
Using Remote Sensing to Quantify Vegetation Change and
... drivers of change. While water availability and soil nutrients are the primary determinants of savanna composition [2], they are coupled with the local factors of fire, herbivory and anthropogenic land use to create and maintain spatial heterogeneity within savanna landscapes [3,4]. Human and herbiv ...
... drivers of change. While water availability and soil nutrients are the primary determinants of savanna composition [2], they are coupled with the local factors of fire, herbivory and anthropogenic land use to create and maintain spatial heterogeneity within savanna landscapes [3,4]. Human and herbiv ...
Review of relevant assessment processes and their theoretical
... would be obliged to learn when it came to consider how to ensure its conclusions would be taken account of by the CBD policy making process. How does this have a bearing on the conceptual framework to be adopted for an indigenous peoples’ climate change assessment? As we have seen above, the success ...
... would be obliged to learn when it came to consider how to ensure its conclusions would be taken account of by the CBD policy making process. How does this have a bearing on the conceptual framework to be adopted for an indigenous peoples’ climate change assessment? As we have seen above, the success ...
Climate change scenarios
... benefits (Hossell, et al., 2001), so low value benefits may not be realised immediately. Many of the adaptations will need to be adopted in parallel in order to offset the effects of climate change. Adaptations such as shifts in cropping areas may require early consideration by the industry, since t ...
... benefits (Hossell, et al., 2001), so low value benefits may not be realised immediately. Many of the adaptations will need to be adopted in parallel in order to offset the effects of climate change. Adaptations such as shifts in cropping areas may require early consideration by the industry, since t ...
Vulnerability of fishes of the Great Barrier Reef to climate
... rate will decline sharply if increasing temperature causes a serious reduction in food availability. For example, slower growth appears to have occurred in three species of herbivorous damselfishes during warm El Niño conditions in the Galápagos Islands108. The green and red algae preferred by these ...
... rate will decline sharply if increasing temperature causes a serious reduction in food availability. For example, slower growth appears to have occurred in three species of herbivorous damselfishes during warm El Niño conditions in the Galápagos Islands108. The green and red algae preferred by these ...
Impacts of Large-Scale Reforestation Programmes on Regional
... patterns were particularly evident over the southeast of the plateau. In contrast, in the CLM simulations reforestation generally produced a warmer winter, as well as a cooler and more humid summer. The opposite climate responses to the same land change scenario were primarily caused by the differe ...
... patterns were particularly evident over the southeast of the plateau. In contrast, in the CLM simulations reforestation generally produced a warmer winter, as well as a cooler and more humid summer. The opposite climate responses to the same land change scenario were primarily caused by the differe ...
Donner Webbe Kiribati KAP 2013
... The recent Fifth IPCC Assessment (‘‘AR5’’) reported a likely range of 0.52–0.98 m sea-level rise by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario (Church et al. 2013), the scenario which most closely matches the current greenhouse gas emissions trajectory. These differences suggest policymakers may need to regularly ...
... The recent Fifth IPCC Assessment (‘‘AR5’’) reported a likely range of 0.52–0.98 m sea-level rise by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario (Church et al. 2013), the scenario which most closely matches the current greenhouse gas emissions trajectory. These differences suggest policymakers may need to regularly ...
Process-based modelling of biogenic monoterpene emissions
... Abstract. Monoterpenes, primarily emitted by terrestrial vegetation, can influence atmospheric ozone chemistry, and can form precursors for secondary organic aerosol. The short-term emissions of monoterpenes have been well studied and understood, but their long-term variability, which is particularl ...
... Abstract. Monoterpenes, primarily emitted by terrestrial vegetation, can influence atmospheric ozone chemistry, and can form precursors for secondary organic aerosol. The short-term emissions of monoterpenes have been well studied and understood, but their long-term variability, which is particularl ...
Building resilience to climate-related shocks: farmers` vulnerability to
... Climate change and variability constitutes a serious global environmental issue (Hare et al. 2011; Vincent and Cull 2014). Thus, the occurrence of climate shocks and extreme climatic events such as floods, droughts, strong winds, heat waves, earthquakes, hurricanes is widespread. However, it is not ...
... Climate change and variability constitutes a serious global environmental issue (Hare et al. 2011; Vincent and Cull 2014). Thus, the occurrence of climate shocks and extreme climatic events such as floods, droughts, strong winds, heat waves, earthquakes, hurricanes is widespread. However, it is not ...
Full Report
... This is the final Report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sponsored jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme. The report considers the potential impacts of climate change. Several hundred working scie ...
... This is the final Report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sponsored jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme. The report considers the potential impacts of climate change. Several hundred working scie ...
Instrumental temperature record
The instrumental temperature record shows fluctuations of the temperature of earth's climate system. Initially the instrumental temperature record only documented land and sea surface temperature, but in recent decades instruments have also begun recording ocean temperature. Data is collected from thousands of meteorological stations around the globe and through satellite observations. The longest-running temperature record is the Central England temperature data series, that starts in 1659. The longest-running quasi-global record starts in 1850.