Regional Climate Information – Evaluation and Projections
... for the range of models and scenarios considered). In contrast, the warming will be less than the global mean in south and Southeast Asia in June-July-August (JJA), and in southern South America in winter. • It is likely that: precipitation will increase over northern midlatitude regions in winter a ...
... for the range of models and scenarios considered). In contrast, the warming will be less than the global mean in south and Southeast Asia in June-July-August (JJA), and in southern South America in winter. • It is likely that: precipitation will increase over northern midlatitude regions in winter a ...
Great Lakes National Parks in Peril
... RMCO also obtained projections of future summer temperature changes. Visitation to the parks is much higher in summer than in other seasons, so future summer temperatures could particularly affect park visitors. As the table on the previous page shows, the average of the projections with medium-high ...
... RMCO also obtained projections of future summer temperature changes. Visitation to the parks is much higher in summer than in other seasons, so future summer temperatures could particularly affect park visitors. As the table on the previous page shows, the average of the projections with medium-high ...
MCCIP Briefing Note Ocean uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2)
... levels between the ocean surface waters and the atmosphere. This is then exported to the deep ocean, mainly via mixing and the solubility pump. 3. Can the ocean maintain this rate of atmospheric CO2 removal? As atmospheric CO2 concentrations continue to rise, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
... levels between the ocean surface waters and the atmosphere. This is then exported to the deep ocean, mainly via mixing and the solubility pump. 3. Can the ocean maintain this rate of atmospheric CO2 removal? As atmospheric CO2 concentrations continue to rise, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
2 Echoes of 1983 `Weather Alert` report
... Climatic disasters are on the increase as the Earth warms up – in line with scientific observations and computer simulations that model future climate. 2007 has been a year of climatic crises, especially floods, often of an unprecedented nature. They included Africa’s worst floods in three decades, ...
... Climatic disasters are on the increase as the Earth warms up – in line with scientific observations and computer simulations that model future climate. 2007 has been a year of climatic crises, especially floods, often of an unprecedented nature. They included Africa’s worst floods in three decades, ...
2010 - National Center for Science Education
... 12. How well do you think atmospheric models can deal with: ________________________________ 12a. hydrodynamics _______________________________________________________________ 12b. radiation ____________________________________________________________________ 12c. vapor in the atmosphere ___________ ...
... 12. How well do you think atmospheric models can deal with: ________________________________ 12a. hydrodynamics _______________________________________________________________ 12b. radiation ____________________________________________________________________ 12c. vapor in the atmosphere ___________ ...
Australian horticulture`s response to climate change and
... Australia (LWA) has demonstrated that none of these tools have been designed specifically with any horticultural industry or application in mind. This report shows that a different predictive system delivering forecasts with a longer lead time and short season length which are required for horticult ...
... Australia (LWA) has demonstrated that none of these tools have been designed specifically with any horticultural industry or application in mind. This report shows that a different predictive system delivering forecasts with a longer lead time and short season length which are required for horticult ...
Barriers to Municipal Climate Adaptation: Examples From Coastal
... building codes to accommodate more flooding based on climate projections. Using the mainstreaming approach, planners still make specific reference to climate change as a motivating factor for policy changes, but move directly to incorporate climate adaptation elements into other processes rather tha ...
... building codes to accommodate more flooding based on climate projections. Using the mainstreaming approach, planners still make specific reference to climate change as a motivating factor for policy changes, but move directly to incorporate climate adaptation elements into other processes rather tha ...
Impacts of climate-related geo-engineering on biological
... Explosive volcanism and solar activity changes have modulated the Earth’s temperature over short and century time scales. Associated with these external forcings were systematic changes in circulation. Here, we explore the effect of similar but artificially induced forcings that mimic natural radiat ...
... Explosive volcanism and solar activity changes have modulated the Earth’s temperature over short and century time scales. Associated with these external forcings were systematic changes in circulation. Here, we explore the effect of similar but artificially induced forcings that mimic natural radiat ...
OZONE AND CARBON DIOXIDE
... We have recently seen increases in these diseases. There are still no holes in the ozone but there is an area over Antarctica where due to natural conditions ozone levels are approximately 1/3 of the global average. This area varies in size from year to year also because of natural conditions. Scien ...
... We have recently seen increases in these diseases. There are still no holes in the ozone but there is an area over Antarctica where due to natural conditions ozone levels are approximately 1/3 of the global average. This area varies in size from year to year also because of natural conditions. Scien ...
The Meaning of Uncertainty: Debating Climate Change in the Gilded
... climatic and environmental equilibrium that had been disturbed by the “clearing of forests,” the “draining of lands,” and other symptoms of nineteenth-century expansion and industrialization.3 Hall’s proto-ecological views on restoration were rooted in contemporary climate science. Like his thoughts ...
... climatic and environmental equilibrium that had been disturbed by the “clearing of forests,” the “draining of lands,” and other symptoms of nineteenth-century expansion and industrialization.3 Hall’s proto-ecological views on restoration were rooted in contemporary climate science. Like his thoughts ...
Link - University of Washington
... We calculated CCVI scores for two time horizons: the 2050s (2040-2069) and the 2080s (20702099). We used Climate Wizard (Girvetz et al. 2009) to generate downscaled predicted temperature and moisture changes for both time horizons (relative to the historical 1961-1990 baseline average) across the ...
... We calculated CCVI scores for two time horizons: the 2050s (2040-2069) and the 2080s (20702099). We used Climate Wizard (Girvetz et al. 2009) to generate downscaled predicted temperature and moisture changes for both time horizons (relative to the historical 1961-1990 baseline average) across the ...
Confronting Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region
... From Texas to Florida, the Gulf coast region is rich with ecological resources that support the region’s economic wealth. Over time, human activities from dam construction to shoreline development have dramatically altered natural landscapes, waterways, and ecological processes. Pressures from human ...
... From Texas to Florida, the Gulf coast region is rich with ecological resources that support the region’s economic wealth. Over time, human activities from dam construction to shoreline development have dramatically altered natural landscapes, waterways, and ecological processes. Pressures from human ...
American Climate Prospectus - Goldman School of Public Policy
... from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, along with other greenhouse gases (GHGs), are raising average temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and increasing global sea levels. Weather is inherently variable, and no single hot day, drought, winter storm or hurricane can be exclusively a ...
... from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, along with other greenhouse gases (GHGs), are raising average temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and increasing global sea levels. Weather is inherently variable, and no single hot day, drought, winter storm or hurricane can be exclusively a ...
health perspectives
... on published studies from other northeastern states. For example, in New Hampshire, the projected increase in the frequency of hot days (Tables ES-1 and ES-2) and the associated increase in heat stress will likely lead to more heat injuries and deaths. Based on the assumption that the mortality rat ...
... on published studies from other northeastern states. For example, in New Hampshire, the projected increase in the frequency of hot days (Tables ES-1 and ES-2) and the associated increase in heat stress will likely lead to more heat injuries and deaths. Based on the assumption that the mortality rat ...
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research The Met. Office
... by the 2080s are predicted to have increased by about 3 °C above today’s (taken as the average over the period 1961–90). A global average temperature rise of 2 °C, which would occur by the 2050s with unmitigated emissions, will be delayed by about 50 years under 750 ppm stabilisation and by over 100 ...
... by the 2080s are predicted to have increased by about 3 °C above today’s (taken as the average over the period 1961–90). A global average temperature rise of 2 °C, which would occur by the 2050s with unmitigated emissions, will be delayed by about 50 years under 750 ppm stabilisation and by over 100 ...
Socio-structural and psychological foundations of climate change
... is a multifaceted issue and research has identified a number of psychological barriers to perceiving, understanding and acting upon global environmental change (e.g., Milfont, 2010; Pawlik, 1991; Swim et al., 2011). However, such studies have generally not disentangled belief of climate change’s exi ...
... is a multifaceted issue and research has identified a number of psychological barriers to perceiving, understanding and acting upon global environmental change (e.g., Milfont, 2010; Pawlik, 1991; Swim et al., 2011). However, such studies have generally not disentangled belief of climate change’s exi ...
The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy
... • In the case of severe climate change, corresponding to an average increase in global temperature of 2.6°C by 2040, massive nonlinear events in the global environment give rise to massive nonlinear societal events. In this scenario, addressed in Chapter IV, nations around the world will be overwh ...
... • In the case of severe climate change, corresponding to an average increase in global temperature of 2.6°C by 2040, massive nonlinear events in the global environment give rise to massive nonlinear societal events. In this scenario, addressed in Chapter IV, nations around the world will be overwh ...
The age of consequences—the foreign policy and national security
... have more resources, incentives, and capabilities to deploy, to offset, or to mitigate at least some of the more modest consequences of climate change. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that climate change will not be a problem for affluent countries, including the United States. Such nation ...
... have more resources, incentives, and capabilities to deploy, to offset, or to mitigate at least some of the more modest consequences of climate change. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that climate change will not be a problem for affluent countries, including the United States. Such nation ...
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... risk associated with future climate scenarios. The mean indicators of economic impacts are important because policy makers and farmers could use this information to predict the aggregate effect of climate change on domestic agricultural market supply. However, these indicators neither represent the ...
... risk associated with future climate scenarios. The mean indicators of economic impacts are important because policy makers and farmers could use this information to predict the aggregate effect of climate change on domestic agricultural market supply. However, these indicators neither represent the ...
Ocean Acidification: Scientific Surges, Lagging Law and Policy
... Surging ocean acidification science Ocean chemistry and “man’s greatest geophysical experiment” Ocean acidification most commonly refers to the long-term increase in ocean acidity caused by the ocean’s uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, although the ocean’s acidity can ...
... Surging ocean acidification science Ocean chemistry and “man’s greatest geophysical experiment” Ocean acidification most commonly refers to the long-term increase in ocean acidity caused by the ocean’s uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, although the ocean’s acidity can ...
The Age of Consequences - The Web site cannot be found
... have more resources, incentives, and capabilities to deploy, to offset, or to mitigate at least some of the more modest consequences of climate change. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that climate change will not be a problem for affluent countries, including the United States. Such nation ...
... have more resources, incentives, and capabilities to deploy, to offset, or to mitigate at least some of the more modest consequences of climate change. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that climate change will not be a problem for affluent countries, including the United States. Such nation ...
Faith Based Statements on Climate Change
... training missionaries from the global south to share stories of how climate change is directly affecting life in the developing world to people in the United States, who may not understand its direct effects. Michael Schut, economic and environmental affairs officer for the Episcopal Church, address ...
... training missionaries from the global south to share stories of how climate change is directly affecting life in the developing world to people in the United States, who may not understand its direct effects. Michael Schut, economic and environmental affairs officer for the Episcopal Church, address ...
Climate Change and Migration: Improving Methodologies to
... heatwaves and decreases in frost days are forecast almost everywhere in the mid-high latitudes, while sea level continues to rise and increased peak wind intensities and increased mean and peak rainfall intensities in tropical cyclones. The impacts of these changes include an increase in the number ...
... heatwaves and decreases in frost days are forecast almost everywhere in the mid-high latitudes, while sea level continues to rise and increased peak wind intensities and increased mean and peak rainfall intensities in tropical cyclones. The impacts of these changes include an increase in the number ...
Land Use Change Impacts on Air Quality and Climate
... atmospheric composition, with implications for both air quality and climate. Our goal here is to review current understanding of the interplay between land use change and atmospheric chemistry, with a focus on short-lived atmospheric pollutants. Particulate matter (PM, or aerosols) and ozone in the ...
... atmospheric composition, with implications for both air quality and climate. Our goal here is to review current understanding of the interplay between land use change and atmospheric chemistry, with a focus on short-lived atmospheric pollutants. Particulate matter (PM, or aerosols) and ozone in the ...
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... As the Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) concluded: “warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, wide ...
... As the Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) concluded: “warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, wide ...
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.