Abrupt climate change: can society cope?
... may trigger THC collapse‡; and the occurrence of one or more extreme or unprecedented weather/climatic events. The latter, for example, is explicitly discussed as a form of abrupt climate change in the NRC report. An unprecedented event occurring in a given place is abrupt in the sense that the prob ...
... may trigger THC collapse‡; and the occurrence of one or more extreme or unprecedented weather/climatic events. The latter, for example, is explicitly discussed as a form of abrupt climate change in the NRC report. An unprecedented event occurring in a given place is abrupt in the sense that the prob ...
Climate and Culture - George Mason University
... local human experience to the generalities and abstractions of measurement in the global. Take, for example, this case of the failure of “top-down” methods to accommodate and even account for a local people’s concerns: The long time horizons of the herders are hard to incorporate into such valuation ...
... local human experience to the generalities and abstractions of measurement in the global. Take, for example, this case of the failure of “top-down” methods to accommodate and even account for a local people’s concerns: The long time horizons of the herders are hard to incorporate into such valuation ...
Media Attention for Climate Change around the World: Data
... might occur repeatedly over time (see Newig, 2004: 158). While issue attention is a basic characteristic of media coverage, it is also highly relevant, because it signals an issue’s perceived importance to the media’s audience and has effects on them (Hilgartner & Bosk, 1988). The at ...
... might occur repeatedly over time (see Newig, 2004: 158). While issue attention is a basic characteristic of media coverage, it is also highly relevant, because it signals an issue’s perceived importance to the media’s audience and has effects on them (Hilgartner & Bosk, 1988). The at ...
FiELDiNG CLiMATE CHANGE iN CULTURAL
... West Africa point to shrinking water bodies, disappearing plants and crops, and changing settlement patterns as evidence of reduced rainfall over the last three decades of the twentieth century (Tschakert 2007b; West et al., in press). In many parts of the world, trees, wind, and birds have been sub ...
... West Africa point to shrinking water bodies, disappearing plants and crops, and changing settlement patterns as evidence of reduced rainfall over the last three decades of the twentieth century (Tschakert 2007b; West et al., in press). In many parts of the world, trees, wind, and birds have been sub ...
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... CC is adopted, since generally research/ activities on CC that have been carried out in Sri Lanka do not differentiate between natural and human-induced variability. However, be it due to natural causes or human activity, a pronounced change in the country’s climate is observed as evidenced by a num ...
... CC is adopted, since generally research/ activities on CC that have been carried out in Sri Lanka do not differentiate between natural and human-induced variability. However, be it due to natural causes or human activity, a pronounced change in the country’s climate is observed as evidenced by a num ...
Small global-mean cooling due to volcanic radiative forcing
... Received: 18 September 2015 / Accepted: 19 February 2016 © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com ...
... Received: 18 September 2015 / Accepted: 19 February 2016 © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com ...
Business in a Climate- Constrained World
... Tackling the challenge of global climate change is an enormous task—too large for any single company or organization. All stakeholders, including business, will need to commit to bold collective action to build resilience in a climateconstrained world. This need, in turn, requires a new emphasis on ...
... Tackling the challenge of global climate change is an enormous task—too large for any single company or organization. All stakeholders, including business, will need to commit to bold collective action to build resilience in a climateconstrained world. This need, in turn, requires a new emphasis on ...
What to Do about Climate Change Executive Summary by Indur M. Goklany
... term, by policies that address the underlying causes of the environmental and human health problems that are exacerbated by climate change. The data and projections used in this study come primarily from two reports: ...
... term, by policies that address the underlying causes of the environmental and human health problems that are exacerbated by climate change. The data and projections used in this study come primarily from two reports: ...
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... We used to offer a course on roughly the same topics as EE5712 until about 15 years ago. We discontinued due to (from what I recall) not having enough faculty in the controls area to cover all courses that we thought essential. For the past 4 years we effectively re-instituted the course (taught it ...
... We used to offer a course on roughly the same topics as EE5712 until about 15 years ago. We discontinued due to (from what I recall) not having enough faculty in the controls area to cover all courses that we thought essential. For the past 4 years we effectively re-instituted the course (taught it ...
Mosquitoes and Culicoides biting midges: vector range and
... Climate change is defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a statistically significant variation in either the mean state of the climate or in its variability, persisting for extended periods. Atmospheric observations indicate that, during recent decades, the climate on Ear ...
... Climate change is defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a statistically significant variation in either the mean state of the climate or in its variability, persisting for extended periods. Atmospheric observations indicate that, during recent decades, the climate on Ear ...
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... Problem Statement Pavement structures represent a significant infrastructure investment that is critical to the well‐ being, growth and expansion of any geographic location. As such pavements are expected to be durable and resilient, and to perform satisfactorily throughout their service lives. I ...
... Problem Statement Pavement structures represent a significant infrastructure investment that is critical to the well‐ being, growth and expansion of any geographic location. As such pavements are expected to be durable and resilient, and to perform satisfactorily throughout their service lives. I ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... To support informed decision making, the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, in collaboration with the Arctic Council‘s Arctic Monitoring Assessment Program (AMAP) have prepared a systematic and authoritative global review of the impacts of climate change on the dynamics and toxicity of persist ...
... To support informed decision making, the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, in collaboration with the Arctic Council‘s Arctic Monitoring Assessment Program (AMAP) have prepared a systematic and authoritative global review of the impacts of climate change on the dynamics and toxicity of persist ...
Tipping elements and climate-economic shocks: Pathways toward
... 2014], or ‘abrupt impacts’ [National Research Council, 2002, 2013], large-scale, non-linear shifts in the Earth system are often identified as a reason for concern about climate change [Oppenheimer et al., 2014] and a potential trigger of major economic losses, often described as ‘economic catastrop ...
... 2014], or ‘abrupt impacts’ [National Research Council, 2002, 2013], large-scale, non-linear shifts in the Earth system are often identified as a reason for concern about climate change [Oppenheimer et al., 2014] and a potential trigger of major economic losses, often described as ‘economic catastrop ...
Strategic Framework 2014–2017: SDC Global Programme Climate
... Climate Change 1 is a major global challenge and a key underlying factor in many global risks including food shortage, water supply crises and the impacts of extreme weather events. Additionally, Climate Change is a most relevant development challenge, as it affects developing countries far more tha ...
... Climate Change 1 is a major global challenge and a key underlying factor in many global risks including food shortage, water supply crises and the impacts of extreme weather events. Additionally, Climate Change is a most relevant development challenge, as it affects developing countries far more tha ...
Permafrost and Changing Climate: The Russian
... of ALT that in some cases is not correlated with climatic variations, presumably due to the effects of other environmental factors. The links between changing climate and the active-layer thickness are thus far more complex than a frequently used linear regression between the depth of seasonal thawi ...
... of ALT that in some cases is not correlated with climatic variations, presumably due to the effects of other environmental factors. The links between changing climate and the active-layer thickness are thus far more complex than a frequently used linear regression between the depth of seasonal thawi ...
Climate Change in the American Christian Mind: March 2015
... percentage than Americans as a whole (63%). A majority of non-evangelical Protestants also think global warming is happening (62%). By contrast, evangelicals are split between those who think it is happening (51%) and those who either don’t think it is (27%) or who don’t know (23%). Catholics are th ...
... percentage than Americans as a whole (63%). A majority of non-evangelical Protestants also think global warming is happening (62%). By contrast, evangelicals are split between those who think it is happening (51%) and those who either don’t think it is (27%) or who don’t know (23%). Catholics are th ...
i SMALL HOLDER FARMERS` PERCEPTION ON CLIMATE
... Figure 1.1 Mount Kilimanjaro as it Observed in 1984………………...........……..….3 Figure 1.2 Mount Kilimanjaro as it Observed in 2007………………………......……3 Figure 2.1 Household Income Source…………………………………………..........11 Figure 2.2 Mean Annual Temperature ......…………………………………………..15 Figure 2.3 Rainfall Variation ...
... Figure 1.1 Mount Kilimanjaro as it Observed in 1984………………...........……..….3 Figure 1.2 Mount Kilimanjaro as it Observed in 2007………………………......……3 Figure 2.1 Household Income Source…………………………………………..........11 Figure 2.2 Mean Annual Temperature ......…………………………………………..15 Figure 2.3 Rainfall Variation ...
Geoengineering and the Accusation of Hubris
... change and GE. Climate control has to imply weather control to a certain degree – or at least a reliable influence on the probability of certain weather events occurring. Otherwise it would miss the point – which is, for example, to prevent floods, hurricanes and other concrete, regional weather phe ...
... change and GE. Climate control has to imply weather control to a certain degree – or at least a reliable influence on the probability of certain weather events occurring. Otherwise it would miss the point – which is, for example, to prevent floods, hurricanes and other concrete, regional weather phe ...
Geoengineering and the Accusation of Hubris
... change and GE. Climate control has to imply weather control to a certain degree – or at least a reliable influence on the probability of certain weather events occurring. Otherwise it would miss the point – which is, for example, to prevent floods, hurricanes and other concrete, regional weather phe ...
... change and GE. Climate control has to imply weather control to a certain degree – or at least a reliable influence on the probability of certain weather events occurring. Otherwise it would miss the point – which is, for example, to prevent floods, hurricanes and other concrete, regional weather phe ...
CECILIA project
... ProClimDB, respectively). These tools were used by the WP4 partners to compute the indices from the climate model outputs (PRUDENCE, ENSEMBLES, CECILIA simulations) and from the observational data sets (ECA&D, local observations from the WP4 partners, see Fig. 2.1). Moreover, significant effort was ...
... ProClimDB, respectively). These tools were used by the WP4 partners to compute the indices from the climate model outputs (PRUDENCE, ENSEMBLES, CECILIA simulations) and from the observational data sets (ECA&D, local observations from the WP4 partners, see Fig. 2.1). Moreover, significant effort was ...
Climate Change and Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Food Webs
... Past evolution determines the genetically determined available phenotypes in populations which affect ecological dynamics in communities, shaping in turn the selective pressures that further model phenotypes. Because an increase in temperature increases metabolic rates and encounter rates, climate c ...
... Past evolution determines the genetically determined available phenotypes in populations which affect ecological dynamics in communities, shaping in turn the selective pressures that further model phenotypes. Because an increase in temperature increases metabolic rates and encounter rates, climate c ...
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... of economists and other groups on climate change and related issues (e.g., discount rates, policy preferences, etc.). Section III reviews the methodology for selecting our sample and conducting the survey. Section IV presents our results and discusses the importance of particular findings. Section V ...
... of economists and other groups on climate change and related issues (e.g., discount rates, policy preferences, etc.). Section III reviews the methodology for selecting our sample and conducting the survey. Section IV presents our results and discusses the importance of particular findings. Section V ...
Linking Climate Change and Fish Conservation Efforts Using
... “links.” Bayesian networks are graphical, so there is a natural connection between the conceptual model and the quantitative tool. Parameterization is accomplished by quantifying the conditional relationships represented by the nodes and their links. For each node, a discrete set of states represent ...
... “links.” Bayesian networks are graphical, so there is a natural connection between the conceptual model and the quantitative tool. Parameterization is accomplished by quantifying the conditional relationships represented by the nodes and their links. For each node, a discrete set of states represent ...
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.