Sensitivity of Amazon Regional Climate to Deforestation
... Presently, the best way to understand the complex nature of land surface-atmosphere interactions and their impact on rainfall is through land use sensitivity studies using various types of environmental models. The influence of land cover change in the Amazon climate has been widely discussed in obs ...
... Presently, the best way to understand the complex nature of land surface-atmosphere interactions and their impact on rainfall is through land use sensitivity studies using various types of environmental models. The influence of land cover change in the Amazon climate has been widely discussed in obs ...
Summary of UN-Habitat`s CCCI Climate Change Assessment for the
... especially due to the increased occurrences of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a drought and extreme wet phenomenon. El Nino dropped GDP by 6.6 % in agricultural production and in construction and construction-related manufacturing by 9.5%. The 2008 Labour Force Survey estimated 11.8 million wo ...
... especially due to the increased occurrences of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a drought and extreme wet phenomenon. El Nino dropped GDP by 6.6 % in agricultural production and in construction and construction-related manufacturing by 9.5%. The 2008 Labour Force Survey estimated 11.8 million wo ...
The Effects of Global Change upon United States Air Quality
... by an amount that would appropriately offset the predicted cropland expansion for a given ...
... by an amount that would appropriately offset the predicted cropland expansion for a given ...
Technical Paper “Verification experiments related to increase
... properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcing, or to persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use. Note that the Framework Convention on Climate Ch ...
... properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcing, or to persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use. Note that the Framework Convention on Climate Ch ...
Climate and Weather Discourse in Anthropology: From Determinism
... residence, while other groups didn’t? Average temperatures, seasonal variation, and other climate-related variables were used as explanatory factors for both physical and cultural variation (Brookfield 1964; Whiting 1964). For instance, Wissler (1926) argued that the overlap of climatic and cultural ...
... residence, while other groups didn’t? Average temperatures, seasonal variation, and other climate-related variables were used as explanatory factors for both physical and cultural variation (Brookfield 1964; Whiting 1964). For instance, Wissler (1926) argued that the overlap of climatic and cultural ...
Mistreatment of the economic impacts of extreme events
... 2. Direct economic losses of global disasters have increased in recent decades with particularly large increases since the 1980s. 3. The increases in disaster losses primarily result from weather related events, in particular storms and floods. 4. Climate change and variability are factors which inf ...
... 2. Direct economic losses of global disasters have increased in recent decades with particularly large increases since the 1980s. 3. The increases in disaster losses primarily result from weather related events, in particular storms and floods. 4. Climate change and variability are factors which inf ...
www.fni.no
... environmental problem has much to say about the ways in which the problem will be addressed. To illustrate with a more international example, Demeritt (2001, p. 328) points to some of the prevailing ideas in the scientific construction of global warming that give us an indication of how climate chang ...
... environmental problem has much to say about the ways in which the problem will be addressed. To illustrate with a more international example, Demeritt (2001, p. 328) points to some of the prevailing ideas in the scientific construction of global warming that give us an indication of how climate chang ...
Climate Projections for Metro Vancouver
... temperature and precipitation will play out locally, how expected changes may vary throughout the seasons, and about new climate extremes. Work has been completed by the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) to understand the details of how our climate may change by the 2050s and 2080s. High-lev ...
... temperature and precipitation will play out locally, how expected changes may vary throughout the seasons, and about new climate extremes. Work has been completed by the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) to understand the details of how our climate may change by the 2050s and 2080s. High-lev ...
European atmosphere in 2050, a regional
... whereas regional air quality modelling is based on the updated emissions scenarios produced in the framework of the Global Energy Assessment. We explored two diverse scenarios: a reference scenario where climate policies are absent and a mitigation scenario which limits global temperature rise to wi ...
... whereas regional air quality modelling is based on the updated emissions scenarios produced in the framework of the Global Energy Assessment. We explored two diverse scenarios: a reference scenario where climate policies are absent and a mitigation scenario which limits global temperature rise to wi ...
Community Adaptation Plan Port Antonio, Jamaica
... The earth is getting warmer. Over the past hundred years, the earth’s average temperature has gone up by approximately 0.8°C or 1.5°F. The earth has got warmer in the past, but what is different this time is that it is warming much faster now, and the changes we are seeing are bigger than before. Th ...
... The earth is getting warmer. Over the past hundred years, the earth’s average temperature has gone up by approximately 0.8°C or 1.5°F. The earth has got warmer in the past, but what is different this time is that it is warming much faster now, and the changes we are seeing are bigger than before. Th ...
Carbon and climate system coupling on timescales from the
... system, intimately connected with both planetary climate and ecology. On the time scale of the human experience, the carbon cycle links human economic activity directly to the geophysical system due to the sensitivity of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) levels to fossil-fuel combus ...
... system, intimately connected with both planetary climate and ecology. On the time scale of the human experience, the carbon cycle links human economic activity directly to the geophysical system due to the sensitivity of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) levels to fossil-fuel combus ...
Climate change and food safety: A review
... literature on the effects of climatic factors on microbiological and chemical food contamination, foodborne diseases, animal and plant health, biotoxins and other food safety risks. In preparation for the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy in ...
... literature on the effects of climatic factors on microbiological and chemical food contamination, foodborne diseases, animal and plant health, biotoxins and other food safety risks. In preparation for the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy in ...
CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE SOUTHWEST
... Precipitation Trends and Water Consumption in the Southwestern United States by Henry F. Diaz with Craig A. Anderson Coping with Severe and Sustained Drought in the Southwest by Michael Dettinger Effects of El Niño on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential by R. Reynolds with M. Dettinger, ...
... Precipitation Trends and Water Consumption in the Southwestern United States by Henry F. Diaz with Craig A. Anderson Coping with Severe and Sustained Drought in the Southwest by Michael Dettinger Effects of El Niño on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential by R. Reynolds with M. Dettinger, ...
individual perceptions of climate risks
... However, since the very nature of the insurance profession is to protect people from unexpected risks and events, in addition to building theoretical expertise, we sought to obtain sociological data about people’s opinions and perceptions of climate change. Our survey, whose results are presented in ...
... However, since the very nature of the insurance profession is to protect people from unexpected risks and events, in addition to building theoretical expertise, we sought to obtain sociological data about people’s opinions and perceptions of climate change. Our survey, whose results are presented in ...
Framing Climate: Implications for Local Government Policy
... What sort of policy problem is climate change? It is our position that, as a policy problem, climate change is not well understood and that this lack of certainty has the potential to impede effective and timely policy development. This is especially so in the rapidly changing domain of climate chan ...
... What sort of policy problem is climate change? It is our position that, as a policy problem, climate change is not well understood and that this lack of certainty has the potential to impede effective and timely policy development. This is especially so in the rapidly changing domain of climate chan ...
Osman-Elasha_IPCC_5AR_Adaptation needs
... Africa Specific Findings (3) Despite implementation limitations, Africa’s adaptation experiences nonetheless highlight valuable lessons for enhancing and scaling up the adaptation response, including principles for good practice and integrated approaches to adaptation (high confidence). Strengthe ...
... Africa Specific Findings (3) Despite implementation limitations, Africa’s adaptation experiences nonetheless highlight valuable lessons for enhancing and scaling up the adaptation response, including principles for good practice and integrated approaches to adaptation (high confidence). Strengthe ...
Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change
... principle of ‘just savings’, societies should save enough so that succeeding generations are able to live in a just society. They need not pass on any more than that and certainly need not seek to maximize the condition of the least advantaged persons who will ever live.8 Second, and furthermore, to ...
... principle of ‘just savings’, societies should save enough so that succeeding generations are able to live in a just society. They need not pass on any more than that and certainly need not seek to maximize the condition of the least advantaged persons who will ever live.8 Second, and furthermore, to ...
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 ...
U.S. Senate Report
... several awards. "First, temperature changes, as well as rates of temperature changes (both increase and decrease) of magnitudes similar to that reported by IPCC to have occurred since the Industrial revolution (about 0.8C in 150 years or even 0.4C in the last 35 years) have occurred in Earth's clima ...
... several awards. "First, temperature changes, as well as rates of temperature changes (both increase and decrease) of magnitudes similar to that reported by IPCC to have occurred since the Industrial revolution (about 0.8C in 150 years or even 0.4C in the last 35 years) have occurred in Earth's clima ...
Vulnerability of marine reptiles in the Great Barrier Reef
... 15.1.1 Marine reptiles Marine reptiles are an important and well-documented component of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), comprising a single species of crocodile (Crocodylidae), six species of marine turtles (five Chelonidae and one Dermochelyidae), at least 16 species of sea snakes (Hydrophiidae), on ...
... 15.1.1 Marine reptiles Marine reptiles are an important and well-documented component of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), comprising a single species of crocodile (Crocodylidae), six species of marine turtles (five Chelonidae and one Dermochelyidae), at least 16 species of sea snakes (Hydrophiidae), on ...
Adaptation to climate change in Israel
... Adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change is vital in order to reduce its impacts. Therefore, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have identified adaptation as “one of the five key building blocks” required to strengthen future response to climate chang ...
... Adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change is vital in order to reduce its impacts. Therefore, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have identified adaptation as “one of the five key building blocks” required to strengthen future response to climate chang ...
Going beyond aid effectiveness to guide the delivery of climate finance
... of many years of aid implementation. It has been an exercise very largely built up from a retrospective view of what have been judged to be the successes and failures of aid delivery. This body of experience is missing for climate finance, as large-scale delivery has yet to begin. An unanswered ques ...
... of many years of aid implementation. It has been an exercise very largely built up from a retrospective view of what have been judged to be the successes and failures of aid delivery. This body of experience is missing for climate finance, as large-scale delivery has yet to begin. An unanswered ques ...
A New Climate for Peace
... The planet’s limited resources are under pressure. While the global marketplace provides a growing number of people with a seemingly unending flow of goods, too many people in developing countries struggle to meet their daily needs, with limited access to basic services and functional markets. Deman ...
... The planet’s limited resources are under pressure. While the global marketplace provides a growing number of people with a seemingly unending flow of goods, too many people in developing countries struggle to meet their daily needs, with limited access to basic services and functional markets. Deman ...
Explaining Media and Congressional Attention to Global Climate
... the changing factual indicators surrounding the problem. Problem indicators may come in various shapes, sizes, formats, and from multiple sources. Some indicators may come from direct experience (paying more at the gas station indicates certain conditions within the energy sector), but most indicato ...
... the changing factual indicators surrounding the problem. Problem indicators may come in various shapes, sizes, formats, and from multiple sources. Some indicators may come from direct experience (paying more at the gas station indicates certain conditions within the energy sector), but most indicato ...
Turning Up the Heat - Environmental Investigation Agency
... While good progress has been made to address both ozone depletion and climate change, these two issues have generally been treated as separate problems with separate solutions. This has resulted in outdated and uncoordinated policy responses. Of particular importance, and the focus of this report, i ...
... While good progress has been made to address both ozone depletion and climate change, these two issues have generally been treated as separate problems with separate solutions. This has resulted in outdated and uncoordinated policy responses. Of particular importance, and the focus of this report, i ...
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.