Feeling the Heat - Development and Peace
... to face these catastrophes: sophisticated monitoring systems, contingency plans and a network of social security to lessen hardships. For countries of the Global South, as is demonstrated by the case studies in this report, climate change adds to existing challenges, especially since these countries ...
... to face these catastrophes: sophisticated monitoring systems, contingency plans and a network of social security to lessen hardships. For countries of the Global South, as is demonstrated by the case studies in this report, climate change adds to existing challenges, especially since these countries ...
1/ Format an contents of the « National overview…
... Creation of a data centre that compiles, and makes available to public, data from monitoring programmes of key ecosystems, habitats and species. Increase the number of marine and coastal protected areas, particularly along the peninsular Spanish Mediterranean territorial waters, and develop and impl ...
... Creation of a data centre that compiles, and makes available to public, data from monitoring programmes of key ecosystems, habitats and species. Increase the number of marine and coastal protected areas, particularly along the peninsular Spanish Mediterranean territorial waters, and develop and impl ...
The impact of weather shocks on trade diversification
... resistance for the two products are different. In this case, countries adapt to climate change by switching the affected production sector, and consequently the country’s export basket. Here, the vulnerability to climate change will remain stable. This is a very extreme example, since only a reducti ...
... resistance for the two products are different. In this case, countries adapt to climate change by switching the affected production sector, and consequently the country’s export basket. Here, the vulnerability to climate change will remain stable. This is a very extreme example, since only a reducti ...
Future Climate Change, Sea-level riSe, and OCean aCidiFiCatiOn
... The culture, subsistence, and welfare of tropical Pacific Island Nation people are all in some way tied to their proximate fishery resources. Many of these fisheries are already under considerable stress and duress due to human practices such as overfishing, pollution and runoff, habitat destruction ...
... The culture, subsistence, and welfare of tropical Pacific Island Nation people are all in some way tied to their proximate fishery resources. Many of these fisheries are already under considerable stress and duress due to human practices such as overfishing, pollution and runoff, habitat destruction ...
The economic impact of climate change on road infrastructure in sub
... the coastal areas. With regards to rainfall, projections of mean annual rainfall averaged over the country from different models projected a wide range of changes in rainfall with around half the models projecting increases and half projecting decreases. Several researchers have documented the impac ...
... the coastal areas. With regards to rainfall, projections of mean annual rainfall averaged over the country from different models projected a wide range of changes in rainfall with around half the models projecting increases and half projecting decreases. Several researchers have documented the impac ...
Importance of carbon dioxide physiological forcing to future climate
... to less widely opened plant stomata and the resultant increase in stomatal resistance at higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations (Fig. S2 and Table S1). Averaged over land, the latent heat flux to the atmosphere increases by 2.85 0.09 Wm−2 in association with CO2 -radiative forcing, compared to a de ...
... to less widely opened plant stomata and the resultant increase in stomatal resistance at higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations (Fig. S2 and Table S1). Averaged over land, the latent heat flux to the atmosphere increases by 2.85 0.09 Wm−2 in association with CO2 -radiative forcing, compared to a de ...
Perception and adaptation to climate change by farmers in the Nile
... farming techniques, soil degradation caused by overgrazing and deforestation, poor complementary services such as extension, credit, marketing, infrastructure as well as climatic factors such as drought and flood (Devereux 2000; Alene 2003; Belay 2003; Yirga 2007). These factors reduce the adaptive c ...
... farming techniques, soil degradation caused by overgrazing and deforestation, poor complementary services such as extension, credit, marketing, infrastructure as well as climatic factors such as drought and flood (Devereux 2000; Alene 2003; Belay 2003; Yirga 2007). These factors reduce the adaptive c ...
Chinese Food Security and Climate Change: Agriculture Futures
... the current state, focusing on income and population growth. The second part reviews the Chinaspecific outcomes of a set of scenarios for the future of global food security in the context of climate change. These country-specific outcomes are based on IMPACT model results obtained in July 2011. The ...
... the current state, focusing on income and population growth. The second part reviews the Chinaspecific outcomes of a set of scenarios for the future of global food security in the context of climate change. These country-specific outcomes are based on IMPACT model results obtained in July 2011. The ...
The North Sea — A shelf sea in the Anthropocene
... Global and regional change clearly affects the structure and functioning of ecosystems in shelf seas. However, complex interactions within the shelf seas hinder the identification and unambiguous attribution of observed changes to drivers. These include variability in the climate system, in ocean dyn ...
... Global and regional change clearly affects the structure and functioning of ecosystems in shelf seas. However, complex interactions within the shelf seas hinder the identification and unambiguous attribution of observed changes to drivers. These include variability in the climate system, in ocean dyn ...
Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview
... conditions of the climate system did not change dramatically (in comparison to larger glacial–interglacial changes), and because abundant, detailed regional palaeoclimatic proxy records cover this period. We use selected proxy-based reconstructions of different climate variables, together with state ...
... conditions of the climate system did not change dramatically (in comparison to larger glacial–interglacial changes), and because abundant, detailed regional palaeoclimatic proxy records cover this period. We use selected proxy-based reconstructions of different climate variables, together with state ...
Climate Change impaCts on australia
... the relevant science and the limited time available to the Review. Two time periods are discussed. The first is up to 2030. Impacts over the next two decades can be considered to be locked in because of past and present greenhouse gas emissions. The magnitude of these impacts can only be tempered by ...
... the relevant science and the limited time available to the Review. Two time periods are discussed. The first is up to 2030. Impacts over the next two decades can be considered to be locked in because of past and present greenhouse gas emissions. The magnitude of these impacts can only be tempered by ...
Children`s health and Climate Change
... As doctors we make daily decisions on whether to start treatment based on available evidence. In the case of climate change we have more than enough information to act. We therefore must speak up on behalf of our children, who cannot take action themselves, yet whose health will be the most affected ...
... As doctors we make daily decisions on whether to start treatment based on available evidence. In the case of climate change we have more than enough information to act. We therefore must speak up on behalf of our children, who cannot take action themselves, yet whose health will be the most affected ...
CHAPTER 13
... primary climate scenarios, without adaptation due to increased precipitation and shortened cropgrowing periods. A case study of agriculture in the drainage basin of the Chesapeake Bay was undertaken to analyze the effects of climate change on surface-water quality. In simulations for this Assessment ...
... primary climate scenarios, without adaptation due to increased precipitation and shortened cropgrowing periods. A case study of agriculture in the drainage basin of the Chesapeake Bay was undertaken to analyze the effects of climate change on surface-water quality. In simulations for this Assessment ...
The Gaia Hypothesis: Fact, Theory, and Wishful
... be useful as metaphors but are unfalsifiable, and therefore misleading, as hypotheses (Kirchner, 1989). Somewhere between the strongest and the weakest forms of Gaia is ‘Homeostatic Gaia’, which holds that atmosphere-biosphere interactions are dominated by negative feedback, and that this feedback h ...
... be useful as metaphors but are unfalsifiable, and therefore misleading, as hypotheses (Kirchner, 1989). Somewhere between the strongest and the weakest forms of Gaia is ‘Homeostatic Gaia’, which holds that atmosphere-biosphere interactions are dominated by negative feedback, and that this feedback h ...
AICRPAM - NICRA Annual Report 2014-15
... Wheat yields during 1970-2012 period in major wheat growing districts were found to be inversely related to minimum temperatures (Tn) especially during post-anthesis period. Correlations worked out between temperatures and wheat yields are shown in Fig.2. Growing season maximum temperature (Tx) show ...
... Wheat yields during 1970-2012 period in major wheat growing districts were found to be inversely related to minimum temperatures (Tn) especially during post-anthesis period. Correlations worked out between temperatures and wheat yields are shown in Fig.2. Growing season maximum temperature (Tx) show ...
Net primary production of terrestrial ecosystems in China
... Key words: spatial patterns, climate models, ecosystem models, impact assessment ...
... Key words: spatial patterns, climate models, ecosystem models, impact assessment ...
Petition - Center for Biological Diversity
... for a 2°C target, and exceed the remaining budget for a 1.5°C limit.24 Clearly, even if the rest of the world somehow reduced its carbon emissions to near zero, the United States still could not safely burn all of its own fossil fuel resources. The majority of United States fossil fuels simply must ...
... for a 2°C target, and exceed the remaining budget for a 1.5°C limit.24 Clearly, even if the rest of the world somehow reduced its carbon emissions to near zero, the United States still could not safely burn all of its own fossil fuel resources. The majority of United States fossil fuels simply must ...
ocean-climate.org - Plateforme Océan et Climat
... greenhouse gases related to human activity does not only affect the lower layers of the atmosphere and the surface of the continents. Measurements of sea temperature have been made during the past five to six decades over the 1000 to 2000 first meters of the ocean from ships, oceanographic buoys, mo ...
... greenhouse gases related to human activity does not only affect the lower layers of the atmosphere and the surface of the continents. Measurements of sea temperature have been made during the past five to six decades over the 1000 to 2000 first meters of the ocean from ships, oceanographic buoys, mo ...
Global change and marine communities: Alien species and climate
... Anthropogenic influences on the biosphere since the advent of the industrial age are increasingly causing global changes. Climatic change and the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are ranking high in scientific and public agendas, and other components of global change are also ...
... Anthropogenic influences on the biosphere since the advent of the industrial age are increasingly causing global changes. Climatic change and the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are ranking high in scientific and public agendas, and other components of global change are also ...
Summary - Environmental limits and Swiss footprints based on
... nitrogen and phosphorus losses to the environment affect the earth system. Due to the spatial variability of the impacts, the existence of a global threshold is however difficult to prove with certainty (Rockström et al., 2009b; de Vries et al., 2013). The Nitrogen and Phosphorus Losses Planetary Bo ...
... nitrogen and phosphorus losses to the environment affect the earth system. Due to the spatial variability of the impacts, the existence of a global threshold is however difficult to prove with certainty (Rockström et al., 2009b; de Vries et al., 2013). The Nitrogen and Phosphorus Losses Planetary Bo ...
File - America`s Salmon Forest
... et al. (2002) describe the various life histories for each group. These variations are significant in as much as they illustrate the plasticity of salmonids to adapt to a range of environmental conditions and may be important in an environment of rapidly changing climatic conditions. Salmon populati ...
... et al. (2002) describe the various life histories for each group. These variations are significant in as much as they illustrate the plasticity of salmonids to adapt to a range of environmental conditions and may be important in an environment of rapidly changing climatic conditions. Salmon populati ...
Global Warming and Science
... penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere, they produce substantial amounts of ions and release free electrons. …results from the Danish experiment show that the released electrons play a significant role in promoting the formation of building blocks for cloud condensation nuclei, on which water vapor cond ...
... penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere, they produce substantial amounts of ions and release free electrons. …results from the Danish experiment show that the released electrons play a significant role in promoting the formation of building blocks for cloud condensation nuclei, on which water vapor cond ...
Earth System interactions
... assessments of a wider range of environmental impacts of climate change. Representing processes with higher resolution will also reduce important uncertainties in climate change projections. To achieve this necessary progress on both complexity and resolution, we propose a strengthened collaboration ...
... assessments of a wider range of environmental impacts of climate change. Representing processes with higher resolution will also reduce important uncertainties in climate change projections. To achieve this necessary progress on both complexity and resolution, we propose a strengthened collaboration ...
Investigation - Earthjustice
... A key U.S. report was prepared by the National Academy of Sciences in June 2001. In the opening paragraph of its report, the National Academy explained: Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temp ...
... A key U.S. report was prepared by the National Academy of Sciences in June 2001. In the opening paragraph of its report, the National Academy explained: Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temp ...
Appendix D: Economic modelling and adaptation to climate change
... Review by expert groups. These ‘shocks’ were incorporated into the Monash Multi-Regional Forecasting (MMRF) model — a dynamic multi-sector CGE model of the Australian economy. For example, in the case of coastal buildings, the costs associated with upgrading or relocating homes and businesses were m ...
... Review by expert groups. These ‘shocks’ were incorporated into the Monash Multi-Regional Forecasting (MMRF) model — a dynamic multi-sector CGE model of the Australian economy. For example, in the case of coastal buildings, the costs associated with upgrading or relocating homes and businesses were m ...
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.