Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap
... Among the future trends that will impact our national security is climate change. Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict. They will likely lea ...
... Among the future trends that will impact our national security is climate change. Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict. They will likely lea ...
Evidence for parallel adaptation to climate across the natural range
... only use accessions that were collected from less anthropogenically disturbed habitats (i.e., not roadsides) typical of A. thaliana’s natural habitat where they were more likely to have a relatively long history, and consequently enough time to adapt to local climatic conditions. Such habitats inclu ...
... only use accessions that were collected from less anthropogenically disturbed habitats (i.e., not roadsides) typical of A. thaliana’s natural habitat where they were more likely to have a relatively long history, and consequently enough time to adapt to local climatic conditions. Such habitats inclu ...
Development, trade and carbon reduction
... Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a strategy to tackle climate change. The scope of the debate has recently been expanded beyond DD emissions to include, in addition, such activities as supporting sustainable management of forests (which would include some carbon fluxes in and out of the forest, but little ...
... Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a strategy to tackle climate change. The scope of the debate has recently been expanded beyond DD emissions to include, in addition, such activities as supporting sustainable management of forests (which would include some carbon fluxes in and out of the forest, but little ...
Gender and Climate Change
... Current activities: Gender in the UNFCCC • Technology—preparation of technology projects and strategies for implementation to take into account gender considerations to support action on mitigation and adaptation and enhance low-emission and climate-resilient development • Finance—Green Climate Fun ...
... Current activities: Gender in the UNFCCC • Technology—preparation of technology projects and strategies for implementation to take into account gender considerations to support action on mitigation and adaptation and enhance low-emission and climate-resilient development • Finance—Green Climate Fun ...
NJCAA Natural Resources - New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance
... lies at the southern edge of the range of many northern species and the northern edge of the range of many southern species. There are more than 400 species of vertebrate wildlife, 134 freshwater fish, and 336 marine finfish in the state. Coastal ecosystems in New Jersey have 24 endangered and threa ...
... lies at the southern edge of the range of many northern species and the northern edge of the range of many southern species. There are more than 400 species of vertebrate wildlife, 134 freshwater fish, and 336 marine finfish in the state. Coastal ecosystems in New Jersey have 24 endangered and threa ...
Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan
... Climate change poses risks and opportunities that are different for individual local areas. These opportunities and risks need to be clearly understood and impacts identified before climate responsive strategies can be devised. Local government, as the closest level of government to the community, i ...
... Climate change poses risks and opportunities that are different for individual local areas. These opportunities and risks need to be clearly understood and impacts identified before climate responsive strategies can be devised. Local government, as the closest level of government to the community, i ...
What do realists think about climate change?
... states go to war, and how states respond to potential threats. The threat of climate change, however, is relatively new. Climate change has become a major talking point on the international political agenda. Scientists have agreed that the burning of fossil fuels into the atmosphere and global defor ...
... states go to war, and how states respond to potential threats. The threat of climate change, however, is relatively new. Climate change has become a major talking point on the international political agenda. Scientists have agreed that the burning of fossil fuels into the atmosphere and global defor ...
53 CHAPTER 5. THE UNBUILT ENVIRONMENT
... drought,heatwaves,andmorefrequentforestfires.Inthenorth,therearepotentialbenefits fromclimatechange,butthesewillonlyberealizedifcountriesadjustinstitutionalframeworks to support new patterns of production. Even then, other barriers will persist, including in ...
... drought,heatwaves,andmorefrequentforestfires.Inthenorth,therearepotentialbenefits fromclimatechange,butthesewillonlyberealizedifcountriesadjustinstitutionalframeworks to support new patterns of production. Even then, other barriers will persist, including in ...
Climate and Happiness
... people living in richer countries tend to be happier than those living in poor countries. However, the relationship between happiness and income seems to be non-linear indicating diminishing marginal utility with absolute income. Interestingly, over time happiness appears to be relatively stable and ...
... people living in richer countries tend to be happier than those living in poor countries. However, the relationship between happiness and income seems to be non-linear indicating diminishing marginal utility with absolute income. Interestingly, over time happiness appears to be relatively stable and ...
From mitigation to creativity: the agency of museums and science
... Despite the emphases on education as the provision of information, survey respondents had little confidence in the dominant institutional information sources on climate change. Eighty-one per cent lacked confidence in information from corporations because they are driven by a ‘profit motive’ and a f ...
... Despite the emphases on education as the provision of information, survey respondents had little confidence in the dominant institutional information sources on climate change. Eighty-one per cent lacked confidence in information from corporations because they are driven by a ‘profit motive’ and a f ...
PowerPoint Presentation - The Evergreen State College
... intensity of the Sun's energy reaching the Earth. However, climate changes cannot be explained by variations in solar radiation alone. Climate changes involve complex interactions between astronomical and Earth-bound processes. This program will examine some of these interactions. Specifically, we w ...
... intensity of the Sun's energy reaching the Earth. However, climate changes cannot be explained by variations in solar radiation alone. Climate changes involve complex interactions between astronomical and Earth-bound processes. This program will examine some of these interactions. Specifically, we w ...
Regional Climate Messages for West Africa
... variability in the climate system results from natural processes both internal and external to the climate system. On decadal, multi-decadal and centennial time scales, major modes of variability are found in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Southern Oceans, and they can have substantial influences ...
... variability in the climate system results from natural processes both internal and external to the climate system. On decadal, multi-decadal and centennial time scales, major modes of variability are found in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Southern Oceans, and they can have substantial influences ...
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND EQUITY IMPACTS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE AND
... affected by this event. Although heat exposure alone can cause morbidity and mortality, physiological, social and economic factors are integral in explaining the uneven distribution of these adverse heatspecific health outcomes across diverse populations (Epstein and Rodgers 2004). Risk factors for ...
... affected by this event. Although heat exposure alone can cause morbidity and mortality, physiological, social and economic factors are integral in explaining the uneven distribution of these adverse heatspecific health outcomes across diverse populations (Epstein and Rodgers 2004). Risk factors for ...
The IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources
... (The case of Germany) GHG emissions in the FRG in 2000 Share of GHGs in the FRG in 2000: ...
... (The case of Germany) GHG emissions in the FRG in 2000 Share of GHGs in the FRG in 2000: ...
The Short-Term Temptations and Long
... use of catastrophic rhetoric in the 1960s and 1970s for today’s environmental challenges, in particular climate change.7 Once again, we face a situation, at least in the United States, where both the public and policymakers do not seem to have appropriate urgency and willingness to take action to ba ...
... use of catastrophic rhetoric in the 1960s and 1970s for today’s environmental challenges, in particular climate change.7 Once again, we face a situation, at least in the United States, where both the public and policymakers do not seem to have appropriate urgency and willingness to take action to ba ...
Public Perception of Climate Change in a Period of Economic Crisis
... steadily growing widespread concern and awareness about climate change, agents still do not place sufficient importance on this issue when they compare it to other issues of their everyday lives [2,3,10]. This low importance can be attributed to the fact that people do not always have personal exper ...
... steadily growing widespread concern and awareness about climate change, agents still do not place sufficient importance on this issue when they compare it to other issues of their everyday lives [2,3,10]. This low importance can be attributed to the fact that people do not always have personal exper ...
Good practice for the usage of climate model simulation results
... This paper presents guidelines and examples of good practice for the usage of climate model simulation results and some rationale for their application. These guidelines are relevant to climate modellers as well as to climate impact modellers and users of direct climate model output, e.g., for decis ...
... This paper presents guidelines and examples of good practice for the usage of climate model simulation results and some rationale for their application. These guidelines are relevant to climate modellers as well as to climate impact modellers and users of direct climate model output, e.g., for decis ...
The conquering of climate
... change and witch-hunting in central Europe during the early Little Ice Age (c.15001650) provides evidence of a discourse which attributed the deterioration in climate to witchcraft. Elements of society held witches directly responsible for the high frequency of damaging climatic anomalies, especiall ...
... change and witch-hunting in central Europe during the early Little Ice Age (c.15001650) provides evidence of a discourse which attributed the deterioration in climate to witchcraft. Elements of society held witches directly responsible for the high frequency of damaging climatic anomalies, especiall ...
Dynamics of Culture and Climate Change and their Implications on
... through culturally approved social, political, and economic institutions that codify and follow the accepted norms. If we are to have a global community, it will be one that shares the same rules. But, the world is a diverse place physically. The character of the political processes through which au ...
... through culturally approved social, political, and economic institutions that codify and follow the accepted norms. If we are to have a global community, it will be one that shares the same rules. But, the world is a diverse place physically. The character of the political processes through which au ...
Questions for discussion ETS shelved What does the BtN story
... TONY ABBOTT, OPPOSITION LEADER: Why has he run away from what he said was the greatest moral challenge of our time? Well the Opposition has kept voting against the scheme - but is there another reason for the Government to put its big plan on ice? Some commentators say it all comes down to one thin ...
... TONY ABBOTT, OPPOSITION LEADER: Why has he run away from what he said was the greatest moral challenge of our time? Well the Opposition has kept voting against the scheme - but is there another reason for the Government to put its big plan on ice? Some commentators say it all comes down to one thin ...
world development report 2010: Development and Climate Change
... are unlikely to stabilize temperatures at anything less than 2°C above preindustrial ...
... are unlikely to stabilize temperatures at anything less than 2°C above preindustrial ...
The Carbon Cycle - San Jose State University
... Carbon: what is it? Carbon (C), the fourth most abundant element in the Universe, Building block of life. – from fossil fuels and DNA – Carbon cycles through the land (bioshpere), ocean, atmosphere, and the Earth’s interior Carbon found – in all living things, – in the atmosphere, – in the la ...
... Carbon: what is it? Carbon (C), the fourth most abundant element in the Universe, Building block of life. – from fossil fuels and DNA – Carbon cycles through the land (bioshpere), ocean, atmosphere, and the Earth’s interior Carbon found – in all living things, – in the atmosphere, – in the la ...
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... Moxnes and Van der Heijden (2003) is an early example for the standard result of leadership in public good experiments, which is described here since it was framed as a game on climate change. Since then, a number of authors have shed more light on why and how this result arises. Some of these resul ...
... Moxnes and Van der Heijden (2003) is an early example for the standard result of leadership in public good experiments, which is described here since it was framed as a game on climate change. Since then, a number of authors have shed more light on why and how this result arises. Some of these resul ...
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... and managers should be precautionary and, at the very least, prepare a decision-making framework, strategies and tactics that, collectively, will assist fishers, their communities and stakeholders to adapt to the bio-physical, social and economic consequences of climate change. This paper provides a ...
... and managers should be precautionary and, at the very least, prepare a decision-making framework, strategies and tactics that, collectively, will assist fishers, their communities and stakeholders to adapt to the bio-physical, social and economic consequences of climate change. This paper provides a ...
the nansen conference
... Without concerted and decisive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures could rise by more than 3 °C by the end of this century. Such increases in global temperature would change living conditions fundamentally throughout the globe and affect us all, but would have by far the greatest ...
... Without concerted and decisive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures could rise by more than 3 °C by the end of this century. Such increases in global temperature would change living conditions fundamentally throughout the globe and affect us all, but would have by far the greatest ...
Climate engineering
Climate engineering, also referred to as geoengineering or climate intervention, is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climatic system with the aim of limiting adverse climate change. Climate engineering is an umbrella term for two types of measures: carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management. Carbon dioxide removal addresses the cause of climate change by removing one of the greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere. Solar radiation management attempts to offset effects of greenhouse gases by causing the Earth to absorb less solar radiation.Climate engineering approaches are sometimes viewed as additional potential options for limiting climate change, alongside mitigation and adaptation. There is substantial agreement among scientists that climate engineering cannot substitute climate change mitigation. Some approaches might be used as accompanying measures to sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Given that all types of measures addressing climate change have economic, political or physical limitations a some climate engineering approaches might eventually be used as part of an ensemble of measures. Research on costs, benefits, and various types of risks of most climate engineering approaches is at an early stage and their understanding needs to improve to judge their adequacy and feasibility.No known large-scale climate engineering projects have taken place to date. Almost all research into solar geoengineering has consisted of computer modelling or laboratory tests, and attempts to move to real-world experimentation have proved controversial for many types of climate engineering. Some practices, such as planting of trees and whitening of surfaces as well as bio-energy with carbon capture and storage projects are underway, their scalability to effectively affect global climate is however debated. Ocean iron fertilization has been given small-scale research trials, sparking substantial controversy.Most experts and major reports advise against relying on geoengineering techniques as a simple solution to climate change, in part due to the large uncertainties over effectiveness and side effects. However, most experts also argue that the risks of such interventions must be seen in the context of risks of dangerous climate change. Interventions at large scale may run a greater risk disrupting natural systems resulting in a dilemma that those approaches that could prove highly (cost-) effective in addressing extreme climate risk, might themselves cause substantial risk. Some have suggested that the concept of geoengineering the climate presents a moral hazard because it could reduce political and public pressure for emissions reduction, which could exacerbate overall climate risks.Groups such as ETC Group and some climate researchers (such as Raymond Pierrehumbert) are in favour of a moratorium on out-of-doors testing and deployment of SRM.