Dawson et al. 2011
... different approaches bring to anticipating and managing the biodiversity consequences of climate change, including the extent of species’ natural resilience. We introduce a framework that uses information from different sources to identify vulnerability and to support the design of conservation resp ...
... different approaches bring to anticipating and managing the biodiversity consequences of climate change, including the extent of species’ natural resilience. We introduce a framework that uses information from different sources to identify vulnerability and to support the design of conservation resp ...
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... Southern Oscillation (ENSO). It does clearly show in the temperature record, but it has only a ~5 year oscillation • The IPCC studies show it has negligible contribution to net global warming over the 20th century (previous slide) • The longer term Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is not correlated ...
... Southern Oscillation (ENSO). It does clearly show in the temperature record, but it has only a ~5 year oscillation • The IPCC studies show it has negligible contribution to net global warming over the 20th century (previous slide) • The longer term Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is not correlated ...
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... and climate scenarios were also examined and the implications on the cost of carbon sequestration over the next 100 years presented. www.metla.fi/dissertationes/df42.pdf Voluntary guidelines for the responsible management of planted forests (2006) These non-legally binding FAO guidelines may be adop ...
... and climate scenarios were also examined and the implications on the cost of carbon sequestration over the next 100 years presented. www.metla.fi/dissertationes/df42.pdf Voluntary guidelines for the responsible management of planted forests (2006) These non-legally binding FAO guidelines may be adop ...
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... human health (MEA, 2005). This, in turn, has led to an increasing number of scientific studies focusing on the mapping and identification of the scale of climate change impacts on ecosystem performance and the respective provisioning of ecosystem goods and services. More recently, accompanying studi ...
... human health (MEA, 2005). This, in turn, has led to an increasing number of scientific studies focusing on the mapping and identification of the scale of climate change impacts on ecosystem performance and the respective provisioning of ecosystem goods and services. More recently, accompanying studi ...
MODIFICATION on CROP WATER DEMANDS under ADAPTATION
... Two cropping plans, wet and dry, were selected from the last 15 water years with actual climatology (1961–1990) taken as reference and three A1B climate change projections (2011-2040, 2041-2070, and 2071-2098). Cumulative and Daily irrigations demands were generated for each agricultural season cons ...
... Two cropping plans, wet and dry, were selected from the last 15 water years with actual climatology (1961–1990) taken as reference and three A1B climate change projections (2011-2040, 2041-2070, and 2071-2098). Cumulative and Daily irrigations demands were generated for each agricultural season cons ...
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... cattle would need up to 16% longer to grow from 350 to 550kg during the summer and early fall (June 1 to October 31), with a year round average of 4% to 5%. However, they did not consider changes in the risk of mortality and morbidity. Belasco et al. (2009) simulated profitability risk considering s ...
... cattle would need up to 16% longer to grow from 350 to 550kg during the summer and early fall (June 1 to October 31), with a year round average of 4% to 5%. However, they did not consider changes in the risk of mortality and morbidity. Belasco et al. (2009) simulated profitability risk considering s ...
Public Enemy No. 1? Understanding Media Representations of
... Center Project for Excellence in Journalism [PEJ], 2009). An iterative back-and-forth took place in the news pages and blogs in the following days and weeks. First, Paul Hudson covered the Met Office findings in a piece on BBC News titled “What Happened to Global Warming?” where he commented “for th ...
... Center Project for Excellence in Journalism [PEJ], 2009). An iterative back-and-forth took place in the news pages and blogs in the following days and weeks. First, Paul Hudson covered the Met Office findings in a piece on BBC News titled “What Happened to Global Warming?” where he commented “for th ...
Building Climate Resilience in the Blue Nile/Abay Highlands: A
... In this paper resilience is defined as the ability of a community or ecosystem to resist, absorb, and recover from the effects of hazards in a timely and efficient manner, preserving or restoring its essential basic structures, functions and identity. We assume a resilient community is well-placed t ...
... In this paper resilience is defined as the ability of a community or ecosystem to resist, absorb, and recover from the effects of hazards in a timely and efficient manner, preserving or restoring its essential basic structures, functions and identity. We assume a resilient community is well-placed t ...
concept paper 22 april DD
... significant improvements in the lives and livelihoods for many of the world’s poor. One major culprit for this problem was identified as the imposition of top-down ideas and practices that failed to take adequately into account the issues of contextual specificity and local knowledge (Scott 1998). ...
... significant improvements in the lives and livelihoods for many of the world’s poor. One major culprit for this problem was identified as the imposition of top-down ideas and practices that failed to take adequately into account the issues of contextual specificity and local knowledge (Scott 1998). ...
Case Study: Colombia`s National Climate Change Process
... positioned itself as a leader in the development of climate change mitigation and adaptation actions. These efforts go back as far as 1994, when Colombia joined the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since then, the nation has developed an increasingly sophisticated approach towards the issu ...
... positioned itself as a leader in the development of climate change mitigation and adaptation actions. These efforts go back as far as 1994, when Colombia joined the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since then, the nation has developed an increasingly sophisticated approach towards the issu ...
Hot Politics ABOUT THE FILM FRONTLINE and the Center for
... industrialized countries to 1990 levels by the year 2000. Concerned about the cost to American industry, President George H.W. Bush agrees to voluntary targets. • 1997: More than 160 nations meet in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiate binding limitations on greenhouse gases, setting legally binding emissions ...
... industrialized countries to 1990 levels by the year 2000. Concerned about the cost to American industry, President George H.W. Bush agrees to voluntary targets. • 1997: More than 160 nations meet in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiate binding limitations on greenhouse gases, setting legally binding emissions ...
Climate change and extreme weather events: can developing
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992 (Warrick, 2000). The UNFCCC recognises the need for adaptation to climate change, and specifies that financial assistance will be made available to “. . . the developing country parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adv ...
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992 (Warrick, 2000). The UNFCCC recognises the need for adaptation to climate change, and specifies that financial assistance will be made available to “. . . the developing country parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adv ...
What Trees Can Do to Reduce Atmospheric C02
... natural in origin” (IPCC 1995: 43). Further, based on recent studies of patterns in climate, the observations are consistent with what “one would expect as an anthropogenic signal increases in strength” and “the probability is very low that these correspondences could occur by chance as a result of ...
... natural in origin” (IPCC 1995: 43). Further, based on recent studies of patterns in climate, the observations are consistent with what “one would expect as an anthropogenic signal increases in strength” and “the probability is very low that these correspondences could occur by chance as a result of ...
Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the
... 0.81 K since then. Our analysis benefits from the availability of new observations and data from several new models. Using a previously employed temperature threshold to define extremely hot summers, we find that events that would occur twice a century in the early 2000s are now expected to occur tw ...
... 0.81 K since then. Our analysis benefits from the availability of new observations and data from several new models. Using a previously employed temperature threshold to define extremely hot summers, we find that events that would occur twice a century in the early 2000s are now expected to occur tw ...
Strategic Plan - Department of Environmental Affairs
... The MRV of AFOLU will evolve as part of the (web-based) national climate change response M&E 4 system to track economy wide emissions. The legislative mandate for DEA to develop and implement the M&E system is outlined in Section 12 of the NCCRP. Section 10 of the NCCRP outlines how the DEA should c ...
... The MRV of AFOLU will evolve as part of the (web-based) national climate change response M&E 4 system to track economy wide emissions. The legislative mandate for DEA to develop and implement the M&E system is outlined in Section 12 of the NCCRP. Section 10 of the NCCRP outlines how the DEA should c ...
Coping with climate variability and climate change in La Ceiba
... La Ceiba is a bustling but largely poor city with a strong potential for tourism. Its origins began with the tropical fruit industry. La Ceiba was developed at the beginning of the 20th century and was used as a port by banana companies (Merrill 1995). It is a way station to the popular tourist dest ...
... La Ceiba is a bustling but largely poor city with a strong potential for tourism. Its origins began with the tropical fruit industry. La Ceiba was developed at the beginning of the 20th century and was used as a port by banana companies (Merrill 1995). It is a way station to the popular tourist dest ...
Ocean Extremes - A unified marine science community
... through enhanced turbidity and turbulence impacts on marine biodiversity and (ii) extreme ocean temperatures and their impact on marine biodiversity. This paper focuses on the biophysical science that underpins ...
... through enhanced turbidity and turbulence impacts on marine biodiversity and (ii) extreme ocean temperatures and their impact on marine biodiversity. This paper focuses on the biophysical science that underpins ...
Nuclear war does not cause extinction from climate
... necessary elements.” In a very real and direct sense, therefore, human degradation of marine ecosystems impairs the planet’s ability to support life. Maintaining biodiversity is often critical to maintaining the functions of marine ecosystems. Current evidence shows that, in general, an ecosystem’s ...
... necessary elements.” In a very real and direct sense, therefore, human degradation of marine ecosystems impairs the planet’s ability to support life. Maintaining biodiversity is often critical to maintaining the functions of marine ecosystems. Current evidence shows that, in general, an ecosystem’s ...
Right wing populism and climate change
... The rise in right wing populism (RWP) across Europe and Anglo-phone countries poses a major challenge for climate policy. RWP parties are almost always hostile to climate policy, and their leaders, and indeed supporters, often express forms of climate scepticism in ways which place them (as on other ...
... The rise in right wing populism (RWP) across Europe and Anglo-phone countries poses a major challenge for climate policy. RWP parties are almost always hostile to climate policy, and their leaders, and indeed supporters, often express forms of climate scepticism in ways which place them (as on other ...
Comparative Climate Change Governance: Lessons from European
... Nation-wide examples of such bottom-up efforts include France, Germany and Norway. The French government encourages local governments in their adaptation strategy to formulate their own goals while at the same time coordinating with the national level. In Germany, select cities have engaged in clima ...
... Nation-wide examples of such bottom-up efforts include France, Germany and Norway. The French government encourages local governments in their adaptation strategy to formulate their own goals while at the same time coordinating with the national level. In Germany, select cities have engaged in clima ...
global warming, human-induced carbon emissions,and their
... snow and ice melt, sea-level rising, and disturbances in the hydrological cycle; and meanwhile the increase in CO2 concentrations will lead to the acidification of sea water. Such effects will directly or indirectly threaten terrestrial and marine ecosystems and social systems. (4) Climate model pro ...
... snow and ice melt, sea-level rising, and disturbances in the hydrological cycle; and meanwhile the increase in CO2 concentrations will lead to the acidification of sea water. Such effects will directly or indirectly threaten terrestrial and marine ecosystems and social systems. (4) Climate model pro ...
Climate Risk Screening and Management Tool for Strategy Design
... Structure: The tool guides you through the steps shown to the right. For additional information, you will find purple pop-ups with definitions and yellow pop-ups with examples throughout the tool. Additional Resources: This tool should be used in conjunction with climate information, such as these c ...
... Structure: The tool guides you through the steps shown to the right. For additional information, you will find purple pop-ups with definitions and yellow pop-ups with examples throughout the tool. Additional Resources: This tool should be used in conjunction with climate information, such as these c ...
Chemical Relationships between Greenhouse Gases
... these indirect greenhouse gases (NMVOCs, NOx, CO, SO2) to global warming. This is due to the short lifetime of these gases in the atmosphere, their spatial variability, or their indirect effects that are hard to quantify. Therefore there is not a precise global warming formulaic potential for NMVOCs ...
... these indirect greenhouse gases (NMVOCs, NOx, CO, SO2) to global warming. This is due to the short lifetime of these gases in the atmosphere, their spatial variability, or their indirect effects that are hard to quantify. Therefore there is not a precise global warming formulaic potential for NMVOCs ...
freeze-thaw and precipitation report
... Prince George related to rainfall and freeze-thaw cycles and to discuss how these changes may impact development, operational practices, and infrastructure. In addition to climate change, the added effects of climate variability and urban growth are also discussed. The primary focus is on short-term ...
... Prince George related to rainfall and freeze-thaw cycles and to discuss how these changes may impact development, operational practices, and infrastructure. In addition to climate change, the added effects of climate variability and urban growth are also discussed. The primary focus is on short-term ...
Climate change and extreme weather events
... Researchers for the National Climate Data Center/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NCDC/NOAA) have quantified the interannual-to-decadal variability of the heat content of the world ocean layer through a depth of 3,000 metres, for the period 1948 to 1998 (Levitus et al. 1999), see figure ...
... Researchers for the National Climate Data Center/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NCDC/NOAA) have quantified the interannual-to-decadal variability of the heat content of the world ocean layer through a depth of 3,000 metres, for the period 1948 to 1998 (Levitus et al. 1999), see figure ...
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.