Do we need more precise and accurate predictions in order to adapt
... called the problem of ‘model identifiability’) – that many different model structures and many different parameter sets of a model can produce similar observed behaviour of the system under study – has rarely been addressed. More fundamentally, current projections suggest that the Earth’s climate ma ...
... called the problem of ‘model identifiability’) – that many different model structures and many different parameter sets of a model can produce similar observed behaviour of the system under study – has rarely been addressed. More fundamentally, current projections suggest that the Earth’s climate ma ...
Climate and Environmental Policy in Trump`s First 100 Days: A
... dangerously close to being out of reach. There is an apparent significant rift within the President’s inner circle whether the U.S. will even remain a party to the Paris Agreement—and as one of the countries with the greatest per-capita greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. signaling disinterest in the ...
... dangerously close to being out of reach. There is an apparent significant rift within the President’s inner circle whether the U.S. will even remain a party to the Paris Agreement—and as one of the countries with the greatest per-capita greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. signaling disinterest in the ...
IPCC climate alarm advocacy has failed: what`s
... Meaning of the term climate change The phrase “climate change” has come to have several partly contradictory meanings in public discourse. This greatly inhibits clear discussion of the issue in the public domain. Two main meanings are current. Scientific. Climate change is used as a descriptive term ...
... Meaning of the term climate change The phrase “climate change” has come to have several partly contradictory meanings in public discourse. This greatly inhibits clear discussion of the issue in the public domain. Two main meanings are current. Scientific. Climate change is used as a descriptive term ...
JOB POSTING: Climate Change Coordinator
... Assist with or lead public education programs on reducing greenhouse gases and in the implementation of initiatives undertaken by the local government to reduce emissions in the community Educate municipal employees on climate change and help develop internal programs for reducing emissions Co ...
... Assist with or lead public education programs on reducing greenhouse gases and in the implementation of initiatives undertaken by the local government to reduce emissions in the community Educate municipal employees on climate change and help develop internal programs for reducing emissions Co ...
Towards a definition of climate science Valerio Lucarini*
... It is also not possible to rule out the fact that essential elements may have not yet been discovered, such as nonlinearities able to generate so-called climatic surprises, i.e. rapid climatic changes that can take place in conditions of increased instability. A wellknown example of these phenomena ...
... It is also not possible to rule out the fact that essential elements may have not yet been discovered, such as nonlinearities able to generate so-called climatic surprises, i.e. rapid climatic changes that can take place in conditions of increased instability. A wellknown example of these phenomena ...
Kitui District (semi-arid)
... • This is region has a clear trend due to the climate change fingerprint signal; Further increased delay of 2 weeks in the start of the rains in Kenya, which is good possibility in the next 10 years, would adversely disrupt/shift the timing of the wildebeest migration cycle • For example a two week ...
... • This is region has a clear trend due to the climate change fingerprint signal; Further increased delay of 2 weeks in the start of the rains in Kenya, which is good possibility in the next 10 years, would adversely disrupt/shift the timing of the wildebeest migration cycle • For example a two week ...
Science and the Layman
... to scientists. This is not true of many scientists. Scientists have been known to manipulate results to their advantage. Scientific issues are many times complex, there are differing views among scientists and the layman finds it difficult to decide which scientific course is harmful or beneficial. ...
... to scientists. This is not true of many scientists. Scientists have been known to manipulate results to their advantage. Scientific issues are many times complex, there are differing views among scientists and the layman finds it difficult to decide which scientific course is harmful or beneficial. ...
Addressing Oceans and Climate Change in Federal Legislation
... Congressional support should also extend to major observing initiatives supported by the National Science Foundation, as well as to remote sensing satellite programs supported by NASA’s Earth Science program. As noted earlier, the loss or diminishment of remote sensing capabilities, in addition to t ...
... Congressional support should also extend to major observing initiatives supported by the National Science Foundation, as well as to remote sensing satellite programs supported by NASA’s Earth Science program. As noted earlier, the loss or diminishment of remote sensing capabilities, in addition to t ...
Challenges of a Changing Earth: Past Perspectives, Future Concerns
... climate system operates have often been made possible. It is essential that more such records be recovered, for the task of deciphering the past is far from over. In particular, a comprehensive understanding of variability on societally-relevant timescales (years to several decades) will require an ...
... climate system operates have often been made possible. It is essential that more such records be recovered, for the task of deciphering the past is far from over. In particular, a comprehensive understanding of variability on societally-relevant timescales (years to several decades) will require an ...
Rwanda National Energy and Low carbon Assessment: Key Messages
... Economics of Climate Change Scoping Study for Development Partners Group, DFID funded. Aims are 1. Assess potential impacts and economic costs of climate change 2. Scope the cost and benefits of adapting to these effects over time 3. Assess the opportunities and potential for low carbon growth and ...
... Economics of Climate Change Scoping Study for Development Partners Group, DFID funded. Aims are 1. Assess potential impacts and economic costs of climate change 2. Scope the cost and benefits of adapting to these effects over time 3. Assess the opportunities and potential for low carbon growth and ...
Global Warming`s Terrifying New Math
... ("Reasonable," in this case, means four chances in five, or somewhat worse odds than playing Russian roulette with a six-shooter.) This idea of a global "carbon budget" emerged about a decade ago, as scientists began to calculate how much oil, coal and gas could still safely be burned. Since we've i ...
... ("Reasonable," in this case, means four chances in five, or somewhat worse odds than playing Russian roulette with a six-shooter.) This idea of a global "carbon budget" emerged about a decade ago, as scientists began to calculate how much oil, coal and gas could still safely be burned. Since we've i ...
Lecture 13:Climate Change
... Marine diatoms and dinoflagellates play an important role in regulating the earth’s climate by removing dissolved CO2 and carbonates from the ocean. In fact, their photosynthetic activity is about the same as land plants (4050 Gt/year). However, under even the most optimistic conditions of adding ir ...
... Marine diatoms and dinoflagellates play an important role in regulating the earth’s climate by removing dissolved CO2 and carbonates from the ocean. In fact, their photosynthetic activity is about the same as land plants (4050 Gt/year). However, under even the most optimistic conditions of adding ir ...
SRU Primer on Sustainability and the Call for Action to Avoid
... worry about 'tipping points' ... thresholds beyond which a small additional increase in average temperature or some associated climate variable results in major changes to the affected system." Among the tipping points Holdren listed were: the complete disappearance of Arctic sea ice in summer, lead ...
... worry about 'tipping points' ... thresholds beyond which a small additional increase in average temperature or some associated climate variable results in major changes to the affected system." Among the tipping points Holdren listed were: the complete disappearance of Arctic sea ice in summer, lead ...
Adaptation to climate change: key concepts
... Autonomous adaptation is the use of current knowledge and techniques already available to respond to changes in climate that are already occurring. Planned adaptation is the increase in the adaptive capacity through the mobilization of institutions and implementation of policies with the aim to crea ...
... Autonomous adaptation is the use of current knowledge and techniques already available to respond to changes in climate that are already occurring. Planned adaptation is the increase in the adaptive capacity through the mobilization of institutions and implementation of policies with the aim to crea ...
Official press release
... Mr. Ban did not deny that the Paris Agreement was indeed groundbreaking, noting that the ratification of the Paris Agreement marked “record-breaking” ratification numbers, with 191 countries having ratified the agreement. The Paris Agreement broke the previous record-holding agreement on the Unit ...
... Mr. Ban did not deny that the Paris Agreement was indeed groundbreaking, noting that the ratification of the Paris Agreement marked “record-breaking” ratification numbers, with 191 countries having ratified the agreement. The Paris Agreement broke the previous record-holding agreement on the Unit ...
Even the Himalayas Have Stopped Smiling
... various nations in the Pacific Ocean. The injustice is that the people of Nepal and many of these other countries are suffering the consequences of a situation that they have the least resources to cope with and bear little responsibility for creating. Nepal is one of the 100 countries most affected ...
... various nations in the Pacific Ocean. The injustice is that the people of Nepal and many of these other countries are suffering the consequences of a situation that they have the least resources to cope with and bear little responsibility for creating. Nepal is one of the 100 countries most affected ...
Greenhouse Warming Research
... traditionally been taken as 30 years, but due to the pace of changes experienced recently, shorter averaging times such as 20 or 10 years are sometimes used, albeit with dangers of getting into the region of the unpredictable fluctuations that characterize year-to-year weather patterns. The climate ...
... traditionally been taken as 30 years, but due to the pace of changes experienced recently, shorter averaging times such as 20 or 10 years are sometimes used, albeit with dangers of getting into the region of the unpredictable fluctuations that characterize year-to-year weather patterns. The climate ...
Global Warming`s Terrifying New Math By Bill McKibben, Rolling
... cientists estimate that humans can pour roughly 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by midcentury and still have some reasonable hope of staying below two degrees. ("Reasonable," in this case, means four chances in five, or somewhat worse odds than playing Russian roulette with a ...
... cientists estimate that humans can pour roughly 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by midcentury and still have some reasonable hope of staying below two degrees. ("Reasonable," in this case, means four chances in five, or somewhat worse odds than playing Russian roulette with a ...
ppt - International Association for the Advancement of Innovative
... Rockefeller Brothers Fund (rbf.org) • Cross programmatic initiative around energy • Sustainable development – environmental stewardship ...
... Rockefeller Brothers Fund (rbf.org) • Cross programmatic initiative around energy • Sustainable development – environmental stewardship ...
PRESS RELEASE
... Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC said, “It is my firm belief that any solution to climate change will be moot without the strong involvement of business, which ultimately creates the opportunities, the growth and jobs in all national economies. What we are looking at amounts to a new ...
... Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC said, “It is my firm belief that any solution to climate change will be moot without the strong involvement of business, which ultimately creates the opportunities, the growth and jobs in all national economies. What we are looking at amounts to a new ...
T Seabirds Face Risks from Climate Change Winners and losers
... closets, everywhere. We showered in the bath used for cleaning penguins. But we had time, so we made a mission with the hexacopter, still training. “The biggest challenge to using the hexacopter is wind,” she said. “The Crozet Islands are extremely windy, and there were only a few hours when the win ...
... closets, everywhere. We showered in the bath used for cleaning penguins. But we had time, so we made a mission with the hexacopter, still training. “The biggest challenge to using the hexacopter is wind,” she said. “The Crozet Islands are extremely windy, and there were only a few hours when the win ...
the speech - Mary Robinson Foundation
... population3 - global inequality is rapidly worsening. Business as usual, the fossil-fuel based development paradigm, is driving the world towards large scale, catastrophic climate change and increasing inequality. From the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we know that ...
... population3 - global inequality is rapidly worsening. Business as usual, the fossil-fuel based development paradigm, is driving the world towards large scale, catastrophic climate change and increasing inequality. From the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we know that ...
Priority Research Questions for the Environment Agency and other
... Tom Nisbet (Forestry Commission) ...
... Tom Nisbet (Forestry Commission) ...
ICT for climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector
... communications as an effective mean to address future climate change. Within this framework, it is crucial to identify information and communication systems that the farmers need in order to cope with the new conditions. This is particularly true for poor smallholder farmers, as in Africa where the ...
... communications as an effective mean to address future climate change. Within this framework, it is crucial to identify information and communication systems that the farmers need in order to cope with the new conditions. This is particularly true for poor smallholder farmers, as in Africa where the ...
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.