Separating forcing from feedback
... internal atmospheric adjustment (days-weeks) land surface physical adjustment (weeks-months) ocean mixed-layer (yrs-decades) ...
... internal atmospheric adjustment (days-weeks) land surface physical adjustment (weeks-months) ocean mixed-layer (yrs-decades) ...
co2_impact_on_climate - Colorado Professional Learning
... 2. Discuss the graph with students. Pose the following questions to the class: (Taken from Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming.) a. “Describe the trend in the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere over the past 50 years. b. By what percentage has the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere ...
... 2. Discuss the graph with students. Pose the following questions to the class: (Taken from Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming.) a. “Describe the trend in the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere over the past 50 years. b. By what percentage has the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere ...
Charnwood Climate Local Consultation
... CO2 emissions in Charnwood come from three sectors (Figure 1 above): Domestic, Road Transport and Industry and Commercial. The tables below set out our commitments and the actions we will undertake to deliver them. All of these actions identified will collectively aim to reduce the amount of greenho ...
... CO2 emissions in Charnwood come from three sectors (Figure 1 above): Domestic, Road Transport and Industry and Commercial. The tables below set out our commitments and the actions we will undertake to deliver them. All of these actions identified will collectively aim to reduce the amount of greenho ...
Met 10
... Recall how the water vapor feedback works – Increase in temp – Increase evaporation – Increase in water vapor in atmosphere Water vapor is a greenhouse gas – Increase in greenhouse effect – Further warming (positive feedback) ...
... Recall how the water vapor feedback works – Increase in temp – Increase evaporation – Increase in water vapor in atmosphere Water vapor is a greenhouse gas – Increase in greenhouse effect – Further warming (positive feedback) ...
Member Debrief - Parliamentary Network on the World Bank
... put it, “The world must eradicate poverty, inequality, and mitigate climate change.” IPU President Chowdhury stressed from the outset of the Meeting that “we want to ensure that poverty belongs to the museum of the past.” UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner pointed towards the excellent opportuni ...
... put it, “The world must eradicate poverty, inequality, and mitigate climate change.” IPU President Chowdhury stressed from the outset of the Meeting that “we want to ensure that poverty belongs to the museum of the past.” UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner pointed towards the excellent opportuni ...
Food Security - Department of Environmental Affairs
... shocks. At present the grain and oilseed models incorporate rainfall timing and locality, but the inclusion of carbon fertilisation and temperature effects is an essential improvement that is required. The modelling of climate change effects on the livestock industry will also have to be improved. ...
... shocks. At present the grain and oilseed models incorporate rainfall timing and locality, but the inclusion of carbon fertilisation and temperature effects is an essential improvement that is required. The modelling of climate change effects on the livestock industry will also have to be improved. ...
Sociological Tasks in View of the Transition to Post
... Unfortunately, Redclift – while not mentioning Giddens – does not share with us his thoughts on Urry’s attempt, he just mentions it. What Is A ‘Post-carbon Society’? While Redclifts’ paper presents a lot of aspects and research lines that we need to follow in order to achieve a post-carbon society, ...
... Unfortunately, Redclift – while not mentioning Giddens – does not share with us his thoughts on Urry’s attempt, he just mentions it. What Is A ‘Post-carbon Society’? While Redclifts’ paper presents a lot of aspects and research lines that we need to follow in order to achieve a post-carbon society, ...
new ways for cities to tackle climate change
... climate and warmer temperatures, cities must also contend with major financial losses when natural disasters hit. About half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, which are hubs of economic activity. These areas produce about 80 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and nearly 70 p ...
... climate and warmer temperatures, cities must also contend with major financial losses when natural disasters hit. About half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, which are hubs of economic activity. These areas produce about 80 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and nearly 70 p ...
Yes, He Can: President Obama`s Power to Enter a Legally Binding
... Section 1103(a)(4) of the Global Climate Protection Act (titled “Mandate for action on the Global Climate”) directs the United States to “work toward multilateral agreements” on climate change. It directs that United States climate policy should “identify technologies and activities to limit mankind ...
... Section 1103(a)(4) of the Global Climate Protection Act (titled “Mandate for action on the Global Climate”) directs the United States to “work toward multilateral agreements” on climate change. It directs that United States climate policy should “identify technologies and activities to limit mankind ...
Global Warming - just more Lysenkoism?
... The Report of November 2009 “The Effect of Climate Change on Extreme Sea Levels in Port Phillip Bay” is by Kathleen L. McInnes, Julian O’Grady and Ian Macadam of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. Implausibly, it asserts a dramatic acceleration of sea level rise, totalling a massive 0.82 metres ...
... The Report of November 2009 “The Effect of Climate Change on Extreme Sea Levels in Port Phillip Bay” is by Kathleen L. McInnes, Julian O’Grady and Ian Macadam of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. Implausibly, it asserts a dramatic acceleration of sea level rise, totalling a massive 0.82 metres ...
Framing the Fifth-Century Climate
... of local features such as water, soils, vegetation, elevation, and orography. [SLIDE} Microclimates can create distinct environments over small spatial scales, so that the leeward side of a mountain may present radically different prospects for agrarian production from the windward. Microclimates gi ...
... of local features such as water, soils, vegetation, elevation, and orography. [SLIDE} Microclimates can create distinct environments over small spatial scales, so that the leeward side of a mountain may present radically different prospects for agrarian production from the windward. Microclimates gi ...
Greenhouse Gas Emission Scenarios
... • Second Report 1998: Regional analyses of climate trends, future climate scenarios, and impact scenarios for natural and human systems • Third Report 2001: 3 Working groups, 23 disciplines, 1200 scientists. Much more actual observations of changes in climate and in impacts. Improved climate project ...
... • Second Report 1998: Regional analyses of climate trends, future climate scenarios, and impact scenarios for natural and human systems • Third Report 2001: 3 Working groups, 23 disciplines, 1200 scientists. Much more actual observations of changes in climate and in impacts. Improved climate project ...
PredicHng hydrologic sensiHviHes to climate and land cover
... 1) Necessity for a regional modeling construct to understand the spa4al construct, and where the “big numbers” are 2) Need to consider both climate and land cover change (not clear that climate change ...
... 1) Necessity for a regional modeling construct to understand the spa4al construct, and where the “big numbers” are 2) Need to consider both climate and land cover change (not clear that climate change ...
- adaptation
... Climate change is global, but impacts are regional and local! Local communities depend upon the most climate-sensitive sectors of any economy, such as farming, fishing, and forestry. The world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities will bear the brunt of climate change. Poor communities are the l ...
... Climate change is global, but impacts are regional and local! Local communities depend upon the most climate-sensitive sectors of any economy, such as farming, fishing, and forestry. The world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities will bear the brunt of climate change. Poor communities are the l ...
Climate_policy_11052015
... • The adaptation strategy is divided into two parts. The first part, describes the goals, challenges and fields of action in adapting to climate change. The second part, due to be available by the end of 2013, will build on this, presenting a plan of action which brings together specific adaptation ...
... • The adaptation strategy is divided into two parts. The first part, describes the goals, challenges and fields of action in adapting to climate change. The second part, due to be available by the end of 2013, will build on this, presenting a plan of action which brings together specific adaptation ...
Presentation - PDF version - NSTA Learning Center
... •Snow and ice – although often considered to be the cryosphere, snow and ice are also part of the water cycle. ...
... •Snow and ice – although often considered to be the cryosphere, snow and ice are also part of the water cycle. ...
Research for Action: Climate - NSW Department of Primary Industries
... that human activity is increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to an enhanced greenhouse effect. The greenhouse gas contributing most to the enhanced greenhouse effect is carbon dioxide (CO2). Fossil fuel combustion for electricity and transport and from deforesta ...
... that human activity is increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to an enhanced greenhouse effect. The greenhouse gas contributing most to the enhanced greenhouse effect is carbon dioxide (CO2). Fossil fuel combustion for electricity and transport and from deforesta ...
- Sustainable Loudoun
... "direct experimental evidence for a significant increase in the Earth's greenhouse effect" [11]. 8. If less heat is escaping to space, where is it going? Back to the Earth's surface. Surface measurements confirm this, observing more downward infrared radiation. A closer look at the downward radiatio ...
... "direct experimental evidence for a significant increase in the Earth's greenhouse effect" [11]. 8. If less heat is escaping to space, where is it going? Back to the Earth's surface. Surface measurements confirm this, observing more downward infrared radiation. A closer look at the downward radiatio ...
ASME 160125 - ASME Community
... Congressional hearings and a request for new research followed. But who had “warned” Helmut Schmidt, who held a degree in economics and politics and could not make this stuff up himself? I guess it was somebody who was not excited at the prospect of America gaining energy independence. Notably Schmi ...
... Congressional hearings and a request for new research followed. But who had “warned” Helmut Schmidt, who held a degree in economics and politics and could not make this stuff up himself? I guess it was somebody who was not excited at the prospect of America gaining energy independence. Notably Schmi ...
Climate and Disease - dimacs
... –Models that depend on average change in temperature or rainfall miss out on spatial variation –There are changes in the time of the malaria cycle during which rainfall changes result in changes in impact –With global warming, there are areas where malaria would appear and others where malaria would ...
... –Models that depend on average change in temperature or rainfall miss out on spatial variation –There are changes in the time of the malaria cycle during which rainfall changes result in changes in impact –With global warming, there are areas where malaria would appear and others where malaria would ...
... the Earth per unit change in GAARF. In addition, values given in Figure 2 represent the change in forcing from changes in concentrations due to all prior aviation activities. Since the atmospheric effects due to aviation emissions have very different timescales, ranging from several hundred years fo ...
Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP) and their role in climate
... NOAA has focused on many issues related to SLCPs: • The physical and chemical nature of these species; • How they have forced the climate system; • How they will contribute in the future; • What are the telltale signatures of these forcers; and • What have been and will be the impacts of these chang ...
... NOAA has focused on many issues related to SLCPs: • The physical and chemical nature of these species; • How they have forced the climate system; • How they will contribute in the future; • What are the telltale signatures of these forcers; and • What have been and will be the impacts of these chang ...
Publication in doc format - Friends of the Earth Ireland
... As an EU member state, Ireland is bound to the longstanding EU objective of stabilising global temperatures at a level below 2oC above pre-industrial temperatures. Achievement of this objective will depend not only on the EU, but on all Parties to UNFCCC putting themselves onto sustainable and solid ...
... As an EU member state, Ireland is bound to the longstanding EU objective of stabilising global temperatures at a level below 2oC above pre-industrial temperatures. Achievement of this objective will depend not only on the EU, but on all Parties to UNFCCC putting themselves onto sustainable and solid ...
Lesson Summary: Students consider how Florida`s climate has
... Initiatives and measures to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems against actual or expected climate change effects. Anthropogenic Caused by humans; relating to or resulting from the influence that humans have on the natural world. Climate The long-term average of conditions in the a ...
... Initiatives and measures to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems against actual or expected climate change effects. Anthropogenic Caused by humans; relating to or resulting from the influence that humans have on the natural world. Climate The long-term average of conditions in the a ...
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.