Regionalkonferenz der Metropolregion Hamburg
... Two classes of options for response: • avoiding man-made changes („mitigation“) – this has different dimensions, namely avoiding elevated levels of GHG concentrations by reduced emissions; by intensified sinks; by geo-engineering the global albedo, or regional and local conditions. • adapting to man ...
... Two classes of options for response: • avoiding man-made changes („mitigation“) – this has different dimensions, namely avoiding elevated levels of GHG concentrations by reduced emissions; by intensified sinks; by geo-engineering the global albedo, or regional and local conditions. • adapting to man ...
Climate Basics - FIU Faculty Websites
... A water molecule H2O can form either from 16O or 18O (16 protons, but 18 neutrons). But the lighter isotope 16O evaporates more readily from the ocean. Thus, precipitation (hence glacial ice) is enriched in 16O. During the periods when glaciers are extensive, more lighter 16O is tied up in the ice, ...
... A water molecule H2O can form either from 16O or 18O (16 protons, but 18 neutrons). But the lighter isotope 16O evaporates more readily from the ocean. Thus, precipitation (hence glacial ice) is enriched in 16O. During the periods when glaciers are extensive, more lighter 16O is tied up in the ice, ...
Climate Change in the Kawarthas Part One
... A warmer atmosphere can hold more water; warmer oceans = more evaporation We are seeing more extreme storms, more severe droughts, deadly heat waves, rising sea levels, and more acidic oceans, which can affect the very base of the food chain. Mass extinctions (20 to 50% of all species) are forecaste ...
... A warmer atmosphere can hold more water; warmer oceans = more evaporation We are seeing more extreme storms, more severe droughts, deadly heat waves, rising sea levels, and more acidic oceans, which can affect the very base of the food chain. Mass extinctions (20 to 50% of all species) are forecaste ...
Experiences in the Columbia Basin
... • Kimberley and Elkford engaged in yearlong planning processes Phase 2 (2009/10): • Rossland, Castlegar and Kaslo/Rural engaged in year-long planning processes Phase 3 (2011/13): • New communities engaged in one-day workshop and supported to implement a climate adaptation project ...
... • Kimberley and Elkford engaged in yearlong planning processes Phase 2 (2009/10): • Rossland, Castlegar and Kaslo/Rural engaged in year-long planning processes Phase 3 (2011/13): • New communities engaged in one-day workshop and supported to implement a climate adaptation project ...
Environment and Security Initiative
... Experiences from other regions (e.g. Alps, Carpathians, Central Asia) Climate change adaptation policies and strategies; Policy gap analysis; Priority areas for future action (governmentally reviewed); ...
... Experiences from other regions (e.g. Alps, Carpathians, Central Asia) Climate change adaptation policies and strategies; Policy gap analysis; Priority areas for future action (governmentally reviewed); ...
here - Sarah Nuss
... significant drop in their population. As we burn fossil fuels, such as oil and natural gas. We pump more and more CO2 into the air. This rampant CO2 acts like a heat trapping blanket, trapping heat that would otherwise escape. This warming is causing glaciers to melt and seawater to expand which cau ...
... significant drop in their population. As we burn fossil fuels, such as oil and natural gas. We pump more and more CO2 into the air. This rampant CO2 acts like a heat trapping blanket, trapping heat that would otherwise escape. This warming is causing glaciers to melt and seawater to expand which cau ...
US Army Corps of engineers tools and resources for climate change
... Introduction to Regional Literature Summaries ...
... Introduction to Regional Literature Summaries ...
Great Bay Climate Symposium - Great Bay National Estuarine
... The Lamprey River 100 Year Flood Plain Assessment and Regional Cooperation Cliff Sinnott Executive Director Rockingham Planning Commission ...
... The Lamprey River 100 Year Flood Plain Assessment and Regional Cooperation Cliff Sinnott Executive Director Rockingham Planning Commission ...
Climate forcing and models
... • Experiment 2: Now apply anthropogenic forcing + natural • Without anthropogenic forcing it is very difficult to explain global surface temperature record over the past 100 years ...
... • Experiment 2: Now apply anthropogenic forcing + natural • Without anthropogenic forcing it is very difficult to explain global surface temperature record over the past 100 years ...
A blanket around the Earth
... Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is the human-aided increase of the "greenhouse effect." This warming effect results when the atmosphere traps in heat radiating from Earth toward space. Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping. Some gas ...
... Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is the human-aided increase of the "greenhouse effect." This warming effect results when the atmosphere traps in heat radiating from Earth toward space. Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping. Some gas ...
Sustainability Watch
... meeting expectations but by exceeding them’. GSK will publish details of 13 500 chemical compounds from its own library that have potential to act against the parasite that causes malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, killing at least one million children every year. According to Witty only a handful of bi ...
... meeting expectations but by exceeding them’. GSK will publish details of 13 500 chemical compounds from its own library that have potential to act against the parasite that causes malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, killing at least one million children every year. According to Witty only a handful of bi ...
Business Perspectives on International Climate Policy
... significantly improved version of the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) may provide the basis for such a framework. • The architecture has to be economically feasible, based on respective capabilities and fair in order to avoid leakage and to safeguard the level playing field for all the actors compe ...
... significantly improved version of the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) may provide the basis for such a framework. • The architecture has to be economically feasible, based on respective capabilities and fair in order to avoid leakage and to safeguard the level playing field for all the actors compe ...
PDF File
... • Global Climate Models (GCMs) provide a complete time and space view of the climate system; - full view of each hazard - correlations between hazards in time and space • Used to simulate past and present climates and provide projections of possible future climates. • High computational expense curr ...
... • Global Climate Models (GCMs) provide a complete time and space view of the climate system; - full view of each hazard - correlations between hazards in time and space • Used to simulate past and present climates and provide projections of possible future climates. • High computational expense curr ...
Climate affairs ppt for iafs 3000
... water resources in a region • Experience from similar ecosystems • Reliable forecasts on all time scales • The careful use of climate information can make a hostile climate less so ...
... water resources in a region • Experience from similar ecosystems • Reliable forecasts on all time scales • The careful use of climate information can make a hostile climate less so ...
Climate Reporting in the Future?
... What Should be Measured in Scope 3? • Focus on where the impact is big – IKEA found out that their customers travel to the IKEA-stores represented 56% of the total emissions in the inventory – Swiss Re found out business travel stands for 43% of the company’s emissions – Other companies may for exa ...
... What Should be Measured in Scope 3? • Focus on where the impact is big – IKEA found out that their customers travel to the IKEA-stores represented 56% of the total emissions in the inventory – Swiss Re found out business travel stands for 43% of the company’s emissions – Other companies may for exa ...
AFTER CANCUN: Reflections on Apocalyptic Multilateralism
... process, and moments of tension, but overall, and certainly by comparison with Copenhagen, there were good feelings generated in most governmental circles by the end of the proceedings. I suppose that the best summary of these atmospherics was ‘Onward to Durban’ where next year’s climate change gath ...
... process, and moments of tension, but overall, and certainly by comparison with Copenhagen, there were good feelings generated in most governmental circles by the end of the proceedings. I suppose that the best summary of these atmospherics was ‘Onward to Durban’ where next year’s climate change gath ...
Presentation - Harvard University
... IPCC (2007) Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Solomon, S. et al., Eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Petit JR, et al. (1999) Cli ...
... IPCC (2007) Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Solomon, S. et al., Eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Petit JR, et al. (1999) Cli ...
Homework (Reading and summary writing) File
... future of increasing and more volatile food prices. As was seen during the 2007–08 food price spikes, the poorest countries and communities will be hit first and hardest. The Foresight report concluded that international policy has an important role to play here – today, despite plentiful supplies o ...
... future of increasing and more volatile food prices. As was seen during the 2007–08 food price spikes, the poorest countries and communities will be hit first and hardest. The Foresight report concluded that international policy has an important role to play here – today, despite plentiful supplies o ...
"WG12 Presentation Ms Janani Vivekananda
... 1. The compound nature of risks 2. Uncertainty and a few certainties 3. Challenges of applying risk assessments to Fragile States 4. How to prioritise actions 5. Conclusion ...
... 1. The compound nature of risks 2. Uncertainty and a few certainties 3. Challenges of applying risk assessments to Fragile States 4. How to prioritise actions 5. Conclusion ...
8th International Climate Change Conference: London 23
... is for any one with an interest in, and concern for, scientific, policy and strategic perspectives in climate change. It will address a range of critically important themes relating to the vexing question of climate change. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the fi ...
... is for any one with an interest in, and concern for, scientific, policy and strategic perspectives in climate change. It will address a range of critically important themes relating to the vexing question of climate change. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the fi ...
Printer-friendly version - Weconnect
... Data representing the scenarios was provided by CSIRO under its Climate Change Projections for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions project (Timbal et al. 2015), based on modelling undertaken for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2013). The over ...
... Data representing the scenarios was provided by CSIRO under its Climate Change Projections for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions project (Timbal et al. 2015), based on modelling undertaken for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2013). The over ...
protect the world`s children: leave a habitable planet for posterity
... change], not just by humans but by Australia’s spectacular biodiversity as well.”11 Attitudes on climate change are changing in Australia where climate change impacts are severe and readily observable, but must catastrophes at the level of severity occur everywhere before a global perspective on c ...
... change], not just by humans but by Australia’s spectacular biodiversity as well.”11 Attitudes on climate change are changing in Australia where climate change impacts are severe and readily observable, but must catastrophes at the level of severity occur everywhere before a global perspective on c ...
FoS News Release July 18, 2012
... atmosphere and a reduction of cloud cover, which together would amplify the tiny direct warming effect from increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. But measurements show that upper atmosphere water vapour declined 11% since 1960, offsetting most of the direct CO2 warming effect. Warmer temperatures cause ...
... atmosphere and a reduction of cloud cover, which together would amplify the tiny direct warming effect from increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. But measurements show that upper atmosphere water vapour declined 11% since 1960, offsetting most of the direct CO2 warming effect. Warmer temperatures cause ...
wording - European Parliament
... 31 January – the EU should communicate better its willingness to move to a 30 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, provided that the other countries are ready to commit themselves to taking adequate action too, based on the principle of a ‘common but differentiated responsibility’ and, at a more ...
... 31 January – the EU should communicate better its willingness to move to a 30 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, provided that the other countries are ready to commit themselves to taking adequate action too, based on the principle of a ‘common but differentiated responsibility’ and, at a more ...
The Science of Global Warming
... - “Their effects, together with those of other anthropogenic drivers, … are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.” 1. IPCC, Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers [http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessmentreport/ar5/syr/AR ...
... - “Their effects, together with those of other anthropogenic drivers, … are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.” 1. IPCC, Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers [http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessmentreport/ar5/syr/AR ...
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.