Climate Change in New York
... solutions. • Analytic approach: Assess potential impacts of climate change through 2100 under lower and higher scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions ...
... solutions. • Analytic approach: Assess potential impacts of climate change through 2100 under lower and higher scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions ...
What we do not know in terms of adaptation
... such as floods and extreme weather events. Extreme rainfall is usually local. So how is it possible then, as two new papers in Nature by Min et al. and Pall et al. (discussed here) have done, to attribute extreme precipitation and extreme UK floods to climate change? First of all, Oreskes et al. emp ...
... such as floods and extreme weather events. Extreme rainfall is usually local. So how is it possible then, as two new papers in Nature by Min et al. and Pall et al. (discussed here) have done, to attribute extreme precipitation and extreme UK floods to climate change? First of all, Oreskes et al. emp ...
Climate vulnerability assessments
... Fostering climate change adaptation initiatives in the region Bridging the gap between climate change adaptation activities on national and regional level Capacity building in climate vulnerability assessments Results of climate risk/vulnerability analysis can be used for design of future RC ...
... Fostering climate change adaptation initiatives in the region Bridging the gap between climate change adaptation activities on national and regional level Capacity building in climate vulnerability assessments Results of climate risk/vulnerability analysis can be used for design of future RC ...
Climate Change and the Colorado River: What We Already Know
... inexpensive and reliable renewable energy systems (many being deployed in the basin states), and the latest global agreement emerging from the Paris talks. Climate mitigation is neither an easy nor short‐ term solution, but it is a lasting solution that deserves the support of the Colorado River co ...
... inexpensive and reliable renewable energy systems (many being deployed in the basin states), and the latest global agreement emerging from the Paris talks. Climate mitigation is neither an easy nor short‐ term solution, but it is a lasting solution that deserves the support of the Colorado River co ...
Slide 1
... • Engaging vulnerable communities in decisions that affect them can help address both procedural justice and foster the development of more resilient communities Pattie, C., Seyd, P. and Whiteley P. (2004) Citizenship in Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ...
... • Engaging vulnerable communities in decisions that affect them can help address both procedural justice and foster the development of more resilient communities Pattie, C., Seyd, P. and Whiteley P. (2004) Citizenship in Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ...
Media coverage of climate change
... “All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving ri ...
... “All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving ri ...
adaptation of road network to climate change
... Use of materials that are less affected by climate ...
... Use of materials that are less affected by climate ...
Slide 1
... • It is going to affect the health of the people we work with. • It is a social justice issue because the negative effects of climate change are felt most acutely by those who contribute to it the least. • We have the skills to make an impact in supporting people as they adapt to their changing clim ...
... • It is going to affect the health of the people we work with. • It is a social justice issue because the negative effects of climate change are felt most acutely by those who contribute to it the least. • We have the skills to make an impact in supporting people as they adapt to their changing clim ...
cairns_slow_down_biospheric_change
... Most academics are not highly literate about global systems-level problems (e.g., climate), but a modest amount of reading should bring them up to speed for the basics. In fields, such as climate change, much new information is being generated one must determine how recent the information is a ...
... Most academics are not highly literate about global systems-level problems (e.g., climate), but a modest amount of reading should bring them up to speed for the basics. In fields, such as climate change, much new information is being generated one must determine how recent the information is a ...
SLOWING DOWN BIOSPHERIC CHANGE
... Most academics are not highly literate about global systems-level problems (e.g., climate), but a modest amount of reading should bring them up to speed for the basics. In fields, such as climate change, much new information is being generated one must determine how recent the information is a ...
... Most academics are not highly literate about global systems-level problems (e.g., climate), but a modest amount of reading should bring them up to speed for the basics. In fields, such as climate change, much new information is being generated one must determine how recent the information is a ...
Climate modelling
... • Potential for realistic regional and local projections • The reality of global warming is based on much more than climate model results ...
... • Potential for realistic regional and local projections • The reality of global warming is based on much more than climate model results ...
Climate change myths
... The final piece of the jigsaw is that as well as producing CO2, burning fossil fuels also produces small particles called aerosols which cool the climate by reflecting sunlight back into space. These have increased steadily in concentration over the 20th century, which has probably offset some of th ...
... The final piece of the jigsaw is that as well as producing CO2, burning fossil fuels also produces small particles called aerosols which cool the climate by reflecting sunlight back into space. These have increased steadily in concentration over the 20th century, which has probably offset some of th ...
Why Focus On Climate Change - 1 - PowerPoint
... Figure SPM.1: Observed globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature anomaly 1850-2012 Graphic Source IPCC, 2013: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Pan ...
... Figure SPM.1: Observed globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature anomaly 1850-2012 Graphic Source IPCC, 2013: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Pan ...
Climate change impacts on Pacific Northwest Hydrology
... • Application of down-scaled and bias-corrected AOGCM climate data to drive hydrologic models has the potential to improve our understanding of the impacts of climate and hydrologic change on agriculture and water resources management. For example, this set of tools allows us to investigate the pote ...
... • Application of down-scaled and bias-corrected AOGCM climate data to drive hydrologic models has the potential to improve our understanding of the impacts of climate and hydrologic change on agriculture and water resources management. For example, this set of tools allows us to investigate the pote ...
Slide 1
... Using The Montreal Protocol And Other Regulatory Actions To Complement Cuts In CO2 Emissions Mario Molina, Durwood Zaelke, K. Madhava Sarma, Stephen O. Andersen, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and Donald Kaniaru ...
... Using The Montreal Protocol And Other Regulatory Actions To Complement Cuts In CO2 Emissions Mario Molina, Durwood Zaelke, K. Madhava Sarma, Stephen O. Andersen, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and Donald Kaniaru ...
Global Physical Climatology. Edition No. 2 Brochure
... Global Physical Climatology, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the science of climate and climate change. It begins with a basic introduction to the climate system, and then introduces the physics of the climate system, including the principles and processes that determine the structure an ...
... Global Physical Climatology, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the science of climate and climate change. It begins with a basic introduction to the climate system, and then introduces the physics of the climate system, including the principles and processes that determine the structure an ...
Main Natural Factors that Affect Climate
... Earth's atmosphere, about a third of it is reflected back to space. • Of the remainder, most is absorbed by the Earth’s surface. Some also stays in the atmosphere, absorbed by water vapor and green house gases. • This natural Greenhouse Effect is vital to life as we know it. • Right now, the average ...
... Earth's atmosphere, about a third of it is reflected back to space. • Of the remainder, most is absorbed by the Earth’s surface. Some also stays in the atmosphere, absorbed by water vapor and green house gases. • This natural Greenhouse Effect is vital to life as we know it. • Right now, the average ...
ClimateChangePowerpo..
... 800,000 Year Record of Carbon Dioxide Concentration (Lüthi et al.; Tans; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) ...
... 800,000 Year Record of Carbon Dioxide Concentration (Lüthi et al.; Tans; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) ...
Wild weather: the new normal?
... become much more common, and will be interspersed with equally extreme precipitation leading to floods of similar magnitudes. These changing rainfall patterns will profoundly affect global food security, health, and water access. The strength and frequency of precipitation has already increased in s ...
... become much more common, and will be interspersed with equally extreme precipitation leading to floods of similar magnitudes. These changing rainfall patterns will profoundly affect global food security, health, and water access. The strength and frequency of precipitation has already increased in s ...
: Ready to Share Center Stage with the Public and Private
... o Carry over “AAUs” – “hot air” from the first to the second commitment period Rules related to accounting AAUs will be further developed; A group of developed countries have declared that they will not purchase AAUs during the second commitment period ...
... o Carry over “AAUs” – “hot air” from the first to the second commitment period Rules related to accounting AAUs will be further developed; A group of developed countries have declared that they will not purchase AAUs during the second commitment period ...
Aalborg Universitet
... Average intensity of rainfall for days with more than 1mm rainfall (mm/day) Extreme rainfall (% rainfall over 95 percentile) ...
... Average intensity of rainfall for days with more than 1mm rainfall (mm/day) Extreme rainfall (% rainfall over 95 percentile) ...
Global Warming: Frequently Asked Questions
... layers of the atmosphere directly above the land has shifted upward over the past 20 years. Such a shift could only result from heat-trapping gases building up in the atmosphere. If other factors, such as solar radiation, were at work, we would expect to see a different heating pattern in the atmosp ...
... layers of the atmosphere directly above the land has shifted upward over the past 20 years. Such a shift could only result from heat-trapping gases building up in the atmosphere. If other factors, such as solar radiation, were at work, we would expect to see a different heating pattern in the atmosp ...
Overview of climate change
... To end the class period, begin a class discussion with ways the amount of carbon in the atmosphere may have changed since the Industrial Revolution. The attached PPT slides may be helpful in this discussion. Assessment: For homework, have students read the article from suite101.com/article/the-origi ...
... To end the class period, begin a class discussion with ways the amount of carbon in the atmosphere may have changed since the Industrial Revolution. The attached PPT slides may be helpful in this discussion. Assessment: For homework, have students read the article from suite101.com/article/the-origi ...
japan
... different climate change scenarios. Factors that contribute to household food insecurity will also be assessed. The location of vulnerable household groups will then be indicated by mapping. In step 3, community-based adaptation in vulnerable communities as well as the most relevant adaptation optio ...
... different climate change scenarios. Factors that contribute to household food insecurity will also be assessed. The location of vulnerable household groups will then be indicated by mapping. In step 3, community-based adaptation in vulnerable communities as well as the most relevant adaptation optio ...
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.