CC Equity SDS- An Urban Perspective Forthcoming
... Equity, equality and environmental justice issues first entered the debate on climate change when it was recognized that countries that historically have contributed least to global warming might be impacted the most by climate change in the future [11, 22]—although it is now recognized that impact ...
... Equity, equality and environmental justice issues first entered the debate on climate change when it was recognized that countries that historically have contributed least to global warming might be impacted the most by climate change in the future [11, 22]—although it is now recognized that impact ...
Human Intervention in the Earth`s Climate: The Governance of
... scenario describes a world in which negotia- for keeping global warming below the 2°C tions at the United Nations Framework threshold. With global greenhouse-gas emisConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) sions still rising, climate change continues to be fail to reach a binding global agreement on p ...
... scenario describes a world in which negotia- for keeping global warming below the 2°C tions at the United Nations Framework threshold. With global greenhouse-gas emisConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) sions still rising, climate change continues to be fail to reach a binding global agreement on p ...
Regional climate model data used within the SWURVE project
... differences (Covey et al., 2003; Grotch and MacCracken, 1991; Lambert and Boer, 2001; Räisänen, 1997, 2001, 2002). Furthermore, when a GCM is combined with a regional climate model (RCM), systematic errors may be added as the climate of the RCM is affected by model resolution, numerical scheme and p ...
... differences (Covey et al., 2003; Grotch and MacCracken, 1991; Lambert and Boer, 2001; Räisänen, 1997, 2001, 2002). Furthermore, when a GCM is combined with a regional climate model (RCM), systematic errors may be added as the climate of the RCM is affected by model resolution, numerical scheme and p ...
Making Climate Data Relevant to Decision Making:
... Throughout the world, there is a major need for climate change science to inform on-the-ground adaptation planning. However, a big gap exists between the well-developed state of climate science and decision-makers preparing for a future climate. There is no shortage of scientific data that has been ...
... Throughout the world, there is a major need for climate change science to inform on-the-ground adaptation planning. However, a big gap exists between the well-developed state of climate science and decision-makers preparing for a future climate. There is no shortage of scientific data that has been ...
Figure 1 - Proceedings of the Royal Society B
... adult emergence [1]. Most studies of animal phenology have exclusively examined adults, obscuring differences in exposure and sensitivity to climate across life cycles [2]. Laboratory studies examining growth and development have revealed the complex trade-offs shaping thermal responses [3], but the ...
... adult emergence [1]. Most studies of animal phenology have exclusively examined adults, obscuring differences in exposure and sensitivity to climate across life cycles [2]. Laboratory studies examining growth and development have revealed the complex trade-offs shaping thermal responses [3], but the ...
Blöschl, G., A. Viglione and A. Montanari (2013)
... dams) alone. Conceptually, the possible measures (or actions) are usually arranged along a hypothetical time axis of the disaster risk cycle that consists of four phases: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery (e.g., Thieken et al. 2007). In the case of flood risk management, mitigation inv ...
... dams) alone. Conceptually, the possible measures (or actions) are usually arranged along a hypothetical time axis of the disaster risk cycle that consists of four phases: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery (e.g., Thieken et al. 2007). In the case of flood risk management, mitigation inv ...
Changing probabilities of daily temperature extremes in the UK
... needed. Another limitation of using the direct output from GCMs as climate change scenarios is that the changes in climate they simulate cannot be related to prior assumptions about the development of the global economy, GHG and other emissions or land use changes. They refer only to one forcing sce ...
... needed. Another limitation of using the direct output from GCMs as climate change scenarios is that the changes in climate they simulate cannot be related to prior assumptions about the development of the global economy, GHG and other emissions or land use changes. They refer only to one forcing sce ...
Impact of climate change on the timing of strawberry phenological
... possible adaptation strategies requires robust scientific data. However, the assessment of possible impacts is complicated by the wide range of interconnected processes that are both relevant to agriculture and projected to be altered by climate change, e.g. water availability, land use and ecosyste ...
... possible adaptation strategies requires robust scientific data. However, the assessment of possible impacts is complicated by the wide range of interconnected processes that are both relevant to agriculture and projected to be altered by climate change, e.g. water availability, land use and ecosyste ...
Predicting and verifying the intended and unintended consequences
... organic material from the surface layer (Karl & Letelier 2008). To date, the efficacy of LNLC fertilization has not been demonstrated; open ocean enrichment experiments with iron have had a minor impact on nitrogen fixation (Rees et al. 2006, unpubl. data), and global models (e.g. Tagliabue et al. 2 ...
... organic material from the surface layer (Karl & Letelier 2008). To date, the efficacy of LNLC fertilization has not been demonstrated; open ocean enrichment experiments with iron have had a minor impact on nitrogen fixation (Rees et al. 2006, unpubl. data), and global models (e.g. Tagliabue et al. 2 ...
challenges Getting Smart? Climate Change and the Electric Grid
... not integrated adequately into SG investments going forward today, societies may find they have to rebuild these not-so-smart-in-retrospect systems in the future at great additional cost in order to address climate change more seriously. Beyond climate mitigation and adaptation, many other issues mo ...
... not integrated adequately into SG investments going forward today, societies may find they have to rebuild these not-so-smart-in-retrospect systems in the future at great additional cost in order to address climate change more seriously. Beyond climate mitigation and adaptation, many other issues mo ...
Coffee and Climate Change
... producers in Central America and at least two in Guatemala, these currently concentrate on development of adaptation plans and promoting sustainable production practices. It is considered that more scientific research is required to develop adaptation technologies ...
... producers in Central America and at least two in Guatemala, these currently concentrate on development of adaptation plans and promoting sustainable production practices. It is considered that more scientific research is required to develop adaptation technologies ...
Paper 10: Climate Change Impacts on Coastal
... marine, terrestrial, and atmospheric processes that shape the land/ocean interface. As the world’s present coastlines evolved over the past 7,000 years (a period when sea level was relatively stable) assemblages of organisms that represent the current biodiversity of the coastal margins of the Ameri ...
... marine, terrestrial, and atmospheric processes that shape the land/ocean interface. As the world’s present coastlines evolved over the past 7,000 years (a period when sea level was relatively stable) assemblages of organisms that represent the current biodiversity of the coastal margins of the Ameri ...
Adaptation to climate change in Israel
... Adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change is vital in order to reduce its impacts. Therefore, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have identified adaptation as “one of the five key building blocks” required to strengthen future response to climate chang ...
... Adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change is vital in order to reduce its impacts. Therefore, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have identified adaptation as “one of the five key building blocks” required to strengthen future response to climate chang ...
Paying for carbon emissions reduction
... Paying for carbon emissions reduction is a classic “free-rider” problem. Individuals, firms, and governments have little incentive to cut their carbon emissions: while they would have to bear the full costs of cutting emissions themselves, the benefits (from reduced climate change risk) would accrue ...
... Paying for carbon emissions reduction is a classic “free-rider” problem. Individuals, firms, and governments have little incentive to cut their carbon emissions: while they would have to bear the full costs of cutting emissions themselves, the benefits (from reduced climate change risk) would accrue ...
Ranking of the World`s Cities Most Exposed to Coastal Flooding
... standard of roughly a 1 in 100 year flood. Shanghai, a developing country city with a lower GDP than New York and European cities, has nevertheless a protection level similar to London. These examples highlight that protection levels are also strongly influenced by cultural, political and historical ...
... standard of roughly a 1 in 100 year flood. Shanghai, a developing country city with a lower GDP than New York and European cities, has nevertheless a protection level similar to London. These examples highlight that protection levels are also strongly influenced by cultural, political and historical ...
Lecture 2 FINAL DRAFT
... planning tools are best suited to the task. Reticence on the part of the public and stakeholders would be countered by providing more and better scientific information showing the expected climate change and associated risks (this is the so-called ‘deficit-model’ of science-for-policy). The reality ...
... planning tools are best suited to the task. Reticence on the part of the public and stakeholders would be countered by providing more and better scientific information showing the expected climate change and associated risks (this is the so-called ‘deficit-model’ of science-for-policy). The reality ...
Beyond species distribution modeling: A
... be committed to extinction, especially under the more severe climate change scenarios (Thomas et al., 2004), and identified reductions in species ranges, with some South-East Asian bats losing their entire current niche space (Hughes et al., 2012). Despite their potential conservation applications, t ...
... be committed to extinction, especially under the more severe climate change scenarios (Thomas et al., 2004), and identified reductions in species ranges, with some South-East Asian bats losing their entire current niche space (Hughes et al., 2012). Despite their potential conservation applications, t ...
This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier
... In contrast, the resistance of communities against invasions can be significantly and divergently altered by drought and heavy rainfall events [34], with drought decreasing and heavy rain increasing invasion rates. This is in accordance with the ‘‘fluctuating resources hypothesis’’ [10]. Finally, th ...
... In contrast, the resistance of communities against invasions can be significantly and divergently altered by drought and heavy rainfall events [34], with drought decreasing and heavy rain increasing invasion rates. This is in accordance with the ‘‘fluctuating resources hypothesis’’ [10]. Finally, th ...
climate change climate change - Toronto District School Board
... Focus Questions that explore climate change in terms of systems. These questions may serve as a checklist for the teacher to help students develop their understanding about climate change and inform their town planning in the culminating task. Curriculum Expectations that are addressed by the Big Id ...
... Focus Questions that explore climate change in terms of systems. These questions may serve as a checklist for the teacher to help students develop their understanding about climate change and inform their town planning in the culminating task. Curriculum Expectations that are addressed by the Big Id ...
climate change and eu security policy
... obvious impacts on international relations. In this document, the EU committed to strengthening its security role in the Arctic region.6 In 2012, the EEAS took over the EU’s Green Diplomacy Network, an initiative that brings together EU foreign policy officials working on environmental issues, to he ...
... obvious impacts on international relations. In this document, the EU committed to strengthening its security role in the Arctic region.6 In 2012, the EEAS took over the EU’s Green Diplomacy Network, an initiative that brings together EU foreign policy officials working on environmental issues, to he ...
report on adaptation challenges in pacific island countries
... level rise—would have a very high human and economic toll. Climate change threatens some of the most fundamental needs of society: a safe place to live, access to water, health care (e.g. disease and nutrition), food supplies, and the ability to earn a living. When these needs are threatened, whole ...
... level rise—would have a very high human and economic toll. Climate change threatens some of the most fundamental needs of society: a safe place to live, access to water, health care (e.g. disease and nutrition), food supplies, and the ability to earn a living. When these needs are threatened, whole ...
In Cook et al., the definition of consensus hypothesis that comes
... Introduction: no role for consensus in science Though Cook et al. (2013) reviewed abstracts of 11,944 papers on climate change and concluded that 97.1% of those expressing an opinion supported consensus, the philosophy of science allows no role for head-count. Aristotle, in his Sophistical Refutati ...
... Introduction: no role for consensus in science Though Cook et al. (2013) reviewed abstracts of 11,944 papers on climate change and concluded that 97.1% of those expressing an opinion supported consensus, the philosophy of science allows no role for head-count. Aristotle, in his Sophistical Refutati ...
The 1430s: a cold period of extraordinary internal climate variability
... A particular focus is on the decade 1430–1440, which coincides with the early SPM. Note that this temporal coherence between solar forcing and the particular climatic conditions during the 1430s does not necessarily imply causality. Climate model simulations and multiproxy climate reconstructions ag ...
... A particular focus is on the decade 1430–1440, which coincides with the early SPM. Note that this temporal coherence between solar forcing and the particular climatic conditions during the 1430s does not necessarily imply causality. Climate model simulations and multiproxy climate reconstructions ag ...
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... However, we will be selective and survey the studies that adopt a similar approach with this study. A more detailed survey about the studies that are based on integrated approach can be found in Hertel and Rosch (2010) and Palatnik and Roson (2009). ...
... However, we will be selective and survey the studies that adopt a similar approach with this study. A more detailed survey about the studies that are based on integrated approach can be found in Hertel and Rosch (2010) and Palatnik and Roson (2009). ...
The CAFO Hothouse - DerechoAnimal.info
... only of carbon dioxide, but also of more pernicious greenhouse gases, including nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH2). In fact, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture far exceed those from transportation. Yet, for reasons both cultural and political, agriculture remains almost unregulated. This l ...
... only of carbon dioxide, but also of more pernicious greenhouse gases, including nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH2). In fact, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture far exceed those from transportation. Yet, for reasons both cultural and political, agriculture remains almost unregulated. This l ...