GLOBAL WARMING - Galileo Movement
... Bacon does draw attention to the influence of political or ideological beliefs upon editorial policy and bias within the media, repeatedly criticizing what she describes as “right wing” media outlets or commentators. In fact, Bacon and the ACIJ seem to see media reports of climate science related m ...
... Bacon does draw attention to the influence of political or ideological beliefs upon editorial policy and bias within the media, repeatedly criticizing what she describes as “right wing” media outlets or commentators. In fact, Bacon and the ACIJ seem to see media reports of climate science related m ...
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... LDCs on progress in implementing the BPoA indicate that climate change is a serious challenge that threatens to wipe out development gains in many LDCs, in a number of cases posing a threat to their physical ...
... LDCs on progress in implementing the BPoA indicate that climate change is a serious challenge that threatens to wipe out development gains in many LDCs, in a number of cases posing a threat to their physical ...
A decade of weather extremes - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
... weather in 2011 as well: rainfall records were set in Australia, Japan and Korea, whereas the Yangtze Basin in China experienced record drought 1. In western Europe, spring was exceptionally hot and dry, setting records in several countries (Table 1)1. But 2011 was not unique: the past decade as a w ...
... weather in 2011 as well: rainfall records were set in Australia, Japan and Korea, whereas the Yangtze Basin in China experienced record drought 1. In western Europe, spring was exceptionally hot and dry, setting records in several countries (Table 1)1. But 2011 was not unique: the past decade as a w ...
Evolving Responsibility? The Principle of Common
... potentially impacted by such a change adamantly opposed the proposed distinction.28 Ultimately, progress in Copenhagen required concessions by key players on all sides of the debate. This was especially true with respect to the United States, which staunchly opposed participation in any future agree ...
... potentially impacted by such a change adamantly opposed the proposed distinction.28 Ultimately, progress in Copenhagen required concessions by key players on all sides of the debate. This was especially true with respect to the United States, which staunchly opposed participation in any future agree ...
Adaptation Planning and Climate Impact Assessments: Learning From NEPA’s Flaws
... information systems. Public access should be a priority for adaptation assessment. • The inadequate treatment of uncertainty in impact statements. This is a key issue for adaptation because of the relative crudeness of regional downscaling of climate models. Fortunately, more sophisticated methodol ...
... information systems. Public access should be a priority for adaptation assessment. • The inadequate treatment of uncertainty in impact statements. This is a key issue for adaptation because of the relative crudeness of regional downscaling of climate models. Fortunately, more sophisticated methodol ...
Climate Change, Human Rights and the Problem of Motivation
... observable and measurable impacts on particular persons – no longer suffices to explain the multiple ways our conduct may violate the rights of other people. No individual’s action is the sole cause of harm; yet it does make a causal contribution to an overall harmful effect. Climate change is an ag ...
... observable and measurable impacts on particular persons – no longer suffices to explain the multiple ways our conduct may violate the rights of other people. No individual’s action is the sole cause of harm; yet it does make a causal contribution to an overall harmful effect. Climate change is an ag ...
The Climate Change Benefits of Reducing Methane Emissions
... horizon chosen, as the results for methane show. They do not allow impacts that occur soon to be valued more highly than those that occur in the distant future, and they are relative, rather than absolute, measures. Knowing the GWP of a gas does not necessarily help very much in deciding how much ef ...
... horizon chosen, as the results for methane show. They do not allow impacts that occur soon to be valued more highly than those that occur in the distant future, and they are relative, rather than absolute, measures. Knowing the GWP of a gas does not necessarily help very much in deciding how much ef ...
A probabilistic analysis of human influence on
... trends, detection and attribution, public acceptance of human induced climate change and confidence in the supporting science has declined since 2007 (Leiserowitz et al., 2011). The degree of uncertainty as to whether observed climate changes are due to human activity or are part of natural systems fl ...
... trends, detection and attribution, public acceptance of human induced climate change and confidence in the supporting science has declined since 2007 (Leiserowitz et al., 2011). The degree of uncertainty as to whether observed climate changes are due to human activity or are part of natural systems fl ...
“The only plausible explanation for the rise in weather
... committed us to a hotter future with more climate-related impacts over the next few decades. Many [climate-related changes] will be disruptive to society because our institutions and infrastructure have been designed for the relatively stable climate of the past, not the changing one of the present ...
... committed us to a hotter future with more climate-related impacts over the next few decades. Many [climate-related changes] will be disruptive to society because our institutions and infrastructure have been designed for the relatively stable climate of the past, not the changing one of the present ...
Climate Change and the Past, Present and Future of Biotic Interactions
... are unprecedented since the end of the last glacial period. We highlight episodes of climate change that have disrupted ecosystems and trophic interactions over time scales ranging from years to millennia by changing species’ relative abundances and geographic ranges, causing extinctions, and creati ...
... are unprecedented since the end of the last glacial period. We highlight episodes of climate change that have disrupted ecosystems and trophic interactions over time scales ranging from years to millennia by changing species’ relative abundances and geographic ranges, causing extinctions, and creati ...
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND EQUITY IMPACTS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE AND
... economic factors are integral in explaining the uneven distribution of these adverse heatspecific health outcomes across diverse populations (Epstein and Rodgers 2004). Risk factors for heat-associated mortality and morbidity can be categorized as intrinsic (i.e., age, disability) or extrinsic (e.g. ...
... economic factors are integral in explaining the uneven distribution of these adverse heatspecific health outcomes across diverse populations (Epstein and Rodgers 2004). Risk factors for heat-associated mortality and morbidity can be categorized as intrinsic (i.e., age, disability) or extrinsic (e.g. ...
Dealing with Climate Change: Palaeoclimate Research in Australia
... data, and ensuring an appropriate division of resources). • Establishment of a well funded national centre to coordinate research efforts. This can be either an academic institution or an ARC Centre of Excellence for Palaeoclimate Research. While Australia’s palaeoclimate researchers are internatio ...
... data, and ensuring an appropriate division of resources). • Establishment of a well funded national centre to coordinate research efforts. This can be either an academic institution or an ARC Centre of Excellence for Palaeoclimate Research. While Australia’s palaeoclimate researchers are internatio ...
Why economics matters for understanding the effects of climate
... The harvester’s optimization problem is often subject to a variety of constraints defined by the management system in place for the fishery. For example, a harvester’s decision-making process is different in a rationalized fishery (a fishery with individual allocations of quota) vs. a non-rationaliz ...
... The harvester’s optimization problem is often subject to a variety of constraints defined by the management system in place for the fishery. For example, a harvester’s decision-making process is different in a rationalized fishery (a fishery with individual allocations of quota) vs. a non-rationaliz ...
Climate Leviathan - The Ohio State University
... inadequate terms—represent the first institutional manifestation of this dream of planetary regulation, a process that the dominant capitalist nation-states will surely accelerate and consolidate as climate-induced disruptions of accumulation and political stability become more urgent. Although bind ...
... inadequate terms—represent the first institutional manifestation of this dream of planetary regulation, a process that the dominant capitalist nation-states will surely accelerate and consolidate as climate-induced disruptions of accumulation and political stability become more urgent. Although bind ...
Regional Climate Messages for West Africa
... The climate across West Africa varies from arid desert conditions in the north to humid tropical monsoon conditions along the coastal regions in the south. A semi-arid transect is located in the Sahel region, extending from northern Nigeria in the east to Senegal in the west. The primary factors aff ...
... The climate across West Africa varies from arid desert conditions in the north to humid tropical monsoon conditions along the coastal regions in the south. A semi-arid transect is located in the Sahel region, extending from northern Nigeria in the east to Senegal in the west. The primary factors aff ...
Powerpoint - Imode Energy Research
... temperatures to infer temperatures. • This approach has the advantage of measuring temperature directly. The disadvantage is that various soils and rocks differ in how they transfer heat and distort the temperature signal from the surface, so the precision of temperature measurement declines rapidly ...
... temperatures to infer temperatures. • This approach has the advantage of measuring temperature directly. The disadvantage is that various soils and rocks differ in how they transfer heat and distort the temperature signal from the surface, so the precision of temperature measurement declines rapidly ...
Climate Change mitigation via Afforestation, Reforestation and
... Key words: Climate change, mitigation, adaptation, afforestation, reforestation, deforestation ...
... Key words: Climate change, mitigation, adaptation, afforestation, reforestation, deforestation ...
Review of Climate Change Adaptation Plan and Policies in Nepal
... Parties, the Convention enjoys near-universal membership with the ultimate objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. Since the Convention’s entry into force, Parties have met annually in ...
... Parties, the Convention enjoys near-universal membership with the ultimate objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. Since the Convention’s entry into force, Parties have met annually in ...
Demographics of true and false climate facts
... Research finds that better-educated or informed respondents are more likely to align with their parties on climate change. This information–elite polarization resembles a process of biased assimilation first described in psychological experiments. In nonexperimental settings, college graduates could ...
... Research finds that better-educated or informed respondents are more likely to align with their parties on climate change. This information–elite polarization resembles a process of biased assimilation first described in psychological experiments. In nonexperimental settings, college graduates could ...
Targets for global climate policy An overview
... adopted emissions targets. Energy-intensive sectors that compete on the world market typically face lower carbon prices than do other sectors. Climate policy often targets carbon dioxide but omits methane and nitrous oxide. Emission trading systems have a provision for banking permits for future use ...
... adopted emissions targets. Energy-intensive sectors that compete on the world market typically face lower carbon prices than do other sectors. Climate policy often targets carbon dioxide but omits methane and nitrous oxide. Emission trading systems have a provision for banking permits for future use ...
Global potential of biospheric carbon management for climate
... mitigation activities require additional harvesting of the Earth’s plant production (that is, net primary production) beyond its current 38% use3. However, these requirements face the limitation that a third of the terrestrial plant production is belowground, which is not economically harvestable, a ...
... mitigation activities require additional harvesting of the Earth’s plant production (that is, net primary production) beyond its current 38% use3. However, these requirements face the limitation that a third of the terrestrial plant production is belowground, which is not economically harvestable, a ...
Policy options for, and constraints on, effective adaptation for rivers
... coastal areas, sea-level rise could force freshwater and estuarine wetlands farther inland if there is suitable space, or to accrete vertically if sediment is available (Richards et al. 2008). However, many endemic estuarine and freshwater species may be unable to disperse to new ranges due to phys ...
... coastal areas, sea-level rise could force freshwater and estuarine wetlands farther inland if there is suitable space, or to accrete vertically if sediment is available (Richards et al. 2008). However, many endemic estuarine and freshwater species may be unable to disperse to new ranges due to phys ...
Infosylva 22/2010
... actions and areas for cooperation in the Eastern European and Central Asian countries. The country reports included within were prepared and presented at the FAO workshop on “Climate change impacts on forest management in Eastern Europe and Central Asia”, which was held in Sopron, Hungary from 1416 ...
... actions and areas for cooperation in the Eastern European and Central Asian countries. The country reports included within were prepared and presented at the FAO workshop on “Climate change impacts on forest management in Eastern Europe and Central Asia”, which was held in Sopron, Hungary from 1416 ...
The rise and rise of fluorinated greenhouse gases - Öko
... countries’ F-gas emissions depends on the growth rate of F-gas emissions compared to the growth rate of emissions of other greenhouse gases. As the use of F-gases best indicates the degree of industrialisation, F-gas emissions are assumed to grow even faster than CO2 emissions over the next 50 years ...
... countries’ F-gas emissions depends on the growth rate of F-gas emissions compared to the growth rate of emissions of other greenhouse gases. As the use of F-gases best indicates the degree of industrialisation, F-gas emissions are assumed to grow even faster than CO2 emissions over the next 50 years ...
Questionnaire design effects in climate change surveys
... polling on topics for which no standard terminology exists to represent the issue at hand. This is the case for climate change. Various terms—including “global warming,” “climate change,” “global climate change,” and “the greenhouse effect”—are routinely used in climate surveys in a more or less int ...
... polling on topics for which no standard terminology exists to represent the issue at hand. This is the case for climate change. Various terms—including “global warming,” “climate change,” “global climate change,” and “the greenhouse effect”—are routinely used in climate surveys in a more or less int ...