What is climate change?
... • Aerosols = microscopic droplets and particles - They have either a warming or a cooling effect • Soot (black carbon aerosols) causes warming by absorbing solar energy - But most tropospheric aerosols cool the atmosphere by reflecting the sun’s rays • Sulfate aerosols produced by fossil fuel combus ...
... • Aerosols = microscopic droplets and particles - They have either a warming or a cooling effect • Soot (black carbon aerosols) causes warming by absorbing solar energy - But most tropospheric aerosols cool the atmosphere by reflecting the sun’s rays • Sulfate aerosols produced by fossil fuel combus ...
Parmesan and Yohe, 2003
... sets, this diagnostic fingerprint was found for 279 species. This suite of analyses generates ‘very high confidence’ (as laid down by the IPCC) that climate change is already affecting living systems. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1 (IPCC) assessed the extent to which recent observed ...
... sets, this diagnostic fingerprint was found for 279 species. This suite of analyses generates ‘very high confidence’ (as laid down by the IPCC) that climate change is already affecting living systems. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1 (IPCC) assessed the extent to which recent observed ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources in Idaho
... Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources in Idaho ...
... Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources in Idaho ...
A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change
... sets, this diagnostic fingerprint was found for 279 species. This suite of analyses generates ‘very high confidence’ (as laid down by the IPCC) that climate change is already affecting living systems. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1 (IPCC) assessed the extent to which recent observed ...
... sets, this diagnostic fingerprint was found for 279 species. This suite of analyses generates ‘very high confidence’ (as laid down by the IPCC) that climate change is already affecting living systems. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1 (IPCC) assessed the extent to which recent observed ...
Annexes
... In the context of transformation pathways, the term ‘baseline scenarios’ refers to scenarios that are based on the assumption that no mitigation policies or measures will be implemented beyond those that are already in force and / or are legislated or planned to be adopted. Baseline scenarios are no ...
... In the context of transformation pathways, the term ‘baseline scenarios’ refers to scenarios that are based on the assumption that no mitigation policies or measures will be implemented beyond those that are already in force and / or are legislated or planned to be adopted. Baseline scenarios are no ...
Impact of Climate Change on Outdoor Thermal Comfort and Health
... ecological progress, it has emerged since some years at government level with recently the signing of Kyoto protocol. The global awareness about climate change is now a fact some. This awareness has led the international community to seek a scientific consensus around for this sensitive question whi ...
... ecological progress, it has emerged since some years at government level with recently the signing of Kyoto protocol. The global awareness about climate change is now a fact some. This awareness has led the international community to seek a scientific consensus around for this sensitive question whi ...
Broad range of 2050 warming from an observationally constrained large climate model ensemble
... future, we find a ‘likely’ range of 1.4–3 K for global-mean warming around 2050 under the SRES A1B scenario (Fig. 2b). No ensemble members warm by less than 1 K by 2050 under this scenario, despite the large size of the ensemble and allowance for natural forcing uncertainty: we allow explicitly for ...
... future, we find a ‘likely’ range of 1.4–3 K for global-mean warming around 2050 under the SRES A1B scenario (Fig. 2b). No ensemble members warm by less than 1 K by 2050 under this scenario, despite the large size of the ensemble and allowance for natural forcing uncertainty: we allow explicitly for ...
Climate change projections for Greater Manchester
... scenario used in UKCP09 may be an underestimate of future emissions and thus, future climate change. However, due caution should be applied for basing conclusions about emissions over future decades on estimates over a short time period2. This report focuses on outputs for the low and high emissions ...
... scenario used in UKCP09 may be an underestimate of future emissions and thus, future climate change. However, due caution should be applied for basing conclusions about emissions over future decades on estimates over a short time period2. This report focuses on outputs for the low and high emissions ...
Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification
... attention to our existing knowledge and opportunities for further progress. In this article we synthesize the findings of 21 papers on the current state of global capability for agricultural GHG quantification and visions for its improvement. We address the three themes around which the articles were ...
... attention to our existing knowledge and opportunities for further progress. In this article we synthesize the findings of 21 papers on the current state of global capability for agricultural GHG quantification and visions for its improvement. We address the three themes around which the articles were ...
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... most of Africa. Indeed, in many African countries, agriculture and forestry remain dominant economic sectors, with agriculture still accounting for approximately 40% of the continent’s hard currency earnings (NEPAD, 2002). Natural resources are also important in spreading the risk associated with th ...
... most of Africa. Indeed, in many African countries, agriculture and forestry remain dominant economic sectors, with agriculture still accounting for approximately 40% of the continent’s hard currency earnings (NEPAD, 2002). Natural resources are also important in spreading the risk associated with th ...
Mr. President, His Excellency and other heads of delegations, Good
... We continually engaged in this process because we all acknowledge that this requires a global response. We want to be part of a concerted effort, believing that what we agreed would be respected and implemented. That we are motivated by accepted science. That we are so interconnected, that the suffe ...
... We continually engaged in this process because we all acknowledge that this requires a global response. We want to be part of a concerted effort, believing that what we agreed would be respected and implemented. That we are motivated by accepted science. That we are so interconnected, that the suffe ...
Eksterne relationer
... This paper takes the political economy point of view (to its extreme) that regulation is (totally) determined by a contest between relevant interest groups. ...
... This paper takes the political economy point of view (to its extreme) that regulation is (totally) determined by a contest between relevant interest groups. ...
1 - EconStor
... aggregated over large, climatically diverse regions. Most studies include temperature and precipitation but far fewer include other potentially important climate variables such as sunshine and relative humidity. Researchers characterise climate variables in different ways e.g. annual mean temperatur ...
... aggregated over large, climatically diverse regions. Most studies include temperature and precipitation but far fewer include other potentially important climate variables such as sunshine and relative humidity. Researchers characterise climate variables in different ways e.g. annual mean temperatur ...
Industrialized-Country Mitigation Policy and Resource Transfers to
... combat climate change. For a variety of environmental and political reasons, focusing on developing countries is crucial at this stage in the climate regime’s evolution (Frankel 2007). Most obviously, large developing countries—especially India and China—account for an increasingly important share o ...
... combat climate change. For a variety of environmental and political reasons, focusing on developing countries is crucial at this stage in the climate regime’s evolution (Frankel 2007). Most obviously, large developing countries—especially India and China—account for an increasingly important share o ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Tourism in Spain
... it has been particularly difficult to assess the impacts of climate change is the tourism sector (Nordhaus and Boyer, 2000). Nevertheless, it is likely that the tourism sector will be particularly affected by climate change, as many tourism activities are dependent on the weather conditions, and as ...
... it has been particularly difficult to assess the impacts of climate change is the tourism sector (Nordhaus and Boyer, 2000). Nevertheless, it is likely that the tourism sector will be particularly affected by climate change, as many tourism activities are dependent on the weather conditions, and as ...
1 Lecture Aims Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) Feedbacks
... Solar activity (sunspots etc) & irradiance (total radiation) changes with 11year solar cycle. There are long term changes in solar activity – the Maunder Minimum being one example. Converting this to changes in solar irradiance can be done though very uncertain. “Sun-like” starts which show activity ...
... Solar activity (sunspots etc) & irradiance (total radiation) changes with 11year solar cycle. There are long term changes in solar activity – the Maunder Minimum being one example. Converting this to changes in solar irradiance can be done though very uncertain. “Sun-like” starts which show activity ...
Culture and climate change: Japanese cherry blossom festivals and
... traditionally appreciated the flower; the oldest song book in the world, Manyoshu, edited around 600AD, has songs about the beauty of cherry blossoms (Ando, 2004). Millions of Japanese enjoy picnics and parties under the cherry trees during peak cherry blossom flowering (ABC News, 2009). Hundreds of f ...
... traditionally appreciated the flower; the oldest song book in the world, Manyoshu, edited around 600AD, has songs about the beauty of cherry blossoms (Ando, 2004). Millions of Japanese enjoy picnics and parties under the cherry trees during peak cherry blossom flowering (ABC News, 2009). Hundreds of f ...
Interactive comment on “Was the Little Ice Age more or less El Niño
... Because the PMIP simulations show a different ENSO pattern than 20CRv2, the quality of our reconstruction will be degraded. However, on balance, we agree that this is preferable to our previous reconstruction method that used 20CRv2 alone at the cost of satisfactorily representing degrees of freedom ...
... Because the PMIP simulations show a different ENSO pattern than 20CRv2, the quality of our reconstruction will be degraded. However, on balance, we agree that this is preferable to our previous reconstruction method that used 20CRv2 alone at the cost of satisfactorily representing degrees of freedom ...
Article ID: 1673-1719 (2006) Suppl - China Climate Change Info-Net
... 3 Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; 4 LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China Abstract: The changes of surface air temperatur ...
... 3 Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; 4 LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China Abstract: The changes of surface air temperatur ...
Development, trade and carbon reduction
... Vera Thorstensen emphasises that the trade and climate change regimes have been developed over the years in completely different contexts. The trade regime is now more than 60 years old. It is based on defining permissible policy measures and has binding rules and an effective dispute settlement mec ...
... Vera Thorstensen emphasises that the trade and climate change regimes have been developed over the years in completely different contexts. The trade regime is now more than 60 years old. It is based on defining permissible policy measures and has binding rules and an effective dispute settlement mec ...
climate change: challenges Facing india`s Poor
... climate are mainly felt in their region of origin. Thus, the climatic impacts of south Asian particulate emissions are felt mainly in south Asia. This distinction is crucial in framing appropriate policies to combat climate change because it means that particulate emissions and their effects are, t ...
... climate are mainly felt in their region of origin. Thus, the climatic impacts of south Asian particulate emissions are felt mainly in south Asia. This distinction is crucial in framing appropriate policies to combat climate change because it means that particulate emissions and their effects are, t ...
Climate vulnerability profiling of Indian cities
... Delhi CDP, October, 2006, Department of Urban Development Government of Delhi, IL&FS Ecosmart Limited, New Delhi http://www.delhi.gov.in/DoIT/DOIT_DM/risks%20and%20vulnerability-1.pdf ...
... Delhi CDP, October, 2006, Department of Urban Development Government of Delhi, IL&FS Ecosmart Limited, New Delhi http://www.delhi.gov.in/DoIT/DOIT_DM/risks%20and%20vulnerability-1.pdf ...
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... citizens cannot be satisfied without significantly increasing global energy use, and CO2 emissions. Therefore, the author asserts that climate engineering and adaptation are preferable to mitigation, particularly since the science is less than adequate for making firm statements about the Earth’s fu ...
... citizens cannot be satisfied without significantly increasing global energy use, and CO2 emissions. Therefore, the author asserts that climate engineering and adaptation are preferable to mitigation, particularly since the science is less than adequate for making firm statements about the Earth’s fu ...
Efficiently Constraining Climate Sensitivity with Ensembles
... Even here, uncertainty remains. The CLIMAP (1981) project produced a gridded SST data set which indicated an average cooling of 0.8°C in the tropics, a value which is now widely regarded as too small. The alkenone data set of Harrison (2000) has been widely used in recent years for comparison with m ...
... Even here, uncertainty remains. The CLIMAP (1981) project produced a gridded SST data set which indicated an average cooling of 0.8°C in the tropics, a value which is now widely regarded as too small. The alkenone data set of Harrison (2000) has been widely used in recent years for comparison with m ...