3104 EN
... There is an increasing need for more accurate regional climate change information to improve the analysis of impacts and contribute to adaptation policy needs. Consistency between models in simulated regional temperature and precipitation needs to be improved. High resolution global and regional mod ...
... There is an increasing need for more accurate regional climate change information to improve the analysis of impacts and contribute to adaptation policy needs. Consistency between models in simulated regional temperature and precipitation needs to be improved. High resolution global and regional mod ...
3B.9 THE U.S. GLOBAL CLIMATE OBSERVING SYSTEM (GCOS
... States has begun fielding and commissioning a system known as the Climate Reference Network (CRN). The CRN is designed to answer the question: How has the U.S. climate changed over the past 50 years at national, regional, and local levels? Since 2002, 100 CRN stations have been put into operation o ...
... States has begun fielding and commissioning a system known as the Climate Reference Network (CRN). The CRN is designed to answer the question: How has the U.S. climate changed over the past 50 years at national, regional, and local levels? Since 2002, 100 CRN stations have been put into operation o ...
06-05
... of the future offered back then was accurate or useful. The work of climate change assessment is now stretching out into a multigenerational effort, and a retrospective such as this one may be helpful for those who need to listen, ponder, and decide in the future. ...
... of the future offered back then was accurate or useful. The work of climate change assessment is now stretching out into a multigenerational effort, and a retrospective such as this one may be helpful for those who need to listen, ponder, and decide in the future. ...
Copernicus Climate Change Services
... Data rescue activities for in-situ and satellite observations Best practices in homogenisation and data reprocessing Metadata, traceability and transparency of climate data products Best practices for uncertainty characterization of climate data products ...
... Data rescue activities for in-situ and satellite observations Best practices in homogenisation and data reprocessing Metadata, traceability and transparency of climate data products Best practices for uncertainty characterization of climate data products ...
Moana Ola Pasifika Public Health Network Submission on New
... climate change contribution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Introduction and rationale for reducing emissions ...
... climate change contribution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Introduction and rationale for reducing emissions ...
Calculating the social cost of carbon
... frequency and other damaging impacts. In order to translate these impacts into costs that can be compared with the costs of reducing emissions, one needs an Integrated Assessment Model that estimates the economic impact of the climate impacts, aggregates these impacts across regions and over time to ...
... frequency and other damaging impacts. In order to translate these impacts into costs that can be compared with the costs of reducing emissions, one needs an Integrated Assessment Model that estimates the economic impact of the climate impacts, aggregates these impacts across regions and over time to ...
Climate Change, Heat Waves, and Adaptation NH-12
... purported to quantify the degree to which climate change was leading to an increase in heat-related deaths in Stockholm, Sweden. The researchers reported that as a result of an increase in the occurrence of extreme heat events across the 20th century, an extra 288 people died during the period 1980- ...
... purported to quantify the degree to which climate change was leading to an increase in heat-related deaths in Stockholm, Sweden. The researchers reported that as a result of an increase in the occurrence of extreme heat events across the 20th century, an extra 288 people died during the period 1980- ...
What shapes perceptions of climate change?
... groups put their trust into different organizations, from national Meteorological Services to independent farm organizations.37,38 Even though the IPCC was founded as an ostensibly nonpartisan scientific body by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organizatio ...
... groups put their trust into different organizations, from national Meteorological Services to independent farm organizations.37,38 Even though the IPCC was founded as an ostensibly nonpartisan scientific body by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organizatio ...
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... Two scenarios representing GHG mitigation strategies are simulated along with a base scenario, scenario 1, which assumes current policies and production systems are in place and represents a baseline from which the two other scenarios may be compared against. Scenario 2 represents a simultaneous red ...
... Two scenarios representing GHG mitigation strategies are simulated along with a base scenario, scenario 1, which assumes current policies and production systems are in place and represents a baseline from which the two other scenarios may be compared against. Scenario 2 represents a simultaneous red ...
one National Security and Climate Change in Perspective
... countries outlined security, economic, and political consequences of such changes in nature. Representatives of the host nation’s government recommended that NATO and other economic and military organizations should be studied as models for international cooperation to combat climate change. However ...
... countries outlined security, economic, and political consequences of such changes in nature. Representatives of the host nation’s government recommended that NATO and other economic and military organizations should be studied as models for international cooperation to combat climate change. However ...
Means and extremes: building variability into
... Experimental studies assessing climatic effects on ecological communities have typically applied static warming treatments. Although these studies have been informative, they have usually failed to incorporate either current or predicted future, patterns of variability. Future climates are likely to ...
... Experimental studies assessing climatic effects on ecological communities have typically applied static warming treatments. Although these studies have been informative, they have usually failed to incorporate either current or predicted future, patterns of variability. Future climates are likely to ...
Ethics, equity and the economics of climate change. Paper 1: science and philosophy: Working Paper 84a (568 kB) (opens in new window)
... or societies and contrast with the decisions which could or should be understood as ethical. Such scrutiny can nurture reflection, discussion and change. For example, our political and social decision-making systems have often led to outcomes that are discriminatory and unethical; slavery and denyin ...
... or societies and contrast with the decisions which could or should be understood as ethical. Such scrutiny can nurture reflection, discussion and change. For example, our political and social decision-making systems have often led to outcomes that are discriminatory and unethical; slavery and denyin ...
Vegetation Responses to Rapid Climate Change at the Late
... 1. Rapid initial terrestrial vegetational and diatom responses to rapid climatic change at the Younger Dryas-Holocene transition. 2. Sustained changes in compositional turnover in terrestrial pollen assemblages for about 370 years and significant rates of assemblage change for about 1000 years since ...
... 1. Rapid initial terrestrial vegetational and diatom responses to rapid climatic change at the Younger Dryas-Holocene transition. 2. Sustained changes in compositional turnover in terrestrial pollen assemblages for about 370 years and significant rates of assemblage change for about 1000 years since ...
Predicting Hydrological Response to Climate Change in the White
... of floods, all these will lead to changes in environmental variables [1,2]. Climate change is expected to have different impact on socioeconomic development in every country but the degree of impact will differ. According to IPCC developing countries such as those in West Africa will be more vulnera ...
... of floods, all these will lead to changes in environmental variables [1,2]. Climate change is expected to have different impact on socioeconomic development in every country but the degree of impact will differ. According to IPCC developing countries such as those in West Africa will be more vulnera ...
Introduction - San Jose State University
... Recall how clouds form – Water vapor condenses to liquid water – This processes requires ‘cloud condensation nuclei’ – Examples of cloud condensation nuclei Dust, salt, smoke (all of which are natural aerosols) So, aerosols (with both natural and anthropogenic origin) – may serve as cloud cond ...
... Recall how clouds form – Water vapor condenses to liquid water – This processes requires ‘cloud condensation nuclei’ – Examples of cloud condensation nuclei Dust, salt, smoke (all of which are natural aerosols) So, aerosols (with both natural and anthropogenic origin) – may serve as cloud cond ...
Report on WCRP developments/response post Review
... In particular, the modelling and the observing system research should be predominantly WCRP-wide activities The implementation should also encourage development of process studies within the broader strategic framework rather than within individual programme components ...
... In particular, the modelling and the observing system research should be predominantly WCRP-wide activities The implementation should also encourage development of process studies within the broader strategic framework rather than within individual programme components ...
communicating climate change: closing the science
... social support and affirmation, increase openness to different opinions and risk information, and thus to enable decision making, rather than obstruct it (Nagda 2006). In the end, communicators must temper their own temptation to persuade with fear by recognizing that issues have attention cycles (Mc ...
... social support and affirmation, increase openness to different opinions and risk information, and thus to enable decision making, rather than obstruct it (Nagda 2006). In the end, communicators must temper their own temptation to persuade with fear by recognizing that issues have attention cycles (Mc ...
Draft Risk Assessment Framework Outline
... well specific assets withstand certain climate stressors. In doing so, they may be able to identify physical or environmental characteristics that make a structure more or less vulnerable to a given climate stressor. If a specific climate stressor does not appear to have a significant effect on a gi ...
... well specific assets withstand certain climate stressors. In doing so, they may be able to identify physical or environmental characteristics that make a structure more or less vulnerable to a given climate stressor. If a specific climate stressor does not appear to have a significant effect on a gi ...
House science testimony apr 15 final - Climate Etc.
... the climate is to these increases. Climate sensitivity is defined as the global surface warming that occurs when the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles. If climate sensitivity is high, then we can expect substantial warming in the coming century as emissions continue to increa ...
... the climate is to these increases. Climate sensitivity is defined as the global surface warming that occurs when the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles. If climate sensitivity is high, then we can expect substantial warming in the coming century as emissions continue to increa ...
2 The scientification of climate politics
... Concern for Tomorrow, NMP and Note on Climate Change In the wake of the Brundtland report, the 1988 RIVM report Concern for Tomorrow (Zorgen voor Morgen) had a shock effect in the Netherlands – this first environmental investigation had a fairly alarming tone. Thanks to this scientific input, a Nati ...
... Concern for Tomorrow, NMP and Note on Climate Change In the wake of the Brundtland report, the 1988 RIVM report Concern for Tomorrow (Zorgen voor Morgen) had a shock effect in the Netherlands – this first environmental investigation had a fairly alarming tone. Thanks to this scientific input, a Nati ...
CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT COUNTRIES
... solution. Using per capita entitlements as the basis for burden sharing could eliminate the need for long and difficult negotiations about fair differentiation and suitable emission targets for each country. As climate is a global resource and as such it belongs equally to everyone, it is difficult ...
... solution. Using per capita entitlements as the basis for burden sharing could eliminate the need for long and difficult negotiations about fair differentiation and suitable emission targets for each country. As climate is a global resource and as such it belongs equally to everyone, it is difficult ...
Fairness on the Day after Tomorrow: Justice, Reciprocity and Global
... pp. 177ff.), notions of contributiveness and fair reciprocity describe an important aspect of distributive justice. As White observes, there is a ‘strong contribution ethic’, modelled on fairness rather than self-interest, evident in the liberal egalitarian tradition that currently dominates Anglo-A ...
... pp. 177ff.), notions of contributiveness and fair reciprocity describe an important aspect of distributive justice. As White observes, there is a ‘strong contribution ethic’, modelled on fairness rather than self-interest, evident in the liberal egalitarian tradition that currently dominates Anglo-A ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... guidelines). Considering that the majority (if not all) of the federal regulations incorporating the SCC into cost/benefit analysis apply to rules regulating domestic activities, reporting only the global impact—the knowledge (in all areas, i.e., economics, social, environmental, etc.) of which is f ...
... guidelines). Considering that the majority (if not all) of the federal regulations incorporating the SCC into cost/benefit analysis apply to rules regulating domestic activities, reporting only the global impact—the knowledge (in all areas, i.e., economics, social, environmental, etc.) of which is f ...
A Critical Evaluation of Post-Normal Science`s role in Climate
... new approaches such as post-normal science (Figure 1) with which to study them (Funtowicz and Ravetz [1]). The concept of post-normal science is a scientific approach suitable for environmental policy under conditions of complexity, that is to say, facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high ...
... new approaches such as post-normal science (Figure 1) with which to study them (Funtowicz and Ravetz [1]). The concept of post-normal science is a scientific approach suitable for environmental policy under conditions of complexity, that is to say, facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high ...
Chapter 9 PowerPoint document
... • Denote NBA as the net benefit to a country if it abates and NBP as the net benefit to a country if it pollutes (does not abate). • Let there be N identical countries, of which K choose to abate. • We define the following pay-off generating functions: ...
... • Denote NBA as the net benefit to a country if it abates and NBP as the net benefit to a country if it pollutes (does not abate). • Let there be N identical countries, of which K choose to abate. • We define the following pay-off generating functions: ...