Global Climate Change: Science and Economics
... indeed the effects of climate change are likely to be severe, it is in everyone’s interest to lower emissions for the common good. Climate change can thus be viewed as a public good issue, requiring collaborative action to develop adequate policies, as noted in Chapter 4. In the case of climate chan ...
... indeed the effects of climate change are likely to be severe, it is in everyone’s interest to lower emissions for the common good. Climate change can thus be viewed as a public good issue, requiring collaborative action to develop adequate policies, as noted in Chapter 4. In the case of climate chan ...
Climate change impacts on pest animals and weeds
... in season timing and length, producers may need to change the timing of insect control using, for example, the sterile insect technique and bait spraying. Pest populations will change Projected warming will help some pest species to survive winter and will accelerate development of summer-active spe ...
... in season timing and length, producers may need to change the timing of insect control using, for example, the sterile insect technique and bait spraying. Pest populations will change Projected warming will help some pest species to survive winter and will accelerate development of summer-active spe ...
Glen Harris
... Introduce “discrepancy”: Measure of uncertainty associated with model imperfection: “distance” between unknown true future climate and “best” possible choice of the uncertain model input parameters. Unknown, but we assume this distance similar to that between other climate models and our best pe ...
... Introduce “discrepancy”: Measure of uncertainty associated with model imperfection: “distance” between unknown true future climate and “best” possible choice of the uncertain model input parameters. Unknown, but we assume this distance similar to that between other climate models and our best pe ...
Climate Change - The Right Insight
... atmosphere, thus warming the earth. Water, in either its liquid or frozen state, is relatively opaque to both the shorter and longer wavelength radiation. Other constituents of the earth’s atmosphere, which affect the radiation balance, include naturally occurring trace gases, such as carbon dioxid ...
... atmosphere, thus warming the earth. Water, in either its liquid or frozen state, is relatively opaque to both the shorter and longer wavelength radiation. Other constituents of the earth’s atmosphere, which affect the radiation balance, include naturally occurring trace gases, such as carbon dioxid ...
a pre-publication version here.
... integration of strategies may well result in greater engagement. First, communication that affirms rather than threatens the sense of self and basic worldviews held by the audience has been shown to create a greater openness to risk information (Kahan and Braman 2008). Second, risk information and f ...
... integration of strategies may well result in greater engagement. First, communication that affirms rather than threatens the sense of self and basic worldviews held by the audience has been shown to create a greater openness to risk information (Kahan and Braman 2008). Second, risk information and f ...
Macro Policies For Climate Change: Free
... Widespread social awareness about the environment being endangered by pollution, produced by human activities, started in the sixties. This was mainly due to scientific discoveries about the occurrence of this phenomenon and its magnitude, affecting various natural habitats of animal and plants, all ...
... Widespread social awareness about the environment being endangered by pollution, produced by human activities, started in the sixties. This was mainly due to scientific discoveries about the occurrence of this phenomenon and its magnitude, affecting various natural habitats of animal and plants, all ...
Strongly increasing heat extremes in the Middle East and North
... an increasing number of warm days and high temperature extremes (Kuglitsch et al. 2010; Marofi et al. 2010; Efthymiadis et al. 2011; Donat et al. 2014; Simolo et al. 2014; Tanarhte et al. 2015). While rainfall trends in Mediterranean Europe are significant and predominantly negative, in the MENA the ...
... an increasing number of warm days and high temperature extremes (Kuglitsch et al. 2010; Marofi et al. 2010; Efthymiadis et al. 2011; Donat et al. 2014; Simolo et al. 2014; Tanarhte et al. 2015). While rainfall trends in Mediterranean Europe are significant and predominantly negative, in the MENA the ...
On predicting climate under climate change
... Sahay and Sreenivasan 1996, Palmer 1999). If the boundary conditions were fixed, then the ‘climate’ of the system could be considered as the variable distributions on this attractor. In reality the climate system is not stationary but subject to natural and anthropogenic forcing variations. Such a d ...
... Sahay and Sreenivasan 1996, Palmer 1999). If the boundary conditions were fixed, then the ‘climate’ of the system could be considered as the variable distributions on this attractor. In reality the climate system is not stationary but subject to natural and anthropogenic forcing variations. Such a d ...
Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Security.
... drought was one of many factors that helped spark political unrest in Syria and fed into the uprising that led to the ongoing conflict. Respondents were asked only to indicate their familiarity with and exposure to these ideas, rather than to agree or disagree. We focus first on the responses of Gro ...
... drought was one of many factors that helped spark political unrest in Syria and fed into the uprising that led to the ongoing conflict. Respondents were asked only to indicate their familiarity with and exposure to these ideas, rather than to agree or disagree. We focus first on the responses of Gro ...
Conflict over Climate Change Politics - GUPEA
... An underlying pledge for expansion of politics is the climate change act. However, what is more to the case are the plans for a third runway at Heathrow. An airport becomes a domain of governance where the planning of mobility infrastructure meets national targets of carbon emission levels. It is a ...
... An underlying pledge for expansion of politics is the climate change act. However, what is more to the case are the plans for a third runway at Heathrow. An airport becomes a domain of governance where the planning of mobility infrastructure meets national targets of carbon emission levels. It is a ...
alpine tundra - University of Colorado Boulder
... period is the warmest such interval in the instrumental record. Based on the PRISM data set, the warming has generally been accentuated at the higher elevations (above about 2000 m) where trends in excess of 1°C are calculated. Using the Köppen climate classification system, an area of the western ...
... period is the warmest such interval in the instrumental record. Based on the PRISM data set, the warming has generally been accentuated at the higher elevations (above about 2000 m) where trends in excess of 1°C are calculated. Using the Köppen climate classification system, an area of the western ...
Emissions Trading Markets - National Centre for Research on Europe
... • Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, altered rainfall • Jeopardising, industries, infrastructures, health, bio security and the broader international economy • Firms can be significantly effected through costly legislation ...
... • Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, altered rainfall • Jeopardising, industries, infrastructures, health, bio security and the broader international economy • Firms can be significantly effected through costly legislation ...
CULTURAL THEORY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLUMSINESS
... this knowledge wisely. Unlike the profligacy story, the population tale assumes that humans have a special status outside natural processes. The population story, like that of the proponents of the pricing argument (see next story), contends that human actions are rational. However, unlike the pric ...
... this knowledge wisely. Unlike the profligacy story, the population tale assumes that humans have a special status outside natural processes. The population story, like that of the proponents of the pricing argument (see next story), contends that human actions are rational. However, unlike the pric ...
Global Warming: Basic Definitions
... wood and pick out the lines spanning from the center to the bark's edge. You can read much more than the age of a tree with these lines, however. Scientists who specialize in reading tree rings are called “dendrochronologists.” And they can look at changes to each ring and make accurate predictions ...
... wood and pick out the lines spanning from the center to the bark's edge. You can read much more than the age of a tree with these lines, however. Scientists who specialize in reading tree rings are called “dendrochronologists.” And they can look at changes to each ring and make accurate predictions ...
The 2002 Version of SAMS - Civil, Environmental and Architectural
... Sensitivity to Initial Demand Climate Change – 20% reduction ...
... Sensitivity to Initial Demand Climate Change – 20% reduction ...
European Journal of Legal Studies
... countries4 as if they were the only sinners of climate change. A more plausible solution to reduce GHG emissions is to involve major GHG emitters irrespective of their GDP. The article also proposes using the experience of trade agreements as a model for reaching a global climate treaty, since often ...
... countries4 as if they were the only sinners of climate change. A more plausible solution to reduce GHG emissions is to involve major GHG emitters irrespective of their GDP. The article also proposes using the experience of trade agreements as a model for reaching a global climate treaty, since often ...
joint submission - The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
... While no region of the globe is immune from climate change, it will disproportionately affect certain geographic regions and communities that are more exposed and vulnerable to its effects.10, 11 While severe weather events affect rich and poor countries alike, poor and vulnerable communities are ...
... While no region of the globe is immune from climate change, it will disproportionately affect certain geographic regions and communities that are more exposed and vulnerable to its effects.10, 11 While severe weather events affect rich and poor countries alike, poor and vulnerable communities are ...
Climate Change and Energy
... We are monitoring GHG emissions associated with transport of our parts and products, supplier activities and employees’ business travel. In 2011, estimated GHG emissions associated with logistics and employees’ business travel were 8.5 million tons CO2. supplier activities were responsible for 4.5 m ...
... We are monitoring GHG emissions associated with transport of our parts and products, supplier activities and employees’ business travel. In 2011, estimated GHG emissions associated with logistics and employees’ business travel were 8.5 million tons CO2. supplier activities were responsible for 4.5 m ...
11. Tax and climate change
... trading. The first is that it already exists. The Kyoto Protocol is, in effect, an attempt to apply emissions trading between sovereign states, while the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has created a well-established and active carbon trading market within Europe. The second reason to favour ...
... trading. The first is that it already exists. The Kyoto Protocol is, in effect, an attempt to apply emissions trading between sovereign states, while the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has created a well-established and active carbon trading market within Europe. The second reason to favour ...
Cooperation Studies of Catastrophe Avoidance: Implications for
... many countries, international climate negotiations are crucial so that emission reduction targets can be set and countries can establish that they are not acting in isolation. However, despite more than twenty years of international climate negotiations following the establishment of the United Nati ...
... many countries, international climate negotiations are crucial so that emission reduction targets can be set and countries can establish that they are not acting in isolation. However, despite more than twenty years of international climate negotiations following the establishment of the United Nati ...
Evo Morales, Climate Change and the Paradoxes of a Social
... participants in attendance, approximately 9,000 had come from outside South America, together representing 140 countries, including 56 Government delegations. The concluding document that came out of the People’s C ...
... participants in attendance, approximately 9,000 had come from outside South America, together representing 140 countries, including 56 Government delegations. The concluding document that came out of the People’s C ...
Chapter 2: AFRICAN CLIMATE CHANGE: PAST AND FUTURE
... Climate: This is the long-term average weather conditions (usually taken over a period of more than 30 years as defined by the World Meteorological Organization, WMO) of a region including typical weather patterns such as the frequency and intensity of storms, cold spells, and heat waves. Climate Va ...
... Climate: This is the long-term average weather conditions (usually taken over a period of more than 30 years as defined by the World Meteorological Organization, WMO) of a region including typical weather patterns such as the frequency and intensity of storms, cold spells, and heat waves. Climate Va ...
Perceptions and Adaptation Measures of Crop
... The analysis of the standardized anomalies of annual rainfall in each locality for the time series 1970-2010 (figure 1) is showing an important inter-annual rainfall variation within the same locality. The climate was especially dry in these Sudan Savannah zones and precisely between 1973 -1982 and ...
... The analysis of the standardized anomalies of annual rainfall in each locality for the time series 1970-2010 (figure 1) is showing an important inter-annual rainfall variation within the same locality. The climate was especially dry in these Sudan Savannah zones and precisely between 1973 -1982 and ...