California Climate Extremes Workshop Report Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, CA
... anywhere in the U.S., including the Gulf Coast states. For example, in the winter of 1862 storms pummeled the state for weeks, causing widespread flooding and monumental damage. A similar event could cause a half trillion dollars in losses if it occurred today. On the other hand, California’s histor ...
... anywhere in the U.S., including the Gulf Coast states. For example, in the winter of 1862 storms pummeled the state for weeks, causing widespread flooding and monumental damage. A similar event could cause a half trillion dollars in losses if it occurred today. On the other hand, California’s histor ...
Linkages between planning
... Tonle Sap Lakes, for the benefit of sustainable livelihoods, and serving as an example for inspiration elsewhere ...
... Tonle Sap Lakes, for the benefit of sustainable livelihoods, and serving as an example for inspiration elsewhere ...
Australian climate change policy: a chronology
... could be seen as inconsistent and lacking in direction. At times Australia has been an early adopter, establishing the world’s first government agency dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions; signing on to global climate treaties the same day they are created; establishing the world’s first e ...
... could be seen as inconsistent and lacking in direction. At times Australia has been an early adopter, establishing the world’s first government agency dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions; signing on to global climate treaties the same day they are created; establishing the world’s first e ...
Modelling the impact of future changes in climate, CO2
... The future emissions of greenhouse gases will depend on future trends in the global economy, population growth, and technological change. The recognition that these factors are linked led the IPCC to develop a set of scenarios, in which change in each factor is consistent with a particular ‘storylin ...
... The future emissions of greenhouse gases will depend on future trends in the global economy, population growth, and technological change. The recognition that these factors are linked led the IPCC to develop a set of scenarios, in which change in each factor is consistent with a particular ‘storylin ...
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... in the midst of vulgaries associated with climate change. Due to the increasingly high poverty levels of small scale farmers in most developing countries including Zambia (whose poverty level stands at about 60% of total population, World Bank, 2014), policy makers have placed great emphasis on the ...
... in the midst of vulgaries associated with climate change. Due to the increasingly high poverty levels of small scale farmers in most developing countries including Zambia (whose poverty level stands at about 60% of total population, World Bank, 2014), policy makers have placed great emphasis on the ...
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... Research took place in Mokrice village area (46°00′N, 15°55′E; ca. 140 m above sea level) in north-western Croatia from 1980 to 2015. The study area is a small mixed farming area with arable land containing small forests (up to 10 ha). The relief is mostly undulating lowland. I studied tree sparrows ...
... Research took place in Mokrice village area (46°00′N, 15°55′E; ca. 140 m above sea level) in north-western Croatia from 1980 to 2015. The study area is a small mixed farming area with arable land containing small forests (up to 10 ha). The relief is mostly undulating lowland. I studied tree sparrows ...
From Impacts Towards Adaptation—Mississippi Watershed
... Warming of the climate system is unequivocal and recent warming is very likely due to humans. Climate is and will continue to change irrespective of initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: even if global emissions could be capped tomorrow at 2000 levels an additio ...
... Warming of the climate system is unequivocal and recent warming is very likely due to humans. Climate is and will continue to change irrespective of initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: even if global emissions could be capped tomorrow at 2000 levels an additio ...
Results Report - World Wide Views on Climate and Energy
... climate change and energy are clear: there is strong public support for political action in order to agree on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The WWViews results are based on well-established principles for c ...
... climate change and energy are clear: there is strong public support for political action in order to agree on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The WWViews results are based on well-established principles for c ...
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... The advantage of this empirical approach is that the method includes not only the direct effect of climate on productivity but also the adaptation response by farmers to local climate. This farmer behavior is important because it mitigates the problems associated with less than optimal environmental ...
... The advantage of this empirical approach is that the method includes not only the direct effect of climate on productivity but also the adaptation response by farmers to local climate. This farmer behavior is important because it mitigates the problems associated with less than optimal environmental ...
Future climate warming and changes to mountain permafrost in the
... 2011), present understanding of Andean permafrost distribution and resilience is limited (Azócar and Brenning 2010). Most mountain regions have warmed faster than the global average (Bradley et al. 2006); for instance, warming in the European Alps since the 1980s has been reported as 0.5 °C per deca ...
... 2011), present understanding of Andean permafrost distribution and resilience is limited (Azócar and Brenning 2010). Most mountain regions have warmed faster than the global average (Bradley et al. 2006); for instance, warming in the European Alps since the 1980s has been reported as 0.5 °C per deca ...
First Nations` Governance and Climate Change
... authority to enable them to enact environmental laws, policies and other measures; a short, medium, and long-term vision of their Nation’s sustainability; and the capacity to effectively translate their authority and vision into meaningful and sustained action. 2 There are many barriers to achieving ...
... authority to enable them to enact environmental laws, policies and other measures; a short, medium, and long-term vision of their Nation’s sustainability; and the capacity to effectively translate their authority and vision into meaningful and sustained action. 2 There are many barriers to achieving ...
Expansion of the world`s deserts due to vegetation
... leads to increased surface albedo, which reduces heat input and moist static energy. Consequently, the subsidence that is typical of these subtropical regions intensifies, leading to reduced moisture convergence and precipitation. This is further amplified by the three processes discussed above. The ...
... leads to increased surface albedo, which reduces heat input and moist static energy. Consequently, the subsidence that is typical of these subtropical regions intensifies, leading to reduced moisture convergence and precipitation. This is further amplified by the three processes discussed above. The ...
climate change climate change - Toronto District School Board
... Teachers who prefer teacher-centred planning should plan lessons based on their interpretation of the Focus Questions. They will pre-plan their regular daily geography lessons with an eye first and foremost on the Ontario Geography document. However, when they need an example for in-class practice a ...
... Teachers who prefer teacher-centred planning should plan lessons based on their interpretation of the Focus Questions. They will pre-plan their regular daily geography lessons with an eye first and foremost on the Ontario Geography document. However, when they need an example for in-class practice a ...
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WATER
... has been linked to changes in the large-scale water cycle such as: increasing atmospheric water vapour content; changing precipitation patterns, intensity and extremes; reduced snow cover and widespread melting of ice; and changes in soil moisture and runoff. In other words, the challenges related t ...
... has been linked to changes in the large-scale water cycle such as: increasing atmospheric water vapour content; changing precipitation patterns, intensity and extremes; reduced snow cover and widespread melting of ice; and changes in soil moisture and runoff. In other words, the challenges related t ...
A 400-year Tree-ring Chronology from the Tropical Treeline of North
... Colima tree-ring record was investigated by drawing spatial correlation maps. Point correlations were objectively interpolated (38) to obtain contour intervals. Figure 5 depicts the statistical relationship with tree-ring chronologies for western North America (39), computed using the standard versi ...
... Colima tree-ring record was investigated by drawing spatial correlation maps. Point correlations were objectively interpolated (38) to obtain contour intervals. Figure 5 depicts the statistical relationship with tree-ring chronologies for western North America (39), computed using the standard versi ...
Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy
... cap–and-trade systems, carbon taxes, and some types of regulatory mechanisms. Finally, Jing Cao (2010) presents the perspective of China, the most important of the emerging economies, by examining an approach which seeks to reconcile fairness, economic development imperatives, and sensible climate p ...
... cap–and-trade systems, carbon taxes, and some types of regulatory mechanisms. Finally, Jing Cao (2010) presents the perspective of China, the most important of the emerging economies, by examining an approach which seeks to reconcile fairness, economic development imperatives, and sensible climate p ...
Author's personal copy On the use
... and public actors. Examining the interactions between media representations and public engagement can therefore facilitate our understanding of how texts and images inform and influence peoples’ conceptualisation of climate change. Yet whilst many studies have explored this interface through textual ...
... and public actors. Examining the interactions between media representations and public engagement can therefore facilitate our understanding of how texts and images inform and influence peoples’ conceptualisation of climate change. Yet whilst many studies have explored this interface through textual ...
Sensitivity of tree growth to the atmospheric vertical profile in the
... cooling2 of the Northern Hemisphere upper atmosphere has a positive effect on tree growth in the area under study. The maps created using PC2 (results supported by Fig. 6b) however suggested that a cooling of the mid-troposphere (500 hPa) above the northwestern U.S.A. is more detrimental to conifers ...
... cooling2 of the Northern Hemisphere upper atmosphere has a positive effect on tree growth in the area under study. The maps created using PC2 (results supported by Fig. 6b) however suggested that a cooling of the mid-troposphere (500 hPa) above the northwestern U.S.A. is more detrimental to conifers ...
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 ...
Climate Change Impact on Agricultural Water Resources Variability
... coarse spatial scales to finer scales. The underlying concept is that local climate is conditioned by large-scale climate and by local physiographical features such as topography, distance to a coast, and vegetation. At a specific location, therefore, links should exist between large-scale and local ...
... coarse spatial scales to finer scales. The underlying concept is that local climate is conditioned by large-scale climate and by local physiographical features such as topography, distance to a coast, and vegetation. At a specific location, therefore, links should exist between large-scale and local ...
"A Broader View of the Role of Humans in the... Assessment of Costs and Benefits of Effective Climate Policy"
... Forcings and Feedbacks Not a Global Average Temperature Trend 3a. Can regional scale climate be predicted decades into the future? The CCSP Report “The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity in the United States” accepts model predictions and pres ...
... Forcings and Feedbacks Not a Global Average Temperature Trend 3a. Can regional scale climate be predicted decades into the future? The CCSP Report “The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity in the United States” accepts model predictions and pres ...
Climate in the Heartland
... This project was designed to supplement existing climate change data for the Heartland Regional Network area. Resources such as the National Climate Assessment (NCA) (Walsh and Wuebbles 2014) provide information about future impacts expected across regions of the United States. The NCA and other pro ...
... This project was designed to supplement existing climate change data for the Heartland Regional Network area. Resources such as the National Climate Assessment (NCA) (Walsh and Wuebbles 2014) provide information about future impacts expected across regions of the United States. The NCA and other pro ...
Tracking adaptation and measuring development
... Climate change is changing the contexts in which development takes place by changing the nature and intensity of climate-related risks, and through the impacts of evolving climate-related risks on people’s vulnerability. Current development interventions that fail to address climate change, and curr ...
... Climate change is changing the contexts in which development takes place by changing the nature and intensity of climate-related risks, and through the impacts of evolving climate-related risks on people’s vulnerability. Current development interventions that fail to address climate change, and curr ...
Changes in Arctic vegetation amplify high
... in atmospheric water vapor due to imports from lower latitudes to be important for the climate of the Arctic but do not directly consider changes in atmospheric moisture related to changes in vegetation. In fact, they explicitly state that the only three ways in which climate is coupled to vegetatio ...
... in atmospheric water vapor due to imports from lower latitudes to be important for the climate of the Arctic but do not directly consider changes in atmospheric moisture related to changes in vegetation. In fact, they explicitly state that the only three ways in which climate is coupled to vegetatio ...
THE COST OF DELAYING ACTION TO STEM CLIMATE CHANGE
... The changing climate and increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations are projected to accelerate multiple threats, including more severe storms, droughts, and heat waves, further sea level rise, more frequent and severe storm surge damage, and acidification of the oceans (USGCRP 2014) ...
... The changing climate and increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations are projected to accelerate multiple threats, including more severe storms, droughts, and heat waves, further sea level rise, more frequent and severe storm surge damage, and acidification of the oceans (USGCRP 2014) ...