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... 1.85% per year to 1.70% is marginal (FAO, 1999). The same FAO study also projected an increase in the cereal crop production by 90% from present 1.8 billion tons during next two decades as well as drastic raise in per capita food consumption, balancing the production gains. Since these projections a ...
... 1.85% per year to 1.70% is marginal (FAO, 1999). The same FAO study also projected an increase in the cereal crop production by 90% from present 1.8 billion tons during next two decades as well as drastic raise in per capita food consumption, balancing the production gains. Since these projections a ...
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 ...
Implications for policymakers: Climate change, biodiversity
... responses to climate change will vary across the continent and within local regions. In addition, many ecological changes are likely to lag behind the driving environmental changes. Therefore, management that is dependent on responding to observed changes will be challenging, even with increased mon ...
... responses to climate change will vary across the continent and within local regions. In addition, many ecological changes are likely to lag behind the driving environmental changes. Therefore, management that is dependent on responding to observed changes will be challenging, even with increased mon ...
Global Warming: The Science and the Politics
... are certainly natural in origin and unrelated to warming due to human-induced rises in the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. For example, the top chart of figure 2 is the estimated global temperature over the past 1,000 years. The chart shows that large fluctuations are common to the climate system. ...
... are certainly natural in origin and unrelated to warming due to human-induced rises in the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. For example, the top chart of figure 2 is the estimated global temperature over the past 1,000 years. The chart shows that large fluctuations are common to the climate system. ...
A Preventable Crisis: El Niño and La Niña events need earlier
... • Most regions had at least one poor agricultural season before El Niño hit, due to droughts, floods, erratic rains and/or the creeping effects of climate change; Central America has had three years of drought. • The impact was deepened by other factors, such as coffee rust in Central America, polit ...
... • Most regions had at least one poor agricultural season before El Niño hit, due to droughts, floods, erratic rains and/or the creeping effects of climate change; Central America has had three years of drought. • The impact was deepened by other factors, such as coffee rust in Central America, polit ...
2.3 Climate Scenarios
... How to Set up Climate Scenarios • The most import step on an impact study is to setup climate change scenarios. There are four methods to define climate scenarios. 1. Based on GCMs’ projections 2. Assumptions • T=+2 oC; +4 oC • P= 0%, 10%, 20% ...
... How to Set up Climate Scenarios • The most import step on an impact study is to setup climate change scenarios. There are four methods to define climate scenarios. 1. Based on GCMs’ projections 2. Assumptions • T=+2 oC; +4 oC • P= 0%, 10%, 20% ...
Andrew Boswell November 2007
... ways of living to make deep cuts to our emissions. People have managed such change before – for example during the second world war. I already see people starting to do this at every level from the community to local government to national government to industry etc. Its time to stop arguing about t ...
... ways of living to make deep cuts to our emissions. People have managed such change before – for example during the second world war. I already see people starting to do this at every level from the community to local government to national government to industry etc. Its time to stop arguing about t ...
Crying Wolf: Climate Change Far Greater Threat to Farmers Than
... between 1980 and 2005.14 Increasing frequency of severe weather such as drought and heavy precipitation will lead to greater crop damage, lower yields or even total crop failure. These impacts were all apparent during the major Midwest flood of 2008, when the federal crop insurance program paid out ...
... between 1980 and 2005.14 Increasing frequency of severe weather such as drought and heavy precipitation will lead to greater crop damage, lower yields or even total crop failure. These impacts were all apparent during the major Midwest flood of 2008, when the federal crop insurance program paid out ...
Intel Climate Change Policy
... knowledge of future greenhouse gas emissions, the IPCC and others typically employ a range, or uncertainty band, when projecting the amount of global warming that could occur with or without society taking aggressive mitigation actions. Uncertainty also surrounds other climate change impacts like ex ...
... knowledge of future greenhouse gas emissions, the IPCC and others typically employ a range, or uncertainty band, when projecting the amount of global warming that could occur with or without society taking aggressive mitigation actions. Uncertainty also surrounds other climate change impacts like ex ...
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... are characterised by abundant precipitation concentrated along the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) (SEMAZZI and SONG, 2001). Since the movement of the ITCZ trails the position of maximum surface heating associated with the north/south displacement of the overhead position of the sun, the equa ...
... are characterised by abundant precipitation concentrated along the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) (SEMAZZI and SONG, 2001). Since the movement of the ITCZ trails the position of maximum surface heating associated with the north/south displacement of the overhead position of the sun, the equa ...
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... Increased levels of GHG in the atmosphere are predicted to cause climate change. In 1992 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted, with the objective to achieve ‘stabilisation of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthro ...
... Increased levels of GHG in the atmosphere are predicted to cause climate change. In 1992 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted, with the objective to achieve ‘stabilisation of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthro ...
- UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... The third municipal division of Batallas, where this project takes place, lies in the north of the High Plateaus, and therefore has a cold climate that results from its high altitude (3,850-6,300 m.a.s.l.). Its scant vegetation, itself a consequence of the soil type, creates a greater evaporation-t ...
... The third municipal division of Batallas, where this project takes place, lies in the north of the High Plateaus, and therefore has a cold climate that results from its high altitude (3,850-6,300 m.a.s.l.). Its scant vegetation, itself a consequence of the soil type, creates a greater evaporation-t ...
Regional Security Implications of Climate Change A
... processes leading to tensions and eroding institutions. Additionally, unequal and inequitable distribution of opportunities to access and utilise natural resources between different social groups – which can become exacerbated by climate change – can be an important trigger and driving force of conf ...
... processes leading to tensions and eroding institutions. Additionally, unequal and inequitable distribution of opportunities to access and utilise natural resources between different social groups – which can become exacerbated by climate change – can be an important trigger and driving force of conf ...
Thomas Sheffer Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of
... particularly true for vulnerable coastal regions where projected impacts are the most severe. While substantial attention and action is being given to mitigating the human contribution to climate change, the US has been slow to initiate adaptation planning for both projected changes and those alread ...
... particularly true for vulnerable coastal regions where projected impacts are the most severe. While substantial attention and action is being given to mitigating the human contribution to climate change, the US has been slow to initiate adaptation planning for both projected changes and those alread ...
INDC Chile english version
... such as health and education, improving the quality of such services remains an issue. In this regard, reducing the high levels of inequality in the Chilean economy as well as providing security to vulnerable groups with little social protection are still pending tasks. These are important challenge ...
... such as health and education, improving the quality of such services remains an issue. In this regard, reducing the high levels of inequality in the Chilean economy as well as providing security to vulnerable groups with little social protection are still pending tasks. These are important challenge ...
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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 ...
Communicating the risks of global warming
... Americans are aware of global warming (92%), believe that global warming is real and already underway (74%), believe that there is a scientific consensus on the reality of climate change (61%), and already view climate change as a somewhat to very serious problem (76%) (Leiserowitz, 2003; PIPA, 2005 ...
... Americans are aware of global warming (92%), believe that global warming is real and already underway (74%), believe that there is a scientific consensus on the reality of climate change (61%), and already view climate change as a somewhat to very serious problem (76%) (Leiserowitz, 2003; PIPA, 2005 ...
Human Development Report 2007/2008 Climate Change and
... rate of 2mm per year. Coastal erosion has also been reported, such as in the Cau Mau area where more than 600 hectares of land have been eroded, with 200m wide strips of land lost in some locations. Predictions for the extent of sea level rise in the future differ, with national publications asserti ...
... rate of 2mm per year. Coastal erosion has also been reported, such as in the Cau Mau area where more than 600 hectares of land have been eroded, with 200m wide strips of land lost in some locations. Predictions for the extent of sea level rise in the future differ, with national publications asserti ...
FORTY-FOURTH SESSION OF THE IPCC Bangkok, Thailand, 17
... Participants were invited to discuss all aspects of the scope, outline, and contents of the report. A pre-defined structure for the report was purposely not provided to the participants and the SSC encouraged participants to think beyond the contents of the background document, to think "outside of ...
... Participants were invited to discuss all aspects of the scope, outline, and contents of the report. A pre-defined structure for the report was purposely not provided to the participants and the SSC encouraged participants to think beyond the contents of the background document, to think "outside of ...
THAILAND`S NEWSPAPERS COVERAGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
... debate/discussion in the media during recent years. The existence of climate change in media discourse is hence an established fact. However, this study will not deal with the science of climate change, but focus more on its presence in the context of the media. Concerning the use of the term “clima ...
... debate/discussion in the media during recent years. The existence of climate change in media discourse is hence an established fact. However, this study will not deal with the science of climate change, but focus more on its presence in the context of the media. Concerning the use of the term “clima ...
6. Whatever the weather. Media attitudes to reporting
... Global policy on climate change The United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change is the main international forum for defining the problem of climate change and finding solutions. Its scientific arm, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, brings together experts from around the ...
... Global policy on climate change The United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change is the main international forum for defining the problem of climate change and finding solutions. Its scientific arm, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, brings together experts from around the ...
Results and success factors of TNAs
... How the process is carried out at the national level The goal of a TNA is to identify technologies for mitigation and adaptation that also support a country’s development objectives. To achieve this goal, the TNA process contains the following key steps (see Figure 1 below): (a) To identify key pri ...
... How the process is carried out at the national level The goal of a TNA is to identify technologies for mitigation and adaptation that also support a country’s development objectives. To achieve this goal, the TNA process contains the following key steps (see Figure 1 below): (a) To identify key pri ...
The impact of climate change on the electricity market A review
... coming decades regardless of what is done in the near future. This so-called warming commitment is according to the IPCC (2007c) about 0.1 1C per decade for the next two decades (and somewhat less for future decades). Thus, even if the current deadlock in international climate negotiations is resolv ...
... coming decades regardless of what is done in the near future. This so-called warming commitment is according to the IPCC (2007c) about 0.1 1C per decade for the next two decades (and somewhat less for future decades). Thus, even if the current deadlock in international climate negotiations is resolv ...
Climate change and extreme weather events
... sea ice extent realistically. Consequently, the decrease in sea ice extent can be interpreted as the combination of greenhouse warming and natural variability. The probability that the magnitude of the observed 1953-98 trend (-190.000 km2 per 10 years) in sea ice extent is caused only by natural var ...
... sea ice extent realistically. Consequently, the decrease in sea ice extent can be interpreted as the combination of greenhouse warming and natural variability. The probability that the magnitude of the observed 1953-98 trend (-190.000 km2 per 10 years) in sea ice extent is caused only by natural var ...
A review of the consideration of climate change in the planning of
... et al., 2011). There are even fewer studies for the planning and design of new schemes that have taken into account the impacts of climate change on hydropower generation. This raises the question as to why this is the case? One of the reasons is that river flows in sub-Saharan Africa display high l ...
... et al., 2011). There are even fewer studies for the planning and design of new schemes that have taken into account the impacts of climate change on hydropower generation. This raises the question as to why this is the case? One of the reasons is that river flows in sub-Saharan Africa display high l ...