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Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of
... A recently developed integrative framework proposes that the vulnerability of a species to environmental change depends on the species’ exposure and sensitivity to environmental change, its resilience to perturbations and its potential to adapt to change. These vulnerability criteria require behavio ...
... A recently developed integrative framework proposes that the vulnerability of a species to environmental change depends on the species’ exposure and sensitivity to environmental change, its resilience to perturbations and its potential to adapt to change. These vulnerability criteria require behavio ...
Physical Assessment of the Brahmaputra River
... monsoon, the average increase in monthly flows may vary from 3% to 9% by 2050 across the three emission scenarios, and by 7% to 16% by 2100. In the dry season, the average increase in monthly flows varies by similar amounts (2% to 11% by 2050, and 8% to 15% by 2100). The increase in flows by 2050 co ...
... monsoon, the average increase in monthly flows may vary from 3% to 9% by 2050 across the three emission scenarios, and by 7% to 16% by 2100. In the dry season, the average increase in monthly flows varies by similar amounts (2% to 11% by 2050, and 8% to 15% by 2100). The increase in flows by 2050 co ...
Emerging trends in heavy precipitation and hot temperature
... sSAT allows a somewhat more physical interpretation with the local changes. For the continuous variables (e.g., Rx1day, TXx[N]d and their scalings) linear trends are computed using the robust method by Theil-Sen, and the trend significance is determined by the nonparametric Mann-Kendall trend test [Y ...
... sSAT allows a somewhat more physical interpretation with the local changes. For the continuous variables (e.g., Rx1day, TXx[N]d and their scalings) linear trends are computed using the robust method by Theil-Sen, and the trend significance is determined by the nonparametric Mann-Kendall trend test [Y ...
Chapter 3: Natural environment and natural assets
... is available), extended growing seasons for crops and improved productivity in agriculture and forestry. Some evidence already exists for such positive outcomes but they are usually countered by other factors, both climatic and socio-economic. As also identified by other reports (for examplethe UK N ...
... is available), extended growing seasons for crops and improved productivity in agriculture and forestry. Some evidence already exists for such positive outcomes but they are usually countered by other factors, both climatic and socio-economic. As also identified by other reports (for examplethe UK N ...
2006–2012 Climate Change Action Plan
... ambitions in the area of continent-wide sustainable development when it released its 2006-2012 Action En route to the future Plan on climate change. Today, we move forward in this direction by adding funds and measures to the Action Entitled Québec and Climate Change – A Challenge for Plan, ensuring ...
... ambitions in the area of continent-wide sustainable development when it released its 2006-2012 Action En route to the future Plan on climate change. Today, we move forward in this direction by adding funds and measures to the Action Entitled Québec and Climate Change – A Challenge for Plan, ensuring ...
2005 International Project Spotlight: Belize Barrier Reef
... observed increase could be largely due to this natural variability; alternatively this variability and other human factors could have offset a still larger human-induced greenhouse warming. The unequivocal detection of the enhanced greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or mo ...
... observed increase could be largely due to this natural variability; alternatively this variability and other human factors could have offset a still larger human-induced greenhouse warming. The unequivocal detection of the enhanced greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or mo ...
Fluvial responses to climate and sea-level change
... provide a context for observed historical trends and predicted near-future conditions. Second, development of sequence-stratigraphic concepts and methods (e.g. Vail et al., 1977; Jervey, 1988; Posamentier & Vail, 1988; Posamentier et al., 1988) provided a potential unifying framework for much of sed ...
... provide a context for observed historical trends and predicted near-future conditions. Second, development of sequence-stratigraphic concepts and methods (e.g. Vail et al., 1977; Jervey, 1988; Posamentier & Vail, 1988; Posamentier et al., 1988) provided a potential unifying framework for much of sed ...
Feedbacks and mechanisms affecting the global
... projections that is relatively large compared to the ensemble mean. Moreover, the rates of mass loss projected for the different RCP scenarios are relatively similar during the 21st century. The latter also reflects the result that over long timescales, there was no simple relation between rates of ...
... projections that is relatively large compared to the ensemble mean. Moreover, the rates of mass loss projected for the different RCP scenarios are relatively similar during the 21st century. The latter also reflects the result that over long timescales, there was no simple relation between rates of ...
Climate Change Impacts in Alpine Environments
... Fig. 7. Projection of warming effects on the distribution of suitable sites for the nival plant Androsace alpina based on a spatial explicit model: (a) Digital Elevation Model of Mt. Schrankogel (resolution 1 m2). (b) Setting of 1 m2 permanent plots in transects (see yellow markings in (a) for deriv ...
... Fig. 7. Projection of warming effects on the distribution of suitable sites for the nival plant Androsace alpina based on a spatial explicit model: (a) Digital Elevation Model of Mt. Schrankogel (resolution 1 m2). (b) Setting of 1 m2 permanent plots in transects (see yellow markings in (a) for deriv ...
the state of city climate finance - Cities Climate Finance Leadership
... “Climate change poses the single biggest threat to the future health and livelihood of today’s children. To protect and secure a healthy and sustainable future for children, we support the urgent global transition to a low carbon economy. Cities are increasingly at the forefront of climate change ac ...
... “Climate change poses the single biggest threat to the future health and livelihood of today’s children. To protect and secure a healthy and sustainable future for children, we support the urgent global transition to a low carbon economy. Cities are increasingly at the forefront of climate change ac ...
Accommodating Climate Change Science
... their claims about the value of the scientific discoveries they pass along. They cannot rely on the audience to recognize the significance of information” (ibid., 333–334). The second general observation Fahnestock makes about accommodated rhetoric has to do with the taxonomy of “statement types” in t ...
... their claims about the value of the scientific discoveries they pass along. They cannot rely on the audience to recognize the significance of information” (ibid., 333–334). The second general observation Fahnestock makes about accommodated rhetoric has to do with the taxonomy of “statement types” in t ...
Review and recommendations for climate change vulnerability
... vulnerability. Assessments also need to integrate considerations of critical thresholds and important ecosystem tipping points. Modeling and empirical studies suggest that changes due to climate alone are likely to be expressed at multi-annual to decadal time scales (Allen and Breshears 1998). In co ...
... vulnerability. Assessments also need to integrate considerations of critical thresholds and important ecosystem tipping points. Modeling and empirical studies suggest that changes due to climate alone are likely to be expressed at multi-annual to decadal time scales (Allen and Breshears 1998). In co ...
Relative impacts of land use and climate change on summer
... domain of 1000 × 1000 km (see Fig. 1). The model has a horizontal grid spacing of 2.5 km and the vertical grid contains 40 sigma levels. Atmospheric and surface boundary conditions are obtained from ERA-Interim every 6 h. Model output is stored and analyzed on an hourly basis. The model is run for 4 ...
... domain of 1000 × 1000 km (see Fig. 1). The model has a horizontal grid spacing of 2.5 km and the vertical grid contains 40 sigma levels. Atmospheric and surface boundary conditions are obtained from ERA-Interim every 6 h. Model output is stored and analyzed on an hourly basis. The model is run for 4 ...
Restoration of peatlands and greenhouse gas balances
... Työ: 4881 Peatsland and climate change [09.05.2008 Työ: ...
... Työ: 4881 Peatsland and climate change [09.05.2008 Työ: ...
Geographical Variation of Climate Change Impact on Rice Yield in
... climate warming in the NEC. GST positively impacted rice yield in 64.6% of the counties, with an increase of approximately 3.65%; GDD positively impacted yield in 64% of the counties, an increase of approximately 3.2%; and GSP negatively impacted rice yield in 68% of the counties, with a decrease of ...
... climate warming in the NEC. GST positively impacted rice yield in 64.6% of the counties, with an increase of approximately 3.65%; GDD positively impacted yield in 64% of the counties, an increase of approximately 3.2%; and GSP negatively impacted rice yield in 68% of the counties, with a decrease of ...
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Nature’s Prophet:
... Engaging the public and decision makers on climate change is made all the more difficult by the advertising, public relations, and lobbying strategies of powerful fossil-fuel companies that benefit from maintaining the status quo, and by aligned conservative political leaders and groups. Over the pa ...
... Engaging the public and decision makers on climate change is made all the more difficult by the advertising, public relations, and lobbying strategies of powerful fossil-fuel companies that benefit from maintaining the status quo, and by aligned conservative political leaders and groups. Over the pa ...
Treeline dynamics with climate change at the central Nepal Himalaya
... (Körner and Paulsen, 2004; Holtmeier, 2009). Worldwide, high-altitude climatic treelines are associated with a seasonal mean ground temperature of 6.7 ◦ C±0.8 SD during the growing period (Körner and Paulsen, 2004). So, natural treeline ecotones are sensitive biomonitors of past and recent climate c ...
... (Körner and Paulsen, 2004; Holtmeier, 2009). Worldwide, high-altitude climatic treelines are associated with a seasonal mean ground temperature of 6.7 ◦ C±0.8 SD during the growing period (Körner and Paulsen, 2004). So, natural treeline ecotones are sensitive biomonitors of past and recent climate c ...
analyses Why are we seeing “REDD”? seeing “REDD”?
... policies: compared to the aggregate monetary costs of climate change consequences of about 5-20% of annual global GDP if no action is taken, a 25% emissions reduction target by 2050 would cost only 1% of global annual GDP by 2050 and would limit the temperature increase to approximately 2ºC (Stern 2 ...
... policies: compared to the aggregate monetary costs of climate change consequences of about 5-20% of annual global GDP if no action is taken, a 25% emissions reduction target by 2050 would cost only 1% of global annual GDP by 2050 and would limit the temperature increase to approximately 2ºC (Stern 2 ...
Global Warming Answers - smallworldbigthoughts-eub-geo
... Doomsayers preaching the horrors of warming are not troubled by the fact that in the Middle Ages, when for a few hundred years it was warmer than it is now, neither the Maldive atolls nor the Pacific archipelagos were flooded. Global oceanic levels have been rising for some hundreds or thousands of ...
... Doomsayers preaching the horrors of warming are not troubled by the fact that in the Middle Ages, when for a few hundred years it was warmer than it is now, neither the Maldive atolls nor the Pacific archipelagos were flooded. Global oceanic levels have been rising for some hundreds or thousands of ...
Cloud Feedbacks Found to Amplify Global Warming
... 500-hPa vertical velocity (v500) from satellite data and reanalyses, respectively. Focusing only on the ocean regions between 308S and 308N, they scaled the anomalies in monthly mean TOA fluxes with the coincident SST anomalies. This analysis was done for grid points in different dynamical regimes d ...
... 500-hPa vertical velocity (v500) from satellite data and reanalyses, respectively. Focusing only on the ocean regions between 308S and 308N, they scaled the anomalies in monthly mean TOA fluxes with the coincident SST anomalies. This analysis was done for grid points in different dynamical regimes d ...
Science, Scientists, and Local Weather: Understanding Mass
... Information Environment. Because the scale of global warming transcends personal experience, public understanding of this phenomenon is reliant on a variety of information sources. The role of the media has drawn particular attention in the scholarly literature. Indeed, the mass media’s pursuit of “ ...
... Information Environment. Because the scale of global warming transcends personal experience, public understanding of this phenomenon is reliant on a variety of information sources. The role of the media has drawn particular attention in the scholarly literature. Indeed, the mass media’s pursuit of “ ...
Chapter 18 - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
... and indigenous (Chapter 3) observations, and information from the latest assessments by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP, 1998) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001). Projections of climate change over the 21st century, based on emissions scenarios and co ...
... and indigenous (Chapter 3) observations, and information from the latest assessments by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP, 1998) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001). Projections of climate change over the 21st century, based on emissions scenarios and co ...
climate change, migration and human security in southeast asia
... security claims. While slow-induced migration is the more likely outcome in the context of climate change,13 the language—the speech acts of security—in the climate security and climate migration literature conjures up the image of processes that are likely to be out of control and therefore highly ...
... security claims. While slow-induced migration is the more likely outcome in the context of climate change,13 the language—the speech acts of security—in the climate security and climate migration literature conjures up the image of processes that are likely to be out of control and therefore highly ...
Weather, Traffic Accidents, and Climate Change
... damage only accidents and injuries, while snow-free regions in the south will generally see higher rates. These results are important because the discounted accident costs alone, at $58 billion from 2010 to 2099, are on the same order of magnitude as others that have been studied earlier such as pro ...
... damage only accidents and injuries, while snow-free regions in the south will generally see higher rates. These results are important because the discounted accident costs alone, at $58 billion from 2010 to 2099, are on the same order of magnitude as others that have been studied earlier such as pro ...
2015 Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment Update
... dry months and an increasing number of very wet months, which reflects the overall wetting trend in the Commonwealth. ...
... dry months and an increasing number of very wet months, which reflects the overall wetting trend in the Commonwealth. ...