Understanding public complacency about climate
... sources are implemented, existing stocks of GHG-generating capital (automobiles, industrial plant and equipment, housing, infrastructure) are only gradually replaced or retrofitted, while noncarbon alternatives are only gradually developed and deployed (Fiddaman 2002). The longest response delays, h ...
... sources are implemented, existing stocks of GHG-generating capital (automobiles, industrial plant and equipment, housing, infrastructure) are only gradually replaced or retrofitted, while noncarbon alternatives are only gradually developed and deployed (Fiddaman 2002). The longest response delays, h ...
Air-mass Origin in the Arctic. Part II: Response to Increases in
... distributions of chemical and particulate tracers in the Arctic is key for understanding climate. It is now well appreciated that nearly all of the pollution in the Arctic originates over Northern Hemisphere (NH) midlatitudes (Law and Stohl 2007). Since the distributions of trace species reflect the ...
... distributions of chemical and particulate tracers in the Arctic is key for understanding climate. It is now well appreciated that nearly all of the pollution in the Arctic originates over Northern Hemisphere (NH) midlatitudes (Law and Stohl 2007). Since the distributions of trace species reflect the ...
Land Use Change Impacts on Air Quality and Climate
... climate.1-3 Land use change (LUC) in the next century has been projected to have profound impacts on regional climate.4 These changes connect to critical issues of food security, energy supply, and biodiversity. Large-scale perturbation of the biosphere will also play a major role in determining atm ...
... climate.1-3 Land use change (LUC) in the next century has been projected to have profound impacts on regional climate.4 These changes connect to critical issues of food security, energy supply, and biodiversity. Large-scale perturbation of the biosphere will also play a major role in determining atm ...
Deep South Challenge Research and Business Plan
... to ensure that our climate sensitive sectors contribute to the New Zealand Business Growth Agenda’s2 aim to increase exports relative to GDP; better management of climate risks to enable higher living standards3; and enhancement of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s reputation as a global leader in climate scie ...
... to ensure that our climate sensitive sectors contribute to the New Zealand Business Growth Agenda’s2 aim to increase exports relative to GDP; better management of climate risks to enable higher living standards3; and enhancement of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s reputation as a global leader in climate scie ...
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... Molly Van Dop, Benjamin M. Gramig, Juan P. Sesmero, Purdue University Department of Agricultural Economics, ...
... Molly Van Dop, Benjamin M. Gramig, Juan P. Sesmero, Purdue University Department of Agricultural Economics, ...
Mesozoic Climates. - Return to Home Page
... “expected weather” (Bradley, 1985), or quantitatively by statistical expressions such as central tendencies and variances. The overall distribution of climatological parameters, bounded by weather extremes, defines the climatic variability. Changes in climate can be defined by the differences betwee ...
... “expected weather” (Bradley, 1985), or quantitatively by statistical expressions such as central tendencies and variances. The overall distribution of climatological parameters, bounded by weather extremes, defines the climatic variability. Changes in climate can be defined by the differences betwee ...
Accountable Climate Governance: Dilemmas of Performance Management across Complex Governance Networks
... assess these accountability and performance management issues in the context of post-Kyoto international climate policy design and address a specific question: How can accountability be institutionalized across governance networks that are dealing with the transboundary pollution problem of mitigatin ...
... assess these accountability and performance management issues in the context of post-Kyoto international climate policy design and address a specific question: How can accountability be institutionalized across governance networks that are dealing with the transboundary pollution problem of mitigatin ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES Yongyang Cai Kenneth L. Judd
... parameters and conducts a Monte Carlo analysis with many simulations, each being itself a deterministic run of the model with a picked set of parameter values. This method can provide valuable information about a possible range of the climateeconomy system, but it always assumes that economic actors ...
... parameters and conducts a Monte Carlo analysis with many simulations, each being itself a deterministic run of the model with a picked set of parameter values. This method can provide valuable information about a possible range of the climateeconomy system, but it always assumes that economic actors ...
Curriculum Vitae - Population Health Sciences
... http://www.nps.edu/Academics/Institutes/Cebrowski/Docs/Rasmussen-docs/Health Impact Climate Change Patz.pdf. Patz JA, Gibbs, HK, Foley JA, Rogers JV, Smith KR. Climate Change and Global Health: Quantifying a Growing Ethical Crisis. EcoHealth 2007 4(4): 397-405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10393-007-0 ...
... http://www.nps.edu/Academics/Institutes/Cebrowski/Docs/Rasmussen-docs/Health Impact Climate Change Patz.pdf. Patz JA, Gibbs, HK, Foley JA, Rogers JV, Smith KR. Climate Change and Global Health: Quantifying a Growing Ethical Crisis. EcoHealth 2007 4(4): 397-405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10393-007-0 ...
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... that absorb carbon dioxide. • Some scientists claim that rising carbon dioxide levels have coincided with a rise in global temperatures. • This trend, known as global warming, is believed to be caused by human activities, such as the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas. ...
... that absorb carbon dioxide. • Some scientists claim that rising carbon dioxide levels have coincided with a rise in global temperatures. • This trend, known as global warming, is believed to be caused by human activities, such as the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas. ...
World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate
... visitor access, as well as other threats and stresses. Tourism can also play a positive role in helping to secure the future of many World Heritage sites in a changing climate. The report’s goal is to provide up-to-date information and a basis for action on climate change, tourism and World Heritage ...
... visitor access, as well as other threats and stresses. Tourism can also play a positive role in helping to secure the future of many World Heritage sites in a changing climate. The report’s goal is to provide up-to-date information and a basis for action on climate change, tourism and World Heritage ...
Atlantic National Seashores in Peril
... may offer relief. But when temperatures are in the 100ºs, RMCO also developed new projections of how much the experience could be a lot less enjoyable. hotter year-round (or annual) average temperatures in The good news is that summers in Assateague Island NS the Atlantic national seashores could be ...
... may offer relief. But when temperatures are in the 100ºs, RMCO also developed new projections of how much the experience could be a lot less enjoyable. hotter year-round (or annual) average temperatures in The good news is that summers in Assateague Island NS the Atlantic national seashores could be ...
argue - DLR ELIB
... requires simplifications to complex atmospheric and climatic processes to be made, as well as value-laden decisions on, for example, the timescales that are to be considered. In addition, for many of the emissions considered here, there is a substantial underlying uncertainty in quantifying their imp ...
... requires simplifications to complex atmospheric and climatic processes to be made, as well as value-laden decisions on, for example, the timescales that are to be considered. In addition, for many of the emissions considered here, there is a substantial underlying uncertainty in quantifying their imp ...
World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate
... visitor access, as well as other threats and stresses. Tourism can also play a positive role in helping to secure the future of many World Heritage sites in a changing climate. The report’s goal is to provide up-to-date information and a basis for action on climate change, tourism and World Heritage ...
... visitor access, as well as other threats and stresses. Tourism can also play a positive role in helping to secure the future of many World Heritage sites in a changing climate. The report’s goal is to provide up-to-date information and a basis for action on climate change, tourism and World Heritage ...
Consensus‟ Exposed: The CRU Controversy - Inhofe
... centers in the world‖ on key aspects of climate change research. It also has ―contributed to the scientific assessments of climate change conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).‖ CRU‘s CRUTEM3 is one of the key datasets of surface temperatures utilized by the IPCC in its F ...
... centers in the world‖ on key aspects of climate change research. It also has ―contributed to the scientific assessments of climate change conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).‖ CRU‘s CRUTEM3 is one of the key datasets of surface temperatures utilized by the IPCC in its F ...
Special Interests and the Media
... available facts. In a model with a general discrete signal and message space, reputational concerns lead to an endogenous limit on the amount of information that the journalist can communicate in equilibrium. The reason is that a captured journalist wants to make a very informative report, which mea ...
... available facts. In a model with a general discrete signal and message space, reputational concerns lead to an endogenous limit on the amount of information that the journalist can communicate in equilibrium. The reason is that a captured journalist wants to make a very informative report, which mea ...
Special Interests and the Media: Theory and an Application to Climate Change Seminar is joint with Political Economy.
... available facts. In a model with a general discrete signal and message space, reputational concerns lead to an endogenous limit on the amount of information that the journalist can communicate in equilibrium. The reason is that a captured journalist wants to make a very informative report, which mea ...
... available facts. In a model with a general discrete signal and message space, reputational concerns lead to an endogenous limit on the amount of information that the journalist can communicate in equilibrium. The reason is that a captured journalist wants to make a very informative report, which mea ...
World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate
... visitor access, as well as other threats and stresses. Tourism can also play a positive role in helping to secure the future of many World Heritage sites in a changing climate. The report’s goal is to provide up-to-date information and a basis for action on climate change, tourism and World Heritage ...
... visitor access, as well as other threats and stresses. Tourism can also play a positive role in helping to secure the future of many World Heritage sites in a changing climate. The report’s goal is to provide up-to-date information and a basis for action on climate change, tourism and World Heritage ...
Nature Communications Review Integrating Pliocene Geological
... 2010; Bartoli et al., 2011; Badger et al., 2013). This is in contrast to the known preindustrial concentration of 280 ppmv and the seasonally adjusted 2013 annual concentration of 396.52 ppmv (http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/data/atmospheric_co2.html). With respect to the pre-industrial era, Pliocene su ...
... 2010; Bartoli et al., 2011; Badger et al., 2013). This is in contrast to the known preindustrial concentration of 280 ppmv and the seasonally adjusted 2013 annual concentration of 396.52 ppmv (http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/data/atmospheric_co2.html). With respect to the pre-industrial era, Pliocene su ...
Scanning the Conservation Horizon
... various aspects of climate projections and vulnerability assessments, we provide specific guidance on understanding, addressing, and documenting uncertainty. Finally, climate change is not occurring in a vacuum, and assessments must be carried out in the context of existing stresses on our species a ...
... various aspects of climate projections and vulnerability assessments, we provide specific guidance on understanding, addressing, and documenting uncertainty. Finally, climate change is not occurring in a vacuum, and assessments must be carried out in the context of existing stresses on our species a ...
E Chapter 14 Impacts of Disturbances etc
... • Disturbances of marine ecosystems have occurred naturally in all places at all times. • Responses on disturbances in terms of species diversities appear general and predictable • Anthropogenic effects must be distinguishable from natural changes (by experimental design) • The continental shelves a ...
... • Disturbances of marine ecosystems have occurred naturally in all places at all times. • Responses on disturbances in terms of species diversities appear general and predictable • Anthropogenic effects must be distinguishable from natural changes (by experimental design) • The continental shelves a ...
Scanning the Conservation Horizon
... various aspects of climate projections and vulnerability assessments, we provide specific guidance on understanding, addressing, and documenting uncertainty. Finally, climate change is not occurring in a vacuum, and assessments must be carried out in the context of existing stresses on our species a ...
... various aspects of climate projections and vulnerability assessments, we provide specific guidance on understanding, addressing, and documenting uncertainty. Finally, climate change is not occurring in a vacuum, and assessments must be carried out in the context of existing stresses on our species a ...
Coastal climate change vulnerability and adaptation
... Climate change projections Historical and future emissions of greenhouse gases are projected to contribute to increases in global mean temperatures of about 2‐4°C (relative to 1980‐1999) by the end of the century. This In turn is projected to affect coastal and marine environments through elevate ...
... Climate change projections Historical and future emissions of greenhouse gases are projected to contribute to increases in global mean temperatures of about 2‐4°C (relative to 1980‐1999) by the end of the century. This In turn is projected to affect coastal and marine environments through elevate ...
a guidebook on climate scenarios
... information can be presented to decision-makers, such as planners, engineers, resource managers, and goverment. Finally, a third section outlines key climate modeling concepts that support a good understanding of climate information in general. This document is not detailed enough to inform users on ...
... information can be presented to decision-makers, such as planners, engineers, resource managers, and goverment. Finally, a third section outlines key climate modeling concepts that support a good understanding of climate information in general. This document is not detailed enough to inform users on ...
Predicting how adaptation to climate change could affect ecological
... in PA buffer zones could lead to additional isolation of PAs if portions of newly suitable land are ...
... in PA buffer zones could lead to additional isolation of PAs if portions of newly suitable land are ...