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... Robert Corell, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Process, presented the results of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), which show that the Arctic is warming more rapidly than any other part of the planet. He listed several consequences of Arctic warming, such as sea level rise, changes in th ...
... Robert Corell, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Process, presented the results of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), which show that the Arctic is warming more rapidly than any other part of the planet. He listed several consequences of Arctic warming, such as sea level rise, changes in th ...
Journalism 614: Content Analysis
... devastates most of the claims made by the environmentalist movement. The scientists interviewed include top climatologists from MIT and other prestigious universities around the world. The documentary hasn't aired in the U.S., but it's available on the YouTube.” ...
... devastates most of the claims made by the environmentalist movement. The scientists interviewed include top climatologists from MIT and other prestigious universities around the world. The documentary hasn't aired in the U.S., but it's available on the YouTube.” ...
Biological Responses to Rapid Climate Change at the Last Glacial
... What combinations of biotic and abiotic processes will result in ecological resilience to climate change and where might these combinations occur? Late-glacial palaeoecological records demonstrate (1) rapid turnover of communities (2) novel biotic assemblages (3) migrations, invasions, and expansio ...
... What combinations of biotic and abiotic processes will result in ecological resilience to climate change and where might these combinations occur? Late-glacial palaeoecological records demonstrate (1) rapid turnover of communities (2) novel biotic assemblages (3) migrations, invasions, and expansio ...
The challenge to detect and attribute effects of climate change on
... that vary across time and space. These variables are diverse and include demography, land use, resource use and management, settlement patterns, governance structures, policies, legislation, institutions, social relations, economic motives and practices, worldviews, cultural values, knowledge system ...
... that vary across time and space. These variables are diverse and include demography, land use, resource use and management, settlement patterns, governance structures, policies, legislation, institutions, social relations, economic motives and practices, worldviews, cultural values, knowledge system ...
WSCC Community Awareness Survey
... Ozone hole vs. global warming There is a stark contrast between the participants’ attitudes to the two top-of-mind concepts, “global warming” and “hole in the ozone layer”. Global warming, as discussed above, is generally seen as a tendentious reading of some quite confusing statistics. The hole in ...
... Ozone hole vs. global warming There is a stark contrast between the participants’ attitudes to the two top-of-mind concepts, “global warming” and “hole in the ozone layer”. Global warming, as discussed above, is generally seen as a tendentious reading of some quite confusing statistics. The hole in ...
Protected Area Policies and Climate Change: The Case of the
... Protected Areas and Climate Change Climate change seriously threatens biodiversity. Since we are locked in to significant future climate change even if greenhouse gas emissions are severely reduced today, we need adaptation strategies. Most protected areas have been designed to represent and protect ...
... Protected Areas and Climate Change Climate change seriously threatens biodiversity. Since we are locked in to significant future climate change even if greenhouse gas emissions are severely reduced today, we need adaptation strategies. Most protected areas have been designed to represent and protect ...
the Article
... ABSTRACT: As species’ geographic ranges and ecosystem functions are altered in response to climate change, there is a need to integrate biodiversity conservation approaches that promote natural adaptation into land use planning. Successful conservation will need to embrace multiple climate adaptati ...
... ABSTRACT: As species’ geographic ranges and ecosystem functions are altered in response to climate change, there is a need to integrate biodiversity conservation approaches that promote natural adaptation into land use planning. Successful conservation will need to embrace multiple climate adaptati ...
Integrated Development and Climate Policies: how to realise benefits at national
... researchers and representatives of the private sector and NGOs came together in Paris, France to discuss new ways of linking climate change to sustainable development. The integration between development and climate objectives starting from development priorities, has received increasing attention i ...
... researchers and representatives of the private sector and NGOs came together in Paris, France to discuss new ways of linking climate change to sustainable development. The integration between development and climate objectives starting from development priorities, has received increasing attention i ...
The challenge to detect and attribute effects of climate change on
... that vary across time and space. These variables are diverse and include demography, land use, resource use and management, settlement patterns, governance structures, policies, legislation, institutions, social relations, economic motives and practices, worldviews, cultural values, knowledge system ...
... that vary across time and space. These variables are diverse and include demography, land use, resource use and management, settlement patterns, governance structures, policies, legislation, institutions, social relations, economic motives and practices, worldviews, cultural values, knowledge system ...
analysis - Climate Change Commission Wales
... Good long-term data on trends and analysis that is sophisticated enough for sector and locations Changing the current financial models which focus primarily on a narrow definition of cost ...
... Good long-term data on trends and analysis that is sophisticated enough for sector and locations Changing the current financial models which focus primarily on a narrow definition of cost ...
Climate Change - American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians
... the weight of evidence demonstrates that anthropogenic factors have and will continue to contribute significantly to global warming and climate change. It is anticipated that continuing changes to the climate will have serious negative impacts on public, animal and ecosystem health due to extreme we ...
... the weight of evidence demonstrates that anthropogenic factors have and will continue to contribute significantly to global warming and climate change. It is anticipated that continuing changes to the climate will have serious negative impacts on public, animal and ecosystem health due to extreme we ...
Climate change from Poles to Tropics
... such as the Falkland Islands because species and associated habitats have little ‘room for manoeuvre’ in terms of latitudinal shifts. Even in areas where latitudinal shifts are possible, it is With a civilian population of approximately 2,500 possible that rates of climatic change may exceed and a m ...
... such as the Falkland Islands because species and associated habitats have little ‘room for manoeuvre’ in terms of latitudinal shifts. Even in areas where latitudinal shifts are possible, it is With a civilian population of approximately 2,500 possible that rates of climatic change may exceed and a m ...
Maya May Have Caused Civilization
... Climate Change Anne Minard National Geographic Self-induced drought and climate change may have caused the destruction of the Maya civilization, say scientists working with new satellite technology that monitors Central America's environment. Researchers from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Hunt ...
... Climate Change Anne Minard National Geographic Self-induced drought and climate change may have caused the destruction of the Maya civilization, say scientists working with new satellite technology that monitors Central America's environment. Researchers from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Hunt ...
2013 Canada-US Comparative Climate Opinion
... al. 2013), the IPCC’s Working Group I published its highly anticipated Fifth Assessment report in September 2013, concluding with more certainty than ever that climate change is primarily driven by human activity (IPCC 2013). In the same year, other scientific reports warned that the widely agreed u ...
... al. 2013), the IPCC’s Working Group I published its highly anticipated Fifth Assessment report in September 2013, concluding with more certainty than ever that climate change is primarily driven by human activity (IPCC 2013). In the same year, other scientific reports warned that the widely agreed u ...
new mexico`s rising economic risks from climate change
... for irrigation and for ecological and species needs. Increased evaporative losses from reservoirs, other surface waters and soils resulting from hotter, drier conditions and increased evapo-transpiration by agricultural and riparian plants will reduce soil moisture in northern New Mexico and exacerb ...
... for irrigation and for ecological and species needs. Increased evaporative losses from reservoirs, other surface waters and soils resulting from hotter, drier conditions and increased evapo-transpiration by agricultural and riparian plants will reduce soil moisture in northern New Mexico and exacerb ...
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in the Land Use Sector
... Second, complementarity is less cost effective in general. As Kane and Yohe (2000) argued, the treatment of adaptation and mitigation as different policy options increases the cost of climate change. Among the reason for this is the low integration of practices that could have minimized resource req ...
... Second, complementarity is less cost effective in general. As Kane and Yohe (2000) argued, the treatment of adaptation and mitigation as different policy options increases the cost of climate change. Among the reason for this is the low integration of practices that could have minimized resource req ...
Climate Change in Florida
... simulated spatial patterns of the surface sensible and latent heat flux were altered significantly, resulting in changes in the structure and strength of climatologically persistent, surface-forced mesoscale circulations—particularly the afternoon sea breeze fronts. This mechanism was associated wit ...
... simulated spatial patterns of the surface sensible and latent heat flux were altered significantly, resulting in changes in the structure and strength of climatologically persistent, surface-forced mesoscale circulations—particularly the afternoon sea breeze fronts. This mechanism was associated wit ...
Working Paper 217 - Bettis et al 2016 (opens in new window)
... Insurance companies are required to hold capital against the risk of failing to meet their liabilities, in particular of failing to pay claims to their policyholders in an unusually bad year, in which there are too many claims. Bankruptcy can follow. This is known in the industry as the ‘risk of rui ...
... Insurance companies are required to hold capital against the risk of failing to meet their liabilities, in particular of failing to pay claims to their policyholders in an unusually bad year, in which there are too many claims. Bankruptcy can follow. This is known in the industry as the ‘risk of rui ...
Mountain Waters in a Changing World
... of canals to transfer mountain water to water scarce regions (e.g. the “Inter Basin Water Transfer link project of India”, cf. Jain et al. 2005). These measures are, in turn, expected to cause changes in runoff regimes with impacts on water availability and ecosystem health in the lowlands. Populati ...
... of canals to transfer mountain water to water scarce regions (e.g. the “Inter Basin Water Transfer link project of India”, cf. Jain et al. 2005). These measures are, in turn, expected to cause changes in runoff regimes with impacts on water availability and ecosystem health in the lowlands. Populati ...
Towards Critical Studies of Climate Adaptation - diss.fu
... rational and comprehensive approaches to overcome uncertainty and produce “win-win” benefits (e.g., Godschalk, Brody, and Burby 2003; While and Whitehead 2013). Operationally, adaptation planning, especially in the global North, focuses on infrastructure and land use planning solutions. Northern pr ...
... rational and comprehensive approaches to overcome uncertainty and produce “win-win” benefits (e.g., Godschalk, Brody, and Burby 2003; While and Whitehead 2013). Operationally, adaptation planning, especially in the global North, focuses on infrastructure and land use planning solutions. Northern pr ...
Dorsey.18.2.Jun_.07
... Sunoco.14 Hardline corporate lobby groups, including the presently defunct Global Climate Coalition (GCC), the Business Roundtable, and the American Petroleum Institute, for years openly denied the very existence of climate change and opposed the Kyoto Protocol up-front.15 In 1998, a leaked memo rev ...
... Sunoco.14 Hardline corporate lobby groups, including the presently defunct Global Climate Coalition (GCC), the Business Roundtable, and the American Petroleum Institute, for years openly denied the very existence of climate change and opposed the Kyoto Protocol up-front.15 In 1998, a leaked memo rev ...
Impact and Response Scenarios for Coastal Flooding in Barbados and
... being funded by the Disaster Preparedness Programme of the European Commission (ECHO) the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) has retained the services of the CARICOM Adapting to Climate Change in the Caribbean project to develop/flood assessment methodology for coastal flooding whi ...
... being funded by the Disaster Preparedness Programme of the European Commission (ECHO) the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) has retained the services of the CARICOM Adapting to Climate Change in the Caribbean project to develop/flood assessment methodology for coastal flooding whi ...
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... Farming Communities in Agusan del Norte through Innovative Risk Transfer Mechanisms A demonstration Project under the United Nations MDG-F Joint Programme on Strengthening the Philippines’ Institutional Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change ILO-DTI-DOLE ...
... Farming Communities in Agusan del Norte through Innovative Risk Transfer Mechanisms A demonstration Project under the United Nations MDG-F Joint Programme on Strengthening the Philippines’ Institutional Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change ILO-DTI-DOLE ...
What is global warming?
... The report notes that reducing carbon dioxide emissions could lessen warming this century and beyond. But it makes equally clear that climate-related changes are already being observed globally and that new problems and challenges will develop no matter how radically emissions are reduced in the fut ...
... The report notes that reducing carbon dioxide emissions could lessen warming this century and beyond. But it makes equally clear that climate-related changes are already being observed globally and that new problems and challenges will develop no matter how radically emissions are reduced in the fut ...
Exposure of global mountain systems to climate warming during the
... Four emission scenarios were used as follows. A1FI (global economic) is a fossil fuel intensive world of rapid economic growth, low population growth and rapid introduction of new and more efficient technologies. A2 (regional economic) is a world of strengthening regional cultural identities, with an ...
... Four emission scenarios were used as follows. A1FI (global economic) is a fossil fuel intensive world of rapid economic growth, low population growth and rapid introduction of new and more efficient technologies. A2 (regional economic) is a world of strengthening regional cultural identities, with an ...