a sensitive matter - The Global Warming Policy Foundation
... now only 1.5–2◦ C would imply that large parts of the AR5 report are out of line with the latest scientific evidence. 6. In our view, the IPCC WGI scientists were saddled with a dilemma. How should they deal with the discrepancy between climate sensitivity estimates based on models and sound observa ...
... now only 1.5–2◦ C would imply that large parts of the AR5 report are out of line with the latest scientific evidence. 6. In our view, the IPCC WGI scientists were saddled with a dilemma. How should they deal with the discrepancy between climate sensitivity estimates based on models and sound observa ...
a free PDF - E-International Relations
... It is this last case that provides us with an important reading of climate change: that it represents an existential crisis. Not for the planet, but for us. Yet, due to the dangerous environmental situations in which many in the world will find themselves, more needs to be done to understand the rel ...
... It is this last case that provides us with an important reading of climate change: that it represents an existential crisis. Not for the planet, but for us. Yet, due to the dangerous environmental situations in which many in the world will find themselves, more needs to be done to understand the rel ...
Forced Sahel rainfall trends in the CMIP5 archive.
... [2011], “RCP8.5 depicts a relatively conservative business as usual case with low income, high population and high energy demand due to only modest improvements in energy intensity”. This is an extreme scenario, with a continuous rise in radiative forcing during the 21st century, leading to a value ...
... [2011], “RCP8.5 depicts a relatively conservative business as usual case with low income, high population and high energy demand due to only modest improvements in energy intensity”. This is an extreme scenario, with a continuous rise in radiative forcing during the 21st century, leading to a value ...
Bony et al., 2006
... or lapse rate feedbacks, smaller than that of cloud feedbacks, but slightly larger than that of the surface albedo feedback. As suggested by Colman (2003a), Soden and Held (2006), and Webb et al. (2005, manuscript submitted to Climate Dyn., hereafter WEBB) the range of climate sensitivity estimates ...
... or lapse rate feedbacks, smaller than that of cloud feedbacks, but slightly larger than that of the surface albedo feedback. As suggested by Colman (2003a), Soden and Held (2006), and Webb et al. (2005, manuscript submitted to Climate Dyn., hereafter WEBB) the range of climate sensitivity estimates ...
It Depends Which Way the Wind Blows
... policies and directions of climate change initiatives needs to be a focus of national and state programs. Aboriginal people across South Australia need to be fully included in climate change discussions, particularly about how it will affect their culture, their land and water resources, so they can ...
... policies and directions of climate change initiatives needs to be a focus of national and state programs. Aboriginal people across South Australia need to be fully included in climate change discussions, particularly about how it will affect their culture, their land and water resources, so they can ...
Environment, Climate Change and International Relations
... It is this last case that provides us with an important reading of climate change: that it represents an existential crisis. Not for the planet, but for us. Yet, due to the dangerous environmental situations in which many in the world will find themselves, more needs to be done to understand the rel ...
... It is this last case that provides us with an important reading of climate change: that it represents an existential crisis. Not for the planet, but for us. Yet, due to the dangerous environmental situations in which many in the world will find themselves, more needs to be done to understand the rel ...
Climate Change and Tourism - Sustainable Development of Tourism
... There will continue to be a need for further studies and research into the issues raised by the conference. Further scientific research into climate change is underway and will help to refine the implications for all sectors of economic activity. The Djerba conference has already succeeded in gettin ...
... There will continue to be a need for further studies and research into the issues raised by the conference. Further scientific research into climate change is underway and will help to refine the implications for all sectors of economic activity. The Djerba conference has already succeeded in gettin ...
Book of abstracts for download
... Luterbacher, J. and MedClivar Paleo consortium. 2000 years of paleo climate evidence from the Mediterranean .................................................................................................. 8 Marcos, M. Mediterranean sea level under climate change scenarios: from regional to local s ...
... Luterbacher, J. and MedClivar Paleo consortium. 2000 years of paleo climate evidence from the Mediterranean .................................................................................................. 8 Marcos, M. Mediterranean sea level under climate change scenarios: from regional to local s ...
How well do we understand and evaluate climate change feedback
... or lapse rate feedbacks, smaller than that of cloud feedbacks, but slightly larger than that of the surface albedo feedback. As suggested by Colman (2003a), Soden and Held (2006), and Webb et al. (2005, manuscript submitted to Climate Dyn., hereafter WEBB) the range of climate sensitivity estimates ...
... or lapse rate feedbacks, smaller than that of cloud feedbacks, but slightly larger than that of the surface albedo feedback. As suggested by Colman (2003a), Soden and Held (2006), and Webb et al. (2005, manuscript submitted to Climate Dyn., hereafter WEBB) the range of climate sensitivity estimates ...
TowARD ReSiLienCe
... Chapter 4 highlights the need to incorporate measures to reduce disaster and climate change risk in the main sectors of developmental and humanitarian intervention: food security; livelihoods; natural resource management; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); education; health; and protection. It pr ...
... Chapter 4 highlights the need to incorporate measures to reduce disaster and climate change risk in the main sectors of developmental and humanitarian intervention: food security; livelihoods; natural resource management; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); education; health; and protection. It pr ...
Snowmaking and Climate Change
... 2007). Second, medium-term investment strategies are not adapted, as there is much confidence in the mitigation capabilities of snowmaking technology as well as an obvious perceivable gap between climate trends and economic investment cycles (Mayer et al 2007). Third, while the bad winter seasons at ...
... 2007). Second, medium-term investment strategies are not adapted, as there is much confidence in the mitigation capabilities of snowmaking technology as well as an obvious perceivable gap between climate trends and economic investment cycles (Mayer et al 2007). Third, while the bad winter seasons at ...
About observed and future climate changes in Flanders and Belgium
... ‘What are the expectations for the future?’, these are the central questions that this MIRA Climate Report 2015 seeks to address. The report begins with an explanation of the mechanism that is at the basis of global climate change. It then searches for signals of climate change in existing datasets, ...
... ‘What are the expectations for the future?’, these are the central questions that this MIRA Climate Report 2015 seeks to address. The report begins with an explanation of the mechanism that is at the basis of global climate change. It then searches for signals of climate change in existing datasets, ...
Earth`s energy imbalance and implications
... its response to many forcings (Hansen et al., 2005b, 2007). About 40 percent of the equilibrium response is obtained within five years. This quick response is due to the small effective inertia of continents, but warming over continents is limited by exchange of continental and marine air masses. On ...
... its response to many forcings (Hansen et al., 2005b, 2007). About 40 percent of the equilibrium response is obtained within five years. This quick response is due to the small effective inertia of continents, but warming over continents is limited by exchange of continental and marine air masses. On ...
Climate Change, Multiple Stressors, and the Decline of Ectotherms Contributed Paper
... remains unclear, however, is whether atrazine exposure affects amphibian responses to climate change in an additive, synergistic, or antagonistic manner. We exposed larval streamside salamanders to atrazine and then tracked their behaviors, foraging rates, mass change, and survival in soil-filled te ...
... remains unclear, however, is whether atrazine exposure affects amphibian responses to climate change in an additive, synergistic, or antagonistic manner. We exposed larval streamside salamanders to atrazine and then tracked their behaviors, foraging rates, mass change, and survival in soil-filled te ...
decision 3/CP.19
... and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia, as indicated by the findings contained in the contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Warning that climate change represents an urge ...
... and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia, as indicated by the findings contained in the contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Warning that climate change represents an urge ...
Relevant Science What do we know about the potential impacts of
... 280 parts per million (ppm). Currently, the concentration is 385 ppm, or 38% higher than preindustrial, which has caused a 0.7°C increase in global mean temperature. At this current, level of temperature increase, impacts are measurable significant and comprehensive (See summary from Intergovernment ...
... 280 parts per million (ppm). Currently, the concentration is 385 ppm, or 38% higher than preindustrial, which has caused a 0.7°C increase in global mean temperature. At this current, level of temperature increase, impacts are measurable significant and comprehensive (See summary from Intergovernment ...
Ambiguity and climate policy
... discussions of the scientific and philosophical challenges of climate prediction), these models are not always in agreement with one another. As an example of this, consider Figure 1, which plots the results of several recent studies’ attempts to use different models and observational data to estima ...
... discussions of the scientific and philosophical challenges of climate prediction), these models are not always in agreement with one another. As an example of this, consider Figure 1, which plots the results of several recent studies’ attempts to use different models and observational data to estima ...
Urban vulnerability and the contribution of socio
... Wisner et al., 2004). This touches on the question of why people are exposed differently to climate-related hazards, acknowledges their susceptibility to suffer harm and considers their coping capacities to address, manage and overcome the negative impacts of climate change. The aim of this article ...
... Wisner et al., 2004). This touches on the question of why people are exposed differently to climate-related hazards, acknowledges their susceptibility to suffer harm and considers their coping capacities to address, manage and overcome the negative impacts of climate change. The aim of this article ...
Colorado Climate Preparedness Project Final Report
... agencies and sectors, yet overall there is widespread awareness of the value of reducing the state’s vulnerability to climate impacts. Climate change is beginning to factor into strategic plans, and the state is engaged regionally and nationally in climate assessments and efforts to shape policy so ...
... agencies and sectors, yet overall there is widespread awareness of the value of reducing the state’s vulnerability to climate impacts. Climate change is beginning to factor into strategic plans, and the state is engaged regionally and nationally in climate assessments and efforts to shape policy so ...
Climate Change Adaptation Manual
... in heavy storm events. Over time these changes will increase and the magnitude of these changes will be greater with higher global greenhouse gas emissions. UKCP09 also provides estimates that sea-level will rise between 30 and 46 cm between 1990 and 2095. Land movements mean that the actual sea-lev ...
... in heavy storm events. Over time these changes will increase and the magnitude of these changes will be greater with higher global greenhouse gas emissions. UKCP09 also provides estimates that sea-level will rise between 30 and 46 cm between 1990 and 2095. Land movements mean that the actual sea-lev ...
Triple Harvest - California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN)
... farmland conservation. For example, large-scale solar energy projects intended to help the state meet its renewable energy goals and address climate change threaten to take some of California’s most significant agricultural lands out of production. High-speed rail and the development that will resul ...
... farmland conservation. For example, large-scale solar energy projects intended to help the state meet its renewable energy goals and address climate change threaten to take some of California’s most significant agricultural lands out of production. High-speed rail and the development that will resul ...
Potential future fisheries yields in shelf waters: a model study of the
... Potential future fisheries yields in shelf waters: a model study of the effects of climate change and ocean acidification S. M. van Leeuwen, W. F. Le Quesne, and E. R. Parker Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, NR33 0HT, UK Correspondence to: ...
... Potential future fisheries yields in shelf waters: a model study of the effects of climate change and ocean acidification S. M. van Leeuwen, W. F. Le Quesne, and E. R. Parker Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, NR33 0HT, UK Correspondence to: ...
Rocky Mountain Forests at Risk - Union of Concerned Scientists
... generate more than $1 billion annually in visitor spending. Another 60 million people visit the region’s 37 national forests each year. Today, however, the forests of the Rocky Mountains are facing a triple assault: tree-killing insects, wildfires, and heat and drought. If allowed to continue unchec ...
... generate more than $1 billion annually in visitor spending. Another 60 million people visit the region’s 37 national forests each year. Today, however, the forests of the Rocky Mountains are facing a triple assault: tree-killing insects, wildfires, and heat and drought. If allowed to continue unchec ...
Assessment Report
... There is growing concern about the increasing anthropogenic effect on the earth’s climate system and its impact on nature and human beings. The world community must take action to both investigate the problem and try to solve it. In recent years fundamental international (IPCC, 2007) and Russian (As ...
... There is growing concern about the increasing anthropogenic effect on the earth’s climate system and its impact on nature and human beings. The world community must take action to both investigate the problem and try to solve it. In recent years fundamental international (IPCC, 2007) and Russian (As ...
Occasional Paper #2 - Institute for Science Innovation and Society
... considered here are from 2007 – the subdivision in too much detail does not make much sense, as one would come up with an overwhelming number of categories for a relatively small number of texts. Also, many social, economic and political issues connected with different technologies are relevant for ...
... considered here are from 2007 – the subdivision in too much detail does not make much sense, as one would come up with an overwhelming number of categories for a relatively small number of texts. Also, many social, economic and political issues connected with different technologies are relevant for ...