Summary Report of the Durban Mountain Day on 4 December 2011
... the research presented in the newly launched HKH Climate Change Synthesis Report indicating the interrelationship between mountain and downstream ecosystems. He shared significant trends described in the report such as: annual surface air temperature increase; glacier shrinkage; increased species ex ...
... the research presented in the newly launched HKH Climate Change Synthesis Report indicating the interrelationship between mountain and downstream ecosystems. He shared significant trends described in the report such as: annual surface air temperature increase; glacier shrinkage; increased species ex ...
Tenaghi Philippon (Greece) Revisited: Drilling a Continuous Lower
... With the dramatically increasing manifestation of anthropogenic forcing on the Earth's climate, understanding the mechanisms and effects of abrupt climate change is crucial to extend the lead time for mitigation and adaptation. In this context, the climate variability during the Quaternary represent ...
... With the dramatically increasing manifestation of anthropogenic forcing on the Earth's climate, understanding the mechanisms and effects of abrupt climate change is crucial to extend the lead time for mitigation and adaptation. In this context, the climate variability during the Quaternary represent ...
In Search of Refuge: Pacific Islands, Climate - East
... For small island states in the Pacific, the factors that characterize climate-induced migration—the inability to return, collective migration in large numbers, and the predictable need for migration—might all occur in concert. The coincidence of all of these factors militates for a rapid and compreh ...
... For small island states in the Pacific, the factors that characterize climate-induced migration—the inability to return, collective migration in large numbers, and the predictable need for migration—might all occur in concert. The coincidence of all of these factors militates for a rapid and compreh ...
Climate Change and Conflict Scenarios
... References The papers from the conference of Human Security and Climate Change can be found on its website at www.cicero.uio.no/humsec. Particularly relevant papers are the ones by Barnett & Adger; Hendrix & Glaser; Levy et al.; Meier & Bond; Niasse; Nordås & Gleditsch; Obioha; Patnaik & Narayanan; ...
... References The papers from the conference of Human Security and Climate Change can be found on its website at www.cicero.uio.no/humsec. Particularly relevant papers are the ones by Barnett & Adger; Hendrix & Glaser; Levy et al.; Meier & Bond; Niasse; Nordås & Gleditsch; Obioha; Patnaik & Narayanan; ...
EU RESEARCH ON CLIMATE CHANGE:Present and Future
... Aviation emission impacts on cirrus clouds three times larger than that from CO2 emissions alone on climate AICSEX (Arctic Ice Cover Simulation Experiment): The Arctic warming in 1920-1930 and the subsequent cooling in 1950-1970 are due to natural fluctuations in the climate system. PRUDENCE (Pr ...
... Aviation emission impacts on cirrus clouds three times larger than that from CO2 emissions alone on climate AICSEX (Arctic Ice Cover Simulation Experiment): The Arctic warming in 1920-1930 and the subsequent cooling in 1950-1970 are due to natural fluctuations in the climate system. PRUDENCE (Pr ...
A multi-disciplinary perspective on climate model evaluation for
... J. L. Russell, S. L. Stevenson, J. Turner, J. M. van Wessem, W. J. van de Berg, and I. Wainer ...
... J. L. Russell, S. L. Stevenson, J. Turner, J. M. van Wessem, W. J. van de Berg, and I. Wainer ...
Realities VS Misconceptions About the Science of Climate Change
... decades‐long discussion of the climate system that has led to our current understanding of global warming. The dawn of the satellite era at the end of the 70s, the retrieval of several more ice cores reaching further back in time from Greenland and Antarctica, and improvements in climate modeling ...
... decades‐long discussion of the climate system that has led to our current understanding of global warming. The dawn of the satellite era at the end of the 70s, the retrieval of several more ice cores reaching further back in time from Greenland and Antarctica, and improvements in climate modeling ...
OVERVIEW:
... B–Water supply: Water supply in the NRB is being affected by a large number of factors including decreasing snowfall, increasing total winter precipitation (i.e., more winter rain), decreasing soil moisture, forest pests outbreaks and warming temperatures. These have led to a change in the annual d ...
... B–Water supply: Water supply in the NRB is being affected by a large number of factors including decreasing snowfall, increasing total winter precipitation (i.e., more winter rain), decreasing soil moisture, forest pests outbreaks and warming temperatures. These have led to a change in the annual d ...
What is CLIMATE?
... making Earth warm enough for life. But too many greenhouse gases can cause Earth’s temperature to rise! ...
... making Earth warm enough for life. But too many greenhouse gases can cause Earth’s temperature to rise! ...
The Causes of Global Climatic Changes: International and
... Provincial and local governments have experienced constraints that “interfere with the countrywide enforcement and implementation of environmental policy”. This highlights the fact that the current institutional structure and the lack of capacity pose a challenge to the delegation and decentralisati ...
... Provincial and local governments have experienced constraints that “interfere with the countrywide enforcement and implementation of environmental policy”. This highlights the fact that the current institutional structure and the lack of capacity pose a challenge to the delegation and decentralisati ...
Does pre-industrial warming double the anthropogenic total?
... increase in greenhouse gases in the warmer climate (PI to PD, 245 to 355 CO2eq). The term CO2eq (ppm) in this plot incorporates both the change in CO2 and also the change in CH4 quantified as an equivalent change in CO2. Some of the early greenhouse-gas warming may have been offset by other kinds of ...
... increase in greenhouse gases in the warmer climate (PI to PD, 245 to 355 CO2eq). The term CO2eq (ppm) in this plot incorporates both the change in CO2 and also the change in CH4 quantified as an equivalent change in CO2. Some of the early greenhouse-gas warming may have been offset by other kinds of ...
Adapting agriculture to climate change
... Agriculture can make a valuable contribution to lowering Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) allows farmers and land managers to earn tradeable carbon credits for storing carbon or reducing greenhouse gas emissions on their land. Such initiatives will impact on ...
... Agriculture can make a valuable contribution to lowering Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) allows farmers and land managers to earn tradeable carbon credits for storing carbon or reducing greenhouse gas emissions on their land. Such initiatives will impact on ...
cc_presentation_NEDEF
... Shared between Housing, Economic Prosperity and Attractive/Accessible – each has own sub-target Justification •Members have asked for a carbon reduction commitment •Existing strategy weak on environmental targets ...
... Shared between Housing, Economic Prosperity and Attractive/Accessible – each has own sub-target Justification •Members have asked for a carbon reduction commitment •Existing strategy weak on environmental targets ...
scientific method and the “greenhouse” theory
... few days. Projecting changes in climate (i.e., long-term average weather) due to changes in atmospheric composition or other factors is a very different and much more manageable issue”. Rind6, however, disagrees "The climate that we experience results both from ordered forcing and chaotic behaviour, ...
... few days. Projecting changes in climate (i.e., long-term average weather) due to changes in atmospheric composition or other factors is a very different and much more manageable issue”. Rind6, however, disagrees "The climate that we experience results both from ordered forcing and chaotic behaviour, ...
Elizabeth G. Ferris
... the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.”9 The IPCC is open to all members of the WMO and UNEP and meets annually at the plenary le ...
... the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.”9 The IPCC is open to all members of the WMO and UNEP and meets annually at the plenary le ...
- UCSB Sustainability
... This course will explore the causes and consequences of climate change on a global scale, covering the state of the science in layman’s terms, the current and future social impacts of climate change, the global negotiations process, and climate justice activism. A growing international scientific co ...
... This course will explore the causes and consequences of climate change on a global scale, covering the state of the science in layman’s terms, the current and future social impacts of climate change, the global negotiations process, and climate justice activism. A growing international scientific co ...
Tackling climate change at the local level
... process5. The SEA should therefore explicitly identify climate change as the single most important issue in the scoping process. The LDF Annual Monitoring Report should make clear what progress there has been on climate change reduction and recommend policy where necessary. ...
... process5. The SEA should therefore explicitly identify climate change as the single most important issue in the scoping process. The LDF Annual Monitoring Report should make clear what progress there has been on climate change reduction and recommend policy where necessary. ...
climate and health country profile – 2015 nigeria
... Socioeconomic development and health interventions are driving down burdens of several infectious diseases, and these projections assume that this will continue. However, climate conditions are projected to become significantly more favourable for transmission, slowing progress in reducing burdens, ...
... Socioeconomic development and health interventions are driving down burdens of several infectious diseases, and these projections assume that this will continue. However, climate conditions are projected to become significantly more favourable for transmission, slowing progress in reducing burdens, ...
... The Asia-Pacific region produces more than half of the world’s captured fish and 90% of aquaculture fish (FAO, 2006), and millions of people across the region rely on fish for their protein intake and livelihoods. Of the estimated 41 million people working as fishers and fish farmers in 2007, the gr ...
The Changing Himalayas
... for both the summer monsoon and the winter westerlies. The summer monsoon dominates the climate, lasting eight months (March–October) in the Eastern Himalayas, four months (June–September) in the Central Himalayas, and two months (July–August) in the Western Himalayas (Chalise and Khanal, 2001). The ...
... for both the summer monsoon and the winter westerlies. The summer monsoon dominates the climate, lasting eight months (March–October) in the Eastern Himalayas, four months (June–September) in the Central Himalayas, and two months (July–August) in the Western Himalayas (Chalise and Khanal, 2001). The ...
Disasters, Death, and Destruction Making Sense of Recent Calamities
... and hurricanes is in some way related to changes in climate. These perceptions beg two questions: • Have loss of life and damages associated with extreme weather events actually increased in recent years? • What factors account for observed trends in the impacts of weather on society? The answers to ...
... and hurricanes is in some way related to changes in climate. These perceptions beg two questions: • Have loss of life and damages associated with extreme weather events actually increased in recent years? • What factors account for observed trends in the impacts of weather on society? The answers to ...
program
... suber L.) Woodlands Loss. Consequence of climate changes effects? A case study at South‐Western Portugal ‐ Augusta Costa, Manuel Madeira ...
... suber L.) Woodlands Loss. Consequence of climate changes effects? A case study at South‐Western Portugal ‐ Augusta Costa, Manuel Madeira ...
NEC Standard Presentation Format
... • Where should NOAA be in 10-20 years in regard to climate services for climate variability, climate change? Need to develop a vision and roadmap for the future. ...
... • Where should NOAA be in 10-20 years in regard to climate services for climate variability, climate change? Need to develop a vision and roadmap for the future. ...
From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives: Working Paper 13 (418 kB) (opens in new window)
... a coupled model of the economy and climate system, now widely known as an Integrated Assessment Model (hereafter IAM: see Hope 2005 for a review).4 The sorts of IAM used for economic evaluation must be ‘full-scale’ (Weyant, Davidson et al. 1996), in the sense that they must have some representation ...
... a coupled model of the economy and climate system, now widely known as an Integrated Assessment Model (hereafter IAM: see Hope 2005 for a review).4 The sorts of IAM used for economic evaluation must be ‘full-scale’ (Weyant, Davidson et al. 1996), in the sense that they must have some representation ...
The GCOS Cooperation Mechanism
... Support the international policy development role of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Provide the comprehensive, continuous climate and climate-related observations needed for: Climate system monitoring; Climate change detection and attribution; ...
... Support the international policy development role of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Provide the comprehensive, continuous climate and climate-related observations needed for: Climate system monitoring; Climate change detection and attribution; ...