Assessing the Risk of a Collapse of the Atlantic Thermohaline
... Why would the THC collapse? There are two threads of evidence that suggest this possibility. One is based on modelling and the other is drawn from paleoclimate evidence. The first model of the THC was developed by Henry Stommel [1]. In this very simple model, heat and salt are transported from an eq ...
... Why would the THC collapse? There are two threads of evidence that suggest this possibility. One is based on modelling and the other is drawn from paleoclimate evidence. The first model of the THC was developed by Henry Stommel [1]. In this very simple model, heat and salt are transported from an eq ...
... trigger outcomes that will threaten U.S. security. These assessments have had to rely on projections of climate change tuned to identify impacts over roughly a one-century time frame. This time frame is driven by the nature of the questions that dominated the initial literature (e.g., what impacts c ...
Climate Extremes: Recent Trends with Implications for National Security
... trigger outcomes that will threaten U.S. security. These assessments have had to rely on projections of climate change tuned to identify impacts over roughly a one-century time frame. This time frame is driven by the nature of the questions that dominated the initial literature (e.g., what impacts c ...
... trigger outcomes that will threaten U.S. security. These assessments have had to rely on projections of climate change tuned to identify impacts over roughly a one-century time frame. This time frame is driven by the nature of the questions that dominated the initial literature (e.g., what impacts c ...
River Basin Management in a changing climate
... − The role of adaptation in the 2nd and 3rd river basin management cycles. This EU guidance builds upon these policy messages and is a mentioned as a priority action in the EC's White Paper on Adapting to Climate Change (2009). It has been discussed with a wide range of stakeholders and experts in t ...
... − The role of adaptation in the 2nd and 3rd river basin management cycles. This EU guidance builds upon these policy messages and is a mentioned as a priority action in the EC's White Paper on Adapting to Climate Change (2009). It has been discussed with a wide range of stakeholders and experts in t ...
Climate change and Ontario`s provincial parks
... of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Parks’ policy, planning, and management frameworks. While the literature review and the models described in thi ...
... of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Parks’ policy, planning, and management frameworks. While the literature review and the models described in thi ...
Flammable Planet - The Cost of Carbon Pollution
... FUND, and PAGE—do not account for the costs of wildfires caused by climate change. According to the current scientific consensus, climate change will increase wildfire frequency, size, and intensity in many global regions. The United States will be particularly affected; scientists predict a 50 to 1 ...
... FUND, and PAGE—do not account for the costs of wildfires caused by climate change. According to the current scientific consensus, climate change will increase wildfire frequency, size, and intensity in many global regions. The United States will be particularly affected; scientists predict a 50 to 1 ...
Great Lakes National Parks in Peril
... Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multi-model dataset, provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Santa Clara University, and Climate Central multi-model dataset, with support provided by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy. For assis ...
... Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multi-model dataset, provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Santa Clara University, and Climate Central multi-model dataset, with support provided by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy. For assis ...
CIRES-Climate Change - Colorado Water Conservation Board
... projected changes in the water cycle. By the mid-21st century, average river runoff and water availability are projected to increase at high latitudes and decrease over dry regions at lower midlatitudes such as the western United States. Changes in the quantity and quality of water may occur due to ...
... projected changes in the water cycle. By the mid-21st century, average river runoff and water availability are projected to increase at high latitudes and decrease over dry regions at lower midlatitudes such as the western United States. Changes in the quantity and quality of water may occur due to ...
a proposal for a convention on climate change refugees
... with climate change refugees,7 this Article presents several advances. It provides a more in-depth examination of a climate change refugee legal instrument that draws on multiple areas of the law, including human rights, humanitarian, and international environmental law. It looks to legal precedent ...
... with climate change refugees,7 this Article presents several advances. It provides a more in-depth examination of a climate change refugee legal instrument that draws on multiple areas of the law, including human rights, humanitarian, and international environmental law. It looks to legal precedent ...
The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis
... If we do not reverse current trends by close to 2020, however, we may have failed. Global warming will pass the widely acknowledged danger level of two degrees, since there is an approximately 20 year delay between emission reductions and the halting of their warming effect. This report clearly demo ...
... If we do not reverse current trends by close to 2020, however, we may have failed. Global warming will pass the widely acknowledged danger level of two degrees, since there is an approximately 20 year delay between emission reductions and the halting of their warming effect. This report clearly demo ...
Past and future influence of climate change on spatially
... and will be almost distributed in the north of China, except the northeast and northwest China with significant but varying influence of temperature rising, while the regions with temperature dominated vegetation activity mainly located in the southern part of China. There will be different climatic ...
... and will be almost distributed in the north of China, except the northeast and northwest China with significant but varying influence of temperature rising, while the regions with temperature dominated vegetation activity mainly located in the southern part of China. There will be different climatic ...
Climate Change and Biodiversity
... At the global level, human activities have caused and will continue to cause a loss in biodiversity1 through, inter alia, land-use and land-cover change; soil and water pollution and degradation (including desertification), and air pollution; diversion of water to intensively managed ecosystems and ...
... At the global level, human activities have caused and will continue to cause a loss in biodiversity1 through, inter alia, land-use and land-cover change; soil and water pollution and degradation (including desertification), and air pollution; diversion of water to intensively managed ecosystems and ...
Will climate change increase ozone depletion from low
... However, such effects are still under discussion. Schmidt et al. (2006) found a weakening in the meridional circulation using model simulations, but long-term radar measurements have not yet been able to unambiguously identify a trend (Baumgaertner et al., 2005; Keuer et al., 2007). If climate chang ...
... However, such effects are still under discussion. Schmidt et al. (2006) found a weakening in the meridional circulation using model simulations, but long-term radar measurements have not yet been able to unambiguously identify a trend (Baumgaertner et al., 2005; Keuer et al., 2007). If climate chang ...
Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe 2016
... strongly with socio-economic factors and their regional and global trends. Climate change is a systemic challenge that does not happen in isolation but interacts with socio-economic factors. Regional and global trends in these factors add an extra dynamic. They include geopolitics and conflicts; eco ...
... strongly with socio-economic factors and their regional and global trends. Climate change is a systemic challenge that does not happen in isolation but interacts with socio-economic factors. Regional and global trends in these factors add an extra dynamic. They include geopolitics and conflicts; eco ...
Self-Governance and Peer Review in Science-for
... IPCC certification that the drafting and review process has been successfully completed. It is an expression of trust in the authors and the process, and is explicitly distinguished from “approval,” or detailed review on a line-by-line basis. Operating under these definitions, the IPCC Plenary “appr ...
... IPCC certification that the drafting and review process has been successfully completed. It is an expression of trust in the authors and the process, and is explicitly distinguished from “approval,” or detailed review on a line-by-line basis. Operating under these definitions, the IPCC Plenary “appr ...
Contested science in the media: linguistic traces of
... As already indicated, I here suggest that genre features may serve as a point of departure for identifying key framing locations. News texts tend to be classified into two broad categories, news and comment/opinion (e.g., Bell 1991),2 each with its own genre or register repertoire (e.g., hard versus ...
... As already indicated, I here suggest that genre features may serve as a point of departure for identifying key framing locations. News texts tend to be classified into two broad categories, news and comment/opinion (e.g., Bell 1991),2 each with its own genre or register repertoire (e.g., hard versus ...
Using the past to understand the future
... system is forced to cross some threshold, triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined by the climate system itself and faster than the cause’88. Recent palaeoclimatic studies indicate that regional temperature fluctuations of as much as 8 to 16°C occurred repeatedly in as little as a ...
... system is forced to cross some threshold, triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined by the climate system itself and faster than the cause’88. Recent palaeoclimatic studies indicate that regional temperature fluctuations of as much as 8 to 16°C occurred repeatedly in as little as a ...
STRIVE Ireland in a Warmer Report Series No.27
... a particular focus on coastal regions surrounding Ireland. While the impact is seasonally dependent, there is evidence that extreme wave heights may increase by up to 10% in some Irish waters. Chapter 5 describes an investigation into the impact of warmer ocean temperatures on storminess. The result ...
... a particular focus on coastal regions surrounding Ireland. While the impact is seasonally dependent, there is evidence that extreme wave heights may increase by up to 10% in some Irish waters. Chapter 5 describes an investigation into the impact of warmer ocean temperatures on storminess. The result ...
announced their support - EDF Voices: People on the Planet
... environment, our security and our ability to compete in the global economy. It is impossible and downright reckless to deny the science of global warming or the impact it is already having on states like Virginia. Sea level rise and extreme weather are already impacting Virginia families, businesses ...
... environment, our security and our ability to compete in the global economy. It is impossible and downright reckless to deny the science of global warming or the impact it is already having on states like Virginia. Sea level rise and extreme weather are already impacting Virginia families, businesses ...
Climate Change
... The discourse on the impact of climate change (CC) has been on-going for a while. The actions, however, to act decisively to avert triggering the tipping point have been few and overall rather uncoordinated. The latter is not surprising given the many different interests that predominant in differen ...
... The discourse on the impact of climate change (CC) has been on-going for a while. The actions, however, to act decisively to avert triggering the tipping point have been few and overall rather uncoordinated. The latter is not surprising given the many different interests that predominant in differen ...
Potential surface temperature and shallow groundwater temperature
... regression-based methods often have difficulty producing the observed variability in local climate predictands, a stochastic generator is used to increase the variance in the datasets. These two methods (i.e. DT and HMLR) were employed in this study. Output from GCMs can also be dynamically downscal ...
... regression-based methods often have difficulty producing the observed variability in local climate predictands, a stochastic generator is used to increase the variance in the datasets. These two methods (i.e. DT and HMLR) were employed in this study. Output from GCMs can also be dynamically downscal ...
Confronting Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region
... number or intensity of hurricanes, future storm damages are likely to rise substantially because of the increasing amount of development in harm’s way and the aggravating impacts of higher sea levels and degraded coastal ecosystems. Predictions Sea-level rise will also affect the availability and of ...
... number or intensity of hurricanes, future storm damages are likely to rise substantially because of the increasing amount of development in harm’s way and the aggravating impacts of higher sea levels and degraded coastal ecosystems. Predictions Sea-level rise will also affect the availability and of ...
Complex coastlines responding to climate change
... ing each wave by height and period (H05 T 5 ; Eq. 2), and summing all the wave occurrences in each bin (Ashton and Murray, 2006b). However, in the model experiments reported here, we used simplified synthetic wave distributions. These generic distributions could represent either systematic differenc ...
... ing each wave by height and period (H05 T 5 ; Eq. 2), and summing all the wave occurrences in each bin (Ashton and Murray, 2006b). However, in the model experiments reported here, we used simplified synthetic wave distributions. These generic distributions could represent either systematic differenc ...
SOUTH AFRICA - Initial National Communication under the
... The National Inventory of Greenhouse Gases The greenhouse gases addressed in the inventory are carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide for the years 1990 and 1994. The inventories were prepared in accordance with to the 1996 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines. The total gr ...
... The National Inventory of Greenhouse Gases The greenhouse gases addressed in the inventory are carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide for the years 1990 and 1994. The inventories were prepared in accordance with to the 1996 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines. The total gr ...