Climate Change Policy
... the manner specified in the Policy, implementation will occur progressively over the 2015 financial year. ...
... the manner specified in the Policy, implementation will occur progressively over the 2015 financial year. ...
NG-ACCESS
... science and infrastructure questions required for delivery of impact are indicated. Where appropriate links to the relevant PICCSA component (mitigation, adaptation and global solutions science) are given. Production of long term reanalyses suitable for climate purposes is also an output in many ...
... science and infrastructure questions required for delivery of impact are indicated. Where appropriate links to the relevant PICCSA component (mitigation, adaptation and global solutions science) are given. Production of long term reanalyses suitable for climate purposes is also an output in many ...
The ocean`s role in polar climate change: asymmetric Arctic and
... troposphere, including the surface, with implications for ocean circulation, the cryosphere and coupled carbon cycle [22]. Observations indicate a poleward shift of the Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation over the past few decades, predominantly in late spring and summer. This shift has been ...
... troposphere, including the surface, with implications for ocean circulation, the cryosphere and coupled carbon cycle [22]. Observations indicate a poleward shift of the Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation over the past few decades, predominantly in late spring and summer. This shift has been ...
Casino-21: Public Participation in Climate Simulation of
... The World’s climate in danger Executive summary: Monday January 22, 2001 ...
... The World’s climate in danger Executive summary: Monday January 22, 2001 ...
Communicating Climate Change through ICT
... public understanding of climate change and questions related to how to address information deficits and increase scientific literacy among audiences, to the issue of barriers and driving forces for public learning and engagement in climate change [4,5]. For instance, the potential of encouraging lea ...
... public understanding of climate change and questions related to how to address information deficits and increase scientific literacy among audiences, to the issue of barriers and driving forces for public learning and engagement in climate change [4,5]. For instance, the potential of encouraging lea ...
Climate Security and Justice for Small Island Developing States
... is already capable of adopting such solutions without extensive legal reform.24 Indeed, even if an island state lost its “effective statehood” on the ground because of climate change, other states would be morally constrained in sanctioning its death, not least because it was their collective action ...
... is already capable of adopting such solutions without extensive legal reform.24 Indeed, even if an island state lost its “effective statehood” on the ground because of climate change, other states would be morally constrained in sanctioning its death, not least because it was their collective action ...
Choosing and Using Climate-Change Scenarios for Ecological
... climate-change scenarios for ecological impact assessment that recognize irreducible uncertainty in climate projections and address common misconceptions about this uncertainty. This approach involves identifying primary local climate drivers by climate sensitivity of the biological system of intere ...
... climate-change scenarios for ecological impact assessment that recognize irreducible uncertainty in climate projections and address common misconceptions about this uncertainty. This approach involves identifying primary local climate drivers by climate sensitivity of the biological system of intere ...
View/Open - University College Cork
... certain observations are under continuous threat of termination and no mechanism currently exists to assure their funding support over time scales relevant for climate studies. Complete and regular detailed analysis should be carried out and reported on all ECV observations, including satellite data ...
... certain observations are under continuous threat of termination and no mechanism currently exists to assure their funding support over time scales relevant for climate studies. Complete and regular detailed analysis should be carried out and reported on all ECV observations, including satellite data ...
Casino-21: Public Participation in Climate Simulation of the 21st
... The World’s climate in danger Executive summary: Monday January 22, 2001 ...
... The World’s climate in danger Executive summary: Monday January 22, 2001 ...
Evaluating sun–climate relationships since the Little Ice Age
... From the coldest period of the Little Ice Age to the present time\ the surface temperature of the Earth increased by perhaps 9[7>C[ Solar variability may account for part of this warming which\ during the past 249 years\ generally tracks ~uctuating solar activity levels[ While increases in greenhous ...
... From the coldest period of the Little Ice Age to the present time\ the surface temperature of the Earth increased by perhaps 9[7>C[ Solar variability may account for part of this warming which\ during the past 249 years\ generally tracks ~uctuating solar activity levels[ While increases in greenhous ...
Climate Change and Children`s Health—A Call for Research
... * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel: +61-7-3138-9745; Fax: +61-7-3138-3369. Received: 18 July 2012; in revised form: 15 August 2012 / Accepted: 5 September 2012 / Published: 10 September 2012 ...
... * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel: +61-7-3138-9745; Fax: +61-7-3138-3369. Received: 18 July 2012; in revised form: 15 August 2012 / Accepted: 5 September 2012 / Published: 10 September 2012 ...
Climate change and mammals: evolutionary
... Phenotypic plasticity and microevolution are the two primary means by which organisms respond adaptively to local conditions. While these mechanisms are not mutually exclusive, their relative magnitudes will influence both the rate of, and ability to sustain, phenotypic responses to climate change. ...
... Phenotypic plasticity and microevolution are the two primary means by which organisms respond adaptively to local conditions. While these mechanisms are not mutually exclusive, their relative magnitudes will influence both the rate of, and ability to sustain, phenotypic responses to climate change. ...
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... Adapting to Climate Change: An analysis under uncertainty David García-León∗ December 9, 2015 ...
... Adapting to Climate Change: An analysis under uncertainty David García-León∗ December 9, 2015 ...
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... with CREE - the Oslo Centre for Research on Environmentally Friendly Energy - which is supported by the Research Council of Norway. Kverndokk is indebted to the support and hospitality of CES, Munich, while working on the paper. We also thank Jae Edmonds for discussion and comments. ...
... with CREE - the Oslo Centre for Research on Environmentally Friendly Energy - which is supported by the Research Council of Norway. Kverndokk is indebted to the support and hospitality of CES, Munich, while working on the paper. We also thank Jae Edmonds for discussion and comments. ...
Effective media reporting of sea level rise projections: 1989–2009
... were not included in the data set, but many articles that do report on one source would also quote the IPCC projections for global sea level rise to 2100 and were included in our data. In addition, any numbers reported for only one part of the world oceans (e.g. Chesapeake Bay) were not included. We ...
... were not included in the data set, but many articles that do report on one source would also quote the IPCC projections for global sea level rise to 2100 and were included in our data. In addition, any numbers reported for only one part of the world oceans (e.g. Chesapeake Bay) were not included. We ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... for Ghana climate models show a wide range of projected changes in the amplitude of future El Niño type of events. As the climate in Ghana is strongly influenced by ENSO, this contributes to uncertainty in climate projections. Projections of precipitation changes for the Sahelian and Guinea coast re ...
... for Ghana climate models show a wide range of projected changes in the amplitude of future El Niño type of events. As the climate in Ghana is strongly influenced by ENSO, this contributes to uncertainty in climate projections. Projections of precipitation changes for the Sahelian and Guinea coast re ...
How are extreme temperatures changing in Sweden
... years; this increase is coupled with a global increase of warm extreme indices and a decrease in cold extreme indices. In this study, daily observations of mean and extreme temperatures from ten different weather stations in Sweden during the time period 1961-2010 were analyzed. A warming trend was ...
... years; this increase is coupled with a global increase of warm extreme indices and a decrease in cold extreme indices. In this study, daily observations of mean and extreme temperatures from ten different weather stations in Sweden during the time period 1961-2010 were analyzed. A warming trend was ...
Hydrology - Tufts University School of Engineering
... Fig. 1. Location of study sites for regionalclimate and hydrology(1, ARME; 2, HAPEX (MOBILHY); 3, First ISLSCPField Experiment(FIFE); 4, ISLSCP(La Crau); 5, ISLSCP(LOTREX-HIBE88);6, ISLSCP (Greenland); 7, ISLSCP (Niger); 8, SEBEX;9, ISLSCP(Botswana); 10, HAPEX (Heiheriver); 1I, ISLSCP (Sudan); adapt ...
... Fig. 1. Location of study sites for regionalclimate and hydrology(1, ARME; 2, HAPEX (MOBILHY); 3, First ISLSCPField Experiment(FIFE); 4, ISLSCP(La Crau); 5, ISLSCP(LOTREX-HIBE88);6, ISLSCP (Greenland); 7, ISLSCP (Niger); 8, SEBEX;9, ISLSCP(Botswana); 10, HAPEX (Heiheriver); 1I, ISLSCP (Sudan); adapt ...
The Partnership of Weather and Air Quality
... It is typically characterized in terms of suitable averages of the climate system over periods of a month or more, taking into consideration the variability in time of these averaged quantities. Climatic classifications include the spatial variation of these time-averaged variables. Beginning with t ...
... It is typically characterized in terms of suitable averages of the climate system over periods of a month or more, taking into consideration the variability in time of these averaged quantities. Climatic classifications include the spatial variation of these time-averaged variables. Beginning with t ...
Adaptation Planning In New York City
... 100 miles north of New York City (NYC DEP, 2008) would be of interest to managers of only a small but important subset of infrastructure—reservoirs and water tunnels. Such a fine-scale assessment would benefit from more complex downscaling approaches than those applied here. ...
... 100 miles north of New York City (NYC DEP, 2008) would be of interest to managers of only a small but important subset of infrastructure—reservoirs and water tunnels. Such a fine-scale assessment would benefit from more complex downscaling approaches than those applied here. ...
Dialogue on Long Term Persistence
... “Is global average temperature increase statistically significant?” To answer this question one needs to make assumptions on the statistical nature of the temperature time series and to choose what statistical model is most appropriate. If the temperature of this year is not related to that of last ...
... “Is global average temperature increase statistically significant?” To answer this question one needs to make assumptions on the statistical nature of the temperature time series and to choose what statistical model is most appropriate. If the temperature of this year is not related to that of last ...
Carbon Dynamics in the Future Forest: the Importance
... western US, increasing temperatures advance the timing of snow melt and vegetation green up, dry fuels earlier, and extend wildfire seasons. This climate variability has been the predominant cause of recent increases in fire activity in the west, despite the rise in fuel accumulation (Littell et al. ...
... western US, increasing temperatures advance the timing of snow melt and vegetation green up, dry fuels earlier, and extend wildfire seasons. This climate variability has been the predominant cause of recent increases in fire activity in the west, despite the rise in fuel accumulation (Littell et al. ...
Executive Summary - Climate Change Action Plan
... reduction but has the potential to reverse the modest gains that we have achieved towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Responding to climate change will require the sustained participation of all stakeholders, including government and the private sector. I firmly believe that w ...
... reduction but has the potential to reverse the modest gains that we have achieved towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Responding to climate change will require the sustained participation of all stakeholders, including government and the private sector. I firmly believe that w ...
Global warming controversy
The global warming controversy concerns the public debate over whether global warming is occurring, how much has occurred in modern times, what has caused it, what its effects will be, whether any action should be taken to curb it, and if so what that action should be. In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused primarily by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view, though a few organizations with members in extractive industries hold non-committal positions. Disputes over the key scientific facts of global warming are now more prevalent in the popular media than in the scientific literature, where such issues are treated as resolved, and more in the United States than globally.Political and popular debate concerning the existence and cause of climate change includes the reasons for the increase seen in the instrumental temperature record, whether the warming trend exceeds normal climatic variations, and whether human activities have contributed significantly to it. Scientists have resolved many of these questions decisively in favour of the view that the current warming trend exists and is ongoing, that human activity is the primary cause, and that it is without precedent in at least 2000 years. Disputes that also reflect scientific debate include estimates of how responsive the climate system might be to any given level of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), and what the consequences of global warming will be.Global warming remains an issue of widespread political debate, often split along party political lines, especially in the United States. Many of the largely settled scientific issues, such as the human responsibility for global warming, remain the subject of politically or economically motivated attempts to downplay, dismiss or deny them – an ideological phenomenon categorised by academics and scientists as climate change denial. The sources of funding for those involved with climate science – both supporting and opposing mainstream scientific positions – have been questioned by both sides. There are debates about the best policy responses to the science, their cost-effectiveness and their urgency. Climate scientists, especially in the United States, have reported official and oil-industry pressure to censor or suppress their work and hide scientific data, with directives not to discuss the subject in public communications. Legal cases regarding global warming, its effects, and measures to reduce it have reached American courts. The fossil fuels lobby and free market think tanks have often been identified as overtly or covertly supporting efforts to undermine or discredit the scientific consensus on global warming.