Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States
... shows what percentage of the American public has endorsed the following three statements over a period from 1997 to 2010:4 Global warming (a) is beginning or has begun, (b) is due more to human activities than natural causes, and (c) will pose a serious threat to them or their way of life in their l ...
... shows what percentage of the American public has endorsed the following three statements over a period from 1997 to 2010:4 Global warming (a) is beginning or has begun, (b) is due more to human activities than natural causes, and (c) will pose a serious threat to them or their way of life in their l ...
English - Global Environment Facility
... the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and ...
... the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and ...
Handbook on the OECD-DAC Climate Markers
... management of natural resources. For example, a sustainable forest management project can contribute to biodiversity conservation, to capturing carbon (climate change mitigation) and to reducing climate risk (climate change adaptation). In drylands such a project can also help to combat desertifica ...
... management of natural resources. For example, a sustainable forest management project can contribute to biodiversity conservation, to capturing carbon (climate change mitigation) and to reducing climate risk (climate change adaptation). In drylands such a project can also help to combat desertifica ...
Social and cultural issues raised by climate change in Pacific Island
... The impacts indicated in Table 1 could be even worse if the global climate system passes certain ‘tipping points’ where abrupt changes occur, such as irreversible melting of the Greenland ice shelf or bulk release of methane from permafrost regions. The increases in temperature required for this to ...
... The impacts indicated in Table 1 could be even worse if the global climate system passes certain ‘tipping points’ where abrupt changes occur, such as irreversible melting of the Greenland ice shelf or bulk release of methane from permafrost regions. The increases in temperature required for this to ...
Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change
... Climate feedbacks are the core of the climate problem. Climate feedbacks can be confusing because in climate analyses, what is sometimes a climate forcing is other times a climate feedback. As a preface to quantitative evaluation of climate feedbacks and climate sensitivity, we first make a remark a ...
... Climate feedbacks are the core of the climate problem. Climate feedbacks can be confusing because in climate analyses, what is sometimes a climate forcing is other times a climate feedback. As a preface to quantitative evaluation of climate feedbacks and climate sensitivity, we first make a remark a ...
Copernicus Climate Change Services
... Jean-Noël THÉPAUT ECMWF Norrköping, 27 May 2015 Follow us on: Copernicus EU ...
... Jean-Noël THÉPAUT ECMWF Norrköping, 27 May 2015 Follow us on: Copernicus EU ...
organisation of king`s bibliography of books on global warming
... corruption of science. Stacey International, 2010, 9781906768355 Roger Pielke, Jr. The climate fix: what scientists and politicians won’t tell you about global warming, Basic books, 2010, 9780465020522 Peter Taylor. Chill: a reassessment of global warming theory: does climate change mean the world i ...
... corruption of science. Stacey International, 2010, 9781906768355 Roger Pielke, Jr. The climate fix: what scientists and politicians won’t tell you about global warming, Basic books, 2010, 9780465020522 Peter Taylor. Chill: a reassessment of global warming theory: does climate change mean the world i ...
Climate Change and Mortality: Feedback from Populations Issues
... international action arising in part as a result of the commitments emanating from the agreement reached at the 2015 United Nations’ Climate Change Conference, COP21 , significant adaptation and mitigation activities will be undertaken that may offset some of the adverse effects of the accumulation ...
... international action arising in part as a result of the commitments emanating from the agreement reached at the 2015 United Nations’ Climate Change Conference, COP21 , significant adaptation and mitigation activities will be undertaken that may offset some of the adverse effects of the accumulation ...
Sample Chapter - Brookings Institution
... set of state governments that cuts across partisan and regional lines is demonstrating that it is possible to make some significant inroads on this issue, often through creative initiatives tailored to particular state circumstances and opportunities. Collectively, these policies indicate alternativ ...
... set of state governments that cuts across partisan and regional lines is demonstrating that it is possible to make some significant inroads on this issue, often through creative initiatives tailored to particular state circumstances and opportunities. Collectively, these policies indicate alternativ ...
Mainstreaming Climate Change into National Urban Policies Background Paper
... poor people) with little choice but to reside on ‘at risk’ land: along waterways, on slopes, areas without drainage systems, poorly constructed houses, etc., making them especially vulnerable to climate change. Their limited capacity and limited official recognition to prepare for and respond to cli ...
... poor people) with little choice but to reside on ‘at risk’ land: along waterways, on slopes, areas without drainage systems, poorly constructed houses, etc., making them especially vulnerable to climate change. Their limited capacity and limited official recognition to prepare for and respond to cli ...
Regional Security Implications of Climate Change A
... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th assessment report as a baseline. The IPCC outlines average or median trends in climate change and includes only limited potential future adaptation strategies. Even with these average trends, however, the security implications of climate chang ...
... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th assessment report as a baseline. The IPCC outlines average or median trends in climate change and includes only limited potential future adaptation strategies. Even with these average trends, however, the security implications of climate chang ...
CLIMATE POLICY IN LIGHT OF CLIMATE SCIENCE: THE ICLIPS
... discounting) is needed to make those monetary values comparable across time. This is highly controversial irrespective of whether we estimate the benefit function at the globally aggregated level or at regional or national scales. Even if it were possible to find a generally acceptable solution to t ...
... discounting) is needed to make those monetary values comparable across time. This is highly controversial irrespective of whether we estimate the benefit function at the globally aggregated level or at regional or national scales. Even if it were possible to find a generally acceptable solution to t ...
Against the Grain: The United States and the Global Climate
... culture is generally averse to ‘conspicuous government intervention’.8 Potential policies to mitigate climate change, such as taxation on energy intensive goods and services, efficiency standards or regulations to promote low carbon energy, have often been interpreted as unacceptable restrictions on ...
... culture is generally averse to ‘conspicuous government intervention’.8 Potential policies to mitigate climate change, such as taxation on energy intensive goods and services, efficiency standards or regulations to promote low carbon energy, have often been interpreted as unacceptable restrictions on ...
High Flows and Freshet Timing in Canada: Observed Trends CCRR
... (Crozier et al. 2011). Biota will respond either directly to climate related shifts in environmental conditions or indirectly to changes that are brought on through community-level interactions with other taxa e.g., prey suppression and release. The ability of biota to adapt to our future climate wi ...
... (Crozier et al. 2011). Biota will respond either directly to climate related shifts in environmental conditions or indirectly to changes that are brought on through community-level interactions with other taxa e.g., prey suppression and release. The ability of biota to adapt to our future climate wi ...
Science Communication - Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program
... between 1993 and 2003 disagreed with conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that human activities have increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The year after the Boykoff and Boykoff study (2004) was published, the journalism trade publication Nieman Re ...
... between 1993 and 2003 disagreed with conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that human activities have increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The year after the Boykoff and Boykoff study (2004) was published, the journalism trade publication Nieman Re ...
Meeting the needs of Future Generations
... Young people hold a legitimate interest in the outcome of ongoing negotiations in both the climate and development processes. Their concerns extend beyond the lifetimes of the negotiators, yet the climate and development negotiations will ultimately determine whether the world in which they live out ...
... Young people hold a legitimate interest in the outcome of ongoing negotiations in both the climate and development processes. Their concerns extend beyond the lifetimes of the negotiators, yet the climate and development negotiations will ultimately determine whether the world in which they live out ...
Lea - Harvard University
... ice sheet. Such past relationships between temperature and greenhouse forcing can be used to determine climate sensitivity—the surface temperature response to a prescribed radiative forcing when all feedbacks, such as water vapor and clouds, are included. But there are inherent difficulties in using ...
... ice sheet. Such past relationships between temperature and greenhouse forcing can be used to determine climate sensitivity—the surface temperature response to a prescribed radiative forcing when all feedbacks, such as water vapor and clouds, are included. But there are inherent difficulties in using ...
Extending a Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 1
... large part in establishing through research in the social dimensions of natural and environmental hazards (e.g., Blaikie et al. 1994). In this section we briefly discuss the competing ways vulnerability has been defined and then highlight in more detail several themes within the literature that focu ...
... large part in establishing through research in the social dimensions of natural and environmental hazards (e.g., Blaikie et al. 1994). In this section we briefly discuss the competing ways vulnerability has been defined and then highlight in more detail several themes within the literature that focu ...
Climate-biosphere interactions on glacial
... [10] Several modeling studies have examined the contribution of some of these feedbacks to glacial-interglacial climate change. Typical estimates for climate sensitivity to increased CO2 would attribute about 2C of the 6 C glacial-interglacial temperature change to different greenhouse gas concen ...
... [10] Several modeling studies have examined the contribution of some of these feedbacks to glacial-interglacial climate change. Typical estimates for climate sensitivity to increased CO2 would attribute about 2C of the 6 C glacial-interglacial temperature change to different greenhouse gas concen ...
Slide 1
... “The expanding Sahara desert had brought with it some cross-border problems … nomadic Fulani cattle herdsmen arming themselves with sophisticated assault rifles to confront local farming communities… It was important that, from time to time, the Council evaluate the dangers of such confrontations. T ...
... “The expanding Sahara desert had brought with it some cross-border problems … nomadic Fulani cattle herdsmen arming themselves with sophisticated assault rifles to confront local farming communities… It was important that, from time to time, the Council evaluate the dangers of such confrontations. T ...
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.