Articles Climate Change Vulnerability and Policy Support
... policies. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression results show that objective risk measures explain a modest amount of variation in our dependent variable. The effect of risk perception on climate policy support is far more robust. Of all variables examined, the extent to which citizens regard clima ...
... policies. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression results show that objective risk measures explain a modest amount of variation in our dependent variable. The effect of risk perception on climate policy support is far more robust. Of all variables examined, the extent to which citizens regard clima ...
2. Low Carbon Cities – The National Context
... In response to the findings of the IPCC’s 2nd Assessment Report and supported by recommendations from the NCCC, the South African Government ratified the UNFCCC in August 1997. The 3rd IPCC Assessment Report in 2001 gave further scientific certainty that climate change was indeed largely caused by h ...
... In response to the findings of the IPCC’s 2nd Assessment Report and supported by recommendations from the NCCC, the South African Government ratified the UNFCCC in August 1997. The 3rd IPCC Assessment Report in 2001 gave further scientific certainty that climate change was indeed largely caused by h ...
Global warming and thermohaline circulation stability
... et al . 2001; Vellinga & Wood 2002). In the study of Vellinga & Wood (2002) this was achieved in the HadCM3 climate model (Gordon et al . 2000) by an instantaneous freshening of a large region of the North Atlantic, reducing the mean density of the water column and inhibiting convective deep-water f ...
... et al . 2001; Vellinga & Wood 2002). In the study of Vellinga & Wood (2002) this was achieved in the HadCM3 climate model (Gordon et al . 2000) by an instantaneous freshening of a large region of the North Atlantic, reducing the mean density of the water column and inhibiting convective deep-water f ...
Summary for Policymakers
... Extreme Events to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) is an important basis for information on changing weather and climate extremes. This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) follows the structure of the Working Group I report. The narrative is supported by a series of overarching highlighted conclu ...
... Extreme Events to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) is an important basis for information on changing weather and climate extremes. This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) follows the structure of the Working Group I report. The narrative is supported by a series of overarching highlighted conclu ...
Knowledge, ignorance and the popular culture: climate change
... from keeping up with developments. The entry cost hypothesis is not limited to individuals, however. Escalating entry costs impact on the public culture in at least two ways. First, the media, as purveyors of information, must take cognizance of the common information resources and probable motivati ...
... from keeping up with developments. The entry cost hypothesis is not limited to individuals, however. Escalating entry costs impact on the public culture in at least two ways. First, the media, as purveyors of information, must take cognizance of the common information resources and probable motivati ...
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... combination of representative concentration pathway (RCP) and shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) taken from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report. The RCP (climate signal) represents the future mitigation and adaptation challenges as the level of radiative forc ...
... combination of representative concentration pathway (RCP) and shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) taken from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report. The RCP (climate signal) represents the future mitigation and adaptation challenges as the level of radiative forc ...
(condensed)(large file! 10Mb) - Department of Physics and Astronomy
... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2002 issued a report that again supported the IPCC assessement. ...
... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2002 issued a report that again supported the IPCC assessement. ...
CLIMATE CHANGE 2013 The Physical Science Basis Summary for Policymakers climate change
... warming of 0.85 [0.65 to 1.06] °C3, over the period 1880 to 2012, when multiple independently produced datasets exist. The total increase between the average of the 1850–1900 period and the 2003–2012 period is 0.78 [0.72 to 0.85] °C, based on the single longest dataset available 4 (see Figure SPM.1) ...
... warming of 0.85 [0.65 to 1.06] °C3, over the period 1880 to 2012, when multiple independently produced datasets exist. The total increase between the average of the 1850–1900 period and the 2003–2012 period is 0.78 [0.72 to 0.85] °C, based on the single longest dataset available 4 (see Figure SPM.1) ...
Using the IPCC`s Assessment Report data and climate change
... • UK House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee invited submissions into an inquiry assessing the validity of the IPCC’s AR5. • Dr. Ruth Dixon- critiqued “ if the reports are to be seen as truly authoritative, a far more challenging review process should be involved. In my opinion, the IPC ...
... • UK House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee invited submissions into an inquiry assessing the validity of the IPCC’s AR5. • Dr. Ruth Dixon- critiqued “ if the reports are to be seen as truly authoritative, a far more challenging review process should be involved. In my opinion, the IPC ...
Sustainability and Risk: Climate Change and Fiduciary Duty WORKSHOP REPORT
... gas increases and most of the observed changes in the climate are human-caused. The main natural and human phenomena that affect climate are known, and scientists have measured or estimated these phenomena, and then compared their relative effect on the climate. These comparisons indicate human emis ...
... gas increases and most of the observed changes in the climate are human-caused. The main natural and human phenomena that affect climate are known, and scientists have measured or estimated these phenomena, and then compared their relative effect on the climate. These comparisons indicate human emis ...
Pinus halepensis Plasticity in Dendroclimatic Response across the )
... generally higher and precipitation lower than the regional average, reduced growth was also associated with warm and dry conditions. In the northern part, where the average temperature was lower and the precipitation more abundant than the regional average, reduced growth was associated with cool co ...
... generally higher and precipitation lower than the regional average, reduced growth was also associated with warm and dry conditions. In the northern part, where the average temperature was lower and the precipitation more abundant than the regional average, reduced growth was associated with cool co ...
Letters to the editor (7/19/10)
... of My Grandchildren, Hansen writes, "I did not want my grandchildren, someday in the future, to look back and say, '[Grandpa] understood what was happening, but he did not make it clear.' " Hansen is doing everything in his power to be clear about climate change and what needs to be done. At an Eart ...
... of My Grandchildren, Hansen writes, "I did not want my grandchildren, someday in the future, to look back and say, '[Grandpa] understood what was happening, but he did not make it clear.' " Hansen is doing everything in his power to be clear about climate change and what needs to be done. At an Eart ...
Climate Ready Stirling
... Analysis of ice cores going back many thousands of years shows that concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased markedly since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that most of the increase in global average temperatu ...
... Analysis of ice cores going back many thousands of years shows that concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased markedly since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that most of the increase in global average temperatu ...
Climate Ready Stirling`s Main Issues Report
... (Section 2), identify how the community could be impacted by those changes (Section 3), and then identify the steps they can take to adapt to the anticipated impacts (Section 4). Planning to adapt to the impacts of climate change can help communities save money, make better long-term decisions, and ...
... (Section 2), identify how the community could be impacted by those changes (Section 3), and then identify the steps they can take to adapt to the anticipated impacts (Section 4). Planning to adapt to the impacts of climate change can help communities save money, make better long-term decisions, and ...
GCOS - WMO
... Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) for implementation; and plays a significant role for the broader observation requirements of the GFCS. GCOS will ensure data needs are met, as far as possible, by existing operational and scientific observing, data management and information distribution systems, and ...
... Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) for implementation; and plays a significant role for the broader observation requirements of the GFCS. GCOS will ensure data needs are met, as far as possible, by existing operational and scientific observing, data management and information distribution systems, and ...
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON LARGE SCALE OCEAN
... can separate the natural variability from any long-term trends. To do this requires continuous observations of the MOC for many years. Snapshot measurements Since the 1950s oceanographers have been making high quality and reliable measurements of ocean temperature and salinity. The usual way of est ...
... can separate the natural variability from any long-term trends. To do this requires continuous observations of the MOC for many years. Snapshot measurements Since the 1950s oceanographers have been making high quality and reliable measurements of ocean temperature and salinity. The usual way of est ...
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2007) provided conclusive scientific evidence that human activity in the form of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is responsible for many observed climate changes, but noted that use of this knowledge to suppor ...
post-print version of article
... the same implementation regime. This includes vast opportunities to use the judicial system to ensure that treaties are actually implemented (Lowi and Ginsberg 1998, p. 131 and 328). This provision of the Constitution, therefore, has implied that the Senate is reluctant to ratify international agree ...
... the same implementation regime. This includes vast opportunities to use the judicial system to ensure that treaties are actually implemented (Lowi and Ginsberg 1998, p. 131 and 328). This provision of the Constitution, therefore, has implied that the Senate is reluctant to ratify international agree ...
A comprehensive set of high-resolution grids of monthly climate for
... the future, often 30-year periods, for which impacts were estimated and compared to impacts during a baseline period (commonly 1961–90). Some employed a pattern scaling technique (Santer et al, 1990, and see review by Mitchell, 2003) to scale the GCM pattern of climate change obtained for a given em ...
... the future, often 30-year periods, for which impacts were estimated and compared to impacts during a baseline period (commonly 1961–90). Some employed a pattern scaling technique (Santer et al, 1990, and see review by Mitchell, 2003) to scale the GCM pattern of climate change obtained for a given em ...
Summer 2015
... Cooperative Agreement # DE-FC02-97ER62402, and the National Science Foundation. The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. ...
... Cooperative Agreement # DE-FC02-97ER62402, and the National Science Foundation. The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. ...
Rapporteurs Report - Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia
... There was an opinion that the focus of developing countries should be on adaptation to climate change rather than mitigation. Developing countries should therefore strive towards accelerated development to build up their adaptive capacities quickly. It was further advocated that climate change be ta ...
... There was an opinion that the focus of developing countries should be on adaptation to climate change rather than mitigation. Developing countries should therefore strive towards accelerated development to build up their adaptive capacities quickly. It was further advocated that climate change be ta ...
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.