Global Climate Change and Children`s Health
... organizations or government agencies that they represent. The guidance in this report does not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as a standard of medical care. Variations, taking into account individual circumstances, may be appropriate. All technical reports from the American Acade ...
... organizations or government agencies that they represent. The guidance in this report does not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as a standard of medical care. Variations, taking into account individual circumstances, may be appropriate. All technical reports from the American Acade ...
Regional climate model data used within the SWURVE project
... As climate model projections are often used in climate change impact studies that may influence policy decisions within different socio-economic sectors, it is important to have some understanding of the uncertainties involved with climate model data (Webster et al., 2003). This is particularly true ...
... As climate model projections are often used in climate change impact studies that may influence policy decisions within different socio-economic sectors, it is important to have some understanding of the uncertainties involved with climate model data (Webster et al., 2003). This is particularly true ...
Impacts of Chinese reactive nitrogen on climate change
... stay below given values at a particular time in the future13. Soon after, Shine et al.13 ...
... stay below given values at a particular time in the future13. Soon after, Shine et al.13 ...
EXAMINING THE UNINTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE
... and smeared. The hounding of Lennart Bengtsson is a recent example. Bengtsson is a gentle 79 year old. He has won many awards in a long and distinguished career in meteorology and climatology. He recently joined the advisory board of an educational charity and felt forced to resign two weeks later. ...
... and smeared. The hounding of Lennart Bengtsson is a recent example. Bengtsson is a gentle 79 year old. He has won many awards in a long and distinguished career in meteorology and climatology. He recently joined the advisory board of an educational charity and felt forced to resign two weeks later. ...
global warming and phanerozoic climate change
... During the Roman (400 BC - 400 AC) and Medieval (700-1300) Warm Times Alpine glaciers had retreated further than at present. They advanced again during 400-700 and the Little Ice Age (13001850). Our climate has never been stable and has always changed, even without human CO2 emissions. Is there some ...
... During the Roman (400 BC - 400 AC) and Medieval (700-1300) Warm Times Alpine glaciers had retreated further than at present. They advanced again during 400-700 and the Little Ice Age (13001850). Our climate has never been stable and has always changed, even without human CO2 emissions. Is there some ...
a comparative study of biodiversity conservation coping with climate
... them adapt to the effects of climate change. Building more corridor ecology, zoos, botanic garden and protect areas may reduce extinction risk enabling the passive shifting of some species to new geographic range, and reinforcing species distributions. Some species may not be able to track changing ...
... them adapt to the effects of climate change. Building more corridor ecology, zoos, botanic garden and protect areas may reduce extinction risk enabling the passive shifting of some species to new geographic range, and reinforcing species distributions. Some species may not be able to track changing ...
Assessment of climate change in Europe from an ensemble of
... than for the other domain (15). The reason why two different domains (Figure 1) are used is that by using the maximum common domain (DOM 1) in some analysis more RCMs could be included (15 simulations), with the consequent increase in the robustness of the results. The broader domain (DOM 2) allows ...
... than for the other domain (15). The reason why two different domains (Figure 1) are used is that by using the maximum common domain (DOM 1) in some analysis more RCMs could be included (15 simulations), with the consequent increase in the robustness of the results. The broader domain (DOM 2) allows ...
NRDC: Hotter and Drier - The West`s Changed Climate
... WCI should ensure that a suite of comprehensive policies achieves these targets either on or ahead of schedule. Additionally, the WCI states should agree to the firm target of reducing emissions of global warming pollution at least 80 percent below current levels by mid-century. State action, howeve ...
... WCI should ensure that a suite of comprehensive policies achieves these targets either on or ahead of schedule. Additionally, the WCI states should agree to the firm target of reducing emissions of global warming pollution at least 80 percent below current levels by mid-century. State action, howeve ...
The Stability of the Thermohaline Circulation in Global Warming
... the property to absorb infrared radiation and to reemit it isotropically. For light with shorter wavelengths, like ultraviolet or visible radiation, they are transparent. The earth’s surface and the relatively warm near-surface air masses emit longwave radiation at their temperature approximately li ...
... the property to absorb infrared radiation and to reemit it isotropically. For light with shorter wavelengths, like ultraviolet or visible radiation, they are transparent. The earth’s surface and the relatively warm near-surface air masses emit longwave radiation at their temperature approximately li ...
A Kantian approach to sustainable development indicators for
... for climate change. Some of these indicators typically report global concentration of green house gases in the atmosphere or time series for global temperatures. While such indicators may give the public information about the state of the global climate, they do not provide a benchmark which makes i ...
... for climate change. Some of these indicators typically report global concentration of green house gases in the atmosphere or time series for global temperatures. While such indicators may give the public information about the state of the global climate, they do not provide a benchmark which makes i ...
Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant
... Warming significantly increased carbon isotope discrimination in Triglochin maritima (F1, 14 = 4.89, P < 0.05; Fig. 4) and there was a trend towards greater discrimination in Plantago maritima as well (F1, 14 = 2.66, P = 0.13; Fig. 4). 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS ...
... Warming significantly increased carbon isotope discrimination in Triglochin maritima (F1, 14 = 4.89, P < 0.05; Fig. 4) and there was a trend towards greater discrimination in Plantago maritima as well (F1, 14 = 2.66, P = 0.13; Fig. 4). 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS ...
Less Snow, Less Water: Climate Disruption in the West
... 21st Century, compared to 1990.6 Such a broad range in the predictions comes half from uncertainty about what future levels of climatechanging emissions will be, and half from uncertainty in the various models used, which yield different results. In any event, the American West is likely to heat up ...
... 21st Century, compared to 1990.6 Such a broad range in the predictions comes half from uncertainty about what future levels of climatechanging emissions will be, and half from uncertainty in the various models used, which yield different results. In any event, the American West is likely to heat up ...
Permafrost_breakout
... • Account for permafrost emissions • AR5 Projections don’t include permafrost emissions • Temperatures higher with feedback • Emissions targets may be too high • Risk overshooting 2°C warming target ...
... • Account for permafrost emissions • AR5 Projections don’t include permafrost emissions • Temperatures higher with feedback • Emissions targets may be too high • Risk overshooting 2°C warming target ...
Climate change: The investment perspective
... The complex financial impact of climate risks The Paris Agreement of December 2015, ratified in early October 2016, provides a milestone achievement in a series of events, speeches and reports that have propelled the issue of climate change to prominence over the past two years. The potential finan ...
... The complex financial impact of climate risks The Paris Agreement of December 2015, ratified in early October 2016, provides a milestone achievement in a series of events, speeches and reports that have propelled the issue of climate change to prominence over the past two years. The potential finan ...
Future Climate Impact on the Desertification in the Dry Land Asia
... Dry lands are areas of land with low amounts of water in the soil; they encompass hyper-arid, arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas [1]. A large majority of dry lands are located in Asia (34.4%) and Africa (24.1%), followed by the Americas (24%), Australia (15%) and Europe (2.5%) [2]. Dry lands oc ...
... Dry lands are areas of land with low amounts of water in the soil; they encompass hyper-arid, arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas [1]. A large majority of dry lands are located in Asia (34.4%) and Africa (24.1%), followed by the Americas (24%), Australia (15%) and Europe (2.5%) [2]. Dry lands oc ...
GENERAL Climate Change Handbook for NE South Africa (Gauteng
... activities are affecting the Earth’s system at the global scale. Increasingly strong evidence suggests that the functioning of this system is changing in response. Global change is more than climate change. Global change refers to any changes in the Earth system. The Earth system encompasses the cli ...
... activities are affecting the Earth’s system at the global scale. Increasingly strong evidence suggests that the functioning of this system is changing in response. Global change is more than climate change. Global change refers to any changes in the Earth system. The Earth system encompasses the cli ...
Kyoto and Beyond - European Business Council for Sustainable
... global nature of climate change in signing the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). As the name suggests, the Framework Convention is the foundation for the global response to climate change. The FCCC specified that developed countries should bear the primary responsibility for reducing gr ...
... global nature of climate change in signing the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). As the name suggests, the Framework Convention is the foundation for the global response to climate change. The FCCC specified that developed countries should bear the primary responsibility for reducing gr ...
Footprints of climate change on Mediterranean Sea biota
... temperature associated to each reported impact was very heterogeneous. Different papers used different temperature diagnostics (e.g., monthly mean, instantaneous values), from different instruments and at different depths. Therefore, in order to use a homogenized temperature diagnostic, we have used ...
... temperature associated to each reported impact was very heterogeneous. Different papers used different temperature diagnostics (e.g., monthly mean, instantaneous values), from different instruments and at different depths. Therefore, in order to use a homogenized temperature diagnostic, we have used ...
Hollowed et al. 2009
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models for regional ecosystems to select and estimate relevant environmental variables, (iii) evaluation of climate model scenarios and select IPCC models that appear to provide valid representations of forcing for the region of study, (iv) extraction ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models for regional ecosystems to select and estimate relevant environmental variables, (iii) evaluation of climate model scenarios and select IPCC models that appear to provide valid representations of forcing for the region of study, (iv) extraction ...
Case study — Monitoring potential impacts of climate change on the
... drained slopes. The Tasmanian alpine ecosystem, like many mountain regions of the world, is distinguished by high vascular plant diversity and endemic richness (Kirkpatrick and Brown 1984). The bolster heaths or cushion communities so characteristic of Tasmania‟s high country exhibit globally except ...
... drained slopes. The Tasmanian alpine ecosystem, like many mountain regions of the world, is distinguished by high vascular plant diversity and endemic richness (Kirkpatrick and Brown 1984). The bolster heaths or cushion communities so characteristic of Tasmania‟s high country exhibit globally except ...
Apocalypse Nicked! - Geoengineering Governance Research
... series may be, but are not necessarily, early outputs from the project team; equally they may be from other authors, and reflect different perspectives and different issues from those directly pursued by the project itself. The aim is to promote vigorous and informed debate, in a spirit of pluralism ...
... series may be, but are not necessarily, early outputs from the project team; equally they may be from other authors, and reflect different perspectives and different issues from those directly pursued by the project itself. The aim is to promote vigorous and informed debate, in a spirit of pluralism ...
Introducing-FCFA-Brochure (opens in new window)
... being used in Central and Southern Africa. The team will assess local power dynamics – to examine whose decisions count, how actors relate to each other and how these dynamics set the policy agenda and influence decision-making. The team will produce scenarios for the climate in the decades ahead, i ...
... being used in Central and Southern Africa. The team will assess local power dynamics – to examine whose decisions count, how actors relate to each other and how these dynamics set the policy agenda and influence decision-making. The team will produce scenarios for the climate in the decades ahead, i ...
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.