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 ...
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 ...
Climate Change: Overview and Implications for Wildlife
... (CO2) content of the atmosphere. Future climatic changes, however, will probably have another source as well -- human activities. Humans cannot directly rival the power of natural forces driving the climate -- for example, the immense energy input to the Earth from the sun that powers the climate. W ...
... (CO2) content of the atmosphere. Future climatic changes, however, will probably have another source as well -- human activities. Humans cannot directly rival the power of natural forces driving the climate -- for example, the immense energy input to the Earth from the sun that powers the climate. W ...
Experimental warming causes large and rapid species loss
... Ômuch greater than averageÕ increases in surface temperatures in the future (Giorgi et al. 2001). The IMAGE model predicts that the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayan alpine tundra will be reduced to 20% of its current area with climate warming (Walker et al. 2001). Concurrent with the climate change ...
... Ômuch greater than averageÕ increases in surface temperatures in the future (Giorgi et al. 2001). The IMAGE model predicts that the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayan alpine tundra will be reduced to 20% of its current area with climate warming (Walker et al. 2001). Concurrent with the climate change ...
Public Perception of Climate Risk: The Case of Greece
... knowledge and perception of the hazard itself. Lowe et al. [24] investigated the impact of a climate change related film to public perception in the UK. They highlighted that many people made a commitment on climate change mitigation after the film even though their level of actual knowledge about w ...
... knowledge and perception of the hazard itself. Lowe et al. [24] investigated the impact of a climate change related film to public perception in the UK. They highlighted that many people made a commitment on climate change mitigation after the film even though their level of actual knowledge about w ...
Scale-dependent regional climate predictability over North America
... Atmospheric and Ocean Research Institute (The University of Tokyo), National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology ...
... Atmospheric and Ocean Research Institute (The University of Tokyo), National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology ...
The Holocene
... In addition to 9.2 and 10.2 ka climatic reversals, the δDBA record also shows a clear abrupt decrease from 8.45 to 8.3 kyr BP (Figure 2), with a ~3–4°C decline in PWT change. This temperature shift slightly precedes the well-known 8.2 ka event in the ice cores and speleothems by about 200 years (All ...
... In addition to 9.2 and 10.2 ka climatic reversals, the δDBA record also shows a clear abrupt decrease from 8.45 to 8.3 kyr BP (Figure 2), with a ~3–4°C decline in PWT change. This temperature shift slightly precedes the well-known 8.2 ka event in the ice cores and speleothems by about 200 years (All ...
Weather and climate: changing human exposures
... alters the radiation balance or the redistribution of heat energy by the atmosphere or oceans. Perturbations in the climate system that cause local to global climate fluctuations are called forcings. This is short for radiative forcing which can be considered a perturbation in the global radiation ( ...
... alters the radiation balance or the redistribution of heat energy by the atmosphere or oceans. Perturbations in the climate system that cause local to global climate fluctuations are called forcings. This is short for radiative forcing which can be considered a perturbation in the global radiation ( ...
Author`s personal copy - University of Alberta
... defined here as those occurring in high latitude or high altitude regions, have the advantage of not being overprinted by local anthropogenic processes. As such, many of these sites record broad-scale environmental changes, frequently driven by regime shifts in the Earth system. Here, we review a se ...
... defined here as those occurring in high latitude or high altitude regions, have the advantage of not being overprinted by local anthropogenic processes. As such, many of these sites record broad-scale environmental changes, frequently driven by regime shifts in the Earth system. Here, we review a se ...
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... Pioneering work concerning impure public goods has been provided by Cornes and Sandler (1984). They develop an approach to analyze this type of public good where the consumers’ utility function is defined over three characteristics. Cornes and Sandler (1994) investigate the comparative static proper ...
... Pioneering work concerning impure public goods has been provided by Cornes and Sandler (1984). They develop an approach to analyze this type of public good where the consumers’ utility function is defined over three characteristics. Cornes and Sandler (1994) investigate the comparative static proper ...
Why Analyze Mental Models of Local Climate Change?
... trigger responses to new climate conditions and can be used to ground-truth regional climate models. In this paper, the authors explore mental models of changes to local climate patterns and climate-associated environmental changes over the past 45 years (1963–2008) in two rural communities in Matut ...
... trigger responses to new climate conditions and can be used to ground-truth regional climate models. In this paper, the authors explore mental models of changes to local climate patterns and climate-associated environmental changes over the past 45 years (1963–2008) in two rural communities in Matut ...
Enabling environment for integrating disaster risk
... National Climate Change Committee (NCCC) Cambodian Climate Change Office (CCCO) Rectangular Strategy for Growth, Employment, Equity and Efficiency as framework for socio-economic dev. National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) approved 2006, framed as implementation of Rectangular Strategy ...
... National Climate Change Committee (NCCC) Cambodian Climate Change Office (CCCO) Rectangular Strategy for Growth, Employment, Equity and Efficiency as framework for socio-economic dev. National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) approved 2006, framed as implementation of Rectangular Strategy ...
How the UN System Supports Ambitious Action on Climate Change
... Climate change and sustainable development are the central challenges of our time. They are inseparably linked and need to be addressed together. Action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate impacts is essential for ensuring sustainable development. At the same time, only sus ...
... Climate change and sustainable development are the central challenges of our time. They are inseparably linked and need to be addressed together. Action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate impacts is essential for ensuring sustainable development. At the same time, only sus ...
How the United Nations System Supports Ambitious Action
... Climate change and sustainable development are the central challenges of our time. They are inseparably linked and need to be addressed together. Action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate impacts is essential for ensuring sustainable development. At the same time, only sus ...
... Climate change and sustainable development are the central challenges of our time. They are inseparably linked and need to be addressed together. Action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate impacts is essential for ensuring sustainable development. At the same time, only sus ...
Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean
... communicate across the world in fractions of a second, eradicate many diseases, and extend peoples’ life expectancies. We have also achieved important gains in political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights. And yet, never before have the life forms that share this extraordinary pla ...
... communicate across the world in fractions of a second, eradicate many diseases, and extend peoples’ life expectancies. We have also achieved important gains in political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights. And yet, never before have the life forms that share this extraordinary pla ...
appeal to authority
... There is absolute and irrefutable proof that the Earth is cooling in spite of the continued increase in atmospheric CO2 falsifying the conjecture that increasing CO2 is the dominant driver of global warming. There is absolute and irrefutable proof that CO2 emissions are not a major contributor to t ...
... There is absolute and irrefutable proof that the Earth is cooling in spite of the continued increase in atmospheric CO2 falsifying the conjecture that increasing CO2 is the dominant driver of global warming. There is absolute and irrefutable proof that CO2 emissions are not a major contributor to t ...
Japanese Perceptions of Climate Change and their Behavioral
... questionnaires to visitors at three festival sites. Among 266 respondents, the majority (>60%) thought that global warming was occurring while less than 30% thought that global warming was affecting the flower timing of cherry blossoms. Thirty percent of respondents wanted to visit the festival even ...
... questionnaires to visitors at three festival sites. Among 266 respondents, the majority (>60%) thought that global warming was occurring while less than 30% thought that global warming was affecting the flower timing of cherry blossoms. Thirty percent of respondents wanted to visit the festival even ...
Future Climate in the Yellowstone National Park Region and Its
... digital elevation model of the study area in order to show more clearly the effects of elevation on climate in this region. At this resolution the physiographic features that exert a strong control on surface climates and, consequently, on vegetation become evident in the topographically adjusted cl ...
... digital elevation model of the study area in order to show more clearly the effects of elevation on climate in this region. At this resolution the physiographic features that exert a strong control on surface climates and, consequently, on vegetation become evident in the topographically adjusted cl ...
Claiming and adjudicating on Mt Kilimanjaro`s
... recent years if only because of the ‘high stakes’ and ‘urgent decisions’ characteristics of post-normal science. In their 1993 article ‘Science for the Post-normal Age’, Funtowicz and Ravetz forsee four strategic roles for an enlarged community of experts in post-normal science practice: in commissi ...
... recent years if only because of the ‘high stakes’ and ‘urgent decisions’ characteristics of post-normal science. In their 1993 article ‘Science for the Post-normal Age’, Funtowicz and Ravetz forsee four strategic roles for an enlarged community of experts in post-normal science practice: in commissi ...
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... University of New Brunswick Canada In its fourth assessment report published in spring 2007, leading scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) reached consensus that human activity is responsible for many observed climate changes, particularly the warming temperatures of th ...
... University of New Brunswick Canada In its fourth assessment report published in spring 2007, leading scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) reached consensus that human activity is responsible for many observed climate changes, particularly the warming temperatures of th ...
Rose and Rayborn, "The effects of ocean heat uptake on transient
... many types of climate models, and is generally a good ...
... many types of climate models, and is generally a good ...
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.