The Perspectives of Climate Scientists on Global Climate Change
... must be done carefully due to the complexity of the issues, and the results must be carefully weighed. Science does not advance through “consensus,” but rather by scientists repeatedly testing current hypotheses and proposing new ones. In the case of global warming, much of the science is so new tha ...
... must be done carefully due to the complexity of the issues, and the results must be carefully weighed. Science does not advance through “consensus,” but rather by scientists repeatedly testing current hypotheses and proposing new ones. In the case of global warming, much of the science is so new tha ...
The African Climate Solution Unlocking Africa`s Potential in the
... Several important changes have created this new opportunity to address persistent problems of rural poverty and environmental degradation, which have impeded development in much of Africa, while at the same time addressing the local threat of climate change and the global need for mitigation measure ...
... Several important changes have created this new opportunity to address persistent problems of rural poverty and environmental degradation, which have impeded development in much of Africa, while at the same time addressing the local threat of climate change and the global need for mitigation measure ...
Corporate ppt template - Global Carbon Project
... Vegetation dynamics in simulations of radiatively-forced climate change ...
... Vegetation dynamics in simulations of radiatively-forced climate change ...
Climate Change or Land Use Dynamics: Do We Know Miguel Clavero *
... variation in climate change indicators to: i) environmental temperature; and ii) three landscape gradients reflecting important current land use change processes (land abandonment, fire impacts and urbanization), all of them having forest areas at their positive extremes. We found that, with few exc ...
... variation in climate change indicators to: i) environmental temperature; and ii) three landscape gradients reflecting important current land use change processes (land abandonment, fire impacts and urbanization), all of them having forest areas at their positive extremes. We found that, with few exc ...
Financing adaptation
... Adaptation measures have both a privateness and publicness in the nature of the goods and services that they provide. Distinguishing between these can help make clear the kind of financing that is required and help generate additional resources to meet them. Investing in the development of an adapti ...
... Adaptation measures have both a privateness and publicness in the nature of the goods and services that they provide. Distinguishing between these can help make clear the kind of financing that is required and help generate additional resources to meet them. Investing in the development of an adapti ...
NVCA Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan Milestone 1
... NVCA’s Stakeholder Advisory Group .......................................................................8 NVCA’s Adaptation Champions ................................................................................9 Proposed Watershed Climate Change Charter ......................................... ...
... NVCA’s Stakeholder Advisory Group .......................................................................8 NVCA’s Adaptation Champions ................................................................................9 Proposed Watershed Climate Change Charter ......................................... ...
a system with dangerous thresholds?
... The fact that global warming happens on a time scale close to the response time of the ocean circulation complicates matters further. The circulation appears to be more sensitive to a given warming if it occurs more rapidly (Stocker and Schmittner, 1997; Stouffer and Manabe, 1999), so that slowing d ...
... The fact that global warming happens on a time scale close to the response time of the ocean circulation complicates matters further. The circulation appears to be more sensitive to a given warming if it occurs more rapidly (Stocker and Schmittner, 1997; Stouffer and Manabe, 1999), so that slowing d ...
Articles
... at sites that have ongoing programs of ecosysteminvestigation. Third, LTER climate researchsometimesoccurs at places rarelysampledby national weatherobservingsystems.Climate researchis pursued at individual sites and in intersite studies across the LTER Network (4 November 2002; http:// intranet.lte ...
... at sites that have ongoing programs of ecosysteminvestigation. Third, LTER climate researchsometimesoccurs at places rarelysampledby national weatherobservingsystems.Climate researchis pursued at individual sites and in intersite studies across the LTER Network (4 November 2002; http:// intranet.lte ...
Climate Change in Hamilton City, New Zealand - UN
... local hazards. The main concern for the region is suspended particulate matter (PM-10) that results from burning of local fires and heating fuel. Within the past five years, Hamilton has fallen within “good” to “acceptable” range for PM-10 levels according to the national legal standards on air qual ...
... local hazards. The main concern for the region is suspended particulate matter (PM-10) that results from burning of local fires and heating fuel. Within the past five years, Hamilton has fallen within “good” to “acceptable” range for PM-10 levels according to the national legal standards on air qual ...
Deep-ocean contribution to sea level and energy budget - e
... rise since 2005. Furthermore, all curves are almost always within 1-σ uncertainty of the mean ocean heat content change (thick black curve). We find a linear increase ranging from 6.76 to 9.37 × 1021 J yr−1 , depending on the hydrographic analysis used, with a mean value of 7.95 × 1021 J yr−1 . This ...
... rise since 2005. Furthermore, all curves are almost always within 1-σ uncertainty of the mean ocean heat content change (thick black curve). We find a linear increase ranging from 6.76 to 9.37 × 1021 J yr−1 , depending on the hydrographic analysis used, with a mean value of 7.95 × 1021 J yr−1 . This ...
Will we leave the Great Barrier Reef for our children?
... causing a warming effect. For at least the past 650,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere varied between 180 and 300 parts per million (ppm).23 Since the Industrial Revolution, globally averaged concentrations of CO2, the major greenhouse gas in the ...
... causing a warming effect. For at least the past 650,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere varied between 180 and 300 parts per million (ppm).23 Since the Industrial Revolution, globally averaged concentrations of CO2, the major greenhouse gas in the ...
Climate Change and International Human Rights Litigation: A
... cerned about global climate change have been searching for other approaches. These approaches all involve the creative use of litigation on the basis of existing domestic and international law. For example, one could pursue purely domestic litigation options in the United States based on American la ...
... cerned about global climate change have been searching for other approaches. These approaches all involve the creative use of litigation on the basis of existing domestic and international law. For example, one could pursue purely domestic litigation options in the United States based on American la ...
Climate change and international human rights litigation: A critical
... What is the appropriate legal and political strategy for limiting the emission of greenhouse gases? A number of scholars have advocated litigation, a subset of which would be international human rights litigation in which victims of the climatic effects of greenhouse gas emissions would obtain damag ...
... What is the appropriate legal and political strategy for limiting the emission of greenhouse gases? A number of scholars have advocated litigation, a subset of which would be international human rights litigation in which victims of the climatic effects of greenhouse gas emissions would obtain damag ...
Cutting the Knot
... If we allow ourselves the optimistic assumption that there is indeed only a 10 percent chance of this being the case, then, to preserve a 90 percent chance7 of staying below 2ºC, greenhouse-gas concentrations must be stabilized at or below 400 ppm CO2equivalent. 8 Given this, it is unsettling that ...
... If we allow ourselves the optimistic assumption that there is indeed only a 10 percent chance of this being the case, then, to preserve a 90 percent chance7 of staying below 2ºC, greenhouse-gas concentrations must be stabilized at or below 400 ppm CO2equivalent. 8 Given this, it is unsettling that ...
How does climate warming affect plant
... to temporal mismatch. They showed that specialized pollinators were most likely to be left with no food plants, but that generalist pollinators could also experience considerable diet reductions following phenological shifts. The variation across species in phenological responses to climate warming ...
... to temporal mismatch. They showed that specialized pollinators were most likely to be left with no food plants, but that generalist pollinators could also experience considerable diet reductions following phenological shifts. The variation across species in phenological responses to climate warming ...
Climate Stabilization at 2°C and Net Zero Carbon Emissions
... this goal will require net anthropogenic carbon emissions (defined as anthropogenic emissions minus anthropogenic sinks such as carbon capture and sequestration and reforestation) to be reduced to zero between years 2050 and 2100. At the same time, it is also shown in the literature that decreases o ...
... this goal will require net anthropogenic carbon emissions (defined as anthropogenic emissions minus anthropogenic sinks such as carbon capture and sequestration and reforestation) to be reduced to zero between years 2050 and 2100. At the same time, it is also shown in the literature that decreases o ...
Sposito et al. 2012. Austr Decision
... This is not dissimilar to the situation faced in daily life by organisations that make decisions without reasonable predictions of the future to support them. Several authors have proposed that society should seek to identify strategies that are ‘robust’ against a broad range of plausible futures (e ...
... This is not dissimilar to the situation faced in daily life by organisations that make decisions without reasonable predictions of the future to support them. Several authors have proposed that society should seek to identify strategies that are ‘robust’ against a broad range of plausible futures (e ...
Apocalyptic Rhetoric 1NC
... general public’s knowledge*and their perceptions of the issue’s risk* come from the media (Carvalho & Burgess, 2005). As Boykoff and Boykoff (2004) argue, the ‘‘coverage of global warming is not just a collection of news articles; it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by [the] ...
... general public’s knowledge*and their perceptions of the issue’s risk* come from the media (Carvalho & Burgess, 2005). As Boykoff and Boykoff (2004) argue, the ‘‘coverage of global warming is not just a collection of news articles; it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by [the] ...
Probability in the attribution and prediction of climate change
... But what does this tell us about flooding in Oxford? ...
... But what does this tell us about flooding in Oxford? ...
Hadley Cell (HC) Circulation response to Climate
... land-sea contrast), as long as this heat contrast imposed by the sun does not change (more radiation at the tropics, less radiations at higher latitudes). They concluded land- sea temperature contrast is more related with monsoon circulations rather than Hadley circulation. Thus this circulation wou ...
... land-sea contrast), as long as this heat contrast imposed by the sun does not change (more radiation at the tropics, less radiations at higher latitudes). They concluded land- sea temperature contrast is more related with monsoon circulations rather than Hadley circulation. Thus this circulation wou ...
Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... reasons: first, many lines of evidence demonstrate that these changes are primarily the result of human activities (see Question I for more info); and second, these changes are occurring (and are projected to continue to occur) faster than many past changes in the Earth’s climate. In the past, clima ...
... reasons: first, many lines of evidence demonstrate that these changes are primarily the result of human activities (see Question I for more info); and second, these changes are occurring (and are projected to continue to occur) faster than many past changes in the Earth’s climate. In the past, clima ...
Report on “Pakistan sey Paris” Climate Conference
... been conducted in a right time in a sense that our neighboring countries are also willing to work on mitigating environmental issues. He added that Climate change has multiple results, in the form of geophysical dimension of earth as it enforce displacement of hundreds of livelihood imparting social ...
... been conducted in a right time in a sense that our neighboring countries are also willing to work on mitigating environmental issues. He added that Climate change has multiple results, in the form of geophysical dimension of earth as it enforce displacement of hundreds of livelihood imparting social ...
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... progress shifters for the baseline as well as all climate change scenarios, with and without a CO2-fertilization effect, are shown in %/year in Table 1-5 for selected European countries, the US, and aggregated non European countries and regions (NEU5) and the aggregated world (WO). 3.2.3 Adaptation ...
... progress shifters for the baseline as well as all climate change scenarios, with and without a CO2-fertilization effect, are shown in %/year in Table 1-5 for selected European countries, the US, and aggregated non European countries and regions (NEU5) and the aggregated world (WO). 3.2.3 Adaptation ...
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.