Assimilating urban heat island effects into climate projections
... Nevada and delivered via the Truckee River (Fig. 1bec). The impacts of temperature changes on summer water demand for Reno can be illustrated using the Hamon equation for potential evapotranspiration (Allen et al., 1998) that has been calibrated for climate change studies in the western Great Basin ...
... Nevada and delivered via the Truckee River (Fig. 1bec). The impacts of temperature changes on summer water demand for Reno can be illustrated using the Hamon equation for potential evapotranspiration (Allen et al., 1998) that has been calibrated for climate change studies in the western Great Basin ...
Climate-Science Communication and the Measurement Problem
... Nor can any valid inference be drawn about a U.S. survey respondent’s profession of “belief in” human evolution and his or her comprehension of science generally. The former is not a measure of the latter. To demonstrate this point requires a measure of science comprehension. Since Dewey (1910), gen ...
... Nor can any valid inference be drawn about a U.S. survey respondent’s profession of “belief in” human evolution and his or her comprehension of science generally. The former is not a measure of the latter. To demonstrate this point requires a measure of science comprehension. Since Dewey (1910), gen ...
the Measurement Problem Advances Pol. Psych. (forthcoming) PRELIMINARY DRAFT
... possesses certain qualities of mind: critical reasoning skills essential to drawing valid inferences from evidence; a faculty of cognitive perception calibrated to discerning when a problem demands such reasoning; and the intrinsic motivation to perform the effortful information processing such anal ...
... possesses certain qualities of mind: critical reasoning skills essential to drawing valid inferences from evidence; a faculty of cognitive perception calibrated to discerning when a problem demands such reasoning; and the intrinsic motivation to perform the effortful information processing such anal ...
Climate change as a threat to biodiversity
... and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global sea-level. Furthermore, “most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations” (IPCC, 2007a). ...
... and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global sea-level. Furthermore, “most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations” (IPCC, 2007a). ...
Download: SOAER97_11 - Arctic Monitoring and Assessment
... dissipating into space. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a continued increase at current rates could raise the average global air temperature between 1 and 3.5°C by 2100. The average rate of warming would likely be greater than any seen in the past 10 000 years. Cli ...
... dissipating into space. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a continued increase at current rates could raise the average global air temperature between 1 and 3.5°C by 2100. The average rate of warming would likely be greater than any seen in the past 10 000 years. Cli ...
Global Environmental Change Issues in the Western Indian Ocean
... global climate continues to change. Analysis of near-surface temperatures over land and oceans during the past 130 years sho ws marked warming during the first half of this century with relatively steady temperatures through the mid-1970s followed by a rapid warming during the 1980s. The source of t ...
... global climate continues to change. Analysis of near-surface temperatures over land and oceans during the past 130 years sho ws marked warming during the first half of this century with relatively steady temperatures through the mid-1970s followed by a rapid warming during the 1980s. The source of t ...
unburnable carbon: why we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground
... The Climate Council is an independent, non-profit organisation, funded by donations from the public. Our mission is to provide authoritative, expert information to the Australian public on climate change. The international community has agreed to limit an increase in global average temperature to no ...
... The Climate Council is an independent, non-profit organisation, funded by donations from the public. Our mission is to provide authoritative, expert information to the Australian public on climate change. The international community has agreed to limit an increase in global average temperature to no ...
Will Geoengineering With Solar Radiation Management Ever Be
... causing it and demands for the geoengineering to stop. What if computer modeling determines that geoengineering overall would help the planet by reducing the worst impacts of global warming, but that there would be regions that would suffer at the same time? How would it be possible to determine whi ...
... causing it and demands for the geoengineering to stop. What if computer modeling determines that geoengineering overall would help the planet by reducing the worst impacts of global warming, but that there would be regions that would suffer at the same time? How would it be possible to determine whi ...
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... the world decides this is desirable. […] Similarly, aiming for a lower stabilisation trajectory may be a sensible hedging strategy, as it is easier to adjust upwards to a higher trajectory than downwards to a lower one.” The objective of this paper is to provide a policy-relevant answer to the issue ...
... the world decides this is desirable. […] Similarly, aiming for a lower stabilisation trajectory may be a sensible hedging strategy, as it is easier to adjust upwards to a higher trajectory than downwards to a lower one.” The objective of this paper is to provide a policy-relevant answer to the issue ...
Climate Change: Portfolio Analysis
... in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Even as the world addresses climate change, independent experts such as the International Energy Agency (IEA) expect that fossil fuels are likely to continue to supply the majority of the world’s energy needs for decades to come, including in a 2°C world. Th ...
... in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Even as the world addresses climate change, independent experts such as the International Energy Agency (IEA) expect that fossil fuels are likely to continue to supply the majority of the world’s energy needs for decades to come, including in a 2°C world. Th ...
CV - Princeton University
... Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Contact Information Robertson Hall 448 Princeton University Princeton, N.J. 08544 ...
... Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Contact Information Robertson Hall 448 Princeton University Princeton, N.J. 08544 ...
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... oil companies for their contributions to climate change and its impact on their disaster. In a related case, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has already been held liable for their contribution to the flooding of New Orleans (Canadian position, 2010). Some authors have addressed the issues as Thomas ...
... oil companies for their contributions to climate change and its impact on their disaster. In a related case, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has already been held liable for their contribution to the flooding of New Orleans (Canadian position, 2010). Some authors have addressed the issues as Thomas ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... An Analysis Of The Language Used To Communicate Information On Climate Change type of news that doesn‟t need urgent attention or news that don‟t sell quickly. The majority of African leaders are preoccupied with fighting the return of imperialism instead of other issues like climate change. For thi ...
... An Analysis Of The Language Used To Communicate Information On Climate Change type of news that doesn‟t need urgent attention or news that don‟t sell quickly. The majority of African leaders are preoccupied with fighting the return of imperialism instead of other issues like climate change. For thi ...
(Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 15-16 (am) July 2013)
... ICTs have revolutionised our world in more ways than any other single technological innovation since the invention of the wheel! ICTs have transformed our society to be an information society living in a global village Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 15-16 (am) July 2013 ...
... ICTs have revolutionised our world in more ways than any other single technological innovation since the invention of the wheel! ICTs have transformed our society to be an information society living in a global village Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 15-16 (am) July 2013 ...
WMO
... coupled ocean-atmosphere system, significant improvement has been made in understanding climate variability and changes, as well as the benefit of society and the environment in which we live – such as predictive experiments for the future state of climate system and project how it will evolve under ...
... coupled ocean-atmosphere system, significant improvement has been made in understanding climate variability and changes, as well as the benefit of society and the environment in which we live – such as predictive experiments for the future state of climate system and project how it will evolve under ...
Article The uncertainties of climate change in Spanish daily
... The analysis of climate science media coverage is based upon three needs: a) apart from formal education, media are the main source of climate change information for the lay public [16], b) this phenomenon has a number of features that act as barriers that hinder public cognitive understanding [17] ...
... The analysis of climate science media coverage is based upon three needs: a) apart from formal education, media are the main source of climate change information for the lay public [16], b) this phenomenon has a number of features that act as barriers that hinder public cognitive understanding [17] ...
Climate Change and Human Security
... amenable to some extent to a “hard power” or conventional reaction, he said, and demand will rise for such responses to climate change-related security problems. “But there is no hard power solution to climate change - you cannot force your neighbour to change its carbon emissions at the barrel of a ...
... amenable to some extent to a “hard power” or conventional reaction, he said, and demand will rise for such responses to climate change-related security problems. “But there is no hard power solution to climate change - you cannot force your neighbour to change its carbon emissions at the barrel of a ...
"A Broader View of the Role of Humans in the... Assessment of Costs and Benefits of Effective Climate Policy"
... represented by a focus on anthropogenic inputs of CO2 into the atmosphere. Other investigators agree on the significance of regional heating on weather patterns. For example, as written in Palmer et al. (2008): “As is well known, systematic changes in diabatic heating fields will perturb the planeta ...
... represented by a focus on anthropogenic inputs of CO2 into the atmosphere. Other investigators agree on the significance of regional heating on weather patterns. For example, as written in Palmer et al. (2008): “As is well known, systematic changes in diabatic heating fields will perturb the planeta ...
The Paris Agreement global goals: What does a fair share for G20
... distributed unevenly around the globe and affect vulnerable countries the most. Even a 2 °C warming represents major risks, sometimes existential, for many countries. As a result, a group of 101 countries called for a 1.5 °C warming limit for the first time at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP ...
... distributed unevenly around the globe and affect vulnerable countries the most. Even a 2 °C warming represents major risks, sometimes existential, for many countries. As a result, a group of 101 countries called for a 1.5 °C warming limit for the first time at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP ...
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.