"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 american council on science and health presents
... ACSH accepts unrestricted grants on the condition that it is solely responsible for the conduct of its research and the dissemination of its work to the public. The organization does not perform proprietary research, nor does it accept support from individual corporations for specific research proje ...
... ACSH accepts unrestricted grants on the condition that it is solely responsible for the conduct of its research and the dissemination of its work to the public. The organization does not perform proprietary research, nor does it accept support from individual corporations for specific research proje ...
Interpretation of Climate Change Scenarios
... determine whether or not these events are due to climate change or to other factors, although some studies lead one to believe that these events were caused by warming attributable to the greenhouse effect (IPCC 2007b). The main objective of this technical document is to define some concepts related ...
... determine whether or not these events are due to climate change or to other factors, although some studies lead one to believe that these events were caused by warming attributable to the greenhouse effect (IPCC 2007b). The main objective of this technical document is to define some concepts related ...
Impact of large-scale environmental features changes on host
... Over the last half-century, changes in the weather have become the most complicated issue the world has to cope with. Global warming and environmental changes are not imminent but already manifest. Many ecosystems and ecological processes might be severely perturbed. Among these rising dangers is th ...
... Over the last half-century, changes in the weather have become the most complicated issue the world has to cope with. Global warming and environmental changes are not imminent but already manifest. Many ecosystems and ecological processes might be severely perturbed. Among these rising dangers is th ...
Future climate change projections for the Latin American region
... A brief indication of how the science of climate modeling may develop in the next five years that could increase knowledge of changes in climate and climate variability in LAC in the decades leading up to the middle of the century. Of particular interest would be aspects that are salient for agricul ...
... A brief indication of how the science of climate modeling may develop in the next five years that could increase knowledge of changes in climate and climate variability in LAC in the decades leading up to the middle of the century. Of particular interest would be aspects that are salient for agricul ...
How uncertainties in future climate change predictions translate into
... Control run with constant greenhouse gas concentrations and of a Greenhouse run with increasing CO2 at a rate of 1% per year. Note that the initial CO2 mixing ratio depends on the model and varies from 290 to 360 ppmv (Table 1). Both simulations extend for 80 years. The climate forcing available by ...
... Control run with constant greenhouse gas concentrations and of a Greenhouse run with increasing CO2 at a rate of 1% per year. Note that the initial CO2 mixing ratio depends on the model and varies from 290 to 360 ppmv (Table 1). Both simulations extend for 80 years. The climate forcing available by ...
Changes in Arctic vegetation amplify high
... budget unresolved. McGuire et al. (ref. 13) assume that changes in atmospheric water vapor due to imports from lower latitudes to be important for the climate of the Arctic but do not directly consider changes in atmospheric moisture related to changes in vegetation. In fact, they explicitly state t ...
... budget unresolved. McGuire et al. (ref. 13) assume that changes in atmospheric water vapor due to imports from lower latitudes to be important for the climate of the Arctic but do not directly consider changes in atmospheric moisture related to changes in vegetation. In fact, they explicitly state t ...
Climate Change Effects on Avian Migration
... Global climate has been warming rapidly since the 1970s (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC 2007). The recent warming is faster and globally coherent compared to earlier trends that have occurred for example in the North Atlantic region (Folland et al. 2001). Furthermore, the greenh ...
... Global climate has been warming rapidly since the 1970s (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC 2007). The recent warming is faster and globally coherent compared to earlier trends that have occurred for example in the North Atlantic region (Folland et al. 2001). Furthermore, the greenh ...
A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor 2014: The
... 2009 and with many thousands more in 2011—revealed that a small cadre of climate scientists at the core of IPCC had been exaggerating data, fabricating data, suppressing contrary data, intimidating researchers whose conclusions undermined the case for global warming alarmism, corrupting the peer rev ...
... 2009 and with many thousands more in 2011—revealed that a small cadre of climate scientists at the core of IPCC had been exaggerating data, fabricating data, suppressing contrary data, intimidating researchers whose conclusions undermined the case for global warming alarmism, corrupting the peer rev ...
Recent warming trends inferred from borehole temperature data in
... flow in limestone about 50 m thick below the surface. Located in a recharge area (Fig. 1 and Table 1) this fractured limestone could be the place of an infiltration of relatively cool water that may amplify the subsurface climatic signal. Like water circulation, the local effects of lithology contrast ...
... flow in limestone about 50 m thick below the surface. Located in a recharge area (Fig. 1 and Table 1) this fractured limestone could be the place of an infiltration of relatively cool water that may amplify the subsurface climatic signal. Like water circulation, the local effects of lithology contrast ...
CLIMAP builds on ongoing and recently completed adaptation
... Calculations show that over the next 50 years damage costs without and with climate change will be US$10 and 16 million, respectively, after applying a discount rate of 3 percent. While the area is already experiencing high damage costs as a result of extreme rainfall events, it is apparent that the ...
... Calculations show that over the next 50 years damage costs without and with climate change will be US$10 and 16 million, respectively, after applying a discount rate of 3 percent. While the area is already experiencing high damage costs as a result of extreme rainfall events, it is apparent that the ...
Journal of the North American Benthological Society
... allocate which resources to what priorities?’’. Scientists ask, ‘‘What is reality?’’ and ‘‘How does the world work?’’. Understanding ‘‘what is’’ is not the same as exploring and illuminating responses to the questions of ‘‘what do we care about?’’ and ‘‘where do we want to go?’’. With this general c ...
... allocate which resources to what priorities?’’. Scientists ask, ‘‘What is reality?’’ and ‘‘How does the world work?’’. Understanding ‘‘what is’’ is not the same as exploring and illuminating responses to the questions of ‘‘what do we care about?’’ and ‘‘where do we want to go?’’. With this general c ...
Ecosystems
... Further understanding needed: How do ecosystems respond to continuously changing conditions (esp. on human time scales)? (Mt/Ag/EnSc/EnSt 404/504 - Global Change) ...
... Further understanding needed: How do ecosystems respond to continuously changing conditions (esp. on human time scales)? (Mt/Ag/EnSc/EnSt 404/504 - Global Change) ...
CLIMATE CHANGE CLUSTER
... Climate change may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme events (e.g. floods, landslides, forest fires, droughts, etc.). This leads to increased risks for human health and goods and chattels. Significant differences between current and future climate can be expected at regional scale. Espe ...
... Climate change may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme events (e.g. floods, landslides, forest fires, droughts, etc.). This leads to increased risks for human health and goods and chattels. Significant differences between current and future climate can be expected at regional scale. Espe ...
Ethical Anxieties About Geoengineering
... superior. They have the power to implement, or not to block, Plan A and their reluctance or obstructiveness is the reason Plan B is being considered in the first place. To adopt Plan B they must convince others that it is not in their power to reduce emissions, a tactic that is frequently attempted. ...
... superior. They have the power to implement, or not to block, Plan A and their reluctance or obstructiveness is the reason Plan B is being considered in the first place. To adopt Plan B they must convince others that it is not in their power to reduce emissions, a tactic that is frequently attempted. ...
Global warming induced hybrid rainy seasons in the Sahel
... anthropogenic aerosols and atmospheric greenhouse-gases (GHGs) forcing on the natural variability of rainfall [10, 11]. The need arises to investigate new standards for agroclimatic drought (flood) monitoring, and provide regional perspectives for predictions. In the Sahel, adequate monitoring metric ...
... anthropogenic aerosols and atmospheric greenhouse-gases (GHGs) forcing on the natural variability of rainfall [10, 11]. The need arises to investigate new standards for agroclimatic drought (flood) monitoring, and provide regional perspectives for predictions. In the Sahel, adequate monitoring metric ...
Internalizing Climate Change—Scientific Resource Management and the Climate Change Challenges
... many western mountain ranges (Mote 2003), earlier snow-fed stream-flows (Stewart et al. 2005), and earlier green-up (Cayan et al. 2001)—in large part due to emissions of greenhouse gases during the last half of the twentieth century (Cayan et al. 2001; National Research Council 2001; Intergovernment ...
... many western mountain ranges (Mote 2003), earlier snow-fed stream-flows (Stewart et al. 2005), and earlier green-up (Cayan et al. 2001)—in large part due to emissions of greenhouse gases during the last half of the twentieth century (Cayan et al. 2001; National Research Council 2001; Intergovernment ...
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... explicitly recognized that ecosystems are the core element of addressing climate change impacts and paving the way toward achieving sustainable development as sustainable development has its roots in ecosystem maintenance. Against this backdrop, this paper reviews the rapidly evolving concept of Eco ...
... explicitly recognized that ecosystems are the core element of addressing climate change impacts and paving the way toward achieving sustainable development as sustainable development has its roots in ecosystem maintenance. Against this backdrop, this paper reviews the rapidly evolving concept of Eco ...
Physiological Mechanisms in Coping with Climate Change
... was driven by both low-tide (aerial) and high-tide (aquatic) temperatures and that the duration of exposure to water was a significant factor. Understanding the interactions of organisms with their ambient environment at a niche level (Kearney 2006) is often key, because patterns of responses such a ...
... was driven by both low-tide (aerial) and high-tide (aquatic) temperatures and that the duration of exposure to water was a significant factor. Understanding the interactions of organisms with their ambient environment at a niche level (Kearney 2006) is often key, because patterns of responses such a ...
Physiological Mechanisms in Coping with Climate Change
... was driven by both low-tide (aerial) and high-tide (aquatic) temperatures and that the duration of exposure to water was a significant factor. Understanding the interactions of organisms with their ambient environment at a niche level (Kearney 2006) is often key, because patterns of responses such a ...
... was driven by both low-tide (aerial) and high-tide (aquatic) temperatures and that the duration of exposure to water was a significant factor. Understanding the interactions of organisms with their ambient environment at a niche level (Kearney 2006) is often key, because patterns of responses such a ...
CRS Report for Congress Climate Change: Federal Expenditures for Science and Technology
... Federal Expenditures for Science and Technology Summary For over 25 years there have been federal programs directly or indirectly related to climate change. This report identifies and discusses direct climate-focused scientific and research programs of the federal government, as well as an array of ...
... Federal Expenditures for Science and Technology Summary For over 25 years there have been federal programs directly or indirectly related to climate change. This report identifies and discusses direct climate-focused scientific and research programs of the federal government, as well as an array of ...
Demographics of true and false climate facts
... Research finds that better-educated or informed respondents are more likely to align with their parties on climate change. This information–elite polarization resembles a process of biased assimilation first described in psychological experiments. In nonexperimental settings, college graduates could ...
... Research finds that better-educated or informed respondents are more likely to align with their parties on climate change. This information–elite polarization resembles a process of biased assimilation first described in psychological experiments. In nonexperimental settings, college graduates could ...
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.