Inaugural Lecture
... • Using models and observations to establish that: – 20th century climate change is likely to be human driven with greenhouse gas warming being offset by natural and other human drivers – That external drivers are an important driver of natural climate variability – That humans might have affected 1 ...
... • Using models and observations to establish that: – 20th century climate change is likely to be human driven with greenhouse gas warming being offset by natural and other human drivers – That external drivers are an important driver of natural climate variability – That humans might have affected 1 ...
Nonstate Actors in the Global Climate Regime
... commitments and seek greater cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. While this represents common ground, significant differences divide the NGO community. On issues like joint implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism, which would allow developed countries to partially implement their agreed emi ...
... commitments and seek greater cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. While this represents common ground, significant differences divide the NGO community. On issues like joint implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism, which would allow developed countries to partially implement their agreed emi ...
Movements and Moments for Climate Justice
... Of the numerous actions that took place during the COP15 summit, the ‘Reclaim Power: Pushing for Climate Justice’ action on the 16th was arguably the most politically significant. The Reclaim Power action emerged from the middle of the ‘shut them down/shut them in’ debate, not taking ‘sides’, but ra ...
... Of the numerous actions that took place during the COP15 summit, the ‘Reclaim Power: Pushing for Climate Justice’ action on the 16th was arguably the most politically significant. The Reclaim Power action emerged from the middle of the ‘shut them down/shut them in’ debate, not taking ‘sides’, but ra ...
Strategy for FAO’s work on climate change – roadmap
... reverse progress that has been made in the fight against hunger and malnutrition in recent years. Climate change and extreme weather events pose multiple challenges: they may reduce productivity and the production of food – as well as feed, fibre and fuel – and could add increased pressure to alread ...
... reverse progress that has been made in the fight against hunger and malnutrition in recent years. Climate change and extreme weather events pose multiple challenges: they may reduce productivity and the production of food – as well as feed, fibre and fuel – and could add increased pressure to alread ...
How Do The Atmosphere and Ocean Affect Temperatures
... Lesson Grouping: Whole Class—Questions will be answered as a whole class in a discussion format. The plastic wrap/greenhouse gases diagram will also be done as a whole class. Following the questions and completion of the diagram, the diagram below will be shared with students. Concept map work will ...
... Lesson Grouping: Whole Class—Questions will be answered as a whole class in a discussion format. The plastic wrap/greenhouse gases diagram will also be done as a whole class. Following the questions and completion of the diagram, the diagram below will be shared with students. Concept map work will ...
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... change issues takes place in a moral and ethical context in which religious groups have significant influence. Such “issues cannot be solved by simply calculating an ‘optimal solution’. Rather, they invoke fundamental questions on how we ought to live and how humans should value and relate to each o ...
... change issues takes place in a moral and ethical context in which religious groups have significant influence. Such “issues cannot be solved by simply calculating an ‘optimal solution’. Rather, they invoke fundamental questions on how we ought to live and how humans should value and relate to each o ...
Key aspects of global climate change
... “There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last fifty years is attributable to human activities”. The Earth’s climate system has markedly changed during the time period from the industrial revolution, with some changes having been of anthropogenic origin. The clim ...
... “There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last fifty years is attributable to human activities”. The Earth’s climate system has markedly changed during the time period from the industrial revolution, with some changes having been of anthropogenic origin. The clim ...
Nullifying the climate null hypothesis
... The applications, utility and misunderstanding of the null hypothesis have been the subject of substantial discussion (e.g. Cohen 1994, Nickerson 2000, Anderson et al. 2000). It has been argued that null hypothesis testing leads to relatively little increase in understanding and diverts attention fr ...
... The applications, utility and misunderstanding of the null hypothesis have been the subject of substantial discussion (e.g. Cohen 1994, Nickerson 2000, Anderson et al. 2000). It has been argued that null hypothesis testing leads to relatively little increase in understanding and diverts attention fr ...
Shift in US Climate Policy Would Not Stall Global Efforts to
... the law would take time to implement. It would also take time to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Its Article 28 dictates that any country wishing to pull out after signing would have to wait four years.3 However, the US could choose to simply ignore its voluntary commitments or, in an extreme sce ...
... the law would take time to implement. It would also take time to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Its Article 28 dictates that any country wishing to pull out after signing would have to wait four years.3 However, the US could choose to simply ignore its voluntary commitments or, in an extreme sce ...
Priority adaptations to climate change for Pacific fisheries and
... 3. How can we respond? - Adaptation measures at national and local scales - Explore mitigation options ...
... 3. How can we respond? - Adaptation measures at national and local scales - Explore mitigation options ...
The response of atmospheric nitrous oxide to climate variations
... [2002], in agreement with the ı 13 C records of marine sediment cores shown in Figure 2). In addition, Schmittner and Galbraith [2008] also simulate stronger reductions when the durations of the stadials increase, which agrees with the data, as stadials with Heinrich events are predominantly longer. ...
... [2002], in agreement with the ı 13 C records of marine sediment cores shown in Figure 2). In addition, Schmittner and Galbraith [2008] also simulate stronger reductions when the durations of the stadials increase, which agrees with the data, as stadials with Heinrich events are predominantly longer. ...
IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education (IOSR-JRME)
... extreme reactions of the weather phenomenon which creates negative impacts on agricultural resources, water resources, human health, depletion of ozone layer, vegetation, soil and doubling of carbon (IV) oxide (CO 2) in the ecosphere. All the previous definitions attribute climate change to human as ...
... extreme reactions of the weather phenomenon which creates negative impacts on agricultural resources, water resources, human health, depletion of ozone layer, vegetation, soil and doubling of carbon (IV) oxide (CO 2) in the ecosphere. All the previous definitions attribute climate change to human as ...
The Role Of Halocarbons In The Climate Change Of The
... that have contributed to changes in the Earth’s climate since pre-industrial times. Their individual and collective potential to contribute directly to surface climate change is usually gauged through calculation of their radiative efficiency, radiative forcing, and/or Global Warming Potential (GWP) ...
... that have contributed to changes in the Earth’s climate since pre-industrial times. Their individual and collective potential to contribute directly to surface climate change is usually gauged through calculation of their radiative efficiency, radiative forcing, and/or Global Warming Potential (GWP) ...
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
... The recognition that anthropogenic activity is causing global warming (Houghton et al., 2001; Solomon et al., 2007) has emphasized the importance of developing climate models with predictive capability. In recent decades considerable effort has been devoted to evaluating state-of-the-art climate mod ...
... The recognition that anthropogenic activity is causing global warming (Houghton et al., 2001; Solomon et al., 2007) has emphasized the importance of developing climate models with predictive capability. In recent decades considerable effort has been devoted to evaluating state-of-the-art climate mod ...
Microfinance and Climate Change: Threats and Opportunities C
... Box 3: A Quick Overview of the Science of Climate Change Anyone who has stood outside on a sunny day has directly experienced the way sunlight heats the earth. It is less obvious that the earth also gives off heat in the form of infrared radiation. This is the heat one can feel radiating up from, sa ...
... Box 3: A Quick Overview of the Science of Climate Change Anyone who has stood outside on a sunny day has directly experienced the way sunlight heats the earth. It is less obvious that the earth also gives off heat in the form of infrared radiation. This is the heat one can feel radiating up from, sa ...
ClimAfrica_proj_2011
... 2- Assess climate impacts in key sectors of SSA livelihood and economy, especially water resources and agriculture; 3- Evaluate the vulnerability of ecosystems and civil population to inter-annual variations and longer trends (10 years) in climate; 4- Suggest and analyse new suited adaptation strate ...
... 2- Assess climate impacts in key sectors of SSA livelihood and economy, especially water resources and agriculture; 3- Evaluate the vulnerability of ecosystems and civil population to inter-annual variations and longer trends (10 years) in climate; 4- Suggest and analyse new suited adaptation strate ...
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... will provide a framework for modelling in the next stages of scenario-based research. The two sets of climate projections used in this study may be said to represent two RCPs: one focusing on the near term (the stabilisation scenario) and the other extending to 2080s. Here we use the A1B and E1 as p ...
... will provide a framework for modelling in the next stages of scenario-based research. The two sets of climate projections used in this study may be said to represent two RCPs: one focusing on the near term (the stabilisation scenario) and the other extending to 2080s. Here we use the A1B and E1 as p ...
Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation
... Fig. 2. Climate records and forcings during the last deglaciation. The oxygenisotope (δ18 O) records from Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2) (150) (darkblue line) and Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) (151) (light-blue line) Greenland ice cores shown in (A) (placed on the GICC05 timescale; ref. ...
... Fig. 2. Climate records and forcings during the last deglaciation. The oxygenisotope (δ18 O) records from Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2) (150) (darkblue line) and Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) (151) (light-blue line) Greenland ice cores shown in (A) (placed on the GICC05 timescale; ref. ...
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... these studies present some important limitations. First, the simulations regarding climate change are based on scenarios of uniform increase in temperature and precipitation. No published studies have used geographically differentiated climate projections. Second, these studies are based on climate ...
... these studies present some important limitations. First, the simulations regarding climate change are based on scenarios of uniform increase in temperature and precipitation. No published studies have used geographically differentiated climate projections. Second, these studies are based on climate ...
Climate change justice and the global policy mix
... similar cost in terms of forgone national income or well-being over the 2000-50 period (Miller 2009: 146-51; Traxler 2002). If the global climate response requires a level of mitigation activity to avoid dangerous climate change that would impose a 2 per cent loss in the combined incomes of middle a ...
... similar cost in terms of forgone national income or well-being over the 2000-50 period (Miller 2009: 146-51; Traxler 2002). If the global climate response requires a level of mitigation activity to avoid dangerous climate change that would impose a 2 per cent loss in the combined incomes of middle a ...
Native Communities and Climate Change
... Jonathan M. Hanna, NRLC Research Fellow, Principal Author & Editor ...
... Jonathan M. Hanna, NRLC Research Fellow, Principal Author & Editor ...
View/Open
... such as UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, IPCC, etc. He devotes substantial space for recording the negative impact of climate change on Indian agriculture including floods, more droughts, disease spread, etc. as climate change will have more effect on the northern parts of the country with the exception of P ...
... such as UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, IPCC, etc. He devotes substantial space for recording the negative impact of climate change on Indian agriculture including floods, more droughts, disease spread, etc. as climate change will have more effect on the northern parts of the country with the exception of P ...
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... metres” (see “So many amplifying methane feedbacks, so little time to stop them all [2] ” and figure on right). A lead researcher of that work said, “Our survey was designed to work out how much methane might be released by future ocean warming; we did not expect to discover such strong evidence tha ...
... metres” (see “So many amplifying methane feedbacks, so little time to stop them all [2] ” and figure on right). A lead researcher of that work said, “Our survey was designed to work out how much methane might be released by future ocean warming; we did not expect to discover such strong evidence tha ...
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.