Interaction between Climate Change and the Cryosphere
... programme, the calls for proposals and the evaluation more on what is to be done and who can do it best, than on which country applicants come from. This is rare in international research collaboration, where the norm is for each country to support only its own scientists, apply its own conditions t ...
... programme, the calls for proposals and the evaluation more on what is to be done and who can do it best, than on which country applicants come from. This is rare in international research collaboration, where the norm is for each country to support only its own scientists, apply its own conditions t ...
The atmospheric water cycle How will it change in a
... circulation at climate warming due to increased static stability and a rapid increase in the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. • This generally leads to less favorable conditions to generate organized onset vortices which are seen as key atmospheric conditions for the generation of tropical ...
... circulation at climate warming due to increased static stability and a rapid increase in the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. • This generally leads to less favorable conditions to generate organized onset vortices which are seen as key atmospheric conditions for the generation of tropical ...
1. Introduction
... One advantage of this strategy is that it enables local decision makers to move beyond the debates over climate science that have often plagued climate change politics at the national and global levels (Sarewitz and Pielke Jr. 2000). Several officials in U.S. CCP communities noted that it really doe ...
... One advantage of this strategy is that it enables local decision makers to move beyond the debates over climate science that have often plagued climate change politics at the national and global levels (Sarewitz and Pielke Jr. 2000). Several officials in U.S. CCP communities noted that it really doe ...
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... (Li et al., 2013), affecting even abyssal organisms. Marine ectotherms tend to fully occupy their thermal niches (Sunday et al., 2012), and it is well recognised that organisms’ latitudinal ranges are responding rapidly to geographical shifts in their fundamental ecological niches (FENs; defined phy ...
... (Li et al., 2013), affecting even abyssal organisms. Marine ectotherms tend to fully occupy their thermal niches (Sunday et al., 2012), and it is well recognised that organisms’ latitudinal ranges are responding rapidly to geographical shifts in their fundamental ecological niches (FENs; defined phy ...
DOC - World bank documents
... With systematic documentation and testing for climate resilience, these agrobiodiversity resources and the traditional knowledge have the potential to ‘climate proof’ rain-fed agriculture in the future. The wealth of information which farmers have accumulated over generations regarding the useful at ...
... With systematic documentation and testing for climate resilience, these agrobiodiversity resources and the traditional knowledge have the potential to ‘climate proof’ rain-fed agriculture in the future. The wealth of information which farmers have accumulated over generations regarding the useful at ...
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... • Climate change affects human health in several ways. Here we consider the influence of climate change on heat and cold stress related diseases (respiratory and cardiovascular), and on main Vector-borne diseases (malaria, dengue and ...
... • Climate change affects human health in several ways. Here we consider the influence of climate change on heat and cold stress related diseases (respiratory and cardiovascular), and on main Vector-borne diseases (malaria, dengue and ...
4. The response of the climate system to a
... for decades if not centuries. Their geographical distribution is thus quite homogenous, with only small differences between the two hemispheres. Other greenhouse gases such as O3 (ozone) have a shorter life. As a consequence, their concentration, and thus the associated radiative forcing, tend to be ...
... for decades if not centuries. Their geographical distribution is thus quite homogenous, with only small differences between the two hemispheres. Other greenhouse gases such as O3 (ozone) have a shorter life. As a consequence, their concentration, and thus the associated radiative forcing, tend to be ...
2. Data and Methodology
... author: Li Zhi(1978-), College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China. e-mail: [email protected] ...
... author: Li Zhi(1978-), College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China. e-mail: [email protected] ...
Resurrection ecology and global climate change research in
... ecosystems and their biota will change in response to novel environmental conditions (e.g., Dale 1997, Magnuson et al. 1997, Schindler 2001), thereby leading to ecological surprises (Paine et al. 1998). This problem limits our ability to manage aquatic ecosystems in a way that will be sustainable an ...
... ecosystems and their biota will change in response to novel environmental conditions (e.g., Dale 1997, Magnuson et al. 1997, Schindler 2001), thereby leading to ecological surprises (Paine et al. 1998). This problem limits our ability to manage aquatic ecosystems in a way that will be sustainable an ...
"Biological Impacts of Climate Change". In: Encyclopedia of Life
... is that patterns of climate strongly influence the distribution and abundances of living organisms. Climate describes weather patterns for a given location over an extended period of time (e.g. 10+ years). Climate is not just the average conditions of temperature and precipitation but also the season ...
... is that patterns of climate strongly influence the distribution and abundances of living organisms. Climate describes weather patterns for a given location over an extended period of time (e.g. 10+ years). Climate is not just the average conditions of temperature and precipitation but also the season ...
Assessing the impacts of global warming on meteorological hazards
... meteorological hazards that would spawn disasters. Based on the statistics on natural disasters ...
... meteorological hazards that would spawn disasters. Based on the statistics on natural disasters ...
Climate Change and Poverty
... of society more severely. The prime reason for this is the higher vulnerability of the poor, due to their greater dependence upon natural resources, ecosystem goods and services, and their lower capacity to deal with extreme climatic events. Climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture and fisheries a ...
... of society more severely. The prime reason for this is the higher vulnerability of the poor, due to their greater dependence upon natural resources, ecosystem goods and services, and their lower capacity to deal with extreme climatic events. Climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture and fisheries a ...
Climate change in cities due to global warming and urban
... [Howard, 1833; Oke, 1987], and in the monitoring and detection of global climate change climatologists have gone to great lengths to remove or minimise the potential influence of urbanisation on the historical climate record [Parker, 2010]. This is vital for trying to detect warming trends of the or ...
... [Howard, 1833; Oke, 1987], and in the monitoring and detection of global climate change climatologists have gone to great lengths to remove or minimise the potential influence of urbanisation on the historical climate record [Parker, 2010]. This is vital for trying to detect warming trends of the or ...
Palaeoclimatic insights into future climate challenges
... warm and cold climates. Starting with the cold climates, the Hoffert & Covey (1992) ice-age estimate was based on early palaeoclimatic data that rather clearly underestimated changes (specifically, the CLIMAP sea-surface temperatures (SSTs)). As updated by Cuffey & Brook (2000), improved data yield a s ...
... warm and cold climates. Starting with the cold climates, the Hoffert & Covey (1992) ice-age estimate was based on early palaeoclimatic data that rather clearly underestimated changes (specifically, the CLIMAP sea-surface temperatures (SSTs)). As updated by Cuffey & Brook (2000), improved data yield a s ...
Americans` Knowledge of Climate Change
... = F), 1 percent of the public received an A, 7 percent a B, 15 percent a C, 25 percent a D, and 52 percent an F, indicating that relatively few Americans have an in-depth understanding of climate change. This “grade”, however, should be interpreted with caution. Some questions clearly were harder to ...
... = F), 1 percent of the public received an A, 7 percent a B, 15 percent a C, 25 percent a D, and 52 percent an F, indicating that relatively few Americans have an in-depth understanding of climate change. This “grade”, however, should be interpreted with caution. Some questions clearly were harder to ...
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... Global climate change arising from increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO) and other trace gases, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) is an issue of international concern. While the rate of future atmospheric CO2 increases is uncertain, CO 2 is currently increasing at four to five parts per mill ...
... Global climate change arising from increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO) and other trace gases, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) is an issue of international concern. While the rate of future atmospheric CO2 increases is uncertain, CO 2 is currently increasing at four to five parts per mill ...
Multi-model climate change projections for India under
... Climate projections for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are made using the newly developed representative concentration pathways (RCPs) under the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5). This article provides multi-model and multi-scenario ...
... Climate projections for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are made using the newly developed representative concentration pathways (RCPs) under the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5). This article provides multi-model and multi-scenario ...
Climate changes of the twentieth through twenty-first
... Limpasuvan and Hartmann, 1999) that accompany a mass displacement between the polar region and surrounding midlatitudes. Indices of these modes have exhibited a remarkable increasing trend (deepening of the polar low pressure) (e.g., Thompson et al., 2000; Marshall, 2003) in the past few decades, re ...
... Limpasuvan and Hartmann, 1999) that accompany a mass displacement between the polar region and surrounding midlatitudes. Indices of these modes have exhibited a remarkable increasing trend (deepening of the polar low pressure) (e.g., Thompson et al., 2000; Marshall, 2003) in the past few decades, re ...
1. Active engagement
... States, etc.) have raised the question of contributions by developed countries for actions to reduce and adapt to the effects of climate change in developing countries. Exchanges on this subject have highlighted the need to ensure "climate funding" policies are in line with these countries' requirem ...
... States, etc.) have raised the question of contributions by developed countries for actions to reduce and adapt to the effects of climate change in developing countries. Exchanges on this subject have highlighted the need to ensure "climate funding" policies are in line with these countries' requirem ...
SJ Org. 1 Ann Global Warming in the Arctic x
... Arctic animals cannot hunt for food because glaciers are melting and there is hardly any snow in the Arctic. Past the 30 years, the Arctic has warmed twice as much than any place on earth. In those 30 years, the amount of ice in the Arctic has decreased by 20% in September. The Arctic is an ...
... Arctic animals cannot hunt for food because glaciers are melting and there is hardly any snow in the Arctic. Past the 30 years, the Arctic has warmed twice as much than any place on earth. In those 30 years, the amount of ice in the Arctic has decreased by 20% in September. The Arctic is an ...
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... choices, such as time horizon of emissions, climate change indicator and greenhouse-gas mix is larger than the impact of scientific uncertainties • Impact of uncertainties on the relative contributions is smaller than impact of uncertainties on the absolute changes in temperature. ...
... choices, such as time horizon of emissions, climate change indicator and greenhouse-gas mix is larger than the impact of scientific uncertainties • Impact of uncertainties on the relative contributions is smaller than impact of uncertainties on the absolute changes in temperature. ...
Peatlands and Their Role in the Global Carbon Cycle
... Multiyear C balance measurements, including CO2, CH4, and dissolved organic carbon, available from only a few northern peatlands, show a large weather-driven interannual variability from weak C sources to strong C sinks, responding to hydrological and temperature conditions (Figure 2b). Despite larg ...
... Multiyear C balance measurements, including CO2, CH4, and dissolved organic carbon, available from only a few northern peatlands, show a large weather-driven interannual variability from weak C sources to strong C sinks, responding to hydrological and temperature conditions (Figure 2b). Despite larg ...
Impacts of Climate Change
... offers policymakers an alternative approach to thinking about climate change and its impacts. Instead of starting with climate change and working out toward impacts, we focus on systems that are already generally vulnerable first, and then consider what the geophysics of climate change may do to the ...
... offers policymakers an alternative approach to thinking about climate change and its impacts. Instead of starting with climate change and working out toward impacts, we focus on systems that are already generally vulnerable first, and then consider what the geophysics of climate change may do to the ...
Comments by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... impacts. This is a ludicrous assertion and one without any backing. What editor or GS-15 in charge of this proposal could be so simple? We ask EPA to consider a simple question: Does it have a threshold below which the impacts of CO2 reductions from a proposed action would be too small to be of any ...
... impacts. This is a ludicrous assertion and one without any backing. What editor or GS-15 in charge of this proposal could be so simple? We ask EPA to consider a simple question: Does it have a threshold below which the impacts of CO2 reductions from a proposed action would be too small to be of any ...
The politics of climate change
... levels of urgency and severity in its assessment. How in these circumstances can democracies construct a prudent, long term and consistent policy agenda to manage these risks, whilst also building consensus around the agenda? To what extent is this agenda shared with the pursuit of energy security? ...
... levels of urgency and severity in its assessment. How in these circumstances can democracies construct a prudent, long term and consistent policy agenda to manage these risks, whilst also building consensus around the agenda? To what extent is this agenda shared with the pursuit of energy security? ...
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.