Educating for optimism and hope in troubled times
... be fairly represented in the media and in the classroom. This is of course rubbish. Firstly, because the notion that there are only two sides to an argument (how often have I heard teachers say this) is often not the case. More often an argument has three or more ‘sides’ to it as anyone who has used ...
... be fairly represented in the media and in the classroom. This is of course rubbish. Firstly, because the notion that there are only two sides to an argument (how often have I heard teachers say this) is often not the case. More often an argument has three or more ‘sides’ to it as anyone who has used ...
Regional issues in disaster risk reduction, including those related to climate change adaptation, and policies related to
... A key challenge in the argument relating to climate change is the uncertainty of certain scenarios, the long lag‐time between cause and effect, and economic modeling methods that may not adequately account for non‐economic losses. Just as we are now feeling the impa ...
... A key challenge in the argument relating to climate change is the uncertainty of certain scenarios, the long lag‐time between cause and effect, and economic modeling methods that may not adequately account for non‐economic losses. Just as we are now feeling the impa ...
expedition_RSV
... distinguishing [it] … as a new, fourth paradigm for scientific exploration." - Jim Gray ...
... distinguishing [it] … as a new, fourth paradigm for scientific exploration." - Jim Gray ...
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... Climate change and associated issues have gained public and scientific prominence in recent years. Policy action is being debated with the past two years revealing US based discussions on cap and trade, policy on renewable fuel standards with greenhouse gas (GHG) emission features, Presidential leve ...
... Climate change and associated issues have gained public and scientific prominence in recent years. Policy action is being debated with the past two years revealing US based discussions on cap and trade, policy on renewable fuel standards with greenhouse gas (GHG) emission features, Presidential leve ...
ECOLOGY, POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
... environmental consequences. Predictions of global warming are based on computer climate modeling, a branch of science still in its infancy. The empirical evidence actual measurements of Earth's temperature shows no man-made warming trend. Indeed, over the past two decades, when CO2 levels have been ...
... environmental consequences. Predictions of global warming are based on computer climate modeling, a branch of science still in its infancy. The empirical evidence actual measurements of Earth's temperature shows no man-made warming trend. Indeed, over the past two decades, when CO2 levels have been ...
- Wiley Online Library
... case. . . with no explicit climate policy’ (Riahi et al., 2011). We focus on two 20-year time periods representing the beginning and end of the 21st century: 1986–2005 and 2081–2100. The beginning of the 21st century is captured by the last 20 years of the historical runs and the end of the 21st cen ...
... case. . . with no explicit climate policy’ (Riahi et al., 2011). We focus on two 20-year time periods representing the beginning and end of the 21st century: 1986–2005 and 2081–2100. The beginning of the 21st century is captured by the last 20 years of the historical runs and the end of the 21st cen ...
Economic Impacts of Climate Change on New Jersey
... diversity in approaches among existing economic studies and the complexity of climateinduced challenges faced by society, there is a real need for a consistent methodology that enables more complete estimates of impacts and adaptation costs. The report closes ...
... diversity in approaches among existing economic studies and the complexity of climateinduced challenges faced by society, there is a real need for a consistent methodology that enables more complete estimates of impacts and adaptation costs. The report closes ...
Intel Climate Change Policy
... Climate change is occurring and human activities have played a strong contributing role—that is the consensus among climate scientists. The main questions today concern what steps can be taken to mitigate the warming trend and help communities and regions adapt to the present-day and anticipated imp ...
... Climate change is occurring and human activities have played a strong contributing role—that is the consensus among climate scientists. The main questions today concern what steps can be taken to mitigate the warming trend and help communities and regions adapt to the present-day and anticipated imp ...
Assessing the impact of late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions on
... the behavior of present-day megafauna in the African savanna (Owen-Smith, 1987). For example, today a large elephant in South Africa consumes 300 kg of vegetation daily (U. Schutte, personal communication, 2012). Therefore, the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna could have allowed an additional ...
... the behavior of present-day megafauna in the African savanna (Owen-Smith, 1987). For example, today a large elephant in South Africa consumes 300 kg of vegetation daily (U. Schutte, personal communication, 2012). Therefore, the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna could have allowed an additional ...
Global warming under old and new scenarios using IPCC climate
... Supplementary Table S1), which are partly subjective but do not strongly affect the results. In fact, our main result, the quantitative analysis of the differences between RCPs and SRES, is hardly affected at all, which we tested by assuming alternative ECS distributions from the literature (see Sup ...
... Supplementary Table S1), which are partly subjective but do not strongly affect the results. In fact, our main result, the quantitative analysis of the differences between RCPs and SRES, is hardly affected at all, which we tested by assuming alternative ECS distributions from the literature (see Sup ...
Setting a long-term climate objective
... goal satisfactorily requires defining what constitutes such dangerous interference and setting a global objective to avoid it. Before undertaking any journey, it is essential to know the destination. The multi-decade journey of mitigating climate change is no different. In the words of Michael Zammi ...
... goal satisfactorily requires defining what constitutes such dangerous interference and setting a global objective to avoid it. Before undertaking any journey, it is essential to know the destination. The multi-decade journey of mitigating climate change is no different. In the words of Michael Zammi ...
will continue to rise
... past emissions have already committed the climate: If concentrations were stabilized today by cutting emissions immediately to a small fraction of current levels, the average global temperature would gradually continue to rise—increasing by another 0.5°F to 1.6°F above recent levels by the end of th ...
... past emissions have already committed the climate: If concentrations were stabilized today by cutting emissions immediately to a small fraction of current levels, the average global temperature would gradually continue to rise—increasing by another 0.5°F to 1.6°F above recent levels by the end of th ...
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... 27 February 2012 This Framework is prepared to provide the effective delivery of adaptation services to the most climate vulnerable areas and people of Nepal. It supports the design of new and implementation of existing Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPAs) that have already been designed and pi ...
... 27 February 2012 This Framework is prepared to provide the effective delivery of adaptation services to the most climate vulnerable areas and people of Nepal. It supports the design of new and implementation of existing Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPAs) that have already been designed and pi ...
PDF File - Patrick Gonzalez
... Rosenzweig et al., 2007, 2008) of published ecological research demonstrate that climate change in the 20th century has shifted plant ranges (37 species) and phenology (1161 species) in ecosystems around the world. More than 90% of time series of ecological data exhibited changes in the direction ex ...
... Rosenzweig et al., 2007, 2008) of published ecological research demonstrate that climate change in the 20th century has shifted plant ranges (37 species) and phenology (1161 species) in ecosystems around the world. More than 90% of time series of ecological data exhibited changes in the direction ex ...
IMOGEN: an intermediate complexity model to evaluate terrestrial
... simulations to different future pathways of greenhouse gases, including rapid first-order assessments of how the land surface and associated biogeochemical cycles might change. Evaluation of how new terrestrial process understanding influences such predictions can also be made with relative ease. ...
... simulations to different future pathways of greenhouse gases, including rapid first-order assessments of how the land surface and associated biogeochemical cycles might change. Evaluation of how new terrestrial process understanding influences such predictions can also be made with relative ease. ...
Diplom/Master`s Thesis - Institute for the Study of Society and
... “Making climate hot: Communicating the urgency and challenge of global climate change.” Environment 46(10): 32-46 (with Lisa Dilling). ...
... “Making climate hot: Communicating the urgency and challenge of global climate change.” Environment 46(10): 32-46 (with Lisa Dilling). ...
What Factors Determine Earth`s Climate?
... carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Projecting changes in climate due to changes in greenhouse gases 50 years from now is a very different and much more easily solved problem than forecasting weather patterns just weeks from now. To put it another way, long-term variations b ...
... carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Projecting changes in climate due to changes in greenhouse gases 50 years from now is a very different and much more easily solved problem than forecasting weather patterns just weeks from now. To put it another way, long-term variations b ...
Vol.11, No.1, 2011
... characterized by deep convection would expand as climate warms. A definitive answer has eluded scientists because reported measurements of the tropical atmosphere temperatures conflict with each other, and the mechanism determining this threshold has not been well understood. Nat Johnson and Shang-P ...
... characterized by deep convection would expand as climate warms. A definitive answer has eluded scientists because reported measurements of the tropical atmosphere temperatures conflict with each other, and the mechanism determining this threshold has not been well understood. Nat Johnson and Shang-P ...
Heat Turn Down the Confronting
... will lead to less water resources in summer months and high risks of torrential floods. In the Balkans, a higher risk of drought results in potential declines for crop yields, urban health, and energy generation. In Macedonia, yield losses are projected of up to 50 percent for maize, wheat, vegetabl ...
... will lead to less water resources in summer months and high risks of torrential floods. In the Balkans, a higher risk of drought results in potential declines for crop yields, urban health, and energy generation. In Macedonia, yield losses are projected of up to 50 percent for maize, wheat, vegetabl ...
The geopolitics of climate change
... about how the world is made known. The geographical terms in the scripts used by politicians, the images conjured up by those who represent foreign places, and their specification in terms of having attributes requiring certain forms of policy are ubiquitous modern political practices (Agnew, 2003). ...
... about how the world is made known. The geographical terms in the scripts used by politicians, the images conjured up by those who represent foreign places, and their specification in terms of having attributes requiring certain forms of policy are ubiquitous modern political practices (Agnew, 2003). ...
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.