global climate change as seen by zoo and aquarium visitors
... reinforce visitors’ conservation outlook, and increase visitors’ sense that they can be a part of the solution to environmental problems [9]. Research suggests, furthermore, that zoos can provide positive emotional contexts for visitors [18], that the zoo context supports a social identity related t ...
... reinforce visitors’ conservation outlook, and increase visitors’ sense that they can be a part of the solution to environmental problems [9]. Research suggests, furthermore, that zoos can provide positive emotional contexts for visitors [18], that the zoo context supports a social identity related t ...
Outlook on climate change adaptation in the Tropical Andes
... This synthesis publication builds on the main findings and results available on projects and activities that have been conducted. It is based on available information, such as respective national communications by countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and p ...
... This synthesis publication builds on the main findings and results available on projects and activities that have been conducted. It is based on available information, such as respective national communications by countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and p ...
The positive impact of human CO2 emissions on the survival of life
... environmental field for over 40 years. Dr. Moore is a Co-Founder of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. Following his time with Greenpeace, Dr. Moore joined the Forest Alliance of BC where he worked for ten ...
... environmental field for over 40 years. Dr. Moore is a Co-Founder of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. Following his time with Greenpeace, Dr. Moore joined the Forest Alliance of BC where he worked for ten ...
Environment, Climate Change and International Relations
... framework of International Relations theory. This collection is not for that purpose – it is instead to empirically ground such understanding in the experience of climate change at the international level – be it in the form of conflict, negotiations or the mechanisms created by the global community ...
... framework of International Relations theory. This collection is not for that purpose – it is instead to empirically ground such understanding in the experience of climate change at the international level – be it in the form of conflict, negotiations or the mechanisms created by the global community ...
FINAL 2014 2015 Annual Progress Report
... Developing and testing such ESMs is an enormous task, which demands a significant fraction of the resources of CICS and GFDL. Further, at any given time, model development depends on existing knowledge of how systems behave, but for that development to continue, our body of knowledge and understand ...
... Developing and testing such ESMs is an enormous task, which demands a significant fraction of the resources of CICS and GFDL. Further, at any given time, model development depends on existing knowledge of how systems behave, but for that development to continue, our body of knowledge and understand ...
FINAL DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 17 Subject to Final Copyedit
... measures (high confidence). Economic theory and empirical results show that a degree of adaptation will be autonomously carried out by private parties in response to climate change. However the private sector alone will often not provide the desirable level of adaptation with some types of actions n ...
... measures (high confidence). Economic theory and empirical results show that a degree of adaptation will be autonomously carried out by private parties in response to climate change. However the private sector alone will often not provide the desirable level of adaptation with some types of actions n ...
Occasional Paper #2 - Institute for Science Innovation and Society
... For about half a decade, climate engineering2 (CE) is not only an object of interest for natural scientists and engineers anymore. Particularly the wide, in some cases global scope of effects of climate engineering technologies as well as their deep implications for human society make those technolo ...
... For about half a decade, climate engineering2 (CE) is not only an object of interest for natural scientists and engineers anymore. Particularly the wide, in some cases global scope of effects of climate engineering technologies as well as their deep implications for human society make those technolo ...
Future wet grasslands: ecological implications of climate change
... overlooked in the climate change literature, including assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, these wetlands provide an interesting case for elucidating climate change effects, being widely distributed, geographically varied, but with key hydrological, vegeta ...
... overlooked in the climate change literature, including assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, these wetlands provide an interesting case for elucidating climate change effects, being widely distributed, geographically varied, but with key hydrological, vegeta ...
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... preindustrial era, due to increasing industrialization and global population. In 2012, air pollution, mostly in the form of atmospheric aerosols, was responsible for 7 million deaths (3.7 million from ambient air pollution, 3.3 million from indoor) worldwide (WHO, 2014). Due to efforts to reduce thi ...
... preindustrial era, due to increasing industrialization and global population. In 2012, air pollution, mostly in the form of atmospheric aerosols, was responsible for 7 million deaths (3.7 million from ambient air pollution, 3.3 million from indoor) worldwide (WHO, 2014). Due to efforts to reduce thi ...
uganda`s economic development - Konrad-Adenauer
... variability observed over comparable time periods2. However, it is equally vital to point out that there are many other major factors that bring about climate change such as solar output, tectonic movements and earth’s orbit pattern.3 Scientists indicate that increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
... variability observed over comparable time periods2. However, it is equally vital to point out that there are many other major factors that bring about climate change such as solar output, tectonic movements and earth’s orbit pattern.3 Scientists indicate that increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
Transformational Adaptation: Concepts, Examples, and their
... irrigation was possible, intensified use of river and lake environments, out-migration, and inmigration to environmental ‘refugia’ where resources where still available. These strategies, particularly in-migration to refugia and agricultural intensification, were associated with a variety of profoun ...
... irrigation was possible, intensified use of river and lake environments, out-migration, and inmigration to environmental ‘refugia’ where resources where still available. These strategies, particularly in-migration to refugia and agricultural intensification, were associated with a variety of profoun ...
the schmidt family foundation
... We believe engaging new voices on climate change will ultimately lead to success. We continued to work with religious groups, mainly through The Regeneration Project. We assisted them in assembling national leaders from the Islamic, Christian and Jewish faiths. The leaders attended a two-day summit ...
... We believe engaging new voices on climate change will ultimately lead to success. We continued to work with religious groups, mainly through The Regeneration Project. We assisted them in assembling national leaders from the Islamic, Christian and Jewish faiths. The leaders attended a two-day summit ...
Fossil Fuel Divestment: Implications For The Future Of Sustainability
... several reasons, including: the international community’s failure to implement the transformative action required for radical and immediate emission reduction (Chatterton et al. 2013); frustration with political gridlock on comprehensive US climate policy (McKibben 2012); the need for urgent systema ...
... several reasons, including: the international community’s failure to implement the transformative action required for radical and immediate emission reduction (Chatterton et al. 2013); frustration with political gridlock on comprehensive US climate policy (McKibben 2012); the need for urgent systema ...
Climate Change: Addressing the Impact for Human Security
... iv) Environmentally-induced migration (the IPCC estimates that the number could reach 50 million by the end of the decade and up to 200 million by 2050); v) Disrupted access to and intensified competition over energy supplies; vi) Situations of fragility and radicalization. Climate change may signif ...
... iv) Environmentally-induced migration (the IPCC estimates that the number could reach 50 million by the end of the decade and up to 200 million by 2050); v) Disrupted access to and intensified competition over energy supplies; vi) Situations of fragility and radicalization. Climate change may signif ...
Assessment of Health and Climate Preparedness (PDF)
... Workgroup of the State Community Health Services Advisory Committee (SCSHAC). The SCHSAC approved this report at its meeting on May 4, 2012. In 2011, the SCHSAC charged the workgroup to help guide and recommend best practices in planning for the health impacts of extreme weather events and climate c ...
... Workgroup of the State Community Health Services Advisory Committee (SCSHAC). The SCHSAC approved this report at its meeting on May 4, 2012. In 2011, the SCHSAC charged the workgroup to help guide and recommend best practices in planning for the health impacts of extreme weather events and climate c ...
Climate change and displacement
... Millions of people are projected to be flooded annually by the 2080s due to sea-level rise. Densely-populated and low-lying areas where adaptive capacity is relatively low and which already face other challenges, such as tropical storms, are especially at risk. Current knowledge about the social con ...
... Millions of people are projected to be flooded annually by the 2080s due to sea-level rise. Densely-populated and low-lying areas where adaptive capacity is relatively low and which already face other challenges, such as tropical storms, are especially at risk. Current knowledge about the social con ...
Warming Power of CO2 and H2O: Correlations with Temperature
... The dramatic and threatening environmental changes announced for the next decades are the result of models whose main drive factor of climatic changes is the increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Although taken as a premise, the hypothesis does not have verifiable consistence. The comparison ...
... The dramatic and threatening environmental changes announced for the next decades are the result of models whose main drive factor of climatic changes is the increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Although taken as a premise, the hypothesis does not have verifiable consistence. The comparison ...
Public Perception of geoengineering and its consequences for
... comparative approach has been used by Bostrom et al. (2012) surveying undergraduate students (n=664) from Austria, Bangladesh, Finland, Germany, Norway and the USA. The survey focused on investigating their attitudes, beliefs, and support for policy alternatives to address climate. Kahan et al. (201 ...
... comparative approach has been used by Bostrom et al. (2012) surveying undergraduate students (n=664) from Austria, Bangladesh, Finland, Germany, Norway and the USA. The survey focused on investigating their attitudes, beliefs, and support for policy alternatives to address climate. Kahan et al. (201 ...
A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States
... planning, infrastructure, policy) was conducted. The results were then grouped based on scale of actor (government level, private sector, or nongovernmental). The sector and type of adaptation activity across scales were then analyzed to clarify the context in which adaptation is taking place, inclu ...
... planning, infrastructure, policy) was conducted. The results were then grouped based on scale of actor (government level, private sector, or nongovernmental). The sector and type of adaptation activity across scales were then analyzed to clarify the context in which adaptation is taking place, inclu ...
Analyses of the spring phenology of boreal trees and its - E
... on dormancy release, but claimed that this does not occur in natural conditions. Some other studies suggest that the light conditions (typically day or night length) might affect the phenological timing of plants. This seems reasonable, as light conditions have a high information content about the p ...
... on dormancy release, but claimed that this does not occur in natural conditions. Some other studies suggest that the light conditions (typically day or night length) might affect the phenological timing of plants. This seems reasonable, as light conditions have a high information content about the p ...
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.