Brief summary of the impact of ship emissions on atmospheric
... needed reduction targets may not be simple. Policymakers need to consider issues such as technological feasibility, economic efficiency, and total fuel cycle tradeoffs (Winebrake et al., 2007; Corbett and Winebrake, 2007). However, these considerations will help determine the appropriate and necessa ...
... needed reduction targets may not be simple. Policymakers need to consider issues such as technological feasibility, economic efficiency, and total fuel cycle tradeoffs (Winebrake et al., 2007; Corbett and Winebrake, 2007). However, these considerations will help determine the appropriate and necessa ...
Adapting to Climate Change in Minnesota
... change forecasting. Regional collaboration and partnerships will play an increasingly important role as Minnesota develops and evaluates adaptation strategies to address ecological and public health impacts. Minnesota’s Climate is Changing The issue of climate change is currently the subject of inte ...
... change forecasting. Regional collaboration and partnerships will play an increasingly important role as Minnesota develops and evaluates adaptation strategies to address ecological and public health impacts. Minnesota’s Climate is Changing The issue of climate change is currently the subject of inte ...
Draft Resolution X - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
... in which the importance of climate change for wetland management was recognized and which requested the Ramsar Secretariat, the STRP, and the Co-ordinating Committee for Global Action on Peatlands (CCGAP) to work together with relevant international conventions and agencies, including the CBD, CMS, ...
... in which the importance of climate change for wetland management was recognized and which requested the Ramsar Secretariat, the STRP, and the Co-ordinating Committee for Global Action on Peatlands (CCGAP) to work together with relevant international conventions and agencies, including the CBD, CMS, ...
4.1 Climate Change Effects
... Climate change has been one of the most debated scientific issues over the last decade. It seems that everyone has an opinion - is the climate getting warmer or cooler? Who or what is causing the apparent changes? However, while there are uncertainties in the time scales and specific effects of clim ...
... Climate change has been one of the most debated scientific issues over the last decade. It seems that everyone has an opinion - is the climate getting warmer or cooler? Who or what is causing the apparent changes? However, while there are uncertainties in the time scales and specific effects of clim ...
Assessing climate change and climate variability impacts in Burkina
... been developed by the Hadley Centre (UK) specifically to address the need for countries to make regional-scale climate projections. In Burkina Faso, a dense and extensive network of meteorological stations exists to assess rainfall variability and, along with recently released high resolution satell ...
... been developed by the Hadley Centre (UK) specifically to address the need for countries to make regional-scale climate projections. In Burkina Faso, a dense and extensive network of meteorological stations exists to assess rainfall variability and, along with recently released high resolution satell ...
An overlook between the relationship of global climate change and
... for higher order fish. Soil composition can no longer support the demanding amount of crops needed for human survival in certain regions of the world (Future Climate Change, 2016). These changes do not occur overnight; rather they gradually increase towards their current state. The vicious cycle of ...
... for higher order fish. Soil composition can no longer support the demanding amount of crops needed for human survival in certain regions of the world (Future Climate Change, 2016). These changes do not occur overnight; rather they gradually increase towards their current state. The vicious cycle of ...
Interhemispheric Temperature Asymmetry over the
... (unlike their other indices), which they suggest is because of compensating effects of GHGs and aerosols. However, they do find a significant increase in future projections from a subset of phases 3 and 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3 and CMIP5). Our main purpose in this study ...
... (unlike their other indices), which they suggest is because of compensating effects of GHGs and aerosols. However, they do find a significant increase in future projections from a subset of phases 3 and 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3 and CMIP5). Our main purpose in this study ...
New Topics, Summer 2011: Climate Change and
... I want to focus ICE cases on conflict and environment and specifically on its relation to climate change and violent conflict. Within that realm, I want cases that look at how climate change will influence borders or situations, including borders in the overall policy calculus. These topics can be ...
... I want to focus ICE cases on conflict and environment and specifically on its relation to climate change and violent conflict. Within that realm, I want cases that look at how climate change will influence borders or situations, including borders in the overall policy calculus. These topics can be ...
Read The Debate - Environmental Law Institute
... and increased storms. Like the Pacific nation Kiribati, which has purchased 20 square miles of land in Fiji in the event of dramatic relocation, lowlying island nations such as ours are forging radical adaptation strategies to ensure our continued existence. As early as 1990, the Intergovernmental P ...
... and increased storms. Like the Pacific nation Kiribati, which has purchased 20 square miles of land in Fiji in the event of dramatic relocation, lowlying island nations such as ours are forging radical adaptation strategies to ensure our continued existence. As early as 1990, the Intergovernmental P ...
Teaching Notes: Impacts of Global Climate Change on Tribes in
... hydropower generation, and drinking water availability throughout the region. The need for Tribes to be paying attention to the potential impact of global climate change on salmon is obvious. Learning Objectives: Students will: ...
... hydropower generation, and drinking water availability throughout the region. The need for Tribes to be paying attention to the potential impact of global climate change on salmon is obvious. Learning Objectives: Students will: ...
Response of the Arabian Sea to global warming and associated
... et al., 1995; Kothawale and RupaKumar, 2005) were taken from Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) (http://www.tropmet.res.in). The monthly mean climatology of wind was obtained from NCEP/NCAR reanalysis (Kalnay et al., 1996) data (http:// www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.ncep.reanalysis.html). T ...
... et al., 1995; Kothawale and RupaKumar, 2005) were taken from Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) (http://www.tropmet.res.in). The monthly mean climatology of wind was obtained from NCEP/NCAR reanalysis (Kalnay et al., 1996) data (http:// www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.ncep.reanalysis.html). T ...
CoP4 reviews from the BBC etc.
... in the US will swing behind the Kyoto protocol. They cite growing public concern about climate change, and a growing willingness of US industry to take climate change seriously, as grounds for hope. Moreover, if there continue to be large numbers of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, drought ...
... in the US will swing behind the Kyoto protocol. They cite growing public concern about climate change, and a growing willingness of US industry to take climate change seriously, as grounds for hope. Moreover, if there continue to be large numbers of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, drought ...
tc7_17_climate_change_waterbirds_0
... incidence of drought in a few areas. In some regions, such as parts of Asia and Africa, the frequency and intensity of droughts have been observed to increase in recent decades. El Niño events have become more frequent, persistent, and intense during the last 20 to 30 years compared to the previous ...
... incidence of drought in a few areas. In some regions, such as parts of Asia and Africa, the frequency and intensity of droughts have been observed to increase in recent decades. El Niño events have become more frequent, persistent, and intense during the last 20 to 30 years compared to the previous ...
(Still) Disagreeing about Climate Change: What Way
... the way people think about themselves, their societies and their Earthly futures. It is therefore an exemplar case of scientific knowledge, personal experience and the human imagination interacting in multiple, complex and changing social contexts. As Lucien Boia observes in his book Weather in the ...
... the way people think about themselves, their societies and their Earthly futures. It is therefore an exemplar case of scientific knowledge, personal experience and the human imagination interacting in multiple, complex and changing social contexts. As Lucien Boia observes in his book Weather in the ...
Do You Trust Scientists About the Environment?
... source of information about environmental issues? Figure 1 shows response percentages based on telephone interviews with 568 randomly selected New Hampshire residents.5 From a scientist’s point of view, the results might be encouraging: 64 percent say they trust scientists for information about envi ...
... source of information about environmental issues? Figure 1 shows response percentages based on telephone interviews with 568 randomly selected New Hampshire residents.5 From a scientist’s point of view, the results might be encouraging: 64 percent say they trust scientists for information about envi ...
Hawaii`s Changing Climate - School of Ocean and Earth Science
... erosion is about 1 foot per year16. On Kaua‘i for instance, 72% of beaches are chronically eroding and 24% of these are accelerating. Although the rate of global mean sea level rise has approximately doubled since 199017 sea level not only did not rise everywhere, but actually declined in some large ...
... erosion is about 1 foot per year16. On Kaua‘i for instance, 72% of beaches are chronically eroding and 24% of these are accelerating. Although the rate of global mean sea level rise has approximately doubled since 199017 sea level not only did not rise everywhere, but actually declined in some large ...
Nov 21, 2015 - Science and Environmental Policy Project
... environmental, social and economic disruptions around the globe. While natural sources of climate variability are significant, multiple lines of evidence indicate that human influences have had an increasingly dominant effect on global climate warming observed since the mid-twentieth century. Althou ...
... environmental, social and economic disruptions around the globe. While natural sources of climate variability are significant, multiple lines of evidence indicate that human influences have had an increasingly dominant effect on global climate warming observed since the mid-twentieth century. Althou ...
Climate Change and Global Wine Quality
... research also notes that the role of factors other than growing season temperatures such as technology and familiarity are important factors in vintage ratings. Furthermore, the research found that climate thresholds are evident in many regions where, once past a given growing season temperature, q ...
... research also notes that the role of factors other than growing season temperatures such as technology and familiarity are important factors in vintage ratings. Furthermore, the research found that climate thresholds are evident in many regions where, once past a given growing season temperature, q ...
Climate Change Adaptation in ZAMBIA
... highest rate of incidence. In light of increases in heavy rainfall events and rising temperatures, both of which facilitate mosquito breeding, the spread of malaria is of particular concern. Increases and changes in geographic coverage and survival of mosquito populations may expose more of the Zamb ...
... highest rate of incidence. In light of increases in heavy rainfall events and rising temperatures, both of which facilitate mosquito breeding, the spread of malaria is of particular concern. Increases and changes in geographic coverage and survival of mosquito populations may expose more of the Zamb ...
Current and future climate of the Federated States of Micronesia M
... for understanding future climate change. Climate models are mathematical representations of the climate system that require very powerful computers. They are based on the laws of physics and include information about the atmosphere, ocean, land and ice. ...
... for understanding future climate change. Climate models are mathematical representations of the climate system that require very powerful computers. They are based on the laws of physics and include information about the atmosphere, ocean, land and ice. ...
Climate Change: Causes, Impacts and Adaptation
... activities increased by 35 percent from 1990 to 2010. Emissions of CO2, which account for about three-fourths of total emissions, increased by 42 percent over this period. As with the U.S., the majority of the world’s emissions result from electricity generation, transportation, and other forms of e ...
... activities increased by 35 percent from 1990 to 2010. Emissions of CO2, which account for about three-fourths of total emissions, increased by 42 percent over this period. As with the U.S., the majority of the world’s emissions result from electricity generation, transportation, and other forms of e ...
Methane from food production might be the next wildcard in climate
... fuels, such as from fracking in the United States. Changes in how much methane is destroyed in the atmosphere might also be a contributor. Our approach shows an emerging and consistent picture with a suggested dominant source along with others contributing secondary sources. Carbon isotopes suggest ...
... fuels, such as from fracking in the United States. Changes in how much methane is destroyed in the atmosphere might also be a contributor. Our approach shows an emerging and consistent picture with a suggested dominant source along with others contributing secondary sources. Carbon isotopes suggest ...
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.