explaining extreme events of 2013
... ABSTRACT—Stephanie C. Herring, Martin P. Hoerling, Thomas C. Peterson, and Peter A. Stott Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that o ...
... ABSTRACT—Stephanie C. Herring, Martin P. Hoerling, Thomas C. Peterson, and Peter A. Stott Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that o ...
Estimating Future Costs for Alaska Public Infrastructure - ISER
... To start our analysis, we needed to know what experts see for the future. In 2000, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, which laid out a range of climate scenarios, each with specific assumptions about future levels of greenhouse gas em ...
... To start our analysis, we needed to know what experts see for the future. In 2000, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, which laid out a range of climate scenarios, each with specific assumptions about future levels of greenhouse gas em ...
Climate change: impacts and adaptation for agriculture in Western
... working to reduce the vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate variability and change and to increase the sector’s adaptive capacity. In 2010, DAFWA developed a ‘Climate change response strategy’ to provide strategic direction for climate change activities and to identify and prioritise a ...
... working to reduce the vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate variability and change and to increase the sector’s adaptive capacity. In 2010, DAFWA developed a ‘Climate change response strategy’ to provide strategic direction for climate change activities and to identify and prioritise a ...
Climate Change and Ontario`s Provincial Parks: Towards an
... forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Parks’ policy, planning, and management frameworks. While the literature review and the models described in this report identify a number of potential impacts resulting from climate change (e.g., changes in biome climate envel ...
... forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Parks’ policy, planning, and management frameworks. While the literature review and the models described in this report identify a number of potential impacts resulting from climate change (e.g., changes in biome climate envel ...
Glantz 2004 - Ilan Kelman
... decisions are being made for which an improved knowledge of climate affairs would be advantageous. Consequently, there is a growing awareness among educators, researchers and young professionals in a variety of fields of the need for a better understanding of just how climate variability and change ...
... decisions are being made for which an improved knowledge of climate affairs would be advantageous. Consequently, there is a growing awareness among educators, researchers and young professionals in a variety of fields of the need for a better understanding of just how climate variability and change ...
Climate Change and Ontario`s Provincial Parks
... forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Parks’ policy, planning, and management frameworks. While the literature review and the models described in this report identify a number of potential impacts resulting from climate change (e.g., changes in biome climate envel ...
... forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Parks’ policy, planning, and management frameworks. While the literature review and the models described in this report identify a number of potential impacts resulting from climate change (e.g., changes in biome climate envel ...
Polish National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change
... 1.1. Background and objective of the document, global and EU conditions The effects of climate change, especially the rise of temperature, frequency and intensity of extreme phenomena, taking place in the last few decades, tend to deepen and therefore they have become a matter of interest to governm ...
... 1.1. Background and objective of the document, global and EU conditions The effects of climate change, especially the rise of temperature, frequency and intensity of extreme phenomena, taking place in the last few decades, tend to deepen and therefore they have become a matter of interest to governm ...
factors influencing climate change adaptation
... increased everywhere (Lobell & Gourdji, 2012). This trend raises many questions relating to food security and the aggregate productivity of global agriculture (Lobell & Gourdji, 2012). Climate change will exacerbate many of these trends with direct effects on agricultural yields, water availability ...
... increased everywhere (Lobell & Gourdji, 2012). This trend raises many questions relating to food security and the aggregate productivity of global agriculture (Lobell & Gourdji, 2012). Climate change will exacerbate many of these trends with direct effects on agricultural yields, water availability ...
Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change
... apparent, social scientists have found themselves called on to contribute to the scientific understanding of the role of humans in global climate change. The opportunities for social science at the international climate change table have tended not to be filled by sociologists. Sociologists have bee ...
... apparent, social scientists have found themselves called on to contribute to the scientific understanding of the role of humans in global climate change. The opportunities for social science at the international climate change table have tended not to be filled by sociologists. Sociologists have bee ...
How will organic carbon stocks in mineral soils
... change C inputs to the soil, whilst decomposition usually increases under warmer temperatures, but can also be slowed by decreased soil moisture. Underlying the global trend of increasing SOC under future climate is a complex pattern of regional SOC change. SOC losses are projected to occur in north ...
... change C inputs to the soil, whilst decomposition usually increases under warmer temperatures, but can also be slowed by decreased soil moisture. Underlying the global trend of increasing SOC under future climate is a complex pattern of regional SOC change. SOC losses are projected to occur in north ...
Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Climate Change
... discussions revealed that adaptation strategies include before drought, during and after drought initiatives. Households without stable incomes often engaged strategies such as barter trade, piece jobs, gold panning, selling firewood and livestock. Average income households diversify livestock and c ...
... discussions revealed that adaptation strategies include before drought, during and after drought initiatives. Households without stable incomes often engaged strategies such as barter trade, piece jobs, gold panning, selling firewood and livestock. Average income households diversify livestock and c ...
Permafrost and Changing Climate: The Russian
... of ALT that in some cases is not correlated with climatic variations, presumably due to the effects of other environmental factors. The links between changing climate and the active-layer thickness are thus far more complex than a frequently used linear regression between the depth of seasonal thawi ...
... of ALT that in some cases is not correlated with climatic variations, presumably due to the effects of other environmental factors. The links between changing climate and the active-layer thickness are thus far more complex than a frequently used linear regression between the depth of seasonal thawi ...
10584_2011_45_MOESM1_ESM - Springer Static Content Server
... 19. Eriksen S, Silva JA. The vulnerability context of a savanna area in Mozambique: household drought coping strategies and responses to economic change. Environmental Science & Policy 2009,12:33-52. 20. Eriksen SH, O'Brien K. Vulnerability, poverty and the need for sustainable adaptation measures. ...
... 19. Eriksen S, Silva JA. The vulnerability context of a savanna area in Mozambique: household drought coping strategies and responses to economic change. Environmental Science & Policy 2009,12:33-52. 20. Eriksen SH, O'Brien K. Vulnerability, poverty and the need for sustainable adaptation measures. ...
Climate change and Ontario`s provincial parks
... of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Parks’ policy, planning, and management frameworks. While the literature review and the models described in thi ...
... of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Parks’ policy, planning, and management frameworks. While the literature review and the models described in thi ...
Regional Climate Information – Evaluation and Projections
... scientific community has been able to increase the confidence that can be placed in the projection of regional climate change caused by anthropogenic forcings since the SAR. The second is to evaluate progress in regional climate research. It is not the purpose of this chapter to provide actual regio ...
... scientific community has been able to increase the confidence that can be placed in the projection of regional climate change caused by anthropogenic forcings since the SAR. The second is to evaluate progress in regional climate research. It is not the purpose of this chapter to provide actual regio ...
S T A ?
... Jacqueline Peel* and Hari M. Osofsky** Forthcoming in Minnesota Law Review (2015) Climate change litigation has influenced regulation substantially in the United States. Most notably, the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA serves as the basis for federal Clean Air Act regulation of gre ...
... Jacqueline Peel* and Hari M. Osofsky** Forthcoming in Minnesota Law Review (2015) Climate change litigation has influenced regulation substantially in the United States. Most notably, the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA serves as the basis for federal Clean Air Act regulation of gre ...
An Independent National Adaptation Programme for England (625 kB) (opens in new window)
... the climate over their lifetime (priorities VIII, X, XI) and do not negatively affect the resilience of the surrounding area (priority XII). Similarly, land management decisions should aim to enhance natural capital, to protect ecosystem services and also to retain flexibility for adaptation in the ...
... the climate over their lifetime (priorities VIII, X, XI) and do not negatively affect the resilience of the surrounding area (priority XII). Similarly, land management decisions should aim to enhance natural capital, to protect ecosystem services and also to retain flexibility for adaptation in the ...
European Perceptions of Climate Change (EPCC) - ORCA
... vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, and background socio-political contexts, may help explain variants in public beliefs and perceptions. The project therefore involved an in-depth socio-political analysis to provide a robust and practically grounded evidence base with which to inform th ...
... vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, and background socio-political contexts, may help explain variants in public beliefs and perceptions. The project therefore involved an in-depth socio-political analysis to provide a robust and practically grounded evidence base with which to inform th ...
Children and Climate Change
... Children are largely left out of discussions about appropriate responses to climate change, but they ought to be central to these debates because they—as well as future generations—have a much larger stake in the outcome than we do. Compared with adults, children are physically more vulnerable to th ...
... Children are largely left out of discussions about appropriate responses to climate change, but they ought to be central to these debates because they—as well as future generations—have a much larger stake in the outcome than we do. Compared with adults, children are physically more vulnerable to th ...
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.