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... The threat of uncontrolled, large-scale international migration is an important part of the global impacts of climate change. Acute shocks of displacement could likely occur from sea level rise that submerges small islands including Maldives and Mauritius, and large tracts of low-lying areas of coun ...
... The threat of uncontrolled, large-scale international migration is an important part of the global impacts of climate change. Acute shocks of displacement could likely occur from sea level rise that submerges small islands including Maldives and Mauritius, and large tracts of low-lying areas of coun ...
On Flying to Ethics Conferences: Climate Change and
... need to peak very soon and fall very rapidly. If global emissions peak by 2015 and fall 80 percent by 2050, then temperature increases can probably be held below 2° C. Less ambitious goals are simply not realistic and reasonable. It is unrealistic to think that temperature can increase more than 2° ...
... need to peak very soon and fall very rapidly. If global emissions peak by 2015 and fall 80 percent by 2050, then temperature increases can probably be held below 2° C. Less ambitious goals are simply not realistic and reasonable. It is unrealistic to think that temperature can increase more than 2° ...
A regional approach to climate adaptation in the Nile Basin
... 1960 to 1980. This period of 21 years is assumed in this analysis to be representative of the variability for the reference period (1961–1990). The MIKE HYDRO model was then run using bias-corrected values for rainfall and PET over the same period. All other factors such as the operation and operati ...
... 1960 to 1980. This period of 21 years is assumed in this analysis to be representative of the variability for the reference period (1961–1990). The MIKE HYDRO model was then run using bias-corrected values for rainfall and PET over the same period. All other factors such as the operation and operati ...
Chapter 6. Future climate changes
... factors (as discussed below) and some of the uncertainties in the estimates of future climate changes are related to these factors (see Fig. 6.8). This is the reason why, in the scientific literature, the term climate projection is generally preferred to the term climate prediction, as it emphasises ...
... factors (as discussed below) and some of the uncertainties in the estimates of future climate changes are related to these factors (see Fig. 6.8). This is the reason why, in the scientific literature, the term climate projection is generally preferred to the term climate prediction, as it emphasises ...
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... • Synthesis papers published documenting SE Pacific clouds and atmospheric structure, composition and variability sampled along 20oS during VOCALS-REx, Allen et al. (2011) and Bretherton et al. (2010) • Seven years of VOCALS cruise data compiled along 20oS and described in deSzoeke et al. (2010) ...
... • Synthesis papers published documenting SE Pacific clouds and atmospheric structure, composition and variability sampled along 20oS during VOCALS-REx, Allen et al. (2011) and Bretherton et al. (2010) • Seven years of VOCALS cruise data compiled along 20oS and described in deSzoeke et al. (2010) ...
June 2012 (meeting slides) - Fire Suppression Systems Association
... from the list of acceptable substitutes for any ozone depleting substance (ODS) in any nonessential uses under EPA’s SNAP program, and remove HFC-134a and HFC-134a blends from such lists in every other end-use category where more benign alternatives are available ...
... from the list of acceptable substitutes for any ozone depleting substance (ODS) in any nonessential uses under EPA’s SNAP program, and remove HFC-134a and HFC-134a blends from such lists in every other end-use category where more benign alternatives are available ...
1072-9240/00 $2000 + .00 Technology, Vol. 7S, pp. 189-213,2000
... 2. All cropland that was in existence in 1900 would maintain its level of productivity at the 1900 level. 3. The penetration of any existing technology would expand only to the extent necessary to ensure that assumptions 1) and 2) are realized. This implies that, at a minimum, inputs would probably ...
... 2. All cropland that was in existence in 1900 would maintain its level of productivity at the 1900 level. 3. The penetration of any existing technology would expand only to the extent necessary to ensure that assumptions 1) and 2) are realized. This implies that, at a minimum, inputs would probably ...
Climate Change in Europe
... Agri: Increased temperatures in Northern Europe may lead to new crops as well as increased crop yields. This is likely to be balanced by reduction in yields in some southern regions where more arid conditions may be experienced. Pressures on food producers in temperate areas to grow more and reducti ...
... Agri: Increased temperatures in Northern Europe may lead to new crops as well as increased crop yields. This is likely to be balanced by reduction in yields in some southern regions where more arid conditions may be experienced. Pressures on food producers in temperate areas to grow more and reducti ...
Notes G1 - 1.1-1.6 Climate change Word document
... suggested that the region had been de-glaciated around 13,000 years ago. At the time, many scientists were sceptical, because they found it difficult to believe that much of Europe had been covered in several thousand metres of ice so recently. [7] Two major advances in scientific knowledge about cl ...
... suggested that the region had been de-glaciated around 13,000 years ago. At the time, many scientists were sceptical, because they found it difficult to believe that much of Europe had been covered in several thousand metres of ice so recently. [7] Two major advances in scientific knowledge about cl ...
10/1/2012: New study on climate change negotiations
... IMO in good faith is crucial, unilateral, bilateral and minilateral mitigation efforts should also be explored and promoted where appropriate. For the most part, the possible transboundary legal implications of such efforts will come in nonbinding forms as regulatory models and innovations are disse ...
... IMO in good faith is crucial, unilateral, bilateral and minilateral mitigation efforts should also be explored and promoted where appropriate. For the most part, the possible transboundary legal implications of such efforts will come in nonbinding forms as regulatory models and innovations are disse ...
DOC - World bank documents
... It is broadly accepted that the poorest countries and the most vulnerable communities in developing countries will bear a disproportionate brunt of the hardship associated with climate change. Climate change can cause or compound poverty in a variety of ways, including: (i) damage to livelihood asse ...
... It is broadly accepted that the poorest countries and the most vulnerable communities in developing countries will bear a disproportionate brunt of the hardship associated with climate change. Climate change can cause or compound poverty in a variety of ways, including: (i) damage to livelihood asse ...
Ecosystem Management: part of the Climate Change Solution
... e.g. clean air, food and water security. Climate stabilisation can only be achieved by balancing emissions sources (human and natural) and the global ecosystems’ sink capacity. The protection and management of the world’s ecosystems offers a highly cost effective multiple ‘win’ mechanism for mitigat ...
... e.g. clean air, food and water security. Climate stabilisation can only be achieved by balancing emissions sources (human and natural) and the global ecosystems’ sink capacity. The protection and management of the world’s ecosystems offers a highly cost effective multiple ‘win’ mechanism for mitigat ...
Asynchronous exposure to global warming: freshwater resources and terrestrial ecosystems
... scaling coefficients that statistically link local changes in climate variables to 1Tg , global fields of which can be used in spatially resolved impact models. The scaling coefficients were derived for each calendar month, for each grid cell over land (0.5◦ × 0.5◦ spatial resolution), and for each ...
... scaling coefficients that statistically link local changes in climate variables to 1Tg , global fields of which can be used in spatially resolved impact models. The scaling coefficients were derived for each calendar month, for each grid cell over land (0.5◦ × 0.5◦ spatial resolution), and for each ...
Share Benefits and Burdens Equitably
... but in fact desperately need more energy so that their people can begin to live decent lives by developing sustainably in spite of the threats already being created for them by the emissions of others and the resultant changing climate. As the Principles note, people in low income countries must hav ...
... but in fact desperately need more energy so that their people can begin to live decent lives by developing sustainably in spite of the threats already being created for them by the emissions of others and the resultant changing climate. As the Principles note, people in low income countries must hav ...
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... to 2200. Second, the economic damage and cost functions used in the other models are based largely on literature prior to 2000, while the Stern Review has better coverage of the more recent work on climate impacts; the more recent studies generally reach less optimistic conclusions than earlier ones ...
... to 2200. Second, the economic damage and cost functions used in the other models are based largely on literature prior to 2000, while the Stern Review has better coverage of the more recent work on climate impacts; the more recent studies generally reach less optimistic conclusions than earlier ones ...
Earth 104 Activity: Modeling the Economics of Climate Change
... exercise, it is good to understand the basic concept. A simpler way of comparing future costs or benefits with respect to the present is to express these costs and benefits relative to the size of the economy at any one time — which our model will calculate. This gets around the kind of shaky assump ...
... exercise, it is good to understand the basic concept. A simpler way of comparing future costs or benefits with respect to the present is to express these costs and benefits relative to the size of the economy at any one time — which our model will calculate. This gets around the kind of shaky assump ...
Climate Change - Homepages Web Server
... surface up to the stratosphere—tell us about the causes of recent climate change? ......................... 8 6 Climate is always changing. Why is climate change of concern now? .................................................. 9 7 Is the current level of atmospheric CO2 concentration unprecedent ...
... surface up to the stratosphere—tell us about the causes of recent climate change? ......................... 8 6 Climate is always changing. Why is climate change of concern now? .................................................. 9 7 Is the current level of atmospheric CO2 concentration unprecedent ...
PowerPoint
... Climate Change • Agriculture and forestry: Effects are complex. • Can be positive: Lengthened growing season for some crops • Can be negative: Droughts and forest fires; shortened growing ...
... Climate Change • Agriculture and forestry: Effects are complex. • Can be positive: Lengthened growing season for some crops • Can be negative: Droughts and forest fires; shortened growing ...
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... this region, a feature observed in simulations of a number of other regional climate models. Second, HadRM3 projects temperatures to become even more positively skewed with time over northern continental Europe. The transfer functions used here have not accounted for such differences in shape, and h ...
... this region, a feature observed in simulations of a number of other regional climate models. Second, HadRM3 projects temperatures to become even more positively skewed with time over northern continental Europe. The transfer functions used here have not accounted for such differences in shape, and h ...
The ECO-ACTIVE guide to the Science and Impacts of Climate
... 20th Centuries was matched by a parallel growth in the use of energy. One has driven the other. Consider for instance heating, lighting, travel and transport, food production, manufacture of goods and materials, and electrical devices from carpet cleaners to computers. Without access to large quanti ...
... 20th Centuries was matched by a parallel growth in the use of energy. One has driven the other. Consider for instance heating, lighting, travel and transport, food production, manufacture of goods and materials, and electrical devices from carpet cleaners to computers. Without access to large quanti ...
Energy Theme Breakdown - Learning for a Sustainable Future
... understand the greenhouse effect thoroughly the following scientific concepts must be understood: radiation, wavelength, the conservation of energy and steady state. Andersson and Wallin, 2000. Global warming by the greenhouse effect is determined by the inability of the atmosphere to transmit cert ...
... understand the greenhouse effect thoroughly the following scientific concepts must be understood: radiation, wavelength, the conservation of energy and steady state. Andersson and Wallin, 2000. Global warming by the greenhouse effect is determined by the inability of the atmosphere to transmit cert ...
Chapter 6 - UCLA: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
... 1. The water vapor feedback: assoc. with increases in water vapor with temp., since water vapor is a GHG 2. The snow/ice feedback: decreases in snow and ice global albedo decreases (less solar radiation reflected) 3. Cloud feedbacks: due to changes in cloud cover, which affect both cloud contribut ...
... 1. The water vapor feedback: assoc. with increases in water vapor with temp., since water vapor is a GHG 2. The snow/ice feedback: decreases in snow and ice global albedo decreases (less solar radiation reflected) 3. Cloud feedbacks: due to changes in cloud cover, which affect both cloud contribut ...
Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies / Geo
... (Adopted by the AMS Council on 20 July 2009) Human responsibility for most of the well-documented increase in global average temperatures over the last half century is well established. Further greenhouse gas emissions, particularly of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, will almost cer ...
... (Adopted by the AMS Council on 20 July 2009) Human responsibility for most of the well-documented increase in global average temperatures over the last half century is well established. Further greenhouse gas emissions, particularly of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, will almost cer ...
PowerPoint-presentation
... emission restrictions initially • Remaining room for emissions is divided between all countries facing restrictions according to their share of the total global GDP • Allocations (in tonne CO2 per GDP unit) varies over time depending on global cap and global GDP • Higher allocations are given in the ...
... emission restrictions initially • Remaining room for emissions is divided between all countries facing restrictions according to their share of the total global GDP • Allocations (in tonne CO2 per GDP unit) varies over time depending on global cap and global GDP • Higher allocations are given in the ...
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.