Climate Change Scepticism PowerPoint
... time, how can we predict the climate of the next 100 years?’ Remember the difference between weather and climate? Luckily, the climate is much easier to predict than weather! A good analogy of the difference between weather and climate is to consider a swimming pool. Imagine that the pool is being s ...
... time, how can we predict the climate of the next 100 years?’ Remember the difference between weather and climate? Luckily, the climate is much easier to predict than weather! A good analogy of the difference between weather and climate is to consider a swimming pool. Imagine that the pool is being s ...
Drought, Dust Storms, and Wildfire
... of evaporation from soils. While these changes are likely to vary in Fig. 3. Increases in area burned that would result from the magnitude from region to region, the Southwest is anticipated to be hit regional temperature and precipitation changes associated especially hard. with a 2.2°F global warm ...
... of evaporation from soils. While these changes are likely to vary in Fig. 3. Increases in area burned that would result from the magnitude from region to region, the Southwest is anticipated to be hit regional temperature and precipitation changes associated especially hard. with a 2.2°F global warm ...
Greenhouse Effect Lab
... the widespread discussion of climate change issues in the news and in scientific journals, or very possibly because of it, misconceptions and outright untruths abound. Burning fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide is the primary cause of global warming and climate change. The resulting greenhouse ...
... the widespread discussion of climate change issues in the news and in scientific journals, or very possibly because of it, misconceptions and outright untruths abound. Burning fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide is the primary cause of global warming and climate change. The resulting greenhouse ...
Climate change: Driving forces
... Most costs today and most benefits in the future (next generations) ...
... Most costs today and most benefits in the future (next generations) ...
Dissecting the Tactics of Climate Denial: Lessons for
... priorities, and thought processes of the public. As such, it represents a wide-reaching litmus test for public opinion on scientific issues. • This is the most polarized issue of our time. Much can be learned ...
... priorities, and thought processes of the public. As such, it represents a wide-reaching litmus test for public opinion on scientific issues. • This is the most polarized issue of our time. Much can be learned ...
3. International Response to Climate Change
... • There is no international unity about Climate Change and its effects on human lives. • Many scientists and politicians around the world think the figures about GHG emissions, global warming and threat to future existence are not realistic and have been exaggerated. • A GREENPEACE Report – ‘‘Dealin ...
... • There is no international unity about Climate Change and its effects on human lives. • Many scientists and politicians around the world think the figures about GHG emissions, global warming and threat to future existence are not realistic and have been exaggerated. • A GREENPEACE Report – ‘‘Dealin ...
The 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21)
... an FAO initiative to minimize its environmental impact and promote greener communications. Other documents can be consulted at www.fao.org ...
... an FAO initiative to minimize its environmental impact and promote greener communications. Other documents can be consulted at www.fao.org ...
pices xv - North Pacific Marine Science Organization
... It has been recognized through modeling efforts that climate – carbon cycle interactions may form a positive feedback loop for the global warming. The actual extent of the feedback is, however, strongly model dependent. This situation necessitates an organized activity to compare results from variou ...
... It has been recognized through modeling efforts that climate – carbon cycle interactions may form a positive feedback loop for the global warming. The actual extent of the feedback is, however, strongly model dependent. This situation necessitates an organized activity to compare results from variou ...
11 - Climate Change Institute
... warming climate. As temperatures rise, alpine plants migrate to higher altitudes, but as they run out of habitat near the peaks, Katahdin’s rare species could simply disappear. Volunteers from the Appalachian Mountain Club are keeping a close eye on their populations. Meanwhile, all across the world ...
... warming climate. As temperatures rise, alpine plants migrate to higher altitudes, but as they run out of habitat near the peaks, Katahdin’s rare species could simply disappear. Volunteers from the Appalachian Mountain Club are keeping a close eye on their populations. Meanwhile, all across the world ...
Even if warming is inevitable, action can be taken to prevent its worst
... future, so that it would become someone else’s problem. But by 2007 it became clear that things were dramatically out of control, he said. Sea ice melted so fast that summer that there was soon 25 percent less than the year before. Today, “name a physical feature, and it’s in violent and dramatic fl ...
... future, so that it would become someone else’s problem. But by 2007 it became clear that things were dramatically out of control, he said. Sea ice melted so fast that summer that there was soon 25 percent less than the year before. Today, “name a physical feature, and it’s in violent and dramatic fl ...
A Skeptic`s Submission to the Alberta Climate Change Advisory Panel
... estimates of total forcings are likely to be much too high because there are no direct measures of natural climate forcings, so they are not included. A paper by Nic Lewis and Judith Curry (Lewis & Curry 2014, here) published an estimate of ECS of 1.64 °C [likely range 1.25 - 2.45 °C] based on ocean ...
... estimates of total forcings are likely to be much too high because there are no direct measures of natural climate forcings, so they are not included. A paper by Nic Lewis and Judith Curry (Lewis & Curry 2014, here) published an estimate of ECS of 1.64 °C [likely range 1.25 - 2.45 °C] based on ocean ...
Climate Change in Cambodia - Asia Economic Forum (AEF)
... various tools, technologies and financial resources available for the governments, private sector and CSOs • Major role for private sector in creating: - low-carbon economy (cleaner and more cost-effective development) - self-reliant & resilient economy - expanding appropriate climate change adapt ...
... various tools, technologies and financial resources available for the governments, private sector and CSOs • Major role for private sector in creating: - low-carbon economy (cleaner and more cost-effective development) - self-reliant & resilient economy - expanding appropriate climate change adapt ...
Title Page
... clouds, precipitation, streamflow, soil moisture droughts, etc. Model evaluation and diagnostics ...
... clouds, precipitation, streamflow, soil moisture droughts, etc. Model evaluation and diagnostics ...
Slide 1
... with climate change based on their own scientific understanding Psychological – those who deny climate change because it challenges their beliefs and /or behaviours or because they emotionally can’t cope with the thought of climate change and its impacts Source: http://www.psandman.com/col/climate ...
... with climate change based on their own scientific understanding Psychological – those who deny climate change because it challenges their beliefs and /or behaviours or because they emotionally can’t cope with the thought of climate change and its impacts Source: http://www.psandman.com/col/climate ...
Opening remarks by Robert Stefanski, Chief, Agricultural Meteorology Division, World Meteorological Organization
... IMO became WMO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, with a mandate in weather, climate and water and a key role in the area of sustainable development. It is widely recognized that human activities are now modifying the climate at an increasingly alarming rate but that was not the case in 19 ...
... IMO became WMO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, with a mandate in weather, climate and water and a key role in the area of sustainable development. It is widely recognized that human activities are now modifying the climate at an increasingly alarming rate but that was not the case in 19 ...
Why (what) do policy makers need to know about uncertainties
... observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level And that: ‘most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthro ...
... observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level And that: ‘most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthro ...
Presentation Title, Arial Regular 29pt Sub title, Arial Regular 24pt
... “The international community is too late with effective mitigation to avoid significant impacts. It may yet fail to put in place substantial mitigation, in which case the challenge of adaptation to climate change will be more daunting”. “As a nation, Australia has a high level of capacity to plan fo ...
... “The international community is too late with effective mitigation to avoid significant impacts. It may yet fail to put in place substantial mitigation, in which case the challenge of adaptation to climate change will be more daunting”. “As a nation, Australia has a high level of capacity to plan fo ...
it`s not the heat, it`s the tepidity
... Extrapolating curves is notoriously unreliable – even less reliable than extrapolating straight lines! But it does seem to fit the historical data reasonably well. The squared term empirically improves the fit and indeed leads to forecasts of accelerating warming. It predicts roughly twice the amoun ...
... Extrapolating curves is notoriously unreliable – even less reliable than extrapolating straight lines! But it does seem to fit the historical data reasonably well. The squared term empirically improves the fit and indeed leads to forecasts of accelerating warming. It predicts roughly twice the amoun ...
ppt - Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group
... Greater precip at high latitudes Greater OH, H2O2, and ozone concs over urban areas Weaker Hadley cell ...
... Greater precip at high latitudes Greater OH, H2O2, and ozone concs over urban areas Weaker Hadley cell ...
The Parallel Climate Model - Computational Information Systems
... Intercomparison Project (CMIP): CMIP1, CMIP2, CMIP2+ Access to CSM: via NCAR (CSM web page) Access to PCM: runs archived at PCMDI (contact Mike ...
... Intercomparison Project (CMIP): CMIP1, CMIP2, CMIP2+ Access to CSM: via NCAR (CSM web page) Access to PCM: runs archived at PCMDI (contact Mike ...
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.