Urban Heat Island in Hong Kong
... • Global in its causes and consequences – The incremental impact of an extra tonne of GHG is independent of where it is emitted. • Impacts are long term and persistent – GHG stays for hundreds of years. There are severe time lag for the earth to respond after which the economic and social response w ...
... • Global in its causes and consequences – The incremental impact of an extra tonne of GHG is independent of where it is emitted. • Impacts are long term and persistent – GHG stays for hundreds of years. There are severe time lag for the earth to respond after which the economic and social response w ...
a summary presentation of the TK
... vulnerable are resource-dependent communities, including indigenous communities, in coastal areas and on small islands. In many cases these communities also possess traditional and local knowledge that may help them better adapt to the impacts of climate change. As a result of their close relationsh ...
... vulnerable are resource-dependent communities, including indigenous communities, in coastal areas and on small islands. In many cases these communities also possess traditional and local knowledge that may help them better adapt to the impacts of climate change. As a result of their close relationsh ...
Global Warming and Cyclones: a Vicious Cycle
... Emily Sohn, Discovery News May 14, 2009 -- Global warming can change storm patterns. In turn, storms might help fuel global warming. A new study suggests that tropical cyclones shoot water high into the atmosphere. The result may be a small but significant contribution to the greenhouse effect. "The ...
... Emily Sohn, Discovery News May 14, 2009 -- Global warming can change storm patterns. In turn, storms might help fuel global warming. A new study suggests that tropical cyclones shoot water high into the atmosphere. The result may be a small but significant contribution to the greenhouse effect. "The ...
Mitigating the effect of climate change on Nigerian agricultural
... either will lead to increase or decrease of agricultural output depending on crop and cultural practices. The poultry epidemic in the south-west regions of Nigeria in 2004 was due to environmental heat stress associated with climate change (Adefolalu, 2004). Livestock keeping and crop farming are vi ...
... either will lead to increase or decrease of agricultural output depending on crop and cultural practices. The poultry epidemic in the south-west regions of Nigeria in 2004 was due to environmental heat stress associated with climate change (Adefolalu, 2004). Livestock keeping and crop farming are vi ...
Climate Compared: Public Opinion on Climate Change in the United
... are nearly three times more likely than all other voters to express disbelief that average global temperatures are warming (see Table 5). ...
... are nearly three times more likely than all other voters to express disbelief that average global temperatures are warming (see Table 5). ...
Climate change impacts on glaciers around the
... than 2100 glaciers that cover nearly 59% of the landscape. The Blomstrandbreen is a glacier that flows into the Kongsfjorden along the north west edge of Spitzbergen, Svalbard. The Blomstrandbreen has retreated nearly two kilometres since 1928, with an accelerated rate of 35 metres lost per year sin ...
... than 2100 glaciers that cover nearly 59% of the landscape. The Blomstrandbreen is a glacier that flows into the Kongsfjorden along the north west edge of Spitzbergen, Svalbard. The Blomstrandbreen has retreated nearly two kilometres since 1928, with an accelerated rate of 35 metres lost per year sin ...
Add5 - CEPT
... a) that climate change is now an undeniable reality, and global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is urgent in order to avoid devastating impacts on our societies; b) that the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2010 (WTDC-10) stated that Telecommunications/ICTs can make a substan ...
... a) that climate change is now an undeniable reality, and global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is urgent in order to avoid devastating impacts on our societies; b) that the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2010 (WTDC-10) stated that Telecommunications/ICTs can make a substan ...
Talk SLAS November 2008 CC, Latin America and the media
... the last 50 years, and could disappear in the next 30 years or even sooner. It should be stressed we do not know what percentage of water comes from glacial melt, and what percentage from precipitation. The best bet is around 30 per cent. Whatever the exact figure, global warming will add another el ...
... the last 50 years, and could disappear in the next 30 years or even sooner. It should be stressed we do not know what percentage of water comes from glacial melt, and what percentage from precipitation. The best bet is around 30 per cent. Whatever the exact figure, global warming will add another el ...
Catholic Response to Global Warming
... determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon. Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it. …yet a number of scientific studies indicate ...
... determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon. Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it. …yet a number of scientific studies indicate ...
“Experiencing” Climate Change for Gen-Ed Students
... Post-Mortem • One of the most instructive things I’ve found in Analysis my classes is not the forecast, but the postmortem analysis ...
... Post-Mortem • One of the most instructive things I’ve found in Analysis my classes is not the forecast, but the postmortem analysis ...
Global warming
... Human activity since the Industrial Revolution has increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to increased radiative forcing from CO2, methane, tropospheric ozone, CFCs and nitrous oxide. According to work published in 2007, the concentrations of CO2 and methane have increas ...
... Human activity since the Industrial Revolution has increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to increased radiative forcing from CO2, methane, tropospheric ozone, CFCs and nitrous oxide. According to work published in 2007, the concentrations of CO2 and methane have increas ...
Professor Zsolt Harnos academician
... world) mitigation and adaptation policies can achieve a tolerable transition to a world with a global climate no warmer than 2C above pre-industrial levels, and to identify their associated costs and effectiveness. • To develop and appraise a portfolio of longer term policy options that could contr ...
... world) mitigation and adaptation policies can achieve a tolerable transition to a world with a global climate no warmer than 2C above pre-industrial levels, and to identify their associated costs and effectiveness. • To develop and appraise a portfolio of longer term policy options that could contr ...
Lecture 2 - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
... farming technologies, and as agricultural and social resilience improved through field and crop rotaFon, mixed use farming, and trade, famines like that of 1315 gradually became a thing of the past in Western Society. The related vulnerabiliFes triggered by climate events, such as epidemics or price ...
... farming technologies, and as agricultural and social resilience improved through field and crop rotaFon, mixed use farming, and trade, famines like that of 1315 gradually became a thing of the past in Western Society. The related vulnerabiliFes triggered by climate events, such as epidemics or price ...
Climate change - Shana M. McDermott, PhD
... effective in January 2011with proposed standards for 2017 and beyond • New GHG emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles for 2014-to-2018 model years with a second phase under consideration for 2018 and ...
... effective in January 2011with proposed standards for 2017 and beyond • New GHG emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles for 2014-to-2018 model years with a second phase under consideration for 2018 and ...
presentation
... The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the ITU or its Membership. ...
... The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the ITU or its Membership. ...
Climate change refers to any significant change in measures of
... sensitive than adults to harm from environmental hazards. Climate change increases these hazards by worsening air quality, stimulating more extreme weather events, creating conditions that favor increases in food-borne, water-borne and vector-borne infections, and enhancing heat stress conditions2. ...
... sensitive than adults to harm from environmental hazards. Climate change increases these hazards by worsening air quality, stimulating more extreme weather events, creating conditions that favor increases in food-borne, water-borne and vector-borne infections, and enhancing heat stress conditions2. ...
Report - Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand
... Secondly: The media have climbed on the band-wagon. Just about every night there is at least one weather related item streamed into our lounges from somewhere around the globe. Floods, fires, heat waves, heaviest snow falls on record, all have to do with the climate change mantra that actually means ...
... Secondly: The media have climbed on the band-wagon. Just about every night there is at least one weather related item streamed into our lounges from somewhere around the globe. Floods, fires, heat waves, heaviest snow falls on record, all have to do with the climate change mantra that actually means ...
climate change research at the smithsonian
... Compiling decades’ worth of observational data on the properties of atmospheric gases, the HITRAN database, overseen by Laurence Rothman, allows scientists from many different agencies to translate the raw observations from satellites and other instruments into a reliable understanding of what is ha ...
... Compiling decades’ worth of observational data on the properties of atmospheric gases, the HITRAN database, overseen by Laurence Rothman, allows scientists from many different agencies to translate the raw observations from satellites and other instruments into a reliable understanding of what is ha ...
Are Alpine Species Disappearing?
... Median hatch dates advanced significantly (about 15 days) from 1975 to 1999 in response to increase temperatures in April and May Future warming will accelerate declines of ptarmigan abundance *The CCC (Canadian Climate Center) predicts a temperature increase of 2.3 degrees centigrade by 2030 *T ...
... Median hatch dates advanced significantly (about 15 days) from 1975 to 1999 in response to increase temperatures in April and May Future warming will accelerate declines of ptarmigan abundance *The CCC (Canadian Climate Center) predicts a temperature increase of 2.3 degrees centigrade by 2030 *T ...
PPT - unece
... • Article 1: “…a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods. ...
... • Article 1: “…a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods. ...
Lecture 10: Climate Feedback
... Note: Positive/negative feedbacks have no relation to ‘good versus bad’, but are about how a system responds to a change. ...
... Note: Positive/negative feedbacks have no relation to ‘good versus bad’, but are about how a system responds to a change. ...
PPT
... It addresses climate change on time scales of decades – which we care about It offers decadal-scale results for accountability of climate policy It is less sensitive to arguments over what discount rates should be used It is an alternative to geoengineering by aerosols It has important air quality c ...
... It addresses climate change on time scales of decades – which we care about It offers decadal-scale results for accountability of climate policy It is less sensitive to arguments over what discount rates should be used It is an alternative to geoengineering by aerosols It has important air quality c ...
Mass v. EPA – Chevron - Medical and Public Health Law Site
... Nation and the world to understand and respond to natural and man-induced climate processes and their implications..." What does this tell us about concerns with greenhouse gasses (GHG) – is it just something Al Gore thought up? ...
... Nation and the world to understand and respond to natural and man-induced climate processes and their implications..." What does this tell us about concerns with greenhouse gasses (GHG) – is it just something Al Gore thought up? ...
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.