Can we do this? - Georgia Climate Change Summit 2008
... Tim Profeta and Nicholas Institute staff ...
... Tim Profeta and Nicholas Institute staff ...
CRITICAL THINKING, THE COMMON GOOD, AND THE NEW
... “Yet today, the naysayers escape all accountability to the truth. The media hardly murmurs when a candidate for President of the United States in 2012 can walk away from previously held positions to announce that the evidence is not yet there about the impact of greenhouse gases on climate.”5 Su ...
... “Yet today, the naysayers escape all accountability to the truth. The media hardly murmurs when a candidate for President of the United States in 2012 can walk away from previously held positions to announce that the evidence is not yet there about the impact of greenhouse gases on climate.”5 Su ...
Part-1
... • Climate change is not just an environmental issue, but a development issue • Global and regional changes have been observed in the chemical composition of the atmosphere, earth's surface temperature, precipitation, extreme climatic events, sea level • These have caused changes in biological, physi ...
... • Climate change is not just an environmental issue, but a development issue • Global and regional changes have been observed in the chemical composition of the atmosphere, earth's surface temperature, precipitation, extreme climatic events, sea level • These have caused changes in biological, physi ...
Coastal Impacts and Adaptation Issues
... • Very likely that hot extremes, heat waves, and heavy precipitation events will continue to become more frequent • Likely that future tropical cyclones will become more intense, with larger peak wind speeds and more heavy precipitation – less confidence in total numbers • Extra-tropical storm track ...
... • Very likely that hot extremes, heat waves, and heavy precipitation events will continue to become more frequent • Likely that future tropical cyclones will become more intense, with larger peak wind speeds and more heavy precipitation – less confidence in total numbers • Extra-tropical storm track ...
This chapter will help students
... I. Are we responsible for climate change? 1. The IPCC reports that it is greater than 90% that the current global climate change is caused by humans. 2. The scientific understanding of climate change is clear enough to justify nations taking immediate action. 3. In the United States, a small group o ...
... I. Are we responsible for climate change? 1. The IPCC reports that it is greater than 90% that the current global climate change is caused by humans. 2. The scientific understanding of climate change is clear enough to justify nations taking immediate action. 3. In the United States, a small group o ...
Politics in a Climate
... From Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright, “Organized Climate-Change Denial,” In J. S. Dryzek, R. B. Norgaard and D. Schlosberg, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 147. ...
... From Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright, “Organized Climate-Change Denial,” In J. S. Dryzek, R. B. Norgaard and D. Schlosberg, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 147. ...
PPT - Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group
... • Cooling at 500 hPa (5 km) is more diffuse because of heat transport ...
... • Cooling at 500 hPa (5 km) is more diffuse because of heat transport ...
47. Global Warming Background
... Figure 47.5 shows the number of hurricanes striking the United States per decade. It is obvious that, if anything, recent decades are notable for their lack of storms. Of even more interest is the fact that the maximum wind velocity measured in Atlantic and Caribbean Basin storms has actually declin ...
... Figure 47.5 shows the number of hurricanes striking the United States per decade. It is obvious that, if anything, recent decades are notable for their lack of storms. Of even more interest is the fact that the maximum wind velocity measured in Atlantic and Caribbean Basin storms has actually declin ...
Useful Approaches in Dealing with the Public Provide Solid Science
... The Public has Many Climate Change Questions • Is climate change or global warming real? • Isn’t the current warming trend just part of a natural cycle? • How do we know human activities are the cause? • Can we do anything about climate change? ...
... The Public has Many Climate Change Questions • Is climate change or global warming real? • Isn’t the current warming trend just part of a natural cycle? • How do we know human activities are the cause? • Can we do anything about climate change? ...
Climate Change
... • Mandates signatory nations, by the period 2008-2012 , to reduce emissions of six greenhouse gases to levels below those of 1990. • This treaty took effect in 2005 • Russia became the 127th nation to ratify it • The United States will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol • It requires industrialized natio ...
... • Mandates signatory nations, by the period 2008-2012 , to reduce emissions of six greenhouse gases to levels below those of 1990. • This treaty took effect in 2005 • Russia became the 127th nation to ratify it • The United States will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol • It requires industrialized natio ...
CHAPTER II DISCUSSION 2.1 Definition of Global Warming
... Global warming is a process of increasing the average temperature of the atmosphere, ocean, and land earth. Global average temperature at the earth's surface has risen 0.74 + 0,180C (1.33 + 0,320F) during the last hundred. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that "Most of the ...
... Global warming is a process of increasing the average temperature of the atmosphere, ocean, and land earth. Global average temperature at the earth's surface has risen 0.74 + 0,180C (1.33 + 0,320F) during the last hundred. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that "Most of the ...
Project for Term 7 Writing
... accounts for 13 percent of ice on the frozen continent, had nothing to do with the impact of human industrial activity on the climate, but was part of a far older process. But he said major world polluters could not walk away from the problem. “The potential impacts of a major change in the West Ant ...
... accounts for 13 percent of ice on the frozen continent, had nothing to do with the impact of human industrial activity on the climate, but was part of a far older process. But he said major world polluters could not walk away from the problem. “The potential impacts of a major change in the West Ant ...
Anthropogenic Climate Change –Connections to
... or dry, but they change according as rivers come into existence and dry up… The principle and cause of these changes is that the interior of the earth grows and decays, like the bodies of plants and animals. ...
... or dry, but they change according as rivers come into existence and dry up… The principle and cause of these changes is that the interior of the earth grows and decays, like the bodies of plants and animals. ...
Climate is changing
... effect of climate change cannot be quantified yet on a Baltic Basin wide-scale. Scenario simulations suggest that most probably the Baltic Sea will become more acid in the future. Increased oxygen deficiency, increased temperature, changed salinity and increased acidification will impact the marine ...
... effect of climate change cannot be quantified yet on a Baltic Basin wide-scale. Scenario simulations suggest that most probably the Baltic Sea will become more acid in the future. Increased oxygen deficiency, increased temperature, changed salinity and increased acidification will impact the marine ...
Chapter 20
... • Our planet has been through many cycles of climate change in the past. • At the present time, we are undergoing a period of global warming. • There is almost no disagreement on this point in the scientific community. ...
... • Our planet has been through many cycles of climate change in the past. • At the present time, we are undergoing a period of global warming. • There is almost no disagreement on this point in the scientific community. ...
Senators convene climate experts to discuss path to low carbon economic recovery (44 kB) (opens in new window)
... would eventually choke itself off. The world would react strongly to an America lead as we go forward to build an international deal at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen at the end of this year.” ...
... would eventually choke itself off. The world would react strongly to an America lead as we go forward to build an international deal at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen at the end of this year.” ...
Global_Temperature_Change_in_the_21st_Century
... Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Houghton, J.T.,Y. Ding, D.J. Griggs, M. Noguer, P.J. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell, and C.A. Johnson, eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA). ...
... Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Houghton, J.T.,Y. Ding, D.J. Griggs, M. Noguer, P.J. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell, and C.A. Johnson, eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA). ...
CHAPTER II DISCUSSION 2.1 Definition of Global Warming
... Global warming is a process of increasing the average temperature of the atmosphere, ocean, and land earth. Global average temperature at the earth's surface has risen 0.74 + 0,180C (1.33 + 0,320F) during the last hundred. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that "Most of the ...
... Global warming is a process of increasing the average temperature of the atmosphere, ocean, and land earth. Global average temperature at the earth's surface has risen 0.74 + 0,180C (1.33 + 0,320F) during the last hundred. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that "Most of the ...
Climate change (doc)
... Do people care and believe that some measures need to be taken? Are they ready to do something themselves? Do you think people want and are able to do something to slow down global warming or not? ...
... Do people care and believe that some measures need to be taken? Are they ready to do something themselves? Do you think people want and are able to do something to slow down global warming or not? ...
Round 1: Global warming basics Q2
... How might climate change affect the golden bowerbird, a species currently found only in highland forests in the Wet Tropics of Queensland? A) Golden bowerbird habitat is very sensitive to temperature increases, and even just a single degree of warming could reduce available habitat by over 60%. Thre ...
... How might climate change affect the golden bowerbird, a species currently found only in highland forests in the Wet Tropics of Queensland? A) Golden bowerbird habitat is very sensitive to temperature increases, and even just a single degree of warming could reduce available habitat by over 60%. Thre ...
Climate Control and Ozone Depletion Notes
... Nobel Peace Prize with the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for alerting the world to the reality and dangers of global warming and its effects on the world’s climate. Gore said, “…the Earth has a fever. And the fever is rising…We are what is wrong, and we must make it right.” ...
... Nobel Peace Prize with the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for alerting the world to the reality and dangers of global warming and its effects on the world’s climate. Gore said, “…the Earth has a fever. And the fever is rising…We are what is wrong, and we must make it right.” ...
ppt - WMO
... • Drought: Aggravated by climate change, more intense and longer droughts have been observed in around 40% of Bolivian territory, home to 70% of the population and the poorest. ...
... • Drought: Aggravated by climate change, more intense and longer droughts have been observed in around 40% of Bolivian territory, home to 70% of the population and the poorest. ...
Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion
... oceans; rising sea levels; and increasing cloud cover, air pollution, and production of methane gas. CONCEPT 126A Evidence indicates that the earth’s atmosphere is warming because of a combination of natural effects and human activities, and that this warming is likely to lead to significant climate ...
... oceans; rising sea levels; and increasing cloud cover, air pollution, and production of methane gas. CONCEPT 126A Evidence indicates that the earth’s atmosphere is warming because of a combination of natural effects and human activities, and that this warming is likely to lead to significant climate ...
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.