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COOK ISLANDS CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION EXPERIENCE
... • Background on climate change activities in the Cook Islands • Key issues, community level activities vs national level • Priorities • Suggestions ...
... • Background on climate change activities in the Cook Islands • Key issues, community level activities vs national level • Priorities • Suggestions ...
Media Statement
... IPRC: "The International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) was founded to gain greater understanding of the nature and causes of climate variation in the Asia-Pacific region, to determine whether such variations are predictable, and to discover how global climate change affects the region. The center's ...
... IPRC: "The International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) was founded to gain greater understanding of the nature and causes of climate variation in the Asia-Pacific region, to determine whether such variations are predictable, and to discover how global climate change affects the region. The center's ...
Climate Change - American Association of Petroleum Geologists
... effects of both increasing and decreasing temperatures in the future. This research should be undertaken by appropriate agencies involved in climate research and their associated grant and contract programs. ...
... effects of both increasing and decreasing temperatures in the future. This research should be undertaken by appropriate agencies involved in climate research and their associated grant and contract programs. ...
Climate change and Africa
... “New studies confirm that Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents because of the range of projected impacts, multiple stresses and low adaptive capacity.” (IPCC, 2007) ...
... “New studies confirm that Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents because of the range of projected impacts, multiple stresses and low adaptive capacity.” (IPCC, 2007) ...
No immediate reason to expect another Ice Age.
... • Finds earth warming not due to CO2. (3-2 majority) • Confirms Dansgaard cycles, Pacific Oscillation, projects cooling for coming decades. • “It seems that global warming and the halting of the temperature rise are related to solar activity.” • “The conclusion that . .atmospheric temperatures are l ...
... • Finds earth warming not due to CO2. (3-2 majority) • Confirms Dansgaard cycles, Pacific Oscillation, projects cooling for coming decades. • “It seems that global warming and the halting of the temperature rise are related to solar activity.” • “The conclusion that . .atmospheric temperatures are l ...
Chapter 7.2 Revision Questions
... Complete Figure 2 to state likely impacts of global warming on the environment and society. ...
... Complete Figure 2 to state likely impacts of global warming on the environment and society. ...
PowerPoint- Atmospheric Changes
... Increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere trap the heat that would normally radiate back into space. This increase in earth’s temperature is called: Global Warming ...
... Increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere trap the heat that would normally radiate back into space. This increase in earth’s temperature is called: Global Warming ...
Slide 1
... tied to energy use and runs through modern society. Solutions will necessarily involve all aspects of society. Mitigation strategies and adaptation responses will call for collaborations across science, technology, industry, and government. Members of the . . . scientific community, collectively hav ...
... tied to energy use and runs through modern society. Solutions will necessarily involve all aspects of society. Mitigation strategies and adaptation responses will call for collaborations across science, technology, industry, and government. Members of the . . . scientific community, collectively hav ...
2: The Causes of Climatic Change
... On time scales of a thousand years and longer, changes in the character of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun and in its rotation can significantly affect the way in which the energy from the Sun is distributed by season and by latitude. This is known as the ‘Milankovitch Effect,’ and it generates cha ...
... On time scales of a thousand years and longer, changes in the character of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun and in its rotation can significantly affect the way in which the energy from the Sun is distributed by season and by latitude. This is known as the ‘Milankovitch Effect,’ and it generates cha ...
General - Geological Society of America
... The IPCC predicts that global temperature will rise 1° F (above present temp) by 2011, whereas the pattern of natural warm/cool cycles predicts slight cooling. The difference is so large, that in only 3 years we should know which direction we’re heading. The predicted IPCC temperature increase by 20 ...
... The IPCC predicts that global temperature will rise 1° F (above present temp) by 2011, whereas the pattern of natural warm/cool cycles predicts slight cooling. The difference is so large, that in only 3 years we should know which direction we’re heading. The predicted IPCC temperature increase by 20 ...
Jackson et al. 2010 - UW Program on Climate Change
... Provides benefits now with or without climate change • “Low regrets” strategies Provide climate change benefits for little additional cost or risk • “Win-win” or “Co-benefit” strategies Reduce climate change impacts while providing other environmental, social, or economic benefits de Loë et al. 2001 ...
... Provides benefits now with or without climate change • “Low regrets” strategies Provide climate change benefits for little additional cost or risk • “Win-win” or “Co-benefit” strategies Reduce climate change impacts while providing other environmental, social, or economic benefits de Loë et al. 2001 ...
Slide 2 - Climate Action Partnership
... which are already under pressure. Increasing sea levels mean greater risk of storm surge and wave damage to coastlines, particularly low-lying areas where there is destroyed natural vegetation. At 400ppm, between 1 and 3°C increases are expected causing heat stress. Average rainfall is projected to ...
... which are already under pressure. Increasing sea levels mean greater risk of storm surge and wave damage to coastlines, particularly low-lying areas where there is destroyed natural vegetation. At 400ppm, between 1 and 3°C increases are expected causing heat stress. Average rainfall is projected to ...
Climate science - Hans von Storch
... Different constructions interact and compete. One class of constructions is scientific. Another class of constructions is cultural, in particular maintained and transformed by the media. Climate science operates in a post-normal situation, which goes along with politicizing science, and scientizing ...
... Different constructions interact and compete. One class of constructions is scientific. Another class of constructions is cultural, in particular maintained and transformed by the media. Climate science operates in a post-normal situation, which goes along with politicizing science, and scientizing ...
Global Warming
... GHGs & ice sheet area, as feedbacks. 2. Chief instigator of climate change was earth orbital change, a very weak forcing. 3. Climate on long time scales is very sensitive to even small forcings. 4. Human-made forcings dwarf natural forcings that drove glacial-interglacial climate change. 5. Humans n ...
... GHGs & ice sheet area, as feedbacks. 2. Chief instigator of climate change was earth orbital change, a very weak forcing. 3. Climate on long time scales is very sensitive to even small forcings. 4. Human-made forcings dwarf natural forcings that drove glacial-interglacial climate change. 5. Humans n ...
No Slide Title
... garbage dumps, and the destruction of natural wildlife habitats. Landsat and ASTER images provide important long-term records of urban growth, and can help us make decisions about the most effective use of space and resources for the future. Landsat image credit: U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Cen ...
... garbage dumps, and the destruction of natural wildlife habitats. Landsat and ASTER images provide important long-term records of urban growth, and can help us make decisions about the most effective use of space and resources for the future. Landsat image credit: U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Cen ...
Is Climate Really Predictable on 10-50 Year Time Scales?
... with each other and the drifts are minimal, though the model is left with systematic errors compared to observations. Moreover cloud parameterizations are “tweaked” in order to bring the TOA radiation in balance. The 20th century runs branch from different time periods in the control run and the for ...
... with each other and the drifts are minimal, though the model is left with systematic errors compared to observations. Moreover cloud parameterizations are “tweaked” in order to bring the TOA radiation in balance. The 20th century runs branch from different time periods in the control run and the for ...
Which of the following are scientific statements?
... Total CO2 emissions (in thousands metric tons/yr) ...
... Total CO2 emissions (in thousands metric tons/yr) ...
Climate and Atmospheric Changes
... Long-term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature. ...
... Long-term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature. ...
Breaking the partisan impasse in Congress on climate change
... constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including miti ...
... constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including miti ...
Environment and Natural Resource Security
... Strategic engagement with the UN and French government on promoting public-private initiatives at the UN climate change conference in Paris in December 2015 A CEO Climate Leaders group involving more than 70 global chief executives An initiative to integrate climate/carbon risks into the financial s ...
... Strategic engagement with the UN and French government on promoting public-private initiatives at the UN climate change conference in Paris in December 2015 A CEO Climate Leaders group involving more than 70 global chief executives An initiative to integrate climate/carbon risks into the financial s ...
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.