Assessment of impacts of agricultural and climate change scenarios
... fects of historical land use change due to the influence of Chinese government programs (Zuo et al., 2016; G. H. Liu et al., 2015; W. Liu et al., 2015) and scenarios that reflect hypothetical shifts between various percentages of urban, forest, agricultural and other land use (Zhang et al., 2015, 20 ...
... fects of historical land use change due to the influence of Chinese government programs (Zuo et al., 2016; G. H. Liu et al., 2015; W. Liu et al., 2015) and scenarios that reflect hypothetical shifts between various percentages of urban, forest, agricultural and other land use (Zhang et al., 2015, 20 ...
Assessing knowledge of social representations of climate change
... a significant problem, whereas others, such as increased rainfall and humidity, were, and that these latter could have a negative influence on choice of destination. The authors also explored the degree of awareness among tourists of how their tourism behaviour influenced, or could influence climate ...
... a significant problem, whereas others, such as increased rainfall and humidity, were, and that these latter could have a negative influence on choice of destination. The authors also explored the degree of awareness among tourists of how their tourism behaviour influenced, or could influence climate ...
Tonga Climate Change Policy
... Tonga and the Secretariat, Bonn, Germany. One of the major capacity development needs that was addressed in this report is to develop a National Climate Change Policy. At that time Government of Tonga has been aware of the importance of including environmental issues in its national strategic plan e ...
... Tonga and the Secretariat, Bonn, Germany. One of the major capacity development needs that was addressed in this report is to develop a National Climate Change Policy. At that time Government of Tonga has been aware of the importance of including environmental issues in its national strategic plan e ...
Gregory et al. (2013) - American Meteorological Society
... atmospheric composition. If an AOGCM were spun up to obtain a control steady state without atmospheric methane and then the nonzero time-dependent historical methane concentration were imposed in a simulation that began from the control state, it is obvious that a spurious warming tendency would be ...
... atmospheric composition. If an AOGCM were spun up to obtain a control steady state without atmospheric methane and then the nonzero time-dependent historical methane concentration were imposed in a simulation that began from the control state, it is obvious that a spurious warming tendency would be ...
Twentieth-Century Global-Mean Sea Level Rise: Is the Whole
... atmospheric composition. If an AOGCM were spun up to obtain a control steady state without atmospheric methane and then the nonzero time-dependent historical methane concentration were imposed in a simulation that began from the control state, it is obvious that a spurious warming tendency would be ...
... atmospheric composition. If an AOGCM were spun up to obtain a control steady state without atmospheric methane and then the nonzero time-dependent historical methane concentration were imposed in a simulation that began from the control state, it is obvious that a spurious warming tendency would be ...
climate change and ocean acidification
... suboxic zones would benefit anaerobic microbes and limit oxygen dependent species (Pörtner et al. 2014). There was high confidence that the various environmental drivers would act simultaneously on organisms causing complex, interacting effects (Pörtner et al. 2014). ...
... suboxic zones would benefit anaerobic microbes and limit oxygen dependent species (Pörtner et al. 2014). There was high confidence that the various environmental drivers would act simultaneously on organisms causing complex, interacting effects (Pörtner et al. 2014). ...
1 OCTOBER TERM, 2006 Syllabus
... gases as air pollutants. The Court has no difficulty reconciling Con gress’ various efforts to promote interagency collaboration and re search to better understand climate change with the agency’s pre existing mandate to regulate “any air pollutant” that may endanger the public welfare. FDA v. Brown ...
... gases as air pollutants. The Court has no difficulty reconciling Con gress’ various efforts to promote interagency collaboration and re search to better understand climate change with the agency’s pre existing mandate to regulate “any air pollutant” that may endanger the public welfare. FDA v. Brown ...
The Effects of Global Change upon United States Air Quality
... 3.1. These five representative summers (June-July-August; with May as a spin-up period) ...
... 3.1. These five representative summers (June-July-August; with May as a spin-up period) ...
CLIMATE CHANGE Indicators for Ireland (2000-LS-5.2.2-M1) Final Report
... instrumental record. This is consistent with the ...
... instrumental record. This is consistent with the ...
1 OCTOBER TERM, 2006 Syllabus
... gases as air pollutants. The Court has no difficulty reconciling Con gress’ various efforts to promote interagency collaboration and re search to better understand climate change with the agency’s pre existing mandate to regulate “any air pollutant” that may endanger the public welfare. FDA v. Brown ...
... gases as air pollutants. The Court has no difficulty reconciling Con gress’ various efforts to promote interagency collaboration and re search to better understand climate change with the agency’s pre existing mandate to regulate “any air pollutant” that may endanger the public welfare. FDA v. Brown ...
Climate change threatens the fight against poverty
... Irrawady, Mekong, Salween and Yangtze — that provide water supplies for more than 2 billion people10. In the semi-arid Northeast Brazil, with the lowest level of human development in Latin America, global warming has accelerated desertification with the consequences of rising poverty, hunger and mig ...
... Irrawady, Mekong, Salween and Yangtze — that provide water supplies for more than 2 billion people10. In the semi-arid Northeast Brazil, with the lowest level of human development in Latin America, global warming has accelerated desertification with the consequences of rising poverty, hunger and mig ...
Sweden facing climate change - Government Offices of Sweden
... impacts of global climate change on the Swedish society including costs. Bengt Holgersson Governor of the County Administrative Board in the region of Skåne was appointed head of the Commission. This report will be subject to a public review and will serve as one of the inputs to a forthcoming clima ...
... impacts of global climate change on the Swedish society including costs. Bengt Holgersson Governor of the County Administrative Board in the region of Skåne was appointed head of the Commission. This report will be subject to a public review and will serve as one of the inputs to a forthcoming clima ...
Climate change alters interannual variation of grassland
... warming, with the maximum increase occurring in April and May. Therefore, the lack of long-term direct measurements, especially seasonal observations, may limit our understanding of how grassland ecosystems responds to climate change, particularly to climate warming and changing precipitation patter ...
... warming, with the maximum increase occurring in April and May. Therefore, the lack of long-term direct measurements, especially seasonal observations, may limit our understanding of how grassland ecosystems responds to climate change, particularly to climate warming and changing precipitation patter ...
Bradford, Mark A., et al. "Climate fails to predict wood decomposition
... in wood decomposition, and climate only 28%. Further, the temperature sensitivity of decomposition estimated from local versus mean analyses is 1.3-times greater. Fundamental issues with mean correlations were highlighted decades ago9,10 , yet mean climate–decomposition relationships are used to gen ...
... in wood decomposition, and climate only 28%. Further, the temperature sensitivity of decomposition estimated from local versus mean analyses is 1.3-times greater. Fundamental issues with mean correlations were highlighted decades ago9,10 , yet mean climate–decomposition relationships are used to gen ...
Climate Change Youth Guide to Action
... wanted for your children and then to go out and create it. We urged that you stand united on this critical, potentially devastating, issue. These messages and our commitments to be part of the solution have not changed. Talking about my future and my children’s future will never get old. You have th ...
... wanted for your children and then to go out and create it. We urged that you stand united on this critical, potentially devastating, issue. These messages and our commitments to be part of the solution have not changed. Talking about my future and my children’s future will never get old. You have th ...
English
... towards zero-carbon and climate-resilient sustainable development. This year, as countries begin to take concrete action to deliver on their national climate goals, we are pleased to release an updated report of UNDP’s climate change work. New, in this report, is a special focus on the linkages betw ...
... towards zero-carbon and climate-resilient sustainable development. This year, as countries begin to take concrete action to deliver on their national climate goals, we are pleased to release an updated report of UNDP’s climate change work. New, in this report, is a special focus on the linkages betw ...
Death by Degrees: Ohio - Physicians for Social Responsibility
... and cooler than normal sea-surface temperatures affect worldwide weather patterns—might be part of a larger, long-lasting climate pattern.20 Most recently the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the world’s oceans have warmed significantly over the past 40 years.21 T ...
... and cooler than normal sea-surface temperatures affect worldwide weather patterns—might be part of a larger, long-lasting climate pattern.20 Most recently the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the world’s oceans have warmed significantly over the past 40 years.21 T ...
Garamvölgyi - Climate change - Applied Ecology and Environmental
... certain biomes only, and not the future distribution of biomes. Little change is foreseen for tropical rain forests, for the Sahara as well as for warm grass and xerophytic woods south of it. However, favourable conditions for savannah are predicted to move into the Indian Desert. In South America, ...
... certain biomes only, and not the future distribution of biomes. Little change is foreseen for tropical rain forests, for the Sahara as well as for warm grass and xerophytic woods south of it. However, favourable conditions for savannah are predicted to move into the Indian Desert. In South America, ...
View/Open
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Impacts of climate change on vegetation distribution. No. 1
... certain biomes only, and not the future distribution of biomes. Little change is foreseen for tropical rain forests, for the Sahara as well as for warm grass and xerophytic woods south of it. However, favourable conditions for savannah are predicted to move into the Indian Desert. In South America, ...
... certain biomes only, and not the future distribution of biomes. Little change is foreseen for tropical rain forests, for the Sahara as well as for warm grass and xerophytic woods south of it. However, favourable conditions for savannah are predicted to move into the Indian Desert. In South America, ...
the impacts of global climate change on grassland ecosystems
... shown that the impact of changes in climatic variability can be as significant as impacts caused by changes in mean climate (Semenov and Porter, 1995). DIRECT EFFECTS OF ELEVATED CO2 The IPCC ‘business-as-usual’ scenario predicts that the atmospheric CO2 concentration will rise from 354 µmol mol-1 i ...
... shown that the impact of changes in climatic variability can be as significant as impacts caused by changes in mean climate (Semenov and Porter, 1995). DIRECT EFFECTS OF ELEVATED CO2 The IPCC ‘business-as-usual’ scenario predicts that the atmospheric CO2 concentration will rise from 354 µmol mol-1 i ...
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.