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... crucial stage of implementing the “moderate prosperity” program, and increasing climate risks have to be seen in the context of accelerating urbanization, industrialization and rising residential energy consumption. In this context, reducing development costs, preventing potential risk and improving ...
... crucial stage of implementing the “moderate prosperity” program, and increasing climate risks have to be seen in the context of accelerating urbanization, industrialization and rising residential energy consumption. In this context, reducing development costs, preventing potential risk and improving ...
Adaptation Planning – What Other States are Doing
... Adaptation Planning – What U.S. States and Localities are Doing ...
... Adaptation Planning – What U.S. States and Localities are Doing ...
Radiative Forcing and Climate Feedbacks
... How do we know that CO2 is the main driver of the 20th century warming trend? And will it continue to be the single most important forcing factor in the next 2100 years? What about other greenhouse gases? How do they compare to the CO2 forcing? Is there or compensation of the greenhouse gas forcing ...
... How do we know that CO2 is the main driver of the 20th century warming trend? And will it continue to be the single most important forcing factor in the next 2100 years? What about other greenhouse gases? How do they compare to the CO2 forcing? Is there or compensation of the greenhouse gas forcing ...
Guidelines for Use of Climate Scenarios Developed from Statistical
... The relationship between the predictors and predictand remains valid for periods outside the fitting period (time invariance). This needs careful assessment for future climate projection as it is obviously impossible to check with observational data. A way around this problem is to validate the stat ...
... The relationship between the predictors and predictand remains valid for periods outside the fitting period (time invariance). This needs careful assessment for future climate projection as it is obviously impossible to check with observational data. A way around this problem is to validate the stat ...
The Response of Precipitation Minus
... in simulations from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). Both temperature and relative humidity respond differently over land than ocean (e.g., Byrne and O’Gorman 2013b), and we show here that the response of P 2 E is affected by these differences. A sensitivity of tropical ...
... in simulations from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). Both temperature and relative humidity respond differently over land than ocean (e.g., Byrne and O’Gorman 2013b), and we show here that the response of P 2 E is affected by these differences. A sensitivity of tropical ...
- CSIRO Publishing
... radiation trapped near the Earth’s surface and driving accelerated warming. This process, called the enhanced greenhouse effect, is caused by a forced release of greenhouse gases from their terrestrial store into the atmosphere that has no precedent in history. The associated increases in global tem ...
... radiation trapped near the Earth’s surface and driving accelerated warming. This process, called the enhanced greenhouse effect, is caused by a forced release of greenhouse gases from their terrestrial store into the atmosphere that has no precedent in history. The associated increases in global tem ...
Climate Projections FAQ
... 2. How might climate change projections be used in management, decision-making, and planning processes? Many management decisions in the Forest Service, such as identifying priority restoration actions and locations, are made using historical conditions as a reference. Changing climate may cause s ...
... 2. How might climate change projections be used in management, decision-making, and planning processes? Many management decisions in the Forest Service, such as identifying priority restoration actions and locations, are made using historical conditions as a reference. Changing climate may cause s ...
National Park Service - UAF SNAP
... & federal personnel. The group also saw the need for increased staffing – particularly with local hire -- in fire suppression and technology innovation, and increased education efforts focused on Native life, science-based climate change information, and community presentations. Increased infrastruc ...
... & federal personnel. The group also saw the need for increased staffing – particularly with local hire -- in fire suppression and technology innovation, and increased education efforts focused on Native life, science-based climate change information, and community presentations. Increased infrastruc ...
ADDENDUM: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States AD
... that fits the authors’ pre-existing paradigm. ...
... that fits the authors’ pre-existing paradigm. ...
Migration, Environment and Climate Change
... Although there has been a tremendous increase in the number of studies on migration and the environment in recent years, research on the ways in which migration can contribute to adaptation strategies remains limited (Piguet and Laczko, 2014). Understanding the linkages between migration and adaptat ...
... Although there has been a tremendous increase in the number of studies on migration and the environment in recent years, research on the ways in which migration can contribute to adaptation strategies remains limited (Piguet and Laczko, 2014). Understanding the linkages between migration and adaptat ...
Climate projections FAQ - Eastern Forest Environmental Threat
... 2. How might climate change projections be used in management, decision-making, and planning processes? Many management decisions in the Forest Service, such as identifying priority restoration actions and locations, are made using historical conditions as a reference. Changing climate may cause s ...
... 2. How might climate change projections be used in management, decision-making, and planning processes? Many management decisions in the Forest Service, such as identifying priority restoration actions and locations, are made using historical conditions as a reference. Changing climate may cause s ...
a survey of regional planning for climate adaptation
... The focus on the municipal level reflects the networking of cities through efforts such as ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability U.S.A.’s (ICLEI) Cities for Climate Protection Campaign. The Campaign, which includes an estimated 600 U.S. cities, encourages cities to adopt climate change and su ...
... The focus on the municipal level reflects the networking of cities through efforts such as ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability U.S.A.’s (ICLEI) Cities for Climate Protection Campaign. The Campaign, which includes an estimated 600 U.S. cities, encourages cities to adopt climate change and su ...
A severe centennial-scale drought in mid
... Drought-induced aeolian activity in many currently stabilized dune systems across the mid-continent (Forman et al., 2001) provides additional information on the magnitude and extent of the 4.2 ka drought. The Ferris Dune Field in eastern Wyoming shows widespread reactivation c. 4.3 /4.0 ka ago (Sto ...
... Drought-induced aeolian activity in many currently stabilized dune systems across the mid-continent (Forman et al., 2001) provides additional information on the magnitude and extent of the 4.2 ka drought. The Ferris Dune Field in eastern Wyoming shows widespread reactivation c. 4.3 /4.0 ka ago (Sto ...
A comment on climate change, conflict and forced migration
... a forced migration perspective, the term is flawed for several reasons. The term “climate refugees” implies a mono-causality that one rarely finds in human reality. No one factor, event or process, inevitably results in forced migration or conflict. It is very likely that climate change impacts will ...
... a forced migration perspective, the term is flawed for several reasons. The term “climate refugees” implies a mono-causality that one rarely finds in human reality. No one factor, event or process, inevitably results in forced migration or conflict. It is very likely that climate change impacts will ...
19 Assessing key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change Coordinating Lead Authors:
... likely to have already increased the risk of certain extreme events such as heatwaves, and it is more likely than not that warming has contributed to the intensification of some tropical cyclones, with increasing levels of adverse impacts as temperatures increase (very high confidence). • The distri ...
... likely to have already increased the risk of certain extreme events such as heatwaves, and it is more likely than not that warming has contributed to the intensification of some tropical cyclones, with increasing levels of adverse impacts as temperatures increase (very high confidence). • The distri ...
Static mass-balance sensitivity of Arctic glaciers and ice caps using
... caused by an instant change in a climatic parameter, in this case temperature or precipitation. Jóhannesson (1997) found that the difference between the static and the dynamic approach was negligible for small climate perturbations applied to smaller ice masses close to equilibrium over the next 10 ...
... caused by an instant change in a climatic parameter, in this case temperature or precipitation. Jóhannesson (1997) found that the difference between the static and the dynamic approach was negligible for small climate perturbations applied to smaller ice masses close to equilibrium over the next 10 ...
SEA LEVEL RISE IN THE CARIBBEAN
... Island Developing States (SIDS) have characteristics which make them particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, sea level rise and extreme events, including: relative isolation, small land masses, concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal areas, a limited economic bas ...
... Island Developing States (SIDS) have characteristics which make them particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, sea level rise and extreme events, including: relative isolation, small land masses, concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal areas, a limited economic bas ...
The Wegman report
... review. It is especially the case that authors of policy-related documents like the IPCC report, Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, should not be the same people as those that constructed the academic papers. Recommendation 2. We believe that federally funded research agencies should develop ...
... review. It is especially the case that authors of policy-related documents like the IPCC report, Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, should not be the same people as those that constructed the academic papers. Recommendation 2. We believe that federally funded research agencies should develop ...
Cognitive and affective risk judgements related to climate change
... Global climate change (GCC) is a phenomenon that has received increasing attention in the last decades. The attention is motivated by claims that GCC will cause enormous worldwide problems in the future, and that it constitutes a challenge for humanity to mitigate or adapt to (United Nations’s Inter ...
... Global climate change (GCC) is a phenomenon that has received increasing attention in the last decades. The attention is motivated by claims that GCC will cause enormous worldwide problems in the future, and that it constitutes a challenge for humanity to mitigate or adapt to (United Nations’s Inter ...
The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases to the
... activities from natural components. For instance, wetland CH4 emission is composed of a natural ...
... activities from natural components. For instance, wetland CH4 emission is composed of a natural ...
Hydro_CC_0729 - University of Washington
... control: precipitation forecast. However, runoff forecast is expected to be more uncertain than that of global mean temperature and precipitation. Runoff is generally not spatially observed. The observed runoff is usually constructed from streamflow, a temporally lagged, spatial integral of runoff o ...
... control: precipitation forecast. However, runoff forecast is expected to be more uncertain than that of global mean temperature and precipitation. Runoff is generally not spatially observed. The observed runoff is usually constructed from streamflow, a temporally lagged, spatial integral of runoff o ...
Climate: Observations, projections and impacts
... • The potential impacts of climate change, based on results from the UK’s Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change programme (AVOID) and supporting literature. For details visit: http://www.avoid.uk.net The assessment of impacts at the national level, both for the AVOID programme results and the cited supp ...
... • The potential impacts of climate change, based on results from the UK’s Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change programme (AVOID) and supporting literature. For details visit: http://www.avoid.uk.net The assessment of impacts at the national level, both for the AVOID programme results and the cited supp ...
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.