Protecting Cultural Heritage and Adapting to Climate Change
... sustainable planning and adaptation to climate change. Using the concept of indigenous blue infrastructure, the aim is to present and raise questions concerning contemporary planning and stormwater management of the urban core, and the consequent flooding incidents in the surrounding countryside. ...
... sustainable planning and adaptation to climate change. Using the concept of indigenous blue infrastructure, the aim is to present and raise questions concerning contemporary planning and stormwater management of the urban core, and the consequent flooding incidents in the surrounding countryside. ...
Biological Significance of Phenology
... Murray, M. B., M. G. R. Cannell, et al. (1989). "Date of budburst of fifteen tree species in Britain following climatic warming." Journal of Applied ...
... Murray, M. B., M. G. R. Cannell, et al. (1989). "Date of budburst of fifteen tree species in Britain following climatic warming." Journal of Applied ...
climate futures responses to climate change in 2030 October 2008
... Climate Futures explores different possible responses we could see to climate change in the years to 2030: five different scenarios, all very different from today and all dealing with climate change in radically different ways. Which is the most likely future? We don’t know, but we think that all ar ...
... Climate Futures explores different possible responses we could see to climate change in the years to 2030: five different scenarios, all very different from today and all dealing with climate change in radically different ways. Which is the most likely future? We don’t know, but we think that all ar ...
Climate Risk Screening and Management Tool for Strategy Design
... 6.2 Describe How Climate Risks Are Addressed in the Strategy Next, select from column 6.1 the options that you will include in the strategy. It is helpful to have drafted DOs and IRs before undertaking this part. Record how climate risks are addressed in column 6.2 of the Output Matrix, Part 1 (pg. ...
... 6.2 Describe How Climate Risks Are Addressed in the Strategy Next, select from column 6.1 the options that you will include in the strategy. It is helpful to have drafted DOs and IRs before undertaking this part. Record how climate risks are addressed in column 6.2 of the Output Matrix, Part 1 (pg. ...
responses to climate change in 2030
... Climate Futures explores different possible responses we could see to climate change in the years to 2030: five different scenarios, all very different from today and all dealing with climate change in radically different ways. Which is the most likely future? We don’t know, but we think that all ar ...
... Climate Futures explores different possible responses we could see to climate change in the years to 2030: five different scenarios, all very different from today and all dealing with climate change in radically different ways. Which is the most likely future? We don’t know, but we think that all ar ...
From science to policy: developing responses to climate change
... challenges. Climate change affects multiple sectors and resources including (but not limited to) agriculture, forestry, water resources, air quality, ecosystems and biodiversity, and cultural resources. Stakeholders with an interest in each of these may have conflicting desires and conflict resoluti ...
... challenges. Climate change affects multiple sectors and resources including (but not limited to) agriculture, forestry, water resources, air quality, ecosystems and biodiversity, and cultural resources. Stakeholders with an interest in each of these may have conflicting desires and conflict resoluti ...
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Framework for
... Worldwide industrial development has caused greenhouse gases to be released into the atmosphere in great volumes. Changes in land use have occurred with increasing surfaces being cleared for urban and agricultural development. Concurrently, substantial increases in air temperature have been observed ...
... Worldwide industrial development has caused greenhouse gases to be released into the atmosphere in great volumes. Changes in land use have occurred with increasing surfaces being cleared for urban and agricultural development. Concurrently, substantial increases in air temperature have been observed ...
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
... It is vitally important to mitigate the progress of climate change and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In spite of such work, the temperature is rising on account of the greenhouse gases already released and yet to be released into the atmosphere. For this reason, we must adapt to the consequenc ...
... It is vitally important to mitigate the progress of climate change and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In spite of such work, the temperature is rising on account of the greenhouse gases already released and yet to be released into the atmosphere. For this reason, we must adapt to the consequenc ...
The effects of extreme drought on climate change beliefs, risk
... Whether or not firsthand experience with extreme events shapes people’s perceptions of climate change and galvanizes them to take action has been the focus of growing attention in the risk management literature and in policy circles. There are several reasons for this important debate. First, the co ...
... Whether or not firsthand experience with extreme events shapes people’s perceptions of climate change and galvanizes them to take action has been the focus of growing attention in the risk management literature and in policy circles. There are several reasons for this important debate. First, the co ...
A Climate of Change - Redefining Progress
... African Americans are less responsible for global warming, with average household emissions of greenhouse gases that are nearly twenty percent lower than that of non-Hispanic whites. At the same time, African American communities are also more vulnerable to the consequences of shortsighted energy po ...
... African Americans are less responsible for global warming, with average household emissions of greenhouse gases that are nearly twenty percent lower than that of non-Hispanic whites. At the same time, African American communities are also more vulnerable to the consequences of shortsighted energy po ...
Communicating climate change: history, challenges, process and
... Communicators of climate change frequently encounter a disbelief in their audiences that humans could in fact alter the global climate (e.g., Ref. 57). From an evolutionary perspective of brain development, this disbelief is understandable. Paleolithic humans lived and had to survive in direct conta ...
... Communicators of climate change frequently encounter a disbelief in their audiences that humans could in fact alter the global climate (e.g., Ref. 57). From an evolutionary perspective of brain development, this disbelief is understandable. Paleolithic humans lived and had to survive in direct conta ...
Climate Systems Regional Report: Southern Africa
... the summer season in the Southern Hemisphere. Surface observations in Africa are poor, but this network indicates that temperatures have warmed through the 20th century, while drying has occurred over large areas. In the case of the Sahel, scientists have developed two possible causes for decadal tr ...
... the summer season in the Southern Hemisphere. Surface observations in Africa are poor, but this network indicates that temperatures have warmed through the 20th century, while drying has occurred over large areas. In the case of the Sahel, scientists have developed two possible causes for decadal tr ...
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... Communicators of climate change frequently encounter a disbelief in their audiences that humans could in fact alter the global climate (e.g., Ref. 57). From an evolutionary perspective of brain development, this disbelief is understandable. Paleolithic humans lived and had to survive in direct conta ...
... Communicators of climate change frequently encounter a disbelief in their audiences that humans could in fact alter the global climate (e.g., Ref. 57). From an evolutionary perspective of brain development, this disbelief is understandable. Paleolithic humans lived and had to survive in direct conta ...
Local Climate Change Governance
... in the direction of creating a low carbon society. Because both its causes and consequences are distributed around the world, climate change is generally understood to be a global problem in need of global answers. There is, however, a growing acknowledgement that locality, and local reactions to cl ...
... in the direction of creating a low carbon society. Because both its causes and consequences are distributed around the world, climate change is generally understood to be a global problem in need of global answers. There is, however, a growing acknowledgement that locality, and local reactions to cl ...
Climate Change Indicators in the United States
... evidence that human activities such as electricity production and transportation are adding to the concentrations of greenhouse gases that are already naturally present in the atmosphere. These heat-trapping gases are now at record-high levels in the atmosphere compared with the recent and distant p ...
... evidence that human activities such as electricity production and transportation are adding to the concentrations of greenhouse gases that are already naturally present in the atmosphere. These heat-trapping gases are now at record-high levels in the atmosphere compared with the recent and distant p ...
Plankton dynamics under different climatic conditions in space and
... The existing intense predation by fish on larger zooplankters may increase further, resulting in a perennially low zooplankton biomass. 6. Bacteria were not included in the original PEG model. Seasonally, bacteria vary less than the phytoplankton but often follow its patterns, particularly in colder ...
... The existing intense predation by fish on larger zooplankters may increase further, resulting in a perennially low zooplankton biomass. 6. Bacteria were not included in the original PEG model. Seasonally, bacteria vary less than the phytoplankton but often follow its patterns, particularly in colder ...
climate change and eu security policy
... resultant agenda is one of “climate security.” This concept can be defined as the broad range of foreign policy actions aimed at addressing the strategic and political impacts of climate change. Much has been written on the way in which climate change is likely to aggravate geostrategic threats. In ...
... resultant agenda is one of “climate security.” This concept can be defined as the broad range of foreign policy actions aimed at addressing the strategic and political impacts of climate change. Much has been written on the way in which climate change is likely to aggravate geostrategic threats. In ...
Ireland’s Climate: the road ahead IR E
... The distinction between weather and climate is well known: the former is concerned with short-term detail while the latter relates to the statistical details over extended periods (e.g. averages over 30 years). Whereas a short-range weather forecast for Ireland is barely influenced by the weather th ...
... The distinction between weather and climate is well known: the former is concerned with short-term detail while the latter relates to the statistical details over extended periods (e.g. averages over 30 years). Whereas a short-range weather forecast for Ireland is barely influenced by the weather th ...
Political parties` climate policies in the UK, Italy and Denmark Paper
... mitigation (“a human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases” (IPCC, 2014: 3)). Therefore, we identify climate policies that would, if implemented, have the effect of reducing net GHG emissions (see EBRD and Grantham Research Institute, 2011; Bailey and Compston, ...
... mitigation (“a human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases” (IPCC, 2014: 3)). Therefore, we identify climate policies that would, if implemented, have the effect of reducing net GHG emissions (see EBRD and Grantham Research Institute, 2011; Bailey and Compston, ...
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... 1996a]. The model is sensitive to CO2 concentration because of the responses of NPP and stomatal conductance to CO2 and the differential effects of CO2 on the NPP of C3 and C4 plants. [8] To identify the biome for a given grid cell, the model ranks the tree and nontree PFTs that were calculated for ...
... 1996a]. The model is sensitive to CO2 concentration because of the responses of NPP and stomatal conductance to CO2 and the differential effects of CO2 on the NPP of C3 and C4 plants. [8] To identify the biome for a given grid cell, the model ranks the tree and nontree PFTs that were calculated for ...
Mirrors and Mazes: A guide through the climate debate – ANZEC
... Jervis Bay and regional tide gauges in New Zealand. Being surprised, I corresponded with a senior design engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena as to why the present satellite sea level rise data from the Jason satellites since 1992 were so much higher than the tide gauge data. I ...
... Jervis Bay and regional tide gauges in New Zealand. Being surprised, I corresponded with a senior design engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena as to why the present satellite sea level rise data from the Jason satellites since 1992 were so much higher than the tide gauge data. I ...
Climate Sensitivity - Home page 350.me.uk
... Their r e s u l t is based on the empirical temperature increase i n the past 130 y e a r s , but their analysis did not account for the dependence of the ocean response t i m n o n climate sensitivity. Their choice of a fixed 15 year response time biased their result to low sensitivities. We infer ...
... Their r e s u l t is based on the empirical temperature increase i n the past 130 y e a r s , but their analysis did not account for the dependence of the ocean response t i m n o n climate sensitivity. Their choice of a fixed 15 year response time biased their result to low sensitivities. We infer ...
Iyigun et al._2013_Clustering climate regions of
... was studied for India and West Africa as well (e.g. Gadgil and Joshi 1983; Anyadike 1987, etc.). Finally, Fovell (1997) clustered temperature and precipitation data separately and identified the climate zones by a consensus clustering that can determine the temperature sub-zones on precipitation clu ...
... was studied for India and West Africa as well (e.g. Gadgil and Joshi 1983; Anyadike 1987, etc.). Finally, Fovell (1997) clustered temperature and precipitation data separately and identified the climate zones by a consensus clustering that can determine the temperature sub-zones on precipitation clu ...
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.