US Climate Change Policy Under President Clinton
... world. It is a strategy that, if properly implemented, will create a wealth of new opportunities for entrepreneurs at home, uphold our leadership abroad, and harness the power of free markets to free our planet from an unacceptable risk; a strategy consistent with our commitment to reject false choi ...
... world. It is a strategy that, if properly implemented, will create a wealth of new opportunities for entrepreneurs at home, uphold our leadership abroad, and harness the power of free markets to free our planet from an unacceptable risk; a strategy consistent with our commitment to reject false choi ...
here - Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
... needs to strive to achieve the delicate balance between a simple reporting and review structure that facilitates commitments from the widest possible range of parties while also promoting robust climate change mitigation and adaptation: ...
... needs to strive to achieve the delicate balance between a simple reporting and review structure that facilitates commitments from the widest possible range of parties while also promoting robust climate change mitigation and adaptation: ...
01-Long Report-cover
... Figure 1.2. Locations of significant changes in data series of physical systems (snow, ice and frozen ground; hydrology; and coastal processes) and biological systems (terrestrial, marine, and freshwater biological systems), are shown together with surface air temperature changes over the period 197 ...
... Figure 1.2. Locations of significant changes in data series of physical systems (snow, ice and frozen ground; hydrology; and coastal processes) and biological systems (terrestrial, marine, and freshwater biological systems), are shown together with surface air temperature changes over the period 197 ...
... are difficult to predict (Goodess 2000). In particular, the future radiative forcing from greenhouse gases is difficult to quantify because the emissions of these gases depend on many assumptions and uncertain factors such as population growth, the use of carbon fuel as an energy source, technologic ...
Modeling Climate Change Impacts on Viti Levu (Fiji) and Aitutaki
... SimCLIM development has been completed and a robust version of the model will be available shortly, however, this is beyond this project. Objective 2 had been partially accomplished, mainly because of the paucity of relevant data and information, and the change in data and information requirements o ...
... SimCLIM development has been completed and a robust version of the model will be available shortly, however, this is beyond this project. Objective 2 had been partially accomplished, mainly because of the paucity of relevant data and information, and the change in data and information requirements o ...
Reef-Guardians-2016-Year-10-Climate-change
... Climate change cannot be fully averted and we must understand, prepare and adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change. GBRMPA’s Climate Change Response Program is taking important steps towards reducing the negative impacts of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef. Climate change is a glob ...
... Climate change cannot be fully averted and we must understand, prepare and adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change. GBRMPA’s Climate Change Response Program is taking important steps towards reducing the negative impacts of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef. Climate change is a glob ...
SUB-COMPONENT STUDY: PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE
... Ecuador has diverse populations, cultures and economic sectors spread in a broad rural to urban continuum. It is also a country with a multitude of highly specialized ecosystems, such as the mountain páramos to varied forests, and significant biodiversity. Both the human and environmental continuums ...
... Ecuador has diverse populations, cultures and economic sectors spread in a broad rural to urban continuum. It is also a country with a multitude of highly specialized ecosystems, such as the mountain páramos to varied forests, and significant biodiversity. Both the human and environmental continuums ...
Cloud Feedbacks Found to Amplify Global Warming
... in positive local feedback parameters in these regions in the range of 4–7 W m22 K21. Domain-averaged (308S–308N, 1508–608W) feedback parameters from iRAM range between 11.8 and 11.9 W m22 K21. At most locations both the LTS and cloud amount are altered in the global warming cases, but the changes i ...
... in positive local feedback parameters in these regions in the range of 4–7 W m22 K21. Domain-averaged (308S–308N, 1508–608W) feedback parameters from iRAM range between 11.8 and 11.9 W m22 K21. At most locations both the LTS and cloud amount are altered in the global warming cases, but the changes i ...
Limited Alpine Climatic Warming and Modeled
... Field phenology measurements—All phenophases present and the dominant phenophase at each plot were recorded approximately twice per week from 2004 to 2011. In 2010–2011, in-person field observations were supplemented with Wingscapes Time Lapse “phenocams” (WSCA04-00106; Alabaster, Alabama, USA) that ...
... Field phenology measurements—All phenophases present and the dominant phenophase at each plot were recorded approximately twice per week from 2004 to 2011. In 2010–2011, in-person field observations were supplemented with Wingscapes Time Lapse “phenocams” (WSCA04-00106; Alabaster, Alabama, USA) that ...
Climate Impact Research in the BSR: State of the Art
... gulf, is also rapidly disappearing. A year from now another 25 to 30 square miles of delta marsh - an area the size of Manhattan - will have vanished. An acre disappears every 24 minutes. Each loss gives a storm surge a clearer path to wash over the delta and pour into the bowl, trapping one million ...
... gulf, is also rapidly disappearing. A year from now another 25 to 30 square miles of delta marsh - an area the size of Manhattan - will have vanished. An acre disappears every 24 minutes. Each loss gives a storm surge a clearer path to wash over the delta and pour into the bowl, trapping one million ...
Investing in a Time of Climate Change
... CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS Four climate change scenarios were developed as part of the study, each reflecting different climate change policy ambitions that result in varying CO2 emissions pathways, temperature outcomes and levels of economic damages related to climate change. These were developed usi ...
... CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS Four climate change scenarios were developed as part of the study, each reflecting different climate change policy ambitions that result in varying CO2 emissions pathways, temperature outcomes and levels of economic damages related to climate change. These were developed usi ...
A values-based approach to vulnerability and adaptation to climate
... be neither true nor false in any objective sense, but is instead linked to relationships between knowledge and power.36,37 Research in development psychology has linked worldviews to cognitive structures, whereby ‘[t]he root or ‘deep structure’ of any principle of mental organization is the subject– ...
... be neither true nor false in any objective sense, but is instead linked to relationships between knowledge and power.36,37 Research in development psychology has linked worldviews to cognitive structures, whereby ‘[t]he root or ‘deep structure’ of any principle of mental organization is the subject– ...
Phenological responses of prairie plants vary among species
... elicit phenological changes proportional to those from larger temperature increases? (3) What is the magnitude of inter-annual variation in these processes? Here we used a manipulative field warming experiment to examine the impact of low (;1.58C) and high (;38C) warming on the phenology of perennia ...
... elicit phenological changes proportional to those from larger temperature increases? (3) What is the magnitude of inter-annual variation in these processes? Here we used a manipulative field warming experiment to examine the impact of low (;1.58C) and high (;38C) warming on the phenology of perennia ...
Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block
... The consensus answer is that, ultimately, the only effective solution to the problem of climate change will be a multilateral agreement. The alternative-a series of uncoordinated national-level measures-is not an effective means of limiting greenhouse gases to sustainable levels because of internati ...
... The consensus answer is that, ultimately, the only effective solution to the problem of climate change will be a multilateral agreement. The alternative-a series of uncoordinated national-level measures-is not an effective means of limiting greenhouse gases to sustainable levels because of internati ...
Rising TempeRs, Rising TempeRaTuRes:
... worrisome trends. For example, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that temperature increases in the coming decades from 2 to 4 degrees Celsius are likely to have significant damaging effects globally (IPCC, 2010). According to estimates from the UN, countries in Africa are more l ...
... worrisome trends. For example, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that temperature increases in the coming decades from 2 to 4 degrees Celsius are likely to have significant damaging effects globally (IPCC, 2010). According to estimates from the UN, countries in Africa are more l ...
the greater mekong and climate change
... The Greater Mekong region must take decisive action and prepare for the inevitable impacts of climate change today, otherwise face devastating ...
... The Greater Mekong region must take decisive action and prepare for the inevitable impacts of climate change today, otherwise face devastating ...
Key lessons from practitioners` experiences
... climate change adaptation options. A more detailed assessment of coastal resources, climate risks and response options was undertaken at four locations – Mandurah, Siesta Park-Marybrook, Peppermint Grove Beach, and ...
... climate change adaptation options. A more detailed assessment of coastal resources, climate risks and response options was undertaken at four locations – Mandurah, Siesta Park-Marybrook, Peppermint Grove Beach, and ...
Effect of climate change on air quality
... variables, perturbation analyses in chemical transport models (CTMs), and CTM simulations driven by general circulation model (GCM) simulations of 21st-century climate change. We review these different approaches and their results. The future climate is expected to be more stagnant, due to a weaker ...
... variables, perturbation analyses in chemical transport models (CTMs), and CTM simulations driven by general circulation model (GCM) simulations of 21st-century climate change. We review these different approaches and their results. The future climate is expected to be more stagnant, due to a weaker ...
North Atlantic storminess and Atlantic Meridional Overturning
... Given the fact of two contradicting hypotheses settled on proxy evidence, the purpose of this study is to review the two hypotheses in great detail in the following sections. In a third and final section, we expand upon existing model-based studies (e.g., Raible et al., 2007) to provide a possible re ...
... Given the fact of two contradicting hypotheses settled on proxy evidence, the purpose of this study is to review the two hypotheses in great detail in the following sections. In a third and final section, we expand upon existing model-based studies (e.g., Raible et al., 2007) to provide a possible re ...
Spain - Met Office
... • 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 ...
Anthropogenic Global Warming? Beyond CO2
... Schröter Institute 2004. [cooling] V. S. Bashkirtsev and G. P. Mashnich: Will We Face Global Warming in the Nearest Future? Institute of Solar–Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of sciences. August 28, 2002 [cooling] Pyilai Ch, : Predicting Solar Cycles with a Dynamo Model. Indi ...
... Schröter Institute 2004. [cooling] V. S. Bashkirtsev and G. P. Mashnich: Will We Face Global Warming in the Nearest Future? Institute of Solar–Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of sciences. August 28, 2002 [cooling] Pyilai Ch, : Predicting Solar Cycles with a Dynamo Model. Indi ...
Effect of climate change on air quality
... variables, perturbation analyses in chemical transport models (CTMs), and CTM simulations driven by general circulation model (GCM) simulations of 21st-century climate change. We review these different approaches and their results. The future climate is expected to be more stagnant, due to a weaker ...
... variables, perturbation analyses in chemical transport models (CTMs), and CTM simulations driven by general circulation model (GCM) simulations of 21st-century climate change. We review these different approaches and their results. The future climate is expected to be more stagnant, due to a weaker ...
Regional Power Shifts and Climate Knowledge Systems: South
... In terms of their climate profiles, China, India, Brazil and South Africa all belong to the top 20 of the global GHG emitting countries (see Netherlands Environmental Agency 2009). In 2009, China has surpassed the United States and now emits the most GHG per year in cumu‐ lative terms ( ...
... In terms of their climate profiles, China, India, Brazil and South Africa all belong to the top 20 of the global GHG emitting countries (see Netherlands Environmental Agency 2009). In 2009, China has surpassed the United States and now emits the most GHG per year in cumu‐ lative terms ( ...
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.