Hurricanes - EnviroEcon
... Can it be said that global warming made an individual hurricane like Katrina stronger than it would have otherwise been? Perhaps. It is believed that warmer oceans supply more energy to hurricanes and thus lead to stronger hurricanes. Also, a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, potenti ...
... Can it be said that global warming made an individual hurricane like Katrina stronger than it would have otherwise been? Perhaps. It is believed that warmer oceans supply more energy to hurricanes and thus lead to stronger hurricanes. Also, a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, potenti ...
Animal Agriculture and Climate Change
... been more heavy precipitation events, more heat waves, and an expansion of drought-affected areas. Since the 1970s, there have been increases in hurricane intensity.12 The IPCC further predicts changes to a variety of extreme weather events in the future, including the likelihood of more hot nights ...
... been more heavy precipitation events, more heat waves, and an expansion of drought-affected areas. Since the 1970s, there have been increases in hurricane intensity.12 The IPCC further predicts changes to a variety of extreme weather events in the future, including the likelihood of more hot nights ...
3.3 Evidence of temperature changes in the study regions
... dependence on rain-fed cultivation. The amount and pattern of rainfall plays a key role in determining agricultural productivity (Haile 2005). Ghana has experienced considerable variations in temperature and rainfall patterns since the 1960s (EPA 2003). Whilst uncertainties remain on future estimat ...
... dependence on rain-fed cultivation. The amount and pattern of rainfall plays a key role in determining agricultural productivity (Haile 2005). Ghana has experienced considerable variations in temperature and rainfall patterns since the 1960s (EPA 2003). Whilst uncertainties remain on future estimat ...
Evaluating the Use of Ocean Models of Different Complexity in
... of carbon, phosphate, dissolved organic phosphorus, and alkalinity. The physical ocean model velocities and diffusion are used to transport these tracers; in addition chemical and biological processes are parameterized. Air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide follows Wannikof (1992), and carbonate chemis ...
... of carbon, phosphate, dissolved organic phosphorus, and alkalinity. The physical ocean model velocities and diffusion are used to transport these tracers; in addition chemical and biological processes are parameterized. Air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide follows Wannikof (1992), and carbonate chemis ...
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DEPARTEMENT D`ECONOMIE
... not yet been satisfactory. Our focus in this article is to shed some light on this dark area of economic analysis. The recently published Stern review on climate change advances an unambiguous message: An overwhelming body of scienti c evidence now clearly indicates that climate change is a serious ...
... not yet been satisfactory. Our focus in this article is to shed some light on this dark area of economic analysis. The recently published Stern review on climate change advances an unambiguous message: An overwhelming body of scienti c evidence now clearly indicates that climate change is a serious ...
Risk communication: climate change as a human
... malaria and dengue fever. The effects of climate change on water security, food security and air quality are recognized as having the greatest effect on human health, especially in the developing world.3,4 In the knowledge that climate change is very likely anthropogenic,5 mainly due to increased gr ...
... malaria and dengue fever. The effects of climate change on water security, food security and air quality are recognized as having the greatest effect on human health, especially in the developing world.3,4 In the knowledge that climate change is very likely anthropogenic,5 mainly due to increased gr ...
The Impact of Animal Agriculture on Global Warming and Climate
... been more heavy precipitation events, more heat waves, and an expansion of drought-affected areas. Since the 1970s, there have been increases in hurricane intensity.12 The IPCC further predicts changes to a variety of extreme weather events in the future, including the likelihood of more hot nights ...
... been more heavy precipitation events, more heat waves, and an expansion of drought-affected areas. Since the 1970s, there have been increases in hurricane intensity.12 The IPCC further predicts changes to a variety of extreme weather events in the future, including the likelihood of more hot nights ...
UK climate change policy: how does it affect competitiveness?
... Executive summary The Committee on Climate Change has recommended that setting a target to reduce UK emissions of greenhouse gases to an average of 57 per cent below their 1990 levels during the period of the fifth carbon budget (2028-2032) is consistent with a least cost path to meeting the UK’s lo ...
... Executive summary The Committee on Climate Change has recommended that setting a target to reduce UK emissions of greenhouse gases to an average of 57 per cent below their 1990 levels during the period of the fifth carbon budget (2028-2032) is consistent with a least cost path to meeting the UK’s lo ...
Robust Bayesian Uncertainty Analysis of Climate System Properties
... Robust Bayesian analysis (Berger 1984, 1994) provides a suitable framework for such sensitivity and robustness studies. In robust Bayesian analysis, instead of single prior distributions or single likelihood functions, sets of prior distributions and sets of likelihood functions are considered. Then ...
... Robust Bayesian analysis (Berger 1984, 1994) provides a suitable framework for such sensitivity and robustness studies. In robust Bayesian analysis, instead of single prior distributions or single likelihood functions, sets of prior distributions and sets of likelihood functions are considered. Then ...
PREPARING FOR CLIMATIC CHANGE: THE WATER, SALMON, AND
... salmon. Population has nearly doubled since 1970, a growth rate nearly twice the national average. Human activities strain the natural environment in many ways, including direct human interventions in the landscape through such activities as dam building, timber harvest (which has also widely replac ...
... salmon. Population has nearly doubled since 1970, a growth rate nearly twice the national average. Human activities strain the natural environment in many ways, including direct human interventions in the landscape through such activities as dam building, timber harvest (which has also widely replac ...
4.3.1. Atmospheric changes - Ensembles RT3
... for IPCC (2007). Hence, most existing climate change scenarios builds on these emission scenarios that are based on different storylines for the future development of world population and economy. All SRES scenarios show increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere leading to increasing ...
... for IPCC (2007). Hence, most existing climate change scenarios builds on these emission scenarios that are based on different storylines for the future development of world population and economy. All SRES scenarios show increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere leading to increasing ...
When It Rains, It Pours
... The average temperature in the United States has climbed more than 2° F over the past 50 years.5 Nine of the ten warmest years on record have occurred since 2000. The warmest year on record occurred in 2010; 2011 was the ninth warmest.6 July 2011 to June 2012 was the warmest 12-month period the cont ...
... The average temperature in the United States has climbed more than 2° F over the past 50 years.5 Nine of the ten warmest years on record have occurred since 2000. The warmest year on record occurred in 2010; 2011 was the ninth warmest.6 July 2011 to June 2012 was the warmest 12-month period the cont ...
The Australian Aerosol and Climate Research Program: A
... This document sets out the rationale and design of an Australian Aerosol and Climate Research Program (AACRP). An AACRP should be considered an essential component of a properly integrated Australian climate research program. The major rationale of an AACRP is to understand and quantify the role of ...
... This document sets out the rationale and design of an Australian Aerosol and Climate Research Program (AACRP). An AACRP should be considered an essential component of a properly integrated Australian climate research program. The major rationale of an AACRP is to understand and quantify the role of ...
A Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Communities in the
... These observed changes are a portent of things to come. Future climate change in the polar regions is expected to be among the greatest anywhere on earth because of amplification by positive feedbacks in the climate system (Holland and Bitz, 2003). Models indicate that land areas in the Arctic will ...
... These observed changes are a portent of things to come. Future climate change in the polar regions is expected to be among the greatest anywhere on earth because of amplification by positive feedbacks in the climate system (Holland and Bitz, 2003). Models indicate that land areas in the Arctic will ...
presenting - InterAcademy Council
... consensus (as “lead authors”) – (otherwise they assess their own work). Political and economic interests are not informing the process of assessing the legitimate scientific knowledge. An independent “ombudsman”-system takes care of complaints about factual errors (in determining consensus) and conf ...
... consensus (as “lead authors”) – (otherwise they assess their own work). Political and economic interests are not informing the process of assessing the legitimate scientific knowledge. An independent “ombudsman”-system takes care of complaints about factual errors (in determining consensus) and conf ...
Costly Misinformed Diagnosis
... PREMISED ON OUTDATED CLIMATE CHANGE FEARS ―Costly Diagnosis‖ Foreward ….‖In the year 2000, I introduced a course for undergraduate medical students called Ecosystem Health. …. The course outlined how the earth had warmed considerably over the past 30 years and that this warming is not a ―normal fluc ...
... PREMISED ON OUTDATED CLIMATE CHANGE FEARS ―Costly Diagnosis‖ Foreward ….‖In the year 2000, I introduced a course for undergraduate medical students called Ecosystem Health. …. The course outlined how the earth had warmed considerably over the past 30 years and that this warming is not a ―normal fluc ...
Revisiting the urban - Durham Research Online
... within urban arenas it is hard to imagine that just a short decade ago such agendas were far from common place. Although the rhetoric of sustainable development had taken hold on urban agendas in some cities by the late 1990s, few engaged with the more abstract issue of climate change. With the bene ...
... within urban arenas it is hard to imagine that just a short decade ago such agendas were far from common place. Although the rhetoric of sustainable development had taken hold on urban agendas in some cities by the late 1990s, few engaged with the more abstract issue of climate change. With the bene ...
Community based adaptation to climate change
... which paves the way for a post-Kyoto policy framework to include adaptation alongside mitigation, technology cooperation, and finance.9 Emerging from this climate change pol- icy context, the most common approach to adaptation considers how far processes of adaptation can reduce dangerous impacts o ...
... which paves the way for a post-Kyoto policy framework to include adaptation alongside mitigation, technology cooperation, and finance.9 Emerging from this climate change pol- icy context, the most common approach to adaptation considers how far processes of adaptation can reduce dangerous impacts o ...
Geotourism and Climate Change Paradoxes and Promises
... water, resulting in stronger waves and increased shore erosion. The rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice could accelerate rapid warming 1,500 km inland throughout Alaska, Canada, and Russia. During rapid ice retreat, the rate of inland warming could be more than three times that previously suggested by g ...
... water, resulting in stronger waves and increased shore erosion. The rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice could accelerate rapid warming 1,500 km inland throughout Alaska, Canada, and Russia. During rapid ice retreat, the rate of inland warming could be more than three times that previously suggested by g ...
Potential Evapotranspiration Under Present and Future
... structures. Furthermore, the effect of climate change on PET was assessed using comparison between RCPs scenarios developed from four global models and the boundary of the more close scenario to the measured data was input into a regional climate model (WRF-RCM) to develop more accurate weather data ...
... structures. Furthermore, the effect of climate change on PET was assessed using comparison between RCPs scenarios developed from four global models and the boundary of the more close scenario to the measured data was input into a regional climate model (WRF-RCM) to develop more accurate weather data ...
The impacts of climate change on human rights and forced migration
... [email protected] This document should be cited as: EJF (2012) A nation under threat - The impacts of climate change on human rights and forced migration in Bangladesh. Environmental Justice ...
... [email protected] This document should be cited as: EJF (2012) A nation under threat - The impacts of climate change on human rights and forced migration in Bangladesh. Environmental Justice ...
Consequences of elevated temperatures on legume biomass
... as these characteristics influence where and when mineral N is obtained. Good matches, however, can be difficult to find, especially when restricted to planted communities like our field experiment. For this reason, we used mean values from the three species above as our reference. Some legume individua ...
... as these characteristics influence where and when mineral N is obtained. Good matches, however, can be difficult to find, especially when restricted to planted communities like our field experiment. For this reason, we used mean values from the three species above as our reference. Some legume individua ...
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.