explaining extreme events of 2013
... greatly increased the risk for the extreme heat waves assessed in this report. How human influence affected other types of events such as droughts, heavy rain events, and storms was less clear, indicating that natural variability likely played a much larger role in these extremes. Multiple groups ch ...
... greatly increased the risk for the extreme heat waves assessed in this report. How human influence affected other types of events such as droughts, heavy rain events, and storms was less clear, indicating that natural variability likely played a much larger role in these extremes. Multiple groups ch ...
Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate
... ABSTRACT—Stephanie C. Herring, Martin P. Hoerling, Thomas C. Peterson, and Peter A. Stott Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that o ...
... ABSTRACT—Stephanie C. Herring, Martin P. Hoerling, Thomas C. Peterson, and Peter A. Stott Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 different events that o ...
A Critical Study of the Literature about Deforestation in the Brazilian
... The need for the study undertaken in this honors thesis is rooted in the idea that the open and free debate of ideas is important to the workings of a democracy and important to the testing of the truth of ideas. The prevailing theory of truth in contemporary American culture seems to be the concept ...
... The need for the study undertaken in this honors thesis is rooted in the idea that the open and free debate of ideas is important to the workings of a democracy and important to the testing of the truth of ideas. The prevailing theory of truth in contemporary American culture seems to be the concept ...
Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change
... Costs could be even lower than that if there are major gains in efficiency, or if the strong co-benefits, for example from reduced air pollution, are measured. Costs will be higher if innovation in low-carbon technologies is slower than expected, or if policy-makers fail to make the most of economic ...
... Costs could be even lower than that if there are major gains in efficiency, or if the strong co-benefits, for example from reduced air pollution, are measured. Costs will be higher if innovation in low-carbon technologies is slower than expected, or if policy-makers fail to make the most of economic ...
Playing the Climate Dominoes: Tipping Points and the Cost of
... We integrate three tipping points into the DICE integrated assessment model [14, 15]. DICE combines an economic growth model with a simplified climate module (Schematic 1, left). The policymaker decides how to allocate output between consumption, investment in capital, and emission reductions. Unaba ...
... We integrate three tipping points into the DICE integrated assessment model [14, 15]. DICE combines an economic growth model with a simplified climate module (Schematic 1, left). The policymaker decides how to allocate output between consumption, investment in capital, and emission reductions. Unaba ...
Climate change, crop yields, and internal migration in the United
... what Hornbeck (2009) observed for “Dust Bowl” migrants. To shed further light on this issue we examine the responsiveness of overall employment to crop yields using state-level data for the period of 1970-2009. Consistent with the literature on the “DustBowl,” we find that weather-induced yield shoc ...
... what Hornbeck (2009) observed for “Dust Bowl” migrants. To shed further light on this issue we examine the responsiveness of overall employment to crop yields using state-level data for the period of 1970-2009. Consistent with the literature on the “DustBowl,” we find that weather-induced yield shoc ...
Assessing Climate Change Impacts, Sea Level Rise and Storm
... 25 cm of mean sea level rise (SLR) total losses caused by a future 120-yr event would rise from EUR 3 billion to EUR 4 billion, to EUR 5 billion with 50 cm of mean SLR, and to almost EUR 8 billion with 100 cm of SLR. As extreme sea level events (referred to as “storm surge events”) are not particula ...
... 25 cm of mean sea level rise (SLR) total losses caused by a future 120-yr event would rise from EUR 3 billion to EUR 4 billion, to EUR 5 billion with 50 cm of mean SLR, and to almost EUR 8 billion with 100 cm of SLR. As extreme sea level events (referred to as “storm surge events”) are not particula ...
ENSO and greenhouse warming
... The frequency of extreme La Niña is also expected to increase in response to more extreme El Niños, an accelerated maritime continent warming and surface-intensified ocean warming. ENSO-related catastrophic weather events are thus likely to occur more frequently with unabated greenhouse-gas emission ...
... The frequency of extreme La Niña is also expected to increase in response to more extreme El Niños, an accelerated maritime continent warming and surface-intensified ocean warming. ENSO-related catastrophic weather events are thus likely to occur more frequently with unabated greenhouse-gas emission ...
colorado climate plan
... experts concerning energy efficiency technologies, markets, and practices involving electric utility end-users. In this role, Colorado Energy Office will convene one or more forums over the next year to engage stakeholders and ensure energy efficiency options best fit within a compliance plan for the state ...
... experts concerning energy efficiency technologies, markets, and practices involving electric utility end-users. In this role, Colorado Energy Office will convene one or more forums over the next year to engage stakeholders and ensure energy efficiency options best fit within a compliance plan for the state ...
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change - EEG, TU-Wien
... In 1990 carbon dioxide levels were 354 parts per million – now they are at around 377 parts per million and still rising. Since 1990 global temperatures have increased by about 0.2°C and the ten warmest years in the global record have occurred. Absolute temperature records for the UK were broken in ...
... In 1990 carbon dioxide levels were 354 parts per million – now they are at around 377 parts per million and still rising. Since 1990 global temperatures have increased by about 0.2°C and the ten warmest years in the global record have occurred. Absolute temperature records for the UK were broken in ...
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... seasonality shifts, where September is getting warmer and wetter and, most recently, temperatures during 2005-2007 were outside the normal, expected range of variability. The regulatory system lacks the flexibility needed to provide local hunters with sufficient opportunity to harvest moose. This co ...
... seasonality shifts, where September is getting warmer and wetter and, most recently, temperatures during 2005-2007 were outside the normal, expected range of variability. The regulatory system lacks the flexibility needed to provide local hunters with sufficient opportunity to harvest moose. This co ...
On the Current and Future Dry Spell Characteristics over Africa
... According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [1], Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change and climate variability. Global Climate Models (GCMs) participating in IPCC’s fourth Assessment Report suggest warmer temperatures, in the range of 2–7 °C for Afri ...
... According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [1], Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change and climate variability. Global Climate Models (GCMs) participating in IPCC’s fourth Assessment Report suggest warmer temperatures, in the range of 2–7 °C for Afri ...
Young Voices in Research for Health 2008: Climate
... for health to participate in the Young Voices essay competition. This year, young professionals were asked to share their concerns about climate change and health and to invigorate the research for health community with fresh perspectives and idealistic visions regarding research challenges for vuln ...
... for health to participate in the Young Voices essay competition. This year, young professionals were asked to share their concerns about climate change and health and to invigorate the research for health community with fresh perspectives and idealistic visions regarding research challenges for vuln ...
The Implications of Global Climate Change for Mountain Gorilla
... conservation will depend on the extent to which the effects of climate change are integrated into planning and management. Projected climate change effects can only be estimates based on the best available science, and as a result, taking action may seem like a risky enterprise. However, it is possi ...
... conservation will depend on the extent to which the effects of climate change are integrated into planning and management. Projected climate change effects can only be estimates based on the best available science, and as a result, taking action may seem like a risky enterprise. However, it is possi ...
managing risks and increasing resilience
... more efficiently, understand environmental trade-offs, and communicate better with Londoners, enabling them to make better informed and sustainable choices in how they live and work. This is already happening through the explosion of social media and digital applications that encourage behaviour cha ...
... more efficiently, understand environmental trade-offs, and communicate better with Londoners, enabling them to make better informed and sustainable choices in how they live and work. This is already happening through the explosion of social media and digital applications that encourage behaviour cha ...
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... e. The indigenous people may be the one of the most vulnerable groups due to their socioeconomic institutions. Except the point of wild harvested food, the report has given little attention on the problem of indigenous people. The vulnerability of the group has been increased many times higher by th ...
... e. The indigenous people may be the one of the most vulnerable groups due to their socioeconomic institutions. Except the point of wild harvested food, the report has given little attention on the problem of indigenous people. The vulnerability of the group has been increased many times higher by th ...
Impacts of deforestation on weather PATTERNs and agriculture
... expected to impact agriculture and crop harvests, with an approximate 10% reduction in crop yields for a 1°C rise in temperature (Lobell et al., 2011). Other potential impacts include poor air quality and the spread of diseases. In Southeast Asia, smoke from fires associated with deforestation, part ...
... expected to impact agriculture and crop harvests, with an approximate 10% reduction in crop yields for a 1°C rise in temperature (Lobell et al., 2011). Other potential impacts include poor air quality and the spread of diseases. In Southeast Asia, smoke from fires associated with deforestation, part ...
Climate Change Adaptation Guidelines in Coastal Management and
... frequently cannot be delayed until new science, research or understanding is available. However, such decisions made now may determine how a particular part of the coastal zone is used for many years into the future, at a time when the local climate extremes and concomitant hazard to that developmen ...
... frequently cannot be delayed until new science, research or understanding is available. However, such decisions made now may determine how a particular part of the coastal zone is used for many years into the future, at a time when the local climate extremes and concomitant hazard to that developmen ...
Chapter 30: The Ocean
... Recent changes to wind and ocean mixing within the highly productive HLSBS, EBUE, and EUS are likely to influence energy transfer to higher trophic levels and microbial processes. There is, however, limited evidence and low agreement on the direction and magnitude of these changes and their relation ...
... Recent changes to wind and ocean mixing within the highly productive HLSBS, EBUE, and EUS are likely to influence energy transfer to higher trophic levels and microbial processes. There is, however, limited evidence and low agreement on the direction and magnitude of these changes and their relation ...
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... an unsatisfactory equilibrium concept because it is based on an assumption that is patently false, namely that the current generation can commit future generations to a specific course of action. (Another view is that restricted ...
... an unsatisfactory equilibrium concept because it is based on an assumption that is patently false, namely that the current generation can commit future generations to a specific course of action. (Another view is that restricted ...
Drought in the Sahel - Lund University Publications
... scientific agreement that the main driver of drought are changes in the sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of the tropical oceans. However, land surface-atmosphere feedbacks play a significant role in controlling the SST forcing on a local scale. Adding to that, anthropogenic climate change in the form ...
... scientific agreement that the main driver of drought are changes in the sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of the tropical oceans. However, land surface-atmosphere feedbacks play a significant role in controlling the SST forcing on a local scale. Adding to that, anthropogenic climate change in the form ...
Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration
... from climate change grows with every year of inaction on emissions control, there remains a lack of information on these ways of potentially intervening in the climate system. In 2012 the U.S. government, including several of the science agencies, asked the National Academy of Sciences to provide ad ...
... from climate change grows with every year of inaction on emissions control, there remains a lack of information on these ways of potentially intervening in the climate system. In 2012 the U.S. government, including several of the science agencies, asked the National Academy of Sciences to provide ad ...
Review of Current and Planned Adaptation Action: Central America
... abundantly, from the Pacific coast, where the year is split into a dry and wet season (CCAD and SICA, 2010). In Mexico, rainfall is lower in its temperate northern regions (SEMARNAT, 2010). Inter-annual climate variability is highly influenced by movement of the ITCZ and the El Niño Southern Oscilla ...
... abundantly, from the Pacific coast, where the year is split into a dry and wet season (CCAD and SICA, 2010). In Mexico, rainfall is lower in its temperate northern regions (SEMARNAT, 2010). Inter-annual climate variability is highly influenced by movement of the ITCZ and the El Niño Southern Oscilla ...
IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 6 FIRST-‐ORDER DRAFT Expert Review
... redundancy across the sections. Certain topics are bought up at two or more points and I found there to be too much duplication in these presentations. Another problem related to the redundancy issue ...
... redundancy across the sections. Certain topics are bought up at two or more points and I found there to be too much duplication in these presentations. Another problem related to the redundancy issue ...
The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources,
... to 2100 have become the de facto standard, as in the assessment reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This report has benefited greatly from such literature, but our main focus is on the recent past and the nearer-term future – the next 25 to 50 years. This period ...
... to 2100 have become the de facto standard, as in the assessment reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This report has benefited greatly from such literature, but our main focus is on the recent past and the nearer-term future – the next 25 to 50 years. This period ...