The politics of accuracy in judging global warming films
... the UK’s Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King, the IPCC, and one of the film’s interviewees, oceanographer Professor Carl Wunsch, all of whom complained that they had been misrepresented in the film. ...
... the UK’s Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King, the IPCC, and one of the film’s interviewees, oceanographer Professor Carl Wunsch, all of whom complained that they had been misrepresented in the film. ...
A human-induced hothouse climate?
... Royer, 2011) rely on CO2 as the master climate-controlling greenhouse gas over the long term. On geological time scales, volcanic emissions provide one critical atmospheric input of this gas. Removal of CO2 by silicate weathering reactions results in cooling only if the carbon is buried as carbonate ...
... Royer, 2011) rely on CO2 as the master climate-controlling greenhouse gas over the long term. On geological time scales, volcanic emissions provide one critical atmospheric input of this gas. Removal of CO2 by silicate weathering reactions results in cooling only if the carbon is buried as carbonate ...
Considerations for Addressing Climate Change
... emergency, medical and educational services, delays in delivery of goods and services and lost productivity. As climatic conditions change there is potential for increased disruption to transportation systems especially from extreme weather events. Understanding risks and impacts to transportation f ...
... emergency, medical and educational services, delays in delivery of goods and services and lost productivity. As climatic conditions change there is potential for increased disruption to transportation systems especially from extreme weather events. Understanding risks and impacts to transportation f ...
S e c u r i t y A n...
... to prevent destabilizing effects from climate change, including setting targets for long term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. 3. The U.S. should commit to global partnerships that help less developed nations build the capacity and resiliency to better manage climate impacts. As President Bush ...
... to prevent destabilizing effects from climate change, including setting targets for long term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. 3. The U.S. should commit to global partnerships that help less developed nations build the capacity and resiliency to better manage climate impacts. As President Bush ...
2015 Global Climate Legislation Study - summary for policymakers (English) (opens in new window)
... In this context, the results of the 2015 Global Climate Legislation Study are encouraging. Over 800 laws and policies were identified across the 99 countries included in the study. The trend of passing climate legislation continues among both developing and developed countries. Nearly half the study ...
... In this context, the results of the 2015 Global Climate Legislation Study are encouraging. Over 800 laws and policies were identified across the 99 countries included in the study. The trend of passing climate legislation continues among both developing and developed countries. Nearly half the study ...
Quantifying the contribution of land use change to surface
... and the urban heat island effect increases Ts by 1.25◦ . They have opposite impacts but are both significant in this region. Various changes in surface factors affect radiation and energy distribution and eventually modify Ts . It is the evaporative cooling effect that plays the most important role ...
... and the urban heat island effect increases Ts by 1.25◦ . They have opposite impacts but are both significant in this region. Various changes in surface factors affect radiation and energy distribution and eventually modify Ts . It is the evaporative cooling effect that plays the most important role ...
Coffee and Climate Change
... sufficient water with their large stores of underground water, replenished annually by the monsoon rains. Overall rainfall volume has been sufficient for Robusta coffee, but the uneven yearly distribution requires irrigation to achieve the high yields. Water for coffee irrigation is acquired from 3 ...
... sufficient water with their large stores of underground water, replenished annually by the monsoon rains. Overall rainfall volume has been sufficient for Robusta coffee, but the uneven yearly distribution requires irrigation to achieve the high yields. Water for coffee irrigation is acquired from 3 ...
NG-ACCESS
... The Roadmap describes nine impact areas and three associated infrastructure requirements. Enabling a "seamless approach" to decision making is an underlying paradigm. The scope of the activities is significant, encompassing more impact areas and science domains than originally envisaged under ACCESS ...
... The Roadmap describes nine impact areas and three associated infrastructure requirements. Enabling a "seamless approach" to decision making is an underlying paradigm. The scope of the activities is significant, encompassing more impact areas and science domains than originally envisaged under ACCESS ...
Peatland Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
... Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth. It is essential for sustaining the natural living systems or ecosystems that provide us with food, fuel, health, wealth, and other vital services. People are part of this biodiversity too and have the power to protect or destroy it. In the past and toda ...
... Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth. It is essential for sustaining the natural living systems or ecosystems that provide us with food, fuel, health, wealth, and other vital services. People are part of this biodiversity too and have the power to protect or destroy it. In the past and toda ...
Equity, Entitlements and Property Rights under the Kyoto Protocol
... equal climate culprits. The Brazilian figures were a response to ‘objective’ figures used by the USA suggesting that emissions from Annex I will equal those from Non-Annex I Parties by years 2015–2020, and thus justified its case that developing countries should begin to shoulder some of the burden ...
... equal climate culprits. The Brazilian figures were a response to ‘objective’ figures used by the USA suggesting that emissions from Annex I will equal those from Non-Annex I Parties by years 2015–2020, and thus justified its case that developing countries should begin to shoulder some of the burden ...
Maske für Factsheet (Vor- und Rückseite), Stand Mai 2006
... soil/plant evaporation. Exactly how large this increased evaporative loss will be would depend on factors such as physiological changes in plant biology, atmospheric circulation, and land-use patterns. This will be discussed below. As a rough estimate, potential evapotranspiration over Africa is pro ...
... soil/plant evaporation. Exactly how large this increased evaporative loss will be would depend on factors such as physiological changes in plant biology, atmospheric circulation, and land-use patterns. This will be discussed below. As a rough estimate, potential evapotranspiration over Africa is pro ...
Workshop-questions
... • Detection of the presence of non-natural signals: rejection of null hypothesis that recent trends are drawn from the distribution of trends given by the historical record. Statistical proof. • Different definition: „Detection is the process of demonstrating than an observed change is significantly ...
... • Detection of the presence of non-natural signals: rejection of null hypothesis that recent trends are drawn from the distribution of trends given by the historical record. Statistical proof. • Different definition: „Detection is the process of demonstrating than an observed change is significantly ...
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... interpreted in various ways as there exists a plurality of definitions, concepts and methodologies to assess vulnerability (Hinkel, 2011). Some definitions differentiate between external or bio-physical and inherent or social vulnerability and address their relation (Brooks, 2003; Turner et al., 200 ...
... interpreted in various ways as there exists a plurality of definitions, concepts and methodologies to assess vulnerability (Hinkel, 2011). Some definitions differentiate between external or bio-physical and inherent or social vulnerability and address their relation (Brooks, 2003; Turner et al., 200 ...
Author`s personal copy - Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange
... We identify and examine how policy intervention can help Canada’s Inuit population adapt to climate change. The policy responses are based on an understanding of the determinants of vulnerability identified in research conducted with 15 Inuit communities. A consistent approach was used in each case ...
... We identify and examine how policy intervention can help Canada’s Inuit population adapt to climate change. The policy responses are based on an understanding of the determinants of vulnerability identified in research conducted with 15 Inuit communities. A consistent approach was used in each case ...
Sea Level Rise in BC: mobilizing science into action
... sea level rise science into various tools to support and/or drive local action. The choice to include in regional projections a sea level rise scenario considered “extreme” at the time anticipated the evolving science and facilitated the subsequent introduction of a planning target of 1m by 2100. In ...
... sea level rise science into various tools to support and/or drive local action. The choice to include in regional projections a sea level rise scenario considered “extreme” at the time anticipated the evolving science and facilitated the subsequent introduction of a planning target of 1m by 2100. In ...
6 Using advocacy to help protect the environment - TILZ
... Advocacy is not about confrontation; in fact quite the reverse. The best advocacy very often involves gently influencing those with power to bring about change. It is important to first find issues which you both agree on. Spend time supporting them and building good relationships. Once you have don ...
... Advocacy is not about confrontation; in fact quite the reverse. The best advocacy very often involves gently influencing those with power to bring about change. It is important to first find issues which you both agree on. Spend time supporting them and building good relationships. Once you have don ...
Hurteau et al. 2014 - Earth Systems Ecology Lab
... large wildfires (Westerling and Bryant, 2008; Pechony and Shindell, 2010; Westerling et al., 2011) and may also increase fire severity. Based on two general circulation model projections under a doubling of atmospheric CO2, Flannigan et al. (2000) projected that mean fire severity in California (measur ...
... large wildfires (Westerling and Bryant, 2008; Pechony and Shindell, 2010; Westerling et al., 2011) and may also increase fire severity. Based on two general circulation model projections under a doubling of atmospheric CO2, Flannigan et al. (2000) projected that mean fire severity in California (measur ...
IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT)
... Hawaii, surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time since measurements began in 1958 (NOAA, 2013). This was bound to result in increases of temperatures of between 0.5 °C and 1 °C; for the period of 19582013 (Keeling, 2013). An increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases ...
... Hawaii, surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time since measurements began in 1958 (NOAA, 2013). This was bound to result in increases of temperatures of between 0.5 °C and 1 °C; for the period of 19582013 (Keeling, 2013). An increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases ...
Climate Change in - Pakistan Meteorological Department
... vehicular fossil fuel burning. Such gases have large warming potential and long life time to sustain warming process for decades to centuries. During 20th century, the increase in the global temperature was recorded as 0.76°C but in the first decade of this century 0.6°C rise has been noticed. Among ...
... vehicular fossil fuel burning. Such gases have large warming potential and long life time to sustain warming process for decades to centuries. During 20th century, the increase in the global temperature was recorded as 0.76°C but in the first decade of this century 0.6°C rise has been noticed. Among ...
Cold surge activity over the Gulf of Mexico in a warmer climate
... simulation, the model generates around 283 cold surges in 10 years (around 28 cold surges per year), which shows a slight increase of the synoptic wave activity over the Gulf of Mexico in a warmer climate. This increase in the number of cold surges may seem relatively small (around 10%), but it is c ...
... simulation, the model generates around 283 cold surges in 10 years (around 28 cold surges per year), which shows a slight increase of the synoptic wave activity over the Gulf of Mexico in a warmer climate. This increase in the number of cold surges may seem relatively small (around 10%), but it is c ...
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... water quality either for human uses or for wildlife… Utah is the second driest state in the nation; Utah has the second highest per capita water use. However, we are told to expect more people, and the climate section will show that Utah can most likely expect longer, hotter droughts at the least ...
... water quality either for human uses or for wildlife… Utah is the second driest state in the nation; Utah has the second highest per capita water use. However, we are told to expect more people, and the climate section will show that Utah can most likely expect longer, hotter droughts at the least ...
Joint Parliamentary meeting on Climate change and climate change
... future, should be guided by these climate policy principles and by the principles of sustainability, social responsibility and equity between the generations and people, and should not cease from putting the necessary global climate objectives into practice, I. whereas climate change has a particul ...
... future, should be guided by these climate policy principles and by the principles of sustainability, social responsibility and equity between the generations and people, and should not cease from putting the necessary global climate objectives into practice, I. whereas climate change has a particul ...
Mechanisms of Current Terrestrial Carbon Sinks and Future
... structure and demography of ecosystems are critical for understanding current and future C sinks. Both need to be coupled to biogeochemical and ecophysiological models. ...
... structure and demography of ecosystems are critical for understanding current and future C sinks. Both need to be coupled to biogeochemical and ecophysiological models. ...
Are observed changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the
... that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.” The so called “evidence” cited in Chapter 8 of the main report was based on one paper that at the time had not been published in the refereed scientific literature. Moreover, one of the authors of this paper was also the convening lead ...
... that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.” The so called “evidence” cited in Chapter 8 of the main report was based on one paper that at the time had not been published in the refereed scientific literature. Moreover, one of the authors of this paper was also the convening lead ...
VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE
... SIDS are located mainly in tropical and sub-tropical oceans. Their climate is influenced strongly by ocean-atmosphere interactions which often manifest themselves in extreme weather events such as hurricanes and cyclones. These events are associated with storm surges, coral bleaching, inundation of ...
... SIDS are located mainly in tropical and sub-tropical oceans. Their climate is influenced strongly by ocean-atmosphere interactions which often manifest themselves in extreme weather events such as hurricanes and cyclones. These events are associated with storm surges, coral bleaching, inundation of ...