Climate model simulations of the observed early-2000s - e
... Climate model simulations of the observed early-2000s hiatus of global warming Gerald A. Meehl1*, Haiyan Teng1 and Julie M. Arblaster1,2 The slowdown in the rate of global warming in the early 2000s is not evident in the multi-model ensemble average of traditional climate change projection simulatio ...
... Climate model simulations of the observed early-2000s hiatus of global warming Gerald A. Meehl1*, Haiyan Teng1 and Julie M. Arblaster1,2 The slowdown in the rate of global warming in the early 2000s is not evident in the multi-model ensemble average of traditional climate change projection simulatio ...
"Climate Change and Wildfire in California," Climatic Change, 87
... carry-over of fine fuels (grasses, forbs, etc.) is a limiting factor. Precipitation tends to be somewhat more variable than temperature across global climate models and scenarios, implying greater uncertainty for non-forest wildfire risks, while warmer temperatures might tend to reduce the moisture ...
... carry-over of fine fuels (grasses, forbs, etc.) is a limiting factor. Precipitation tends to be somewhat more variable than temperature across global climate models and scenarios, implying greater uncertainty for non-forest wildfire risks, while warmer temperatures might tend to reduce the moisture ...
http://www.magrama.gob.es/es/cambio-climatico/publicaciones/documentacion/cle_ene_pla_urg_mea_tcm7-12478.pdf
... Climate change is one of the main threats to sustainable development; it represents one of the main environmental challenges having effects on the global economy, health and social welfare. Its impacts will be felt with greater intensity by future generations. For this reason, it is necessary to act ...
... Climate change is one of the main threats to sustainable development; it represents one of the main environmental challenges having effects on the global economy, health and social welfare. Its impacts will be felt with greater intensity by future generations. For this reason, it is necessary to act ...
Climate change track in river floods in Europe
... a climate change signature in river flow data is quite complex, so that particular care is needed in selecting data and sites for use in studying climate impact on floods. In order to assess climatically-forced hydrological changes, data should be taken from pristine drainage basins that are not aff ...
... a climate change signature in river flow data is quite complex, so that particular care is needed in selecting data and sites for use in studying climate impact on floods. In order to assess climatically-forced hydrological changes, data should be taken from pristine drainage basins that are not aff ...
Biological Impacts of Climate Change
... Global climate is swiftly changing, with poorly known consequences for biodiversity and human well being. In the last 90 years Earth’s mean temperature rose 0.6°C, a rate of increase that has not been seen in 10,000 years. Since the mid-1990s, it has been clear that mean global temperature rose duri ...
... Global climate is swiftly changing, with poorly known consequences for biodiversity and human well being. In the last 90 years Earth’s mean temperature rose 0.6°C, a rate of increase that has not been seen in 10,000 years. Since the mid-1990s, it has been clear that mean global temperature rose duri ...
Livestock and greenhouse gas emissions: The importance of getting
... counting GHG emissions in the world – are considered to come under Scope 1 and Scope 2 (that is, GHG emissions from elements owned or purchased by a livestock producer). However, our World Watch article included an assessment that Livestock’s Long Shadow dramatically undercounts Scope 1 GHG emission ...
... counting GHG emissions in the world – are considered to come under Scope 1 and Scope 2 (that is, GHG emissions from elements owned or purchased by a livestock producer). However, our World Watch article included an assessment that Livestock’s Long Shadow dramatically undercounts Scope 1 GHG emission ...
3. the climate change policy framework
... For Jamaica, building resilience to the impacts of climate change is of the highest priority. Among the conclusions of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) are “that global warming since the mid-20th century was unequivocal and caused primarily by huma ...
... For Jamaica, building resilience to the impacts of climate change is of the highest priority. Among the conclusions of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) are “that global warming since the mid-20th century was unequivocal and caused primarily by huma ...
1.2 Climate Change and the Water Cycle
... suffers from water supply problems. Even in some industrialized regions of the mid-latitudes climate zone where humid conditions prevail, for instance Central Europe, dry spells can lead to serious problems. An example is the hot-dry summer 2003 (Schönwiese et al., 2004) leading to at least 35,000 a ...
... suffers from water supply problems. Even in some industrialized regions of the mid-latitudes climate zone where humid conditions prevail, for instance Central Europe, dry spells can lead to serious problems. An example is the hot-dry summer 2003 (Schönwiese et al., 2004) leading to at least 35,000 a ...
Carbon Constrained Future - AGL Sustainability Report 2016
... AGL accepts the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conclusion that: warming of the climate is unequivocal; anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are extremely likely to be the cause; and that the risks associated with climate change are reduced substantially if warming is limited to l ...
... AGL accepts the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conclusion that: warming of the climate is unequivocal; anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are extremely likely to be the cause; and that the risks associated with climate change are reduced substantially if warming is limited to l ...
Vulnerability and climate change hotspots in Africa
... climate. The rainfall is highly variable in space. The coefficient of variation of rainfall is mapped in this paper and it revealed that rainfall variability is large in drought prone areas of the continent. The African rainfall is dominated by inter-annual and decadal variability for the past; howe ...
... climate. The rainfall is highly variable in space. The coefficient of variation of rainfall is mapped in this paper and it revealed that rainfall variability is large in drought prone areas of the continent. The African rainfall is dominated by inter-annual and decadal variability for the past; howe ...
Using expert knowledge to assess uncertainties in future polar bear
... simulations has been used extensively in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC 2007b). Figure 1 details the inputs used in this study and the associated up- and downstream uncertainties. The time period was selected as 2050 because it is far enough into the future to show significant anthropogenic ...
... simulations has been used extensively in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC 2007b). Figure 1 details the inputs used in this study and the associated up- and downstream uncertainties. The time period was selected as 2050 because it is far enough into the future to show significant anthropogenic ...
Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science
... increases strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are recognized. The turning point must come soon: If global warming is to be limited to a maximum of 2 °C above pre-industrial values ...
... increases strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are recognized. The turning point must come soon: If global warming is to be limited to a maximum of 2 °C above pre-industrial values ...
Heat capacity, time constant, and sensitivity of Earth`s climate system
... [2] Changes in Earth’s radiation budget due to human influences are of major current concern [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007]. Of principal concern is the change in climate due to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide because of the long lifetime of excess CO2 in the atm ...
... [2] Changes in Earth’s radiation budget due to human influences are of major current concern [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007]. Of principal concern is the change in climate due to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide because of the long lifetime of excess CO2 in the atm ...
Understanding public complacency about climate
... 2003; O’Connor et al. 1999). Many advocate a “wait and see strategy.” Asked to choose which of several statements came closest to their own view, nearly 60% chose either “until we are sure that global warming is really a problem, we should not take any steps that would have economic costs” or “its e ...
... 2003; O’Connor et al. 1999). Many advocate a “wait and see strategy.” Asked to choose which of several statements came closest to their own view, nearly 60% chose either “until we are sure that global warming is really a problem, we should not take any steps that would have economic costs” or “its e ...
i. executive summary
... UNDP contributed to enhancing Thailand's capacity for harmonized development cooperation with south-south cooperation at two levels, i.e., at the upstream policy level and the implementation of sectoral assistance. The results, however, are more distinguished at the level of sectoral cooperation tha ...
... UNDP contributed to enhancing Thailand's capacity for harmonized development cooperation with south-south cooperation at two levels, i.e., at the upstream policy level and the implementation of sectoral assistance. The results, however, are more distinguished at the level of sectoral cooperation tha ...
Why We Need A New Direction In Climate Change Science
... Estimated radiative forcings since preindustrial times for the Earth and Troposphere system (TOA) radiative forcing with adjusted stratospheric temperatures). The height of the rectangular bar denotes a central or best estimate of the forcing, while each vertical line is an estimate of the uncertai ...
... Estimated radiative forcings since preindustrial times for the Earth and Troposphere system (TOA) radiative forcing with adjusted stratospheric temperatures). The height of the rectangular bar denotes a central or best estimate of the forcing, while each vertical line is an estimate of the uncertai ...
Chapter 4 Impact of Climate Change on Low Islands The Tarawa
... and crowded environment, even small changes can have a large impact. Socioeconomic trends point to a continuing rise in the atoll’s vulnerability in the future (box 4). By 2050, under the climate change scenarios shown in table 2, Tarawa could experience annual damages of about US$8─$16 million (tab ...
... and crowded environment, even small changes can have a large impact. Socioeconomic trends point to a continuing rise in the atoll’s vulnerability in the future (box 4). By 2050, under the climate change scenarios shown in table 2, Tarawa could experience annual damages of about US$8─$16 million (tab ...
Global Change Grand Challenge National Research Plan
... About 250 years ago came the start of the industrial revolution, and the current industrial economy which now dominates the world is based on fossil fuels. These are a finite resource, and their consumption has generated greenhouse gases that are transforming all the most important sustaining ecosys ...
... About 250 years ago came the start of the industrial revolution, and the current industrial economy which now dominates the world is based on fossil fuels. These are a finite resource, and their consumption has generated greenhouse gases that are transforming all the most important sustaining ecosys ...
Lauren O`Donell.Trees for Zambia
... By creating a project that offers value to all stakeholders and is implemented in a strategically beneficial and economically streamlined way, we hope to capture a process which can be effectively transposed to fit many similar applications. July 2012 will be a pilot and we hope to replicate this an ...
... By creating a project that offers value to all stakeholders and is implemented in a strategically beneficial and economically streamlined way, we hope to capture a process which can be effectively transposed to fit many similar applications. July 2012 will be a pilot and we hope to replicate this an ...
Australia`s future emissions reduction targets
... The Authority's recommendations in this report, as in its earlier reports, are founded on the comprehensive scientific evidence that human activities are the major contributor to global warming. Burning fossil fuels, many industrial processes, and land clearing activities (among others) produce gree ...
... The Authority's recommendations in this report, as in its earlier reports, are founded on the comprehensive scientific evidence that human activities are the major contributor to global warming. Burning fossil fuels, many industrial processes, and land clearing activities (among others) produce gree ...
The Copenhagen Diagnosis - Climate Change Research Centre
... increases strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are recognized. The turning point must come soon: If global warming is to be limited to a maximum of 2 °C above pre-industrial values ...
... increases strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are recognized. The turning point must come soon: If global warming is to be limited to a maximum of 2 °C above pre-industrial values ...
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... result, despite a remarkable decline over the past twenty years, the carbon intensity of GDP is today 30% higher in China than in India. All the dynamics of income per capita, of carbon intensity of energy, of energy intensity of GDP and the level of population, explain why China’s carbon dioxide em ...
... result, despite a remarkable decline over the past twenty years, the carbon intensity of GDP is today 30% higher in China than in India. All the dynamics of income per capita, of carbon intensity of energy, of energy intensity of GDP and the level of population, explain why China’s carbon dioxide em ...
The Real Truth about Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change:
... years ago, that is widely agreed (although timing and values are still quite uncertain), but he neglects to add that the global climate then was very different, being warm enough for what is now tropical vegetation in polar latitudes. In addition, all indications are that those very high concentrati ...
... years ago, that is widely agreed (although timing and values are still quite uncertain), but he neglects to add that the global climate then was very different, being warm enough for what is now tropical vegetation in polar latitudes. In addition, all indications are that those very high concentrati ...
Climate change and urbanization: effects and implications for urban
... Urban governments have critical roles in adaptation to climate change in all nations as well as in mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions). It can be argued that they have the central role in adaptation within their jurisdictions – although it is obvious that they need a supportive institutio ...
... Urban governments have critical roles in adaptation to climate change in all nations as well as in mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions). It can be argued that they have the central role in adaptation within their jurisdictions – although it is obvious that they need a supportive institutio ...