From obscurity to action - Liu Institute for Global Issues
... ways, that no region of the world is untouched, and that human activity is the principal contributor to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. Scientific uncertainty cannot be cited as a legitimate reason for ignoring the security i ...
... ways, that no region of the world is untouched, and that human activity is the principal contributor to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. Scientific uncertainty cannot be cited as a legitimate reason for ignoring the security i ...
11 Appendix A part 2 - Kettering Borough Council
... Northamptonshire’s climate is changing. We now have shorter milder winters, but increasing incidence of extreme weather events. The increased levels of ‘greenhouse’ gases that are already in the atmosphere mean that whatever we do now we cannot escape some climate change, but the worst effects can b ...
... Northamptonshire’s climate is changing. We now have shorter milder winters, but increasing incidence of extreme weather events. The increased levels of ‘greenhouse’ gases that are already in the atmosphere mean that whatever we do now we cannot escape some climate change, but the worst effects can b ...
Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
... change. But this is not enough. CO2 mitigation must be combined with fast and aggressive reductions of the pollutants causing the other 40-45% of forcing.2 These pollutants include black carbon, tropospheric ozone, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Because these pollutants have atmospheric lif ...
... change. But this is not enough. CO2 mitigation must be combined with fast and aggressive reductions of the pollutants causing the other 40-45% of forcing.2 These pollutants include black carbon, tropospheric ozone, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Because these pollutants have atmospheric lif ...
NF3, the greenhouse gas missing from Kyoto
... PFCs or SF6, or even that of the world’s largest coal-fired power plants. If released, annual production would increase the lower atmospheric abundance by 0.4 ppt, and it is urgent to document NF3 emissions through atmospheric observations. Citation: Prather, M. J., and J. Hsu (2008), NF3, the green ...
... PFCs or SF6, or even that of the world’s largest coal-fired power plants. If released, annual production would increase the lower atmospheric abundance by 0.4 ppt, and it is urgent to document NF3 emissions through atmospheric observations. Citation: Prather, M. J., and J. Hsu (2008), NF3, the green ...
Coffee and Climate Change
... agroforests between 700 and 1,100 masl could come under threat affecting biodiversity, carbon stocks, and soil and water conservation. ...
... agroforests between 700 and 1,100 masl could come under threat affecting biodiversity, carbon stocks, and soil and water conservation. ...
A Stitch in Time: Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation from the
... We can adapt to climate change and limit the harm. Or we can fail to adapt and risk much more severe consequences. How we respond to this challenge will shape the future in important ways. The climate is already hazardous and always has been. Variations and extremes of climate disrupt our production ...
... We can adapt to climate change and limit the harm. Or we can fail to adapt and risk much more severe consequences. How we respond to this challenge will shape the future in important ways. The climate is already hazardous and always has been. Variations and extremes of climate disrupt our production ...
McCaffery 2010
... and lower snowpack. Climate change predictions for the Rocky Mountains suggest that snowpack will continue to decrease and snowmelt will occur at an increasingly earlier date (33). Because effects of decreased winter severity were uniformly positive, our results indicate that this climate trend will ...
... and lower snowpack. Climate change predictions for the Rocky Mountains suggest that snowpack will continue to decrease and snowmelt will occur at an increasingly earlier date (33). Because effects of decreased winter severity were uniformly positive, our results indicate that this climate trend will ...
Climate change implications for the glaciers of the Hindu Kush
... erogeneity, although Kääb et al. (2012) and others found no evidence for this. Snow avalanches may also be an important mass balance component in the Karakoram due to the steep and rugged terrain (Hewitt, 2011). The spatial heterogeneity in mass balance is therefore likely to be partly linked to spa ...
... erogeneity, although Kääb et al. (2012) and others found no evidence for this. Snow avalanches may also be an important mass balance component in the Karakoram due to the steep and rugged terrain (Hewitt, 2011). The spatial heterogeneity in mass balance is therefore likely to be partly linked to spa ...
Climate Change Action Plan Assessment Report
... greenhouse gas sink potential that could come up in the Kyoto Protocol LULUCF – Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry reporting. On the other hand a holistic legal regulation for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and preparing an inventory is still lacking. Similarly, while the action on establis ...
... greenhouse gas sink potential that could come up in the Kyoto Protocol LULUCF – Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry reporting. On the other hand a holistic legal regulation for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and preparing an inventory is still lacking. Similarly, while the action on establis ...
“Smart Climate Change” for Professional Societies Workshop WORKSHOP REPORT
... is an opportunity for climate change issues to be integrated in business. - Directors of companies should submit environmental report regularly. What effects do foreign investments have on the climate? - The Investment Promotions Act is quiet on, for example, climate change implications of foreign i ...
... is an opportunity for climate change issues to be integrated in business. - Directors of companies should submit environmental report regularly. What effects do foreign investments have on the climate? - The Investment Promotions Act is quiet on, for example, climate change implications of foreign i ...
Natural hazards and farmers experience of climate change on highly
... extreme climatic events (Houghton 2009). With globalization the awareness of environmental hazards has gone from concerning local communities to become international problems (Lidskog et al. 1997). This report has its study area located on the slopes around Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda. Here there ...
... extreme climatic events (Houghton 2009). With globalization the awareness of environmental hazards has gone from concerning local communities to become international problems (Lidskog et al. 1997). This report has its study area located on the slopes around Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda. Here there ...
Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and
... to large-scale climate oscillators has been shown here. This result argues for a more accurate representation of decadal regimes into global ocean models, whose predictions of the response of ecosystems to global change are still uncertain (20–22). Such improvements are crucial for a better forecast ...
... to large-scale climate oscillators has been shown here. This result argues for a more accurate representation of decadal regimes into global ocean models, whose predictions of the response of ecosystems to global change are still uncertain (20–22). Such improvements are crucial for a better forecast ...
A New Approach to Climate Change: A Consideration of Ancillary
... social, and economic conditions has placed it as one of the most significant challenges of the 21st Century. Current warming of the Earth’s climate is at .8 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, and without significant action within the next three decades, warming over 2 degrees Celsius is alm ...
... social, and economic conditions has placed it as one of the most significant challenges of the 21st Century. Current warming of the Earth’s climate is at .8 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, and without significant action within the next three decades, warming over 2 degrees Celsius is alm ...
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... Hamburg Tourism Model (HTM) found that climate change shifts international tourism flows towards higher altitudes and latitudes (Hamilton et al., 2005a, b). The redistribution of tourism flows could negatively affect countries and regions that depend heavily on income from tourism. On the other hand ...
... Hamburg Tourism Model (HTM) found that climate change shifts international tourism flows towards higher altitudes and latitudes (Hamilton et al., 2005a, b). The redistribution of tourism flows could negatively affect countries and regions that depend heavily on income from tourism. On the other hand ...
A blind expert test of contrarian claims about climate data
... claims and arguments have largely escaped scrutiny to date. A better understanding of those techniques is necessary because it may open avenues for communication and, where necessary, rebuttal of misinformation (e.g., Lewandowsky et al., 2012). Scientific publications containing contrarian arguments ...
... claims and arguments have largely escaped scrutiny to date. A better understanding of those techniques is necessary because it may open avenues for communication and, where necessary, rebuttal of misinformation (e.g., Lewandowsky et al., 2012). Scientific publications containing contrarian arguments ...
REDD+ Mechanism_Overview
... change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere’ ...
... change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere’ ...
Environmental federalism - Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
... This paper examines the design of climate policy in the context of a federal system. The central idea we pursue is that the design and implementation of climate policy in a unitary model of government will diverge in important ways from that in a federal system. A pressing concern of economists and ...
... This paper examines the design of climate policy in the context of a federal system. The central idea we pursue is that the design and implementation of climate policy in a unitary model of government will diverge in important ways from that in a federal system. A pressing concern of economists and ...
Running to stand still: adaptation and the response of
... Interannual variability in climate is a normal occurrence, even in the absence of long-term climatic changes. Most species tolerate such short-term variability through phenotypic plasticity. However, beyond the point at which individuals (and therefore species) are able to tolerate changes in climat ...
... Interannual variability in climate is a normal occurrence, even in the absence of long-term climatic changes. Most species tolerate such short-term variability through phenotypic plasticity. However, beyond the point at which individuals (and therefore species) are able to tolerate changes in climat ...
Today
... human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.1 Under a broad range of non-mitigation scenarios considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warming over this century is projected to be substantially larger than over the past century. Changes in many other components of the climate sys ...
... human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.1 Under a broad range of non-mitigation scenarios considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warming over this century is projected to be substantially larger than over the past century. Changes in many other components of the climate sys ...
Silvicultural Challenges and Options in the Context of Global Change
... than 23 general circulation models are currently in use to predict climatic changes. Furthermore, much is unknown regarding how ecosystems respond to climate change and other perturbations. Even more uncertainty exists regarding forest ecosystems’ responses to silvicultural manipulations under alter ...
... than 23 general circulation models are currently in use to predict climatic changes. Furthermore, much is unknown regarding how ecosystems respond to climate change and other perturbations. Even more uncertainty exists regarding forest ecosystems’ responses to silvicultural manipulations under alter ...
Fewer rainy days and more extreme rainfall by the end of the century
... Figure 2e shows to what extent these changes could occur abruptly or, in contrast, gradually. he long-term evolutions of p99 are calculated over a 30-year long moving window over the whole 21st century since 2006. Sampling uncertainties are of sensibly smaller amplitude than the long-term evolution ...
... Figure 2e shows to what extent these changes could occur abruptly or, in contrast, gradually. he long-term evolutions of p99 are calculated over a 30-year long moving window over the whole 21st century since 2006. Sampling uncertainties are of sensibly smaller amplitude than the long-term evolution ...
The Effects of Global Change upon United States Air Quality
... from Nature v2.04 (MEGANv2.04; Guenther et al., 2006) and to calculate the temporal ...
... from Nature v2.04 (MEGANv2.04; Guenther et al., 2006) and to calculate the temporal ...
Climate Change and its Effects on Ecosystems, Habitats and Biota
... Recent work documents a decrease in salinity or “freshening” of Scotian Shelf and Gulf of Maine waters (Greene et al. 2008). One of the main reasons for this is the melting of Arctic sea ice. This melting will increase the global input of freshwater resulting in changes in salinity and circulation i ...
... Recent work documents a decrease in salinity or “freshening” of Scotian Shelf and Gulf of Maine waters (Greene et al. 2008). One of the main reasons for this is the melting of Arctic sea ice. This melting will increase the global input of freshwater resulting in changes in salinity and circulation i ...
Keeping North Carolina`s Farms and Forests Vibrant and Resilient
... Increased instances of drought could be possible and increase fire hazards. Fewer days with rain, but more instances of intense rain when it does rain, could become more common. More intense rains could impact field preparation and result in erosion and nutrient loss. The increased heat and moisture c ...
... Increased instances of drought could be possible and increase fire hazards. Fewer days with rain, but more instances of intense rain when it does rain, could become more common. More intense rains could impact field preparation and result in erosion and nutrient loss. The increased heat and moisture c ...
Climate change and its impacts on river discharge in two climate
... change and its impacts on annual and seasonal discharge and the difference between median flow and extreme flow in different climate regions is of utmost importance to successful water management. To quantify the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of climate change impacts on hydrological processes, ...
... change and its impacts on annual and seasonal discharge and the difference between median flow and extreme flow in different climate regions is of utmost importance to successful water management. To quantify the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of climate change impacts on hydrological processes, ...