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... under SRES-B1 and SRES-A2 (Special Report on Emission Scenarios) emission scenarios were used to produce the future projections. By mid-century our results suggest wintertime conditions with reduced cold stress, caused by less frequent and shorter periods of severe frost together with a rise in the ...
... under SRES-B1 and SRES-A2 (Special Report on Emission Scenarios) emission scenarios were used to produce the future projections. By mid-century our results suggest wintertime conditions with reduced cold stress, caused by less frequent and shorter periods of severe frost together with a rise in the ...
Potential Earnings Impacts from Climate Change: Energy Infrastructure
... Liable parties who are able to reduce their emissions below the level of emissions for which they have permits are able to sell excess permits on market. The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is an example of a cap and trade scheme. Under a baseline and credit scheme, liable parties a ...
... Liable parties who are able to reduce their emissions below the level of emissions for which they have permits are able to sell excess permits on market. The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is an example of a cap and trade scheme. Under a baseline and credit scheme, liable parties a ...
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... not benefit from information about climate change in terms of livestock improvement, and among those who did not adapt 88.10% did not benefit. From those who adapted 50.50% perceived an increase in temperatures compared with 69.00% who perceived an increase in temperature but did not adapt. From tho ...
... not benefit from information about climate change in terms of livestock improvement, and among those who did not adapt 88.10% did not benefit. From those who adapted 50.50% perceived an increase in temperatures compared with 69.00% who perceived an increase in temperature but did not adapt. From tho ...
Climate change effects on human health
... adaptation of the population, heat-related deaths would be expected to rise by around 257% by the 2050s from a current annual baseline of around 2000 deaths, and cold-related mortality would decline by 2% from a baseline of around 41 000 deaths. The cold burden remained higher than the heat burden i ...
... adaptation of the population, heat-related deaths would be expected to rise by around 257% by the 2050s from a current annual baseline of around 2000 deaths, and cold-related mortality would decline by 2% from a baseline of around 41 000 deaths. The cold burden remained higher than the heat burden i ...
Weather and climate: changing human exposures
... ature range would increase dramatically and the average temperature would be about 33 °C colder (3). Changes in the composition of gases in the atmosphere alter the intensity of the greenhouse effect. This analogy arose because these gases have been likened to the glass of a greenhouse that lets in ...
... ature range would increase dramatically and the average temperature would be about 33 °C colder (3). Changes in the composition of gases in the atmosphere alter the intensity of the greenhouse effect. This analogy arose because these gases have been likened to the glass of a greenhouse that lets in ...
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
... Climate change can no longer be completely prevented. The mean temperature in Finland is expected to rise by more than the global average. The speed of such change is a major challenge to society and to nature. It is vitally important to mitigate the progress of climate change and to reduce greenhou ...
... Climate change can no longer be completely prevented. The mean temperature in Finland is expected to rise by more than the global average. The speed of such change is a major challenge to society and to nature. It is vitally important to mitigate the progress of climate change and to reduce greenhou ...
Assessing the impact of late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions on
... M.-O. Brault et al.: Assessing the impact of late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions effect could be extended well beyond the deforested area due to sea ice-albedo feedbacks, and would tend to persist throughout the entire year owing to the oceanic thermal inertia. Subsequent studies with the same ...
... M.-O. Brault et al.: Assessing the impact of late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions effect could be extended well beyond the deforested area due to sea ice-albedo feedbacks, and would tend to persist throughout the entire year owing to the oceanic thermal inertia. Subsequent studies with the same ...
Understanding Uncertainties in Future Colorado River Streamflow
... inflow ratios of over 4 (vs. ~0.3 in the Columbia River basin, for example). Therefore, for the basin ...
... inflow ratios of over 4 (vs. ~0.3 in the Columbia River basin, for example). Therefore, for the basin ...
Effects of climate change on life history
... While the Earth has experienced much climatic variability over historical time, current climatic changes differ in 2 important ways in terms of their negative impact on biodiversity and extinction rates. (1) The rate of change is generally considered to be unparalleled in the past 10 000 yr. The lat ...
... While the Earth has experienced much climatic variability over historical time, current climatic changes differ in 2 important ways in terms of their negative impact on biodiversity and extinction rates. (1) The rate of change is generally considered to be unparalleled in the past 10 000 yr. The lat ...
Do Western and Eastern Europe have the same
... Europe. We call this model the ‘Single Climate-Response Model’. (ii) The second model repeats this Single Climate-Response Model while allowing climate coefficients to vary between the two regions. This is done by multiplying a dummy for Eastern and Western Europe times each variable (Mendelsohn and ...
... Europe. We call this model the ‘Single Climate-Response Model’. (ii) The second model repeats this Single Climate-Response Model while allowing climate coefficients to vary between the two regions. This is done by multiplying a dummy for Eastern and Western Europe times each variable (Mendelsohn and ...
The Supreme Court’s Climate Change Massachusetts v. EPA Summary Robert Meltz
... Massachusetts’s status as owner of much of the commonwealth’s shore land. That this injury may be widely shared with other coastal states does not disqualify this injury, said the Court; it is nonetheless concrete. The second prong of the standing test is causation, requiring that the injury of whic ...
... Massachusetts’s status as owner of much of the commonwealth’s shore land. That this injury may be widely shared with other coastal states does not disqualify this injury, said the Court; it is nonetheless concrete. The second prong of the standing test is causation, requiring that the injury of whic ...
August 2013 News
... Jayadhar, a popular variety of cotton grown in Karnataka that was also earlier used in making flags, has been replaced by Bt cotton. “Quality of cotton is determined by length, strength and appearance, and Bt cotton provides all these qualities. The national flag needs to be stronger. We mainly proc ...
... Jayadhar, a popular variety of cotton grown in Karnataka that was also earlier used in making flags, has been replaced by Bt cotton. “Quality of cotton is determined by length, strength and appearance, and Bt cotton provides all these qualities. The national flag needs to be stronger. We mainly proc ...
Climate Change Quarterly: Fall 2016
... States. We analyzed spatially detailed data on extreme weather frequencies during the historical period (1950–2005) and under different scenarios of future climate change by mid- and late-21st century. We found that all wildlife refuges will likely experience substantial changes in the frequencies o ...
... States. We analyzed spatially detailed data on extreme weather frequencies during the historical period (1950–2005) and under different scenarios of future climate change by mid- and late-21st century. We found that all wildlife refuges will likely experience substantial changes in the frequencies o ...
Science and Technology
... In the recent years, do you have a feeling that it is not as cold as before in winter and it is much hotter in summer than the past? What is happening actually? Let us investigate on the phenomenon of global warming. Firstly we have to raise a question – Is the temperature on the Earth rising contin ...
... In the recent years, do you have a feeling that it is not as cold as before in winter and it is much hotter in summer than the past? What is happening actually? Let us investigate on the phenomenon of global warming. Firstly we have to raise a question – Is the temperature on the Earth rising contin ...
Vegetation and Biogeochemical Scenarios (Chapter 2) from the
... This chapter is designed to report the results of the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project II (VEMAP II);a project that has provided data about terrestrial ecosystem responses to climate change to Assessment participants. The chapter is not meant to be a comprehensive,in-depth analysis ...
... This chapter is designed to report the results of the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project II (VEMAP II);a project that has provided data about terrestrial ecosystem responses to climate change to Assessment participants. The chapter is not meant to be a comprehensive,in-depth analysis ...
Public Perception of Climate Change in a Period of Economic Crisis
... progress made in the past concerning the awareness of climate change. Also, the citizens have very low confidence in the public authorities and the big enterprises to deal with climate change, while they have high level of trust in scientific and environmental organizations. They agree with public a ...
... progress made in the past concerning the awareness of climate change. Also, the citizens have very low confidence in the public authorities and the big enterprises to deal with climate change, while they have high level of trust in scientific and environmental organizations. They agree with public a ...
Kyoto Protocol - Earth and Architecture
... year)under the Kyoto Protocol, despite mounting pressure from environmental groups and industrialized nations. India made it clear on September 16, 2011 that it wanted extension of the current Kyoto Protocol on emission cuts, but said it would not accept any further legally binding emission framewor ...
... year)under the Kyoto Protocol, despite mounting pressure from environmental groups and industrialized nations. India made it clear on September 16, 2011 that it wanted extension of the current Kyoto Protocol on emission cuts, but said it would not accept any further legally binding emission framewor ...
Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown
... trends over one interval are larger or smaller than those over another interval (as ...
... trends over one interval are larger or smaller than those over another interval (as ...
What do realists think about climate change?
... Far from being a matter of “low politics” (Carter 2010, p.52) a phrase Mearsheimer coined in 2001, climate change has become a major challenge for international institutions and states. The UN is leading negotiations among states to reach a universal agreement to address the causes of climate change ...
... Far from being a matter of “low politics” (Carter 2010, p.52) a phrase Mearsheimer coined in 2001, climate change has become a major challenge for international institutions and states. The UN is leading negotiations among states to reach a universal agreement to address the causes of climate change ...
Non-CO2 greenhouse gases and climate change
... more definitive with measurements of additional trace gases and related variables. Measurements of CH4 isotopologues (for example 13CH4) contain information about CH4 sources because these sources can enrich or deplete the 13C or 2H content of atmospheric CH4. Methane measured at Alert, Canada, in t ...
... more definitive with measurements of additional trace gases and related variables. Measurements of CH4 isotopologues (for example 13CH4) contain information about CH4 sources because these sources can enrich or deplete the 13C or 2H content of atmospheric CH4. Methane measured at Alert, Canada, in t ...
Using the Kyoto Protocol as a stepping stone.
... the validation to get a CDM project registered, but after some criticism that non-additional projects were registered up to 70% of the CDM project went into the review cycle and other delays thereby prolonging the time to get a project registered to about two years. This became a learning process fo ...
... the validation to get a CDM project registered, but after some criticism that non-additional projects were registered up to 70% of the CDM project went into the review cycle and other delays thereby prolonging the time to get a project registered to about two years. This became a learning process fo ...
Climate Risk Assessment for Water Resources
... downscaling approaches are available which change the resolution of climate projections, they do little to improve their credibility. In this analysis we have attempted to address these concerns in two ways. First, as described above, a bottom-up (decision-scaling) approach to assessing risks was ad ...
... downscaling approaches are available which change the resolution of climate projections, they do little to improve their credibility. In this analysis we have attempted to address these concerns in two ways. First, as described above, a bottom-up (decision-scaling) approach to assessing risks was ad ...
Blöschl, G., A. Viglione and A. Montanari (2013)
... The ‘top-down’ approach is designed to represent the main processes causing the hazard and its consequences. In the case of climate impacts on floods (Figure 2), the ‘top-down’ approach starts at the global scale and cascades information from emission scenarios of future societies to simulated climat ...
... The ‘top-down’ approach is designed to represent the main processes causing the hazard and its consequences. In the case of climate impacts on floods (Figure 2), the ‘top-down’ approach starts at the global scale and cascades information from emission scenarios of future societies to simulated climat ...
- White Rose Research Online
... environmental communication because its main cause, greenhouse gas emissions, is invisible. The predominant approach of making climate change visible is the use of iconic, often affective, imagery. Literature on the iconography of climate change shows that global iconic motifs, such as polar bears, ...
... environmental communication because its main cause, greenhouse gas emissions, is invisible. The predominant approach of making climate change visible is the use of iconic, often affective, imagery. Literature on the iconography of climate change shows that global iconic motifs, such as polar bears, ...