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... framework of International Relations theory. This collection is not for that purpose – it is instead to empirically ground such understanding in the experience of climate change at the international level – be it in the form of conflict, negotiations or the mechanisms created by the global community ...
... framework of International Relations theory. This collection is not for that purpose – it is instead to empirically ground such understanding in the experience of climate change at the international level – be it in the form of conflict, negotiations or the mechanisms created by the global community ...
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... mean monthly values of each variable for the control and the scenario periods. The perturbations are expressed as differences for the temperature and as ratios for the other variables. As the PRUDENCE database provides small ensembles of simulations at the control and SRES scenario levels, we calcul ...
... mean monthly values of each variable for the control and the scenario periods. The perturbations are expressed as differences for the temperature and as ratios for the other variables. As the PRUDENCE database provides small ensembles of simulations at the control and SRES scenario levels, we calcul ...
Understanding and responding to climate change in the
... Climate change affects everyone regardless of national and business boundaries. Climate change developments are likely to affect nearly every part of the seafood industry (from production to consumption). Such developments may be negative, but could also be positive. Observations suggest current rat ...
... Climate change affects everyone regardless of national and business boundaries. Climate change developments are likely to affect nearly every part of the seafood industry (from production to consumption). Such developments may be negative, but could also be positive. Observations suggest current rat ...
Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of
... Thermal performance curves can, however, shift somewhat depending on the trait, acclimation and time of temperature exposure [48,51 – 53]. An organism’s integrated performance or fitness over some time interval depends on its performance curve, weighted by the Tb it experiences during that interval ...
... Thermal performance curves can, however, shift somewhat depending on the trait, acclimation and time of temperature exposure [48,51 – 53]. An organism’s integrated performance or fitness over some time interval depends on its performance curve, weighted by the Tb it experiences during that interval ...
Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming
... Thermal performance curves can, however, shift somewhat depending on the trait, acclimation and time of temperature exposure [48,51 – 53]. An organism’s integrated performance or fitness over some time interval depends on its performance curve, weighted by the Tb it experiences during that interval ...
... Thermal performance curves can, however, shift somewhat depending on the trait, acclimation and time of temperature exposure [48,51 – 53]. An organism’s integrated performance or fitness over some time interval depends on its performance curve, weighted by the Tb it experiences during that interval ...
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... The ultimate objective of this Convention .... is to achieve, .… stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient : ...
... The ultimate objective of this Convention .... is to achieve, .… stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient : ...
Climate Change
... all of you - committed and interested members of the food and nutrition community. A year has gone by since the publication of the SCN News 37 and many , conferences, meetings and initiatives important for moving the nutrition agenda forward have taken place. We can see that nutrition is high on the ...
... all of you - committed and interested members of the food and nutrition community. A year has gone by since the publication of the SCN News 37 and many , conferences, meetings and initiatives important for moving the nutrition agenda forward have taken place. We can see that nutrition is high on the ...
A New Climate for Conservation: Nature Carbon and Climate
... This report was commissioned by the Working Group on Biodiversity, Forests and Climate, an alliance of Environmental Non-governmental Organizations (ENGOs) including: B.C. Spaces for Nature, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, David Suzuki Foundation, ForestEthics, Land Trust Alliance of B.C., We ...
... This report was commissioned by the Working Group on Biodiversity, Forests and Climate, an alliance of Environmental Non-governmental Organizations (ENGOs) including: B.C. Spaces for Nature, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, David Suzuki Foundation, ForestEthics, Land Trust Alliance of B.C., We ...
The Austrian Strategy for Adaptation to Climate
... has become a major focus of attention. The obligation to develop a national adaptation strategy can be found in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1 (UNFCCC 2007, ratified by Austria), as well as in Art. 10 (b) of the Kyoto Protocol, which came into force in 2005. These agreem ...
... has become a major focus of attention. The obligation to develop a national adaptation strategy can be found in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1 (UNFCCC 2007, ratified by Austria), as well as in Art. 10 (b) of the Kyoto Protocol, which came into force in 2005. These agreem ...
The Austrian Strategy for Adaptation to Climate
... has become a major focus of attention. The obligation to develop a national adaptation strategy can be found in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1 (UNFCCC 2007, ratified by Austria), as well as in Art. 10 (b) of the Kyoto Protocol, which came into force in 2005. These agreem ...
... has become a major focus of attention. The obligation to develop a national adaptation strategy can be found in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1 (UNFCCC 2007, ratified by Austria), as well as in Art. 10 (b) of the Kyoto Protocol, which came into force in 2005. These agreem ...
Chapter 7: Human Health
... increasing as the climate continues to change. For example, climate-sensitive diseases (e.g. Lyme disease) and vectors are moving northward into Canada and will likely continue to expand their range. In addition, new research suggests climate change will exacerbate air pollution issues in some parts ...
... increasing as the climate continues to change. For example, climate-sensitive diseases (e.g. Lyme disease) and vectors are moving northward into Canada and will likely continue to expand their range. In addition, new research suggests climate change will exacerbate air pollution issues in some parts ...
Assessing resilience of the Nile Delta urban
... Proceedings of the Resilient Cities 2014 Congress Correspondingly, resilience of cities, whereby cities are viewed as dynamic systems themselves, is concerned with the ability of such systems to support the provision and accessibility to services and functions essential for the wellbeing of all cit ...
... Proceedings of the Resilient Cities 2014 Congress Correspondingly, resilience of cities, whereby cities are viewed as dynamic systems themselves, is concerned with the ability of such systems to support the provision and accessibility to services and functions essential for the wellbeing of all cit ...
GDI 12 – Warming Core
... considerable gap in expertise between the two groups. An alternative measure of the quality and credibility of a scientist's contribution is the number of times their work is cited by other scientists. Again, there is a considerable gap between the number of citations of papers by convinced scientis ...
... considerable gap in expertise between the two groups. An alternative measure of the quality and credibility of a scientist's contribution is the number of times their work is cited by other scientists. Again, there is a considerable gap between the number of citations of papers by convinced scientis ...
State of Climate Change Science in the Great Lakes Basin
... integration of the cumulative effects of other environmental stressors into climate change impact analyses would be beneficial. ...
... integration of the cumulative effects of other environmental stressors into climate change impact analyses would be beneficial. ...
Project Management
... climate change related issues in their sector. As such, there is a much better understanding among most stakeholders about what the informational needs are which would assist in developing climate change related programmes for both mitigation and adaptation. This would include, for example, modellin ...
... climate change related issues in their sector. As such, there is a much better understanding among most stakeholders about what the informational needs are which would assist in developing climate change related programmes for both mitigation and adaptation. This would include, for example, modellin ...
Arctic Climate Impact Science – an update since ACIA
... With an ice volume of about 2.9 million km , the Greenland Ice Sheet has the potential to contribute much more to global sea-level rise than all of the other glaciers and ice caps combined (excluding the Antarctic Ice Sheet). If the entire Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt, sea level would rise by ab ...
... With an ice volume of about 2.9 million km , the Greenland Ice Sheet has the potential to contribute much more to global sea-level rise than all of the other glaciers and ice caps combined (excluding the Antarctic Ice Sheet). If the entire Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt, sea level would rise by ab ...
Estimating the Effect of Climate Change on the Hydrology of the Nile
... The 33 General Circulation Models (GCM), which are used in our analysis and described in Appendix A, were run for Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5. RCPs are emission scenarios reflective of greenhouse gas concentrations with 450 and 850 parts per million of greenhouse gases su ...
... The 33 General Circulation Models (GCM), which are used in our analysis and described in Appendix A, were run for Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5. RCPs are emission scenarios reflective of greenhouse gas concentrations with 450 and 850 parts per million of greenhouse gases su ...
Contrasting the direct radiative effect and direct radiative forcing of
... effective radiative forcing (ERF), which allows physical variables (e.g the temperature profile) “to respond to perturbations with rapid adjustments”; this does not generally include feedbacks or responses to climate change, but in the case of aerosols, now includes the “semi-direct effect”. The DRF ...
... effective radiative forcing (ERF), which allows physical variables (e.g the temperature profile) “to respond to perturbations with rapid adjustments”; this does not generally include feedbacks or responses to climate change, but in the case of aerosols, now includes the “semi-direct effect”. The DRF ...
Sea-Level Rise
... Climate change refers to a long-term shift in the Earth’s weather pattern as a result of both natural variation and human-induced factors. These shifts include alterations in the averages, extremes, timing, and spatial distribution of weather (Holdren, 2008). The past two decades have been the warme ...
... Climate change refers to a long-term shift in the Earth’s weather pattern as a result of both natural variation and human-induced factors. These shifts include alterations in the averages, extremes, timing, and spatial distribution of weather (Holdren, 2008). The past two decades have been the warme ...
Jul 16, 2016 - Science and Environmental Policy Project
... U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology that calls into question the educated guesses (assumptions) that form the basis of the fear of carbon dioxide caused global warming, now called climate change. We know that climate has been changing for hundreds of millions of years; the Greenhouse ...
... U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology that calls into question the educated guesses (assumptions) that form the basis of the fear of carbon dioxide caused global warming, now called climate change. We know that climate has been changing for hundreds of millions of years; the Greenhouse ...
Eco-physiological adaptations that favour freshwater cyanobacteria
... evidence that blooms are increasing not only in frequency, but also in biomass, duration and distribution (Anderson et al., 2002; Glibert et al., 2005; Hallegraeff, 1993; Smayda, 1990). Furthermore, it has been hypothesised that cyanobacteria may continue to increase in response to global climate ch ...
... evidence that blooms are increasing not only in frequency, but also in biomass, duration and distribution (Anderson et al., 2002; Glibert et al., 2005; Hallegraeff, 1993; Smayda, 1990). Furthermore, it has been hypothesised that cyanobacteria may continue to increase in response to global climate ch ...
Emerging trends in heavy precipitation and hot temperature
... [Morice et al., 2012]) and (ii) the 30 year Gaussian smoothed Swiss annual mean temperature (sSAT) based on 12 long Swiss series [cf. Begert et al., 2005]. This scaling with GMT allows to compare the results with other studies on the larger scale [e.g., Seneviratne et al., 2016; Westra et al., 2013] ...
... [Morice et al., 2012]) and (ii) the 30 year Gaussian smoothed Swiss annual mean temperature (sSAT) based on 12 long Swiss series [cf. Begert et al., 2005]. This scaling with GMT allows to compare the results with other studies on the larger scale [e.g., Seneviratne et al., 2016; Westra et al., 2013] ...
A Global Response to HFCs through Fair and
... One argument against the introduction of HFC control schedules into the Montreal Protocol has been that HFCs are already included under the climate regime. This ignores the distinction of production and consumption controls under Montreal and emissions controls under Kyoto. Furthermore, it is by no ...
... One argument against the introduction of HFC control schedules into the Montreal Protocol has been that HFCs are already included under the climate regime. This ignores the distinction of production and consumption controls under Montreal and emissions controls under Kyoto. Furthermore, it is by no ...
English
... 4. Scenarios of future climate change to 2100 that are likely to keep global average temperature increases within a limit of 2°C above pre-industrial levels mostly rely on technologies for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as well as emission reductions, with pathways that feature net negative emissions ...
... 4. Scenarios of future climate change to 2100 that are likely to keep global average temperature increases within a limit of 2°C above pre-industrial levels mostly rely on technologies for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as well as emission reductions, with pathways that feature net negative emissions ...
Survey of Climate Change Considerations in Federal Environmental
... affect carbon sequestration but did not attempt to quantify these impacts. In some EISs, USFS explained that a quantitative analysis was not feasible. 9 USFS referred to CEQ’s 2010 draft guidance on climate change (issued in 2010), which stated that there was not yet “any established Federal protoco ...
... affect carbon sequestration but did not attempt to quantify these impacts. In some EISs, USFS explained that a quantitative analysis was not feasible. 9 USFS referred to CEQ’s 2010 draft guidance on climate change (issued in 2010), which stated that there was not yet “any established Federal protoco ...