Selected articles by Martin Khor on Climate Change, 2005-2007
... "Never before has the negative impact of climate change been more evident than the recent devastating weather conditions resulting in widespread hurricanes, cyclones, tropical storms, tidal waves, tsunamis in various parts of the world, particularly affecting small island developing states. These sm ...
... "Never before has the negative impact of climate change been more evident than the recent devastating weather conditions resulting in widespread hurricanes, cyclones, tropical storms, tidal waves, tsunamis in various parts of the world, particularly affecting small island developing states. These sm ...
Global average surface temperature has increased by 0
... the same rate. Global variations in the amount and rate of warming will also affect the distribution and rates of change of other meteorological variables, such as precipitation, radiation receipts and potential evapotranspiration. Therefore a disparity of scales exists between the global scenarios, ...
... the same rate. Global variations in the amount and rate of warming will also affect the distribution and rates of change of other meteorological variables, such as precipitation, radiation receipts and potential evapotranspiration. Therefore a disparity of scales exists between the global scenarios, ...
The Electoral Disconnect and its Constitutional Implications
... War II, and the triumph of national government over state and local governments during the Civil Rights era. This gradual transition has bestowed much autonomy on the elite politicians, a reality that the Founding Fathers, specifically the Anti-Federalists, might have hoped to avoid. With more respo ...
... War II, and the triumph of national government over state and local governments during the Civil Rights era. This gradual transition has bestowed much autonomy on the elite politicians, a reality that the Founding Fathers, specifically the Anti-Federalists, might have hoped to avoid. With more respo ...
boiling point - India Environment Portal
... “Boiling Point”, seeks immediate attention of every responsible citizen in the country so that they may take appropriate action that can help in long term mitigation and local level adaptation. It presents case studies from different parts of India, where local communities are already under the assa ...
... “Boiling Point”, seeks immediate attention of every responsible citizen in the country so that they may take appropriate action that can help in long term mitigation and local level adaptation. It presents case studies from different parts of India, where local communities are already under the assa ...
Climate change and mass extinction: What can we learn from 200
... atmosphere – an important greenhouse gas – has changed over the last 400 million years of Earth history. Using a simple inverse relationship between the number of stomata (microscopic breathing pores) on the leaf surface and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere we can reconstruct ho ...
... atmosphere – an important greenhouse gas – has changed over the last 400 million years of Earth history. Using a simple inverse relationship between the number of stomata (microscopic breathing pores) on the leaf surface and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere we can reconstruct ho ...
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from... of Economic Research
... Change (IPCC) leaves little doubt that anthropogenic GHG emissions are already changing the earth’s climate system.2 Unconstrained growth in GHG emissions is likely to intensify these changes in coming decades, raising the prospect of serious damage to ecological and economic systems worldwide.3 Man ...
... Change (IPCC) leaves little doubt that anthropogenic GHG emissions are already changing the earth’s climate system.2 Unconstrained growth in GHG emissions is likely to intensify these changes in coming decades, raising the prospect of serious damage to ecological and economic systems worldwide.3 Man ...
Developing countries and the future of the Kyoto Protocol
... contributed only around one quarter of greenhouse gases from energy consumption now accumulated in the atmosphere. Energy use and emissions per person in developing countries on average are still only around a quarter of that in industrialized countries. Resources for economic restructuring are much ...
... contributed only around one quarter of greenhouse gases from energy consumption now accumulated in the atmosphere. Energy use and emissions per person in developing countries on average are still only around a quarter of that in industrialized countries. Resources for economic restructuring are much ...
Introduction to the Symposium: Beyond the Mean
... provide inferences about past and predictions about future climate impacts (Walther et al. 2002; Field et ...
... provide inferences about past and predictions about future climate impacts (Walther et al. 2002; Field et ...
the wcrp cmip3 multimodel dataset
... runs and idealized 1% yr–1 CO2 increase experiments (Meehl et al. 1997). A subset of model data was then collected and archived at the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) and made available to researchers outside the modeling groups. Subsequently there were several additi ...
... runs and idealized 1% yr–1 CO2 increase experiments (Meehl et al. 1997). A subset of model data was then collected and archived at the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) and made available to researchers outside the modeling groups. Subsequently there were several additi ...
COSTA RICA`s
... action to be performed during the next four years. As part of our international commitment, Costa Rica is presenting its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) under the United Nation’s Convention framework for Climate Change, which defines our commitment to climate action from now and ...
... action to be performed during the next four years. As part of our international commitment, Costa Rica is presenting its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) under the United Nation’s Convention framework for Climate Change, which defines our commitment to climate action from now and ...
Global Environmental Issues
... characteristics of the resulting changes in climate (such as more frequent heat waves, increases in rainfall, increase in frequency and intensity of many extreme climate events) can be identified. Substantial uncertainties remain in knowledge of some of the feedbacks within the climate system (that ...
... characteristics of the resulting changes in climate (such as more frequent heat waves, increases in rainfall, increase in frequency and intensity of many extreme climate events) can be identified. Substantial uncertainties remain in knowledge of some of the feedbacks within the climate system (that ...
Warming Bad - Debate Central
... are almost entirely the cause. My total turnaround, in such a short time, is the result of careful and objective analysis by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, which I founded with my daughter Elizabeth. Our results show that the average temperature of the earth’s land has risen by two ...
... are almost entirely the cause. My total turnaround, in such a short time, is the result of careful and objective analysis by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, which I founded with my daughter Elizabeth. Our results show that the average temperature of the earth’s land has risen by two ...
Ethics, equity and the economics of climate change. Paper 1: science and philosophy: Working Paper 84a (568 kB) (opens in new window)
... within the atmosphere. But this initial warming also triggers many feedbacks in the atmosphere that act to amplify or suppress the initial warming effect. Of substantial importance amongst these feedbacks is water vapour. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, and water vapour, as a potent greenhouse ...
... within the atmosphere. But this initial warming also triggers many feedbacks in the atmosphere that act to amplify or suppress the initial warming effect. Of substantial importance amongst these feedbacks is water vapour. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, and water vapour, as a potent greenhouse ...
Strengthening Risk Governance Capacities for
... diseases associated with damp, dust and air pollution linked to disaster. ...
... diseases associated with damp, dust and air pollution linked to disaster. ...
Key technical challenges for the electric power industry
... equipment failure and system operations. The effects of climate change will combine with the effects of other changes such as population migration and changes in water availability. Since power systems need to be designed and operated with respect to extremes of weather and peak loading, it is neces ...
... equipment failure and system operations. The effects of climate change will combine with the effects of other changes such as population migration and changes in water availability. Since power systems need to be designed and operated with respect to extremes of weather and peak loading, it is neces ...
CA*net II - EDUCAUSE Library
... > Wind and solar power are most likely candidates because of opportunity cost/benefit analysis especially time to deploy – Nuclear has high opportunity cost because of time to deploy – http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/14/stanford-study-part-1-wind-solarbaseload-easily-beat-nuclear-and-they-all-bes ...
... > Wind and solar power are most likely candidates because of opportunity cost/benefit analysis especially time to deploy – Nuclear has high opportunity cost because of time to deploy – http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/14/stanford-study-part-1-wind-solarbaseload-easily-beat-nuclear-and-they-all-bes ...
Environment, Politics and Development Working Paper Series
... celebrity, in many ways, can be understood as the figure of the individual par excellence 29. For example, we might consider how the ‘striving’ motif which commonly marks so much star behaviour is consistent with the aspirational, ‘meritocratic’ ethos of post-Fordism; or how the new wave of celebrit ...
... celebrity, in many ways, can be understood as the figure of the individual par excellence 29. For example, we might consider how the ‘striving’ motif which commonly marks so much star behaviour is consistent with the aspirational, ‘meritocratic’ ethos of post-Fordism; or how the new wave of celebrit ...
BIODIVERSITY SECTOR RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
... • The Indian Ocean Coastal Belt increases under the best case scenario with the warm moist conditions which favour this biome expanding but Indian Ocean Coastal Belt shifts to a Savanna biome under worst case scenarios. • Succulent Karoo largely persist under all the scenarios. This contrasts with p ...
... • The Indian Ocean Coastal Belt increases under the best case scenario with the warm moist conditions which favour this biome expanding but Indian Ocean Coastal Belt shifts to a Savanna biome under worst case scenarios. • Succulent Karoo largely persist under all the scenarios. This contrasts with p ...
Zimbabwe - TILZ
... known as El Niño, is associated with periods of low rainfall and the risk of drought in Zimbabwe, while ENSO’s cold phase, La Niña, brings periods of high rainfall and increased risk of flooding. Positive IOD events are associated with lower summer rainfall in Zimbabwe (Manatsa et al., 2008). Key cl ...
... known as El Niño, is associated with periods of low rainfall and the risk of drought in Zimbabwe, while ENSO’s cold phase, La Niña, brings periods of high rainfall and increased risk of flooding. Positive IOD events are associated with lower summer rainfall in Zimbabwe (Manatsa et al., 2008). Key cl ...
Modelling the impact of future changes in climate, CO2
... The future emissions of greenhouse gases will depend on future trends in the global economy, population growth, and technological change. The recognition that these factors are linked led the IPCC to develop a set of scenarios, in which change in each factor is consistent with a particular ‘storylin ...
... The future emissions of greenhouse gases will depend on future trends in the global economy, population growth, and technological change. The recognition that these factors are linked led the IPCC to develop a set of scenarios, in which change in each factor is consistent with a particular ‘storylin ...
Climate and carbon cycle models in Integrated Assessment Models
... reference year 1990. Land use change is responsible for estimated net emissions of 1.5 GtC per year to the atmosphere, mainly from tropical deforestation. In total about 500 GtC has been released to the atmosphere over the period 1850 to 2007, with contributions of 350 GtC from fossil fuel use and 1 ...
... reference year 1990. Land use change is responsible for estimated net emissions of 1.5 GtC per year to the atmosphere, mainly from tropical deforestation. In total about 500 GtC has been released to the atmosphere over the period 1850 to 2007, with contributions of 350 GtC from fossil fuel use and 1 ...
COMB-Commission on Mediterranean Basin is part of the IGU
... Mediterranean geographers (or geographers interested in the Mediterranean area) to address scientific challenges initially proposed by 1. The IPCC Working Group I, contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Climate Change (2013) evaluated assessment of future climate ...
... Mediterranean geographers (or geographers interested in the Mediterranean area) to address scientific challenges initially proposed by 1. The IPCC Working Group I, contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Climate Change (2013) evaluated assessment of future climate ...
Download country chapter
... As a constitutional monarchy, the key institutions in the Netherland’s legislative process are the Upper House (Senate) of the Parliament, with 75 members elected by the 12 provinces, and the Lower House (House of Representatives) with 150 directly elected members. Elections for both Houses take pla ...
... As a constitutional monarchy, the key institutions in the Netherland’s legislative process are the Upper House (Senate) of the Parliament, with 75 members elected by the 12 provinces, and the Lower House (House of Representatives) with 150 directly elected members. Elections for both Houses take pla ...
Shared Vision for South Asia - Pakistan Institute of Trade And
... financial resources to help developing countries both to mitigate and to adapt. ...
... financial resources to help developing countries both to mitigate and to adapt. ...
POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, NOT SCIENCE, THE REAL DRIVER OF
... “There's a type of green zealot who appears to relish climate change. Every rise in sea levels is noted excitedly. Every cyclone is applauded and claimed as a noisy, deadly witness for their side. Suddenly, it's as if they have the planet's assistance in their lifelong campaign to bully everyone els ...
... “There's a type of green zealot who appears to relish climate change. Every rise in sea levels is noted excitedly. Every cyclone is applauded and claimed as a noisy, deadly witness for their side. Suddenly, it's as if they have the planet's assistance in their lifelong campaign to bully everyone els ...