EThekwini - Urban Energy Support
... resultant mitigation spin-offs in terms of the buildings energy efficiency project, very little internal institutional momentum and knowledge was built around the issue of climate change per se. This was the result, in part, of the fact that the CCP campaign in South Africa did not offer the partici ...
... resultant mitigation spin-offs in terms of the buildings energy efficiency project, very little internal institutional momentum and knowledge was built around the issue of climate change per se. This was the result, in part, of the fact that the CCP campaign in South Africa did not offer the partici ...
Combating Climate Change – A Role for UK
... assessment of UK forestry and climate change. The independent assessment was commissioned by the Forestry Commission to examine the potential of the UK’s trees and woodlands to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate. It forms part of the UK response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan ...
... assessment of UK forestry and climate change. The independent assessment was commissioned by the Forestry Commission to examine the potential of the UK’s trees and woodlands to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate. It forms part of the UK response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan ...
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 ...
- Divecha Centre for Climate Change
... With the passage of time, it is relevant to assess the effectiveness of the GCMs in best modeling climate change and also to judge which of the scenarios best represent the present situation under climate forcing. ...
... With the passage of time, it is relevant to assess the effectiveness of the GCMs in best modeling climate change and also to judge which of the scenarios best represent the present situation under climate forcing. ...
Annexes
... are already in force and / or are legislated or planned to be adopted. Baseline scenarios are not intended to be predictions of the future, but rather counterfactual constructions that can serve to highlight the level of emissions that would occur without further policy effort. Typically, baseline s ...
... are already in force and / or are legislated or planned to be adopted. Baseline scenarios are not intended to be predictions of the future, but rather counterfactual constructions that can serve to highlight the level of emissions that would occur without further policy effort. Typically, baseline s ...
An Analysis of Radiative Equilibrium, Forcings, and Feedbacks
... By definition, climate is a 30‐year period of time, so to speak of climate change the forcing must typically be persistent over decades. If the forcing is persistent and large enough, it may produce a temperature trend that can be detectable against natural, internal variability. Volcanic erupt ...
... By definition, climate is a 30‐year period of time, so to speak of climate change the forcing must typically be persistent over decades. If the forcing is persistent and large enough, it may produce a temperature trend that can be detectable against natural, internal variability. Volcanic erupt ...
Global warming in a nonlinear climate
... the logic of his final argument? The conventional scientific view is that we should not; weather forecasting is an initial value problem, while the global warming problem focuses on estimating how long-term weather statistics are affected by some prescribed climate forcing associated, say, with a do ...
... the logic of his final argument? The conventional scientific view is that we should not; weather forecasting is an initial value problem, while the global warming problem focuses on estimating how long-term weather statistics are affected by some prescribed climate forcing associated, say, with a do ...
Climate change: The Need to Consider g Human Forcings in Addition to h
... I’m confident too that none of my climate science colleagues would find anything to challenge in this statement. y p two different framings of climate change – g g open up the possibility p p p y And yet these two different provocations – of very different forms of public and policy engagement wit ...
... I’m confident too that none of my climate science colleagues would find anything to challenge in this statement. y p two different framings of climate change – g g open up the possibility p p p y And yet these two different provocations – of very different forms of public and policy engagement wit ...
CV - Department of Earth Sciences
... • Department Graduate Student Representative (2011-2012): Organized Earth Sciences Department Seminars for 1 academic year and led incoming graduate student field trip. • Taught elementary school teachers basics for teaching weather and climate at the K-12 level (2011) WORK EXPERIENCE & PROFESSIONAL ...
... • Department Graduate Student Representative (2011-2012): Organized Earth Sciences Department Seminars for 1 academic year and led incoming graduate student field trip. • Taught elementary school teachers basics for teaching weather and climate at the K-12 level (2011) WORK EXPERIENCE & PROFESSIONAL ...
Climate change projections for Greater Manchester
... The UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) provided through the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) is the latest and most comprehensive package of information on the potential future climate for the UK. Continued improvements in modelling and understanding of the climate system allow climate projections ...
... The UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) provided through the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) is the latest and most comprehensive package of information on the potential future climate for the UK. Continued improvements in modelling and understanding of the climate system allow climate projections ...
Policymakers Summary
... Sun The Earth intercepts solar radiation (including that in the short-wave, visible, part of the spectrum), about a third of it is reflected, the rest is absorbed by the different components (atmosphere, ocean, ice, land and biota) of the climate system The energy absorbed from solar radiation is ba ...
... Sun The Earth intercepts solar radiation (including that in the short-wave, visible, part of the spectrum), about a third of it is reflected, the rest is absorbed by the different components (atmosphere, ocean, ice, land and biota) of the climate system The energy absorbed from solar radiation is ba ...
motivating individual carbon reduction through local government
... growing awareness that the energy demand in housing accounted for as much as 30% of the UK’s CO2 emissions total (Jones et al, 2000). Critics pointed out that this was evidence that effective policies would now have to be constructed in order to address more direct patterns of consumption if they we ...
... growing awareness that the energy demand in housing accounted for as much as 30% of the UK’s CO2 emissions total (Jones et al, 2000). Critics pointed out that this was evidence that effective policies would now have to be constructed in order to address more direct patterns of consumption if they we ...
china book final:china book final
... have been conducted using the global atmospheric-oceanic coupled model of China National Climate Center (noted as NCC/IAPT63) under the SRES A2 and B2 scenarios. The purpose of the simulation is to analyze the climate change over Western China, especially in the Northwestern China and the Tibetan Pl ...
... have been conducted using the global atmospheric-oceanic coupled model of China National Climate Center (noted as NCC/IAPT63) under the SRES A2 and B2 scenarios. The purpose of the simulation is to analyze the climate change over Western China, especially in the Northwestern China and the Tibetan Pl ...
Elizabeth G. Ferris
... Kyoto Protocol was to bind signing nations together in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 baselines. While the exact percentage of emissions that must be cut varies country by country, the average reduction is around 5% of 1990 emission levels by 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol expir ...
... Kyoto Protocol was to bind signing nations together in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 baselines. While the exact percentage of emissions that must be cut varies country by country, the average reduction is around 5% of 1990 emission levels by 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol expir ...
ACTSA Briefing paper_Climate change in southern
... further aggravated by climate variability and climate change. With a temperature rise of four degrees, some projections show that an increase in droughts across Africa may cause a fall in harvests of roughly 15 - 35 percent, in stark contrast to an average global decline of 10 percent, according to ...
... further aggravated by climate variability and climate change. With a temperature rise of four degrees, some projections show that an increase in droughts across Africa may cause a fall in harvests of roughly 15 - 35 percent, in stark contrast to an average global decline of 10 percent, according to ...
Carbon Finance: Emerging Opportunities for for Biosphere
... Climate Change (UNFCCC) defines Climate Change as ‘a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the ...
... Climate Change (UNFCCC) defines Climate Change as ‘a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the ...
ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE Should We Be Worried? www.whoi.edu Robert B. Gagosian
... the wider community of scientists, economists, policy makers, and world political and business leaders. Thus, world leaders may be planning for climate scenarios of global warming that are opposite to what might actually occur.1 It is important to clarify that we are not contemplating a situation of ...
... the wider community of scientists, economists, policy makers, and world political and business leaders. Thus, world leaders may be planning for climate scenarios of global warming that are opposite to what might actually occur.1 It is important to clarify that we are not contemplating a situation of ...
Newsweek
... The road from Rio led to an international meeting in Kyoto, Japan, where more than 100 nations would negotiate a treaty on making Rio's voluntary—and largely ignored—greenhouse curbs mandatory. The coal and oil industries, worried that Kyoto could lead to binding greenhouse cuts that would imperil t ...
... The road from Rio led to an international meeting in Kyoto, Japan, where more than 100 nations would negotiate a treaty on making Rio's voluntary—and largely ignored—greenhouse curbs mandatory. The coal and oil industries, worried that Kyoto could lead to binding greenhouse cuts that would imperil t ...
HIS EXCELLENCY BHARRAT JAGDEO PRESIDENT OF THE
... Three, we can support the diversification of our wider economy into low carbon economic sectors through opening up the non-forested part of our country – such as the Intermediate Savannahs - to sectors like aquaculture, fruits and vegetables and bioethanol. For historical reasons, these parts of th ...
... Three, we can support the diversification of our wider economy into low carbon economic sectors through opening up the non-forested part of our country – such as the Intermediate Savannahs - to sectors like aquaculture, fruits and vegetables and bioethanol. For historical reasons, these parts of th ...
A set of logical steps in order to make an assessment of
... the specialists that are going to do the assessment and the authorities who asked for it. Only through this exchange it will be possible to estimate the extent and depth of the assessment, including even the feasibility of it, according to the available data and tools necessary to do so. One possibl ...
... the specialists that are going to do the assessment and the authorities who asked for it. Only through this exchange it will be possible to estimate the extent and depth of the assessment, including even the feasibility of it, according to the available data and tools necessary to do so. One possibl ...
The International Climate Change Regime: The Road from Copenhagen
... long shot at best in today’s political climate — this might not be enough to achieve a binding international agreement. True, it would be a tremendous step forward for the United States. But it is unclear whether it would be enough to change China’s opposition to legally-binding emissions commitment ...
... long shot at best in today’s political climate — this might not be enough to achieve a binding international agreement. True, it would be a tremendous step forward for the United States. But it is unclear whether it would be enough to change China’s opposition to legally-binding emissions commitment ...
PDF
... CO2 atmospheric concentrations at 550 ppm by the end of the century. This is roughly equivalent to a 650 ppm target if all GHGs are included. The second target is more ambitious. The optimal investment and R&D strategies have been designed to stabilise CO2 concentrations at 450 ppm (550 ppm all gase ...
... CO2 atmospheric concentrations at 550 ppm by the end of the century. This is roughly equivalent to a 650 ppm target if all GHGs are included. The second target is more ambitious. The optimal investment and R&D strategies have been designed to stabilise CO2 concentrations at 450 ppm (550 ppm all gase ...
Monmouth University Poll
... Overall, a majority (55%) of Americans say sea level rise will have either a great deal (28%) or some (27%) impact on the environment – ranging from the weather to drinking water quality – in the area where they live. Four-in-ten feel their area will experience either just a little (20%) or no envir ...
... Overall, a majority (55%) of Americans say sea level rise will have either a great deal (28%) or some (27%) impact on the environment – ranging from the weather to drinking water quality – in the area where they live. Four-in-ten feel their area will experience either just a little (20%) or no envir ...
Carbon Offset Emission Memo - Alberta Environment and Parks
... of the Carbon Offset Emission Factors Handbook (the Handbook). The Carbon Offset Emission Factors Handbook contains a listing of common emission factors used in the Alberta carbon offset system as well as common quantification methodologies. The Handbook will be updated periodically to reflect chang ...
... of the Carbon Offset Emission Factors Handbook (the Handbook). The Carbon Offset Emission Factors Handbook contains a listing of common emission factors used in the Alberta carbon offset system as well as common quantification methodologies. The Handbook will be updated periodically to reflect chang ...
Losses on All Human Timescales
... Some aspects of climate will continue to change even if temperatures are stabilized. Processes related to … changes in the ice sheets, deep ocean warming and associated sea level rise and potential feedbacks linking for example ocean and the ice sheets have their own intrinsic long time scales, and ...
... Some aspects of climate will continue to change even if temperatures are stabilized. Processes related to … changes in the ice sheets, deep ocean warming and associated sea level rise and potential feedbacks linking for example ocean and the ice sheets have their own intrinsic long time scales, and ...