Extreme Weather Events
... even cooled. Previously, under global warming, if temperatures plateaued or fell the jig was up. With climate change it no longer mattered if temperature observations failed to match model projections. Regardless of whether global temperatures warmed or cooled, the new terminology implied that risin ...
... even cooled. Previously, under global warming, if temperatures plateaued or fell the jig was up. With climate change it no longer mattered if temperature observations failed to match model projections. Regardless of whether global temperatures warmed or cooled, the new terminology implied that risin ...
tackling the double injustice of climate change and gender inequality
... are pervasive, but also dynamic and different in each context. Gender, climate, food security and agriculture. Changes in climate directly and indirectly affect the food security of smallholder farmers and many others. Roles in producing food are often strictly divided by gender, and while deep gend ...
... are pervasive, but also dynamic and different in each context. Gender, climate, food security and agriculture. Changes in climate directly and indirectly affect the food security of smallholder farmers and many others. Roles in producing food are often strictly divided by gender, and while deep gend ...
The Risk of Sea Level Rise: A Delphic Monte Carlo Analysis in
... example, that showed the potential impact of ice-shelf melting on the Antarctic contribution to sea level; but we had to develop equations to express the impact of global warming on the ice shelf melt rate; we also developed additional models of the Antarctic contribution, based on criticisms of the ...
... example, that showed the potential impact of ice-shelf melting on the Antarctic contribution to sea level; but we had to develop equations to express the impact of global warming on the ice shelf melt rate; we also developed additional models of the Antarctic contribution, based on criticisms of the ...
Bradford, Mark A., et al. "Climate fails to predict wood decomposition
... used to generate simulations that inform management and adaptation under environmental change. Our results suggest that to predict accurately how decomposition will respond to climate change, models must account for local-scale factors that control regional dynamics. Climate is traditionally thought ...
... used to generate simulations that inform management and adaptation under environmental change. Our results suggest that to predict accurately how decomposition will respond to climate change, models must account for local-scale factors that control regional dynamics. Climate is traditionally thought ...
Perceptions of Climate Change and Vulnerability in Upper Svaneti
... have been documented over the past century (Parmesan and Yohe 2003; IPCC 2007), and the scientific community is 90%-100% certain that human activities have influenced natural systems through the use of fossil fuels and land-use changes (IPCC 2007). Many strategies for the mitigation, prevention, and ...
... have been documented over the past century (Parmesan and Yohe 2003; IPCC 2007), and the scientific community is 90%-100% certain that human activities have influenced natural systems through the use of fossil fuels and land-use changes (IPCC 2007). Many strategies for the mitigation, prevention, and ...
Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
... management and stewardship of marine ecosystems. We point out that separating the impacts of natural climate variability and regime shifts from those associated with long-term climate change will be important, although distinguishing between the two will be a difficult task. The potential impacts of ...
... management and stewardship of marine ecosystems. We point out that separating the impacts of natural climate variability and regime shifts from those associated with long-term climate change will be important, although distinguishing between the two will be a difficult task. The potential impacts of ...
Green race is on Low carbon economy index 2010 www.pwc.co.uk
... 2009, many of the world’s largest economies have remained on their business-as-usual carbon pathways. In 2009, global GDP shrank by 0.6% with a corresponding 1.3% fall in carbon emissions compared to 2008, resulting in a 0.7% reduction in global carbon emissions intensity. The lower intensity level ...
... 2009, many of the world’s largest economies have remained on their business-as-usual carbon pathways. In 2009, global GDP shrank by 0.6% with a corresponding 1.3% fall in carbon emissions compared to 2008, resulting in a 0.7% reduction in global carbon emissions intensity. The lower intensity level ...
Reviewing estimates of the economic efficiency of
... returns to disaster risk reduction and as a global estimate across interventions and hazards on average disaster risk reduction can be said to render benefits about four times the costs in terms of avoided and reduced losses. This global number, which for more frequent flood risk is higher than for ...
... returns to disaster risk reduction and as a global estimate across interventions and hazards on average disaster risk reduction can be said to render benefits about four times the costs in terms of avoided and reduced losses. This global number, which for more frequent flood risk is higher than for ...
How Might Climate Change Affect Economic Growth in Developing
... efforts over longer periods of time. 5 Whether efforts are concentrated in time or not has implications for growth because rapid transitions are more difficult to adjust to. The second main difference between components of the climate bill is in nature: the ultimate damages of climate change result ...
... efforts over longer periods of time. 5 Whether efforts are concentrated in time or not has implications for growth because rapid transitions are more difficult to adjust to. The second main difference between components of the climate bill is in nature: the ultimate damages of climate change result ...
Dis full and final - University of Otago
... discussion. At this conference, the Paris Agreement1 was drafted; an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change2 (UNFCCC), aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to reduce global warming.3 While France’s foreign minister Laurant Fabius stated that this agreement ...
... discussion. At this conference, the Paris Agreement1 was drafted; an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change2 (UNFCCC), aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to reduce global warming.3 While France’s foreign minister Laurant Fabius stated that this agreement ...
ADDENDUM: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States AD
... marginally higher than the global average, with a concentration of warming in the winter and in higher latitudes. Reducing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, even by over 80 percent, will have no measurable effect on global mean surface temperature or other climate-change-related phenomena within any ...
... marginally higher than the global average, with a concentration of warming in the winter and in higher latitudes. Reducing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, even by over 80 percent, will have no measurable effect on global mean surface temperature or other climate-change-related phenomena within any ...
Extreme!Events!and!Climate!
... 2015). The calculation of the fractional cloud cover information is based on spectral information of the all-sky camera data. The radiation data are taken from measurements with pyranometers and pyrgeometers at the different stations. First we calculate the longwave and shortwave CRE for cases where ...
... 2015). The calculation of the fractional cloud cover information is based on spectral information of the all-sky camera data. The radiation data are taken from measurements with pyranometers and pyrgeometers at the different stations. First we calculate the longwave and shortwave CRE for cases where ...
Download report from external website
... GHG emitters and the main negotiating groups under the UNFCCC negotiated a Copenhagen Accord in a parallel informal setting – a document outlining a political compromise on the main elements of enhanced action on climate change by those countries. The COP neither authorised the formation of this par ...
... GHG emitters and the main negotiating groups under the UNFCCC negotiated a Copenhagen Accord in a parallel informal setting – a document outlining a political compromise on the main elements of enhanced action on climate change by those countries. The COP neither authorised the formation of this par ...
A Multi-Model Assessment of Regional Climate Disparities Caused
... Figure 8: The actual values of D (Equation 3) associated with the top and middle panels of Supplemental Figure 5. For each individual region, small values of D are achievable if only considering temperature. The same is true for precipitation in most, but not all, regions. ...
... Figure 8: The actual values of D (Equation 3) associated with the top and middle panels of Supplemental Figure 5. For each individual region, small values of D are achievable if only considering temperature. The same is true for precipitation in most, but not all, regions. ...
Global Increasing Trends in Annual Maximum Daily Precipitation
... of very heavy precipitation events during the past 50–100 years. These and other studies [e.g., see references in Seneviratne et al. (2012) and Trenberth et al. (2007)], which all differ in their methods of analysis, definition of extreme precipitation indices, and/or the observational datasets used ...
... of very heavy precipitation events during the past 50–100 years. These and other studies [e.g., see references in Seneviratne et al. (2012) and Trenberth et al. (2007)], which all differ in their methods of analysis, definition of extreme precipitation indices, and/or the observational datasets used ...
- Open University of Tanzania Repository
... life style and whose hope is relaying on educating their children so that after completing their duties they will be beneficiaries of the acquired knowledge and skills so as to be able to solve their global climate – change crisis. Improving links between climate change education curriculum and coun ...
... life style and whose hope is relaying on educating their children so that after completing their duties they will be beneficiaries of the acquired knowledge and skills so as to be able to solve their global climate – change crisis. Improving links between climate change education curriculum and coun ...
Target Atmospheric CO : Where Should Humanity Aim?
... vegetation distribution, and continental shelf exposure, was 3.5 ± 1 W/m2 [14] relative to the Holocene. Additional forcing due to reduced amounts of long-lived GHGs (CO2, CH4, N2O), including the indirect effects of CH4 on tropospheric ozone and stratospheric water vapor (Fig. S1) was -3 ± 0.5 W/m2 ...
... vegetation distribution, and continental shelf exposure, was 3.5 ± 1 W/m2 [14] relative to the Holocene. Additional forcing due to reduced amounts of long-lived GHGs (CO2, CH4, N2O), including the indirect effects of CH4 on tropospheric ozone and stratospheric water vapor (Fig. S1) was -3 ± 0.5 W/m2 ...
2013-2020 Climate Change Action Plan
... of society will have to live with the consequences. More frequent extreme weather events such as flooding and drought are also anticipated. Climate change will directly affect ecosystems, infrastructure, the economy and the well-being of populations the world over, including Québec. Past, present an ...
... of society will have to live with the consequences. More frequent extreme weather events such as flooding and drought are also anticipated. Climate change will directly affect ecosystems, infrastructure, the economy and the well-being of populations the world over, including Québec. Past, present an ...
Climate Change Impacts on Land Use Planning and Coastal
... Increasing scientific evidence over the last two decades suggests that human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, may be affecting the natural rhythm of climate variability.1 These changes to the global climate system include warmer temper ...
... Increasing scientific evidence over the last two decades suggests that human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, may be affecting the natural rhythm of climate variability.1 These changes to the global climate system include warmer temper ...
Making Marine Zoning Climate-Change Adaptable Robin Kundis Craig
... exploitation. Establishing the appropriate baseline by which to judge to the health of marine ecosystems, and hence the effectiveness of marine governance, is one of the most difficult aspects of creating and implementing a marine governance regime, because most marine ecosystems have been heavily e ...
... exploitation. Establishing the appropriate baseline by which to judge to the health of marine ecosystems, and hence the effectiveness of marine governance, is one of the most difficult aspects of creating and implementing a marine governance regime, because most marine ecosystems have been heavily e ...
Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook MODULE 10: Climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture
... to fisheries and aquaculture will depend on a variety of factors including: whose vulnerability is of concern; the scale at which adaptation planning is to take place; and the availability of data. Thus Allison et al., (2009) described the vulnerability of national economies through climate change p ...
... to fisheries and aquaculture will depend on a variety of factors including: whose vulnerability is of concern; the scale at which adaptation planning is to take place; and the availability of data. Thus Allison et al., (2009) described the vulnerability of national economies through climate change p ...
A Review of Downscaling Methods for Climate
... effect. The effect of aerosols on the radiative properties of Earth’s cloud cover is referred to as the indirect effect. Downscaling: Derivation of local to regional-scale (10-100 kilometers) information from larger scale modeled or observed data. There are two main approaches: dynamical downscaling ...
... effect. The effect of aerosols on the radiative properties of Earth’s cloud cover is referred to as the indirect effect. Downscaling: Derivation of local to regional-scale (10-100 kilometers) information from larger scale modeled or observed data. There are two main approaches: dynamical downscaling ...
analyses Why are we seeing “REDD”? seeing “REDD”?
... policies: compared to the aggregate monetary costs of climate change consequences of about 5-20% of annual global GDP if no action is taken, a 25% emissions reduction target by 2050 would cost only 1% of global annual GDP by 2050 and would limit the temperature increase to approximately 2ºC (Stern 2 ...
... policies: compared to the aggregate monetary costs of climate change consequences of about 5-20% of annual global GDP if no action is taken, a 25% emissions reduction target by 2050 would cost only 1% of global annual GDP by 2050 and would limit the temperature increase to approximately 2ºC (Stern 2 ...
Mental Health and Our Changing Climate
... Thus far, most research and communications on the impacts of climate change have emphasized the physical health effects, while mental health has been secondary. Building upon Beyond Storms and Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change, the goal of this updated report is to increase aware ...
... Thus far, most research and communications on the impacts of climate change have emphasized the physical health effects, while mental health has been secondary. Building upon Beyond Storms and Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change, the goal of this updated report is to increase aware ...
Climate Change Scenario Simulations over Area Climate Model:
... subdomain, is often associated with long drought episodes from which the atmospheric mechanisms are poorly understood. In an effort to improve our knowledge of weather and climate systems over this region, the PRECIS Regional Climate Model (RCM) from the United Kingdom (UK) was obtained and implemen ...
... subdomain, is often associated with long drought episodes from which the atmospheric mechanisms are poorly understood. In an effort to improve our knowledge of weather and climate systems over this region, the PRECIS Regional Climate Model (RCM) from the United Kingdom (UK) was obtained and implemen ...