Forests synchronize their growth in contrasting Eurasian regions in
... (SI Appendix, Tables S2 and S3), indicating that the increasing synchrony in tree growth is a widespread ecological phenomenon, although regionally dependent. Synchrony estimates could be sensitive to the number of available chronologies, a number that has decreased progressively in the most recent ...
... (SI Appendix, Tables S2 and S3), indicating that the increasing synchrony in tree growth is a widespread ecological phenomenon, although regionally dependent. Synchrony estimates could be sensitive to the number of available chronologies, a number that has decreased progressively in the most recent ...
Climate Protection in Figures. Facts, Trends and Incentives for
... latest Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that compliance with the 2 °C limit – and thus the avoidance of some of the worst consequences of climate change – remains technically and economically feasible.3 However, this will take significant greenhouse gas ...
... latest Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that compliance with the 2 °C limit – and thus the avoidance of some of the worst consequences of climate change – remains technically and economically feasible.3 However, this will take significant greenhouse gas ...
Arctic Climate and Water Change: Information Relevance for Assessment and Adaptation Arvid Bring
... e↵orts to understand transport and origin of key waterborne constituents. Further development of monitoring cannot rely only on a reconciliation of observations and projections on where climate change will be the most severe, as they diverge in this regard. Climate model simulations of drainage basi ...
... e↵orts to understand transport and origin of key waterborne constituents. Further development of monitoring cannot rely only on a reconciliation of observations and projections on where climate change will be the most severe, as they diverge in this regard. Climate model simulations of drainage basi ...
Driving California Forward Public Health and Societal Economic Benefits
... Health effects of the current transportation system and benefits of new fuel regulations Among the many documented impacts of air pollution generated from cars and trucks is increased risk of asthma attacks, heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, respiratory ailments, and cancer, as well as shortene ...
... Health effects of the current transportation system and benefits of new fuel regulations Among the many documented impacts of air pollution generated from cars and trucks is increased risk of asthma attacks, heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, respiratory ailments, and cancer, as well as shortene ...
Final Report
... driven largely by anthropogenic activities, is a growing threat to human well-being in developing and industrialized nations alike. Significant harm from climate change is already occurring, and further damages are likely especially those associated with extreme weather events (Gwary, ...
... driven largely by anthropogenic activities, is a growing threat to human well-being in developing and industrialized nations alike. Significant harm from climate change is already occurring, and further damages are likely especially those associated with extreme weather events (Gwary, ...
Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Climate Change
... households, which were coping well had either an employed spouse or children or their spouses had other income generating projects. This also points to gender imbalances in decision-making at household level. The household questionnaire participants and focus group discussants both confirmed that de ...
... households, which were coping well had either an employed spouse or children or their spouses had other income generating projects. This also points to gender imbalances in decision-making at household level. The household questionnaire participants and focus group discussants both confirmed that de ...
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... given by Ellsberg illustrates that people prefer to bet on the outcome of an urn that contains 50 yellow and 50 white balls rather than the outcome of an urn that contains 100 yellow and white balls in an unknown proportion. Several researchers, including Becker and Brownson (1964), Slovic and Tvers ...
... given by Ellsberg illustrates that people prefer to bet on the outcome of an urn that contains 50 yellow and 50 white balls rather than the outcome of an urn that contains 100 yellow and white balls in an unknown proportion. Several researchers, including Becker and Brownson (1964), Slovic and Tvers ...
information - Refugee Studies Centre
... location and the economic pull of another, more promising location. Three million people fled the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, whilst 700,000 mostly poor black people departed to northern states following the Mississippi Delta flood of 1927. Their decisions in many instances reflected a combination of pr ...
... location and the economic pull of another, more promising location. Three million people fled the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, whilst 700,000 mostly poor black people departed to northern states following the Mississippi Delta flood of 1927. Their decisions in many instances reflected a combination of pr ...
Environmentally displaced people Understanding the linkages
... location and the economic pull of another, more promising location. Three million people fled the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, whilst 700,000 mostly poor black people departed to northern states following the Mississippi Delta flood of 1927. Their decisions in many instances reflected a combination of pr ...
... location and the economic pull of another, more promising location. Three million people fled the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, whilst 700,000 mostly poor black people departed to northern states following the Mississippi Delta flood of 1927. Their decisions in many instances reflected a combination of pr ...
When It Rains, It Pours - The Public Interest Network
... • Even in the rest of the country, where total annual precipitation is expected to increase, more of that precipitation will fall in heavy rainstorms or snowstorms, paradoxically increasing the potential for drought. • As temperatures rise, precipitation will become increasingly likely to fall as r ...
... • Even in the rest of the country, where total annual precipitation is expected to increase, more of that precipitation will fall in heavy rainstorms or snowstorms, paradoxically increasing the potential for drought. • As temperatures rise, precipitation will become increasingly likely to fall as r ...
Climate smartness of GIZ soil protection and rehabilitation
... developing countries. The majority of future increase in agricultural emissions is expected to take place in low- to middle-income countries (Smith et al., 2007). While industrialized countries must dramatically reduce current levels of GHG emissions, developing countries face the challenge of findi ...
... developing countries. The majority of future increase in agricultural emissions is expected to take place in low- to middle-income countries (Smith et al., 2007). While industrialized countries must dramatically reduce current levels of GHG emissions, developing countries face the challenge of findi ...
NRDC: Clean Power – The Case for Carbon Pollution Limits
... change, including children; the elderly; people with heart, lung, or kidney ailments; and low-income communities. “As the effects of climate change result in increased negative health and environmental outcomes, children will disproportionately bear the burden of these outcomes,” according to the Am ...
... change, including children; the elderly; people with heart, lung, or kidney ailments; and low-income communities. “As the effects of climate change result in increased negative health and environmental outcomes, children will disproportionately bear the burden of these outcomes,” according to the Am ...
Tipping elements and climate-economic shocks: Pathways toward
... The difference between committed and realized change is significant from a human perspective for three reasons. First, in some systems, the frictions that lead to a separation of realized and committed change may push the consequences of a tipping point beyond the time horizon of socio-economic rele ...
... The difference between committed and realized change is significant from a human perspective for three reasons. First, in some systems, the frictions that lead to a separation of realized and committed change may push the consequences of a tipping point beyond the time horizon of socio-economic rele ...
Methane - Clean Air Task Force
... reports of rising Arctic temperatures, disappearing glaciers, rising sea levels, and dislocated wildlife have silenced most climate change skeptics and lent a new level of urgency to the search for solutions. Much of the world’s attention has focused on cutting emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the ...
... reports of rising Arctic temperatures, disappearing glaciers, rising sea levels, and dislocated wildlife have silenced most climate change skeptics and lent a new level of urgency to the search for solutions. Much of the world’s attention has focused on cutting emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the ...
global climate change and health – a new theme for research in
... Environmental medicine research is missing in the field of climate change and health The recently published report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) as well as a number of books, films and mass-media programs have put the issue of climate change in the spotlight. Resear ...
... Environmental medicine research is missing in the field of climate change and health The recently published report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) as well as a number of books, films and mass-media programs have put the issue of climate change in the spotlight. Resear ...
Climate change - The Open University
... understanding of why the Earth's surface is so much warmer than the effective radiating temperature. Tyndall's careful experimental work had established what others only suspected: expressed in modern scientific terms, certain atmospheric gases absorb infrared radiation with wavelengths in the range ...
... understanding of why the Earth's surface is so much warmer than the effective radiating temperature. Tyndall's careful experimental work had established what others only suspected: expressed in modern scientific terms, certain atmospheric gases absorb infrared radiation with wavelengths in the range ...
Gaziantep Climate Change Action Plan Executive Summary
... with its deeply rooted history, industry and gastronomy. Within the vision of enhancing this valuable brand, we are devoted to cater for the local and common needs of Gaziantep citizens while offering them a prosperity, security and peace in a modern and environment-friendly city. We would like to t ...
... with its deeply rooted history, industry and gastronomy. Within the vision of enhancing this valuable brand, we are devoted to cater for the local and common needs of Gaziantep citizens while offering them a prosperity, security and peace in a modern and environment-friendly city. We would like to t ...
Improving the 5th UK carbon budget
... intuitive, transparent and honest. The UK’s carbon budgets under the Climate Change Act embody a simple promise: to keep national For more information visit www.sandbag.org.uk or emissions beneath the level proposed by the email us at [email protected] Secretary of State and agreed in parliament. ...
... intuitive, transparent and honest. The UK’s carbon budgets under the Climate Change Act embody a simple promise: to keep national For more information visit www.sandbag.org.uk or emissions beneath the level proposed by the email us at [email protected] Secretary of State and agreed in parliament. ...
Michael E. Schlesinger, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences
... is an expert in the modeling, simulation and analysis of climate and climate change, with interests in simulating and understanding past, present and possible future climates, climate impacts and climate policy. He carried out the first detailed comparison of climate and climate changes simulated by ...
... is an expert in the modeling, simulation and analysis of climate and climate change, with interests in simulating and understanding past, present and possible future climates, climate impacts and climate policy. He carried out the first detailed comparison of climate and climate changes simulated by ...
On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks
... dismal theorem states that the evaluation of climate change policy is highly sensitive to catastrophic outcomes, even if they occur with vanishingly small, but ‘fat-tailed’1 , probability. The dismal theorem suggests that such fat-tailed risks are an inescapable consequence of bayesian statistics, a ...
... dismal theorem states that the evaluation of climate change policy is highly sensitive to catastrophic outcomes, even if they occur with vanishingly small, but ‘fat-tailed’1 , probability. The dismal theorem suggests that such fat-tailed risks are an inescapable consequence of bayesian statistics, a ...
sea level rise in the caribbean - M
... of aesthetics), which are projected to accelerate in the coming decades and compound the existing threats to natural systems and society. Dulal et al. conclude that: “If the Caribbean countries fail to adapt, they are likely to take direct and substantial economic hits to their most important indust ...
... of aesthetics), which are projected to accelerate in the coming decades and compound the existing threats to natural systems and society. Dulal et al. conclude that: “If the Caribbean countries fail to adapt, they are likely to take direct and substantial economic hits to their most important indust ...
Co-ordination, Communication and Adaptation for Climate Change
... the Strategy will be supported by The European ...
... the Strategy will be supported by The European ...
Climate Change Helplessness and Efficacy
... efficacy beliefs and energy conservation behavior. To believe that one is helpless against climate change means that one’s own actions do not matter—to either harm or help others—and so do not have a moral impact. But belief in the efficacy of personal actions imbues those actions with moral value a ...
... efficacy beliefs and energy conservation behavior. To believe that one is helpless against climate change means that one’s own actions do not matter—to either harm or help others—and so do not have a moral impact. But belief in the efficacy of personal actions imbues those actions with moral value a ...
CO2 emissions from biomass combustion for bioenergy
... while other researchers have focused on fixing ‘a critical climate accounting error’ (Searchinger et al., 2009; Searchinger, 2010). Searchinger et al. (2009) moved a step forward, stating that ‘replacing fossil fuels with bioenergy does not by itself reduce C emissions’, since the CO2 released by ta ...
... while other researchers have focused on fixing ‘a critical climate accounting error’ (Searchinger et al., 2009; Searchinger, 2010). Searchinger et al. (2009) moved a step forward, stating that ‘replacing fossil fuels with bioenergy does not by itself reduce C emissions’, since the CO2 released by ta ...
CLIMATE CHANGE HELPLESSNESS 1 Running head: CLIMATE
... efficacy beliefs and energy conservation behavior. To believe that one is helpless against climate change means that one’s own actions do not matter—to either harm or help others—and so do not have a moral impact. But belief in the efficacy of personal actions imbues those actions with moral value a ...
... efficacy beliefs and energy conservation behavior. To believe that one is helpless against climate change means that one’s own actions do not matter—to either harm or help others—and so do not have a moral impact. But belief in the efficacy of personal actions imbues those actions with moral value a ...