Use of models in detection and attribution of climate change
... also objectively evaluate the ability of climate models to simulate observed climate change, assess the role of external factors versus climate variability in observed climate change, and enable prediction of future climate change that is grounded in changes observed so far.5,6 Before discussing mod ...
... also objectively evaluate the ability of climate models to simulate observed climate change, assess the role of external factors versus climate variability in observed climate change, and enable prediction of future climate change that is grounded in changes observed so far.5,6 Before discussing mod ...
Enhanced weathering strategies for stabilizing climate and averting
... that will limit utilization and emphasize the need for urgent efforts to phase down fossil fuel emissions15 . Since 1992, over 190 nations agreed to limit anthropogenic CO2 emissions to avoid ‘dangerous’ human-made climate change16 , yet massive expansion of fossil fuel extractions, including shale ...
... that will limit utilization and emphasize the need for urgent efforts to phase down fossil fuel emissions15 . Since 1992, over 190 nations agreed to limit anthropogenic CO2 emissions to avoid ‘dangerous’ human-made climate change16 , yet massive expansion of fossil fuel extractions, including shale ...
The Role of Climate Change in the Egyptian Revolution
... The connection between climate change and violence made through issues of security can further be explained by how groups and societies function and coexist. Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of Environment, Scarcity, and Conflict and a leading theorist in this field, presents three main types of conflict ...
... The connection between climate change and violence made through issues of security can further be explained by how groups and societies function and coexist. Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of Environment, Scarcity, and Conflict and a leading theorist in this field, presents three main types of conflict ...
Climate Change Action Plan Assessment Report
... greenhouse gas sink potential that could come up in the Kyoto Protocol LULUCF – Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry reporting. On the other hand a holistic legal regulation for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and preparing an inventory is still lacking. Similarly, while the action on establis ...
... greenhouse gas sink potential that could come up in the Kyoto Protocol LULUCF – Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry reporting. On the other hand a holistic legal regulation for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and preparing an inventory is still lacking. Similarly, while the action on establis ...
National adaptation is also a global concern
... understanding is that the implementation of adaptation only concerns national to local stakeholders, and therefore that stakeholders outside of the national boundaries are not directly concerned, neither in the design nor in their implementation of the options. What this paper argues (Figure 1) is t ...
... understanding is that the implementation of adaptation only concerns national to local stakeholders, and therefore that stakeholders outside of the national boundaries are not directly concerned, neither in the design nor in their implementation of the options. What this paper argues (Figure 1) is t ...
After which threshold do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
... Terasvirta, David Hendry, Nektarios Aslanidis and the participants at the Econometric Models for Climate Change conference. In addition, we would like to thank Yaniv Reingewertz and Nathan Paldor for generously providing their data. ...
... Terasvirta, David Hendry, Nektarios Aslanidis and the participants at the Econometric Models for Climate Change conference. In addition, we would like to thank Yaniv Reingewertz and Nathan Paldor for generously providing their data. ...
Climate Change and the Global Economy
... must be based on setting a price path for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that drive climate change. The overall costs of such carbonpricing policies—a global carbon tax, a global cap-and-trade system, or a hybrid policy—could be moderate, provided the policies are well designed. • Carbon pricin ...
... must be based on setting a price path for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that drive climate change. The overall costs of such carbonpricing policies—a global carbon tax, a global cap-and-trade system, or a hybrid policy—could be moderate, provided the policies are well designed. • Carbon pricin ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Baltic Countries
... HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan yet. Furthermore, the topic of adaptation has recently been added to the updated draft version of the National Environmental Action Plan of Estonia, to the draft version of Development Plan for the Ministry of the Environment 2012-2015, to the Nature Conservation Develo ...
... HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan yet. Furthermore, the topic of adaptation has recently been added to the updated draft version of the National Environmental Action Plan of Estonia, to the draft version of Development Plan for the Ministry of the Environment 2012-2015, to the Nature Conservation Develo ...
WP83: The emerging geographies of climate justice
... environmental justice research have also expanded from toxic waste and hazards, to different types of local problems as well as global environmental issues (Walker and Bulkeley 2006). The way environmental justice is conceptualised contains embedded notions of the scale of the problem and the geogra ...
... environmental justice research have also expanded from toxic waste and hazards, to different types of local problems as well as global environmental issues (Walker and Bulkeley 2006). The way environmental justice is conceptualised contains embedded notions of the scale of the problem and the geogra ...
Climate Change in the US Northeast
... • One in five Americans—57,000,000 people—live in the Northeast. Hemisphere have risen more than 1oF over the past 150 years due to increases in carbon dioxide and • Several major metropolitan areas are located in the Northeast, including New York, other gases. The human contribution to these change ...
... • One in five Americans—57,000,000 people—live in the Northeast. Hemisphere have risen more than 1oF over the past 150 years due to increases in carbon dioxide and • Several major metropolitan areas are located in the Northeast, including New York, other gases. The human contribution to these change ...
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... 1993. Accordingly, it is very active at the international level in encouraging concrete action to mitigate climate change and has made several calls for the inclusion of high-emitting countries such as China into the UNFCCC process and the establishment of a second commitment period for the Kyoto Pr ...
... 1993. Accordingly, it is very active at the international level in encouraging concrete action to mitigate climate change and has made several calls for the inclusion of high-emitting countries such as China into the UNFCCC process and the establishment of a second commitment period for the Kyoto Pr ...
Is there a role for power relations in climate vulnerability and
... discourses that are vigorously being mainstreamed in global academia and policymaking to address ...
... discourses that are vigorously being mainstreamed in global academia and policymaking to address ...
Climate Change in Pilot Point, Alaska
... Records from King Salmon’s weather station (80 miles North from Pilot Point) indicate that between 1949 and 2008, average annual temperatures increased by 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) with most warming occurring in winter (+8.1°F) and the least in the fall (+0.6°F)(Alaska Climate Research Center). L ...
... Records from King Salmon’s weather station (80 miles North from Pilot Point) indicate that between 1949 and 2008, average annual temperatures increased by 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) with most warming occurring in winter (+8.1°F) and the least in the fall (+0.6°F)(Alaska Climate Research Center). L ...
Weathercaster Views on Informal Climate Education: Similarities
... were designed by experts in the fields of science communication, conflict analysis, climate change research, educational research, and meteorology. The questions on the freewrite were: (1) How would you describe the factors that are most important to understanding climate change for you and others w ...
... were designed by experts in the fields of science communication, conflict analysis, climate change research, educational research, and meteorology. The questions on the freewrite were: (1) How would you describe the factors that are most important to understanding climate change for you and others w ...
Climate influences the demography of three dominant sagebrush
... this semiarid site. Historical climate data do not show significant increases in mean annual temperature at the USSES, but, on average, winter temperatures have increased significantly over the last century (Appendix A). While model predictions for precipitation are uncertain, two historical trends in ...
... this semiarid site. Historical climate data do not show significant increases in mean annual temperature at the USSES, but, on average, winter temperatures have increased significantly over the last century (Appendix A). While model predictions for precipitation are uncertain, two historical trends in ...
climate variability - NCAR Research Applications Laboratory
... flows for the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry and for the Four Rivers index, northern California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Darwin Southern Oscillation Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Change (from 1955-74 to 1975-94) of annual land ...
... flows for the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry and for the Four Rivers index, northern California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Darwin Southern Oscillation Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Change (from 1955-74 to 1975-94) of annual land ...
Future Change of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone
... (JMA) atmospheric general circulation model. The present-day simulation reproduces many essential features of observed climatology and interannual variability in TC frequency of occurrence and tracks over the NA. For the future projection, the model is driven by the sea surface temperature (SST) tha ...
... (JMA) atmospheric general circulation model. The present-day simulation reproduces many essential features of observed climatology and interannual variability in TC frequency of occurrence and tracks over the NA. For the future projection, the model is driven by the sea surface temperature (SST) tha ...
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... disturbances inside the jet-stream and propagating them from west to east. Watanabe (2004) also found that there is a downstream extension of the NAO during late winter through wavetrain structure. This wavetrain is furthermore interpreted as composed of quasi-stationary Rossby waves trapped on the ...
... disturbances inside the jet-stream and propagating them from west to east. Watanabe (2004) also found that there is a downstream extension of the NAO during late winter through wavetrain structure. This wavetrain is furthermore interpreted as composed of quasi-stationary Rossby waves trapped on the ...
From science to policy: developing responses to climate change
... may have conflicting desires and conflict resolution is likely to be required. Policy-makers dealing with multiple social objectives (e.g. elimination of poverty, support for agriculture, promotion of economic growth, protection of cultural resources) and competing stakeholder desires must make diff ...
... may have conflicting desires and conflict resolution is likely to be required. Policy-makers dealing with multiple social objectives (e.g. elimination of poverty, support for agriculture, promotion of economic growth, protection of cultural resources) and competing stakeholder desires must make diff ...
Global warming in the American mind
... warming, strong bipartisan support for international treaties and national mitigation policies, and strong opposition to higher energy or gasoline prices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Relatively few Americans have undertaken individual mitigation behaviors. While global warming does have negat ...
... warming, strong bipartisan support for international treaties and national mitigation policies, and strong opposition to higher energy or gasoline prices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Relatively few Americans have undertaken individual mitigation behaviors. While global warming does have negat ...
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... comprehensively assess transportation vulnerabilities and prepare for the unavoidable impacts of climate change. Recent studies indicate that climate change planning efforts conducted by governments thus far have overwhelmingly focused on mitigation strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission ...
... comprehensively assess transportation vulnerabilities and prepare for the unavoidable impacts of climate change. Recent studies indicate that climate change planning efforts conducted by governments thus far have overwhelmingly focused on mitigation strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission ...
Stern Review: robust methodology of its modelling in Chapter 6
... The cost of climate change is now expected to be larger than many earlier studies suggested. This Chapter brings together estimates from formal models of the monetary cost of climate change, including evidence on how these costs rise with increasing temperatures. It builds on and complements the evi ...
... The cost of climate change is now expected to be larger than many earlier studies suggested. This Chapter brings together estimates from formal models of the monetary cost of climate change, including evidence on how these costs rise with increasing temperatures. It builds on and complements the evi ...
Coastal Climate Change Report
... minimum assessment factors depend on life of asset Methodologies – use SLR benchmarks Similar to NZ MfE Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Guidance Manual (not as broad in scope) ...
... minimum assessment factors depend on life of asset Methodologies – use SLR benchmarks Similar to NZ MfE Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Guidance Manual (not as broad in scope) ...
Risk of ruin paper - Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
... IPCC (2007) is a survey of existing literature – it deals with what is known and considered to be most likely to happen. For example sea level rises are projected to rise between 0.18 and 0.58m by 2099. IPCC (2007a) then goes on to say “Models used to date do not include uncertainties in climate-ca ...
... IPCC (2007) is a survey of existing literature – it deals with what is known and considered to be most likely to happen. For example sea level rises are projected to rise between 0.18 and 0.58m by 2099. IPCC (2007a) then goes on to say “Models used to date do not include uncertainties in climate-ca ...
Sea-level rise - Environmental Science Institute
... • Sea-level rise – life’s a beach, why worry? • Antarctica and sea-level rise • Getting out there • Science and policy – where next? Menu – human fingerprints on the last wilderness ...
... • Sea-level rise – life’s a beach, why worry? • Antarctica and sea-level rise • Getting out there • Science and policy – where next? Menu – human fingerprints on the last wilderness ...
Fred Singer
Siegfried Fred Singer (born September 27, 1924) is an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia. Singer trained as an atmospheric physicist and is known for his work in space research, atmospheric pollution, rocket and satellite technology, his questioning of the link between UV-B and melanoma rates, and that between CFCs and stratospheric ozone loss, his public denial of the health risks of passive smoking, and as an advocate for climate change denial. He is the author or editor of several books including Global Effects of Environmental Pollution (1970), The Ocean in Human Affairs (1989), Global Climate Change (1989), The Greenhouse Debate Continued (1992), and Hot Talk, Cold Science (1997). He has also co-authored Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years (2007) with Dennis Avery, and Climate Change Reconsidered (2009) with Craig Idso.Singer has had a varied career, serving in the armed forces, government, and academia. He designed mines for the U.S. Navy during World War II, before obtaining his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1948 and working as a scientific liaison officer in the U.S. Embassy in London. He became a leading figure in early space research, was involved in the development of earth observation satellites, and in 1962 established the National Weather Bureau's Satellite Service Center. He was the founding dean of the University of Miami School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences in 1964, and held several government positions, including deputy assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, and chief scientist for the Department of Transportation. He held a professorship with the University of Virginia from 1971 until 1994, and with George Mason University until 2000.In 1990 Singer founded the Science & Environmental Policy Project to advocate for climate change denial, and in 2006 was named by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as one of a minority of scientists said to be creating a stand-off on a consensus on climate change. Singer argues there is no evidence that global warming is attributable to human-caused increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and that humanity would benefit if temperatures do rise.He is an opponent of the Kyoto Protocol, and has claimed climate models as not based on reality, and not evidence. Singer has been accused of rejecting peer-reviewed and independently confirmed scientific evidence in his claims concerning public health and environmental issues.