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... one place during a short period of time __ G 6. one of two days (about June 21 and December 22) on which the sun’s rays strike directly on the Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn, marking the beginning of summer or winter __ I 7. gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused ...
... one place during a short period of time __ G 6. one of two days (about June 21 and December 22) on which the sun’s rays strike directly on the Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn, marking the beginning of summer or winter __ I 7. gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused ...
Lebanon Country Report February - March 2013
... The ENPI CLIMA-South is implemented in a dynamic region, with rapidly changing social and political environments. At the same time, climate change is at a critical stage of the international negotiations in which new developments may be expected. Flexibility is therefore of the utmost importance and ...
... The ENPI CLIMA-South is implemented in a dynamic region, with rapidly changing social and political environments. At the same time, climate change is at a critical stage of the international negotiations in which new developments may be expected. Flexibility is therefore of the utmost importance and ...
This is climaTe change in europe
... Europe and the rest of the developed world can no longer ignore the impacts of climate change. Extreme weather events are no longer restricted to far off, exotic places. They are also happening on the doorsteps of the richest, most powerful countries, here in Europe, in our communities, affecting ou ...
... Europe and the rest of the developed world can no longer ignore the impacts of climate change. Extreme weather events are no longer restricted to far off, exotic places. They are also happening on the doorsteps of the richest, most powerful countries, here in Europe, in our communities, affecting ou ...
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... direction or cyclonicity (N = North, E = East, S = South, W = West, A = anticyclonic, C = cyclonic). A short synoptic description of each circulation type for CAP9SLP is given in Table 2. Because model resolution can influence the circulation types (e.g. Demuzere et al., 2009), models are re-gridded ...
... direction or cyclonicity (N = North, E = East, S = South, W = West, A = anticyclonic, C = cyclonic). A short synoptic description of each circulation type for CAP9SLP is given in Table 2. Because model resolution can influence the circulation types (e.g. Demuzere et al., 2009), models are re-gridded ...
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... The first Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereafter FCCC or the Convention) was held in Berlin in March 1995. The mandate adopted at the conference, the Berlin Mandate, called for additional international agreements to be negotiated in order to mitigate emiss ...
... The first Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereafter FCCC or the Convention) was held in Berlin in March 1995. The mandate adopted at the conference, the Berlin Mandate, called for additional international agreements to be negotiated in order to mitigate emiss ...
Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities?
... global forcing and is likely to produce non-analogue impacts. Therefore, while analogues can be extremely useful to calibrate our understanding of how the system works, they are limited by the unique and transient nature of future climate change. Nevertheless, this school of thought would argue that ...
... global forcing and is likely to produce non-analogue impacts. Therefore, while analogues can be extremely useful to calibrate our understanding of how the system works, they are limited by the unique and transient nature of future climate change. Nevertheless, this school of thought would argue that ...
Reducing the Future to Climate: a Story of Climate Determinism and
... December 2016 when human fate is handed over to the winds, ocean currents and drifting icefloes of a de-stabilised global climate: “We have 100 months to save the planet; when the clock stops ticking we could be beyond the climate’s tipping point, the point of no return” 23. Such eschatological rhet ...
... December 2016 when human fate is handed over to the winds, ocean currents and drifting icefloes of a de-stabilised global climate: “We have 100 months to save the planet; when the clock stops ticking we could be beyond the climate’s tipping point, the point of no return” 23. Such eschatological rhet ...
Preparing for Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region
... forefront of the policy arena; addressing them will become more urgent than ever. Recommended areas for policy change – The priority issues listed above can be addressed by focusing a climate change adaptation strategy on policies in four key areas. For each area there are two recommended catego ...
... forefront of the policy arena; addressing them will become more urgent than ever. Recommended areas for policy change – The priority issues listed above can be addressed by focusing a climate change adaptation strategy on policies in four key areas. For each area there are two recommended catego ...
Climate and Climate Change
... 29) What best describes how Carbon Dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have changed in the last 500 years? A) Concentrations were steady until 1900 when they began to increase B) Concentrations increased until 1900 when they began to decrease C) Concentrations decreased until 1900 when they be ...
... 29) What best describes how Carbon Dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have changed in the last 500 years? A) Concentrations were steady until 1900 when they began to increase B) Concentrations increased until 1900 when they began to decrease C) Concentrations decreased until 1900 when they be ...
Towards Adaptive Spatial Planning for Climate Change
... planning (in terms of design, decision-making and implementation) enables or supports the realization of climate adaptation. In this paper we explore the challenges climate change poses for the way western societies organize their spatial planning, with a special focus on the implications for the le ...
... planning (in terms of design, decision-making and implementation) enables or supports the realization of climate adaptation. In this paper we explore the challenges climate change poses for the way western societies organize their spatial planning, with a special focus on the implications for the le ...
Mainstreaming Early Warning Systems in Development
... than 18 million people, caused 1985 deaths, and damaged or destroyed 1.7 million houses; and hypothetically increased the influence of extremist organizations in the flood affected areas, though the State and civil society were able to retain political control in the short run (Hasan and Zaidi 2012) ...
... than 18 million people, caused 1985 deaths, and damaged or destroyed 1.7 million houses; and hypothetically increased the influence of extremist organizations in the flood affected areas, though the State and civil society were able to retain political control in the short run (Hasan and Zaidi 2012) ...
Geographic disparities and moral hazards in the predicted impacts
... restricted most assessments of climate vulnerability to qualitative or regional approaches (Adger, 2006). Spatial variability in the magnitude and direction of the impacts of climate change makes it challenging but important to develop global indices of regional vulnerability to climate change (Dyso ...
... restricted most assessments of climate vulnerability to qualitative or regional approaches (Adger, 2006). Spatial variability in the magnitude and direction of the impacts of climate change makes it challenging but important to develop global indices of regional vulnerability to climate change (Dyso ...
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... Just over twenty years ago, William Nordhaus published the results of what is likely the most influential economic survey about the effects of climate change to date (Nordhaus, 1994). In the oftcited survey, Nordhaus interviewed 19 experts on climate change (10 economists, four other social scienti ...
... Just over twenty years ago, William Nordhaus published the results of what is likely the most influential economic survey about the effects of climate change to date (Nordhaus, 1994). In the oftcited survey, Nordhaus interviewed 19 experts on climate change (10 economists, four other social scienti ...
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... Challenge for decision-makers will be the limits to our ability to identify and reduce uncertainties related to climate change. Major uncertainties include: • the natural internal variability of the climate system, • the trajectories of future emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, • the respon ...
... Challenge for decision-makers will be the limits to our ability to identify and reduce uncertainties related to climate change. Major uncertainties include: • the natural internal variability of the climate system, • the trajectories of future emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, • the respon ...
The Missing Science from the Draft National Assessment on Climate Change
... with Karl Popper’s famous essay on the nature of science and its distinction from “pseudoscience.” The essential difference is that science only explains some things and that its hypotheses forbid others, while a theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event—i.e., one that is universally and ...
... with Karl Popper’s famous essay on the nature of science and its distinction from “pseudoscience.” The essential difference is that science only explains some things and that its hypotheses forbid others, while a theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event—i.e., one that is universally and ...
Introduction
... Task 6.2.8: Construction of impact response surfaces for selected impact models of crops, soil carbon and nitrogen, and water resources (DJF, DISAT, SMHI, SYKE, UNIK) (Ongoing) Task 6.2.9: Preliminary scenario impacts and risk assessment from available climate projections for selected models of crop ...
... Task 6.2.8: Construction of impact response surfaces for selected impact models of crops, soil carbon and nitrogen, and water resources (DJF, DISAT, SMHI, SYKE, UNIK) (Ongoing) Task 6.2.9: Preliminary scenario impacts and risk assessment from available climate projections for selected models of crop ...
Selecting Ensemble Members to Provide Regional Climate Change
... and Mote et al. (2011) for comprehensive reviews of these complexities], such as the wide range of possible criterion for validation, the influence of gaps or errors in our observational datasets, and the potential for models giving the ‘‘right answers for the wrong reasons.’’ The absence of consens ...
... and Mote et al. (2011) for comprehensive reviews of these complexities], such as the wide range of possible criterion for validation, the influence of gaps or errors in our observational datasets, and the potential for models giving the ‘‘right answers for the wrong reasons.’’ The absence of consens ...
State of the Jamaican Climate 2012:Information for
... Whereas weather refers to changes in the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time — for example whether Kingston today is warm or cool, wet or dry, cloudy or windy — climate refers to the average state of the weather over long periods of time ranging from months or seasons to years and ...
... Whereas weather refers to changes in the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time — for example whether Kingston today is warm or cool, wet or dry, cloudy or windy — climate refers to the average state of the weather over long periods of time ranging from months or seasons to years and ...
Biological Significance of Phenology
... – Lyons, D. B. (1999). "Phenology of the native parasitoid Sinophorus megalodontis (Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae) relative to its introduced host, the pine false webworm (Hymenoptera : Pamphiliidae)." Canadian ...
... – Lyons, D. B. (1999). "Phenology of the native parasitoid Sinophorus megalodontis (Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae) relative to its introduced host, the pine false webworm (Hymenoptera : Pamphiliidae)." Canadian ...
Climate change in Australia | Murray Basin cluster report
... statements based on scientific research. The reader is advised and needs to be aware that such information may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and tec ...
... statements based on scientific research. The reader is advised and needs to be aware that such information may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and tec ...
Biological Significance, David Inouye
... – Lyons, D. B. (1999). "Phenology of the native parasitoid Sinophorus megalodontis (Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae) relative to its introduced host, the pine false webworm (Hymenoptera : Pamphiliidae)." Canadian ...
... – Lyons, D. B. (1999). "Phenology of the native parasitoid Sinophorus megalodontis (Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae) relative to its introduced host, the pine false webworm (Hymenoptera : Pamphiliidae)." Canadian ...
Dissipating the fuzziness around interdisciplinarity: The
... retain its specific rules, methods and tools. This can be illustrated by the organisation of the IPCC research on climate change around three working groups that study different aspects of the same object: (i) its scientific dimensions, (ii) its impact on the social, economic and environmental spheres ...
... retain its specific rules, methods and tools. This can be illustrated by the organisation of the IPCC research on climate change around three working groups that study different aspects of the same object: (i) its scientific dimensions, (ii) its impact on the social, economic and environmental spheres ...
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... Additionally, failures from these case studies highlight areas in existing local, national institutional and governance structures that require improvements in order to successfully implement CCD projects (Phiri et al., 2012). At the national level, such cross-sector partnerships and interlinkages a ...
... Additionally, failures from these case studies highlight areas in existing local, national institutional and governance structures that require improvements in order to successfully implement CCD projects (Phiri et al., 2012). At the national level, such cross-sector partnerships and interlinkages a ...
EPA Research - 2015 Call Technical Description
... variety of environmental and other concerns. Therefore it is important to recognise the wider community of researchers and stakeholders who can play an active part in meeting the objectives set out here, and to build and consolidate existing work. Proposals are invited for a research project to unde ...
... variety of environmental and other concerns. Therefore it is important to recognise the wider community of researchers and stakeholders who can play an active part in meeting the objectives set out here, and to build and consolidate existing work. Proposals are invited for a research project to unde ...
Perceptions and responses to climate policy risks among California
... in adaptation (Howden et al., 2007; Smit and Skinner, 2002) and mitigation (Smith et al., 2007). This paper proposes that existing research has underemphasized a key feature of adaptation: how farmers perceive and respond to climate policy risk. The concept of policy risk is defined as a regulation o ...
... in adaptation (Howden et al., 2007; Smit and Skinner, 2002) and mitigation (Smith et al., 2007). This paper proposes that existing research has underemphasized a key feature of adaptation: how farmers perceive and respond to climate policy risk. The concept of policy risk is defined as a regulation o ...
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.