Why Worry About Climate Change? A Research Agenda
... well the concern may be overstated (Mendelsohn and Bennett, 1997; Link and Tol, 2004; Nicholls et al., 2005). Another argument against a precautionary approach is that climate change is a two-sided risk, not a one-sided one. Gradual emission reduction is probably cheap, but stringent, rapid emission ...
... well the concern may be overstated (Mendelsohn and Bennett, 1997; Link and Tol, 2004; Nicholls et al., 2005). Another argument against a precautionary approach is that climate change is a two-sided risk, not a one-sided one. Gradual emission reduction is probably cheap, but stringent, rapid emission ...
(Box 3). Increased understanding of climate change and biodiversity
... Conducting a science-policy/stakeholder dialogue based on key issues and findings of the externship assessments to engage Albertine Rift-country policy-makers and other key decision-makers on issues of biodiversity conservation and climate change. Further fostering regional networks of scientist ...
... Conducting a science-policy/stakeholder dialogue based on key issues and findings of the externship assessments to engage Albertine Rift-country policy-makers and other key decision-makers on issues of biodiversity conservation and climate change. Further fostering regional networks of scientist ...
Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea
... This regional warming will have a variety of effects on terrestrial and marine ecosystems – some predictable such as the changes in the phenology others so far hardly predictable. Printed at ...
... This regional warming will have a variety of effects on terrestrial and marine ecosystems – some predictable such as the changes in the phenology others so far hardly predictable. Printed at ...
A Realty Check on Global Warming
... (spatial scale) of the forcing and the assessed level of scientific understanding (LOSU). The net anthropogenic radiative forcing and its range are also shown. These require summing asymmetric uncertainty estimates from the component terms, and cannot be obtained by simple addition. Additional forci ...
... (spatial scale) of the forcing and the assessed level of scientific understanding (LOSU). The net anthropogenic radiative forcing and its range are also shown. These require summing asymmetric uncertainty estimates from the component terms, and cannot be obtained by simple addition. Additional forci ...
Republic of the Marshall Islands
... With the emerging scientific evidence, substantial impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems are likely. Rising temperatures and ocean acidification may have substantial adverse impacts upon coral reefs, coastal ecosystems, and migratory fish stocks such as tuna, which represent a substantial economi ...
... With the emerging scientific evidence, substantial impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems are likely. Rising temperatures and ocean acidification may have substantial adverse impacts upon coral reefs, coastal ecosystems, and migratory fish stocks such as tuna, which represent a substantial economi ...
India`s Megacities and Climate Change
... that arise from climate change. Regardless of whether climate change affects megacities like Delhi or Mumbai, the concerns of larger urban environmental problems related to water, waste, energy, housing, transportation will continue to pose more and more complex challenges. Thus we need to ask, what ...
... that arise from climate change. Regardless of whether climate change affects megacities like Delhi or Mumbai, the concerns of larger urban environmental problems related to water, waste, energy, housing, transportation will continue to pose more and more complex challenges. Thus we need to ask, what ...
The Climate Change Tort Suits
... identify technical, economic, environmental and other information that would be useful to enable sources and permitting authorities to implement BACT for GHGs. – The draft final report is due on or before March 30, 2010, should also be approximately ten pages (or less) and include recommendations fo ...
... identify technical, economic, environmental and other information that would be useful to enable sources and permitting authorities to implement BACT for GHGs. – The draft final report is due on or before March 30, 2010, should also be approximately ten pages (or less) and include recommendations fo ...
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... However, there are important limitations to these crop models. First, they are focused on major grains and do not cover all crops and so not cover livestock. Second at all, they do not incorporate decisions by farmers to change inputs or outputs as climate changes. That is, they do not capture effic ...
... However, there are important limitations to these crop models. First, they are focused on major grains and do not cover all crops and so not cover livestock. Second at all, they do not incorporate decisions by farmers to change inputs or outputs as climate changes. That is, they do not capture effic ...
Climate Change Impact on Agricultural Water Resources Variability
... and statistical downscaling. In dynamical downscaling, a higher resolution climate model or regional climate model is forced using a GCM. The statistical approach establishes empirical relationships between GCM-resolution climate variables and local climate. Statistical downscaling is a tool for dow ...
... and statistical downscaling. In dynamical downscaling, a higher resolution climate model or regional climate model is forced using a GCM. The statistical approach establishes empirical relationships between GCM-resolution climate variables and local climate. Statistical downscaling is a tool for dow ...
General Knowledge About Climate Change, Factors Influencing
... All participants came from the city of Mannheim in South West Germany, in the Upper Rhine Valley. The city has not been affected by major storm or flood events in recent years, but its geographical position and its building density makes it vulnerable to urban heat waves. Although all employment sta ...
... All participants came from the city of Mannheim in South West Germany, in the Upper Rhine Valley. The city has not been affected by major storm or flood events in recent years, but its geographical position and its building density makes it vulnerable to urban heat waves. Although all employment sta ...
Abstract Book The Human Side of Climate Change Bergen 16
... useful tools when presenting the results to stakeholder audiences. Has this trade-off been efficient, and does it give the science communicator a better means to reach out the science basis for climate policy to various audiences? Experiences with communicating AR5 results to various types of audien ...
... useful tools when presenting the results to stakeholder audiences. Has this trade-off been efficient, and does it give the science communicator a better means to reach out the science basis for climate policy to various audiences? Experiences with communicating AR5 results to various types of audien ...
When It Rains, It Pours
... authorities on the subject—including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—attribute the warming primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases, including pollution from the combustion ...
... authorities on the subject—including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—attribute the warming primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases, including pollution from the combustion ...
Poverty and climate change: assessing impacts in developing
... will be brought about with regard to the incidence of natural disasters such as droughts and floods, agricultural production, fisheries and marine life, water resource availability, industry and human health. These are all expected to increase the disparity in wealth between the developed and develo ...
... will be brought about with regard to the incidence of natural disasters such as droughts and floods, agricultural production, fisheries and marine life, water resource availability, industry and human health. These are all expected to increase the disparity in wealth between the developed and develo ...
Toward a conceptual synthesis for climate change responses
... Ecological and evolutionary theories relate processes to population responses, and can be integrated to formulate hypotheses for how abiotic change might ultimately affect populations (Fig. 1b, Table 2). This approach blurs the distinction between evolutionary and ecological theories and favours an ...
... Ecological and evolutionary theories relate processes to population responses, and can be integrated to formulate hypotheses for how abiotic change might ultimately affect populations (Fig. 1b, Table 2). This approach blurs the distinction between evolutionary and ecological theories and favours an ...
REQUEST FOR CLIMATE SIMULATION LABORATORY
... tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry. In addition, a new bulk aerosol scheme is now available that is consistent with this chemistry and includes the effects of ammonia, nitrate, and secondary organic aerosols. This leaves the ChemWG in an ideal position to address and document its immediate goa ...
... tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry. In addition, a new bulk aerosol scheme is now available that is consistent with this chemistry and includes the effects of ammonia, nitrate, and secondary organic aerosols. This leaves the ChemWG in an ideal position to address and document its immediate goa ...
Choosing and Using Climate-Change Scenarios for Ecological
... upwelling changes may be developed from well-resolved CM projections of atmospheric sea-level pressure (e.g., Wang et al. 2010) than from direct CM simulation of upwelling. Cross-scale relations were exploited to project future changes in Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) juvenile survival ...
... upwelling changes may be developed from well-resolved CM projections of atmospheric sea-level pressure (e.g., Wang et al. 2010) than from direct CM simulation of upwelling. Cross-scale relations were exploited to project future changes in Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) juvenile survival ...
Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant
... (Fig. 2b), indicating that this diverse assemblage responds to temperature change as a zone, rather than according to species-specific climate preferences. Climate models predict increases in New England summer air temperatures of 3.3–7.8 C by the end of the century (Frumhoff et al. 2007). The expe ...
... (Fig. 2b), indicating that this diverse assemblage responds to temperature change as a zone, rather than according to species-specific climate preferences. Climate models predict increases in New England summer air temperatures of 3.3–7.8 C by the end of the century (Frumhoff et al. 2007). The expe ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/019/k7582e.pdf
... were major drivers of climate change. Amongst the conclusions were: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level” and that “There is ...
... were major drivers of climate change. Amongst the conclusions were: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level” and that “There is ...
A district level assessment of vulnerability of
... as well as by the availability of appropriate data. We have adopted the indicator method to construct vulnerability of agriculture to climate change and variability at the district level. Because of its transparency, this method was followed in many studies that assessed vulnerability. Deressa et al ...
... as well as by the availability of appropriate data. We have adopted the indicator method to construct vulnerability of agriculture to climate change and variability at the district level. Because of its transparency, this method was followed in many studies that assessed vulnerability. Deressa et al ...
The Role of Developing Countries in the Continuation of the Kyoto
... science, and the setting of emission targets based on potential environmental benefits (or the reduction in losses) is outside the scope of this inquiry. ...
... science, and the setting of emission targets based on potential environmental benefits (or the reduction in losses) is outside the scope of this inquiry. ...
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... When awareness of potential climate change first percolated beyond the circle of specialist scientists a quarter of a century ago, there was a degree of recognition that any mitigation of emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions would need to be complemented by at least some adaptation to ...
... When awareness of potential climate change first percolated beyond the circle of specialist scientists a quarter of a century ago, there was a degree of recognition that any mitigation of emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions would need to be complemented by at least some adaptation to ...
Robust spatially aggregated projections of climate
... values for 1986–2005. See Supplementary Fig. 10 for the corresponding figure with absolute temperature changes. ...
... values for 1986–2005. See Supplementary Fig. 10 for the corresponding figure with absolute temperature changes. ...
Coral Reef Monitoring for Climate Change Impact Assessment and
... project, under which 12 Caribbean countries are preparing to cope with the adverse aspects of climate change. It focuses on components of the project dedicated to coral reef monitoring and policy formulation. The establishment of monitoring programs and the progress toward the preparation and adopti ...
... project, under which 12 Caribbean countries are preparing to cope with the adverse aspects of climate change. It focuses on components of the project dedicated to coral reef monitoring and policy formulation. The establishment of monitoring programs and the progress toward the preparation and adopti ...
A question of survival
... All major developed countries, along with many developing countries, have now submitted their INDCs. While all developed countries will need to substantially increase their reduction targets over time to bring them into line with a global carbon budget that ensures a high probability of keeping the ...
... All major developed countries, along with many developing countries, have now submitted their INDCs. While all developed countries will need to substantially increase their reduction targets over time to bring them into line with a global carbon budget that ensures a high probability of keeping the ...
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.