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and the new Industrial Revolution
... Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, in 2008 as a Principal Research Fellow, after many years at the Bank of England, most recently as Senior Policy Adviser. He first became involved in climate change issues when seconded as lead economist to the Stern Review of the economi ...
... Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, in 2008 as a Principal Research Fellow, after many years at the Bank of England, most recently as Senior Policy Adviser. He first became involved in climate change issues when seconded as lead economist to the Stern Review of the economi ...
Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
... air conditioners, and other equipment and products that use these chemicals, thus reducing CO2 emissions as well. The Federated States of Micronesia has made a formal proposal to amend the Montreal Protocol to do this, as have the North American Parties (Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.).11 As of 2013 m ...
... air conditioners, and other equipment and products that use these chemicals, thus reducing CO2 emissions as well. The Federated States of Micronesia has made a formal proposal to amend the Montreal Protocol to do this, as have the North American Parties (Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.).11 As of 2013 m ...
Future Directions - WCRP Strategic Framework
... Society needs the research for mitigation strategies/climate adaptation. After 30 years of high achievement, the breadth of WCRP activities has outgrown the ability of society to support all the necessary research, infrastructure, and coordination. Yet the need for WCRP’s work is more important than ...
... Society needs the research for mitigation strategies/climate adaptation. After 30 years of high achievement, the breadth of WCRP activities has outgrown the ability of society to support all the necessary research, infrastructure, and coordination. Yet the need for WCRP’s work is more important than ...
Climate change projections for Greater Manchester
... Programme (UKCIP) is the latest and most comprehensive package of information on the potential future climate for the UK. Continued improvements in modelling and understanding of the climate system allow climate projections to be periodically reviewed and refined. This latest set of projections is a ...
... Programme (UKCIP) is the latest and most comprehensive package of information on the potential future climate for the UK. Continued improvements in modelling and understanding of the climate system allow climate projections to be periodically reviewed and refined. This latest set of projections is a ...
A modified impulse-response representation of the global response
... chemistry, it displays a roughly constant cumulative airborne fraction under the exponential concentration increase scenarios considered here, unlike the ESMs which behave more like the FAIR model constructed in this paper (see figure 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Gregory et al. (2009)). In addition, as BEAM foc ...
... chemistry, it displays a roughly constant cumulative airborne fraction under the exponential concentration increase scenarios considered here, unlike the ESMs which behave more like the FAIR model constructed in this paper (see figure 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Gregory et al. (2009)). In addition, as BEAM foc ...
Climate Security and Justice for Small Island Developing States
... reinforcements to evacuate areas in advance of disasters or to deal with their aftermath. Societies with similar vulnerability and resilience characteristics can learn from each other, such as peoples of the Arctic and from SIDS.11 Special natural disaster insurance is needed for SIDS, and could be ...
... reinforcements to evacuate areas in advance of disasters or to deal with their aftermath. Societies with similar vulnerability and resilience characteristics can learn from each other, such as peoples of the Arctic and from SIDS.11 Special natural disaster insurance is needed for SIDS, and could be ...
Urban Transit Systems and Conditions of Enhanced Climate Variability
... White Papers Figure 1: Projected mean Global global mean sea levelsea riselevel rise. ...
... White Papers Figure 1: Projected mean Global global mean sea levelsea riselevel rise. ...
The role of mineral-dust aerosols in polar temperature amplification
... The surface cooling effect of mineral-dust aerosols calculated here for specific sites in Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be of similar amplitude in the rest of the polar regions covered by snow or ice. In the polar atmosphere, dust aerosols tend to cool the lower and warm the higher troposphe ...
... The surface cooling effect of mineral-dust aerosols calculated here for specific sites in Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be of similar amplitude in the rest of the polar regions covered by snow or ice. In the polar atmosphere, dust aerosols tend to cool the lower and warm the higher troposphe ...
Directive IPPC : quelques remarques
... actual behaviour depends on their chemical composition, their state of mixing with other aerosols, ambient humidity,… The dependence on the chemical composition is very complex and not yet fully understood. However, it could be very schematically summarised as follows : Sulphate aerosols mainly scat ...
... actual behaviour depends on their chemical composition, their state of mixing with other aerosols, ambient humidity,… The dependence on the chemical composition is very complex and not yet fully understood. However, it could be very schematically summarised as follows : Sulphate aerosols mainly scat ...
EPA Research - 2014 Call Technical Description
... additional carbon through appropriate management. At present, the EPA assumes these systems are in a state of equilibrium with respect to carbon uptake, and only includes estimates of carbon change associated with loss of hedgerows due to new settlement activity. The EPA wish to invite proposals for ...
... additional carbon through appropriate management. At present, the EPA assumes these systems are in a state of equilibrium with respect to carbon uptake, and only includes estimates of carbon change associated with loss of hedgerows due to new settlement activity. The EPA wish to invite proposals for ...
Ocean of Grass: A Conservation Assessment for the Northern Great
... handedness in the management of species. This method is also very resource intensive and the potential success of these projects is unknown in many cases. Dynamic landscape planning: While reserves form an essential part of the conservation equation throughout the world, they represent static prote ...
... handedness in the management of species. This method is also very resource intensive and the potential success of these projects is unknown in many cases. Dynamic landscape planning: While reserves form an essential part of the conservation equation throughout the world, they represent static prote ...
Implications of land use change in tropical northern Africa under
... Within the framework of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) three starting dates out of a control simulation for pre-industrial climate by MPI-ESM have been chosen as starting points for an ensemble simulation (three members) of historic climate until 2005, called HIST. Atmosph ...
... Within the framework of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) three starting dates out of a control simulation for pre-industrial climate by MPI-ESM have been chosen as starting points for an ensemble simulation (three members) of historic climate until 2005, called HIST. Atmosph ...
Estimating Regions` Relative Vulnerability to Climate Damages in
... international dilemma, calling on high-income nations “to assist developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change” (United Nations 1994). If high-income countries are to follow through with this objective, some measure of climate change vulnerability mus ...
... international dilemma, calling on high-income nations “to assist developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change” (United Nations 1994). If high-income countries are to follow through with this objective, some measure of climate change vulnerability mus ...
Adaptation and mitigation: trade-offs in substance and methods Richard S.J. Tol *
... This paper is built up as follows. Section 2 briefly reviews the literature on impacts and adaptation, so as to set the scene for the main argument. Section 3 discusses adaptation in more detail, particularly focusing on its role in decision analysis. Section 3 argues that adaptation and mitigation ...
... This paper is built up as follows. Section 2 briefly reviews the literature on impacts and adaptation, so as to set the scene for the main argument. Section 3 discusses adaptation in more detail, particularly focusing on its role in decision analysis. Section 3 argues that adaptation and mitigation ...
Blackbody radiation and greenhouse effect
... Closure – By the end of the unit, the students should recognize the importance of the role of GHGs in keeping Earth warm enough for humans to survive and understand that the greenhouse effect is the result of absorption of long-wave radiation from Earth’s surface by some atmospheric gases. The stude ...
... Closure – By the end of the unit, the students should recognize the importance of the role of GHGs in keeping Earth warm enough for humans to survive and understand that the greenhouse effect is the result of absorption of long-wave radiation from Earth’s surface by some atmospheric gases. The stude ...
Climate Finance Briefing: Small Island Developing States
... climate change vulnerability profiles of the SIDS. For example, only 1.8 % of Papua New Guinea’s terrestrial land is below five metres above sea level, while 100% of the Maldives and Tuvalu lies below five metres, rendering these nations critically vulnerable to flooding and sea level rise (UN-OHRLL ...
... climate change vulnerability profiles of the SIDS. For example, only 1.8 % of Papua New Guinea’s terrestrial land is below five metres above sea level, while 100% of the Maldives and Tuvalu lies below five metres, rendering these nations critically vulnerable to flooding and sea level rise (UN-OHRLL ...
Climate Change and Children`s Health—A Call for Research
... for children were six times higher than mortality rates in the same villages a year before the flood [35]. In many areas of the world, drowning is a leading cause of death among young children [36], especially for boys 5 to 14 years of age [37]. Some of the effects can differentially impact girls. I ...
... for children were six times higher than mortality rates in the same villages a year before the flood [35]. In many areas of the world, drowning is a leading cause of death among young children [36], especially for boys 5 to 14 years of age [37]. Some of the effects can differentially impact girls. I ...
Global warming under old and new scenarios using IPCC climate
... probabilistic model framework we require such a distribution and thus apply a methodology that aims at incorporating the IPCC AR4 synthesizing statements transparently into one distribution. This necessarily requires additional assumptions beyond AR4 (see Supplementary Table S1), which are partly su ...
... probabilistic model framework we require such a distribution and thus apply a methodology that aims at incorporating the IPCC AR4 synthesizing statements transparently into one distribution. This necessarily requires additional assumptions beyond AR4 (see Supplementary Table S1), which are partly su ...
Changes in alpine plant growth under future climate conditions
... Next, the regression models were applied to all grid cells in Switzerland above 1500 m and within the temperature range available from the observed temperature data, in order to not exceed the calculated range of the regression. All grid cells with temperatures outside our regression range (under fu ...
... Next, the regression models were applied to all grid cells in Switzerland above 1500 m and within the temperature range available from the observed temperature data, in order to not exceed the calculated range of the regression. All grid cells with temperatures outside our regression range (under fu ...
here - School of Social and Political Science
... (e.g. Chawla 1999), the difference in emphasis on this factor in that literature compared to studies focussed on climate change mitigators suggests that the latter may be influenced by experiences and values somewhat different to those of participants in earlier studies who were generally focussed o ...
... (e.g. Chawla 1999), the difference in emphasis on this factor in that literature compared to studies focussed on climate change mitigators suggests that the latter may be influenced by experiences and values somewhat different to those of participants in earlier studies who were generally focussed o ...
Executive Summary - Overseas Development Institute
... This report draws on data gathered through the ODI and Heinrich Böll Foundation’s (HBF) Climate Funds Update (CFU) which compiles data on how much finance climate funds have raised, where it is spent, and what the projects funded seek to achieve. CFU is the world’s leading source of information on c ...
... This report draws on data gathered through the ODI and Heinrich Böll Foundation’s (HBF) Climate Funds Update (CFU) which compiles data on how much finance climate funds have raised, where it is spent, and what the projects funded seek to achieve. CFU is the world’s leading source of information on c ...
Uncertainty in climate change impacts on water resources in the Rio
... change scenarios generated using PRECIS (Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies) model (Ambrizzi et al., 2007; Marengo, 2007). Two emission scenarios were considered; A2 (high emission) and B2 (low emission) although the PRECIS projections draw from just one GCM (HadCM3). It was concluded t ...
... change scenarios generated using PRECIS (Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies) model (Ambrizzi et al., 2007; Marengo, 2007). Two emission scenarios were considered; A2 (high emission) and B2 (low emission) although the PRECIS projections draw from just one GCM (HadCM3). It was concluded t ...
Synthesis Report “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges
... and the response options and approaches that are available to tackle this complex issue. To bring this new knowledge together, the International Alliance of Research Universitiesi organised an international scientific congress on climate change, Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions ...
... and the response options and approaches that are available to tackle this complex issue. To bring this new knowledge together, the International Alliance of Research Universitiesi organised an international scientific congress on climate change, Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions ...
Lea - Harvard University
... The similarity of Antarctic proxy air temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) records from the Vostok ice core is striking (Petit et al. 1999; Cuffey and Vimeux 2001) and suggests that CO 2 is playing a direct role in forcing the observed climate variations over the ice sheet. Such past r ...
... The similarity of Antarctic proxy air temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) records from the Vostok ice core is striking (Petit et al. 1999; Cuffey and Vimeux 2001) and suggests that CO 2 is playing a direct role in forcing the observed climate variations over the ice sheet. Such past r ...
ocean climate change, phytoplankton community
... can be viewed in terms of thousands of millions of years [evolution of life on our planet (top), after Beardall and Raven 2004], hundreds of thousands of years [glacial-interglacial periods, from Vostok Ice Core data (middle), Lorius et al. 1990], or the past hundred years [from Hadley Centre for Cl ...
... can be viewed in terms of thousands of millions of years [evolution of life on our planet (top), after Beardall and Raven 2004], hundreds of thousands of years [glacial-interglacial periods, from Vostok Ice Core data (middle), Lorius et al. 1990], or the past hundred years [from Hadley Centre for Cl ...
Fred Singer
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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.