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... sea level, and changes in many other climate-related variables and impacts. 1 Most of the observed increases in global temperatures since the mid-20th century are very likely due to human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.1 Under a broad range of non-mitigation scenarios considered by the Interg ...
... sea level, and changes in many other climate-related variables and impacts. 1 Most of the observed increases in global temperatures since the mid-20th century are very likely due to human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.1 Under a broad range of non-mitigation scenarios considered by the Interg ...
Climate Change: Overview and Implications for Wildlife
... (CO2) content of the atmosphere. Future climatic changes, however, will probably have another source as well -- human activities. Humans cannot directly rival the power of natural forces driving the climate -- for example, the immense energy input to the Earth from the sun that powers the climate. W ...
... (CO2) content of the atmosphere. Future climatic changes, however, will probably have another source as well -- human activities. Humans cannot directly rival the power of natural forces driving the climate -- for example, the immense energy input to the Earth from the sun that powers the climate. W ...
Impact of weather on commuter cyclist behaviour and implications
... Farhana Ahmed1*, Assoc. Prof Geoff Rose1, Prof. Christian Jacob2 ...
... Farhana Ahmed1*, Assoc. Prof Geoff Rose1, Prof. Christian Jacob2 ...
CLIMATE CHANGE
... “anticipating” and reducing the impacts of future climate change. For example, the work being undertaken in the Cook Islands to “build back better” following the devastating impacts of Cyclone Pat in February 2010 is based on the recognition that coastal communities are highly vulnerable to storm su ...
... “anticipating” and reducing the impacts of future climate change. For example, the work being undertaken in the Cook Islands to “build back better” following the devastating impacts of Cyclone Pat in February 2010 is based on the recognition that coastal communities are highly vulnerable to storm su ...
Climate Change and the World Council of Churches
... ground for the approach of the climate change work in subsequent years. Without his insistence the term ‘sustainable’ would not have become of the WCC vision of the future. During the 1970s, the WCC focused this work through a program on the just, participatory and sustainable society (JPSS). In 198 ...
... ground for the approach of the climate change work in subsequent years. Without his insistence the term ‘sustainable’ would not have become of the WCC vision of the future. During the 1970s, the WCC focused this work through a program on the just, participatory and sustainable society (JPSS). In 198 ...
A critical exploration of the concept of `climate stabilization`
... Climate stabilization has become an important approach to climate policy, and this paper provides a historical context to this approach and outlines points of critique. None of this is to denigrate the importance of climate mitigation, but rather to examine what the focus on climate stabilization ha ...
... Climate stabilization has become an important approach to climate policy, and this paper provides a historical context to this approach and outlines points of critique. None of this is to denigrate the importance of climate mitigation, but rather to examine what the focus on climate stabilization ha ...
Economic Consequences of Climate Change Impacts on
... Further, all sectors’ values added are then summed up at each hub and sent back to the transportation module along with the hub’s traffic volume to determine next period equilibrium price of transportation for the RTN. This process repeats itself to produce time paths of our major economic and trans ...
... Further, all sectors’ values added are then summed up at each hub and sent back to the transportation module along with the hub’s traffic volume to determine next period equilibrium price of transportation for the RTN. This process repeats itself to produce time paths of our major economic and trans ...
Climate Ready Stirling
... distinction between weather and climate (see Box 1). In the 500 million years since the PreCambrian it is estimated that global mean temperature varied by between +8°C and -6°C of the 1961-1990 mean. This range is just 14°C which, in terms of weather, is the difference between lying on a sunny beach ...
... distinction between weather and climate (see Box 1). In the 500 million years since the PreCambrian it is estimated that global mean temperature varied by between +8°C and -6°C of the 1961-1990 mean. This range is just 14°C which, in terms of weather, is the difference between lying on a sunny beach ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... Ethiopia’s low economic development, inadequate infrastructure, and lack of institutional capacity all contribute to the country’s vulnerability to climate change. These conditions have already led to significant land degradation, which results in greater vulnerability to climate-related natural haz ...
... Ethiopia’s low economic development, inadequate infrastructure, and lack of institutional capacity all contribute to the country’s vulnerability to climate change. These conditions have already led to significant land degradation, which results in greater vulnerability to climate-related natural haz ...
The global distribution of cultivable lands: current
... north-western and north-central states of the United States, northern Europe, southern Former Soviet Union and the Manchurian plains of China are most sensitive to changes in temperature. The Great Plains region of the United States and north-eastern China are most sensitive to changes in precipitat ...
... north-western and north-central states of the United States, northern Europe, southern Former Soviet Union and the Manchurian plains of China are most sensitive to changes in temperature. The Great Plains region of the United States and north-eastern China are most sensitive to changes in precipitat ...
STATEMENT OF GUIDANCE FOR CLIMATE (other aspects
... This Statement of Guidance (SoG) was developed through a process of consultation within the Commission for Climatology (CCl) community to document the observational data requirements to support various aspects of the CCl-work, especially in the applications and services (cf. Appendix 1). It is expec ...
... This Statement of Guidance (SoG) was developed through a process of consultation within the Commission for Climatology (CCl) community to document the observational data requirements to support various aspects of the CCl-work, especially in the applications and services (cf. Appendix 1). It is expec ...
Against the Grain: The United States and the Global Climate
... foundations for the political negotiations. There is no doubt that, without US scientific backing, ‘climate change might not be the global policy concern that it is today’.15 As the US itself rightly proclaimed to the climate change regime in 2002, ‘since 1990, the United States has provided over US ...
... foundations for the political negotiations. There is no doubt that, without US scientific backing, ‘climate change might not be the global policy concern that it is today’.15 As the US itself rightly proclaimed to the climate change regime in 2002, ‘since 1990, the United States has provided over US ...
magnitude and frequency
... This Report Card provides an appraisal of the evidence for potential changes in flood magnitude and frequency based on climate model results. The majority of climate model experiments point to increased flood hazard for the UK linked to more extreme precipitation events and greater winter rainfall t ...
... This Report Card provides an appraisal of the evidence for potential changes in flood magnitude and frequency based on climate model results. The majority of climate model experiments point to increased flood hazard for the UK linked to more extreme precipitation events and greater winter rainfall t ...
Climate Change Adaptation in Tanzania Agricultural Systems
... Projections in temperature and rainfall changes over Tanzania are well documented in URT (2003) and OECD (2003). While OECD (2003), based on outputs from over a dozen Global Circulation Models (GCMs) processed using MAGICC/SCENGEN), predicts an average annual increase of 2.2°C in temperature by 2100 ...
... Projections in temperature and rainfall changes over Tanzania are well documented in URT (2003) and OECD (2003). While OECD (2003), based on outputs from over a dozen Global Circulation Models (GCMs) processed using MAGICC/SCENGEN), predicts an average annual increase of 2.2°C in temperature by 2100 ...
Between Consensus and Denial: Climate Journalists - IPMZ
... We expect a majority of climate journalists to share the IPCC consensus (H1). Sharing the view on climate change as propagated by the IPCC should not be confounded with supporting the IPCC as an organization or political actor. Assessment and Handling of Climate-Change Skeptics Climate-change skepti ...
... We expect a majority of climate journalists to share the IPCC consensus (H1). Sharing the view on climate change as propagated by the IPCC should not be confounded with supporting the IPCC as an organization or political actor. Assessment and Handling of Climate-Change Skeptics Climate-change skepti ...
Adaptation Planning and Climate Impact Assessments: Learning From NEPA’s Flaws
... over the next 100 years. They said it is impossible to determine yet whether human activity is responsible for the drought the Southwestern United States has experienced over the past decade, but every indication suggests the region will become consistently drier in the next several decades. Richard ...
... over the next 100 years. They said it is impossible to determine yet whether human activity is responsible for the drought the Southwestern United States has experienced over the past decade, but every indication suggests the region will become consistently drier in the next several decades. Richard ...
2020: The Climate Turning Point
... range can be translated, with some uncertainty, into a budget of CO2emissions that are still permissible. This is the overall budget for the century and it lies within the range of 150 to 1050 Gt of CO2, based on updated numbers from IPCC9. At the current global emission level of 39 GtCO2 per year, ...
... range can be translated, with some uncertainty, into a budget of CO2emissions that are still permissible. This is the overall budget for the century and it lies within the range of 150 to 1050 Gt of CO2, based on updated numbers from IPCC9. At the current global emission level of 39 GtCO2 per year, ...
Proposal for the creation of a poverty-adaptation - Hal-SHS
... Therefore, to limit overall climate change impacts and particularly on the poorest populations, global warming has to be limited to 2°C at most. This means, according to IPCC (IPCC, 2014), that the world’s population must become carbon neutral by the end of the 21st century. Development strategies i ...
... Therefore, to limit overall climate change impacts and particularly on the poorest populations, global warming has to be limited to 2°C at most. This means, according to IPCC (IPCC, 2014), that the world’s population must become carbon neutral by the end of the 21st century. Development strategies i ...
Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Risk of
... Overall, even stringent global mitigation action may not be enough to avoid a 2.0° Celsius increase on pre-industrial temperatures. Even if the 2009 Copenhagen summit had agreed that global emissions would peak in 2015 and decline by 3% a year thereafter, this would still have left the world with an ...
... Overall, even stringent global mitigation action may not be enough to avoid a 2.0° Celsius increase on pre-industrial temperatures. Even if the 2009 Copenhagen summit had agreed that global emissions would peak in 2015 and decline by 3% a year thereafter, this would still have left the world with an ...
HKMetS Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 1, 1992
... Pleistocene epoch 22,000 to 14,000 years ago. Since then temperatures have increased so at the moment we are in the Holocene interglacial, a warm period resembling the climatic conditions 125,000 years ago. In addition to these climatic changes on the geological time scale there have also been chang ...
... Pleistocene epoch 22,000 to 14,000 years ago. Since then temperatures have increased so at the moment we are in the Holocene interglacial, a warm period resembling the climatic conditions 125,000 years ago. In addition to these climatic changes on the geological time scale there have also been chang ...
Proposal for a poverty-adaptation-mitigation window - HAL
... Therefore, to limit overall climate change impacts and particularly on the poorest populations, global warming has to be limited to 2°C at most. This means, according to IPCC (IPCC, 2014), that the world’s population must become carbon neutral by the end of the 21st century. Development strategies i ...
... Therefore, to limit overall climate change impacts and particularly on the poorest populations, global warming has to be limited to 2°C at most. This means, according to IPCC (IPCC, 2014), that the world’s population must become carbon neutral by the end of the 21st century. Development strategies i ...
A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the Kickapoo Tribe
... Any local vulnerability assessment necessarily incorporates a lot of uncertainty because climate change projections become less reliable at smaller scales. What we do know, however, is that the climate is changing, mostly due to human activity, and will contin ...
... Any local vulnerability assessment necessarily incorporates a lot of uncertainty because climate change projections become less reliable at smaller scales. What we do know, however, is that the climate is changing, mostly due to human activity, and will contin ...
On Assessing the Relative Roles of Initial and Boundary Conditions
... these we denote GSO1-4. Hence in September 1974, GS1 and GSO1 have exactly the same initial conditions in both the atmosphere and ocean, but have slight changes in radiative forcing which can be thought of as a small perturbation to the atmospheric initial state (as do GS2 and GSO2 etc.). Global mea ...
... these we denote GSO1-4. Hence in September 1974, GS1 and GSO1 have exactly the same initial conditions in both the atmosphere and ocean, but have slight changes in radiative forcing which can be thought of as a small perturbation to the atmospheric initial state (as do GS2 and GSO2 etc.). Global mea ...
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... equipment costs, divided by the sum of cropland and pastureland for all farms. This is an approximate computation of profit because it ignores inventory shifts, and input costs were limited to those items available in all four census years. Because the actual revenues and costs are used, the net rev ...
... equipment costs, divided by the sum of cropland and pastureland for all farms. This is an approximate computation of profit because it ignores inventory shifts, and input costs were limited to those items available in all four census years. Because the actual revenues and costs are used, the net rev ...
Abrupt Non-Linear Climate Change, Irreversibility and
... governments together with researchers from a range of disciplines to address these issues. Further background on the workshop, its agenda and participants, can be found on the internet at: www.oecd.org/env/cc The overall Project is overseen by the OECD Working Party on Global and Structural Policy ( ...
... governments together with researchers from a range of disciplines to address these issues. Further background on the workshop, its agenda and participants, can be found on the internet at: www.oecd.org/env/cc The overall Project is overseen by the OECD Working Party on Global and Structural Policy ( ...
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.