The impact of climate change on seasonal floods of a southern
... said for the precipitation data, where the average increase for the same period is 4Ð7%, compared to monthly averages varying from C20% in June to 18% in August. It should however be noted that the accuracy of GCMs is more disputable for precipitation than it is for temperature. This is mostly link ...
... said for the precipitation data, where the average increase for the same period is 4Ð7%, compared to monthly averages varying from C20% in June to 18% in August. It should however be noted that the accuracy of GCMs is more disputable for precipitation than it is for temperature. This is mostly link ...
Introduction - Department of Meteorology and Climate Science
... (long wavelength) infrared energy. energy radiation into the atmosphere as heat, rising from a hot road, creating shimmers on hot sunny days. The earth-atmosphere energy balance is achieved as the energy received from the Sun balances the energy lost by the Earth back into space. So, the Earth maint ...
... (long wavelength) infrared energy. energy radiation into the atmosphere as heat, rising from a hot road, creating shimmers on hot sunny days. The earth-atmosphere energy balance is achieved as the energy received from the Sun balances the energy lost by the Earth back into space. So, the Earth maint ...
View/Open
... warmest in the history of instrumental records, with each decade being warmer than the preceding period (IPCC, 2014). Further, the reports indicate that the African continent is warmer than it was 100 years ago (Osman-Elasha, 2008). Future impacts are projected to worsen as the temperature continues ...
... warmest in the history of instrumental records, with each decade being warmer than the preceding period (IPCC, 2014). Further, the reports indicate that the African continent is warmer than it was 100 years ago (Osman-Elasha, 2008). Future impacts are projected to worsen as the temperature continues ...
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
... I will assume that the foreseeable future extends to 2085-2100. This may be overlyoptimistic because the emission scenarios are driven by socioeconomic assumptions and projections which, according to a paper commissioned for the Stern Review, “cannot be projected semi-realistically for more than 5–1 ...
... I will assume that the foreseeable future extends to 2085-2100. This may be overlyoptimistic because the emission scenarios are driven by socioeconomic assumptions and projections which, according to a paper commissioned for the Stern Review, “cannot be projected semi-realistically for more than 5–1 ...
Greening of the Earth and its drivers
... elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration (eCO2 ), regional climate change (temperature, precipitation and radiation), and varying rates of nitrogen deposition. Land-use-related drivers involve changes in land cover and in land management intensity, including fertilization, irrigation, forestry and gra ...
... elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration (eCO2 ), regional climate change (temperature, precipitation and radiation), and varying rates of nitrogen deposition. Land-use-related drivers involve changes in land cover and in land management intensity, including fertilization, irrigation, forestry and gra ...
ahead of the storm
... This document summarizes Ahead of the Storm: Preparing Toronto for Climate Change, a comprehensive 45-page document which includes a series of recommendations which will see the City take proactive, protective measures to prepare for climate change. Ahead of the Storm was prepared in April 2008 by t ...
... This document summarizes Ahead of the Storm: Preparing Toronto for Climate Change, a comprehensive 45-page document which includes a series of recommendations which will see the City take proactive, protective measures to prepare for climate change. Ahead of the Storm was prepared in April 2008 by t ...
9 Holocene rapid land-cover changes – evidence and theory
... drought spells at 5900–5760 years BP and at 5120 years BP in the central Sahara, followed by phases of enhanced precipitation and by the onset of extreme arid conditions at 1500 years BP. At high northern latitudes, tree macrofossils apparently vanished between 4000 and 3000 years BP (MacDonald et a ...
... drought spells at 5900–5760 years BP and at 5120 years BP in the central Sahara, followed by phases of enhanced precipitation and by the onset of extreme arid conditions at 1500 years BP. At high northern latitudes, tree macrofossils apparently vanished between 4000 and 3000 years BP (MacDonald et a ...
Intended National Determined Contribution (INDC)
... expected to grow from 34.8 million people in 2014 to 93.4 million people in the 2040s. In terms of capacity, as a Least Developed Country, Uganda has a low per capita income of United States dollars 584, coming from economic development that depends largely on natural resource. Uganda has diverse s ...
... expected to grow from 34.8 million people in 2014 to 93.4 million people in the 2040s. In terms of capacity, as a Least Developed Country, Uganda has a low per capita income of United States dollars 584, coming from economic development that depends largely on natural resource. Uganda has diverse s ...
PDF - AMS Journals - American Meteorological Society
... manuscript that has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication. Since it is being posted so soon after acceptance, it has not yet been copyedited, formatted, or processed by AMS Publications. This preliminary version of the manuscript may be downloaded, distributed, and cited, but please be awa ...
... manuscript that has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication. Since it is being posted so soon after acceptance, it has not yet been copyedited, formatted, or processed by AMS Publications. This preliminary version of the manuscript may be downloaded, distributed, and cited, but please be awa ...
The ABCs of Governing the Himalayas inResponse to Glacial Melt
... research paints a more nuanced picture. Ramanathan et al. conclude that “atmospheric brown clouds” (“ABCs”) consisting of aerosols, particularly black carbon soot, may be as significant as greenhouse gases (“GHGs”) as a cause of the decline in glacial mass.17 As Kang et al. summarize the causation: ...
... research paints a more nuanced picture. Ramanathan et al. conclude that “atmospheric brown clouds” (“ABCs”) consisting of aerosols, particularly black carbon soot, may be as significant as greenhouse gases (“GHGs”) as a cause of the decline in glacial mass.17 As Kang et al. summarize the causation: ...
the new climate message
... University of East Anglia ‘Climategate’4 and market research showing a cut in Americans’ belief in manmade climate change5 are signs which don’t bode well. Remember the worst days of striving to act on climate change within the straightjacket of disinterest and denial? This would be worse. The only ...
... University of East Anglia ‘Climategate’4 and market research showing a cut in Americans’ belief in manmade climate change5 are signs which don’t bode well. Remember the worst days of striving to act on climate change within the straightjacket of disinterest and denial? This would be worse. The only ...
Pattern scaled climate change scenarios: are these useful for adaptation? - Working Paper 71 (699 kB) (opens in new window)
... 5. Management of forests and ecosystems More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham. ...
... 5. Management of forests and ecosystems More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham. ...
Integrating Dendrochronology, Climate and Satellite Remote
... At a global scale, climate is the main controlling factor determining the distribution of plant (and ultimately animal) communities. Global average temperatures have increased by approximately 0.7 °C in the past century [1], most likely due to anthropogenic emissions related to fossil fuel burning. ...
... At a global scale, climate is the main controlling factor determining the distribution of plant (and ultimately animal) communities. Global average temperatures have increased by approximately 0.7 °C in the past century [1], most likely due to anthropogenic emissions related to fossil fuel burning. ...
Program on Global and Regional Climate Change
... Climate change is being recognized as a major threat to present day society because of its adverse impacts on ecosystem, agricultural productivity, water resources, socio-economy and sustainability in a global as well as regional basis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its fou ...
... Climate change is being recognized as a major threat to present day society because of its adverse impacts on ecosystem, agricultural productivity, water resources, socio-economy and sustainability in a global as well as regional basis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its fou ...
Evaluation of Climate Mitigation Potential for Yeniçağa Gölü (Bolu
... Change (IPCC), 2007). Even if the minimum predicted increase takes place, it will be larger than any century-long trend in the last 10,000 years (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007). It is not only a threat to the biodiversity of the world but it is expected to cause other global ...
... Change (IPCC), 2007). Even if the minimum predicted increase takes place, it will be larger than any century-long trend in the last 10,000 years (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007). It is not only a threat to the biodiversity of the world but it is expected to cause other global ...
Men, Masculinities Climate Change
... At the same time, environmental disasters brought about by climate change also negatively affect boys and men in gendered ways that are, in general, different from girls and women. The invisibility of their vulnerabilities is also the result of the ways in which climate science and research has been ...
... At the same time, environmental disasters brought about by climate change also negatively affect boys and men in gendered ways that are, in general, different from girls and women. The invisibility of their vulnerabilities is also the result of the ways in which climate science and research has been ...
Hot Damned America: Evangelicalism and the Climate Change
... force to be reckoned with, making up roughly 30 percent of the American population.2 Second, and perhaps more important, the response to climate change within the evangelical community has been quite discordant, thereby offering valuable insight into the complex and oft-misunderstood group labeled “ ...
... force to be reckoned with, making up roughly 30 percent of the American population.2 Second, and perhaps more important, the response to climate change within the evangelical community has been quite discordant, thereby offering valuable insight into the complex and oft-misunderstood group labeled “ ...
C - Morey Publishing
... Those reasons are why the refrigerant industry is turning toward alternatives like hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and hydrofluoroolefin (HFOs), which don’t linger around long enough in the atmosphere to contribute to more global warming. The need to deploy these alternatives is growing more urgent by ...
... Those reasons are why the refrigerant industry is turning toward alternatives like hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and hydrofluoroolefin (HFOs), which don’t linger around long enough in the atmosphere to contribute to more global warming. The need to deploy these alternatives is growing more urgent by ...
The Next Step: Exponential Life 1 — PB
... Firstly, the processes underpinning our planet’s health are interlinked in all sorts of complex ways, and our activities are serving to increase the level of complexity, interlinkage, and unpredictability—particularly in the case of extreme events. Secondly, the fact is that, despite our various coo ...
... Firstly, the processes underpinning our planet’s health are interlinked in all sorts of complex ways, and our activities are serving to increase the level of complexity, interlinkage, and unpredictability—particularly in the case of extreme events. Secondly, the fact is that, despite our various coo ...
Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies
... ATM 237: Current Topics in World Climate and Atmosphere An exploration of current concerns about the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and global ozone loss, in a format accessible to non-science majors. The social and political steps being taken to limit global atmospheric pollution and climate change ...
... ATM 237: Current Topics in World Climate and Atmosphere An exploration of current concerns about the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and global ozone loss, in a format accessible to non-science majors. The social and political steps being taken to limit global atmospheric pollution and climate change ...
REACT Ferruginous Hawk Climate Change Study Summary
... nestling behaviour for 78 different dates at 13 different nests. Our latest results will be available in late April4,6,7. The objective is to determine how we could improve nesting structures to provide shade for developing nestlings. 4. GPS Telemetry Transmitter Location Data ...
... nestling behaviour for 78 different dates at 13 different nests. Our latest results will be available in late April4,6,7. The objective is to determine how we could improve nesting structures to provide shade for developing nestlings. 4. GPS Telemetry Transmitter Location Data ...
The Holocene
... must have also changed, with an increase in the ratio of cool to warm season precipitation. This is consistent with early-Holocene lake-level low stands in New England, which have been attributed to reduced summer precipitation and relatively high winter precipitation (Shuman and Donnelly, 2006). Th ...
... must have also changed, with an increase in the ratio of cool to warm season precipitation. This is consistent with early-Holocene lake-level low stands in New England, which have been attributed to reduced summer precipitation and relatively high winter precipitation (Shuman and Donnelly, 2006). Th ...
The Role of Transportation in Driving Climate Disruption
... such extreme persistence is unique to CO2 among major warming gases. Black carbon and greenhouse gases, such Scientific evidence strongly suggests that as methane, can also affect the climate, but these changes manmade increases in greenhouse gases are short-lived and expected to have little effect ...
... such extreme persistence is unique to CO2 among major warming gases. Black carbon and greenhouse gases, such Scientific evidence strongly suggests that as methane, can also affect the climate, but these changes manmade increases in greenhouse gases are short-lived and expected to have little effect ...
21st century runoff sensitivities of major global river basins
... Received 31 December 2011; revised 22 February 2012; accepted 24 February 2012; published 21 March 2012. ...
... Received 31 December 2011; revised 22 February 2012; accepted 24 February 2012; published 21 March 2012. ...
Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean
... extend peoples’ life expectancies. We have also achieved important gains in political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights. And yet, never before have the life forms that share this extraordinary planet – humans among them – been as threatened as they are today. The terrifying forec ...
... extend peoples’ life expectancies. We have also achieved important gains in political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights. And yet, never before have the life forms that share this extraordinary planet – humans among them – been as threatened as they are today. The terrifying forec ...
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.