publications - Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
... Cook, K.H., E.K. Vizy, Z.S. Launer, and C.M. Patricola, 2008: Springtime intensification of the Great Plains low-level jet and Midwest precipitation in GCM simulations of the 21st century. Submitted to J. Climate. Hsieh, J-.S. and K.H. Cook, 2008: On the Instability of the African easterly jet and t ...
... Cook, K.H., E.K. Vizy, Z.S. Launer, and C.M. Patricola, 2008: Springtime intensification of the Great Plains low-level jet and Midwest precipitation in GCM simulations of the 21st century. Submitted to J. Climate. Hsieh, J-.S. and K.H. Cook, 2008: On the Instability of the African easterly jet and t ...
Verification of Selected Neutron
... Loss of solute produces high water potential in phloem, and ...
... Loss of solute produces high water potential in phloem, and ...
Observations On Environmental Change in South Africa
... Wilgen and Alan Whitfield generously supplied supplementary photographs. ...
... Wilgen and Alan Whitfield generously supplied supplementary photographs. ...
Challenges of a Sustained Climate Observing System
... nationally operated and internationally coordinated observing enterprises by the mid-twentieth century. While in situ ocean, land, and ice observing activities have moved along similar trajectories, they have been less mature for the most part. In contrast, space-based remotely sensed observations r ...
... nationally operated and internationally coordinated observing enterprises by the mid-twentieth century. While in situ ocean, land, and ice observing activities have moved along similar trajectories, they have been less mature for the most part. In contrast, space-based remotely sensed observations r ...
climatic adaptation of coastal communities on the southwest of taiwan
... research papers on, and assessments of, the impact of global climate change and the adaptation of communities to it. Its 2013 publication, the Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2013), indicated the increasing frequency of extreme climatic events, such as floods, droughts, and heat waves, and the increa ...
... research papers on, and assessments of, the impact of global climate change and the adaptation of communities to it. Its 2013 publication, the Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2013), indicated the increasing frequency of extreme climatic events, such as floods, droughts, and heat waves, and the increa ...
PDF - Journal of Resources and Ecology
... The BGS of the study area has delayed significantly, especially after 2004. The GNDVI of the grassland area also decreased, consistent with observed LGS shortening (Shen et al., 2013). The shortening of LGS was mainly caused by a delay in the BGS and little change in the EGS. The delay of BGS was ma ...
... The BGS of the study area has delayed significantly, especially after 2004. The GNDVI of the grassland area also decreased, consistent with observed LGS shortening (Shen et al., 2013). The shortening of LGS was mainly caused by a delay in the BGS and little change in the EGS. The delay of BGS was ma ...
The EU and Strategies for New Climate Treaty Negotiations
... could the EU benefit from its position in the UN system to press for the adoption of a legally binding climate resolution by the Security Council or the General Assembly? • Outside the UN framework, are there any legal options for mitigating climate change under national or international laws and, ...
... could the EU benefit from its position in the UN system to press for the adoption of a legally binding climate resolution by the Security Council or the General Assembly? • Outside the UN framework, are there any legal options for mitigating climate change under national or international laws and, ...
Climate change: helping nature survive the human response
... in many parts of the world; thus, few substantive adaptation measures have been implemented to date (Campbell et al. 2009). However, throughout history, human responses to gradual and extreme environmental change have had a wide range of indirect impacts on biodiversity that may inform projections o ...
... in many parts of the world; thus, few substantive adaptation measures have been implemented to date (Campbell et al. 2009). However, throughout history, human responses to gradual and extreme environmental change have had a wide range of indirect impacts on biodiversity that may inform projections o ...
Lost in the problem: the role of boundary organisations in the
... Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and especially its Kyoto protocol.1 The IPCC is a prominent example of a boundary organisation. These are ‘institutions that straddle the shifting divide between politics and science’.2 Until recently, the IPCC commanded such respect that it was awarde ...
... Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and especially its Kyoto protocol.1 The IPCC is a prominent example of a boundary organisation. These are ‘institutions that straddle the shifting divide between politics and science’.2 Until recently, the IPCC commanded such respect that it was awarde ...
Addressing Climate Change Impacts through Disaster Planning
... change. Disaster preparedness will not prevent the effects of climate change, but can drastically reduce the impacts upon people and community. ...
... change. Disaster preparedness will not prevent the effects of climate change, but can drastically reduce the impacts upon people and community. ...
Efficiently Constraining Climate Sensitivity with Ensembles
... plausible range of model inadequacy (both doubling and halving our best prior estimate). This introduces an unavoidably subjective element into the estimation process, so we test the forecast skill of the resulting ensembles by simulating out-of-sample data (i.e., data independent of the modern data ...
... plausible range of model inadequacy (both doubling and halving our best prior estimate). This introduces an unavoidably subjective element into the estimation process, so we test the forecast skill of the resulting ensembles by simulating out-of-sample data (i.e., data independent of the modern data ...
the impact of weather and climate risks on cereal crops productivity
... Therefore, changes in temperature and precipitation associated with the permanent CO2 emissions will bring changes to agricultural land suitability for maize development. According to the IPCC Special Report on associated emissions (SRES, 2000) and climate models designed to increase of global tempe ...
... Therefore, changes in temperature and precipitation associated with the permanent CO2 emissions will bring changes to agricultural land suitability for maize development. According to the IPCC Special Report on associated emissions (SRES, 2000) and climate models designed to increase of global tempe ...
Does global climate change affect air pollution in Illinois?
... temperatures, humidity, precipitation, and wind patterns around the world, each of which influences air pollution in different ways. For example, it is well known that hotter temperatures increase ozone levels.3 Scientists expect that climate change will increase ozone levels over large areas of the ...
... temperatures, humidity, precipitation, and wind patterns around the world, each of which influences air pollution in different ways. For example, it is well known that hotter temperatures increase ozone levels.3 Scientists expect that climate change will increase ozone levels over large areas of the ...
How do carbon cycle uncertainties affect IPCC temperature
... The emission-driven CC-on results produce a more asymmetric distribution biased to higher temperature increases, implying higher levels of risk if the uncertainties stemming from the carbon cycle are included. The lower temperature-change results in the AR5 projections may be partly due to the choic ...
... The emission-driven CC-on results produce a more asymmetric distribution biased to higher temperature increases, implying higher levels of risk if the uncertainties stemming from the carbon cycle are included. The lower temperature-change results in the AR5 projections may be partly due to the choic ...
Will Amazonia Dry Out? Magnitude and Causes of Change from
... Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington Received 6 January 2011; accepted 8 September 2011 ABSTRACT: The Amazon rain forest may undergo significant change in response to future climate cha ...
... Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington Received 6 January 2011; accepted 8 September 2011 ABSTRACT: The Amazon rain forest may undergo significant change in response to future climate cha ...
Douglas Wilcox, Research and Program Development Division, Manitoba Agricultural Services
... However, the fact that crop yields have never been better will put crop yield related adaptation by farmers at a disadvantage psychologically. Farmers will say yields have never been better so why should I adapt? Or they might say that the adaptations that I have already made (for economic or other ...
... However, the fact that crop yields have never been better will put crop yield related adaptation by farmers at a disadvantage psychologically. Farmers will say yields have never been better so why should I adapt? Or they might say that the adaptations that I have already made (for economic or other ...
IPCC (2007) - climate crime index
... Evidence for the Crime of All Time What is “committed” temperature increase? Due to the inertia of the planetary climate system, it takes about 30 years for emissions to register as a surface temperature increase. Today’s global temperature increase is committed to double - even without any more em ...
... Evidence for the Crime of All Time What is “committed” temperature increase? Due to the inertia of the planetary climate system, it takes about 30 years for emissions to register as a surface temperature increase. Today’s global temperature increase is committed to double - even without any more em ...
Cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa: measuring the impact on climate change adaptation
... However, we would expect these programs to have impacts on the economic livelihoods of beneficiaries as well, and help protect those most vulnerable to climate risks, with low levels of adaptive capacity. Cash transfers influence the livelihood strategies of the poor, who in rural areas often depend ...
... However, we would expect these programs to have impacts on the economic livelihoods of beneficiaries as well, and help protect those most vulnerable to climate risks, with low levels of adaptive capacity. Cash transfers influence the livelihood strategies of the poor, who in rural areas often depend ...
climate policy: separating fact from fantasy
... emissions, climate change, and resulting damages to the environment, economy, and standards of living worldwide. Human activity produces greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions, most notably carbon dioxide (“CO2”), but also a host of other gases, including methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocompounds, and hy ...
... emissions, climate change, and resulting damages to the environment, economy, and standards of living worldwide. Human activity produces greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions, most notably carbon dioxide (“CO2”), but also a host of other gases, including methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocompounds, and hy ...
Recent warming trends inferred from borehole temperature data in
... consider only the period from 1981, the trend would be of 0.05 °C/yr. Notice, that previous studies in the Northeastern part of Morocco suggest an increasing temperature rate of only 0.37 °C/yr for the same period (Barkaoui et al., 2012). The Figuig zone was also strongly affected in the 1960s by de ...
... consider only the period from 1981, the trend would be of 0.05 °C/yr. Notice, that previous studies in the Northeastern part of Morocco suggest an increasing temperature rate of only 0.37 °C/yr for the same period (Barkaoui et al., 2012). The Figuig zone was also strongly affected in the 1960s by de ...
Sustainability a cross-curriculum priority ACARA
... investigate the relationships between systems and how they respond to change. They develop an appreciation for the interconnectedness of Earth’s biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Relationships including cycles and cause and effect are explored,. develop observation and analysis s ...
... investigate the relationships between systems and how they respond to change. They develop an appreciation for the interconnectedness of Earth’s biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Relationships including cycles and cause and effect are explored,. develop observation and analysis s ...
Keith Brander
... the response of cod to increased water temperature indicate that such predictions, which are based on matching present species distributions to one or two climate variables, are not reliable. A positive consequence of the recent upsurge of concern about climate change is that people are becoming muc ...
... the response of cod to increased water temperature indicate that such predictions, which are based on matching present species distributions to one or two climate variables, are not reliable. A positive consequence of the recent upsurge of concern about climate change is that people are becoming muc ...
creation care - The Center for Health and the Global Environment
... What the World’s Leading Climate Scientists Are Saying There is a scientific consensus that the earth is warming and that the warming is being caused mainly by human activity. The scientific academies of major nations, including our own National Academy of Science, strongly support this consensus. T ...
... What the World’s Leading Climate Scientists Are Saying There is a scientific consensus that the earth is warming and that the warming is being caused mainly by human activity. The scientific academies of major nations, including our own National Academy of Science, strongly support this consensus. T ...
- Wiley Online Library
... become identified with a confidence interval, determined from the consensus of an ever larger mix of modeling and observational studies [e.g., Knutti and Hegerl, 2008; Collins et al., 2013]. In emphasizing consensus, the physical underpinnings of each study are easily lost and there is little to rewar ...
... become identified with a confidence interval, determined from the consensus of an ever larger mix of modeling and observational studies [e.g., Knutti and Hegerl, 2008; Collins et al., 2013]. In emphasizing consensus, the physical underpinnings of each study are easily lost and there is little to rewar ...
8_ecosystem-models-for-gcc
... Nevertheless, the Farquhar model is a well-tested, well-corroborated model of the responses of C3 plants(n1) to changes in carbon dioxide concentration and light on a temporal scale of seconds to minutes (e.g., Collatz et al. 1990, Farquhar and yon Caemmerer 1982, Harley et al. 1992). Sufficiency. S ...
... Nevertheless, the Farquhar model is a well-tested, well-corroborated model of the responses of C3 plants(n1) to changes in carbon dioxide concentration and light on a temporal scale of seconds to minutes (e.g., Collatz et al. 1990, Farquhar and yon Caemmerer 1982, Harley et al. 1992). Sufficiency. S ...
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.