Economic Impacts of Climate Change on New Jersey
... Policymakers across the country are now seeking solutions to curb greenhouse gas emissions and to help us adapt to the impending impacts triggered by past emissions. The debate to date has primarily focused on the perceived costs of alternative solutions, yet there can also be significant costs of i ...
... Policymakers across the country are now seeking solutions to curb greenhouse gas emissions and to help us adapt to the impending impacts triggered by past emissions. The debate to date has primarily focused on the perceived costs of alternative solutions, yet there can also be significant costs of i ...
The climate of the United Kingdom and recent trends
... fourth, assessment from Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (IPCC, 2007, referred to hereafter as IPCC AR4-WG1. This can also be seen at http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html). ...
... fourth, assessment from Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (IPCC, 2007, referred to hereafter as IPCC AR4-WG1. This can also be seen at http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html). ...
Royal Society
... To balance the absorption of 240 Wm-2 from the Sun, the Earth’s surface and atmosphere must emit the same amount of energy into space; they do so as infrared radiation. On average the surface emits significantly more than 240 Wm-2, but the net effect of absorption and emission of infrared radiation ...
... To balance the absorption of 240 Wm-2 from the Sun, the Earth’s surface and atmosphere must emit the same amount of energy into space; they do so as infrared radiation. On average the surface emits significantly more than 240 Wm-2, but the net effect of absorption and emission of infrared radiation ...
Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change
... The problem we now face is that since the start of the industrial revolution some 250 years ago our emissions of greenhouse gases have been making this blanket thicker at an unprecedented speed. This has caused the most dramatic change in the atmosphere’s composition for at least 650,000 years. Unle ...
... The problem we now face is that since the start of the industrial revolution some 250 years ago our emissions of greenhouse gases have been making this blanket thicker at an unprecedented speed. This has caused the most dramatic change in the atmosphere’s composition for at least 650,000 years. Unle ...
SMC MS Guide - Science.indd - San Mateo County Office of Education
... molecular level, thereby giving them an understanding of why healthy plants are essential to a healthy habitat. In Temperature Change, students learn what causes weather and graph changes in local weather patterns over time to investigate how weather conditions define climate. Finally, in Air Pollu ...
... molecular level, thereby giving them an understanding of why healthy plants are essential to a healthy habitat. In Temperature Change, students learn what causes weather and graph changes in local weather patterns over time to investigate how weather conditions define climate. Finally, in Air Pollu ...
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... account the local connections and interactions between sustainability, climate change and tourism. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the possible role of tourism in sustainable rural development and outline an adaptation portfolio accordingly. A questionnaire-based survey was carried out fro ...
... account the local connections and interactions between sustainability, climate change and tourism. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the possible role of tourism in sustainable rural development and outline an adaptation portfolio accordingly. A questionnaire-based survey was carried out fro ...
The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review
... If no action is taken, the four countries— Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam— could suffer a loss equivalent to 6.7% of GDP annually by 2100, more than double the global average loss. The results of an integrated assessment of the economy-wide cost of climate change show that for the fou ...
... If no action is taken, the four countries— Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam— could suffer a loss equivalent to 6.7% of GDP annually by 2100, more than double the global average loss. The results of an integrated assessment of the economy-wide cost of climate change show that for the fou ...
Talking about a revolution: climate change and the media
... It has been said that the most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. In the case of media coverage of climate change, that includes the urgency of adaptation, the costs of acting and failing to, the views of the poor, the vested interests that resist change, and the pote ...
... It has been said that the most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. In the case of media coverage of climate change, that includes the urgency of adaptation, the costs of acting and failing to, the views of the poor, the vested interests that resist change, and the pote ...
Climate change and family planning: least
... perhaps unsurprising given the facts that ministries for the environment were responsible for authoring the NAPAs while “population” is traditionally an issue for the ministry of health. It is also an unfortunate reflection of the fact that, for most of countries, family planning remains within its ...
... perhaps unsurprising given the facts that ministries for the environment were responsible for authoring the NAPAs while “population” is traditionally an issue for the ministry of health. It is also an unfortunate reflection of the fact that, for most of countries, family planning remains within its ...
Regional Seminar on Safe, Climate Adaptive and Disaster Resilient
... • The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased. • The globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data show a warming of 0.85 [0.65 to 1.06] °C, over the period 1880 ...
... • The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased. • The globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data show a warming of 0.85 [0.65 to 1.06] °C, over the period 1880 ...
GSK Public policy positions
... HCFCs has led to a slight but welcome recovery in the ozone layer but those already released cannot be removed from the atmosphere and their natural breakdown is very slow. Scientists expect that the ozone layer will be depleting to a minimum level during the next few years before slowly returning t ...
... HCFCs has led to a slight but welcome recovery in the ozone layer but those already released cannot be removed from the atmosphere and their natural breakdown is very slow. Scientists expect that the ozone layer will be depleting to a minimum level during the next few years before slowly returning t ...
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... The planet has not seen such temperatures for around 30 million years. Humans (as homo sapiens) have been here around 250,000 years, and our civilisations here for around only 8,000 or 9,000 years. ...
... The planet has not seen such temperatures for around 30 million years. Humans (as homo sapiens) have been here around 250,000 years, and our civilisations here for around only 8,000 or 9,000 years. ...
A Focus on Climate During the Past 100 Years
... challenging task to homogenize the data in order to assess climate trends reliably. The contributions by Woodruff et al. and Alekseev et al. (this volume) summarize these efforts for the examples of sea-surface temperature (SST) and sea ice. The situation is very similar for land (station) temperatu ...
... challenging task to homogenize the data in order to assess climate trends reliably. The contributions by Woodruff et al. and Alekseev et al. (this volume) summarize these efforts for the examples of sea-surface temperature (SST) and sea ice. The situation is very similar for land (station) temperatu ...
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... the Princeton University Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) models. Both models predict a warming in all regions of the U.S. as global temperature rises, but the relative magnitudes of warming differ between model results. There is even less agreement between models in terms of predicted c ...
... the Princeton University Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) models. Both models predict a warming in all regions of the U.S. as global temperature rises, but the relative magnitudes of warming differ between model results. There is even less agreement between models in terms of predicted c ...
climate change and forced migration - sid
... but this is not entirely clear. These Principles are based on international human rights instruments and aim to give guidance on the standards for the treatment of ‘IDPs’. The specific situation of island nations disappearing might be covered by international prohibitions of refoulement as well as i ...
... but this is not entirely clear. These Principles are based on international human rights instruments and aim to give guidance on the standards for the treatment of ‘IDPs’. The specific situation of island nations disappearing might be covered by international prohibitions of refoulement as well as i ...
Atmospheric composition, irreversible climate change, and
... 1 Radiative forcing is defined (e.g., IPCC, 2007) as the change in the net irradiance (downward minus upward, generally expressed in W m–2) at the tropopause due to a change in an external driver o ...
... 1 Radiative forcing is defined (e.g., IPCC, 2007) as the change in the net irradiance (downward minus upward, generally expressed in W m–2) at the tropopause due to a change in an external driver o ...
Financial engineering, including investment approaches for
... • 15 of these transactions have used guarantee instruments, 23 have used debt products, 1 project has used equity • A majority of the projects are investments made through Financial institutions • The leverage ratio for blended finance transactions through financial institutions is quite high: on av ...
... • 15 of these transactions have used guarantee instruments, 23 have used debt products, 1 project has used equity • A majority of the projects are investments made through Financial institutions • The leverage ratio for blended finance transactions through financial institutions is quite high: on av ...
Climate Dynamics and Global Change
... the early 1970s. A more complete discussion and extensive references may be found in Houghtonet al (1990) and Bailing (1992). It is clear that there has been a leveling of temperatures in the 1980s, and although these are referred to as record-breaking years, they are not appreciably warmerthan the ...
... the early 1970s. A more complete discussion and extensive references may be found in Houghtonet al (1990) and Bailing (1992). It is clear that there has been a leveling of temperatures in the 1980s, and although these are referred to as record-breaking years, they are not appreciably warmerthan the ...
Final Agenda Climate Finance Workshop CANSA
... Options for an Innovative Climate Finance Regime for South Asia New Delhi 19th – 20th August, 2013 India Habitat Centre 14:00-15:30: Session 2: Estimated Cost of Climate Action Chair – Robert Dobias, ADAPT ...
... Options for an Innovative Climate Finance Regime for South Asia New Delhi 19th – 20th August, 2013 India Habitat Centre 14:00-15:30: Session 2: Estimated Cost of Climate Action Chair – Robert Dobias, ADAPT ...
Climate modeling at various spatial and temporal scales: where can
... fully interactive, three-dimensional processes. In order to gain insight into the functioning of climate, the most complex models are not necessarily the most explicit; the type of model to be selected is therefore closely linked to the nature of the problem to be investigated (Henderson-Sellers and ...
... fully interactive, three-dimensional processes. In order to gain insight into the functioning of climate, the most complex models are not necessarily the most explicit; the type of model to be selected is therefore closely linked to the nature of the problem to be investigated (Henderson-Sellers and ...
Republican and Democratic Views on Climate Change
... coefficient ranges from –1 (a perfect negative correlation) to +1 (a perfect positive correlation), with 0 indicating no relationship. The increasing values of the Pearson coefficients across each row are quantitative evidence for greater party sorting over time, and they statistically validate the ...
... coefficient ranges from –1 (a perfect negative correlation) to +1 (a perfect positive correlation), with 0 indicating no relationship. The increasing values of the Pearson coefficients across each row are quantitative evidence for greater party sorting over time, and they statistically validate the ...
- Harvard University
... Report global mean radiative forcing at both the surface and the TOA in climate change ...
... Report global mean radiative forcing at both the surface and the TOA in climate change ...
Stop Global Warming 2015 - Approach to Mitigation and Adaptation
... Approach to Mitigation and Adaptation Editorial Supervisor National Institute for Environmental Studies ...
... Approach to Mitigation and Adaptation Editorial Supervisor National Institute for Environmental Studies ...
full text ( 360kb) - USF College of Marine Science
... salinity variations (Fig. 3D). Total error is 60.2‰ and includes analytical precision and errors in the Mg/Ca and d18O calibration equations. The middle Holocene mean (1.5‰) is somewhat higher than the present value of 1.2‰ (Fairbanks et al., 1992). Isolating d18Osw changes in this way reveals a bri ...
... salinity variations (Fig. 3D). Total error is 60.2‰ and includes analytical precision and errors in the Mg/Ca and d18O calibration equations. The middle Holocene mean (1.5‰) is somewhat higher than the present value of 1.2‰ (Fairbanks et al., 1992). Isolating d18Osw changes in this way reveals a bri ...
workshop on human settlements` response to climate change
... • Stimulate cross-national understanding of the policy and research priorities for Climate Change action in built environment, • Kindle exchanges amongst academic staff and students around the concept of Climate Change, and • Initiate research collaboration between researchers and institutions in th ...
... • Stimulate cross-national understanding of the policy and research priorities for Climate Change action in built environment, • Kindle exchanges amongst academic staff and students around the concept of Climate Change, and • Initiate research collaboration between researchers and institutions in th ...
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.