Infiltrating the Frozen Fortress: the importance of the cryosphere to
... regulates lentic, or still-water, pools. The recent disappearance of many of these pools in Siberia is thought to be directly connected to changes in the thickness of the active permafrost layer (Anisimov et al. 2007). The periglacial zone is determined by mean temperature, latitude, altitude, and l ...
... regulates lentic, or still-water, pools. The recent disappearance of many of these pools in Siberia is thought to be directly connected to changes in the thickness of the active permafrost layer (Anisimov et al. 2007). The periglacial zone is determined by mean temperature, latitude, altitude, and l ...
On the Risk of Overshooting 2°C - Potsdam Institute for Climate
... In 1996, the European Council adopted a climate target that reads “[…] the Council believes that global average temperatures should not exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial level”. This target has since been reaffirmed by the EU on a number of occasions, including as recently as December 20041. How ...
... In 1996, the European Council adopted a climate target that reads “[…] the Council believes that global average temperatures should not exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial level”. This target has since been reaffirmed by the EU on a number of occasions, including as recently as December 20041. How ...
Key NGO Priorities in Energy and Climate Change
... • Market still badly distorted by subsidies and strong incumbents • Lower prices and supply-focused reform make demand management very difficult ...
... • Market still badly distorted by subsidies and strong incumbents • Lower prices and supply-focused reform make demand management very difficult ...
Questionnaire design effects in climate change surveys
... this effect varied significantly across political groups, such that a majority of Republicans reported high belief in “climate change” (60.2 percent), while only a minority reported high belief in “global warming” (44.0 percent). In marked contrast, most Democrats reported high belief regardless of ...
... this effect varied significantly across political groups, such that a majority of Republicans reported high belief in “climate change” (60.2 percent), while only a minority reported high belief in “global warming” (44.0 percent). In marked contrast, most Democrats reported high belief regardless of ...
SCIENCE BASED TARGETS: THE CALL TO ACTION
... leadership by setting science-based greenhouse gas reduction targets. More than 80 per cent of the world’s 500 largest companies established emission reduction or energyspecific targets in the 2014-15 financial year1 ; evidence that the business community is investing in a stable climate and seizing ...
... leadership by setting science-based greenhouse gas reduction targets. More than 80 per cent of the world’s 500 largest companies established emission reduction or energyspecific targets in the 2014-15 financial year1 ; evidence that the business community is investing in a stable climate and seizing ...
Regional/local climate projections: present ability and future plans
... To provide information on detailed patterns of even mean climate change for periods under transient climate change requires sample-sizes that can only be derived from ensembles Even with ensemble sampling, uncertain aspects of climate change such as possible circulation change or the magnitude of co ...
... To provide information on detailed patterns of even mean climate change for periods under transient climate change requires sample-sizes that can only be derived from ensembles Even with ensemble sampling, uncertain aspects of climate change such as possible circulation change or the magnitude of co ...
Bluie West
... Even though the science is happening now, virtually nobody knows. The more believable nature of these things happening in the future will give the story credibility. Actual events, times and places will instill plausibility to the story even if fact is portrayed as fiction. The thing we are after is ...
... Even though the science is happening now, virtually nobody knows. The more believable nature of these things happening in the future will give the story credibility. Actual events, times and places will instill plausibility to the story even if fact is portrayed as fiction. The thing we are after is ...
A New Climate for Society
... should be. The epistemic claims of environmental science are most trusted when they engage with practices that confer normative authority – not only scientific practices such as peer review (Merton’s ‘organized skepticism’) but also the cultural practices of democratic politics and the law. Climate ...
... should be. The epistemic claims of environmental science are most trusted when they engage with practices that confer normative authority – not only scientific practices such as peer review (Merton’s ‘organized skepticism’) but also the cultural practices of democratic politics and the law. Climate ...
Climate change scenarios in Europe and their potential
... Mediterranean area in summer. Minimum winter temperatures are likely to increase more than the average in northern Europe. Maximum summer temperatures are likely to increase more than the average in southern and central Europe. ...
... Mediterranean area in summer. Minimum winter temperatures are likely to increase more than the average in northern Europe. Maximum summer temperatures are likely to increase more than the average in southern and central Europe. ...
Role and functioning of national and sub
... creates added value. The relevant law includes budgets which are explicitly more ambitious than the EU targets, and also includes clear targets with regard to greenhouse gas emissions, investments, carbon pricing, and research and development. The law does not include legal enforcement mechanisms. I ...
... creates added value. The relevant law includes budgets which are explicitly more ambitious than the EU targets, and also includes clear targets with regard to greenhouse gas emissions, investments, carbon pricing, and research and development. The law does not include legal enforcement mechanisms. I ...
slides - Medical and Public Health Law Site
... What does it mean to say that the state is acting as parens patriae? What are the injuries to Mass caused by global warming? Why is this imminent? Or is it still weather and not climate? ...
... What does it mean to say that the state is acting as parens patriae? What are the injuries to Mass caused by global warming? Why is this imminent? Or is it still weather and not climate? ...
Climate Change in the United States: The Prohibitive Costs of
... and the village of Newtok—would cost $405 million (Ruth, Coelho, and Karetnikov 2007). Impacts on Public Health If emissions continue to grow unabated, extreme heat waves that now occur once every 20 years are projected to occur about every other year in much of the country by the end of this centur ...
... and the village of Newtok—would cost $405 million (Ruth, Coelho, and Karetnikov 2007). Impacts on Public Health If emissions continue to grow unabated, extreme heat waves that now occur once every 20 years are projected to occur about every other year in much of the country by the end of this centur ...
abstracts - Swedish Institute at Athens
... Results of ongoing archaeobotanical, -zoological and charcoal analyses indicate significant shifts in agricultural regimes through time. Recently, an archaeometrical[pottery study was begun, as well as a project focusing on the complex geology and colluvial fan stratigraphy in the environs of the ac ...
... Results of ongoing archaeobotanical, -zoological and charcoal analyses indicate significant shifts in agricultural regimes through time. Recently, an archaeometrical[pottery study was begun, as well as a project focusing on the complex geology and colluvial fan stratigraphy in the environs of the ac ...
Terrestrial biogeochemical feedbacks in the climate system
... standard deviations (white). For calculations, adopted from ref. 6, and data sources see Supplementary Information. Totals include top-end estimates, without and with (black rectangle) C–N interactions. Estimates are based on a number of assumptions that had to be made and clearly point to the need ...
... standard deviations (white). For calculations, adopted from ref. 6, and data sources see Supplementary Information. Totals include top-end estimates, without and with (black rectangle) C–N interactions. Estimates are based on a number of assumptions that had to be made and clearly point to the need ...
Forecasting the End of Climate Change Litigation: Why Expert
... This new technology, coupled with recent federal environmental statutes7 has given rise to unprecedented climate change litigation. Additionally, modern public sensibility about environmental protection will undoubtedly lead to more environmental-tort actions. It is inevitable therefore, that scient ...
... This new technology, coupled with recent federal environmental statutes7 has given rise to unprecedented climate change litigation. Additionally, modern public sensibility about environmental protection will undoubtedly lead to more environmental-tort actions. It is inevitable therefore, that scient ...
1B: Follow the Energy! Earth`s Dynamic Climate System
... Rule 1. During each cycle of play, any energy unit at the planet’s surface will have an equal chance of staying at the planet’s surface or moving upward. Rule 2. Energy units leaving the planet’s surface as infrared radiation (IR) will be absorbed in the atmosphere if it contains IR-absorbing molecu ...
... Rule 1. During each cycle of play, any energy unit at the planet’s surface will have an equal chance of staying at the planet’s surface or moving upward. Rule 2. Energy units leaving the planet’s surface as infrared radiation (IR) will be absorbed in the atmosphere if it contains IR-absorbing molecu ...
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY IN AFRICA
... United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2008: Fighting climate change: human solidarity in a divided world. Human Development Report 2007/2008. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 314–317. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa 2016: African Ambassadors meet in preparation for COP22. News a ...
... United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2008: Fighting climate change: human solidarity in a divided world. Human Development Report 2007/2008. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 314–317. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa 2016: African Ambassadors meet in preparation for COP22. News a ...
Colombia`s INDC
... geographical location and the physical and climatic characteristics of a country that has three mountain ranges, six natural regions and a large cultural diversity shaping the dynamics of numerous l ...
... geographical location and the physical and climatic characteristics of a country that has three mountain ranges, six natural regions and a large cultural diversity shaping the dynamics of numerous l ...
Guide One
... steam engine? But, contrary to what (no pun intended) is sometimes said, Watt did not actually invent the steam engine. Rather he saw how to make a radical change to the design that vastly improved its efficiency. Previous steam engines, known as Newcomen atmospheric steam engines after the Cornish ...
... steam engine? But, contrary to what (no pun intended) is sometimes said, Watt did not actually invent the steam engine. Rather he saw how to make a radical change to the design that vastly improved its efficiency. Previous steam engines, known as Newcomen atmospheric steam engines after the Cornish ...
ICTs and Climate Change
... Named as one of the world’s ten most enduring institutions by Booz ...
... Named as one of the world’s ten most enduring institutions by Booz ...
OSWER`s Climate Change Adaptation Plan December 4 - CLU-IN
... Image credit: U.S. Global Change Research Program (www.globalchange.gov). ...
... Image credit: U.S. Global Change Research Program (www.globalchange.gov). ...
Capstone ESS Unit 4: Human Activity and Climate System Unit Summary
... ten years: large volcanic eruptions, ocean circulation; ten to hundreds of years: changes in human activity, ocean circulation, solar output; tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years: changes to Earth’s orbit and the orientation of its axis; and tens of millions to hundreds of millions of ...
... ten years: large volcanic eruptions, ocean circulation; ten to hundreds of years: changes in human activity, ocean circulation, solar output; tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years: changes to Earth’s orbit and the orientation of its axis; and tens of millions to hundreds of millions of ...
A call to insect scientists: challenges and opportunities of managing
... is the Wisconsin Initiative for Climate Change Impacts (WICCI), a collaboration of scientists and stakeholders totaling more than 70 entities that have worked for a decade to develop, synthesize, and translate climate science, assess and anticipate climate change impacts to a diversity of resources ...
... is the Wisconsin Initiative for Climate Change Impacts (WICCI), a collaboration of scientists and stakeholders totaling more than 70 entities that have worked for a decade to develop, synthesize, and translate climate science, assess and anticipate climate change impacts to a diversity of resources ...
North America`s Mountain Pine Beetle Pandemic
... The continued drought since the 1990s and steadily warming temperatures are mostly blamed for this outbreak. This is climate change in action. Scientists have been warning us about this kind of impact from climate change with their predictions of increased insect infestations on a warmer planet. Som ...
... The continued drought since the 1990s and steadily warming temperatures are mostly blamed for this outbreak. This is climate change in action. Scientists have been warning us about this kind of impact from climate change with their predictions of increased insect infestations on a warmer planet. Som ...
040521_Cloud_Feeback_Presentation_Wood
... thus, λ = 0.3 Km2W-1 b. when positive water vapor feedback is included, λ is increased to 0.5 Km2W-1 (this feedback does not include the effect of clouds) 4. Cloud-climate feedbacks a. Considerably more complex: i.e. a reduction in clouds increases IR emission at TOA, but also increases absorption o ...
... thus, λ = 0.3 Km2W-1 b. when positive water vapor feedback is included, λ is increased to 0.5 Km2W-1 (this feedback does not include the effect of clouds) 4. Cloud-climate feedbacks a. Considerably more complex: i.e. a reduction in clouds increases IR emission at TOA, but also increases absorption o ...
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.