Climate Change on Coastal Zones
... the increase of global average sea level, risks of coastal erosion and an expected increase in the severity of weather-related natural disasters (ESPON Climate, 2011; CEC, 2009). ...
... the increase of global average sea level, risks of coastal erosion and an expected increase in the severity of weather-related natural disasters (ESPON Climate, 2011; CEC, 2009). ...
new zealand`s framework for adapting to climate change
... driving cars, farming, burning coal and cutting down forests. These produce greenhouse gases – mainly carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – which build up in the atmosphere and trap the sun’s heat. The climate does change naturally, but greenhouse gas levels are now higher than at any time in ...
... driving cars, farming, burning coal and cutting down forests. These produce greenhouse gases – mainly carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – which build up in the atmosphere and trap the sun’s heat. The climate does change naturally, but greenhouse gas levels are now higher than at any time in ...
TCC_activities
... Data and Products available from TCC’s Web Site 1. Global Climate and Extreme Climate Events ...
... Data and Products available from TCC’s Web Site 1. Global Climate and Extreme Climate Events ...
Fuelling America`s Climatic Apocalypse
... I. Climate Politics of an American Way of Life When President Bush walked away from the Kyoto Protocol, the polls in the United States indicated that both the majority of Congress and the public supported this move. While many thought “it would be good to do something about global warming,” most als ...
... I. Climate Politics of an American Way of Life When President Bush walked away from the Kyoto Protocol, the polls in the United States indicated that both the majority of Congress and the public supported this move. While many thought “it would be good to do something about global warming,” most als ...
PDF
... convert grassland in reaction to climate change. At present such a conversion is limited because of the cross compliance regulations of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). However, in a decade or two this restriction could be lifted due to increasing food prices. On the other hand, in the interpre ...
... convert grassland in reaction to climate change. At present such a conversion is limited because of the cross compliance regulations of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). However, in a decade or two this restriction could be lifted due to increasing food prices. On the other hand, in the interpre ...
The impact of climate change on the global economy
... in which the world is 4°C warmer, annual economic output will be just 4% lower than a base case with no warming. The baseline case in Nordhaus’s study is for warming of around 3.8% by 2100. Nordhaus believes the economic impact of climate change is likely to be small over the next couple of decades ...
... in which the world is 4°C warmer, annual economic output will be just 4% lower than a base case with no warming. The baseline case in Nordhaus’s study is for warming of around 3.8% by 2100. Nordhaus believes the economic impact of climate change is likely to be small over the next couple of decades ...
global efforts in addressing climate change
... IA calls for better use and integration of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in decision making; paying more attention to risk assessment; and reviewing the way we predict, design, and mitigate for long-term cumulative impacts and how we deal with new uncertainties in our analyses. In additio ...
... IA calls for better use and integration of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in decision making; paying more attention to risk assessment; and reviewing the way we predict, design, and mitigate for long-term cumulative impacts and how we deal with new uncertainties in our analyses. In additio ...
ANNEX 1 A JPI CLIMATE First joint call 2013, call topic 1: Societal
... welfare, quality of life as well as intergenerational climate policies and response measures. Special emphasis should be given to the questions of which groups in society are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, how the positive and negative impacts are distributed and how these ...
... welfare, quality of life as well as intergenerational climate policies and response measures. Special emphasis should be given to the questions of which groups in society are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, how the positive and negative impacts are distributed and how these ...
Climate Change and Conflict Scenarios
... Renner, Michael, 1996. Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity. New York: Norton. Ross, Michael, 2004. ‘What Do We Know about Natural Resources and Civil War?’, Journal of Peace Research 41(3): 337–356. Russell, Ben & Nigel Morris, 2006. ‘The Wate ...
... Renner, Michael, 1996. Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity. New York: Norton. Ross, Michael, 2004. ‘What Do We Know about Natural Resources and Civil War?’, Journal of Peace Research 41(3): 337–356. Russell, Ben & Nigel Morris, 2006. ‘The Wate ...
AWG Kyoto Protocol Intervention
... advance the goals of the UNFCCC’s sister conventions. In particular, we call for approaches that correct the problem of asymmetric accounting that are biased in favour of sinks and leave significant emission sources unaccounted for. Enhancements to LULUCF rules must support stringent climate protect ...
... advance the goals of the UNFCCC’s sister conventions. In particular, we call for approaches that correct the problem of asymmetric accounting that are biased in favour of sinks and leave significant emission sources unaccounted for. Enhancements to LULUCF rules must support stringent climate protect ...
fossil fuel companies
... predictability and a level playing field across countries, industries, and companies. In public statements, representa;ves of fossil fuel companies have also displayed a preference for a future without runaway climat ...
... predictability and a level playing field across countries, industries, and companies. In public statements, representa;ves of fossil fuel companies have also displayed a preference for a future without runaway climat ...
Climate Change and Its Impacts - National Center for Policy Analysis
... Northern Hemisphere ice age ended about 20,000 years ago. Because the Earth’s climate began warming before substantial amounts of greenhouse gases were added to the Earth’s atmosphere in the middle of the 20th century, natural variability accounts for all or nearly all of the warming prior to the 19 ...
... Northern Hemisphere ice age ended about 20,000 years ago. Because the Earth’s climate began warming before substantial amounts of greenhouse gases were added to the Earth’s atmosphere in the middle of the 20th century, natural variability accounts for all or nearly all of the warming prior to the 19 ...
Marine Climate Change in Australia
... > Climate change requires immediate and vigorous international diplomacy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, global greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 70% between 1970 and 2004. Some level of future cli ...
... > Climate change requires immediate and vigorous international diplomacy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, global greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 70% between 1970 and 2004. Some level of future cli ...
The impact of climate change on the global economy
... Whilst the initial economic response to recover this damage may be positive for GDP (when it is possible to do so), once it is recognised that such events are a permanent feature of the environment, the world economy faces an extreme challenge. Many will find that it is not worth replacing capital s ...
... Whilst the initial economic response to recover this damage may be positive for GDP (when it is possible to do so), once it is recognised that such events are a permanent feature of the environment, the world economy faces an extreme challenge. Many will find that it is not worth replacing capital s ...
Financial Risk Management and Global Climate Change:
... insurers and financial engineers have developed ways of securitizing catastrophe risk to attract additional capital from investors. The question is how financial markets with such vastly greater risk bearing capacity could be used to hedge risk that has previously been covered using other channels. ...
... insurers and financial engineers have developed ways of securitizing catastrophe risk to attract additional capital from investors. The question is how financial markets with such vastly greater risk bearing capacity could be used to hedge risk that has previously been covered using other channels. ...
Climate change and its impacts: growing stress factors
... When the climate change debate began in the late 1980s, estimates of the amplitude of warming according to greenhouse-gas scenarios suggested that global average temperatures could rise by 1.5–5 xC by the end of the twenty-first century. Over two decades later, with climate models that have become m ...
... When the climate change debate began in the late 1980s, estimates of the amplitude of warming according to greenhouse-gas scenarios suggested that global average temperatures could rise by 1.5–5 xC by the end of the twenty-first century. Over two decades later, with climate models that have become m ...
3rd-Year Students (by Year)
... Total political contributions and lobbying expenditures of 28 publicly traded companies during the decade of the 2000s and found that some companies (mostly fossil-fuel companies such as Peabody Energy and Marathon Oil) were uniformly obstructionist on climate issues. Other companies, such as NIKE, ...
... Total political contributions and lobbying expenditures of 28 publicly traded companies during the decade of the 2000s and found that some companies (mostly fossil-fuel companies such as Peabody Energy and Marathon Oil) were uniformly obstructionist on climate issues. Other companies, such as NIKE, ...
DECISION ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE
... biodiversity prepared by the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group are incorporated into the ongoing work of the Convention on Biological Diversity, whenever appropriate, when the respective programmes of work are due for review according to the Multi Year Programme of Work of the Conference of the Parties ...
... biodiversity prepared by the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group are incorporated into the ongoing work of the Convention on Biological Diversity, whenever appropriate, when the respective programmes of work are due for review according to the Multi Year Programme of Work of the Conference of the Parties ...
CCN (~100 nm) Other particles (aerosols)
... (absorbing aerosols are known exception) Boundary between “forcing” and “feedback” is fuzzy sometimes In climate models, representation of cloud feedback is largest source of uncertainty In retrospective studies, knowledge of aerosol forcing is lacking ...
... (absorbing aerosols are known exception) Boundary between “forcing” and “feedback” is fuzzy sometimes In climate models, representation of cloud feedback is largest source of uncertainty In retrospective studies, knowledge of aerosol forcing is lacking ...
The natural greenhouse effect - Tamalpais Union High School District
... Developing and industrialised countries – equal right to pollute? Developing countries are demanding the same right to economic development as industrialised countries have enjoyed for over 100 years, even when it comes to climate policy discussions. They reject demands from industrialised countries ...
... Developing and industrialised countries – equal right to pollute? Developing countries are demanding the same right to economic development as industrialised countries have enjoyed for over 100 years, even when it comes to climate policy discussions. They reject demands from industrialised countries ...
Impact of Climate Change on Vector Borne Diseases with Emphasis
... Impact of Climate Change on Vector Borne Diseases with Emphasis on Malaria The role of environment is an important component of epidemiology of vector borne diseases. In recent years, more precisely since 1990 there is greater awareness about the threat of climate change on human health in addition ...
... Impact of Climate Change on Vector Borne Diseases with Emphasis on Malaria The role of environment is an important component of epidemiology of vector borne diseases. In recent years, more precisely since 1990 there is greater awareness about the threat of climate change on human health in addition ...
Do people “personally experience” global warming, and if so how
... For most people, the direct and personally observable signals of climate change should be difficult to detect amid the variability of everyday weather. Yet, previous research has shown that some people believe they have personally experienced global warming. Through four related studies, our paper sh ...
... For most people, the direct and personally observable signals of climate change should be difficult to detect amid the variability of everyday weather. Yet, previous research has shown that some people believe they have personally experienced global warming. Through four related studies, our paper sh ...
Center for Policy Research
... 3. Characteristics of the sample of respondents..............................................................3 4. Description of responses .............................................................................................4 4.1.Question 1 : Uncertainty about global temperature change ..... ...
... 3. Characteristics of the sample of respondents..............................................................3 4. Description of responses .............................................................................................4 4.1.Question 1 : Uncertainty about global temperature change ..... ...
Shapiro-Geoengineering_why_and_next_steps
... for geoengineering the climate system, including research on intended and unintended environmental responses. • Coordinated study of historical, ethical, legal, and social implications of geoengineering that integrates international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational issues and perspectives a ...
... for geoengineering the climate system, including research on intended and unintended environmental responses. • Coordinated study of historical, ethical, legal, and social implications of geoengineering that integrates international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational issues and perspectives a ...
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.