Communicating (Paleo)Climate Science
... that CO2 is warming the planet? 1. Theory predicts that increasing atmospheric CO2 should warm the planet. 2. Geologic evidence links CO2 and temperature in the past. 3. The warming is unprecedented in the most recent centuries (dwarfs natural variability). 4. Climate models show that rising CO2 is ...
... that CO2 is warming the planet? 1. Theory predicts that increasing atmospheric CO2 should warm the planet. 2. Geologic evidence links CO2 and temperature in the past. 3. The warming is unprecedented in the most recent centuries (dwarfs natural variability). 4. Climate models show that rising CO2 is ...
climate_new
... temperature, we can use organisms that live in the oceans. Again, these organisms take in oxygen and the oceanic oxygen budget is isotopically proportional to temperature, due to differences in the oxygen that evaporates. More light oxygen is lost to evaporation in cold times, so low temperature sea ...
... temperature, we can use organisms that live in the oceans. Again, these organisms take in oxygen and the oceanic oxygen budget is isotopically proportional to temperature, due to differences in the oxygen that evaporates. More light oxygen is lost to evaporation in cold times, so low temperature sea ...
The Commonwealth and Climate Change,West Bengal, Jan 2010
... intergovernmental report” on climate change and sea level rise, he said. “The conclusions are not controversial now but, at the time, broke new ground,” Mr Cable recalled. “The group, which included developed and developing country representatives from a wide range of backgrounds, first set out in r ...
... intergovernmental report” on climate change and sea level rise, he said. “The conclusions are not controversial now but, at the time, broke new ground,” Mr Cable recalled. “The group, which included developed and developing country representatives from a wide range of backgrounds, first set out in r ...
climate change - Hans von Storch
... constant on historical time scales. But then, scientists found significant differences between mean precipitation and temperature when averaged over different multi-year periods (e.g. Brückner, 1890). Scientists claimed that the water levels of rivers would fall continuously. This led to the detecti ...
... constant on historical time scales. But then, scientists found significant differences between mean precipitation and temperature when averaged over different multi-year periods (e.g. Brückner, 1890). Scientists claimed that the water levels of rivers would fall continuously. This led to the detecti ...
The Physical Science behind Climate Change
... Climate scientists use a concept called radiative forcing to quantify the effect of these increased concentrations on climate. Radiative forcing is the change that is caused in the global energy balance of the earth relative to preindustrial times. (Forcing is usually expressed as watts per square m ...
... Climate scientists use a concept called radiative forcing to quantify the effect of these increased concentrations on climate. Radiative forcing is the change that is caused in the global energy balance of the earth relative to preindustrial times. (Forcing is usually expressed as watts per square m ...
CARICOM Declaration For Climate Action
... flooding, ocean acidification, sea temperature rise, mangrove degradation, inundation and salinisation of coastal agricultural soils and residential areas, related to climate change, are fundamental threats to the sustainable development of low-lying Caribbean countries and island territories; Notin ...
... flooding, ocean acidification, sea temperature rise, mangrove degradation, inundation and salinisation of coastal agricultural soils and residential areas, related to climate change, are fundamental threats to the sustainable development of low-lying Caribbean countries and island territories; Notin ...
30 Nov GPE
... accords, Mr. Trump said that “I have an open mind to it” and that clean air and “crystal clear water” were vitally important. ...
... accords, Mr. Trump said that “I have an open mind to it” and that clean air and “crystal clear water” were vitally important. ...
Frank Ackerman March 8, 2013
... – Worst impacts will be 100+ years from now – Outcomes uncertain due to time span – Is discounting meaningful beyond one lifetime? ...
... – Worst impacts will be 100+ years from now – Outcomes uncertain due to time span – Is discounting meaningful beyond one lifetime? ...
The Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming
... First, a strong warming trend of about 0.5˚C began in the late nineteenth century and peaked around 1940. Then, oddly, there was a cooling trend from 1940 until the late 1970s. And the third phase of the surface record shows a modest warming trend from the late 1970s to the present. Yet about 80 pe ...
... First, a strong warming trend of about 0.5˚C began in the late nineteenth century and peaked around 1940. Then, oddly, there was a cooling trend from 1940 until the late 1970s. And the third phase of the surface record shows a modest warming trend from the late 1970s to the present. Yet about 80 pe ...
Challenging Knowledge: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War
... Spencer Weart, The Discovery of Global Warming, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003). For background on early recognition of the potential for greenhouse gas emissions to affect climate, see James Roger Fleming, Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (New York: Oxford University Press, ...
... Spencer Weart, The Discovery of Global Warming, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003). For background on early recognition of the potential for greenhouse gas emissions to affect climate, see James Roger Fleming, Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (New York: Oxford University Press, ...
Home_files/Climate Briefing for Policymakers (V4).
... From a global warming point-of-view, NG is incorrectly viewed as having a significantly lower warming potential than coal. It is often noted that NG when burned in a power plant produces about half as much CO2 per unit of energy produced compared with coal but, while that is true, it is not the full ...
... From a global warming point-of-view, NG is incorrectly viewed as having a significantly lower warming potential than coal. It is often noted that NG when burned in a power plant produces about half as much CO2 per unit of energy produced compared with coal but, while that is true, it is not the full ...
ATM S 211 Final Examination June 4, 2007 Name This examination
... Answer any 5 of the following 6 short questions. [8 points each; maximum of 40] 1. The Antarctic ozone hole is caused by a combination of meteorology and chemistry. Explain how each of these factors contributes to the ozone hole. The meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere winter creates an intense s ...
... Answer any 5 of the following 6 short questions. [8 points each; maximum of 40] 1. The Antarctic ozone hole is caused by a combination of meteorology and chemistry. Explain how each of these factors contributes to the ozone hole. The meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere winter creates an intense s ...
for immediate release
... Many of the actions needed for mitigation are also good development policies. For example, increasing energy efficiency often can save money; reducing deforestation has social and environmental benefits; improving public transport can reduce congestion and local pollution with impacts on health, pro ...
... Many of the actions needed for mitigation are also good development policies. For example, increasing energy efficiency often can save money; reducing deforestation has social and environmental benefits; improving public transport can reduce congestion and local pollution with impacts on health, pro ...
Confronting Climate Change: The Sigma Xi/UN Foundation Report
... • Society’s current path leads to increasingly serious climatechange impacts, including potentially catastrophic changes that will compromise development objectives and threaten living standards • The other path leads to a transformed energy system and improved stewardship of the world’s soils and f ...
... • Society’s current path leads to increasingly serious climatechange impacts, including potentially catastrophic changes that will compromise development objectives and threaten living standards • The other path leads to a transformed energy system and improved stewardship of the world’s soils and f ...
wording - European Parliament
... heterogeneous groups such as the G-77; 29. Urges the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to review the working methods of the international negotiations, in particular regarding the role of national leaders and publicly announced positions before the negotiations ...
... heterogeneous groups such as the G-77; 29. Urges the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to review the working methods of the international negotiations, in particular regarding the role of national leaders and publicly announced positions before the negotiations ...
Climate Forecast Termites
... developing world or not fallen as fast as anticipated. Rather than leveling off mid-century, population will continue to grow past 2100 New range estimates are of population in 2100: 9-13 billion In Africa demographic transition is not occurring and by 2100, 4 billion will live there. About one-thir ...
... developing world or not fallen as fast as anticipated. Rather than leveling off mid-century, population will continue to grow past 2100 New range estimates are of population in 2100: 9-13 billion In Africa demographic transition is not occurring and by 2100, 4 billion will live there. About one-thir ...
SAWS Climate change and Response initiatives
... – 26%] towards the end of the century (2071 – 2100) under the business-as-usual scenario ...
... – 26%] towards the end of the century (2071 – 2100) under the business-as-usual scenario ...
Climate Change - Ev-K2-CNR
... National Security -Pakistan is among the top 8- countries most vulnerable to climate change ( GERMANWATCH C.C. Vulnerability ...
... National Security -Pakistan is among the top 8- countries most vulnerable to climate change ( GERMANWATCH C.C. Vulnerability ...
Unicredit - BankTrack
... II. INTERNATIONAL POLICY SCENARIOS The Stern report, commissioned by the UK Ministry of Treasury gave evidence that it would be more advantageous to act now to tackle climate change, through a strong cut of emissions and mitigation of impacts. At the same time adaptation measures are to be undertake ...
... II. INTERNATIONAL POLICY SCENARIOS The Stern report, commissioned by the UK Ministry of Treasury gave evidence that it would be more advantageous to act now to tackle climate change, through a strong cut of emissions and mitigation of impacts. At the same time adaptation measures are to be undertake ...
Short Communication: Global warming – Problem with
... Warm Period) the global temperatures rose up to 2oC (Acemoglu et al. 2012). Fagan (2008) stated that this brought bounty to some areas, but others suffered from droughts. There will be drastic changes of tropical rainfall on a regional basis (Allen and Ingram 2002) Due to the rise in temperature wat ...
... Warm Period) the global temperatures rose up to 2oC (Acemoglu et al. 2012). Fagan (2008) stated that this brought bounty to some areas, but others suffered from droughts. There will be drastic changes of tropical rainfall on a regional basis (Allen and Ingram 2002) Due to the rise in temperature wat ...
Projections of Future Changes in Climate
... anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. This is an advance since the TAR’s conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, incl ...
... anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. This is an advance since the TAR’s conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, incl ...
of the proposed roof top garden?
... photosynthesis release oxygen as a by-product. In their study, Getter and her colleagues measured carbon levels in plant and soil samples collected from 13 green roofs in Michigan and Maryland over a two-year period. They found that green roofing an urban area of about one million people would captu ...
... photosynthesis release oxygen as a by-product. In their study, Getter and her colleagues measured carbon levels in plant and soil samples collected from 13 green roofs in Michigan and Maryland over a two-year period. They found that green roofing an urban area of about one million people would captu ...
Projections of Future Changes in Climate
... anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. This is an advance since the TAR’s conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, incl ...
... anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. This is an advance since the TAR’s conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, incl ...
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
... The research team first used a model to test the effectiveness of hundreds of pollution control measures. Based on the climate impact of the measures, they came up with a list of measures that both improve air quality as well as reduce warming. Of the top 14 measures that together achieve most of th ...
... The research team first used a model to test the effectiveness of hundreds of pollution control measures. Based on the climate impact of the measures, they came up with a list of measures that both improve air quality as well as reduce warming. Of the top 14 measures that together achieve most of 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.