Sea-level Rise, Storm Surges, and Extreme Precipitation in Coastal New Hampshire
... initiative of and led by faculty and staff from the Sustainability Institute and the University of New Hampshire. Learn more at ...
... initiative of and led by faculty and staff from the Sustainability Institute and the University of New Hampshire. Learn more at ...
ACSRI report - Columbia University
... lens through which to consider Columbia University’s engagement with the climate change issue. The Committee has also become acutely aware that it is the wrong forum to debate and then propose the specifics of a Columbia University action plan. In light of the grave threats posed by climate change a ...
... lens through which to consider Columbia University’s engagement with the climate change issue. The Committee has also become acutely aware that it is the wrong forum to debate and then propose the specifics of a Columbia University action plan. In light of the grave threats posed by climate change a ...
Selection of Climate Models for Developing - hi
... forcing for dynamical downscaling. This report discusses the statistical downscaling component. There are two fundamentally different methods for selecting appropriate GCMs/RCMs. The first approach aims to cover the full envelope of possible futures ranging from dry and cold projections to wet and w ...
... forcing for dynamical downscaling. This report discusses the statistical downscaling component. There are two fundamentally different methods for selecting appropriate GCMs/RCMs. The first approach aims to cover the full envelope of possible futures ranging from dry and cold projections to wet and w ...
International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the
... understood through different paradigms (e.g., political science)34,35 our primary focus here is on attitudinal trends as revealed through direct measures of public perceptions. Data sources of relevance here are primarily public polls and surveys (but also some interview, focus group and ethnographi ...
... understood through different paradigms (e.g., political science)34,35 our primary focus here is on attitudinal trends as revealed through direct measures of public perceptions. Data sources of relevance here are primarily public polls and surveys (but also some interview, focus group and ethnographi ...
Consequences of elevated temperatures on legume biomass
... 1955; West et al. 2005). Net N mineralisation is often used as an index of plant available N (Schimel and Bennett 2004). In a meta-analysis, Rustad et al. (2001) found that elevated temperature increased net N mineralisation in several studies but warming had no effect in others. Moreover, the respo ...
... 1955; West et al. 2005). Net N mineralisation is often used as an index of plant available N (Schimel and Bennett 2004). In a meta-analysis, Rustad et al. (2001) found that elevated temperature increased net N mineralisation in several studies but warming had no effect in others. Moreover, the respo ...
Climate Change and US National Security
... global public good of climate protection. While the breakdown in cooperation on climate change is a possibility, US-China policy coordination in the lead up to the 2015 Paris climate negotiations suggest this is not destiny. At the same time, even as climate change demands more attention, US policym ...
... global public good of climate protection. While the breakdown in cooperation on climate change is a possibility, US-China policy coordination in the lead up to the 2015 Paris climate negotiations suggest this is not destiny. At the same time, even as climate change demands more attention, US policym ...
2014 DOE Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... Changes in the global climate system are unmistakable, as is now evident from observations of increased global average air and ocean temperatures, decreased historical snow pack, rising global average sea level, and more frequent severe weather events. 1 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognize ...
... Changes in the global climate system are unmistakable, as is now evident from observations of increased global average air and ocean temperatures, decreased historical snow pack, rising global average sea level, and more frequent severe weather events. 1 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognize ...
An Inconvenient Trial - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... anyone who questions “scientific consensus” on the issue. Anyone who expresses doubt about what causes climate change, what remedies will stop climate change, or in the existence of human-caused climate change is derisively deemed a “climate-change denier.” This derogatory term chills questioning of ...
... anyone who questions “scientific consensus” on the issue. Anyone who expresses doubt about what causes climate change, what remedies will stop climate change, or in the existence of human-caused climate change is derisively deemed a “climate-change denier.” This derogatory term chills questioning of ...
NRDC: Clean Power – The Case for Carbon Pollution Limits
... Either way, the Clean Power Plan will move America toward a cleaner, healthier environment for future generations while ensuring an ongoing supply of the reliable, affordable power needed for economic growth. The plan will reduce not only carbon pollution but hundreds of thousands of tons of other h ...
... Either way, the Clean Power Plan will move America toward a cleaner, healthier environment for future generations while ensuring an ongoing supply of the reliable, affordable power needed for economic growth. The plan will reduce not only carbon pollution but hundreds of thousands of tons of other h ...
Prospect Theory, Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change
... adaptation activities by the framing of climate change. More concretely, those who perceive the current climate as the reference point tend to ascribe a higher value to climate action than those who have already shifted their reference point to the future climate. This and related effects will be fu ...
... adaptation activities by the framing of climate change. More concretely, those who perceive the current climate as the reference point tend to ascribe a higher value to climate action than those who have already shifted their reference point to the future climate. This and related effects will be fu ...
Variability and Trends of Air Temperature and Pressure in the
... Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index, which is characterized by a north–south-oriented dipole in sea level pressure structure over the Atlantic. Maximum correlations are found in the near-Atlantic region, and the correlations decay toward the North Pacific (Fig. 3). The wavelet transform of the SAT and ...
... Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index, which is characterized by a north–south-oriented dipole in sea level pressure structure over the Atlantic. Maximum correlations are found in the near-Atlantic region, and the correlations decay toward the North Pacific (Fig. 3). The wavelet transform of the SAT and ...
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... Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007), the most recent available at the time of this study. The Fourth Assessment synthesizes climate projections from 24 global climate models that participated in the World Climate Research Project’s third Coupled Model Inte ...
... Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007), the most recent available at the time of this study. The Fourth Assessment synthesizes climate projections from 24 global climate models that participated in the World Climate Research Project’s third Coupled Model Inte ...
Predicting population consequences of ocean climate
... Auklet demographic rates. We estimated annual auklet breeding success and survival rates during 1980–2005 using the long-term dataset from Farallon Island. Annual breeding success was calculated as the average number of chicks fledged per breeding pair from all breeding attempts, including relay att ...
... Auklet demographic rates. We estimated annual auklet breeding success and survival rates during 1980–2005 using the long-term dataset from Farallon Island. Annual breeding success was calculated as the average number of chicks fledged per breeding pair from all breeding attempts, including relay att ...
ECOSYSTEM-BASED ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE: THE
... In the context of those four case studies, the link and the interdependence between cities and parks, humans and nature seem obvious. However, parks and cities management are often independent activities which are not without tensions or conflicts, given the diversity of actors and their interests. ...
... In the context of those four case studies, the link and the interdependence between cities and parks, humans and nature seem obvious. However, parks and cities management are often independent activities which are not without tensions or conflicts, given the diversity of actors and their interests. ...
The Future of the Thermohaline Circulation – A
... of sea surface temperature (SST) that correlated surprisingly well with the Greenland ice core was presented by Lehman and Keigwin (1992) who showed that SST off the Norwegian shelf changed rapidly by more than 5◦ C within a few decades. The changes in SSTs during deglaciation correlate strongly wit ...
... of sea surface temperature (SST) that correlated surprisingly well with the Greenland ice core was presented by Lehman and Keigwin (1992) who showed that SST off the Norwegian shelf changed rapidly by more than 5◦ C within a few decades. The changes in SSTs during deglaciation correlate strongly wit ...
Summary of Climate Change Effects on Major Habitat Types in
... Nationwide, the effects of climate change are projected to include increasingly severe storms and floods in some places and increasing droughts in other places.15 Some locations are expected to be subject to each of these conditions during different times of the year.16 In parts of the United States ...
... Nationwide, the effects of climate change are projected to include increasingly severe storms and floods in some places and increasing droughts in other places.15 Some locations are expected to be subject to each of these conditions during different times of the year.16 In parts of the United States ...
The Hamburg Climate Action Plan
... with details of cost, savings, and cost-effectiveness of such a plant. ...
... with details of cost, savings, and cost-effectiveness of such a plant. ...
Overpeck and Cole, 2006
... The reality of anthropogenic global warming is by now well established, but the pace and amplitude of future change remains uncertain, particularly on a regional basis (1). A growing body of evidence from past climate studies argues that even if radiative forcing changes gradually, the climate syste ...
... The reality of anthropogenic global warming is by now well established, but the pace and amplitude of future change remains uncertain, particularly on a regional basis (1). A growing body of evidence from past climate studies argues that even if radiative forcing changes gradually, the climate syste ...
2012 Gulf Coast Climate Change Survey
... the number of droughts as a change in the local climate (51.5 percent) followed by increases in air temperature (45.5 percent), coastal erosion (40.1 percent), and stronger hurricanes (29.5 percent). Notably, an increase in the number of hurricanes was only mentioned by 15.3 percent. The view across ...
... the number of droughts as a change in the local climate (51.5 percent) followed by increases in air temperature (45.5 percent), coastal erosion (40.1 percent), and stronger hurricanes (29.5 percent). Notably, an increase in the number of hurricanes was only mentioned by 15.3 percent. The view across ...
Singapore`s Second National Climate Change Study Climate
... RCP4.5 this change is 4.5 Wm-2. RCP4.5 is related to a scenario where emissions peak mid-century and then decline, whereas RCP8.5 is related to a scenario with very high greenhouse gas emissions that continue to increase throughout the 21st century. Both scenarios are likely to lead to a global mean ...
... RCP4.5 this change is 4.5 Wm-2. RCP4.5 is related to a scenario where emissions peak mid-century and then decline, whereas RCP8.5 is related to a scenario with very high greenhouse gas emissions that continue to increase throughout the 21st century. Both scenarios are likely to lead to a global mean ...
Tipping elements and climate-economic shocks: Pathways toward
... realized and committed change may push the consequences of a tipping point beyond the time horizon of socio-economic relevance. For example, paleoclimatic evidence from the Last Interglacial suggests that the committed response to 2°C global warming above pre-Industrial temperatures may be about 6–9 ...
... realized and committed change may push the consequences of a tipping point beyond the time horizon of socio-economic relevance. For example, paleoclimatic evidence from the Last Interglacial suggests that the committed response to 2°C global warming above pre-Industrial temperatures may be about 6–9 ...
Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Rising Seas
... (right), while they are evacuated from the New Orleans Morial Convention Center to the Reliant Center in Houston. LaGarde, Belvin, and Belvin’s grandmother managed to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina without being separated— surviving the initial flood; days outdoors on a bridge, an overpas ...
... (right), while they are evacuated from the New Orleans Morial Convention Center to the Reliant Center in Houston. LaGarde, Belvin, and Belvin’s grandmother managed to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina without being separated— surviving the initial flood; days outdoors on a bridge, an overpas ...
MODULE 2 (EARTH SCIENCE)
... there is distal causality (chain reactions can trigger events far away from an action’s starting point). (DCI: Weather and Climate) (CCC: Cause and Effect) (CCC: Systems and Systems models) (CCC: Stability and Change) 4. The evidence for climate change. ● Discuss what the evidence is for current cli ...
... there is distal causality (chain reactions can trigger events far away from an action’s starting point). (DCI: Weather and Climate) (CCC: Cause and Effect) (CCC: Systems and Systems models) (CCC: Stability and Change) 4. The evidence for climate change. ● Discuss what the evidence is for current cli ...
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
... is remarkable that during the first fifty years of the 20th century, most of the people displacements were hosted in Europe, Russia and China, whereas during the last fifty years of that century, the displacements steered towards Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Throughout the Cold War period, ...
... is remarkable that during the first fifty years of the 20th century, most of the people displacements were hosted in Europe, Russia and China, whereas during the last fifty years of that century, the displacements steered towards Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Throughout the Cold War period, ...
Climate Change Impacts on International Seaports
... infrastructure built today will still stand as climatic conditions change over the course of the century. As these projects compete for resources with other business or community needs, long-range implications of today’s choices often have less of a sense of urgency than more immediate priorities. O ...
... infrastructure built today will still stand as climatic conditions change over the course of the century. As these projects compete for resources with other business or community needs, long-range implications of today’s choices often have less of a sense of urgency than more immediate priorities. 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.