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Conference Proceeding
... Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) for funding this conference. IRMA expresses heartfelt appreciation to member institutions—International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) and Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) for their active sup ...
... Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) for funding this conference. IRMA expresses heartfelt appreciation to member institutions—International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) and Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) for their active sup ...
New Insights on the Physical Nature of the Atmospheric Greenhouse
... A recent study has revealed that the Earth’s natural atmospheric greenhouse effect is around 90 K or about 2.7 times stronger than assumed for the past 40 years. A thermal enhancement of such a magnitude cannot be explained with the observed amount of outgoing infrared long-wave radiation absorbed b ...
... A recent study has revealed that the Earth’s natural atmospheric greenhouse effect is around 90 K or about 2.7 times stronger than assumed for the past 40 years. A thermal enhancement of such a magnitude cannot be explained with the observed amount of outgoing infrared long-wave radiation absorbed b ...
Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
... 2013). In the context of climate change, economic analysis can be used to weigh costs associated with climate risks, against risk management measures, to identify preferred investment and timing with regard to adaptation implementation. Moreover, the analysis enables a comparison between the costs o ...
... 2013). In the context of climate change, economic analysis can be used to weigh costs associated with climate risks, against risk management measures, to identify preferred investment and timing with regard to adaptation implementation. Moreover, the analysis enables a comparison between the costs o ...
Environmentally displaced people Understanding the linkages
... A decision to move may often be a function of a push to leave one disaster-affected location and the economic pull of another, more promising location. Three million people fled the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, whilst 700,000 mostly poor black people departed to northern states following the Mississippi ...
... A decision to move may often be a function of a push to leave one disaster-affected location and the economic pull of another, more promising location. Three million people fled the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, whilst 700,000 mostly poor black people departed to northern states following the Mississippi ...
Mega-Stress for Mega-Cities
... variability have and will continue to impact all sectors, from national and economic security to human health, food production, infrastructure, water availability and ecosystems. The evidence of climate change in Asia is widespread: overall temperatures have risen from 1°C to 3°C over the last 100 y ...
... variability have and will continue to impact all sectors, from national and economic security to human health, food production, infrastructure, water availability and ecosystems. The evidence of climate change in Asia is widespread: overall temperatures have risen from 1°C to 3°C over the last 100 y ...
task force on climate remediation research
... combination of continued population growth and rising temperature could dramatically increase the number of people with inadequate access to water. If climate change causes severe water shortages in some parts of the world, it will be important to know whether promising options exist for intervening ...
... combination of continued population growth and rising temperature could dramatically increase the number of people with inadequate access to water. If climate change causes severe water shortages in some parts of the world, it will be important to know whether promising options exist for intervening ...
information - Refugee Studies Centre
... A decision to move may often be a function of a push to leave one disaster-affected location and the economic pull of another, more promising location. Three million people fled the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, whilst 700,000 mostly poor black people departed to northern states following the Mississippi ...
... A decision to move may often be a function of a push to leave one disaster-affected location and the economic pull of another, more promising location. Three million people fled the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, whilst 700,000 mostly poor black people departed to northern states following the Mississippi ...
Regional Power Shifts and Climate Knowledge Systems: South
... lead to differing results. But as long as the connection to the framework is made explicit, such results could actually be closer to actual practices—which is what all political scientists, even the most radical interpretivists, try to explain. The theoretical approach outlined in t ...
... lead to differing results. But as long as the connection to the framework is made explicit, such results could actually be closer to actual practices—which is what all political scientists, even the most radical interpretivists, try to explain. The theoretical approach outlined in t ...
Financing climate change - Department of Environmental Affairs
... Africa has a well-established development finance system across the various tiers of government that could deliver on agreed outcomes for the mainstreaming of climate change into their development mandates and for catalysing climate related investments. At present, several government climate finance ...
... Africa has a well-established development finance system across the various tiers of government that could deliver on agreed outcomes for the mainstreaming of climate change into their development mandates and for catalysing climate related investments. At present, several government climate finance ...
here - Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
... capital needed to support bottom-up climate change policy implementation. While this working paper shares a vision for an innovative Paris Agreement, it also builds upon the work of many others in the climate policy sphere since the 1980s. Recently, in September 2013, the Pacific Islands Forum stepp ...
... capital needed to support bottom-up climate change policy implementation. While this working paper shares a vision for an innovative Paris Agreement, it also builds upon the work of many others in the climate policy sphere since the 1980s. Recently, in September 2013, the Pacific Islands Forum stepp ...
Climate change adaptation: challenges and opportunities for a smart
... Climate change is one of the main environmental issues challenging cities in the 21th century (IPCC, 2011). The changes in climate conditions may result in a large set of hazardous phenomena: from sudden events, such as flash floods or heat waves, to slowmoving ones, as sea level raise or changes in ...
... Climate change is one of the main environmental issues challenging cities in the 21th century (IPCC, 2011). The changes in climate conditions may result in a large set of hazardous phenomena: from sudden events, such as flash floods or heat waves, to slowmoving ones, as sea level raise or changes in ...
Earth`s energy imbalance and implications
... Climate response to human and natural forcings can be simulated with complex global climate models, and, using such models, it has been shown that warming of the ocean in recent decades can be reproduced well (Barnett et al., 2005; Hansen et al., 2005; Pierce et al., 2006). Here we seek a simple gen ...
... Climate response to human and natural forcings can be simulated with complex global climate models, and, using such models, it has been shown that warming of the ocean in recent decades can be reproduced well (Barnett et al., 2005; Hansen et al., 2005; Pierce et al., 2006). Here we seek a simple gen ...
What Is El Niño? - Gulf of Maine Aquarium
... ■ Changes due to El Niño and climate variability and change may have positive and negative effects on people and the environment. ■ During the past 20 years, more and more people have moved to the coast. Now 44 Climate Variability and Change: COASTAL AREAS ...
... ■ Changes due to El Niño and climate variability and change may have positive and negative effects on people and the environment. ■ During the past 20 years, more and more people have moved to the coast. Now 44 Climate Variability and Change: COASTAL AREAS ...
FINAL DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Cross
... supporting (primary production, nutrient cycling) and cultural (religion, tourism) services. This is especially true for the many coastal and small island nations in the world’s tropical regions (29.3.3.1). Coral reefs are one of the most vulnerable marine ecosystems (high confidence; 5.4.2.4, 6.3.1 ...
... supporting (primary production, nutrient cycling) and cultural (religion, tourism) services. This is especially true for the many coastal and small island nations in the world’s tropical regions (29.3.3.1). Coral reefs are one of the most vulnerable marine ecosystems (high confidence; 5.4.2.4, 6.3.1 ...
Competition for land in the global bioeconomy
... 50 EJ to 500 EJ, with the likely outcome under medium ambitions for climate mitigation, which is quite a bit smaller, but still large at 80–150 EJ. They argue that technological progress in the bioenergy industry, along with other factors such as energy prices and regulations, is critical to determi ...
... 50 EJ to 500 EJ, with the likely outcome under medium ambitions for climate mitigation, which is quite a bit smaller, but still large at 80–150 EJ. They argue that technological progress in the bioenergy industry, along with other factors such as energy prices and regulations, is critical to determi ...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND MINING
... 2. Mining is a sector that is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Changing climatic conditions will have both direct (operational and performance-based) and indirect (securing of supplies and rising energy costs) impacts on the mining sector. Increasingly a number of these impacts may cross-f ...
... 2. Mining is a sector that is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Changing climatic conditions will have both direct (operational and performance-based) and indirect (securing of supplies and rising energy costs) impacts on the mining sector. Increasingly a number of these impacts may cross-f ...
From adaptation to climate-resilient development: the costs of climate-proofing the Millennium Development Goals in Africa (388 kB ) (opens in new window)
... Economics and Policy, which is funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and by Munich Re. This paper has been prepared as a contribution to the work of the Africa Progress Panel on climate change. ...
... Economics and Policy, which is funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and by Munich Re. This paper has been prepared as a contribution to the work of the Africa Progress Panel on climate change. ...
Beyond generic adaptive capacity: exploring the adaptation space of
... Stockholm region (Tyréns 2009). Problems associated with stormwater discharge and the sewer could be significant, but are generally more local in scale and mainly have economic consequences due to flooding of properties. Wastewater treatment failure mainly has environmental consequences and primaril ...
... Stockholm region (Tyréns 2009). Problems associated with stormwater discharge and the sewer could be significant, but are generally more local in scale and mainly have economic consequences due to flooding of properties. Wastewater treatment failure mainly has environmental consequences and primaril ...
a reprint - Integrative Biology
... variation in tooth shape. Sexual dimorphism was tested using a 1-way multiple analysis of variance on shape variables (MANOVA), which revealed no significant difference in m1 shape between sexes (P > 0.05). Sexes were pooled for all other analyses. 2.3. PLS analyses In order to determine the relation ...
... variation in tooth shape. Sexual dimorphism was tested using a 1-way multiple analysis of variance on shape variables (MANOVA), which revealed no significant difference in m1 shape between sexes (P > 0.05). Sexes were pooled for all other analyses. 2.3. PLS analyses In order to determine the relation ...
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... information on HPAI and previous studies; Section 4 presents the statistical models and describes the data; Section 5 interprets estimation results, predicts the risk of HPAI outbreaks under past and future climate change and evaluates associated economic losses and section 6 presents conclusions. B ...
... information on HPAI and previous studies; Section 4 presents the statistical models and describes the data; Section 5 interprets estimation results, predicts the risk of HPAI outbreaks under past and future climate change and evaluates associated economic losses and section 6 presents conclusions. B ...
Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and
... examined simultaneously (Kovats et al., 2004; Michelozzi et al., 2006; Schwartz et al., 2004; Semenza et al., 1999). Age, fitness, body composition, and level of activity are important determinants of how the human body responds to exposure to thermal extremes (DeGroot et al., 2006; Havenith et al., ...
... examined simultaneously (Kovats et al., 2004; Michelozzi et al., 2006; Schwartz et al., 2004; Semenza et al., 1999). Age, fitness, body composition, and level of activity are important determinants of how the human body responds to exposure to thermal extremes (DeGroot et al., 2006; Havenith et al., ...
What Antarctic Science is Funded by National Antarctic Programs?
... “Heroic Age” were largely driven by national pride, geopolitical interests, and/or personal achievement of geographic “firsts” (Dodds 2012). The IGY 1957-1958, the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 and the Treaty’s entry into force in 1961 dramatically changed how and why nations invest in the ...
... “Heroic Age” were largely driven by national pride, geopolitical interests, and/or personal achievement of geographic “firsts” (Dodds 2012). The IGY 1957-1958, the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 and the Treaty’s entry into force in 1961 dramatically changed how and why nations invest in the ...
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... However, the factor common to all adaptation measures is the uncertainty that is the hallmark of climate change. In particular, it is not clear at this stage how much change will occur, its precise nature, or the timing of any specific change. Climate models reflect this lack of knowledge because si ...
... However, the factor common to all adaptation measures is the uncertainty that is the hallmark of climate change. In particular, it is not clear at this stage how much change will occur, its precise nature, or the timing of any specific change. Climate models reflect this lack of knowledge because si ...
Reports of Phase 2 Activity, January 2005
... impacts, dominated by rainfall decline, was more strongly recognised within the IOCI partnership as its current, front-line decision issue. Altered streamflows, the most evident manifestations of these impacts, were a surrogate measure of much wider environmental stresses, including those observed i ...
... impacts, dominated by rainfall decline, was more strongly recognised within the IOCI partnership as its current, front-line decision issue. Altered streamflows, the most evident manifestations of these impacts, were a surrogate measure of much wider environmental stresses, including those observed i ...
Growth and Phenology of Three Dwarf Shrub Species in a Six
... season for nine years (ending in 2009). The 40 plots were assigned to 10 groups of four neighboring plots (two Pinus and two Larix trees per group) and half of these groups were randomly assigned to an elevated CO2 treatment while the other half served as controls (see a detailed description of the ...
... season for nine years (ending in 2009). The 40 plots were assigned to 10 groups of four neighboring plots (two Pinus and two Larix trees per group) and half of these groups were randomly assigned to an elevated CO2 treatment while the other half served as controls (see a detailed description of the ...
Fred Singer
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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.