2012 Gulf Coast Climate Change Survey
... 61 percent expressed at least some concern about changes to the local climate; 76 percent support local government action to address the effects of climate change. If local residents are concerned about climate change, it would be a mistake to characterize their opinions as overly alarmed. First, su ...
... 61 percent expressed at least some concern about changes to the local climate; 76 percent support local government action to address the effects of climate change. If local residents are concerned about climate change, it would be a mistake to characterize their opinions as overly alarmed. First, su ...
Turning points in climate change adaptation
... and consequences of this new framing. We focus on the specific situation in which a social-political threshold of concern is likely to be exceeded as a result of climate change, requiring consideration of alternative strategies. Action is imperative when such a situation is conceivable, and at this ...
... and consequences of this new framing. We focus on the specific situation in which a social-political threshold of concern is likely to be exceeded as a result of climate change, requiring consideration of alternative strategies. Action is imperative when such a situation is conceivable, and at this ...
Uncertainty in the impacts of projected climate change on the
... SLURP divides a large catchment into aggregated simulation areas (ASAs). The present study subdivides the Liard Basin into 35 ASAs, which partitions the basin into distinctive sub-basins, based on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) GTOPO-30 digital elevation model. Each ASA encompasses a num ...
... SLURP divides a large catchment into aggregated simulation areas (ASAs). The present study subdivides the Liard Basin into 35 ASAs, which partitions the basin into distinctive sub-basins, based on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) GTOPO-30 digital elevation model. Each ASA encompasses a num ...
Implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change in
... its Aichi Targets, known as Aichi Plan was adopted. The 10 and 15 targets of this plan are linked to climate change mitigation and adaptation issues. They provide for conservation and restoration by 2020 of at least 15 per cent of degraded ecosystems, thereby contributing to the reduction of anthrop ...
... its Aichi Targets, known as Aichi Plan was adopted. The 10 and 15 targets of this plan are linked to climate change mitigation and adaptation issues. They provide for conservation and restoration by 2020 of at least 15 per cent of degraded ecosystems, thereby contributing to the reduction of anthrop ...
The Australian Aerosol and Climate Research Program: A
... integrated Australian climate research program. The major rationale of an AACRP is to understand and quantify the role of aerosol in climate change – with particular emphasis on aerosol specific to the Australian region and/or impacts in the Australian region. The successive IPCC assessments, includ ...
... integrated Australian climate research program. The major rationale of an AACRP is to understand and quantify the role of aerosol in climate change – with particular emphasis on aerosol specific to the Australian region and/or impacts in the Australian region. The successive IPCC assessments, includ ...
Climate Change Policies in New York State
... energy efficiency, renewable energy, methane and other non-carbon dioxide (non-CO2) gases, as well as agricultural practices and implementation of technologies to achieve greenhouse gas reductions. Most of these programs are being promoted through non regulatory efforts, such as public-private partn ...
... energy efficiency, renewable energy, methane and other non-carbon dioxide (non-CO2) gases, as well as agricultural practices and implementation of technologies to achieve greenhouse gas reductions. Most of these programs are being promoted through non regulatory efforts, such as public-private partn ...
Local Knowledge and Perception of Climate Change among Apple
... is implied here, “traditions are not a set of directives frozen in the past but a set of principles that guide behavior even through…drastic changes…” (Hunn et al. 2003:80). As mentioned earlier, for the purpose of this paper I will focus on a subset of human-environment relations; specifically, the ...
... is implied here, “traditions are not a set of directives frozen in the past but a set of principles that guide behavior even through…drastic changes…” (Hunn et al. 2003:80). As mentioned earlier, for the purpose of this paper I will focus on a subset of human-environment relations; specifically, the ...
Development of a metamodel tool for regional integrated climate
... allows the impacts and interactions of future climate or socio-economic change to be assessed by stakeholders across the agricultural, hydrological, biodiversity and coastal sectors. The Regional Impact Simulator contains the: Metamodels – a range of calibrated and validated metamodels simulating ...
... allows the impacts and interactions of future climate or socio-economic change to be assessed by stakeholders across the agricultural, hydrological, biodiversity and coastal sectors. The Regional Impact Simulator contains the: Metamodels – a range of calibrated and validated metamodels simulating ...
Potential Evapotranspiration Under Present and Future
... WRF-RCM model were more close to the measured weather data. The values of d-stat were between 0.956 and 0.969 for WRF-RCM model, whereas it was between 0.910 and 0.926 for CCSM4 model. Similarly, R2 values for WRF-RCM model was higher that its counterpart for CCSM4 (0.866–0.969 vs. 0.727–0.784). Fur ...
... WRF-RCM model were more close to the measured weather data. The values of d-stat were between 0.956 and 0.969 for WRF-RCM model, whereas it was between 0.910 and 0.926 for CCSM4 model. Similarly, R2 values for WRF-RCM model was higher that its counterpart for CCSM4 (0.866–0.969 vs. 0.727–0.784). Fur ...
This is climaTe change in europe
... In much of the developing world, the situation is already critical. Intense weather events hit hardest and cause the most damage to the poorest populations of the world. Their problems are and will increasingly be our problems in our interconnected world. Negative impacts of climate change can no lo ...
... In much of the developing world, the situation is already critical. Intense weather events hit hardest and cause the most damage to the poorest populations of the world. Their problems are and will increasingly be our problems in our interconnected world. Negative impacts of climate change can no lo ...
Technological Challenges Nigeria
... relief in Nigeria especially Enugu state give rise to a variety of climates ranging from tropical rainforest climate along the coasts to the sahel climate to the northern parts of the country. Climate change is also threatening not only the sustainable development of socio-economic activities of any ...
... relief in Nigeria especially Enugu state give rise to a variety of climates ranging from tropical rainforest climate along the coasts to the sahel climate to the northern parts of the country. Climate change is also threatening not only the sustainable development of socio-economic activities of any ...
Modeling Climate Change Impacts on Viti Levu (Fiji) and Aitutaki
... proposals, were supported by the AIACC project with funding, technical assistance, mentoring and training. The network of AIACC regional teams also assisted each other through collaborations to share methods, data, climate change scenarios and expertise. More than 340 scientists, experts and student ...
... proposals, were supported by the AIACC project with funding, technical assistance, mentoring and training. The network of AIACC regional teams also assisted each other through collaborations to share methods, data, climate change scenarios and expertise. More than 340 scientists, experts and student ...
Understanding Uncertainties in Future Colorado River Streamflow
... there is still considerable variability in future climate projections – for instance, one-third of 112 ...
... there is still considerable variability in future climate projections – for instance, one-third of 112 ...
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Manual
... There is no real scientific debate about its existence. There is some debate about causes. Even if strict limits on greenhouse gases were to be put in place soon, climate change would continue to increase for decades. Not all extreme weather events result from climate change. Some climate chang ...
... There is no real scientific debate about its existence. There is some debate about causes. Even if strict limits on greenhouse gases were to be put in place soon, climate change would continue to increase for decades. Not all extreme weather events result from climate change. Some climate chang ...
Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict
... Human security, as it affects people, has a lot more to do with the totality of the welfare and well-being of the citizens than military or police protection which is more the protection and security of the state or the government. While that must not be ignored to ensure the integrity of the state, ...
... Human security, as it affects people, has a lot more to do with the totality of the welfare and well-being of the citizens than military or police protection which is more the protection and security of the state or the government. While that must not be ignored to ensure the integrity of the state, ...
A Stitch in Time: Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation from the
... our health, even take our lives. Humans, in an unintended revenge, are getting back at the climate by adding to heat trapping gases in the Earth’s atmosphere that are changing the climate. But the changes are amplifying the hazards to humans. We cannot in short order stop this. The physical and soci ...
... our health, even take our lives. Humans, in an unintended revenge, are getting back at the climate by adding to heat trapping gases in the Earth’s atmosphere that are changing the climate. But the changes are amplifying the hazards to humans. We cannot in short order stop this. The physical and soci ...
Communicating climate change – Learning from business
... business engagement with climate change are currently poorly understood, we can infer three general trends in the climate change literature that point to a value-(in)action-gap. First, climate change is a difficult concept to understand, indeed scientific interpretations and terminology are perceive ...
... business engagement with climate change are currently poorly understood, we can infer three general trends in the climate change literature that point to a value-(in)action-gap. First, climate change is a difficult concept to understand, indeed scientific interpretations and terminology are perceive ...
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... 2.2. Representative Concentration Pathways To address uncertainty in the future emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has developed a variety of scenarios which describe a range of future GHG emission trajectories [23]. Prior to the IPCC’s fifth Ass ...
... 2.2. Representative Concentration Pathways To address uncertainty in the future emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has developed a variety of scenarios which describe a range of future GHG emission trajectories [23]. Prior to the IPCC’s fifth Ass ...
Global warming as an asymmetric public bad
... a market failure – the free-riding problem – while adaptation is a private, efficient response to the consequences of the market failure – excessive warming. In this view, mitigation provides first-order benefits and adaptation is only second-order. Some nuances however motivate a closer look at ada ...
... a market failure – the free-riding problem – while adaptation is a private, efficient response to the consequences of the market failure – excessive warming. In this view, mitigation provides first-order benefits and adaptation is only second-order. Some nuances however motivate a closer look at ada ...
Enhancing the relevance of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for
... 3 Global scenarios of the past decade and their use and shortcomings for IAV analyses Over the past decade, several global scenario sets for global environmental assessments were developed (van Vuuren et al. 2012a) such as the IPCC SRES (Nakicenovic et al. 2000), the Global Environmental Outlook sce ...
... 3 Global scenarios of the past decade and their use and shortcomings for IAV analyses Over the past decade, several global scenario sets for global environmental assessments were developed (van Vuuren et al. 2012a) such as the IPCC SRES (Nakicenovic et al. 2000), the Global Environmental Outlook sce ...
Potential effects of climate change and rising CO2 on ecosystem
... data from a large number of northeastern watersheds, while Aber et al. (1997, 2002) and Aber and Driscoll (1997) examined predictions of seasonal and interannual variation in runoff and NO3- export at Hubbard Brook. Although there is no standard metric for establishing the success of a validation ex ...
... data from a large number of northeastern watersheds, while Aber et al. (1997, 2002) and Aber and Driscoll (1997) examined predictions of seasonal and interannual variation in runoff and NO3- export at Hubbard Brook. Although there is no standard metric for establishing the success of a validation ex ...
Full Paper - WebMeets.com
... Instead of investigating the correlation between climate change and the insured losses of insurance firms directly, the objective of this paper is to determine whether measures of weather variability have had a negative effect on insurers’ profits up to now. The reasons for doing this are from twofo ...
... Instead of investigating the correlation between climate change and the insured losses of insurance firms directly, the objective of this paper is to determine whether measures of weather variability have had a negative effect on insurers’ profits up to now. The reasons for doing this are from twofo ...
Climate Change, Public Health and Health Inequalities
... it is estimated that there were 2,000 to 3,000 excess deaths [more than usual] in England.5 We know people die in extremes of temperature – yet we seem unprepared when it happens. There is a 1 in 40 chance that by 2012, southern England will have a severe heatwave which could again cause up to 10,00 ...
... it is estimated that there were 2,000 to 3,000 excess deaths [more than usual] in England.5 We know people die in extremes of temperature – yet we seem unprepared when it happens. There is a 1 in 40 chance that by 2012, southern England will have a severe heatwave which could again cause up to 10,00 ...
Climate change profile - SPC Climate Change Projects
... during the period 1986 to 2001. However, by the mid-1990s, it became apparent that a variety of obstacles were hindering the pace of development, and that dependence on US aid was not diminishing at the anticipated rate. Efforts were made by the US through ADB to improve economic development and thi ...
... during the period 1986 to 2001. However, by the mid-1990s, it became apparent that a variety of obstacles were hindering the pace of development, and that dependence on US aid was not diminishing at the anticipated rate. Efforts were made by the US through ADB to improve economic development and thi ...