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Catastrophe modelling and climate change

... events. Insurers have a key interest in understanding the impact of climate change on the frequency of extreme weather events. The frequency of heat waves has increased in Europe, Asia and Australia and more regions show an increase in the number of heavy precipitation events than a decrease. It is ...
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... librarian Chip Ward has decried "zealous fundamentalist Christians" as "America's Taliban, also known as George Bush's base."5 The prospect of evangelicals dictating public policy is threatening to such observers, even when they might agree with the policy in question. These views prompted New York ...
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... My colleagues in the DPS Parliamentary Library Research Service also deserve thanks for their contribution: Bella Lesman, Rachel Macreadie and Claire Higgins have each helped by their careful proof reading and comments. I particularly thank Adam Delacorn, Research Assistant in the Parliamentary Libr ...
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... Equity, equality and environmental justice issues first entered the debate on climate change when it was recognized that countries that historically have contributed least to global warming might be impacted the most by climate change in the future [11, 22]—although it is now recognized that impact ...
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... is in agreement that climate change is real and is caused by emissions of greenhouse gases due to human activity. The time to take action to mitigate and adapt to climate change is now. The observable effects of climate change vary from place to place. In regions with more extreme climates—for examp ...
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... Scenarios (SRES 2000) to project future climate change from 1990 (the base year for each scenario) through 2100. The dominant characteristics of the “storylines” used in the SRES are shown in Table 1. These characteristics describe the demographic, technological, economic and social trajectories dri ...
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... the assessed level of scientific understanding (LOSU). The net anthropogenic radiative forcing and its range are also shown. These require summing asymmetric uncertainty estimates from the component terms, and cannot be obtained by simple addition. Additional forcing factors not included here are co ...
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... This study comes about through the interest of Oxfam in deepening and clarifying the elements that are at the foundation of the processes to combat climate change, developed and implemented in Cuba since the mid nineties. The general perspective is that there are useful elements that should be incor ...
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Are there pre-Quaternary geological analogues for a future

... 5 Deaprtment of Geology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK Given the inherent uncertainties in predicting how climate and environments will respond to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, it would be beneficial to society if science could identify geological anal ...
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... format in assessing the implications of climate change. The common format is called the "Terms of Reference", which was developed at the WMO/ICSU/UNEP (1985) meeting in Villach, Austria, and is given in Table 1. At Villach, an equilibrium global warming of 1.5 - 4.50C and a global sea level rise of ...
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... shrinkage of Arctic sea ice (11.7% in 10 years) • Alaska, Siberia, Canada have warmed 5°F in summer, 10°F in winter • Spring comes 2 weeks earlier than 10 years ago • The polar ice cap has lost 20% of its volume in 20 years • Permafrost is melting • Unprecedented melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet ...
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... Similarly, regional impacts of changing climate will not be homogeneous; some regions may see an improvement in crop growth potential, while others may face declining. An analysis that focuses exclusively on the average effect of climate change on national production, commodity and food prices, and ...
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... Global average temperature over the last 35 years. Note that while there is variation between years (some warm and some cold) the overall upward trend over time is clear. Climate is defined as the 30 year average of local weather, therefore this 35 year record shows a clear warming of the global cli ...
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... not limited to) agriculture, forestry, water resources, air quality, ecosystems and biodiversity, and cultural resources. Stakeholders with an interest in each of these may have conflicting desires and conflict resolution is likely to be required. Policy-makers dealing with multiple social objective ...
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... shrinkage of Arctic sea ice (11.7% in 10 years) • Alaska, Siberia, Canada have warmed 5°F in summer, 10°F in winter • Spring comes 2 weeks earlier than 10 years ago • The polar ice cap has lost 20% of its volume in 20 years • Permafrost is melting • Unprecedented melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet ...
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... the world. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects strong changes in climate across MENA, further exacerbating pressure on available water resources. The objective of this study is to undertake a climate change assessment for 22 MENA countries in order to quantify the problems these c ...
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... (UNFCCC) meeting to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009 (the 15th Conference of the Parties, COP15) will be a critical step in developing a global response to the threat of climate change caused by human activities. The primary scientific input to those negotiations is the Fourth Assessment Repor ...
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... their emissions by a total of 13.1 million tons CO2 equivalent since 2009, a 12% reduction. Cities are also increasing their resilience to the impacts of climate change. This year, cities reported 757 adaptation activities and 102 cities have climate adaptation plans. There is significant opportunit ...
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Climate change denial

Climate change denial, or global warming denial, involves denial, dismissal, or unwarranted doubt about the scientific consensus on the rate and extent of global warming, the extent to which it is caused by humans, its impacts on nature and human society, or the potential for human actions to reduce these impacts. Climate change skepticism and climate change denial form an overlapping range of views, and generally have the same characteristics; both reject to a greater or lesser extent current scientific opinion on climate change. Climate change denial can also be implicit, when individuals or social groups accept the science but divert their attention to less difficult topics rather than take action. Several social science studies have analyzed these positions as forms of denialism.In the global warming controversy, campaigning to undermine public trust in climate science has been described as a ""denial machine"" of industrial, political and ideological interests, supported by conservative media and skeptical bloggers in manufacturing uncertainty about global warming. In the public debate, phrases such as climate skepticism have frequently been used with the same meaning as climate denialism. The labels are contested: those actively challenging climate science commonly describe themselves as ""skeptics"", but many do not comply with scientific skepticism and, regardless of evidence, continue to deny the validity of human caused global warming.Although there is a scientific consensus that human activity is the primary driver of climate change, the politics of global warming has been impacted by climate change denial, hindering efforts to prevent climate change and adapt to the warming climate. Typically, public debate on climate change denial may have the appearance of legitimate scientific discourse, but does not conform to scientific principles.Organised campaigning to undermine public trust in climate science is associated with conservative economic policies and backed by industrial interests opposed to the regulation of CO2 emissions. Climate change denial has been associated with the fossil fuels lobby, the Koch brothers, industry advocates and libertarian think tanks, often in the United States. Between 2002 and 2010, nearly $120 million (£77 million) was anonymously donated, some by conservative billionaires via the Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, to more than 100 organizations seeking to undermine the public perception of the science on climate change. In 2013 the Center for Media and Democracy reported that the State Policy Network (SPN), an umbrella group of 64 U.S. think tanks, had been lobbying on behalf of major corporations and conservative donors to oppose climate change regulation.
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