Climate change and evolution: disentangling environmental and
... above-mentioned studies have measured climate medi© 2007 The Authors Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd ...
... above-mentioned studies have measured climate medi© 2007 The Authors Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd ...
Call for proposals - Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural
... understand the impacts of such solutions and draw lessons for scaling them up. It will gather and disseminate evidence in appropriate forms to key audiences, with a view to strengthening the capacity of farmers and stakeholders to develop, identify and adopt policies and practices that help agricul ...
... understand the impacts of such solutions and draw lessons for scaling them up. It will gather and disseminate evidence in appropriate forms to key audiences, with a view to strengthening the capacity of farmers and stakeholders to develop, identify and adopt policies and practices that help agricul ...
Changes in alpine plant growth under future climate conditions
... plant height and growth rates for vegetation at these sites using path analysis. However, their predictors constitute complex interactions between melt out, temperature and precipitation, which today are hardly predictable from general circulation model (GCMs) or regional climate model (RCM) data. T ...
... plant height and growth rates for vegetation at these sites using path analysis. However, their predictors constitute complex interactions between melt out, temperature and precipitation, which today are hardly predictable from general circulation model (GCMs) or regional climate model (RCM) data. T ...
Climate Change and Children in the Brazilian Amazon Region
... in Brazil 75% of emissions occurs in land-use activities such as deforestation and burning for agriculture use. Only the Brazilian Amazon forest per year delivered some 200 million tones of carbon (average for the period 1989 to 1998) of total national annual emissions of approximately 280 million t ...
... in Brazil 75% of emissions occurs in land-use activities such as deforestation and burning for agriculture use. Only the Brazilian Amazon forest per year delivered some 200 million tones of carbon (average for the period 1989 to 1998) of total national annual emissions of approximately 280 million t ...
changes in high flows in Sweden in the past and the future (1911
... Schmocker-Fackel and Naef, 2010) or process-based numerical modeling and a scenario approach (e.g., Dankers and Feyen, 2008; Arheimer et al., 2012; Bergström et al., 2012). Both these strategies have potential advantages but also many challenges, as discussed by Hall et al. (2014). The two fundament ...
... Schmocker-Fackel and Naef, 2010) or process-based numerical modeling and a scenario approach (e.g., Dankers and Feyen, 2008; Arheimer et al., 2012; Bergström et al., 2012). Both these strategies have potential advantages but also many challenges, as discussed by Hall et al. (2014). The two fundament ...
Redalyc.Media coverage of climate change in spanish
... Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and the impact of the Stern Report (Boykoff and Roberts, 2007: 6). Schmidt, Ivanova and Schäfer (2013) demonstrate that cc is a relevant issue in 37 media outlets from 27 countries that were included in their study, representing an average of 0.62% of all n ...
... Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and the impact of the Stern Report (Boykoff and Roberts, 2007: 6). Schmidt, Ivanova and Schäfer (2013) demonstrate that cc is a relevant issue in 37 media outlets from 27 countries that were included in their study, representing an average of 0.62% of all n ...
Climate Change Riparian Restoration
... Rosenzweig et al. 2008). In this context it is now clearer than ever that a return to historical reference conditions will no longer be the benchmark for restoration success (Choi et al. 2008, Seastedt et al. 2008). Given the uncertainties about future conditions, climate change may cause people to ...
... Rosenzweig et al. 2008). In this context it is now clearer than ever that a return to historical reference conditions will no longer be the benchmark for restoration success (Choi et al. 2008, Seastedt et al. 2008). Given the uncertainties about future conditions, climate change may cause people to ...
Volume 3: Climate and Global Change and Risks
... The state-of-the-art climate models are based on a combined atmosphere–ocean general circulation model. A central direction of their development is associated with an increasingly accurate description of all physical processes participating in climate formation. This direction appears to be reasonab ...
... The state-of-the-art climate models are based on a combined atmosphere–ocean general circulation model. A central direction of their development is associated with an increasingly accurate description of all physical processes participating in climate formation. This direction appears to be reasonab ...
Why Climate Change Makes Riparian Restoration More Important than Ever:
... Rosenzweig et al. 2008). In this context it is now clearer than ever that a return to historical reference conditions will no longer be the benchmark for restoration success (Choi et al. 2008, Seastedt et al. 2008). Given the uncertainties about future conditions, climate change may cause people to ...
... Rosenzweig et al. 2008). In this context it is now clearer than ever that a return to historical reference conditions will no longer be the benchmark for restoration success (Choi et al. 2008, Seastedt et al. 2008). Given the uncertainties about future conditions, climate change may cause people to ...
Media coverage of climate change in spanish
... Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and the impact of the Stern Report (Boykoff and Roberts, 2007: 6). Schmidt, Ivanova and Schäfer (2013) demonstrate that cc is a relevant issue in 37 media outlets from 27 countries that were included in their study, representing an average of 0.62% of all n ...
... Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and the impact of the Stern Report (Boykoff and Roberts, 2007: 6). Schmidt, Ivanova and Schäfer (2013) demonstrate that cc is a relevant issue in 37 media outlets from 27 countries that were included in their study, representing an average of 0.62% of all n ...
Status Description Total Funding Strengthening Communities
... emerging challenges with regard to the risks posed by natural hazards and related disas The ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction (NDRR) Program was launched in 2011 as an ...
... emerging challenges with regard to the risks posed by natural hazards and related disas The ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction (NDRR) Program was launched in 2011 as an ...
Climate Change and Water Resources in the Tropical Andes
... In a follow-up study, Urrutia and Vuille conducted the first high-resolution, regional climate model simulation for this region.18 Figure 1 shows the projected surface warming by the end of the twenty-first century based on a high (A2) and a low (B2) emission scenario. The results suggest a substant ...
... In a follow-up study, Urrutia and Vuille conducted the first high-resolution, regional climate model simulation for this region.18 Figure 1 shows the projected surface warming by the end of the twenty-first century based on a high (A2) and a low (B2) emission scenario. The results suggest a substant ...
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... Investment in long-lived climate-dependent agricultural assets such as irrigation infrastructure, vineyards and agroforestry will become more problematic. Investing in ecological assets in rural regions, especially where these assets may become stranded by climate change, also will be increasingly p ...
... Investment in long-lived climate-dependent agricultural assets such as irrigation infrastructure, vineyards and agroforestry will become more problematic. Investing in ecological assets in rural regions, especially where these assets may become stranded by climate change, also will be increasingly p ...
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... composition. In the top- and bottom-most samples less than 20 head capsules were recovered and they were combined with adjoining intervals to achieve appropriate count sizes. The dry sediment weight used in head capsule isolation ranged from 0.2-2.0 g, reflecting the variable head capsule concentrat ...
... composition. In the top- and bottom-most samples less than 20 head capsules were recovered and they were combined with adjoining intervals to achieve appropriate count sizes. The dry sediment weight used in head capsule isolation ranged from 0.2-2.0 g, reflecting the variable head capsule concentrat ...
Assessing the effects of climate and volcanism on diatom and
... Received: August 2015. Accepted: December 2015. ...
... Received: August 2015. Accepted: December 2015. ...
2. Global warming is occurring
... hottest year or the second hottest year since temperatures began to be systematically recorded in the midnineteenth century; 40 per cent of the Arctic icecap has retreated during the past several decades; and glaciers around the world have been rapidly retreating. The United Nations' Intergovernment ...
... hottest year or the second hottest year since temperatures began to be systematically recorded in the midnineteenth century; 40 per cent of the Arctic icecap has retreated during the past several decades; and glaciers around the world have been rapidly retreating. The United Nations' Intergovernment ...
“Venues for Contestation ” within the United Nations Framework
... that could be beneficial to future international agreements. The UNFCCC has near universal ratification25 the objective of which is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent ...
... that could be beneficial to future international agreements. The UNFCCC has near universal ratification25 the objective of which is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent ...
Submission PDF Communicating the deadly consequences of
... frequency explains why global heat stress should be expected to follow a non-linear relationship with global mean air temperature over the range considered here. With the area-weighted (where is the fraction of the mean heat stress defined as Earth’s land surface experiencing dangerous HI, and is th ...
... frequency explains why global heat stress should be expected to follow a non-linear relationship with global mean air temperature over the range considered here. With the area-weighted (where is the fraction of the mean heat stress defined as Earth’s land surface experiencing dangerous HI, and is th ...
A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor 2014: The
... That sets up an unpleasant dilemma for EPA: We are breaking the law by not doing our job. Or we are liars. Or we are imposing lots of pain for no gain. Maybe it’s all three. In addition, implementing the rule would harm most Americans, especially the poor. A study by scholars at the Massachusetts In ...
... That sets up an unpleasant dilemma for EPA: We are breaking the law by not doing our job. Or we are liars. Or we are imposing lots of pain for no gain. Maybe it’s all three. In addition, implementing the rule would harm most Americans, especially the poor. A study by scholars at the Massachusetts In ...
adaptation to climate change: international policy options
... must deal squarely with adaptation—coping with those impacts that cannot be avoided. This is both a matter of need, as climate change is now underway, and a matter of equity, as its impacts fall disproportionately on those least able to bear them. It also may be a condition for further progress on m ...
... must deal squarely with adaptation—coping with those impacts that cannot be avoided. This is both a matter of need, as climate change is now underway, and a matter of equity, as its impacts fall disproportionately on those least able to bear them. It also may be a condition for further progress on m ...
Phase relationships between Antarctic and Greenland
... YD was preceded, by about 1000 years, by a Southern Hemisphere ``Antarctic Cold Reversal'' (ACR). Although the ACR had been identified earlier by Jouzel and others (1995), the Blunier and others (1997,1998) results are critical because they rely on cross-correlation of the cores using high-resolutio ...
... YD was preceded, by about 1000 years, by a Southern Hemisphere ``Antarctic Cold Reversal'' (ACR). Although the ACR had been identified earlier by Jouzel and others (1995), the Blunier and others (1997,1998) results are critical because they rely on cross-correlation of the cores using high-resolutio ...
a reprint - Integrative Biology
... first lower molar (m1) shape correlates with broad-scale, global average climate through time when compared to oxygen isotope data from Zachos et al. (2001). Microtus californicus, the California vole, is a particularly suitable model for examining intraspecific climate change effects because it is ab ...
... first lower molar (m1) shape correlates with broad-scale, global average climate through time when compared to oxygen isotope data from Zachos et al. (2001). Microtus californicus, the California vole, is a particularly suitable model for examining intraspecific climate change effects because it is ab ...
Global Environmental Change Issues in the Western Indian Ocean
... formulating long-te rm manageme nt and policy strategies that will minimize unwanted future changes. Finally, a regional strategy is needed to address the following issues: (1) the acquisition and interpretation of tide-gauge and other geodetic data to provide estimates of the local and regional rel ...
... formulating long-te rm manageme nt and policy strategies that will minimize unwanted future changes. Finally, a regional strategy is needed to address the following issues: (1) the acquisition and interpretation of tide-gauge and other geodetic data to provide estimates of the local and regional rel ...
Potential effects of climate change and adaptive
... In a rapidly changing climate, decision-makers require a sense of the vulnerability of ecological and social systems to create goals and objectives for the future and propose actions to reduce or eliminate that vulnerability. In this context, vulnerability is the degree to which a system is suscepti ...
... In a rapidly changing climate, decision-makers require a sense of the vulnerability of ecological and social systems to create goals and objectives for the future and propose actions to reduce or eliminate that vulnerability. In this context, vulnerability is the degree to which a system is suscepti ...