Targets for global climate policy An overview
... The total welfare impact of climate change is but one input. Other parameters are the rate of pure time preference, the growth rate of per capita consumption, and the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption. Estimates also differ with regard to projections of CO2 emissions, the carbon cycle, t ...
... The total welfare impact of climate change is but one input. Other parameters are the rate of pure time preference, the growth rate of per capita consumption, and the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption. Estimates also differ with regard to projections of CO2 emissions, the carbon cycle, t ...
Projected changes in mean and extreme precipitation in
... A brief description of the datasets used and the analysis methods applied are given below. Further details can be found in SHO09. The models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4; Solomon et al. 2007) form the major input to the analysis of change ...
... A brief description of the datasets used and the analysis methods applied are given below. Further details can be found in SHO09. The models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4; Solomon et al. 2007) form the major input to the analysis of change ...
Downscaling climate change scenarios for apple pest and disease
... (Buser et al., 2009), the simulations were processed and aggregated to obtain seasonal probabilistic climate change signals of changes in temperature and precipitation for three domains in Switzerland (see Fig. 1). The spatial extent of the domains was determined semi-empirically based on the spatia ...
... (Buser et al., 2009), the simulations were processed and aggregated to obtain seasonal probabilistic climate change signals of changes in temperature and precipitation for three domains in Switzerland (see Fig. 1). The spatial extent of the domains was determined semi-empirically based on the spatia ...
The intensification and shift of the annual North Atlantic Oscillation in
... northern Europe. Meanwhile, over the 20th century, the globalaveraged surface temperature has increased by 0.4–0.8◦ C, and ...
... northern Europe. Meanwhile, over the 20th century, the globalaveraged surface temperature has increased by 0.4–0.8◦ C, and ...
WEST AFRICA SAHEL
... insecurity, epidemics, and violent conflict. The region is still recovering from the food crisis brought about by the severe droughts experienced in 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012. Data from 2015 suggest that over 20 million food insecure people and nearly 6 million malnourished children live in the Sahe ...
... insecurity, epidemics, and violent conflict. The region is still recovering from the food crisis brought about by the severe droughts experienced in 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012. Data from 2015 suggest that over 20 million food insecure people and nearly 6 million malnourished children live in the Sahe ...
karfakis
... tion are subject to risks such as the loss of access to natural resources and to production shortfalls associated with climate variability effects. However, they represent a small number of people (in rural Malawi, 5 percent of all households do not buy or sell anything to the markets; in Nepal, thi ...
... tion are subject to risks such as the loss of access to natural resources and to production shortfalls associated with climate variability effects. However, they represent a small number of people (in rural Malawi, 5 percent of all households do not buy or sell anything to the markets; in Nepal, thi ...
Infectious disease, development, and climate change: a
... consistency, quality checks, and global coverage. We used two alternative indicators for vulnerability to infectious disease. The first was infant (underone) mortality. Infant mortality integrates a range of problems of poverty and health. Although disease-specific (infant) mortality would be more i ...
... consistency, quality checks, and global coverage. We used two alternative indicators for vulnerability to infectious disease. The first was infant (underone) mortality. Infant mortality integrates a range of problems of poverty and health. Although disease-specific (infant) mortality would be more i ...
Assessing the Physical Science of Climate Change
... IPCC (2007) “Warming is unequivocal, and most of the warming of the past 50 years is very likely (90%) due to increases in greenhouse gases.” ...
... IPCC (2007) “Warming is unequivocal, and most of the warming of the past 50 years is very likely (90%) due to increases in greenhouse gases.” ...
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and
... Coastal Management). Many of these shorelines are at risk due to climate-related change including ecosystems such as beaches, bays, estuaries, salt marshes, mangroves, bayous, shellfish bars, seagrasses, and reefs, all of which provide various ecological and economic benefits in terms fisheries, loc ...
... Coastal Management). Many of these shorelines are at risk due to climate-related change including ecosystems such as beaches, bays, estuaries, salt marshes, mangroves, bayous, shellfish bars, seagrasses, and reefs, all of which provide various ecological and economic benefits in terms fisheries, loc ...
PDF - ECC Platform Library
... activities -- principally to irrigate cropland -- faster than the aquifers can be replenished by natural processes. They based their conclusions -- published in the August 20 2009 issue of Nature -- on observations from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). ...
... activities -- principally to irrigate cropland -- faster than the aquifers can be replenished by natural processes. They based their conclusions -- published in the August 20 2009 issue of Nature -- on observations from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). ...
Unit Roots in the Climate: Is the Recent Warming Due to Persistent
... There is now a wide body of literature attempting to pin down the relationship between GHGs and temperature. There are two main lines of work. The first uses relationships from physics to build a bottom up circulation model of the climate. These are often referred to as general circulation models (G ...
... There is now a wide body of literature attempting to pin down the relationship between GHGs and temperature. There are two main lines of work. The first uses relationships from physics to build a bottom up circulation model of the climate. These are often referred to as general circulation models (G ...
Global warming and changes in drought
... predilection for wetter land during La Niña events. Increased heating from global warming may not cause droughts but it is expected that when droughts occur they are apt to set in quicker and be ...
... predilection for wetter land during La Niña events. Increased heating from global warming may not cause droughts but it is expected that when droughts occur they are apt to set in quicker and be ...
Climate Risk Assessment for Water Resources
... 3 The runoff elasticity of a performance indicator (e.g. hydro-energy production) defines the response (as a multiplier) of the indicator to changes in runoff; for example, a runoff elasticity of hydro-energy of 1.2 indicates that a 10% decrease in runoff would cause a 12% decrease in generated hydr ...
... 3 The runoff elasticity of a performance indicator (e.g. hydro-energy production) defines the response (as a multiplier) of the indicator to changes in runoff; for example, a runoff elasticity of hydro-energy of 1.2 indicates that a 10% decrease in runoff would cause a 12% decrease in generated hydr ...
LCARL205_en.pdf
... climate temperature, the planet can shift drastically from one stable climate pattern to a noticeably different one (Alley et al, 2003). Two main schools of thought can be identified in the climate change debate1: “Wait and see and do nothing for now as there is too much uncertainty”: Some argue tha ...
... climate temperature, the planet can shift drastically from one stable climate pattern to a noticeably different one (Alley et al, 2003). Two main schools of thought can be identified in the climate change debate1: “Wait and see and do nothing for now as there is too much uncertainty”: Some argue tha ...
Simulation of regional climate change under the IPCC A2 scenario
... models while retaining global skill similar to uniformresolution simulations with the same number of grid points. For China, a number of recent climate change simulations with different regional climate models have been analyzed for future variation in both mean climate and climate extremes. For exa ...
... models while retaining global skill similar to uniformresolution simulations with the same number of grid points. For China, a number of recent climate change simulations with different regional climate models have been analyzed for future variation in both mean climate and climate extremes. For exa ...
Predicting regional climate change: living with uncertainty
... When a person, city or nation considers climate change, their primary interest is in changes in the warmth, rain and wind that affect them and their local environments. © Arnold 1999 ...
... When a person, city or nation considers climate change, their primary interest is in changes in the warmth, rain and wind that affect them and their local environments. © Arnold 1999 ...
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... between 1970 and 1999, that for the Indian Ocean for the same is 0.2 degree C per decade (Chand B.K.,Trivedi R.K., Dubey S.K., Beg M.M., Aquaculture in changing environment in Sunderban, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Science, 2012). In according to Indian Meteorological Department (20 ...
... between 1970 and 1999, that for the Indian Ocean for the same is 0.2 degree C per decade (Chand B.K.,Trivedi R.K., Dubey S.K., Beg M.M., Aquaculture in changing environment in Sunderban, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Science, 2012). In according to Indian Meteorological Department (20 ...
Producing the Climate: States, Scientists, and the
... sciences benefited from US government support, progressed rapidly, and set the discursive frame within which climate politics now plays out. In the 1990s, scientists and international organization (IO) experts responded to states’ requests to study the carbon sinks by expanding the climate to includ ...
... sciences benefited from US government support, progressed rapidly, and set the discursive frame within which climate politics now plays out. In the 1990s, scientists and international organization (IO) experts responded to states’ requests to study the carbon sinks by expanding the climate to includ ...
Hurricanes - EnviroEcon
... Many strongest storms are around Taiwan, Philippines ATMOS 1020, Climate Change, Thomas Reichler, U nivers ity of Utah, 11 ...
... Many strongest storms are around Taiwan, Philippines ATMOS 1020, Climate Change, Thomas Reichler, U nivers ity of Utah, 11 ...
1. Climate Change and Insect Pest Distribution Range, Andrea
... range expansion. We discuss the type of evidence for the expansion, ongoing or predicted to occur, and aim to classify according to its empirical nature. ...
... range expansion. We discuss the type of evidence for the expansion, ongoing or predicted to occur, and aim to classify according to its empirical nature. ...
elg15f15 - University of Oregon
... engaging scientists, teachers, and administrators together in co-teaching partnerships, in which all participants work together in real classrooms to enact innovative content and pedagogy. More specifically, we propose to employ our annual cadre model, where we are able to enhance teacher core conte ...
... engaging scientists, teachers, and administrators together in co-teaching partnerships, in which all participants work together in real classrooms to enact innovative content and pedagogy. More specifically, we propose to employ our annual cadre model, where we are able to enhance teacher core conte ...
Economics of PGRFA Management for Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of Selected Literature
... There is a growing consensus in the scientific literature that the earth is warming due to anthropometrically increases in greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Together with increasing temperatures, climate change is expected to result in increasingly unpredictable and variable rainfall bot ...
... There is a growing consensus in the scientific literature that the earth is warming due to anthropometrically increases in greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Together with increasing temperatures, climate change is expected to result in increasingly unpredictable and variable rainfall bot ...