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... Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland b ...
... Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland b ...
Roles of religion and ethics in addressing climate
... greenhouse gases should the world community identify as a target? The answer to that question will literally determine whether some cultures (due to e.g. sea level rise, water scarcity) and species continue to exist. In order to meet safe targets, significant worldwide reductions in greenhouse gases ...
... greenhouse gases should the world community identify as a target? The answer to that question will literally determine whether some cultures (due to e.g. sea level rise, water scarcity) and species continue to exist. In order to meet safe targets, significant worldwide reductions in greenhouse gases ...
Implications of land use change in tropical northern Africa under
... climate change triggered any conflict and if this conflict led to major changes in land use and land cover, how strong would be the feedback of these land cover changes on climate change? If the feedback is strong, then any model that attempts to describe the nexus between climate change, land use, ...
... climate change triggered any conflict and if this conflict led to major changes in land use and land cover, how strong would be the feedback of these land cover changes on climate change? If the feedback is strong, then any model that attempts to describe the nexus between climate change, land use, ...
Civil war, climate change and development: A scenario
... Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland b ...
... Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland b ...
Climate Change Attribution Using Empirical Decomposition of
... constrained. Each factor considered is uncertain both in terms of forcing and in terms of data, as documented by Scafetta [2009]. For example, while greenhouse gases such as CO2 and CH4 no doubt have a warming effect and sulfate aerosols produced by volcanoes or industrial emissions no doubt have a ...
... constrained. Each factor considered is uncertain both in terms of forcing and in terms of data, as documented by Scafetta [2009]. For example, while greenhouse gases such as CO2 and CH4 no doubt have a warming effect and sulfate aerosols produced by volcanoes or industrial emissions no doubt have a ...
Grade 9: Climate Change
... Burning fossil fuels for transportation is the most common source of greenhouse gas release by humans. Other forms of greenhouse gases including methane and nitrous oxide which is often produced by humans through waste disposal and industrial practices. The release of any of these gases is known as ...
... Burning fossil fuels for transportation is the most common source of greenhouse gas release by humans. Other forms of greenhouse gases including methane and nitrous oxide which is often produced by humans through waste disposal and industrial practices. The release of any of these gases is known as ...
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, REILLY MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL THOMAS F.
... Perhaps most important, NHTSA has not considered the impact of exacerbated and accelerated climate change caused by increased C02 emissions. NHTSA's choice of standards has significant environmental impacts, none of which it has evaluated in the EA. Its conclusory statements about size, safety, and ...
... Perhaps most important, NHTSA has not considered the impact of exacerbated and accelerated climate change caused by increased C02 emissions. NHTSA's choice of standards has significant environmental impacts, none of which it has evaluated in the EA. Its conclusory statements about size, safety, and ...
Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: a review
... eastern Australia – the percentage of global land (between 60°S and 75°N) defined as dry areas has increased from 17% in the 1950s to about 27% in the 2000s (Dai, 2011). There is considerable uncertainty regarding projected changes in extremes to the end of the current century, and confidence in pro ...
... eastern Australia – the percentage of global land (between 60°S and 75°N) defined as dry areas has increased from 17% in the 1950s to about 27% in the 2000s (Dai, 2011). There is considerable uncertainty regarding projected changes in extremes to the end of the current century, and confidence in pro ...
adapt to climate change
... and animals depend for survival. Waterbirds are the most widely used tool to identify, designate and justify the protection of important wetlands. Their sensitivity to environmental change, the relative ease with which they can be counted and their tendency to congregate at key locations make them e ...
... and animals depend for survival. Waterbirds are the most widely used tool to identify, designate and justify the protection of important wetlands. Their sensitivity to environmental change, the relative ease with which they can be counted and their tendency to congregate at key locations make them e ...
The Hartwell Paper - LSE Research Online
... consensus.1 Yvo de Boer, the long-serving chairman of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), who had guided the process through meeting after increasingly inconclusive meeting in recent years, has since announced his resignation and future plans to work in the private se ...
... consensus.1 Yvo de Boer, the long-serving chairman of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), who had guided the process through meeting after increasingly inconclusive meeting in recent years, has since announced his resignation and future plans to work in the private se ...
PPAI Goals - US CLIVAR
... Make connections with networks of ecosystems researchers, such as National Phenology Network and Vegetation Dynamics Groups (Redmond; Koster) Coordinate with GEWEX on hydrology/water resources issues, in particular scoping potential process study on land-atmosphere interaction relevant to drought ma ...
... Make connections with networks of ecosystems researchers, such as National Phenology Network and Vegetation Dynamics Groups (Redmond; Koster) Coordinate with GEWEX on hydrology/water resources issues, in particular scoping potential process study on land-atmosphere interaction relevant to drought ma ...
City of North Vancouver Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... The City has a strong history of mitigation – preventing or slowing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – but this is only one half of the two-pronged approach needed to address climate change. The other half of a comprehensive climate change strategy is adaptation – making adj ...
... The City has a strong history of mitigation – preventing or slowing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – but this is only one half of the two-pronged approach needed to address climate change. The other half of a comprehensive climate change strategy is adaptation – making adj ...
Climate Change
... the interest of the membership Promote value of ITU-T to attract increased membership Disseminate information and know-how Cooperate and collaborate with other Sectors and other entities Provide support and assistance to the membership, in particular developing countries Committed to connecting the ...
... the interest of the membership Promote value of ITU-T to attract increased membership Disseminate information and know-how Cooperate and collaborate with other Sectors and other entities Provide support and assistance to the membership, in particular developing countries Committed to connecting the ...
Curriculum Vitae - Center for Research on Environmental
... Ben Orlove, Renzo Taddei, Guillermo Podestá and Kenneth Broad. Environmental citizenship in Latin America: Climate, intermediate organizations and political subjects. Latin American Research Review 46(S1):115-140. Carla Roncoli, Benjamin S. Orlove, Merit R. Kabugo and Milton M. Waiswa. Cultural styl ...
... Ben Orlove, Renzo Taddei, Guillermo Podestá and Kenneth Broad. Environmental citizenship in Latin America: Climate, intermediate organizations and political subjects. Latin American Research Review 46(S1):115-140. Carla Roncoli, Benjamin S. Orlove, Merit R. Kabugo and Milton M. Waiswa. Cultural styl ...
Mayors Adapt - EN Political Commitment
... WHEREAS the European Commission (EC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) state that climate change threatens the different regions of Europe in different ways, although all regions will experience climate change through a mix of gradual changes (such as increasing average temperature or change ...
... WHEREAS the European Commission (EC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) state that climate change threatens the different regions of Europe in different ways, although all regions will experience climate change through a mix of gradual changes (such as increasing average temperature or change ...
Heat capacity, time constant, and sensitivity of Earth`s climate system
... the relevant heat capacity of the climate system is within about a factor of 2.5 of that of the first 300 m and is thus likely to represent the great majority of the ocean that is coupled to the climate system on the multidecadal timescale examined here; for uniform penetration the heat capacity wou ...
... the relevant heat capacity of the climate system is within about a factor of 2.5 of that of the first 300 m and is thus likely to represent the great majority of the ocean that is coupled to the climate system on the multidecadal timescale examined here; for uniform penetration the heat capacity wou ...
The 2°C target - Climate Emergency Institute
... 1996 and reaffirmed since then by the Environment Council 2003, and European Council, 2005, 2007. The paper also identifies how this target may be achieved through global action. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4) indicates that the global mean t ...
... 1996 and reaffirmed since then by the Environment Council 2003, and European Council, 2005, 2007. The paper also identifies how this target may be achieved through global action. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4) indicates that the global mean t ...
Relative importance between biogeochemical and
... Biogeochemical and biogeophysical feedback of terrestrial ecosystems are linked processes, in which biogeophysical impacts are connected with biogeochemical impacts through their influence on terrestrial GHG and water cycles [Bonan, 2008; Zhang et al., 2014]. To appropriately quantify terrestrial fee ...
... Biogeochemical and biogeophysical feedback of terrestrial ecosystems are linked processes, in which biogeophysical impacts are connected with biogeochemical impacts through their influence on terrestrial GHG and water cycles [Bonan, 2008; Zhang et al., 2014]. To appropriately quantify terrestrial fee ...
Historical responsibility for climate change: science and the science-policy interface
... meaning that these gases saturate each other’s capacity to recirculate heat.19 Most estimates of contribution to climate change try to represent this nonlinearity in the models used (see den Elzen and Schaeffer27 for an exception). Choosing to do so has the opposite effect to including oceanic and t ...
... meaning that these gases saturate each other’s capacity to recirculate heat.19 Most estimates of contribution to climate change try to represent this nonlinearity in the models used (see den Elzen and Schaeffer27 for an exception). Choosing to do so has the opposite effect to including oceanic and t ...
Using climate information to support crop breeding decisions and
... could be impacted by the changing climate and changing threats from pests and pathogens. Crop breeding, both through conventional techniques, and GM assisted breeding could help meet these challenges, if adequately supported by appropriate information on the future climate. We highlight some of the ...
... could be impacted by the changing climate and changing threats from pests and pathogens. Crop breeding, both through conventional techniques, and GM assisted breeding could help meet these challenges, if adequately supported by appropriate information on the future climate. We highlight some of the ...
- Wiley Online Library
... range shifts are tightly coupled to shifts in thermal envelope (Pinksy et al., 2013). Therefore, the magnitude of anticipated climate warming effects on thermally constrained latitudinal ranges of hypothetical oxygen- and capacity-limited FENs was estimated based on the best supported mean temperatu ...
... range shifts are tightly coupled to shifts in thermal envelope (Pinksy et al., 2013). Therefore, the magnitude of anticipated climate warming effects on thermally constrained latitudinal ranges of hypothetical oxygen- and capacity-limited FENs was estimated based on the best supported mean temperatu ...
Have the Tropical Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
... Marine cores are widely used for paleoclimatic reconstruction, but in most cases they are useful only for reconstructing the mean state of ENSO. Varved sediments, corals, ice cores and trees are useful for reconstructing the frequency and amplitude of ENSO in distinct time intervals, but their recor ...
... Marine cores are widely used for paleoclimatic reconstruction, but in most cases they are useful only for reconstructing the mean state of ENSO. Varved sediments, corals, ice cores and trees are useful for reconstructing the frequency and amplitude of ENSO in distinct time intervals, but their recor ...
Understanding and predicting the combined effects of climate
... Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia; 3Climate Adaptation Flagship, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane, Qld 4102, Australia; 4Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts, Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Science, GPO Box 5078, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Au ...
... Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia; 3Climate Adaptation Flagship, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane, Qld 4102, Australia; 4Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts, Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Science, GPO Box 5078, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Au ...
Links between the Built Environment, Climate and Population Health
... events expressed differentially across the planet.4 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report projects that the globally averaged surface temperatures will increase by 1.8°C to 4.0°C (3.2°F to 7.2°F) by 2100. A warming climate over the next 50 years will confront ...
... events expressed differentially across the planet.4 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report projects that the globally averaged surface temperatures will increase by 1.8°C to 4.0°C (3.2°F to 7.2°F) by 2100. A warming climate over the next 50 years will confront ...
Beyond generic adaptive capacity: exploring the adaptation space of
... main organizations of the water supply and wastewater (WW) sector of the Stockholm region. The article identifies and analyzes the factors that influence the feasibility and attractiveness of the adaptation options available to those organizations. The WW sector of the Stockholm region is both sensi ...
... main organizations of the water supply and wastewater (WW) sector of the Stockholm region. The article identifies and analyzes the factors that influence the feasibility and attractiveness of the adaptation options available to those organizations. The WW sector of the Stockholm region is both sensi ...