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... information has been put together to produce reliable picture of climate variability throughout the 19th century (HASTENRATH, 2001; NICHOLSON, 1978) using proxy material dealing with such phenomena as drought, goods and harvests, and various hydrological indicators. According to NICHOLSON (2001) and ...
... information has been put together to produce reliable picture of climate variability throughout the 19th century (HASTENRATH, 2001; NICHOLSON, 1978) using proxy material dealing with such phenomena as drought, goods and harvests, and various hydrological indicators. According to NICHOLSON (2001) and ...
perspectives on climate change - Canadian Institute of Planners
... The reason for this cannot be attributed directly to any specific cause. During the survey period there was considerable media attention on climate change, but also CIP was actively promoting its climate change policy, holding climate change workshops at Affiliate conferences, sponsoring a Northern ...
... The reason for this cannot be attributed directly to any specific cause. During the survey period there was considerable media attention on climate change, but also CIP was actively promoting its climate change policy, holding climate change workshops at Affiliate conferences, sponsoring a Northern ...
Risks of Climate Change on the Singapore
... globally averaged combined land and surface between the average of the 1850-1900 period and the 2003 to 2012 period is 0.78°C (0.72 to 0.85). But should we prepare for such the relatively small change? The importance is not the mean of the warming but the considerable likelihood of climate change th ...
... globally averaged combined land and surface between the average of the 1850-1900 period and the 2003 to 2012 period is 0.78°C (0.72 to 0.85). But should we prepare for such the relatively small change? The importance is not the mean of the warming but the considerable likelihood of climate change th ...
The Hartwell Paper - Eureka
... 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 priv ...
... 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 priv ...
Will we leave the Great Barrier Reef for our children?
... causing a warming effect. For at least the past 650,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere varied between 180 and 300 parts per million (ppm).23 Since the Industrial Revolution, globally averaged concentrations of CO2, the major greenhouse gas in the ...
... causing a warming effect. For at least the past 650,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere varied between 180 and 300 parts per million (ppm).23 Since the Industrial Revolution, globally averaged concentrations of CO2, the major greenhouse gas in the ...
Limits of pastoral adaptation to permafrost regions caused by
... or breakoff could certainly happen under special circumstances, such as disasters or colonialism. However, such events are regarded as exceptional events in understanding subsistence cultures, whereas the natural environment has been regarded as stable and resilient. Anthropologists rather focus on ...
... or breakoff could certainly happen under special circumstances, such as disasters or colonialism. However, such events are regarded as exceptional events in understanding subsistence cultures, whereas the natural environment has been regarded as stable and resilient. Anthropologists rather focus on ...
Americans` Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in April 2013
... A majority of Americans believe global warming is happening. Nearly two in three Americans (63%) believe global warming is happening. Relatively few – only 16 percent – believe it is not. Since Fall 2012, the percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening has dropped 7 points to 63% ...
... A majority of Americans believe global warming is happening. Nearly two in three Americans (63%) believe global warming is happening. Relatively few – only 16 percent – believe it is not. Since Fall 2012, the percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening has dropped 7 points to 63% ...
Regional Climate Adaptation Planning Alliance
... major decline in the ski industry in Park City, Utah alone could result in $120 million in lost economic activity, with 1,137 lost jobs and $20.4 million in the form of lost earnings.3 Tourism could also be affected by higher wildfire risk, while places threatened by flash floods may lose businesses ...
... major decline in the ski industry in Park City, Utah alone could result in $120 million in lost economic activity, with 1,137 lost jobs and $20.4 million in the form of lost earnings.3 Tourism could also be affected by higher wildfire risk, while places threatened by flash floods may lose businesses ...
Climate change and Tourism in the Alps: a position paper in view of
... After two decades of scientific research, mountains are nowadays recognized as early indicators of global climate change. Indeed, the Alpine region in Europe is amongst those areas that are most rapidly affected by climate change. The years 1994, 2000, 2002, and 2003 were the warmest on record in th ...
... After two decades of scientific research, mountains are nowadays recognized as early indicators of global climate change. Indeed, the Alpine region in Europe is amongst those areas that are most rapidly affected by climate change. The years 1994, 2000, 2002, and 2003 were the warmest on record in th ...
Linking global and local scales: designing dynamic
... bounded level at which a particular phenomenon is recognizable. `Scalea can also * and sometimes simultaneously * imply a level of organization or a functional unit (Ahl and Allen, 1996). We recognize that there is reasonable disagreement on the precise extent or de"nition of any scale (e.g., where ...
... bounded level at which a particular phenomenon is recognizable. `Scalea can also * and sometimes simultaneously * imply a level of organization or a functional unit (Ahl and Allen, 1996). We recognize that there is reasonable disagreement on the precise extent or de"nition of any scale (e.g., where ...
How The Wall Street Journal Opinion Section
... disclosing that the National Black Chamber of Commerce gets most of its funding18 from companies that oppose the development of renewable energy. This evaluation of the Clean Power Plan’s impact reflects only the views and analysis of groups whose funders have a monetary interest in blocking the reg ...
... disclosing that the National Black Chamber of Commerce gets most of its funding18 from companies that oppose the development of renewable energy. This evaluation of the Clean Power Plan’s impact reflects only the views and analysis of groups whose funders have a monetary interest in blocking the reg ...
Creating a Climate Smart DFID
... progress to the highest level of response possible. All offices will have to comply with corporate targets and innovate but some offices will aspire to be leaders in the field. Larger offices will be encouraged to be leaders and aim for gold standard – as they may well have more potential for high i ...
... progress to the highest level of response possible. All offices will have to comply with corporate targets and innovate but some offices will aspire to be leaders in the field. Larger offices will be encouraged to be leaders and aim for gold standard – as they may well have more potential for high i ...
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Agriculture and Food Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus
... United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) ...
... United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) ...
The Fatal Flaw of the Global Warming Theory
... Although rises in CO2 act to block the normal long wave infrared (IR) radiation to space, this blockage is very small compared to the globe’s basic energy budget system. About 3.7 Wm-2 of IR energy is intercepted for a doubling of CO2 (Figure 1). Since the mid-19th century, CO2’s influence on IR blo ...
... Although rises in CO2 act to block the normal long wave infrared (IR) radiation to space, this blockage is very small compared to the globe’s basic energy budget system. About 3.7 Wm-2 of IR energy is intercepted for a doubling of CO2 (Figure 1). Since the mid-19th century, CO2’s influence on IR blo ...
Good Living for Whom? Bolivia`s Climate Justice Movement and the
... agenda to recover control over a resource that was seen as the country’s national patrimony (Perreault, 2006). Demands for nationalization were fused with other demands for indigenous rights, greater indigenous representation, and the rewriting of the constitution (Gustafson & Fabricant, 2011). This ...
... agenda to recover control over a resource that was seen as the country’s national patrimony (Perreault, 2006). Demands for nationalization were fused with other demands for indigenous rights, greater indigenous representation, and the rewriting of the constitution (Gustafson & Fabricant, 2011). This ...
Republic of the Marshall Islands
... The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) believes that climate change is real and is the greatest threat to our low lying atolls and people. Negative effects are already taking place and these will gravely undermine our efforts towards sustainable development and threaten our survival and the sove ...
... The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) believes that climate change is real and is the greatest threat to our low lying atolls and people. Negative effects are already taking place and these will gravely undermine our efforts towards sustainable development and threaten our survival and the sove ...
Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change
... first peacock butterfly seen flying, the first crocus in bloom—as a mark that the long, dark winter is finally over. Fall has not captured as much enthusiasm as spring, but some good records exist, for example, for the turning of leaf color for trees. The longest records of direct phenological observatio ...
... first peacock butterfly seen flying, the first crocus in bloom—as a mark that the long, dark winter is finally over. Fall has not captured as much enthusiasm as spring, but some good records exist, for example, for the turning of leaf color for trees. The longest records of direct phenological observatio ...
A comment on “Economy-wide estimates of the
... For their detailed analysis, Bosello et al. use a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to evaluate the effects of indirect health costs – losses of labor productivity, and health care expenditures – that are in the same direction as the direct costs (by region) but of a much smaller magnitude. ...
... For their detailed analysis, Bosello et al. use a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to evaluate the effects of indirect health costs – losses of labor productivity, and health care expenditures – that are in the same direction as the direct costs (by region) but of a much smaller magnitude. ...
Impact of Climate Change on Wheat Production
... United States with increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. IPCC projects an increase in annual global precipitation of 5 to 25% which is directly related to an increase in atmospheric water vapor due to higher evapotranspiration as the earth warms. Winter temperatures are expected to increase disp ...
... United States with increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. IPCC projects an increase in annual global precipitation of 5 to 25% which is directly related to an increase in atmospheric water vapor due to higher evapotranspiration as the earth warms. Winter temperatures are expected to increase disp ...
4.3 Approach to CLIMATE CHANGE Scenario Development
... Although it is likely that temperatures will rise in most regions of the world,2 changes at the regional scale in many other key variables, such as precipitation, are uncertain for most regions. Even if the direction of change is likely, there can be uncertainty about the magnitude and path of chang ...
... Although it is likely that temperatures will rise in most regions of the world,2 changes at the regional scale in many other key variables, such as precipitation, are uncertain for most regions. Even if the direction of change is likely, there can be uncertainty about the magnitude and path of chang ...
Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change
... first peacock butterfly seen flying, the first crocus in bloom—as a mark that the long, dark winter is finally over. Fall has not captured as much enthusiasm as spring, but some good records exist, for example, for the turning of leaf color for trees. The longest records of direct phenological observatio ...
... first peacock butterfly seen flying, the first crocus in bloom—as a mark that the long, dark winter is finally over. Fall has not captured as much enthusiasm as spring, but some good records exist, for example, for the turning of leaf color for trees. The longest records of direct phenological observatio ...
Climate changes of the twentieth through twenty-first
... dominant variabilities in the extratropical atmospheric circulation (Thompson and Wallace, 2000; Limpasuvan and Hartmann, 1999) that accompany a mass displacement between the polar region and surrounding midlatitudes. Indices of these modes have exhibited a remarkable increasing trend (deepening of ...
... dominant variabilities in the extratropical atmospheric circulation (Thompson and Wallace, 2000; Limpasuvan and Hartmann, 1999) that accompany a mass displacement between the polar region and surrounding midlatitudes. Indices of these modes have exhibited a remarkable increasing trend (deepening of ...
Expert Consensus on the Economics of Climate Change
... • The vast majority (75%) of respondents believe that the most economically efficient way for states to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “Clean Power Plan” carbon regulations is through “market-based mechanisms coordinated at a regional or national level (such as a regional/ ...
... • The vast majority (75%) of respondents believe that the most economically efficient way for states to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “Clean Power Plan” carbon regulations is through “market-based mechanisms coordinated at a regional or national level (such as a regional/ ...