How does climate change cause extinction?
... 100 years. But what will actually cause these extinctions? For example, will it be limited physiological tolerance to high temperatures, changing biotic interactions or other factors? Here, we systematically review the proximate causes of climate-change related extinctions and their empirical suppor ...
... 100 years. But what will actually cause these extinctions? For example, will it be limited physiological tolerance to high temperatures, changing biotic interactions or other factors? Here, we systematically review the proximate causes of climate-change related extinctions and their empirical suppor ...
A comprehensive set of high-resolution grids of monthly climate for
... the future, often 30-year periods, for which impacts were estimated and compared to impacts during a baseline period (commonly 1961–90). Some employed a pattern scaling technique (Santer et al, 1990, and see review by Mitchell, 2003) to scale the GCM pattern of climate change obtained for a given em ...
... the future, often 30-year periods, for which impacts were estimated and compared to impacts during a baseline period (commonly 1961–90). Some employed a pattern scaling technique (Santer et al, 1990, and see review by Mitchell, 2003) to scale the GCM pattern of climate change obtained for a given em ...
Discounting and climate change - a non-marginal policy choice
... capita on a path where greenhouse gas emissions are uncontrolled (i=b where b stands for ‘business-asusual’), resulting in climate change that has a non-marginal effect on consumption per capita and hence utility per capita both through the costs of adaptation and especially through residual impacts ...
... capita on a path where greenhouse gas emissions are uncontrolled (i=b where b stands for ‘business-asusual’), resulting in climate change that has a non-marginal effect on consumption per capita and hence utility per capita both through the costs of adaptation and especially through residual impacts ...
Discourse analysis of media coverage of climate change
... printed in the New York Times on December 18, 1938, suggests the issue is not new at all. The same article notes scientists had observed increasing temperatures in the United States starting from the year 1929. Research conducted in the Arctic suggested those increases were believed, even then, to b ...
... printed in the New York Times on December 18, 1938, suggests the issue is not new at all. The same article notes scientists had observed increasing temperatures in the United States starting from the year 1929. Research conducted in the Arctic suggested those increases were believed, even then, to b ...
Scale-dependent regional climate predictability over North America
... statistics at finer spatial and temporal scales. In the latter case, information from coarse climate models is used as boundary constraints on a finer resolution model (a regional climate model) that resolves the smaller spatiotemporal scales of interest. In either case, there is an assumption of a ...
... statistics at finer spatial and temporal scales. In the latter case, information from coarse climate models is used as boundary constraints on a finer resolution model (a regional climate model) that resolves the smaller spatiotemporal scales of interest. In either case, there is an assumption of a ...
The Business of AdApTing To ClimATe ChAnge
... current warming trend is proceeding at an unprecedented rate. Twenty of the hottest years on record have occurred since 1987 and the ten warmest have been in the last 12 years. What’s more, many scientists are convinced that it is already too late2 to avoid further significant warming of 2-6ºC befor ...
... current warming trend is proceeding at an unprecedented rate. Twenty of the hottest years on record have occurred since 1987 and the ten warmest have been in the last 12 years. What’s more, many scientists are convinced that it is already too late2 to avoid further significant warming of 2-6ºC befor ...
Key aspects of global climate change
... conclusions of the IPCC-2001 Report are that these uncertainties are not critically important. This has been mentioned, in particular, in the summary of the report in the form of the following conclusion: “There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last fifty years ...
... conclusions of the IPCC-2001 Report are that these uncertainties are not critically important. This has been mentioned, in particular, in the summary of the report in the form of the following conclusion: “There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last fifty years ...
LCCARL265_en.pdf
... Meteorology and Hydrology in this global project will allow the generation of new and more abundant information. ...
... Meteorology and Hydrology in this global project will allow the generation of new and more abundant information. ...
Climate adaptation: what it means for Australian consumers
... purposes of this study, the analysis resulted in five distinct segments7, as shown below and overleaf in full page images. For ease of identification, qualitative descriptors were developed to identify the segments; these were generated using distinguishing characteristics of each group identified. ...
... purposes of this study, the analysis resulted in five distinct segments7, as shown below and overleaf in full page images. For ease of identification, qualitative descriptors were developed to identify the segments; these were generated using distinguishing characteristics of each group identified. ...
Preparing for Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region
... forefront of the policy arena; addressing them will become more urgent than ever. Recommended areas for policy change – The priority issues listed above can be addressed by focusing a climate change adaptation strategy on policies in four key areas. For each area there are two recommended catego ...
... forefront of the policy arena; addressing them will become more urgent than ever. Recommended areas for policy change – The priority issues listed above can be addressed by focusing a climate change adaptation strategy on policies in four key areas. For each area there are two recommended catego ...
Computational data sciences may offer a path
... Note that the generalized extreme value distribution, or the generalized Pareto distribution, which have been used in climate extremes literature (e.g., Kao et al. 2011; Perkins et al. 2009; Kharin and Zwiers 2000), are asymptotic limits of probabilities relating to finite-sample size ...
... Note that the generalized extreme value distribution, or the generalized Pareto distribution, which have been used in climate extremes literature (e.g., Kao et al. 2011; Perkins et al. 2009; Kharin and Zwiers 2000), are asymptotic limits of probabilities relating to finite-sample size ...
Presentation Slides - Association for the Advancement of
... significant risks for – and in many cases is already affecting – a broad range of human and natural systems.” ...
... significant risks for – and in many cases is already affecting – a broad range of human and natural systems.” ...
Karuk Tribe: Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge within
... true and equal partnerships in planning, policy making, and forest management activities.” (Karuk 2010) The Department of Natural Resources established environmental protection programs focused on using TEK and traditional ecosystem management to foster ecological complexity. “The Karuk vision of ec ...
... true and equal partnerships in planning, policy making, and forest management activities.” (Karuk 2010) The Department of Natural Resources established environmental protection programs focused on using TEK and traditional ecosystem management to foster ecological complexity. “The Karuk vision of ec ...
Conflict over Climate Change Politics - GUPEA
... political question of climate change. Instead, the politics of climate change is produced along with a practice of linking economical activities or different societal domains to the issue. This process of expanding politics into the field of climate change is a discursive practice. Such political pr ...
... political question of climate change. Instead, the politics of climate change is produced along with a practice of linking economical activities or different societal domains to the issue. This process of expanding politics into the field of climate change is a discursive practice. Such political pr ...
View/Open - University College Cork
... certain observations are under continuous threat of termination and no mechanism currently exists to assure their funding support over time scales relevant for climate studies. Complete and regular detailed analysis should be carried out and reported on all ECV observations, including satellite data ...
... certain observations are under continuous threat of termination and no mechanism currently exists to assure their funding support over time scales relevant for climate studies. Complete and regular detailed analysis should be carried out and reported on all ECV observations, including satellite data ...
Scientific aspects - Wageningen UR E
... ensemble of rules, processes and instruments that structure interactions between actors for a specific domain or issue (Arts & Leroy, 2006). This concept will be used for both analysing existing and designing new arrangements. This „Governance of adaptation to climate change‟ programme aims to gener ...
... ensemble of rules, processes and instruments that structure interactions between actors for a specific domain or issue (Arts & Leroy, 2006). This concept will be used for both analysing existing and designing new arrangements. This „Governance of adaptation to climate change‟ programme aims to gener ...
Assessing the adequacy of current fisheries
... modify tactical fisheries assessment methods to account for the kinds of variability to be expected under climate change. The first case study evaluated the performance of a traditional stock assessment model that was developed for the South African abalone (Haliotis midae) fishery. This case study ...
... modify tactical fisheries assessment methods to account for the kinds of variability to be expected under climate change. The first case study evaluated the performance of a traditional stock assessment model that was developed for the South African abalone (Haliotis midae) fishery. This case study ...
Changing weather and climate in Northern Ghana
... growing body of research has focused on predicting and analyzing the local impacts of climate change (Barros 2014). However, important gaps remain in our collective understanding of how to best merge different sources of knowledge of local climate change effects. Specifically, what is the role of lo ...
... growing body of research has focused on predicting and analyzing the local impacts of climate change (Barros 2014). However, important gaps remain in our collective understanding of how to best merge different sources of knowledge of local climate change effects. Specifically, what is the role of lo ...
Changes in species` distributions during and after environmental
... explored, namely the roles of age/stage structure and plasticity. We develop a novel model, that incorporates a greater degree of mechanism than previous theory, to address the issue of how a species’ response to environmental change may be dependent on a set of potentially interacting biological de ...
... explored, namely the roles of age/stage structure and plasticity. We develop a novel model, that incorporates a greater degree of mechanism than previous theory, to address the issue of how a species’ response to environmental change may be dependent on a set of potentially interacting biological de ...
s ustainability
... of mitigation because of the slow response of the climate system to greenhouse gases that have already been emitted. Even if humans stop emitting greenhouse gasses today, global temperature would continue to rise as the earth equilibrates to new levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere [2]. Seve ...
... of mitigation because of the slow response of the climate system to greenhouse gases that have already been emitted. Even if humans stop emitting greenhouse gasses today, global temperature would continue to rise as the earth equilibrates to new levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere [2]. Seve ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/019/k7582e.pdf
... Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiating process. . Its goal is to support the process of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in response to the need for concerted action on fisheries, aquaculture and climate change. It lays the groundwork for a coordinated response from th ...
... Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiating process. . Its goal is to support the process of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in response to the need for concerted action on fisheries, aquaculture and climate change. It lays the groundwork for a coordinated response from th ...
An Agricultural Law Research Article on U.S. Forests, Regions, and the
... dioxide in the atmosphere. It is clear that this is also true for tree seedlings. In greenhouse studies involving single-potted agricultural species, grown under well-watered conditions with adequate nutrients and light and with an ambient CO2 concentration (about 660 parts per million or double the ...
... dioxide in the atmosphere. It is clear that this is also true for tree seedlings. In greenhouse studies involving single-potted agricultural species, grown under well-watered conditions with adequate nutrients and light and with an ambient CO2 concentration (about 660 parts per million or double the ...
Abstract - Sokoine University of Agriculture
... years) in teaching and researching wildliferelated disciplines, with an assumption that they will have more relevant insights than those with less experience. The academic ecologists were based in Sokoine University of Agriculture and the College of African Wildlife Management. ...
... years) in teaching and researching wildliferelated disciplines, with an assumption that they will have more relevant insights than those with less experience. The academic ecologists were based in Sokoine University of Agriculture and the College of African Wildlife Management. ...