Beyond the Tipping Point: Understanding Perceptions of Abrupt
... The critical threshold at which a system will inescapably fall into one of these strange attractors is called the bifurcation point, or, as it is now often popularly referred to in climate change discourses, the ‘‘tipping point’’ (see Russill and Nyssa 2009). The nonlinearity of the Earth’s climate ...
... The critical threshold at which a system will inescapably fall into one of these strange attractors is called the bifurcation point, or, as it is now often popularly referred to in climate change discourses, the ‘‘tipping point’’ (see Russill and Nyssa 2009). The nonlinearity of the Earth’s climate ...
Assessment Synthesis Slides OEWG 3Aug2011
... o HFCs have low ODPs but high GWPs. If unabated, they could grow to become 20% of all GWP-weighted GHG emissions by 2050. o It is technically and economically feasible to accelerate the phase-out of ODSs, to phase down the use of high-GWP HFCs, and to leapfrog the use of high-GWP HFCs as alternative ...
... o HFCs have low ODPs but high GWPs. If unabated, they could grow to become 20% of all GWP-weighted GHG emissions by 2050. o It is technically and economically feasible to accelerate the phase-out of ODSs, to phase down the use of high-GWP HFCs, and to leapfrog the use of high-GWP HFCs as alternative ...
A climate model-based review of drought in the Sahel: Deserti cation, the re-greening and climate change.
... year-to-year persistence of drought4 was initially attributed to human mismanagement of land resources (Charney, 1975). It was postulated that economic activities such as the expansion of agriculture into marginal zones, overgrazing, and woodcutting for fuel had affected the vegetation cover, making ...
... year-to-year persistence of drought4 was initially attributed to human mismanagement of land resources (Charney, 1975). It was postulated that economic activities such as the expansion of agriculture into marginal zones, overgrazing, and woodcutting for fuel had affected the vegetation cover, making ...
Weitzman2009-Modeling-Economics-ClimateChange.pdf
... all 22 studies have equal credibility and for my purposes here their PDFs can be simplistically aggregated. The upper 5% probability level averaged over all 22 climate-sensitivity studies cited in IPCC-AR4 (2007) is 7°C while the median is 6.4°C,3 which I take as signifying approximately that 3 Deta ...
... all 22 studies have equal credibility and for my purposes here their PDFs can be simplistically aggregated. The upper 5% probability level averaged over all 22 climate-sensitivity studies cited in IPCC-AR4 (2007) is 7°C while the median is 6.4°C,3 which I take as signifying approximately that 3 Deta ...
On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic
... all 22 studies have equal credibility and for my purposes here their PDFs can be simplistically aggregated. The upper 5% probability level averaged over all 22 climate-sensitivity studies cited in IPCC-AR4 (2007) is 7°C while the median is 6.4°C,3 which I take as signifying approximately that 3 Deta ...
... all 22 studies have equal credibility and for my purposes here their PDFs can be simplistically aggregated. The upper 5% probability level averaged over all 22 climate-sensitivity studies cited in IPCC-AR4 (2007) is 7°C while the median is 6.4°C,3 which I take as signifying approximately that 3 Deta ...
Factors Affecting Farmers` Adaptation Strategies to Environmental
... adoption of pre-determined climate change mitigation strategies by the farmer; (2) rating of the importance of the array of adaptive strategies to the farmer’s practices; (3) the degree to which specific problems that might hinder adoption of coping strategies had been encountered; and (4) demograph ...
... adoption of pre-determined climate change mitigation strategies by the farmer; (2) rating of the importance of the array of adaptive strategies to the farmer’s practices; (3) the degree to which specific problems that might hinder adoption of coping strategies had been encountered; and (4) demograph ...
Claiming and adjudicating on Mt Kilimanjaro`s
... Evans (2007). It also places a high premium on maintaining ‘trust’ within the extended peer community (Healy, 1999). Trust, too, is central in the legal adjudication of knowledge and in the ways in which the legal system offers new sites for the extended peer community to reach judgements on the va ...
... Evans (2007). It also places a high premium on maintaining ‘trust’ within the extended peer community (Healy, 1999). Trust, too, is central in the legal adjudication of knowledge and in the ways in which the legal system offers new sites for the extended peer community to reach judgements on the va ...
The National Climate Change Response Policy
... The Water Conservation and Demand Management Flagship Programme accelerated implementation of the National Water Conservation and Water Demand Management Strategy in the industry, mining, power generation, agriculture and water services sectors, accelerated provision of rainwater harvesting tanks in ...
... The Water Conservation and Demand Management Flagship Programme accelerated implementation of the National Water Conservation and Water Demand Management Strategy in the industry, mining, power generation, agriculture and water services sectors, accelerated provision of rainwater harvesting tanks in ...
Climate Change and Paleoecology: New Contexts for Restoration
... In the past two decades, new tools with high precision and resolution, new theory reliant on high-speed computing capacity, and a critical mass of empirical research have revolutionized understanding of Quaternary (the last 2.5 million years) climate. Quaternary climates are now understood as being ...
... In the past two decades, new tools with high precision and resolution, new theory reliant on high-speed computing capacity, and a critical mass of empirical research have revolutionized understanding of Quaternary (the last 2.5 million years) climate. Quaternary climates are now understood as being ...
ʻAimalama: E Mauliauhonua – Readapting to Ancestral Knowledge
... On July 17-20, 2012 a symposium was held by the First Stewards: Coastal Peoples Address Climate Change at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. It was the first symposium of its kind to talk about climate change and the impact it is having on the various indigeno ...
... On July 17-20, 2012 a symposium was held by the First Stewards: Coastal Peoples Address Climate Change at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. It was the first symposium of its kind to talk about climate change and the impact it is having on the various indigeno ...
GEOG F412 - Geography of Climate and Environmental Change
... course sequence in on Climate Change Literacy. Faculty from multiple departments and schools are working together to develop an integrated multi-disciplinary course drawing on expertise from across campus. The two courses will comprise a capstone experience for senior BS Geography majors, and will b ...
... course sequence in on Climate Change Literacy. Faculty from multiple departments and schools are working together to develop an integrated multi-disciplinary course drawing on expertise from across campus. The two courses will comprise a capstone experience for senior BS Geography majors, and will b ...
Science or Spin? Assessing the Accuracy of Cable News Coverage
... misleading portrayals of the science. CNN programs referenced the terms “climate change” or “global warming” in 111 segments during 2013 and, of this coverage, 39 percent of the segments touched on climate science. Most of CNN’s misleading coverage stemmed from segments that featured debates between ...
... misleading portrayals of the science. CNN programs referenced the terms “climate change” or “global warming” in 111 segments during 2013 and, of this coverage, 39 percent of the segments touched on climate science. Most of CNN’s misleading coverage stemmed from segments that featured debates between ...
Climate risks and their impact on agriculture and forests in Switzerland
... 1.2 Climatic extremes and their simulation There are different possibilities to define ‘extreme events’. In a statistical sense, a climate extreme can be characterized by (1) the frequency of occurrence of anomalous weather (IPCC Springer ...
... 1.2 Climatic extremes and their simulation There are different possibilities to define ‘extreme events’. In a statistical sense, a climate extreme can be characterized by (1) the frequency of occurrence of anomalous weather (IPCC Springer ...
resPoNse oF alPINe PlaNt CoMMUNItY to sIMUlateD ClIMate
... other manipulation experiments, we hypothesize that the different alpine vegetation types will respond quickly and specifically and that plant function group responses will be specific to function type. This study aims to understand the response of an alpine plant community and function group, and d ...
... other manipulation experiments, we hypothesize that the different alpine vegetation types will respond quickly and specifically and that plant function group responses will be specific to function type. This study aims to understand the response of an alpine plant community and function group, and d ...
FY09 Annual Planning CABS - Library
... ‘Science-to-Action’ initiatives launched to enhance management of MMAs by multiple stakeholders TEAM online data fully operational with near real time inputs from existing sites in Brazil and Costa Rica three new sites to join network, including two outside of Latin America – Madagascar, Tanza ...
... ‘Science-to-Action’ initiatives launched to enhance management of MMAs by multiple stakeholders TEAM online data fully operational with near real time inputs from existing sites in Brazil and Costa Rica three new sites to join network, including two outside of Latin America – Madagascar, Tanza ...
ECMWF`s activities in atmospheric composition and climate
... Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate – Interim Implementation MACC-II is the third in a series of FP6 & 7 EU projects (since 2005). It is coordinated by ECMWF and the consortium comprises 36 partners from 13 countries. It runs till July 2014, when GMES operations are expected to start. ...
... Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate – Interim Implementation MACC-II is the third in a series of FP6 & 7 EU projects (since 2005). It is coordinated by ECMWF and the consortium comprises 36 partners from 13 countries. It runs till July 2014, when GMES operations are expected to start. ...
Conclusion: Reconstructing and Modelling Past Oceans 1 A
... The first interdisciplinary project to reconstruct climate began in the 1970s and was led by the marine geologists John Imbrie and Jim Hayes and the geochemist Nick Shackelton. The CLIMAP (Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction) project reconstructed the surface of the Earth at t ...
... The first interdisciplinary project to reconstruct climate began in the 1970s and was led by the marine geologists John Imbrie and Jim Hayes and the geochemist Nick Shackelton. The CLIMAP (Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction) project reconstructed the surface of the Earth at t ...
The Positive Feedback Loop between the Impacts of Climate
... (GAEZ) [14]. An overview of the main studies that have considered impacts of climate change on global crop yields is presented in Table 1 [9,10,12,13,15–17]. Although some crops and regions will apparently benefit from climate change, the studies reviewed converge on agreement that the overall globa ...
... (GAEZ) [14]. An overview of the main studies that have considered impacts of climate change on global crop yields is presented in Table 1 [9,10,12,13,15–17]. Although some crops and regions will apparently benefit from climate change, the studies reviewed converge on agreement that the overall globa ...
Integrating Climate Change into Invasive Species Risk Assessment
... combined with other known stressors (e.g., land use, pollution) challenge the ability of natural systems to adapt. Both terrestrial and marine systems are vulnerable to increased CO2 and higher temperatures, and are likely to face substantial changes to ecosystem structure and functioning with globa ...
... combined with other known stressors (e.g., land use, pollution) challenge the ability of natural systems to adapt. Both terrestrial and marine systems are vulnerable to increased CO2 and higher temperatures, and are likely to face substantial changes to ecosystem structure and functioning with globa ...
Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to
... shifted fundamentally following the significant Northern Hemisphere warming in all seasons starting in the 1970s15, thus the experiments (which have been conducted relatively recently) may capture only these shifted dynamics. However, we found that these scaling issues would create a bias towards de ...
... shifted fundamentally following the significant Northern Hemisphere warming in all seasons starting in the 1970s15, thus the experiments (which have been conducted relatively recently) may capture only these shifted dynamics. However, we found that these scaling issues would create a bias towards de ...
Kashyapi_Prest. AK FLORIDA final
... VULNERABILITY’, DRAWING ON OVER 29000 DATA SERIES PROVIDES A MUCH BROADER SET OF EVIDENCE OF OBSERVED IMPACTS COMING FROM LARGE NUMBER OF FIELD STUDIES CC IS DEFINED AS A MOVEMENT IN CLIMATE SYSTEM (CS) AS A RESULT OF INTERNAL CHANGES WITHIN CLIMATE SYSTEM OR IN INTERACTION OF ITS COMPONENTS OR BE ...
... VULNERABILITY’, DRAWING ON OVER 29000 DATA SERIES PROVIDES A MUCH BROADER SET OF EVIDENCE OF OBSERVED IMPACTS COMING FROM LARGE NUMBER OF FIELD STUDIES CC IS DEFINED AS A MOVEMENT IN CLIMATE SYSTEM (CS) AS A RESULT OF INTERNAL CHANGES WITHIN CLIMATE SYSTEM OR IN INTERACTION OF ITS COMPONENTS OR BE ...
The Household Production Function Approach to Valuing Climate
... In fact the household production function approach has already been used to estimate the value of climate. Maddison (2001b) invokes procedures identical to those used to incorporate demographic variables into systems of demand equations. 10 Using per capita expenditure data provided by the 1980 Int ...
... In fact the household production function approach has already been used to estimate the value of climate. Maddison (2001b) invokes procedures identical to those used to incorporate demographic variables into systems of demand equations. 10 Using per capita expenditure data provided by the 1980 Int ...