Revised 21st century temperature projections *, Paul C. Knappenberger Patrick J. Michaels
... the climate sensitivity so that for a given input emission scenario (adjusted to account for the enhanced CO2 concentrations produced by the CO2 /climate feedback), the output temperature change for the year 2100 best matched the TAR values. In every case, we had to increase the climate sensitivity. ...
... the climate sensitivity so that for a given input emission scenario (adjusted to account for the enhanced CO2 concentrations produced by the CO2 /climate feedback), the output temperature change for the year 2100 best matched the TAR values. In every case, we had to increase the climate sensitivity. ...
Climate change and ecosystems of the Mid
... these potential future changes. Over the last 100 yr, average conditions have become warmer and wetter: average precipitation has gone up 10% (linearly) and average temperature has risen by 1°F. In the same period, the MAR region has seen a decrease in the number of very hot days (i.e. temperatures ...
... these potential future changes. Over the last 100 yr, average conditions have become warmer and wetter: average precipitation has gone up 10% (linearly) and average temperature has risen by 1°F. In the same period, the MAR region has seen a decrease in the number of very hot days (i.e. temperatures ...
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... interpreting new documentary and natural climate proxy evidence allow a better insight into past spatiotemporal high resolution climate/extremes and related socio-economic impacts. In this talk we provide a first multiproxy-based real-world product for the Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling (BHM) formal ...
... interpreting new documentary and natural climate proxy evidence allow a better insight into past spatiotemporal high resolution climate/extremes and related socio-economic impacts. In this talk we provide a first multiproxy-based real-world product for the Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling (BHM) formal ...
PMIP
... Coral records show weaker and less frequent ENSO activity in mid-Holocene. SSTs in the western tropical Pacific was about 1 deg warmer and rainfall was less variable, suggesting a more La Nina like mean state. ...
... Coral records show weaker and less frequent ENSO activity in mid-Holocene. SSTs in the western tropical Pacific was about 1 deg warmer and rainfall was less variable, suggesting a more La Nina like mean state. ...
Dynamics of climate and ecosystem coupling: abrupt changes and
... or society alone. Because of the abrupt nonlinear behaviour of the SCD model, the E-DICE model produces a result that is also qualitatively different from DICE with its lack of internal abrupt nonlinear dynamics. A THC collapse is obtained for rapid and large CO2 increases in the SCD model. An ‘opti ...
... or society alone. Because of the abrupt nonlinear behaviour of the SCD model, the E-DICE model produces a result that is also qualitatively different from DICE with its lack of internal abrupt nonlinear dynamics. A THC collapse is obtained for rapid and large CO2 increases in the SCD model. An ‘opti ...
Climate change, development, and migration: an African Diaspora
... This paper focuses on the role of the African Diaspora in assisting their country of origin in its fight against the adverse impacts of climate change. In order to combat climate change poor countries need to mobilize all resources (financial, institutional and human) on different fronts. Diaspora c ...
... This paper focuses on the role of the African Diaspora in assisting their country of origin in its fight against the adverse impacts of climate change. In order to combat climate change poor countries need to mobilize all resources (financial, institutional and human) on different fronts. Diaspora c ...
Global warming in the public sphere
... century, the basic physical science underlying the theory and empirical evidence for global warming was supported through wartime and post-World War II scientific enterprise to master nuclear weaponry and understand how nuclear radiation and fallout would travel throughout the atmosphere and terrestr ...
... century, the basic physical science underlying the theory and empirical evidence for global warming was supported through wartime and post-World War II scientific enterprise to master nuclear weaponry and understand how nuclear radiation and fallout would travel throughout the atmosphere and terrestr ...
The World Meteorological Organization at a glance
... ranging from weeks to centuries is coordinated by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) co-sponsored by WMO, the International Council for Science and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. By facilitating analysis and prediction of variability and change in the Earth’s syst ...
... ranging from weeks to centuries is coordinated by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) co-sponsored by WMO, the International Council for Science and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. By facilitating analysis and prediction of variability and change in the Earth’s syst ...
Climate change, water and food security
... water resources is presented in Chapter 4, with consideration of the effects of temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentrations on crop production, coupled to likely changes in rainfall, runoff, and available surface and groundwater resources. Hydrological and agronomic impacts of drought, flooding a ...
... water resources is presented in Chapter 4, with consideration of the effects of temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentrations on crop production, coupled to likely changes in rainfall, runoff, and available surface and groundwater resources. Hydrological and agronomic impacts of drought, flooding a ...
Bronze Age Review
... least either changes in precipitation or evapotranspiration could cause a bog water table to vary over the period of moisture deficit – the summer. Under present climatic conditions in the UK bog water tables during the summer are probably most sensitive to precipitation (Charman, 2007). However, it ...
... least either changes in precipitation or evapotranspiration could cause a bog water table to vary over the period of moisture deficit – the summer. Under present climatic conditions in the UK bog water tables during the summer are probably most sensitive to precipitation (Charman, 2007). However, it ...
On the use of imagery for climate change engagement
... This particular technique investigates the relationship between visual imagery of climate change and people’s perceptions of the issue: firstly with regard to whether they consider climate change personally important (salience); and secondly with regard to their sense of being able to do anything abo ...
... This particular technique investigates the relationship between visual imagery of climate change and people’s perceptions of the issue: firstly with regard to whether they consider climate change personally important (salience); and secondly with regard to their sense of being able to do anything abo ...
Estimation of Climate Change Impacts (Pece Ristevski
... classification for the territory of Republic of Macedonia (Ristevski P. 1982) it is shown that in this part of Balkan Peninsula there are climatic regions with sub-Mediterranean, changed-continental, steppe, sub-alpine and alpine characteristics. Climatic-zone valorization of Republic of Macedonia i ...
... classification for the territory of Republic of Macedonia (Ristevski P. 1982) it is shown that in this part of Balkan Peninsula there are climatic regions with sub-Mediterranean, changed-continental, steppe, sub-alpine and alpine characteristics. Climatic-zone valorization of Republic of Macedonia i ...
Regional Climate Messages for West Africa
... The climate across West Africa varies from arid to tropical monsoon conditions. The region’s climate is mainly influenced by large scale seasonal atmospheric patterns and the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Temperatures are relatively high throughout the year and the majority of the regi ...
... The climate across West Africa varies from arid to tropical monsoon conditions. The region’s climate is mainly influenced by large scale seasonal atmospheric patterns and the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Temperatures are relatively high throughout the year and the majority of the regi ...
RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
... brazil’sriode feneiro this year alone. Rising temperature and varying rainfall patterns could affect staple-crop production and food security.5 Rising sea levels make coastal areas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather. Just last year almost 7million people we ...
... brazil’sriode feneiro this year alone. Rising temperature and varying rainfall patterns could affect staple-crop production and food security.5 Rising sea levels make coastal areas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather. Just last year almost 7million people we ...
Vulnerability to climate change and sea
... may also affect biodiversity by altering existing threats, such as by modifying the distribution and abundance of invasive alien species (Hellmann et al. 2008; Walther et al. 2009). All biomes will be influenced by climate change (Williams et al. 2007), and although many species will be able to adap ...
... may also affect biodiversity by altering existing threats, such as by modifying the distribution and abundance of invasive alien species (Hellmann et al. 2008; Walther et al. 2009). All biomes will be influenced by climate change (Williams et al. 2007), and although many species will be able to adap ...
here - Snowchange Cooperative
... longer. It is time for business and political leaders to listen to the changes. I attended the Sundance Summit for mayors this summer. The common denominator in every presentation was Alaska. It was used in every example for climate change. Why are mayors involved in this global issue? Because there ...
... longer. It is time for business and political leaders to listen to the changes. I attended the Sundance Summit for mayors this summer. The common denominator in every presentation was Alaska. It was used in every example for climate change. Why are mayors involved in this global issue? Because there ...
Likely Impacts on New Zealand Agriculture
... Global climate models indicate that New Zealand is likely to warm by only about two-thirds of the global mean temperature change that will be experienced in coming decades. This is largely because our climate is controlled by the South Pacific and Antarctic Oceans, which respond only slowly to globa ...
... Global climate models indicate that New Zealand is likely to warm by only about two-thirds of the global mean temperature change that will be experienced in coming decades. This is largely because our climate is controlled by the South Pacific and Antarctic Oceans, which respond only slowly to globa ...
McCaffery 2010
... be helpful to some amphibian populations, particularly those that live in harsh conditions at the edge of their thermal tolerances. A reduced winter severity could benefit high and low elevation populations of R. luteiventris alike, although failures in recruitment due to drying of breeding habitat m ...
... be helpful to some amphibian populations, particularly those that live in harsh conditions at the edge of their thermal tolerances. A reduced winter severity could benefit high and low elevation populations of R. luteiventris alike, although failures in recruitment due to drying of breeding habitat m ...
The Met Office Hadley Centre climate modelling capability: the
... this by providing direct evidence of considerable low-top cloud responses in areas which contribute most to inter-model differences in global cloud feedback and climate sensitivity. Uncertainties in cloud feedbacks are also discussed in §4. Another major improvement in HadGEM1 is in the representati ...
... this by providing direct evidence of considerable low-top cloud responses in areas which contribute most to inter-model differences in global cloud feedback and climate sensitivity. Uncertainties in cloud feedbacks are also discussed in §4. Another major improvement in HadGEM1 is in the representati ...
Rahmstorf2012-ComparingClimateProjections-to-Obse+
... contributions of all three factors to global temperature were estimated by linear correlation with the multivariate El Niño index for ENSO, aerosol optical thickness data for volcanic activity and total solar irradiance data for solar variability (optical thickness data for the year 2011 were not y ...
... contributions of all three factors to global temperature were estimated by linear correlation with the multivariate El Niño index for ENSO, aerosol optical thickness data for volcanic activity and total solar irradiance data for solar variability (optical thickness data for the year 2011 were not y ...
S1_Ammann_WIPS_Modeling – ppt
... "Human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future.” Roger Revelle Golden, Mar 14, 2009 ...
... "Human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future.” Roger Revelle Golden, Mar 14, 2009 ...
NAACP Climate Justice Initiative Toolkit
... Carbon Trading (Cap and Trade): Carbon Trading is an environmental policy tool aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Under a cap-and-trade system, the government sets a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions for businesses, utilities, government agencies, agricultural producers, etc. Once t ...
... Carbon Trading (Cap and Trade): Carbon Trading is an environmental policy tool aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Under a cap-and-trade system, the government sets a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions for businesses, utilities, government agencies, agricultural producers, etc. Once t ...
The IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources
... science • Four subject areas and three working groups • 100 – 200 scientists nominated and selected for each report (representing the best in the field and from all world regions) • Multiple scientific and government review of each report • Consensus decision by the IPCC plenary on each report • Acc ...
... science • Four subject areas and three working groups • 100 – 200 scientists nominated and selected for each report (representing the best in the field and from all world regions) • Multiple scientific and government review of each report • Consensus decision by the IPCC plenary on each report • Acc ...