Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the... Authors: , Taciano L. Milfont , Yoshihisa Kashima
... to act, including climate change importance as a benchmark. To provide the toughest test of the additional value of co-benefits, we focused first on “convinced” participants, who were expected to show strong effects for climate change importance. Figure 1 shows that believing climate change is impor ...
... to act, including climate change importance as a benchmark. To provide the toughest test of the additional value of co-benefits, we focused first on “convinced” participants, who were expected to show strong effects for climate change importance. Figure 1 shows that believing climate change is impor ...
twelve things we´ve learned on the road to paris
... research attracted support from the US Air Force. These techniques were then picked up by chemist Hans Suess, who first applied it to studying carbon in trees and then, crucially, oceans. Working with oceanographer Roger Revelle – who was also assisted by military in his work, this time the Navy – r ...
... research attracted support from the US Air Force. These techniques were then picked up by chemist Hans Suess, who first applied it to studying carbon in trees and then, crucially, oceans. Working with oceanographer Roger Revelle – who was also assisted by military in his work, this time the Navy – r ...
Enhancing Climate Change Mitigation Efforts
... the process argue that there are signs of progress despite the complexity of such broad negotiations. Detractors point out that the agreement made in Durban essentially constitutes the death knell of the Kyoto Protocol, contending that there will be a new agreement. The intent of this article is to ...
... the process argue that there are signs of progress despite the complexity of such broad negotiations. Detractors point out that the agreement made in Durban essentially constitutes the death knell of the Kyoto Protocol, contending that there will be a new agreement. The intent of this article is to ...
climate-change scepticism and asserted rights to private property
... called into question by the soaring GHG emissions levels. Our present lifestyle heavily depends on fossil fuel burning. Mitigating GHG emissions is then regarded as a challenge to our aspirations to maintain the cherished lifestyle or pursue a better one. We enjoy our way of living, but the knowledg ...
... called into question by the soaring GHG emissions levels. Our present lifestyle heavily depends on fossil fuel burning. Mitigating GHG emissions is then regarded as a challenge to our aspirations to maintain the cherished lifestyle or pursue a better one. We enjoy our way of living, but the knowledg ...
FiELDiNG CLiMATE CHANGE iN CULTURAL
... New Guinea (Ellis 2003), or drinking early morning coffee with Maryland crab fishermen (Paolisso 2003). While ethnographic interviewing and participatory research techniques are also deployed to elicit information on various issues, it is this full immersion in fieldwork that constitutes anthropolog ...
... New Guinea (Ellis 2003), or drinking early morning coffee with Maryland crab fishermen (Paolisso 2003). While ethnographic interviewing and participatory research techniques are also deployed to elicit information on various issues, it is this full immersion in fieldwork that constitutes anthropolog ...
Climate change and human health: Spatial modeling of water
... Based on the importance of livelihoods for food security, governments and development organizations that are serious about alleviating future malnutrition need to strategically invest beyond areas of current vulnerability, to areas where climate change is projected to shift livelihood zones e in oth ...
... Based on the importance of livelihoods for food security, governments and development organizations that are serious about alleviating future malnutrition need to strategically invest beyond areas of current vulnerability, to areas where climate change is projected to shift livelihood zones e in oth ...
Palaeoclimatic insights into future climate challenges
... warm and cold climates. Starting with the cold climates, the Hoffert & Covey (1992) ice-age estimate was based on early palaeoclimatic data that rather clearly underestimated changes (specifically, the CLIMAP sea-surface temperatures (SSTs)). As updated by Cuffey & Brook (2000), improved data yield a s ...
... warm and cold climates. Starting with the cold climates, the Hoffert & Covey (1992) ice-age estimate was based on early palaeoclimatic data that rather clearly underestimated changes (specifically, the CLIMAP sea-surface temperatures (SSTs)). As updated by Cuffey & Brook (2000), improved data yield a s ...
Climate Change Awareness - Minnesota Department of Health
... – Positive coping mechanism – Personal meaning and satisfaction – Sense of control or contribution – Climate action has physical health benefits as well ...
... – Positive coping mechanism – Personal meaning and satisfaction – Sense of control or contribution – Climate action has physical health benefits as well ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... in the IAMs. This was not done, despite there having been, since January 1, 2011, at least 14 new studies and 20 experiments (involving more than 45 researchers) examining the ECS, each lowering the best estimate and tightening the error distribution about that estimate. Instead, the IWG wrote in it ...
... in the IAMs. This was not done, despite there having been, since January 1, 2011, at least 14 new studies and 20 experiments (involving more than 45 researchers) examining the ECS, each lowering the best estimate and tightening the error distribution about that estimate. Instead, the IWG wrote in it ...
Effects of climate change on agriculture - Deltaproof
... the calculated changes in wind climate are small if compared to the natural unpredictability; the sea level keeps rising. Do bear in mind that the climate scenarios do not make statements about the weather on a certain date, only about average weather and the probabilities of extreme weather in the ...
... the calculated changes in wind climate are small if compared to the natural unpredictability; the sea level keeps rising. Do bear in mind that the climate scenarios do not make statements about the weather on a certain date, only about average weather and the probabilities of extreme weather in the ...
Thermodynamics of climate change
... maximize the production of entropy (Paltridge, 1979). Even if the general validity of MEPP is unclear (Dewar, 2005; Grinstein and Linsker, 2007), its heuristic adoption in climate science has been quite fruitful (Kleidon and Lorenz 2005; Kleidon et al., 2006; Kunz et al., 2008), and has stimulated a ...
... maximize the production of entropy (Paltridge, 1979). Even if the general validity of MEPP is unclear (Dewar, 2005; Grinstein and Linsker, 2007), its heuristic adoption in climate science has been quite fruitful (Kleidon and Lorenz 2005; Kleidon et al., 2006; Kunz et al., 2008), and has stimulated a ...
Climate change impacts in urban coastal
... Within Australia, assessments of climate impact and risk to our coastal environments have been underpinned by a well-developed national capability in atmospheric and oceanographic research (2012 ERA ratings 3-5). Research into the adaptation of urban coastal environments to climate change has primar ...
... Within Australia, assessments of climate impact and risk to our coastal environments have been underpinned by a well-developed national capability in atmospheric and oceanographic research (2012 ERA ratings 3-5). Research into the adaptation of urban coastal environments to climate change has primar ...
The role of unstated mistrust and disparities in scientifi c capacity
... World Bank-coordinated Global Environmental Facility (GEF), which oversees funding for climate change related projects in developing countries. Gupta found the GEF to be the object of deep, if generally unstated, suspicion and resentment from developing countries because of its institutionalized pow ...
... World Bank-coordinated Global Environmental Facility (GEF), which oversees funding for climate change related projects in developing countries. Gupta found the GEF to be the object of deep, if generally unstated, suspicion and resentment from developing countries because of its institutionalized pow ...
Building Climate Resilience in the Blue Nile/Abay Highlands: A
... while others will be affected by increases in total precipitation or changes in seasonality. An increase in the incidence and severity of extreme events (e.g., hurricanes and floods) has been reported as very likely as well [1]. Ethiopia has become warmer over the past century and human-induced clim ...
... while others will be affected by increases in total precipitation or changes in seasonality. An increase in the incidence and severity of extreme events (e.g., hurricanes and floods) has been reported as very likely as well [1]. Ethiopia has become warmer over the past century and human-induced clim ...
Agriculture and food systems in sub
... 30 per cent in two decades [9]. Agriculture is still an economic mainstay of many SSA countries, employing about 60 per cent of the workforce and contributing an average of 30 per cent of gross domestic product [10]. Although the efforts of the agricultural research and development communities over ...
... 30 per cent in two decades [9]. Agriculture is still an economic mainstay of many SSA countries, employing about 60 per cent of the workforce and contributing an average of 30 per cent of gross domestic product [10]. Although the efforts of the agricultural research and development communities over ...
Interhemispheric Temperature Asymmetry over the
... multimodel ensembles simulate this trend, with a stronger and more realistic signal in CMIP5. Both ensembles project a continued increase in the ITA over the twenty-first century, well outside the twentieth-century range. The authors mainly attribute this increase to the uneven spatial impacts of gr ...
... multimodel ensembles simulate this trend, with a stronger and more realistic signal in CMIP5. Both ensembles project a continued increase in the ITA over the twenty-first century, well outside the twentieth-century range. The authors mainly attribute this increase to the uneven spatial impacts of gr ...
KEY MESSAGES FOR COP 20 AND 4:17 pm
... supply and demand, but by responsibilities and commitments. It must be guaranteed that such funds and mechanisms effectively foster development and reach the most vulnerable communities, and not used as subsidies and risk guarantees for the private sector. Climate finance should be allocated and dis ...
... supply and demand, but by responsibilities and commitments. It must be guaranteed that such funds and mechanisms effectively foster development and reach the most vulnerable communities, and not used as subsidies and risk guarantees for the private sector. Climate finance should be allocated and dis ...
PDF - Climate Diplomacy
... strength in numbers; however such groupings and networks also do not have a formal seat at the international table. Networks like ICLEI and C40 thus work on the sidelines of the UNFCCC, in the capacity of an NGO, using various avenues for inputs to the main proceedings. The numerous declarations, pa ...
... strength in numbers; however such groupings and networks also do not have a formal seat at the international table. Networks like ICLEI and C40 thus work on the sidelines of the UNFCCC, in the capacity of an NGO, using various avenues for inputs to the main proceedings. The numerous declarations, pa ...
Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome
... Network) showed that increased shrub abundance was most pronounced at sites that had experienced summer warming and in wetter versus drier sites1 . In addition, landscape-level studies of shrub change in northern Alaska showed greater increases in wet floodplains relative to well-drained hill slopes ...
... Network) showed that increased shrub abundance was most pronounced at sites that had experienced summer warming and in wetter versus drier sites1 . In addition, landscape-level studies of shrub change in northern Alaska showed greater increases in wet floodplains relative to well-drained hill slopes ...
Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome
... Previous studies have identified summer temperatures as an important driver of vegetation change1,13,14,26 , but the role of soil moisture is less often examined. A recent synthesis of two decades of ecological monitoring (the International Tundra Experiment Network) showed that increased shrub abun ...
... Previous studies have identified summer temperatures as an important driver of vegetation change1,13,14,26 , but the role of soil moisture is less often examined. A recent synthesis of two decades of ecological monitoring (the International Tundra Experiment Network) showed that increased shrub abun ...