ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND EQUITY IMPACTS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE AND
... 3.1.1. Extreme Weather Events – Heat Extreme weather events, such as heat-waves, droughts, and floods are expected to increase in their frequency and intensity in the next hundred years (IPCC 2007), which could amplify the risk of associated morbidity and mortality. In a study on nine California cou ...
... 3.1.1. Extreme Weather Events – Heat Extreme weather events, such as heat-waves, droughts, and floods are expected to increase in their frequency and intensity in the next hundred years (IPCC 2007), which could amplify the risk of associated morbidity and mortality. In a study on nine California cou ...
Climate Change and Agricultural Production
... Global Warming and Impacts on Agriculture The Earth warmed between 1850 and 2010 at a rate of 0.5 ºC per century, but that increased to 0.7ºC per century from 1900, to 1.3ºC per century since 1950, and to 1.8ºC per century for the last 35 years. The last two decades are among the warmest since temp ...
... Global Warming and Impacts on Agriculture The Earth warmed between 1850 and 2010 at a rate of 0.5 ºC per century, but that increased to 0.7ºC per century from 1900, to 1.3ºC per century since 1950, and to 1.8ºC per century for the last 35 years. The last two decades are among the warmest since temp ...
Cairo Roadmap
... ICT firms, international organizations, Seeking ways to integrate ICT policies as part of the ongoing dialogue on climate change within international organizations such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Seeking ways to integrate ICT policies within the Intergover ...
... ICT firms, international organizations, Seeking ways to integrate ICT policies as part of the ongoing dialogue on climate change within international organizations such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Seeking ways to integrate ICT policies within the Intergover ...
Global Warming—Hot Topic Getting Hotter
... The number of online resources related to the topics in this special issue of ChemMatters is nearly as vast as the subject matter itself. This Teacher’s Guide will put you in touch with some of the best of them by providing annotated URL links to a wide variety of Websites that are directly or perip ...
... The number of online resources related to the topics in this special issue of ChemMatters is nearly as vast as the subject matter itself. This Teacher’s Guide will put you in touch with some of the best of them by providing annotated URL links to a wide variety of Websites that are directly or perip ...
The IPCC Special Report on Carbon dioxide Capture and
... Prospective areas in sedimentary basins where suitable saline formations, oil or gas fields, or coal beds may be found. Locations for storage in coal beds are only partly included. Prospectivity is a qualitative assessment of the likelihood that a suitable storage location is present in a given area ...
... Prospective areas in sedimentary basins where suitable saline formations, oil or gas fields, or coal beds may be found. Locations for storage in coal beds are only partly included. Prospectivity is a qualitative assessment of the likelihood that a suitable storage location is present in a given area ...
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... current conditions that are difficult to control for.3 Baillon (2008) provides a detailed explanation of the EM and in what follows we only briefly describe the EM procedure in our context. The first step of the EM establishes the lower and upper bound of the event space, e.g., the range of potentia ...
... current conditions that are difficult to control for.3 Baillon (2008) provides a detailed explanation of the EM and in what follows we only briefly describe the EM procedure in our context. The first step of the EM establishes the lower and upper bound of the event space, e.g., the range of potentia ...
Author's personal copy On the use
... 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 ...
The Effects of Climate Change on Public Health and the Healthcare
... reported that even if humankind manages to curb excess greenhouse gas emissions within the next half-century, the world’s oceans will continue to rise for up to 1000 years, reflecting the great inertial processes as heat is transferred from surface to deep water” (McMichael, p. 859, 2006). This is o ...
... reported that even if humankind manages to curb excess greenhouse gas emissions within the next half-century, the world’s oceans will continue to rise for up to 1000 years, reflecting the great inertial processes as heat is transferred from surface to deep water” (McMichael, p. 859, 2006). This is o ...
- Wiley Online Library
... one aspect of a complex system rather than control or ‘engineer’ the full system. Finally, there is considerable discussion within the community about whether an umbrella term should be used at all, given the vast range of techniques that it subsumes. We will not attempt to address this issue here. ...
... one aspect of a complex system rather than control or ‘engineer’ the full system. Finally, there is considerable discussion within the community about whether an umbrella term should be used at all, given the vast range of techniques that it subsumes. We will not attempt to address this issue here. ...
How warm days increase belief in global warming.
... weather, the underlying psychological processes regarding how or why this relationship occurs have not been fully explored in the literature (see Supplementary Table 1 for a review of existing literature). There are at least three mechanisms by which transient, local temperatures may influence indiv ...
... weather, the underlying psychological processes regarding how or why this relationship occurs have not been fully explored in the literature (see Supplementary Table 1 for a review of existing literature). There are at least three mechanisms by which transient, local temperatures may influence indiv ...
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... Lake Geneva. The boundaries of the Po case-study area used in the ACQWA project do not extend as far as the Adriatic Sea, for reasons of data access and hydrological model constraints. The investigations have thus focused more on the flows from the Alps of Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta, with the “ACQWA ...
... Lake Geneva. The boundaries of the Po case-study area used in the ACQWA project do not extend as far as the Adriatic Sea, for reasons of data access and hydrological model constraints. The investigations have thus focused more on the flows from the Alps of Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta, with the “ACQWA ...
Is climate change the number one threat to
... be small through 2085 even under the warmest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenario. Specifically, over 20 other health risks currently contribute more to death and disease worldwide than global warming. Through 2085, only 13% of mortality from hunger, malaria and extreme wea ...
... be small through 2085 even under the warmest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenario. Specifically, over 20 other health risks currently contribute more to death and disease worldwide than global warming. Through 2085, only 13% of mortality from hunger, malaria and extreme wea ...
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... wide range of economical and physical processes, leading to significant uncertainties. At European scale, climate change impacts on agricultural supply have been appraised to be of relatively less important driver by the end of century compared to other global drivers. However these diagnoses are in ...
... wide range of economical and physical processes, leading to significant uncertainties. At European scale, climate change impacts on agricultural supply have been appraised to be of relatively less important driver by the end of century compared to other global drivers. However these diagnoses are in ...
city-level climate change adaptation strategies: the case of quito
... communities of the ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability network found that 95% of Latin American cities are engaging in climate change adaptation planning. This number is higher than in any other region in the world; only 80% of African cities and 67% of Asian cities in the study were implemen ...
... communities of the ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability network found that 95% of Latin American cities are engaging in climate change adaptation planning. This number is higher than in any other region in the world; only 80% of African cities and 67% of Asian cities in the study were implemen ...
'Communicating Uncertainties for those Insuring Future Climate Change' Oslo 2008
... People may respond to various climate stimuli in different way, and adaptation to changes may be influenced by other rationales rather than seeking climate adaptability and robustness. As such, it can be a challenge communicating the necessity to reduce global warming as well as to prepare society f ...
... People may respond to various climate stimuli in different way, and adaptation to changes may be influenced by other rationales rather than seeking climate adaptability and robustness. As such, it can be a challenge communicating the necessity to reduce global warming as well as to prepare society f ...
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... reflects both low estimates of near-term damages and the effect of discounting in reducing the present value of longer-term damages. Another source of uncertainty is the prospect of extreme events, which can raise the costs of climate change even if there are not strong nonlinearities in the damage ...
... reflects both low estimates of near-term damages and the effect of discounting in reducing the present value of longer-term damages. Another source of uncertainty is the prospect of extreme events, which can raise the costs of climate change even if there are not strong nonlinearities in the damage ...
Climate, Glaciers and Permafrost in the Swiss Alps
... global average of 0.6°C. During the same time period, annual precipitation increased by some 8%. Due to the fact that evaporation also increased, river runoff remained more or less constant. The topography of the Alpine mountain chain only introduces relatively minor spatial variability of these cha ...
... global average of 0.6°C. During the same time period, annual precipitation increased by some 8%. Due to the fact that evaporation also increased, river runoff remained more or less constant. The topography of the Alpine mountain chain only introduces relatively minor spatial variability of these cha ...
On Applying the Test of a False Prophet to the
... but based on other criteria are to be rejected by the people. These are words that YHWH did speak, but not ones that YHWH intends them to heed. The question then remains, does the theology of the Hebrew Bible support the supposition that every prophecy that comes true, whether deceptive or upright, ...
... but based on other criteria are to be rejected by the people. These are words that YHWH did speak, but not ones that YHWH intends them to heed. The question then remains, does the theology of the Hebrew Bible support the supposition that every prophecy that comes true, whether deceptive or upright, ...
State/Territory Government Department
... climate change. IPAs are usually relatively intact areas of land and areas of high biodiversity that are actively managed through a combination of traditional and contemporary land management skills, to ensure healthy ecosystems that are resilient to change and more capable of withstanding climate ...
... climate change. IPAs are usually relatively intact areas of land and areas of high biodiversity that are actively managed through a combination of traditional and contemporary land management skills, to ensure healthy ecosystems that are resilient to change and more capable of withstanding climate ...
Climate Change and Insecurity in the Global South
... Furthermore, over the last five years or so8, the security policy community have come to regard climate change as part of their brief, as have civil society groups that work on defence, conflict analysis and peacebuilding. Whilst this paper is offered in the hope that the Western defence community m ...
... Furthermore, over the last five years or so8, the security policy community have come to regard climate change as part of their brief, as have civil society groups that work on defence, conflict analysis and peacebuilding. Whilst this paper is offered in the hope that the Western defence community m ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... that such tipping points will be reached. This new information will have a large impact on the final SCC determination using the IWG’s methodology. The size of this impact has been directly investigated. In their Comment on the Landmark Legal Foundation Petition for Reconsideration of Final Rule Sta ...
... that such tipping points will be reached. This new information will have a large impact on the final SCC determination using the IWG’s methodology. The size of this impact has been directly investigated. In their Comment on the Landmark Legal Foundation Petition for Reconsideration of Final Rule Sta ...
Global Climate Change and Children`s Health
... changes across the planet. There is wide consensus among scientific organizations and climatologists that these broad effects, known as climate change, are the result of contemporary human activity. Climate change poses threats to human health, safety, and security. Children are uniquely vulnerable t ...
... changes across the planet. There is wide consensus among scientific organizations and climatologists that these broad effects, known as climate change, are the result of contemporary human activity. Climate change poses threats to human health, safety, and security. Children are uniquely vulnerable t ...
UK Climate Projections science report: Marine and coastal projections
... land. The absolute sea level rise is that averaged around the British Isles, and originates from projections made by an ensemble of international climate models from different modelling centres (known as a multi-model ensemble or MME) which gives us a measure of uncertainty. The chapter also discuss ...
... land. The absolute sea level rise is that averaged around the British Isles, and originates from projections made by an ensemble of international climate models from different modelling centres (known as a multi-model ensemble or MME) which gives us a measure of uncertainty. The chapter also discuss ...
- Sierra Club
... degrees Celsius of warming. That’s the road we are on. We can get off that road, but we’re now so far along it, we’ve put off the crucial policies for so long, that now we can’t do it gradually. We have to swerve, right? And swerving requires such a radical departure from the kind of political and ...
... degrees Celsius of warming. That’s the road we are on. We can get off that road, but we’re now so far along it, we’ve put off the crucial policies for so long, that now we can’t do it gradually. We have to swerve, right? And swerving requires such a radical departure from the kind of political and ...