Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural
... Bearing in mind that uncertainties surrounding the precise nature of future climate change and its impacts on biodiversity should not delay practical conservation action; Recognising the need to take account of the five-year Nairobi work programme (2005-2010) on impacts, vulnerability and adaptatio ...
... Bearing in mind that uncertainties surrounding the precise nature of future climate change and its impacts on biodiversity should not delay practical conservation action; Recognising the need to take account of the five-year Nairobi work programme (2005-2010) on impacts, vulnerability and adaptatio ...
Smith et al (2009
... risk for each is based on not only new information about impacts and vulnerabilities assessed in the AR4 and since, but also more clearly established criteria for identifying ‘‘key vulnerabilities’’ (3). Risks to Unique and Threatened Systems. There is new and stronger evidence since the TAR of obse ...
... risk for each is based on not only new information about impacts and vulnerabilities assessed in the AR4 and since, but also more clearly established criteria for identifying ‘‘key vulnerabilities’’ (3). Risks to Unique and Threatened Systems. There is new and stronger evidence since the TAR of obse ...
2011 Duffy
... montane forests, and coastal wetlands. For the developed nations, an array of measures could ameliorate these effects. Developing nations, whose economies may be significantly damaged by climate change, face major impacts on their citizens, identifying conservation of biodiversity as a lesser priori ...
... montane forests, and coastal wetlands. For the developed nations, an array of measures could ameliorate these effects. Developing nations, whose economies may be significantly damaged by climate change, face major impacts on their citizens, identifying conservation of biodiversity as a lesser priori ...
Global Warming
... rise two feet along most of the U.S. coast. Calculations of climate change for specific areas are much less reliable than global ones, and it is unclear whether regional climate will become more variable. Trends Data on a wide variety of environmental indicators are consistent with the consequences ...
... rise two feet along most of the U.S. coast. Calculations of climate change for specific areas are much less reliable than global ones, and it is unclear whether regional climate will become more variable. Trends Data on a wide variety of environmental indicators are consistent with the consequences ...
The EPA & Climate Change Responsibilities, challenges and opportunities 2011 Update
... gathered on the amount of emissions that are removed from the atmosphere. We submit this data annually to the European Union, the UNFCCC Secretariat and the UNECE Secretariat. This information allows progress towards our international emission reduction targets and helps to identify what can be done ...
... gathered on the amount of emissions that are removed from the atmosphere. We submit this data annually to the European Union, the UNFCCC Secretariat and the UNECE Secretariat. This information allows progress towards our international emission reduction targets and helps to identify what can be done ...
the full ITEP workshop booklet
... probably see an average global temperature increase of 3 to 7°F by 2100, and greater warming after that. Even if we were to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, returning them to year 2000 le ...
... probably see an average global temperature increase of 3 to 7°F by 2100, and greater warming after that. Even if we were to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, returning them to year 2000 le ...
Evaluating Climate Change in the Eastern Sierra Nevada:
... Location: First United Methodist Church, 205 N. Fowler St, Bishop DAY 1 (Open to Public): How might future Eastern Sierra environments & conditions change as a consequence of changing climates? ...
... Location: First United Methodist Church, 205 N. Fowler St, Bishop DAY 1 (Open to Public): How might future Eastern Sierra environments & conditions change as a consequence of changing climates? ...
Feng et al (2009)
... (1, 2). One widely cited impact is the displacement of large numbers of people (3–9). Among all potential “climate refugees” or “environmental migrants,” those crossing international borders are likely to be of particular concern for both developing (in many cases, migrant-sending) and developed (i. ...
... (1, 2). One widely cited impact is the displacement of large numbers of people (3–9). Among all potential “climate refugees” or “environmental migrants,” those crossing international borders are likely to be of particular concern for both developing (in many cases, migrant-sending) and developed (i. ...
Into Unknown Territory. The Limits to Adaptation and Reality of Loss
... there will still be losses and irreversible impacts. Current emission reduction commitments are out of step with the scientific urgency of tackling climate change. We are likely to overshoot the critical 2°C threshold, putting the planet on a 4 to 6°C pathway of global warming. The World Bank estima ...
... there will still be losses and irreversible impacts. Current emission reduction commitments are out of step with the scientific urgency of tackling climate change. We are likely to overshoot the critical 2°C threshold, putting the planet on a 4 to 6°C pathway of global warming. The World Bank estima ...
Public Perception of Climate Change Adaptation
... How then can the public be motivated to take mitigation and adaptation steps? Climate change has traditionally been framed as an environmental, rather than a health issue. Concerns of ecologic, environmental, social, or economic climate change impacts are certainly important drivers of behaviour cha ...
... How then can the public be motivated to take mitigation and adaptation steps? Climate change has traditionally been framed as an environmental, rather than a health issue. Concerns of ecologic, environmental, social, or economic climate change impacts are certainly important drivers of behaviour cha ...
Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global
... increased exponentially, with annual publications doubling from 2005 to 20095. Given the importance of scientific consensus, our study analyses climate papers from 1991 to 2011 to determine the level of consensus in published research. ...
... increased exponentially, with annual publications doubling from 2005 to 20095. Given the importance of scientific consensus, our study analyses climate papers from 1991 to 2011 to determine the level of consensus in published research. ...
Protected Area Policies and Climate Change: The Case of the
... Predicted Changes in Vegetation Zonation Vegetation zones are expected to shift northward considerably by the 2050s under all three climate change scenarios. The change is represented spatially using the CSIROMk2b B11 scenario (Figure 8). Much of the southern boreal forest will have a climate more s ...
... Predicted Changes in Vegetation Zonation Vegetation zones are expected to shift northward considerably by the 2050s under all three climate change scenarios. The change is represented spatially using the CSIROMk2b B11 scenario (Figure 8). Much of the southern boreal forest will have a climate more s ...
Nullifying the climate null hypothesis
... attention from issues of estimation of effect size and meaningful mechanistic understanding and modeling of predictive and causal relationships. A frequent criticism of null hypothesis testing is the formulation of the analysis to reject a null hypothesis that is trivially known to be false. The rej ...
... attention from issues of estimation of effect size and meaningful mechanistic understanding and modeling of predictive and causal relationships. A frequent criticism of null hypothesis testing is the formulation of the analysis to reject a null hypothesis that is trivially known to be false. The rej ...
Satellite Instrument Calibration for Measuring Global
... At request of White House, National Research Council (NRC) recommends several research priorities for climate research (2001), including: Ensure the existence of a long-term monitoring system that provides a more definitive observational basis to evaluate decadal-to centuryscale changes ...
... At request of White House, National Research Council (NRC) recommends several research priorities for climate research (2001), including: Ensure the existence of a long-term monitoring system that provides a more definitive observational basis to evaluate decadal-to centuryscale changes ...
Effective education and communication strategies to
... beliefs about climate change are quite malleable, and can be influenced by something as trivial as the day’s local temperature (Zaval, Keenan, Johnson, & Weber, 2014). Another common bias relates to people’s general tendency to seek out information that confirms their already-held notions about how ...
... beliefs about climate change are quite malleable, and can be influenced by something as trivial as the day’s local temperature (Zaval, Keenan, Johnson, & Weber, 2014). Another common bias relates to people’s general tendency to seek out information that confirms their already-held notions about how ...
Atmosphere and Ocean as Dynamic Drivers of Polar Climate
... Research Statement NOAA CGC configurations, high-latitude orography, and ocean basin layout, may play a role in mediating these very different perturbation responses. In the northern hemisphere, the midlatitude Rocky and Himalayan mountain ranges make the jet and storm tracks very azonal (Manabe & T ...
... Research Statement NOAA CGC configurations, high-latitude orography, and ocean basin layout, may play a role in mediating these very different perturbation responses. In the northern hemisphere, the midlatitude Rocky and Himalayan mountain ranges make the jet and storm tracks very azonal (Manabe & T ...
Climate financing for a low carbon tomorrow
... nities. Externally, investors, shareholders and other stakeholders will look more closely at climate related risk, already evident across much of the econ- ...
... nities. Externally, investors, shareholders and other stakeholders will look more closely at climate related risk, already evident across much of the econ- ...
Assessing climate risk to improve farm business management
... will argue that presenting and discussing weather and climate information in an educational forum is a method that will help to survey and assess climate risk in order to reduce uncertainty and improve farm business management. Climate uncertainty and risk in agriculture Although climate variability ...
... will argue that presenting and discussing weather and climate information in an educational forum is a method that will help to survey and assess climate risk in order to reduce uncertainty and improve farm business management. Climate uncertainty and risk in agriculture Although climate variability ...
On the Conflict Shoreline
... Mediterranean endure many longstanding problems, including recurrent conflict in the Middle East as well as unresolved disputes in Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey and Greece, to name several. Climate change gives a developing context to all these problems, as well as creating many problems of its ...
... Mediterranean endure many longstanding problems, including recurrent conflict in the Middle East as well as unresolved disputes in Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey and Greece, to name several. Climate change gives a developing context to all these problems, as well as creating many problems of its ...
here - Resilient Cities
... literature have not been used in practice. Instead best practice guidelines for good design and good organisation are increasingly perceived as efficient tools to encourage and promote resilience and deliver a level of reassurance not otherwise available through specific indicators; Little empirical ...
... literature have not been used in practice. Instead best practice guidelines for good design and good organisation are increasingly perceived as efficient tools to encourage and promote resilience and deliver a level of reassurance not otherwise available through specific indicators; Little empirical ...
Environmental Education Research.
... community influences. One influence on school textbooks is likely the state science standards. Although climate change has been neglected in previous science standards (Hoffman and Barstow 2007), this topic is included in the recently developed United States’ Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Le ...
... community influences. One influence on school textbooks is likely the state science standards. Although climate change has been neglected in previous science standards (Hoffman and Barstow 2007), this topic is included in the recently developed United States’ Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Le ...
Climate Change and International Relations Theory: Northeast Asia as a Case Study
... understand the nature of climate change impacts likely to affect the region. The following climate change impact and vulnerability assessment is based on the methodology found in the Working Group II contribution on Asia (chapter 10) of the Fourth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Clim ...
... understand the nature of climate change impacts likely to affect the region. The following climate change impact and vulnerability assessment is based on the methodology found in the Working Group II contribution on Asia (chapter 10) of the Fourth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Clim ...
Global Climate Change: Science and Economics
... of local and regional air pollutants. In economic terminology, such laws to some degree internalize externalities associated with local and regional pollutants. But until relatively recently, few controls existed for carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas and concentrations of CO2 in the atm ...
... of local and regional air pollutants. In economic terminology, such laws to some degree internalize externalities associated with local and regional pollutants. But until relatively recently, few controls existed for carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas and concentrations of CO2 in the atm ...
Impact of climate change on the hydrologic cycle and implications
... the impacts and adapting to climate change must be broad and integrated. Some of the impacts stem from the chain reactions in the earth system. Therefore, the socio-economic dimension should be an integral part of climate change discussion. Current literature on climate change is less than balanced ...
... the impacts and adapting to climate change must be broad and integrated. Some of the impacts stem from the chain reactions in the earth system. Therefore, the socio-economic dimension should be an integral part of climate change discussion. Current literature on climate change is less than balanced ...
The 2002 Version of SAMS - Civil, Environmental and Architectural
... The interim EIS operational policies employed with demand growing based on the upper basin depletion schedule. with the demand fixed at the 2008 level ~ 13.5MaF Same as A but with larger delivery shortages Same as C but with a 50% reduced upper basin depletion schedule. Same as A with full initial s ...
... The interim EIS operational policies employed with demand growing based on the upper basin depletion schedule. with the demand fixed at the 2008 level ~ 13.5MaF Same as A but with larger delivery shortages Same as C but with a 50% reduced upper basin depletion schedule. Same as A with full initial s ...