CONTENTS
... Under the „plus climate‟ goal option, „climate change‟ would be added in the title of a goal that already includes targets to address climate change: access to sustainable energy or disaster risk reduction, for example. The minimalist approach to this option is simply to change the title to show tha ...
... Under the „plus climate‟ goal option, „climate change‟ would be added in the title of a goal that already includes targets to address climate change: access to sustainable energy or disaster risk reduction, for example. The minimalist approach to this option is simply to change the title to show tha ...
CLIMATE SCIENCE SURVEY
... assembled by Jim Prall (~2000 names). Names were also derived from surveying the recent climate science literature (~500 names). Prall’s database includes signatories to public statements disapproving of mainstream climate science (~200 names). They were included in our survey to ensure that the mai ...
... assembled by Jim Prall (~2000 names). Names were also derived from surveying the recent climate science literature (~500 names). Prall’s database includes signatories to public statements disapproving of mainstream climate science (~200 names). They were included in our survey to ensure that the mai ...
ISEES_GrandChallengeQuestions
... nations (International Energy Agency 2012). Much of this growth in energy demand will be satisfied by fossil fuels, exacerbating climate change at a time when developed nations are considering how alternative energy sources can begin to replace more environmentally harmful options. These developing ...
... nations (International Energy Agency 2012). Much of this growth in energy demand will be satisfied by fossil fuels, exacerbating climate change at a time when developed nations are considering how alternative energy sources can begin to replace more environmentally harmful options. These developing ...
Climate Change - Pacific Science Center
... deep breath. Hold it! Hold it! Hold it! Now breathe out. Does anyone know the name of the gas you just breathed out? G: Carbon dioxide? P: Yeah! All animals release carbon dioxide. I happen to have some people and animals right here! Take out the medium-sized red block with people and animals. Can I ...
... deep breath. Hold it! Hold it! Hold it! Now breathe out. Does anyone know the name of the gas you just breathed out? G: Carbon dioxide? P: Yeah! All animals release carbon dioxide. I happen to have some people and animals right here! Take out the medium-sized red block with people and animals. Can I ...
Temporal Causal Models for Massive Time-series Data
... Extreme weather events happen from time to time Examples include heat wave, hurricane, tornado, flooding They are rare events, but lead to severe consequences ...
... Extreme weather events happen from time to time Examples include heat wave, hurricane, tornado, flooding They are rare events, but lead to severe consequences ...
Full Text - Life Science Journal
... services for mainstreaming climate changes issues for the enhancement of food security in different parts of Africa. This is predicated on the fact that majority of actors in the food security chain are in rural areas in Africa and the most prominent source of information is through agricultural ext ...
... services for mainstreaming climate changes issues for the enhancement of food security in different parts of Africa. This is predicated on the fact that majority of actors in the food security chain are in rural areas in Africa and the most prominent source of information is through agricultural ext ...
Inter American Institute for Global Change Research
... diversity and functioning of ecosystems. Projects that integrate natural and social science themes, include a human dimension component as well as a concern for policy implications of research are expected. The objective is to understand and propose ways that specific policies could be used to direc ...
... diversity and functioning of ecosystems. Projects that integrate natural and social science themes, include a human dimension component as well as a concern for policy implications of research are expected. The objective is to understand and propose ways that specific policies could be used to direc ...
Means and extremes: building variability into
... nonlinear and are typified by thresholds, interactions with other climatic conditions, such as rainfall, and the potential for organisms to adapt to changed conditions (Gutschick & BassiriRad 2003; Benedetti-Cecchi et al. 2006). There is an increasing awareness of the need for experimental approache ...
... nonlinear and are typified by thresholds, interactions with other climatic conditions, such as rainfall, and the potential for organisms to adapt to changed conditions (Gutschick & BassiriRad 2003; Benedetti-Cecchi et al. 2006). There is an increasing awareness of the need for experimental approache ...
A Rocha Eco-Congregation (USA) module 13
... Orleans in August 2005. Heat waves of the kind experienced in Europe in 2003 could become much more regular. The southwest of the United States, already regularly suffering drought, will experience drier weather still (causing yet more depletion of the Colorado River). In Africa up to 250 million pe ...
... Orleans in August 2005. Heat waves of the kind experienced in Europe in 2003 could become much more regular. The southwest of the United States, already regularly suffering drought, will experience drier weather still (causing yet more depletion of the Colorado River). In Africa up to 250 million pe ...
Regional Modelling of Vegetation Distributions
... classification of vegetation units that are not floristically based (e.g. Webb …). My research in the Wet Tropics illustrates the latter option. Climate, terrain and soil data of an appropriate scale and resolution In the biogeographic community, vegetation pattern at regional scales is well known t ...
... classification of vegetation units that are not floristically based (e.g. Webb …). My research in the Wet Tropics illustrates the latter option. Climate, terrain and soil data of an appropriate scale and resolution In the biogeographic community, vegetation pattern at regional scales is well known t ...
Section 10: Freshwater Ecosystems
... warming stream temperatures, increasing winter peak flows, and decreasing summer low flows. These changes could affect growth and survival across many life stages and habitats,8 particularly for salmonid populations for which juvenile development occurs in freshwater streams (e.g., steelhead, stream ...
... warming stream temperatures, increasing winter peak flows, and decreasing summer low flows. These changes could affect growth and survival across many life stages and habitats,8 particularly for salmonid populations for which juvenile development occurs in freshwater streams (e.g., steelhead, stream ...
Climate change as the `new` security threat: implications for Africa
... of change in regional climate conditions were being observed and policy-makers began accepting that ways must be found to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Given that doing so would necessitate drastic changes to the use of fossil fuels, climate change quickly became an economic and energy poli ...
... of change in regional climate conditions were being observed and policy-makers began accepting that ways must be found to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Given that doing so would necessitate drastic changes to the use of fossil fuels, climate change quickly became an economic and energy poli ...
Uncertainties of Climate Change in Arid Environments of Central Asia
... to global climate change and the trends caused by local land use changes, such as massive irrigation, overgrazing, and the consequent desertification processes. The Central Asian deserts are not pristine environments; grazers have exploited them for thousands of years, and in the 20th century, large ...
... to global climate change and the trends caused by local land use changes, such as massive irrigation, overgrazing, and the consequent desertification processes. The Central Asian deserts are not pristine environments; grazers have exploited them for thousands of years, and in the 20th century, large ...
DCNR and Climate Change – Planning for the Future
... While climate change presents some very significant The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and challenges, there is much we can do to both limit its efNatural Resources (DCNR) is the caretaker of 2.2 milfects and cope with the impacts. As the climate changes, lion acres of State Forest land, 12 ...
... While climate change presents some very significant The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and challenges, there is much we can do to both limit its efNatural Resources (DCNR) is the caretaker of 2.2 milfects and cope with the impacts. As the climate changes, lion acres of State Forest land, 12 ...
Typologies of Loss and Damage and Associated Actions
... Continued dialogue with the ExCom and observers might also be a fruitful means to further develop research questions around L&D. The most relevant scientific evidence will depend on how L&D is conceptualised, and the actions taken to address it. The typologies could be used to inform collaboration b ...
... Continued dialogue with the ExCom and observers might also be a fruitful means to further develop research questions around L&D. The most relevant scientific evidence will depend on how L&D is conceptualised, and the actions taken to address it. The typologies could be used to inform collaboration b ...
Journal of the North American Benthological Society
... they want to use it. Consider the challenges of information depth vs information breadth. Information depth is obtained by studying a particular species through the lens of a particular scientific discipline, whereas information breadth is obtained by merging general insights drawn from multiple sci ...
... they want to use it. Consider the challenges of information depth vs information breadth. Information depth is obtained by studying a particular species through the lens of a particular scientific discipline, whereas information breadth is obtained by merging general insights drawn from multiple sci ...
4. Influence of Climate Change on the Condition of the Catchment`s
... 3.1), outlining the drivers and pressures with a high influence on natural resource condition and the trend that influence will experience under climate change based on mid-century projections under a relatively high emissions pathway. Some pressures have a high level of influence only under climate ...
... 3.1), outlining the drivers and pressures with a high influence on natural resource condition and the trend that influence will experience under climate change based on mid-century projections under a relatively high emissions pathway. Some pressures have a high level of influence only under climate ...
Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and
... that the final document was consistent with the full report ...
... that the final document was consistent with the full report ...
Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
... that the final document was consistent with the full report ...
... that the final document was consistent with the full report ...
M B V C
... economic growth must be placed at the heart of future development for all citizens. The South African private sector is under enormous pressure to remain globally competitive while balancing the interests of society, the environment and its shareholders. It has been suggested that there are discrepa ...
... economic growth must be placed at the heart of future development for all citizens. The South African private sector is under enormous pressure to remain globally competitive while balancing the interests of society, the environment and its shareholders. It has been suggested that there are discrepa ...
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
... transient alterations in an organism’s neurophysiological and somatovisceral state that represent its immediate relationship to the flow of changing events… in a sense, core affect is a neurophysiologic barometer of the individual’s relationship to an environment at a given point in time. To the ext ...
... transient alterations in an organism’s neurophysiological and somatovisceral state that represent its immediate relationship to the flow of changing events… in a sense, core affect is a neurophysiologic barometer of the individual’s relationship to an environment at a given point in time. To the ext ...
Climate change and its gendered impacts on agriculture in Vietnam
... a number of measures and plan activities to cope with climate change from local level to central level. Some main hazards that enhanced by climate change have been pointed out including typhoons, floods and droughts. “Vietnam has already begun to feel the effects: the average surface temperature has ...
... a number of measures and plan activities to cope with climate change from local level to central level. Some main hazards that enhanced by climate change have been pointed out including typhoons, floods and droughts. “Vietnam has already begun to feel the effects: the average surface temperature has ...
Climate Change Justice
... Report (AR5) express high confidence in the claim that ‘Adaptation and mitigation in the nearterm will affect the risks of climate change throughout the 21st century.’9 Why might future generations have a claim that the harms of climate change should be prevented or reduced? Most people will find th ...
... Report (AR5) express high confidence in the claim that ‘Adaptation and mitigation in the nearterm will affect the risks of climate change throughout the 21st century.’9 Why might future generations have a claim that the harms of climate change should be prevented or reduced? Most people will find th ...