Climate Factsheets - Public Interest Research Centre
... before (take a look at the graphic below).48 Longterm, the trend is still on average 0.15-0.2ºC warming per decade;49,50 each of the last three decades have been warmer than the last (for more info see bit.ly/temperaturetrends).51 ...
... before (take a look at the graphic below).48 Longterm, the trend is still on average 0.15-0.2ºC warming per decade;49,50 each of the last three decades have been warmer than the last (for more info see bit.ly/temperaturetrends).51 ...
Climate change: impacts and adaptation for agriculture in Western
... reduce livestock feed requirements (by lowering energy maintenance costs) and increase the survival rate of young animals or shorn sheep during cold and wet periods in the higher rainfall areas of the south-west. But in warmer areas of WA, and during the summer months, increased temperatures and hea ...
... reduce livestock feed requirements (by lowering energy maintenance costs) and increase the survival rate of young animals or shorn sheep during cold and wet periods in the higher rainfall areas of the south-west. But in warmer areas of WA, and during the summer months, increased temperatures and hea ...
ARTICLES CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND THE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
... warming will continue the trend of climate change well into the future regardless of mitigation policy success. But do not expect adaptation policy to play out for environmental law the way mitigation policy has and is likely to continue. Mitigation policy has been framed as an initiative primarily ...
... warming will continue the trend of climate change well into the future regardless of mitigation policy success. But do not expect adaptation policy to play out for environmental law the way mitigation policy has and is likely to continue. Mitigation policy has been framed as an initiative primarily ...
Global Policy Making on Climate Refugees
... implement or reverse choice. This dimension ranges from the time period of a political election cycle to a generation to the lifetime of a nation or culture. Another dimension is the cultural and political distance between parties. This can be everything from a family or a nation to cultural blocks ...
... implement or reverse choice. This dimension ranges from the time period of a political election cycle to a generation to the lifetime of a nation or culture. Another dimension is the cultural and political distance between parties. This can be everything from a family or a nation to cultural blocks ...
Post-2012 Climate Change
... take inflexible positions that do not consider other parties’ interests. Parties’ positions generally ignore the legitimate interests of others and are designed to protect individual party interests or counter their opponents’ positions. Instead of focusing on positions, after identifying and discus ...
... take inflexible positions that do not consider other parties’ interests. Parties’ positions generally ignore the legitimate interests of others and are designed to protect individual party interests or counter their opponents’ positions. Instead of focusing on positions, after identifying and discus ...
An Inter-Comparison of the Holiday Climate Index (HCI) and the
... spending [29,30]. The latest assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that, “after 2050, tourism activity is projected to decrease in Southern Europe (low confidence) and increase in Northern and Continental Europe (medium confidence)” [31]. Moreover, the r ...
... spending [29,30]. The latest assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that, “after 2050, tourism activity is projected to decrease in Southern Europe (low confidence) and increase in Northern and Continental Europe (medium confidence)” [31]. Moreover, the r ...
The Economics of Climate Change in the Pacific
... economies, with details provided for selected key sectors including agriculture, fisheries, tourism, coral reefs, and human health. It then presents policy recommendations and action steps for the countries to minimize or mitigate these impacts, particularly by mainstreaming climate change in their ...
... economies, with details provided for selected key sectors including agriculture, fisheries, tourism, coral reefs, and human health. It then presents policy recommendations and action steps for the countries to minimize or mitigate these impacts, particularly by mainstreaming climate change in their ...
Children and Climate Change
... adapt to, compensate for, or reinforce such effects is limited. Thus estimates based on short-run variations could either overstate or understate the likely longer-term effects of climate change. A related problem is that it’s hard to identify the causal impacts of changes in weather or climate. Cor ...
... adapt to, compensate for, or reinforce such effects is limited. Thus estimates based on short-run variations could either overstate or understate the likely longer-term effects of climate change. A related problem is that it’s hard to identify the causal impacts of changes in weather or climate. Cor ...
Report
... Part I: Scientific and Policy Background 1. The Global Problem of Climate Change There is growing consensus among the scientific community that global climate change is, in part, a result of long-term shifts in human development, particularly industrial and agricultural. These shifts have led to ne ...
... Part I: Scientific and Policy Background 1. The Global Problem of Climate Change There is growing consensus among the scientific community that global climate change is, in part, a result of long-term shifts in human development, particularly industrial and agricultural. These shifts have led to ne ...
Text - Reading`s CentAUR
... or two) or changes in the nature of the atmospheric variability in the two periods. The ideal solution is to couple the CCM to an ocean. Not only does this ensure a seamless transition between past and future, it also allows for a two-way feedback between the ocean and atmosphere that is not present ...
... or two) or changes in the nature of the atmospheric variability in the two periods. The ideal solution is to couple the CCM to an ocean. Not only does this ensure a seamless transition between past and future, it also allows for a two-way feedback between the ocean and atmosphere that is not present ...
PDF - AMS Journals - American Meteorological Society
... address key questions about the size and significance of TMT trends, agreement with model-derived TMT values, and whether models and satellite data show similar vertical profiles of warming. A recent study claimed that TMT trends over 1979 and 2015 are 3 times larger in climate models than in satell ...
... address key questions about the size and significance of TMT trends, agreement with model-derived TMT values, and whether models and satellite data show similar vertical profiles of warming. A recent study claimed that TMT trends over 1979 and 2015 are 3 times larger in climate models than in satell ...
Sensitivity of Northern Peatland Carbon
... data (0.5° ´ 0.5° grids) for land north of 45°N (1960–1990 [Rawlins and Willmott, 1999]). Northern peatlands typically occur where mean annual temperatures are between -12° and 5°C and mean annual precipitation is between 200 and 1000 mm. This distribution spans most of the climate domain of the bor ...
... data (0.5° ´ 0.5° grids) for land north of 45°N (1960–1990 [Rawlins and Willmott, 1999]). Northern peatlands typically occur where mean annual temperatures are between -12° and 5°C and mean annual precipitation is between 200 and 1000 mm. This distribution spans most of the climate domain of the bor ...
The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict
... The goal of this study is to address this important gap in the literature and estimate the long-run effects of climate change on conflict, and to provide evidence that the effects are non-linear with respect to the duration of change. The main barrier to estimating long run effects is the lack of l ...
... The goal of this study is to address this important gap in the literature and estimate the long-run effects of climate change on conflict, and to provide evidence that the effects are non-linear with respect to the duration of change. The main barrier to estimating long run effects is the lack of l ...
The Macroeconomics of Climate Change Final Report, May 2013
... a consequence. Simple models may not provide consistent answers and this requires policy makers to interpret which results are most important, but this must be balanced with the gain in ease of use and explanatory power that comes from abstracting away from all but the most crucial mechanisms that a ...
... a consequence. Simple models may not provide consistent answers and this requires policy makers to interpret which results are most important, but this must be balanced with the gain in ease of use and explanatory power that comes from abstracting away from all but the most crucial mechanisms that a ...
vii. annexes
... was reached in 2005. Of the 20 most costly disasters over the last 35 years, 10 occurred during the past five years1. The 2009 Global Assessment report on Disaster Risk reduction indicates that disaster risk, poverty and climate change are strongly linked and points out that “disaster risks associat ...
... was reached in 2005. Of the 20 most costly disasters over the last 35 years, 10 occurred during the past five years1. The 2009 Global Assessment report on Disaster Risk reduction indicates that disaster risk, poverty and climate change are strongly linked and points out that “disaster risks associat ...
Cool Response: The seC & CoRpoRaTe ClimaTe Change RepoRTing SEC Climate Guidance &
... guidance. Since then, there has been a significant fall-off in SEC attention to this area. õ Most S&P 500 climate disclosures in 10-Ks are very brief, provide little discussion of material issues, and do not quantify impacts or risks. Based on this report’s 0-100 scoring scale, electric power compan ...
... guidance. Since then, there has been a significant fall-off in SEC attention to this area. õ Most S&P 500 climate disclosures in 10-Ks are very brief, provide little discussion of material issues, and do not quantify impacts or risks. Based on this report’s 0-100 scoring scale, electric power compan ...
Climate Change, Multiple Stressors, and the Decline of Ectotherms Contributed Paper
... Abstract: Climate change is believed to be causing declines of ectothermic vertebrates, but there is little evidence that climatic conditions associated with declines have exceeded critical (i.e., acutely lethal) maxima or minima, and most relevant studies are correlative, anecdotal, or short-term ( ...
... Abstract: Climate change is believed to be causing declines of ectothermic vertebrates, but there is little evidence that climatic conditions associated with declines have exceeded critical (i.e., acutely lethal) maxima or minima, and most relevant studies are correlative, anecdotal, or short-term ( ...
Environment and Climate Change Assessment
... strategies, and road maps to help align future ADB support with the needs and strategies of developing member countries and other development partners. A thematic paper is a working document that addresses a crosscutting theme to help inform the development of country partnership strategies (CPSs). ...
... strategies, and road maps to help align future ADB support with the needs and strategies of developing member countries and other development partners. A thematic paper is a working document that addresses a crosscutting theme to help inform the development of country partnership strategies (CPSs). ...
WHAT IS WRONG WITH STERN? Peter Lilley MP The Global Warming Policy Foundation
... Nor are they aware that, on Stern’s calculations, the sacrifices this generation is asked to make to prevent global warming will accrue centuries ahead when people will be many times richer than us and far better equipped to adapt to, prevent or even reverse global warming. Moreover, the worst thre ...
... Nor are they aware that, on Stern’s calculations, the sacrifices this generation is asked to make to prevent global warming will accrue centuries ahead when people will be many times richer than us and far better equipped to adapt to, prevent or even reverse global warming. Moreover, the worst thre ...
The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis
... A global carbon economy has been the basis of all productive efforts since centuries. Emissions are still steadily increasing, and the world population is set to grow by forty percent by 2050. If we do not reverse current trends by close to 2020, however, we may have failed. Global warming will pass ...
... A global carbon economy has been the basis of all productive efforts since centuries. Emissions are still steadily increasing, and the world population is set to grow by forty percent by 2050. If we do not reverse current trends by close to 2020, however, we may have failed. Global warming will pass ...
Indices for monitoring changes in extremes based on daily
... some areas since mediaeval times. In some areas such collections form part of the documentary record from which information about climate in the preinstrumental period is inferred.10 A related variable, the growing season length (defined as the length of time between the first and last occasions in ...
... some areas since mediaeval times. In some areas such collections form part of the documentary record from which information about climate in the preinstrumental period is inferred.10 A related variable, the growing season length (defined as the length of time between the first and last occasions in ...
Bridging the Adaptation Gap: Approaches to
... created by the changing climate and for investment into resilience to those risks is substantial and increasing. Unfortunately, although there are growing calls to investors to take account of climate risk in general – including the physical risk of climate change in specific – the problem is comple ...
... created by the changing climate and for investment into resilience to those risks is substantial and increasing. Unfortunately, although there are growing calls to investors to take account of climate risk in general – including the physical risk of climate change in specific – the problem is comple ...
James Croll in Context: The Encounter between Climate Dynamics
... head pains that became unbearable with mental exertion, still he produced numerous papers on climate change, glacier motion, geological time, ocean currents, and astrophysics. In 1875 Croll published his major book, Climate and Time, a work delayed several years due to ill health, but a work widely ...
... head pains that became unbearable with mental exertion, still he produced numerous papers on climate change, glacier motion, geological time, ocean currents, and astrophysics. In 1875 Croll published his major book, Climate and Time, a work delayed several years due to ill health, but a work widely ...
Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
... The oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface and play a vital role in the global environment. They regulate the Earth’s climate and modulate global biogeochemical cycles. They are of significant socioeconomic value as suppliers of resources and products worth trillions of dollars each year (IPCC, 199 ...
... The oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface and play a vital role in the global environment. They regulate the Earth’s climate and modulate global biogeochemical cycles. They are of significant socioeconomic value as suppliers of resources and products worth trillions of dollars each year (IPCC, 199 ...