The Greenhouse Effect o
... Earth has experienced natural climate changes since the planet formed billions of years ago. Many of these climate changes have been slow, occurring over centuries or millennia. Subtle differences in Earth’s orbit around the Sun, or shifting landmasses (for example, moving tectonic plates or the upl ...
... Earth has experienced natural climate changes since the planet formed billions of years ago. Many of these climate changes have been slow, occurring over centuries or millennia. Subtle differences in Earth’s orbit around the Sun, or shifting landmasses (for example, moving tectonic plates or the upl ...
Submission-5-A-Key-letter - Coal Action Network Aotearoa
... My initial encounter with the threat of climate change was as a Secretariat member of the New Zealand Commission For the Future12. In 1982, global warming was suggested as an alternative hypothesis to global cooling that would result from a termination of the Earth’s current temperate interglacial p ...
... My initial encounter with the threat of climate change was as a Secretariat member of the New Zealand Commission For the Future12. In 1982, global warming was suggested as an alternative hypothesis to global cooling that would result from a termination of the Earth’s current temperate interglacial p ...
Public Enemy No. 1? Understanding Media Representations of
... What Happened to Global Warming? “Bring the (Signals and) Noise” Numerous events in recent years have recalibrated “contrarian” considerations in the public arena. For example, in October 2009, possibilities for “global cooling” (echoing claims made in the 1970s) permeated mass media accounts. The n ...
... What Happened to Global Warming? “Bring the (Signals and) Noise” Numerous events in recent years have recalibrated “contrarian” considerations in the public arena. For example, in October 2009, possibilities for “global cooling” (echoing claims made in the 1970s) permeated mass media accounts. The n ...
CLimate ChanGe and its importanCe for aGriCuLturaL produCtion
... In 1997 in Kyoto, governments of many countries have made another step, adopting the Kyoto Protocol. The treaty puts countries under obligation to reduce or limit greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol entered into force in 2005. Until today, it has been formally adopted by 183 countries and t ...
... In 1997 in Kyoto, governments of many countries have made another step, adopting the Kyoto Protocol. The treaty puts countries under obligation to reduce or limit greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol entered into force in 2005. Until today, it has been formally adopted by 183 countries and t ...
Article The uncertainties of climate change in Spanish daily
... coastline. These papers cover most of the political spectrum and the sum of their circulation figures fluctuate at around one million copies per day [46]. The choice of these media was based on the fact that most of the papers which had previously analysed media portrayal of climate change and its s ...
... coastline. These papers cover most of the political spectrum and the sum of their circulation figures fluctuate at around one million copies per day [46]. The choice of these media was based on the fact that most of the papers which had previously analysed media portrayal of climate change and its s ...
Article The uncertainties of climate change in Spanish
... coastline. These papers cover most of the political spectrum and the sum of their circulation figures fluctuate at around one million copies per day [46]. The choice of these media was based on the fact that most of the papers which had previously analysed media portrayal of climate change and its s ...
... coastline. These papers cover most of the political spectrum and the sum of their circulation figures fluctuate at around one million copies per day [46]. The choice of these media was based on the fact that most of the papers which had previously analysed media portrayal of climate change and its s ...
A North Carolina Citizen`s Guide to Global Warming
... had been an increase during the last few decades in the number and intensity of hurricanes around the world, and that this was likely due to humancaused greenhouse warming.28 Climate activists and the popular press took these papers to be smoking guns that humans were changing the climate in dangero ...
... had been an increase during the last few decades in the number and intensity of hurricanes around the world, and that this was likely due to humancaused greenhouse warming.28 Climate activists and the popular press took these papers to be smoking guns that humans were changing the climate in dangero ...
Austrian Assessment Report Climate Change 2014 (AAR14)
... influences the weather-dependent sectors such as agriculture and forestry, tourism, hydrology, energy, health and transport and the sectors that are linked to these29. Adaptation measures can mitigate the negative impacts of climate change, but they cannot fully offset them30. In 2012 Austria adopte ...
... influences the weather-dependent sectors such as agriculture and forestry, tourism, hydrology, energy, health and transport and the sectors that are linked to these29. Adaptation measures can mitigate the negative impacts of climate change, but they cannot fully offset them30. In 2012 Austria adopte ...
The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon
... on carbon it does acknowledge the concern over rising greenhouse gas concentrations from all sources and that land surface change plays a role. This second alternative has the very important distinction that it is consistent with the UNFCCC, a treaty that has come into force with ratification now by ...
... on carbon it does acknowledge the concern over rising greenhouse gas concentrations from all sources and that land surface change plays a role. This second alternative has the very important distinction that it is consistent with the UNFCCC, a treaty that has come into force with ratification now by ...
Supplementary Material
... types of models that rigorously treat the global hydrological cycle and do not make assumption all suggest that water vapor concentrations will rise as warming occurs, and in an amount quite consistent with the early assumption that the relative humidity would remain constant (Ref. 11, Chapter 7). T ...
... types of models that rigorously treat the global hydrological cycle and do not make assumption all suggest that water vapor concentrations will rise as warming occurs, and in an amount quite consistent with the early assumption that the relative humidity would remain constant (Ref. 11, Chapter 7). T ...
Final review - UCLA: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
... 7.3.c Summary of spatial patterns of the response • Poleward amplification of the warming is a robust feature. It is partly due to the snow/ice feedback and partly to effects involving the difference in lapse rate between high latitudes and the tropics. • In time-dependent runs polar amplification ...
... 7.3.c Summary of spatial patterns of the response • Poleward amplification of the warming is a robust feature. It is partly due to the snow/ice feedback and partly to effects involving the difference in lapse rate between high latitudes and the tropics. • In time-dependent runs polar amplification ...
Climate Scientists and the Consensus on Climate Change
... reach, notwithstanding that it was conducted exclusively in English. ‘The existence of the survey was posted in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the Climlist server, and...sent to institutional lists in Germany and Denmark’. Respondents (n = 558) came ‘from some 30 countries’, wi ...
... reach, notwithstanding that it was conducted exclusively in English. ‘The existence of the survey was posted in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the Climlist server, and...sent to institutional lists in Germany and Denmark’. Respondents (n = 558) came ‘from some 30 countries’, wi ...
Climate value at risk of global financial assets
... investors – and even more so to the risk averse. The impact of climate change on the financial sector has been little researched to date, with the exception of some kinds of insurance.3 Yet, if the economic impacts of climate change are as large as some studies have suggested,4–6 then, since financi ...
... investors – and even more so to the risk averse. The impact of climate change on the financial sector has been little researched to date, with the exception of some kinds of insurance.3 Yet, if the economic impacts of climate change are as large as some studies have suggested,4–6 then, since financi ...
Hobday and Pecl_Global Marine Hotspots
... ocean regions that are warming most rapidly. Hotspots represent one of the front-line regions for climate change, and thus are prime locations for assessing impacts and evaluating adaptation options for marine ecosystems, fisheries and aquaculture. For example, data from regions with rapid warming c ...
... ocean regions that are warming most rapidly. Hotspots represent one of the front-line regions for climate change, and thus are prime locations for assessing impacts and evaluating adaptation options for marine ecosystems, fisheries and aquaculture. For example, data from regions with rapid warming c ...
Professor Sir John Beddington`s Speech at SDUK 09
... complicated graph, we are looking at the top left for the moment, which is showing that the fresh water available per head of the world population is around 25% of what it was in 1960. To give you some idea of this; there are enormous potential shortages in certain parts of the world. China for exam ...
... complicated graph, we are looking at the top left for the moment, which is showing that the fresh water available per head of the world population is around 25% of what it was in 1960. To give you some idea of this; there are enormous potential shortages in certain parts of the world. China for exam ...
Seattle Public Library Talk
... windstorms, will also get stronger “There is also evidence of an increase in the intensity of storms in both the mid- and high-latitude areas of the Northern Hemisphere,” State X ...
... windstorms, will also get stronger “There is also evidence of an increase in the intensity of storms in both the mid- and high-latitude areas of the Northern Hemisphere,” State X ...
Enabling resilience: bridging the planning gap in Tanzania
... A drought in 2009 demonstrated the vulnerability of Tanzania’s northern districts to climate change. In the past, community livelihood strategies have allowed people to remain productive in the context of climatic variability. But short- and longer-term resilience is being undermined by the governme ...
... A drought in 2009 demonstrated the vulnerability of Tanzania’s northern districts to climate change. In the past, community livelihood strategies have allowed people to remain productive in the context of climatic variability. But short- and longer-term resilience is being undermined by the governme ...
Weather/Climate Prediction - Institute for Mathematical Sciences
... united and is working as one (blue line) and we can see that our global temperature will decrease by half with respect to the A1B situation. Lastly, assuming if we stop CO2 emissions, there will be a minimal increase in our temperature (orange line) although this situation is highly unrealistic. ...
... united and is working as one (blue line) and we can see that our global temperature will decrease by half with respect to the A1B situation. Lastly, assuming if we stop CO2 emissions, there will be a minimal increase in our temperature (orange line) although this situation is highly unrealistic. ...
Special Council Meeting - 3-5 February, 2010
... and remains optimistic and confident that PIANGO will continue to make progress and overcome hurdles. 14. Samoa (SUNGO) supported the continuation of PIANGO as a peak body, congratulated the Board for their work in steering PIANGO through a very testing period in its history and highlighted the impo ...
... and remains optimistic and confident that PIANGO will continue to make progress and overcome hurdles. 14. Samoa (SUNGO) supported the continuation of PIANGO as a peak body, congratulated the Board for their work in steering PIANGO through a very testing period in its history and highlighted the impo ...
Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation
... associated with elevated GHG emissions. While these changes cannot be prevented, Baltimore can prepare by incorporating the anticipated risks associated with climate change into hazard mitigation planning efforts. Integrating hazard mitigation planning, which focuses on past events, with climate ada ...
... associated with elevated GHG emissions. While these changes cannot be prevented, Baltimore can prepare by incorporating the anticipated risks associated with climate change into hazard mitigation planning efforts. Integrating hazard mitigation planning, which focuses on past events, with climate ada ...
Oxfam`s post COP21 analysis
... countries to deal with rising disasters has been severely stretched for years and the international humanitarian system can simply not cope any longer with the rapidly growing needs. The UNHCR also estimates that 20 million are displaced every year due to natural disasters, a figure that is set to ...
... countries to deal with rising disasters has been severely stretched for years and the international humanitarian system can simply not cope any longer with the rapidly growing needs. The UNHCR also estimates that 20 million are displaced every year due to natural disasters, a figure that is set to ...
TRF - Water Resource System Research Unit
... Mainstreaming Climate Change into Development Strategies Adaptive capacity of community Risk management mechanism - crop insurance Holistic approach for climate change adaptation ...
... Mainstreaming Climate Change into Development Strategies Adaptive capacity of community Risk management mechanism - crop insurance Holistic approach for climate change adaptation ...
Communicating Climate Change
... on his or her own needs and wants, consuming goods and services, and otherwise ensuring that these personal desires are met (through complaints, advocacy, volunteering, or the singular political act of voting). Clearly, people can do something as individuals to reduce their energy use and emissions. ...
... on his or her own needs and wants, consuming goods and services, and otherwise ensuring that these personal desires are met (through complaints, advocacy, volunteering, or the singular political act of voting). Clearly, people can do something as individuals to reduce their energy use and emissions. ...
ANALYSING VULNERABILITY OF BELIZE`s TOURISM
... The physical infrastructure, destination sites and natural environment that support Belize’s marine-based tourism industry are located within the coastal zone, which increases the vulnerability of the industry to climate change. Vulnerability assessments as presented here identify areas that can ...
... The physical infrastructure, destination sites and natural environment that support Belize’s marine-based tourism industry are located within the coastal zone, which increases the vulnerability of the industry to climate change. Vulnerability assessments as presented here identify areas that can ...