C-REM model - Fas Harvard
... No climate policy: 2100 radiative forcing = 9.7 W/m2 Policy 4.5: 2100 radiative forcing = 4.5 W/m2 Policy 3.7: 2100 radiative forcing = 3.7 W/m2 ...
... No climate policy: 2100 radiative forcing = 9.7 W/m2 Policy 4.5: 2100 radiative forcing = 4.5 W/m2 Policy 3.7: 2100 radiative forcing = 3.7 W/m2 ...
Climate Change PowerPoint
... • “We may not be given a warning until the CO2 loading is such that an appreciable climate change is inevitable ...
... • “We may not be given a warning until the CO2 loading is such that an appreciable climate change is inevitable ...
So Where Are We (The World) on This Climate Change Problem?
... 1300 years. • For next 2 decades, warming of 0.2° C per decade projected. • Sea level projections do not include full effects of changes in ice sheet flow because basis in published literature lacking. • Very likely that hot extremes, heat waves, & heavy precipitation ...
... 1300 years. • For next 2 decades, warming of 0.2° C per decade projected. • Sea level projections do not include full effects of changes in ice sheet flow because basis in published literature lacking. • Very likely that hot extremes, heat waves, & heavy precipitation ...
Prospicience and Geoengineering
... and losers, and presents deep challenges to equity. It would be wonderful to have a few more options. ...
... and losers, and presents deep challenges to equity. It would be wonderful to have a few more options. ...
Climate Change
... > costs -- but doing nothing will cost much more! > requires global cooperation and investments for the far future. > is a matter of society, economy and politics. Every measure (adaptation and mitigation) is helpful. ...
... > costs -- but doing nothing will cost much more! > requires global cooperation and investments for the far future. > is a matter of society, economy and politics. Every measure (adaptation and mitigation) is helpful. ...
European Environment Agency
... Anticipatory adaptation can be more effective and less costly than “retrofitting” or “emergency adaptation” Climate change may be more rapid and pronounced than currently known Immediate benefits from adaptation to current climate variability and extreme events Avoid maladaptive policies and practic ...
... Anticipatory adaptation can be more effective and less costly than “retrofitting” or “emergency adaptation” Climate change may be more rapid and pronounced than currently known Immediate benefits from adaptation to current climate variability and extreme events Avoid maladaptive policies and practic ...
Il' INSTITUTE LOCAL GOVERNMENT California Climate Action Network (CalifomiaCAN!)
... local efforts. Beginning in 2008, the program will certify a sel of best practices for climate protection and recognize three levels of achievement for voluntary local efforts to combat global warming. Local agencies that mect the certification standards can apply to receive recognition from the pro ...
... local efforts. Beginning in 2008, the program will certify a sel of best practices for climate protection and recognize three levels of achievement for voluntary local efforts to combat global warming. Local agencies that mect the certification standards can apply to receive recognition from the pro ...
Paleoclimatology: Examples of Ecological Impacts
... controversial. Scientists theorize numerous possible causes for the massive release of carbon, including high levels of volcanic activity, bolide impacts, burning peatland, or the release of gas from methane hydrates. Some researchers believe that, because of its unprecedented scale, the large quan ...
... controversial. Scientists theorize numerous possible causes for the massive release of carbon, including high levels of volcanic activity, bolide impacts, burning peatland, or the release of gas from methane hydrates. Some researchers believe that, because of its unprecedented scale, the large quan ...
Poor are already paying the cost of adapting to
... judge whether expected drought or floods mean certain key crops won’t grow. Similarly, many know to plant more tolerant crops in hard years, but lack the drought-tolerant or salt-resistant seeds now needed to deal with worsening conditions. “The farmers of today across the world, half are non-litera ...
... judge whether expected drought or floods mean certain key crops won’t grow. Similarly, many know to plant more tolerant crops in hard years, but lack the drought-tolerant or salt-resistant seeds now needed to deal with worsening conditions. “The farmers of today across the world, half are non-litera ...
The BBVA Foundation honors the authors of the mathematical
... long-term climate simulations. This model is being constantly upgraded in line with new findings and technological advances. In 1987, he and Sergej Lebedeff published GISS’ first global temperature analysis, which detected an increase in Earth temperatures between 1880 and 1985. In a 1988 paper, Han ...
... long-term climate simulations. This model is being constantly upgraded in line with new findings and technological advances. In 1987, he and Sergej Lebedeff published GISS’ first global temperature analysis, which detected an increase in Earth temperatures between 1880 and 1985. In a 1988 paper, Han ...
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... long-term climate simulations. This model is being constantly upgraded in line with new findings and technological advances. In 1987, he and Sergej Lebedeff published GISS’ first global temperature analysis, which detected an increase in Earth temperatures between 1880 and 1985. In a 1988 paper, Han ...
... long-term climate simulations. This model is being constantly upgraded in line with new findings and technological advances. In 1987, he and Sergej Lebedeff published GISS’ first global temperature analysis, which detected an increase in Earth temperatures between 1880 and 1985. In a 1988 paper, Han ...
Centro de Ciencia del Sistema Terrestre: Conocimiento interdisciplinar para el desempeño nacional. Lincoln Muñiz, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brasil
... Scientific partner of the INCT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE 139 research groups 76 Brazilian Institutions In response to the urgency that the challenge of global climate change imposes on society, and the critical need for high quality and relevant scientific knowledge to inform the public policy process on t ...
... Scientific partner of the INCT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE 139 research groups 76 Brazilian Institutions In response to the urgency that the challenge of global climate change imposes on society, and the critical need for high quality and relevant scientific knowledge to inform the public policy process on t ...
Mr Chairman
... Ecosystem Assessment underlines the magnitude of this challenge: biodiversity continues to be lost at all levels, and most ecosystem services are in decline. This poses a significant barrier to the achievement of the Millennium Development ...
... Ecosystem Assessment underlines the magnitude of this challenge: biodiversity continues to be lost at all levels, and most ecosystem services are in decline. This poses a significant barrier to the achievement of the Millennium Development ...
It`s a Hard-Knock Butterfly`s Life
... graze, grew well. However, two of the horses are 18-hand draft horses (like Budweiser Clydesdales, but coal-black) with neck and head so huge that they could reach over the fence. They don't eat common milkweeds, but they chewed the exotic milkweeds almost to the ground. The only successful milkweed ...
... graze, grew well. However, two of the horses are 18-hand draft horses (like Budweiser Clydesdales, but coal-black) with neck and head so huge that they could reach over the fence. They don't eat common milkweeds, but they chewed the exotic milkweeds almost to the ground. The only successful milkweed ...
FACTS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE
... 5. Since greenhouse gases make up such a small percentage of the atmosphere, why do changes in their concentrations have such a big effect on climate? Most greenhouse gases are extremely effective at absorbing heat escaping from the earth and keeping it trapped. In other words, it takes only small ...
... 5. Since greenhouse gases make up such a small percentage of the atmosphere, why do changes in their concentrations have such a big effect on climate? Most greenhouse gases are extremely effective at absorbing heat escaping from the earth and keeping it trapped. In other words, it takes only small ...
Summary_of_extremes_SIO_Sasha
... recent past. Northern watersheds in the Sierra Nevada, however, may become wetter with climate change. Santa Ana winds of coastal Southern California are expected to diminish in frequency and intensity, but at the same time become drier and hotter. Sea level rise is expected to cause more frequent a ...
... recent past. Northern watersheds in the Sierra Nevada, however, may become wetter with climate change. Santa Ana winds of coastal Southern California are expected to diminish in frequency and intensity, but at the same time become drier and hotter. Sea level rise is expected to cause more frequent a ...
Statement by BAN Ki-moon at the opening of the high
... That is the challenge before us today. That is the imperative. It would be difficult to overstate the gravity of this moment. Without exaggeration, we can say: the future of our planet is at stake. People’s lives, the health of global economy, the very survival of some nations. The science is clear. ...
... That is the challenge before us today. That is the imperative. It would be difficult to overstate the gravity of this moment. Without exaggeration, we can say: the future of our planet is at stake. People’s lives, the health of global economy, the very survival of some nations. The science is clear. ...
Recent climate change in the Baltic Sea region
... Professor at Universität Hamburg, Meteorologcal Institute and Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences Guest-Professor at the Oean University of ...
... Professor at Universität Hamburg, Meteorologcal Institute and Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences Guest-Professor at the Oean University of ...
R.A. Pielke Sr. University of Colorado at Boulder March 16, 2011
... in the coming decades. Examples and reasons for this lack of forecast skill are presented. This includes the failure of a global average surface temperature trend as a robust metric of global warming, and, more generally, of climate change. As an alternative approach, we are developing a bottom-up, ...
... in the coming decades. Examples and reasons for this lack of forecast skill are presented. This includes the failure of a global average surface temperature trend as a robust metric of global warming, and, more generally, of climate change. As an alternative approach, we are developing a bottom-up, ...
IGAD Regional Climate Change Strategy (IRCCS) Validated
... The member states of IGAD have validated the IRCCS that aims to address human induced climate change in the region. 09 March, 2016 – Nairobi, Kenya: The IGAD Regional Climate Change Strategy was validated by the member states during a two day workshop held at the Hilton Hotel in Nairobi, from 08 to ...
... The member states of IGAD have validated the IRCCS that aims to address human induced climate change in the region. 09 March, 2016 – Nairobi, Kenya: The IGAD Regional Climate Change Strategy was validated by the member states during a two day workshop held at the Hilton Hotel in Nairobi, from 08 to ...
Best Practices of the Coping with Drought and Climate Change Project
... implementation in four African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. •The main objective of the project is to pilot drought and climate change activities in the four drought affected countries, where the impacts of drought have been found disastrous. •The project in Kalu woreda of sou ...
... implementation in four African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. •The main objective of the project is to pilot drought and climate change activities in the four drought affected countries, where the impacts of drought have been found disastrous. •The project in Kalu woreda of sou ...
module 10: what evidence do we have of climate change
... There was no accurate measurement of air temperature until the 17 th Century. To know what was happening before 1850, we have to rely on what things like tree rings, fossils, and the gases trapped in ice cores tell us about local temperatures. This information is much less precise, and much less glo ...
... There was no accurate measurement of air temperature until the 17 th Century. To know what was happening before 1850, we have to rely on what things like tree rings, fossils, and the gases trapped in ice cores tell us about local temperatures. This information is much less precise, and much less glo ...
Presentation Title, Arial Regular 29pt Sub title, Arial Regular 24pt
... • There are two points of action: mitigation (addressing the cause) and adaptation (planned response to the changes) • Mitigation of climate change refers to those response strategies that reduce the sources of greenhouse gases or enhance their sinks • Adaptation involves adjusting practices, proces ...
... • There are two points of action: mitigation (addressing the cause) and adaptation (planned response to the changes) • Mitigation of climate change refers to those response strategies that reduce the sources of greenhouse gases or enhance their sinks • Adaptation involves adjusting practices, proces ...
QUEST-FISH: Predicting the impacts and consequences
... The main objective of QUEST-Fish is to elucidate how climate change will affect the potential production for global fisheries resources in the future and to estimate the added vulnerability of these effects on national and regional economies in fisherydependent areas and on specific elements of the ...
... The main objective of QUEST-Fish is to elucidate how climate change will affect the potential production for global fisheries resources in the future and to estimate the added vulnerability of these effects on national and regional economies in fisherydependent areas and on specific elements of the ...
PPT - UW Atmospheric Sciences
... 5. Nearly all multi-year sea ice gone? 1 meter (3ft) sea level rise - world 1 meter (3ft) sea level rise - SEUS ...
... 5. Nearly all multi-year sea ice gone? 1 meter (3ft) sea level rise - world 1 meter (3ft) sea level rise - SEUS ...