the critical decade:climate change and health
... While climate change has potentially wideranging effects, many other non-climatic factors contribute to their severity. As above, this is evident from our existing experiences with how various systems and sectors respond to environmental change. For example, as noted in The Critical Decade: Climate ...
... While climate change has potentially wideranging effects, many other non-climatic factors contribute to their severity. As above, this is evident from our existing experiences with how various systems and sectors respond to environmental change. For example, as noted in The Critical Decade: Climate ...
Workshop Report - Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and
... atmosphere and are tracking in line with the ‘worst case’ scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This combined with continued emissions commits the planet to further global climate change. Globally, temperatures have increased 0.74°C over the last 100 years. The ...
... atmosphere and are tracking in line with the ‘worst case’ scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This combined with continued emissions commits the planet to further global climate change. Globally, temperatures have increased 0.74°C over the last 100 years. The ...
Death by Degrees: North Carolina
... 2000 has been one of the fifteen warmest years on record.2 In 2000, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the winter of 2000 was the warmest winter on record since the United States government began keeping weather statistics 105 years ago.3 This was ...
... 2000 has been one of the fifteen warmest years on record.2 In 2000, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the winter of 2000 was the warmest winter on record since the United States government began keeping weather statistics 105 years ago.3 This was ...
Planning and costing agricultural adaptation to climate change in
... shocks and extreme events such as drought, excessive rains, floods and high temperatures, which have an caused inadequate supply of water and pasture, increases in disease incidences, and death of animals. It is probable that in the future such events are likely to have even more serious repercussio ...
... shocks and extreme events such as drought, excessive rains, floods and high temperatures, which have an caused inadequate supply of water and pasture, increases in disease incidences, and death of animals. It is probable that in the future such events are likely to have even more serious repercussio ...
36 - Ecology and Society
... species, ecosystem components, and ecosystems, in addition to uncertainty related to climate change itself, and those inherent to modeling and scale of projections. Successful forecasts must identify ecosystem attributes for which uncertainty can be reduced sufficiently to provide information useful ...
... species, ecosystem components, and ecosystems, in addition to uncertainty related to climate change itself, and those inherent to modeling and scale of projections. Successful forecasts must identify ecosystem attributes for which uncertainty can be reduced sufficiently to provide information useful ...
What Is El Niño? - Institute For Global Environmental Strategies
... water to rise to the surface to nourish plankton, fishes, seabirds, sea lions, and other marine life of the coastal region. The trade winds pile up warm water in the western Pacific north of Australia, keeping surface water temperatures and sea level in the western Pacific higher than elsewhere. ...
... water to rise to the surface to nourish plankton, fishes, seabirds, sea lions, and other marine life of the coastal region. The trade winds pile up warm water in the western Pacific north of Australia, keeping surface water temperatures and sea level in the western Pacific higher than elsewhere. ...
A Brewing Storm: The climate change risks to
... risen by nearly 1°C. By 2100, the world is projected to warm by a further 2.6°C to 4.8°C in a likely scenario.6 This may sound like small changes but the consequences for global agriculture and development will be far-reaching, complex, and dire.7 Between 80 and 90% of the world’s 25 million coffee ...
... risen by nearly 1°C. By 2100, the world is projected to warm by a further 2.6°C to 4.8°C in a likely scenario.6 This may sound like small changes but the consequences for global agriculture and development will be far-reaching, complex, and dire.7 Between 80 and 90% of the world’s 25 million coffee ...
Inter-hemispheric linkages in climate change
... The focus for much of this work has centred on the termination of the last ice-age. The primary reason for this is that the warming associated with this termination is of similar or even larger magnitude than the human-induced climate modification expected under future greenhouse-gas scenarios (Wats ...
... The focus for much of this work has centred on the termination of the last ice-age. The primary reason for this is that the warming associated with this termination is of similar or even larger magnitude than the human-induced climate modification expected under future greenhouse-gas scenarios (Wats ...
Future changes in the supply of goods and services - Munin
... species, ecosystem components, and ecosystems, in addition to uncertainty related to climate change itself, and those inherent to modeling and scale of projections. Successful forecasts must identify ecosystem attributes for which uncertainty can be reduced sufficiently to provide information useful ...
... species, ecosystem components, and ecosystems, in addition to uncertainty related to climate change itself, and those inherent to modeling and scale of projections. Successful forecasts must identify ecosystem attributes for which uncertainty can be reduced sufficiently to provide information useful ...
Future humidity trends over the western United States in the CMIP5
... humidity increased in the northern interior US from 1961– 1995, but slightly (non-significantly) decreased during summer and autumn in the southwest. Dai (2006) analyzed global weather reports from 1976 to 2004 and found RH increases in the northern part of the western US on into Canada, and decreas ...
... humidity increased in the northern interior US from 1961– 1995, but slightly (non-significantly) decreased during summer and autumn in the southwest. Dai (2006) analyzed global weather reports from 1976 to 2004 and found RH increases in the northern part of the western US on into Canada, and decreas ...
Noosa Climate Action Plan
... As a descendant of the traditional Custodians of this magnificent area , I would like to acknowledge and pay respects to my ancestors. For 60,000 years the local Gubbi Gubbi /Kabi Kabi people nurtured and cared for this land. This was our responsibility, and still is a responsibility we take very se ...
... As a descendant of the traditional Custodians of this magnificent area , I would like to acknowledge and pay respects to my ancestors. For 60,000 years the local Gubbi Gubbi /Kabi Kabi people nurtured and cared for this land. This was our responsibility, and still is a responsibility we take very se ...
How much risk ought we to take? Exploring the possibilities of
... situations in which we simply have a range of options which score differently with respect to well-being, equality and risk, Peterson's account might leave us unsatisfied. As we said at the beginning of this paper, we want to explore the possibility of presenting a risk-sensitive consequentialism wh ...
... situations in which we simply have a range of options which score differently with respect to well-being, equality and risk, Peterson's account might leave us unsatisfied. As we said at the beginning of this paper, we want to explore the possibility of presenting a risk-sensitive consequentialism wh ...
The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change
... The radiation absorbed by these gases is re-emitted in all directions, some back toward the surface leading to a net warming of the surface. Through what is widely, but inaccurately, referred to as the greenhouse effect, these so-called greenhouse gases trap heat in the near surface layers of the at ...
... The radiation absorbed by these gases is re-emitted in all directions, some back toward the surface leading to a net warming of the surface. Through what is widely, but inaccurately, referred to as the greenhouse effect, these so-called greenhouse gases trap heat in the near surface layers of the at ...
Climate Change and Whitebark Pine
... growth and more frequent cone crops due to warmer summers and longer growing seasons. The notion that whitebark pine will stop growing and reproducing at high elevations under future climates is unsubstantiated, and it is entirely possible that as long as wildland fire creates areas where birds will ...
... growth and more frequent cone crops due to warmer summers and longer growing seasons. The notion that whitebark pine will stop growing and reproducing at high elevations under future climates is unsubstantiated, and it is entirely possible that as long as wildland fire creates areas where birds will ...
Climate change: hydrological impact studies
... have major impacts on modern rivers in the future. Climate influences rivers directly by controlling the hydrological inputs of a river basin, but it also controls rivers in a more indirect way by influencing vegetation cover, erosion rates and soil characteristics of river basins. In this section w ...
... have major impacts on modern rivers in the future. Climate influences rivers directly by controlling the hydrological inputs of a river basin, but it also controls rivers in a more indirect way by influencing vegetation cover, erosion rates and soil characteristics of river basins. In this section w ...
North America
... continuing increases in disturbances are likely to limit carbon storage, facilitate invasive species, and disrupt ecosystem services. Warmer summer temperatures are expected to extend the annual window of high fire ignition risk by 10-30%, and could result in increased area burned of 74-118% in Cana ...
... continuing increases in disturbances are likely to limit carbon storage, facilitate invasive species, and disrupt ecosystem services. Warmer summer temperatures are expected to extend the annual window of high fire ignition risk by 10-30%, and could result in increased area burned of 74-118% in Cana ...
Climate change hits home
... between 5 and 20 percent of global GDP.3 In California, climate mitigation through Assembly Bill 32 is projected to have a net positive economic impact, increasing gross state product, personal income (including $4 billion in fuel savings by 2020) and job creation. But if no actions are taken, clima ...
... between 5 and 20 percent of global GDP.3 In California, climate mitigation through Assembly Bill 32 is projected to have a net positive economic impact, increasing gross state product, personal income (including $4 billion in fuel savings by 2020) and job creation. But if no actions are taken, clima ...
A Brewing Storm - The Climate Institute
... Today, the CO2 concentration in the air is 40 per cent higher than at any time for at least 800,000 years, and may double before 2100, unless emissions are cut.30 One recent two-year study suggests that extra CO2 boosts coffee yields significantly.31 It remains unclear if and to what extent the CO2 ...
... Today, the CO2 concentration in the air is 40 per cent higher than at any time for at least 800,000 years, and may double before 2100, unless emissions are cut.30 One recent two-year study suggests that extra CO2 boosts coffee yields significantly.31 It remains unclear if and to what extent the CO2 ...
China`s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change
... municipalities. 760 million yuan has been arranged through the central government budget to support a group of circular economy pilot projects. The government worked and published a catalogue of the technologies to support the circular economy of important industries. The related departments of the ...
... municipalities. 760 million yuan has been arranged through the central government budget to support a group of circular economy pilot projects. The government worked and published a catalogue of the technologies to support the circular economy of important industries. The related departments of the ...
Senate Inquiry into the Kyoto Protocol
... In conjunction with this research, much more needs to be known about the effects of climate change on agricultural production, and the best means of alleviating these impacts. For further details on these research requirements, please see the Report of the Land Management Working Group to the Govern ...
... In conjunction with this research, much more needs to be known about the effects of climate change on agricultural production, and the best means of alleviating these impacts. For further details on these research requirements, please see the Report of the Land Management Working Group to the Govern ...
Enhancing the resilience of inland fisheries and
... The aims of the paper are to raise awareness of the actual and potential importance of fisheries and aquaculture in these dryland contexts; to review how these production systems and their associated livelihoods are affected by, and adapted to, climate variability; and to propose how their resilienc ...
... The aims of the paper are to raise awareness of the actual and potential importance of fisheries and aquaculture in these dryland contexts; to review how these production systems and their associated livelihoods are affected by, and adapted to, climate variability; and to propose how their resilienc ...
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... example, the benefits of irrigation would depend greatly on the extent to which it was used, rather than simply whether it was adopted or not. Secondly, even though adaptation is inherently a time-series phenomenon (conditions change and individuals react in turn), research that has quantitatively a ...
... example, the benefits of irrigation would depend greatly on the extent to which it was used, rather than simply whether it was adopted or not. Secondly, even though adaptation is inherently a time-series phenomenon (conditions change and individuals react in turn), research that has quantitatively a ...