Silva2013-ERL-APMortality.pdf
... changes to past climate change, this approach accounts for effects of climate change on atmospheric processes and natural emissions, but ignores effects on anthropogenic emissions. To reduce the effects of inter-annual variability, models typically report several years of output for each simulation; ...
... changes to past climate change, this approach accounts for effects of climate change on atmospheric processes and natural emissions, but ignores effects on anthropogenic emissions. To reduce the effects of inter-annual variability, models typically report several years of output for each simulation; ...
dispersal, adaptation and the response of spatially structured
... structure [16] and endogenous factors including a sub-population’s local adaptation to climate [17], immediately impact the ability of populations to track a changing environment by migration. The overall effect of dispersal on rapid adaptation is not easy to predict, in part owing to a complicated ...
... structure [16] and endogenous factors including a sub-population’s local adaptation to climate [17], immediately impact the ability of populations to track a changing environment by migration. The overall effect of dispersal on rapid adaptation is not easy to predict, in part owing to a complicated ...
teaching manual - Live and Learn
... The combination of the probability of an event and the scale of it’s negative consequences. Disaster risks are the potential disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets and services, which could occur in a particular community or a society over some specified future time period. ...
... The combination of the probability of an event and the scale of it’s negative consequences. Disaster risks are the potential disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets and services, which could occur in a particular community or a society over some specified future time period. ...
Forecasting global climate change: A scientific approach Kesten C
... Subsequently published as “Forecasting Global Climate Change” in Climate Change: The Facts 2014. Alan Moran (Editor). Published by the Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia Abstract The Golden Rule of Forecasting requires that forecasters be conservative by making proper u ...
... Subsequently published as “Forecasting Global Climate Change” in Climate Change: The Facts 2014. Alan Moran (Editor). Published by the Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia Abstract The Golden Rule of Forecasting requires that forecasters be conservative by making proper u ...
Towards Critical Studies of Climate Adaptation - diss.fu
... rational and comprehensive approaches to overcome uncertainty and produce “win-win” benefits (e.g., Godschalk, Brody, and Burby 2003; While and Whitehead 2013). Operationally, adaptation planning, especially in the global North, focuses on infrastructure and land use planning solutions. Northern pr ...
... rational and comprehensive approaches to overcome uncertainty and produce “win-win” benefits (e.g., Godschalk, Brody, and Burby 2003; While and Whitehead 2013). Operationally, adaptation planning, especially in the global North, focuses on infrastructure and land use planning solutions. Northern pr ...
February 26, 2014 Ms. Mabel Echols Office of Information and
... component of sound benefit-cost analyses of regulations that directly or indirectly limit greenhouse gases. This endeavor is important because benefit-cost analysis is a central tool of regulatory policy in the United States, first institutionalized in a 1981 executive order by President Ronald Reag ...
... component of sound benefit-cost analyses of regulations that directly or indirectly limit greenhouse gases. This endeavor is important because benefit-cost analysis is a central tool of regulatory policy in the United States, first institutionalized in a 1981 executive order by President Ronald Reag ...
North Africa: The Impact of Climate Change to
... precipitation. Because coastal areas historically receive by far the largest amount of rainfall in North Africa, future decreases will likely have a significant and noticeable impact. Precipitation trends in the interior semiarid and arid regions of North Africa are more difficult to predict due to ...
... precipitation. Because coastal areas historically receive by far the largest amount of rainfall in North Africa, future decreases will likely have a significant and noticeable impact. Precipitation trends in the interior semiarid and arid regions of North Africa are more difficult to predict due to ...
Climate Change in the American Mind: March, 2016
... 1.4. Only about one in ten Americans understand that almost all climate scientists (more than 90%) have concluded human-caused global warming is happening. A recent review study by John Cook and colleagues2 found that all peer-reviewed studies about the extent of the scientific consensus about globa ...
... 1.4. Only about one in ten Americans understand that almost all climate scientists (more than 90%) have concluded human-caused global warming is happening. A recent review study by John Cook and colleagues2 found that all peer-reviewed studies about the extent of the scientific consensus about globa ...
“The role of conflict for optimal climate and immigration policy
... suggests that currently “the discussion is no longer about whether or not the climate influences conflict, but about when and how it does so.” It is here where we believe that we can provide some additional insights as to when a conflict may occur. However, we shall only focus on the link via migra ...
... suggests that currently “the discussion is no longer about whether or not the climate influences conflict, but about when and how it does so.” It is here where we believe that we can provide some additional insights as to when a conflict may occur. However, we shall only focus on the link via migra ...
Potential Impacts of Contemporary Changing Climate on Caribbean
... as inputs to mathematical models to examine global climate changes. The mathematical models are, in general, based upon imperfectlyknown geophysical and geochemical relationships and data. Yet, estimates of global climate change have been made based on these models, projecting increases in mean glob ...
... as inputs to mathematical models to examine global climate changes. The mathematical models are, in general, based upon imperfectlyknown geophysical and geochemical relationships and data. Yet, estimates of global climate change have been made based on these models, projecting increases in mean glob ...
Climate Change
... Biological Diversity (CBD) noted the specific vulnerabilities of indigenous and local communities to the impacts of climate change and the accelerated threats to traditional knowledge, innovations and practices. It has requested that further research be conducted into highly vulnerable indigenous an ...
... Biological Diversity (CBD) noted the specific vulnerabilities of indigenous and local communities to the impacts of climate change and the accelerated threats to traditional knowledge, innovations and practices. It has requested that further research be conducted into highly vulnerable indigenous an ...
Smith et al. 2008
... lepida (the desert woodrat) is much smaller (∼85–240 g) and found in low elevation xeric sites from extreme southeast Oregon and southern Idaho, through Nevada, California, and Baja California and surrounding islands in Mexico (Hall, 1981). In contrast, N. cinerea (the busytailed woodrat) is a large ...
... lepida (the desert woodrat) is much smaller (∼85–240 g) and found in low elevation xeric sites from extreme southeast Oregon and southern Idaho, through Nevada, California, and Baja California and surrounding islands in Mexico (Hall, 1981). In contrast, N. cinerea (the busytailed woodrat) is a large ...
Simulated and Observed Preindustrial to Modern
... roughness to influence the climate via their effects on surface fluxes of heat, water, and momentum. Tree ring records at globally scattered sites suggest that tree growth rates have increased since the midnineteenth century, even prior to the warming of the twentieth century (Briffa et al. 1998). W ...
... roughness to influence the climate via their effects on surface fluxes of heat, water, and momentum. Tree ring records at globally scattered sites suggest that tree growth rates have increased since the midnineteenth century, even prior to the warming of the twentieth century (Briffa et al. 1998). W ...
Climate Change in Japanese History and Prehistory
... Until recently, it was believed that instrument-based meteorological observations in Japan began as part of the Meiji government’s modernization program, specifically with the establishment of a meteorological station in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in 1872. (Observations in Tokyo began three years later, in ...
... Until recently, it was believed that instrument-based meteorological observations in Japan began as part of the Meiji government’s modernization program, specifically with the establishment of a meteorological station in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in 1872. (Observations in Tokyo began three years later, in ...
100568 - Climate Change Adaptation NEW CS3.indd
... currently already underway to support climate change adaptation. This also includes a number of actions that can be easily achieved and that will contribute to the body of work that is required under the NI188 guidelines. The ‘quick wins’ action plan has been structured by risk type. This documents ...
... currently already underway to support climate change adaptation. This also includes a number of actions that can be easily achieved and that will contribute to the body of work that is required under the NI188 guidelines. The ‘quick wins’ action plan has been structured by risk type. This documents ...
Interactive responses of old-field plant growth and composition to
... Grasslands, including steppes and savannah, cover more than 25% of Earth’s vegetated area (Ramankutty & Foley, 1999), providing ecosystem services such as forage production and carbon sequestration. Grasslands have high inter-annual variation in productivity (Fang et al., 2001; Knapp & Smith, 2001), ...
... Grasslands, including steppes and savannah, cover more than 25% of Earth’s vegetated area (Ramankutty & Foley, 1999), providing ecosystem services such as forage production and carbon sequestration. Grasslands have high inter-annual variation in productivity (Fang et al., 2001; Knapp & Smith, 2001), ...
successful adaptation implementation
... Cities around the world are preparing for a changing climate. There is no shortage of ideas concerning how cities might reduce the production of greenhouse gases or adapt to a warming planet. There are, though, significant challenges associated with making such ideas actionable. What does it take to ...
... Cities around the world are preparing for a changing climate. There is no shortage of ideas concerning how cities might reduce the production of greenhouse gases or adapt to a warming planet. There are, though, significant challenges associated with making such ideas actionable. What does it take to ...
SUBREGIONAL CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ADAPTATION AND
... meteorological phenomenon known as the “atmospheric river,” a narrow stream of extremely moist air, is frequently responsible for the more intense storms that strike California. Atmospheric rivers generally deliver high levels of precipitation, up to 50% of the state’s total precipitation in any giv ...
... meteorological phenomenon known as the “atmospheric river,” a narrow stream of extremely moist air, is frequently responsible for the more intense storms that strike California. Atmospheric rivers generally deliver high levels of precipitation, up to 50% of the state’s total precipitation in any giv ...
Effects of climate change and seed dispersal on airborne ragweed
... alien species in Europe producing pollen that causes severe allergic disease in susceptible individuals1 . Ragweed plants could further invade European land with climate and land-use changes2,3 . However, airborne pollen evolution depends not only on plant invasion, but also on pollen production, re ...
... alien species in Europe producing pollen that causes severe allergic disease in susceptible individuals1 . Ragweed plants could further invade European land with climate and land-use changes2,3 . However, airborne pollen evolution depends not only on plant invasion, but also on pollen production, re ...
The Economic Impacts of Climate Change
... year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation to estimate whether agricultural profits are higher or lower in years that are warmer and wetter. Specifically, we estimate the impacts of temperature and precipitation on agricultural profits and then multiply them by the predicted change in c ...
... year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation to estimate whether agricultural profits are higher or lower in years that are warmer and wetter. Specifically, we estimate the impacts of temperature and precipitation on agricultural profits and then multiply them by the predicted change in c ...
E1AH_Sample_Answers_Quiz_2
... globally minded in history, adept at looking at our world’s problems beyond national borders.” Gates sends a more positive message than Martinez – with the cosmopolitan nature of the Internet, people all over the globe can connect together. In fact, it is this positive view of technology that I agre ...
... globally minded in history, adept at looking at our world’s problems beyond national borders.” Gates sends a more positive message than Martinez – with the cosmopolitan nature of the Internet, people all over the globe can connect together. In fact, it is this positive view of technology that I agre ...
The Missing Science from the Draft National Assessment on Climate Change
... that this is absolutely the worst of all. Virtually every sentence can be contested or does not represent a complete survey of a relevant literature… …There is an overwhelming amount of misleading material in the CCSP’s “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.” It is immediately obvious ...
... that this is absolutely the worst of all. Virtually every sentence can be contested or does not represent a complete survey of a relevant literature… …There is an overwhelming amount of misleading material in the CCSP’s “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.” It is immediately obvious ...
NB Climate Change Hub | News Monitoring | April
... The government of the Maldives has held a cabinet meeting underwater to highlight the threat of global warming to the low-lying Indian Ocean nation. President Mohamed Nasheed and his cabinet signed a document calling for global cuts in carbon emissions. [more] CBS | Elizabeth Palmer, LONDON, Oct. 17 ...
... The government of the Maldives has held a cabinet meeting underwater to highlight the threat of global warming to the low-lying Indian Ocean nation. President Mohamed Nasheed and his cabinet signed a document calling for global cuts in carbon emissions. [more] CBS | Elizabeth Palmer, LONDON, Oct. 17 ...
Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration
... In SSA, on 80 million people suffering of starvation due to environmental factors, 7 million migrated to obtain food (Myers, 2005). The increasing in temperature of 2°C involve an increasing in population affected by malaria in Africa of 40-80 million people (70-80 million people affected with an in ...
... In SSA, on 80 million people suffering of starvation due to environmental factors, 7 million migrated to obtain food (Myers, 2005). The increasing in temperature of 2°C involve an increasing in population affected by malaria in Africa of 40-80 million people (70-80 million people affected with an in ...