The economic impact of climate change on road infrastructure in sub
... models projecting increases and half projecting decreases. Several researchers have documented the impact of climate change on economic systems which is envisaged to be high. A study by the World Bank (1996) indicates that average global temperatures will increase by 1.4 to 5.8 oC over the next 100 ...
... models projecting increases and half projecting decreases. Several researchers have documented the impact of climate change on economic systems which is envisaged to be high. A study by the World Bank (1996) indicates that average global temperatures will increase by 1.4 to 5.8 oC over the next 100 ...
Solution Aversion: On the Relation Between Ideology and Motivated
... Some researchers have posited that conservatives are dispositionally more prone to motivated cognition (Jost et al., 2003). Some findings suggest in particular that conservatives have a greater sensitivity to fearful and negative information that may lead to motivational differences in cognition (Ca ...
... Some researchers have posited that conservatives are dispositionally more prone to motivated cognition (Jost et al., 2003). Some findings suggest in particular that conservatives have a greater sensitivity to fearful and negative information that may lead to motivational differences in cognition (Ca ...
Feedbacks and climate sensitivity
... • Can be used to propagate how uncertainty in one process controls uncertainty in system response. • Puts different mechanisms in the same non-dimensional language. e.g., Gaia is just a number…. fGaia ~ -0.65 (which is pretty absurd) ...
... • Can be used to propagate how uncertainty in one process controls uncertainty in system response. • Puts different mechanisms in the same non-dimensional language. e.g., Gaia is just a number…. fGaia ~ -0.65 (which is pretty absurd) ...
Public views on climate change: European and USA Perspectives
... Centre for Environmental Risk and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK E-mail: [email protected] ...
... Centre for Environmental Risk and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK E-mail: [email protected] ...
flying blind: navigating climate change without the
... decisions. Without such knowledge there is an increased likelihood that more lives will be lost and property damaged, and more funding misspent on ill-informed investments. Critically, in a rapidly changing climate where the nature of risks is constantly changing, ongoing research is required to con ...
... decisions. Without such knowledge there is an increased likelihood that more lives will be lost and property damaged, and more funding misspent on ill-informed investments. Critically, in a rapidly changing climate where the nature of risks is constantly changing, ongoing research is required to con ...
Climate and Culture - George Mason University
... localizing is a calculation, the resultant of another model . . . I argue that identifying climate change and localizing it though scientific expertise is an activity that is much more complex than “simply” calculating. A close examination of scientific practice makes clear that localizing is as much ...
... localizing is a calculation, the resultant of another model . . . I argue that identifying climate change and localizing it though scientific expertise is an activity that is much more complex than “simply” calculating. A close examination of scientific practice makes clear that localizing is as much ...
- Wiley Online Library
... without a past: it has sometimes been used to refer to air conditioning technologies, as opposed to the large scale climate control being considered here. The word ‘engineering’ itself may also be misleading as we are considering here methods that try to influence one aspect of a complex system rath ...
... without a past: it has sometimes been used to refer to air conditioning technologies, as opposed to the large scale climate control being considered here. The word ‘engineering’ itself may also be misleading as we are considering here methods that try to influence one aspect of a complex system rath ...
Climate change
... believe that student respect rests on their projecting an image of being “all knowing”. When faced with the task of teaching a topic as important but complex as climate change, such feelings can be a real constraint. A key to overcoming this problem is to be found in the certain knowledge that on an ...
... believe that student respect rests on their projecting an image of being “all knowing”. When faced with the task of teaching a topic as important but complex as climate change, such feelings can be a real constraint. A key to overcoming this problem is to be found in the certain knowledge that on an ...
Gary Yohe - Evaulating Adaptation Methods
... to adaptation option. Resources (Determinant 2) could be distributed differently across specific locations, but adaptive capacity may be more sensitive to larger scale distributional issues across different locations. The essential questions here focus on whether sufficient funds are available to pa ...
... to adaptation option. Resources (Determinant 2) could be distributed differently across specific locations, but adaptive capacity may be more sensitive to larger scale distributional issues across different locations. The essential questions here focus on whether sufficient funds are available to pa ...
How limiting factors drive agricultural adaptation to
... on other agronomic and socio-economic limiting factors. For example, a farmer’s debt load may have a profound effect on their ability to implement irrigation, which may help them respond to water as a limiting factor. We hope that future work can assess the interaction of these potential factors and ...
... on other agronomic and socio-economic limiting factors. For example, a farmer’s debt load may have a profound effect on their ability to implement irrigation, which may help them respond to water as a limiting factor. We hope that future work can assess the interaction of these potential factors and ...
Not a Problem, Someone Else`s Problem, My Problem or Our
... approaches to framing climate change issues (e.g. environmental, economic, security, social, cultural, ethical, health and spiritual) can influence people’s emotional responses and willingness to engage. 5. In New Zealand and other countries, people remain fragmented along the spectrum of beliefs a ...
... approaches to framing climate change issues (e.g. environmental, economic, security, social, cultural, ethical, health and spiritual) can influence people’s emotional responses and willingness to engage. 5. In New Zealand and other countries, people remain fragmented along the spectrum of beliefs a ...
Modeling plant species distributions under future
... Recent studies suggest that species distribution models (SDMs) based on fine-scale climate data may provide markedly different estimates of climate-change impacts than coarse-scale models. However, these studies disagree in their conclusions of how scale influences projected species distributions. I ...
... Recent studies suggest that species distribution models (SDMs) based on fine-scale climate data may provide markedly different estimates of climate-change impacts than coarse-scale models. However, these studies disagree in their conclusions of how scale influences projected species distributions. I ...
Climate Change: Overview and Implications for Wildlife
... inculcated in this volume, these forms will not have been liable to much modification. If this were true, the principal ecological concern over the prospect of future climate change would be that human land-use patterns might block what had previously been the freeranging movement of natural communi ...
... inculcated in this volume, these forms will not have been liable to much modification. If this were true, the principal ecological concern over the prospect of future climate change would be that human land-use patterns might block what had previously been the freeranging movement of natural communi ...
Final qualitative report
... polluting’ countries like China and India are ‘doing nothing’ and ‘don’t care’ about their carbon emissions and due to their relative size reduce the efforts and sacrifices of Australians to virtually naught. Some people who support carbon pricing do so only on the basis of ‘we need to start somew ...
... polluting’ countries like China and India are ‘doing nothing’ and ‘don’t care’ about their carbon emissions and due to their relative size reduce the efforts and sacrifices of Australians to virtually naught. Some people who support carbon pricing do so only on the basis of ‘we need to start somew ...
The Science of Climate Change, Questions and Answers
... as mature within the framework required to discuss climate. It is at this intersection of the disciplines where uncertainty can and will arise, both because of the yet poorly understood feedbacks between the different components of the climate system and because of the difficulty of bringing these c ...
... as mature within the framework required to discuss climate. It is at this intersection of the disciplines where uncertainty can and will arise, both because of the yet poorly understood feedbacks between the different components of the climate system and because of the difficulty of bringing these c ...
Vulnerability to climate change and sea
... There is an urgent need to understand how climate change, including sea-level rise, is likely to threaten biodiversity and cause secondary effects, such as agroecosystem alteration and human displacement. The consequences of climate change, and the resulting sea-level rise within the Forests of East ...
... There is an urgent need to understand how climate change, including sea-level rise, is likely to threaten biodiversity and cause secondary effects, such as agroecosystem alteration and human displacement. The consequences of climate change, and the resulting sea-level rise within the Forests of East ...
Ireland Adapts to Climate Change Report Series No. 9
... the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; members of the Impacts and Adaptation Steering Group; and all those in government departments and agencies, NGOs and other groups who contributed to this work (see a list of those consulted in Appendix 1). The authors would also like ...
... the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; members of the Impacts and Adaptation Steering Group; and all those in government departments and agencies, NGOs and other groups who contributed to this work (see a list of those consulted in Appendix 1). The authors would also like ...