Understanding Climate Change And Impacts On Tourism In The
... along the way to gather additional personal comments and data from Outer Banks residents and visitors. Through discussions, interviews, meetings and by other means, the authors accumulated a large amount of published and unpublished facts and intelligence sources used throughout this research study. ...
... along the way to gather additional personal comments and data from Outer Banks residents and visitors. Through discussions, interviews, meetings and by other means, the authors accumulated a large amount of published and unpublished facts and intelligence sources used throughout this research study. ...
3.3 Evidence of temperature changes in the study regions
... dependence on rain-fed cultivation. The amount and pattern of rainfall plays a key role in determining agricultural productivity (Haile 2005). Ghana has experienced considerable variations in temperature and rainfall patterns since the 1960s (EPA 2003). Whilst uncertainties remain on future estimat ...
... dependence on rain-fed cultivation. The amount and pattern of rainfall plays a key role in determining agricultural productivity (Haile 2005). Ghana has experienced considerable variations in temperature and rainfall patterns since the 1960s (EPA 2003). Whilst uncertainties remain on future estimat ...
mobilising climate finance
... liability claims for losses caused by climate change and transition risks, primarily from stranded assets. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had estimated that two-thirds of fossil fuel assets should not be sold if warming was to be kept below a two degree rise. Carney called for ...
... liability claims for losses caused by climate change and transition risks, primarily from stranded assets. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had estimated that two-thirds of fossil fuel assets should not be sold if warming was to be kept below a two degree rise. Carney called for ...
Project Document for CEO Approval
... Finalization of Reports: To date (November 2001), four final draft technical reports have been prepared. These are: (i) Cambodia's 1994 Greenhouse Gas Inventory; (ii) Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Analysis: Energy and Transport; (iii) Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Analysis: Agriculture and Land Use Change a ...
... Finalization of Reports: To date (November 2001), four final draft technical reports have been prepared. These are: (i) Cambodia's 1994 Greenhouse Gas Inventory; (ii) Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Analysis: Energy and Transport; (iii) Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Analysis: Agriculture and Land Use Change a ...
Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... “And now our world is different. The climate has been permanently altered and is on an escalating vector of change, not because of what we are going to put into the atmosphere in the future but as a consequence of what we have already done”. - Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, 2009/2010 Annual ...
... “And now our world is different. The climate has been permanently altered and is on an escalating vector of change, not because of what we are going to put into the atmosphere in the future but as a consequence of what we have already done”. - Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, 2009/2010 Annual ...
Climate change and animal health in Africa
... – its poor development status – associated weaknesses in its science and technology infrastructure – institutional weaknesses – political and social instability. All of these disadvantages seriously hamper the capacity of Africa to respond (22, 43, 44). The same applies to the African livestock sect ...
... – its poor development status – associated weaknesses in its science and technology infrastructure – institutional weaknesses – political and social instability. All of these disadvantages seriously hamper the capacity of Africa to respond (22, 43, 44). The same applies to the African livestock sect ...
SAP Highlevel presentation
... Additional Information of Interest to Decision-Makers (metrics, scenarios) Appendices: • Chapter Summaries • Other Supporting Detail (e.g., tables of ODPs, lifetimes, scenario details) ...
... Additional Information of Interest to Decision-Makers (metrics, scenarios) Appendices: • Chapter Summaries • Other Supporting Detail (e.g., tables of ODPs, lifetimes, scenario details) ...
For Peer Review - Climate Access
... beings as instruments that guide practical behaviour, they are signals used in social life’. Every sign is at one at the same time a symptom (indicator, index) by virtue of its dependence on the sender (whose internal state it expresses), a signal by virtue of its appeal to the recipient (whose beha ...
... beings as instruments that guide practical behaviour, they are signals used in social life’. Every sign is at one at the same time a symptom (indicator, index) by virtue of its dependence on the sender (whose internal state it expresses), a signal by virtue of its appeal to the recipient (whose beha ...
Hasan, F.A. Human Agency, Climate Change, and Culture
... the intensity of archaeological research and dating objectives. It is important to infer climatic events from well-dated geological and environmental proxies. Archaeologists also need to pay attention to the screening of radiocarbon data to ensure that they accurately date the event under considerat ...
... the intensity of archaeological research and dating objectives. It is important to infer climatic events from well-dated geological and environmental proxies. Archaeologists also need to pay attention to the screening of radiocarbon data to ensure that they accurately date the event under considerat ...
Building Climate Resilience in the Blue Nile/Abay Highlands: A Role
... research and applications aimed at building greater climate resilience in the area. In this context, we examine climate resilience at the community level, defining it as the ability of communities to withstand and recover from climate-induced stresses. Communities can engage in resilience-building a ...
... research and applications aimed at building greater climate resilience in the area. In this context, we examine climate resilience at the community level, defining it as the ability of communities to withstand and recover from climate-induced stresses. Communities can engage in resilience-building a ...
Climate Change and British Woodland
... atmosphere to trap a larger proportion of radiant energy from the sun. As a consequence, global surface temperatures are gradually rising, and the ten warmest years in the instrumented temperature record (1861–the present day) have all occurred since 1990. The gradual warming of the earth’s climate ...
... atmosphere to trap a larger proportion of radiant energy from the sun. As a consequence, global surface temperatures are gradually rising, and the ten warmest years in the instrumented temperature record (1861–the present day) have all occurred since 1990. The gradual warming of the earth’s climate ...
Where We Are Now - Edinburgh Research Explorer
... secure its ultimate end.15 Within that context, however, and although one might quibble about the inclusion or exclusion of particular papers, the selection can be taken as a more or less representative snapshot of “where we are now”. Thus, in identifying “gaps” I am not so much criticizing the edit ...
... secure its ultimate end.15 Within that context, however, and although one might quibble about the inclusion or exclusion of particular papers, the selection can be taken as a more or less representative snapshot of “where we are now”. Thus, in identifying “gaps” I am not so much criticizing the edit ...
Provenance Trials in Alpine Range – Review and Perspectives for
... nursery experiments are usually used for short term investigations, field experiments are established for periods of many years with iterated measurements. Actually, the very old provenance tests (tree age > 30 years) do often yield the most valuable results, since they enable reliable statements ab ...
... nursery experiments are usually used for short term investigations, field experiments are established for periods of many years with iterated measurements. Actually, the very old provenance tests (tree age > 30 years) do often yield the most valuable results, since they enable reliable statements ab ...
Simple Messages Help Set the Record Straight about Scientific
... that human-caused climate change is occurring. A 2013 survey showed that only 42% of American adults believe “most scientists think global warming is happening.” Moreover, only about 1 in 5 survey respondents (22%) estimated the level of agreement among climate scientists at more than 80%; the most ...
... that human-caused climate change is occurring. A 2013 survey showed that only 42% of American adults believe “most scientists think global warming is happening.” Moreover, only about 1 in 5 survey respondents (22%) estimated the level of agreement among climate scientists at more than 80%; the most ...
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... reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. ...
Evidence for parallel adaptation to climate across the natural range
... speed (wnd). The ninth was elevation and consisted of a single measure for each location. We included all available climate factors to avoid any a priori assumptions about which factors were most important. We ran additional analyses on a selected subset of the data (mean temperature from November t ...
... speed (wnd). The ninth was elevation and consisted of a single measure for each location. We included all available climate factors to avoid any a priori assumptions about which factors were most important. We ran additional analyses on a selected subset of the data (mean temperature from November t ...
PDF File - Patrick Gonzalez
... Attribution is determination of the relative importance of different factors in causing observed change. If statistical analysis and multiple lines of evidence demonstrate that observed changes are (1) unlikely to be due entirely to natural variability, (2) consistent with estimated or modeled respo ...
... Attribution is determination of the relative importance of different factors in causing observed change. If statistical analysis and multiple lines of evidence demonstrate that observed changes are (1) unlikely to be due entirely to natural variability, (2) consistent with estimated or modeled respo ...
magnitude and frequency
... frequency based on climate model results. The majority of climate model experiments point to increased flood hazard for the UK linked to more extreme precipitation events and greater winter rainfall totals by the 2080s. One study claims that past greenhouse gas emissions (the ‘human fingerprint’) ha ...
... frequency based on climate model results. The majority of climate model experiments point to increased flood hazard for the UK linked to more extreme precipitation events and greater winter rainfall totals by the 2080s. One study claims that past greenhouse gas emissions (the ‘human fingerprint’) ha ...
Paper 4: Climate Change and Biodiversity in High
... Alaska to Terre del Fuego contains many high peaks and plateaux even in lower latitudes where the environmental conditions are too harsh to support vegetation and its associated animal life in the abundance and diversity of that found nearby at lower elevations. In these areas also, small changes in ...
... Alaska to Terre del Fuego contains many high peaks and plateaux even in lower latitudes where the environmental conditions are too harsh to support vegetation and its associated animal life in the abundance and diversity of that found nearby at lower elevations. In these areas also, small changes in ...