An Uncertain Future: law enforcement, national security and climate
... Climate change is riding high on both domestic and international political agendas as countries face up to the huge environmental challenges the world now faces. Whilst this attention is welcome, less energy is being focused on the inevitable impact climate change will have on global and domestic se ...
... Climate change is riding high on both domestic and international political agendas as countries face up to the huge environmental challenges the world now faces. Whilst this attention is welcome, less energy is being focused on the inevitable impact climate change will have on global and domestic se ...
Nullifying the climate null hypothesis
... Key issues under debate in climate change detection and attribution arguments are the credibility of historical data sets and paleo-reconstructions, interpretation of natural modes of climate variability (forced and unforced), and sensitivity of the climate system to nonlinear interactions and feedb ...
... Key issues under debate in climate change detection and attribution arguments are the credibility of historical data sets and paleo-reconstructions, interpretation of natural modes of climate variability (forced and unforced), and sensitivity of the climate system to nonlinear interactions and feedb ...
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The impact of climate change on children[6]
... financing must be new, additional and accountable. At least 50% of climate change finance should be spent on adaptation to tackle the impacts of climate change that the poorest communities are experiencing now. Climate financing also needs to be clearly defined and distinct from Overseas Development ...
... financing must be new, additional and accountable. At least 50% of climate change finance should be spent on adaptation to tackle the impacts of climate change that the poorest communities are experiencing now. Climate financing also needs to be clearly defined and distinct from Overseas Development ...
A normative account of dangerous climate change
... In trying to understand the nature of dangerous climate change it would be folly not to incorporate the findings of climate science. We need to understand what CO2 does in the atmosphere, how long it stays there, what its likely climatic effects are, and the variety of positive feedbacks that warmin ...
... In trying to understand the nature of dangerous climate change it would be folly not to incorporate the findings of climate science. We need to understand what CO2 does in the atmosphere, how long it stays there, what its likely climatic effects are, and the variety of positive feedbacks that warmin ...
Clemmitt, "Climate change"
... • World ocean temperatures have and meadows sunken three feet lower “Greenhouse gas concentrations in risen by a net 0.11 degrees Fahren- the atmosphere are now higher than than the surrounding forest because heit over the past four decades. the permafrost had melted. 4 at any time in the last 750,0 ...
... • World ocean temperatures have and meadows sunken three feet lower “Greenhouse gas concentrations in risen by a net 0.11 degrees Fahren- the atmosphere are now higher than than the surrounding forest because heit over the past four decades. the permafrost had melted. 4 at any time in the last 750,0 ...
pdf - The Paleoindian Database of the Americas
... As scientific knowledge of the causes of climate change has grown, so, too, has public interest in the subject. ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth,’’ a film about global warming produced by former United States Vice President Al Gore, won an Oscar for best documentary in February 2007 (see also Gore, 2006). Earl ...
... As scientific knowledge of the causes of climate change has grown, so, too, has public interest in the subject. ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth,’’ a film about global warming produced by former United States Vice President Al Gore, won an Oscar for best documentary in February 2007 (see also Gore, 2006). Earl ...
Climate Change pdf
... Katanning is principally due to a predicted decline in rainfall. The modelling is considered only a guide, as the impact of high temperature on wheat yields remains a subject of debate, and other modelling undertaken by Howard et al. (1999) indicates that increased CO2 levels may ultimately lead to ...
... Katanning is principally due to a predicted decline in rainfall. The modelling is considered only a guide, as the impact of high temperature on wheat yields remains a subject of debate, and other modelling undertaken by Howard et al. (1999) indicates that increased CO2 levels may ultimately lead to ...
Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change-Related Information
... including COP20, the UN Climate Summit 2014 and the World Economic Forum’s January 2015 annual meeting, signifying a growing desire for greater awareness and understanding of the relationship between business activity and climate change. Corporate reporting approaches are therefore being developed a ...
... including COP20, the UN Climate Summit 2014 and the World Economic Forum’s January 2015 annual meeting, signifying a growing desire for greater awareness and understanding of the relationship between business activity and climate change. Corporate reporting approaches are therefore being developed a ...
Baltic Sea catchment
... Summary of BACC Results Baltic Area Climate Change Assessment • Presently a warming is going on in the Baltic Sea region. • No formal detection and attribution studies available. • BACC considers it plausible that this warming is at least partly related to anthropogenic factors. • So far, and in the ...
... Summary of BACC Results Baltic Area Climate Change Assessment • Presently a warming is going on in the Baltic Sea region. • No formal detection and attribution studies available. • BACC considers it plausible that this warming is at least partly related to anthropogenic factors. • So far, and in the ...
Computational data sciences may offer a path
... Tebaldi 2004) or through statistical distributions (e.g., extreme value theory for precipitation extremes: Kharin et al. 2007). Thus, our analysis (Ganguly et al. 2009b) of model-simulations and surrogate observations (reanalysis data generated by assimilating weather data from disparate sensors int ...
... Tebaldi 2004) or through statistical distributions (e.g., extreme value theory for precipitation extremes: Kharin et al. 2007). Thus, our analysis (Ganguly et al. 2009b) of model-simulations and surrogate observations (reanalysis data generated by assimilating weather data from disparate sensors int ...
An Overview On the Complexity of Humans Within It
... Change: Change: Expanding Expanding the the Concept Concept and and Addressing Addressing Uncertainties, Uncertainties, Committee Committee on on Radiative Radiative Forcing Forcing Effects Effects on on Climate, Climate, Climate Climate Research Research Committee, Committee, 224 ...
... Change: Change: Expanding Expanding the the Concept Concept and and Addressing Addressing Uncertainties, Uncertainties, Committee Committee on on Radiative Radiative Forcing Forcing Effects Effects on on Climate, Climate, Climate Climate Research Research Committee, Committee, 224 ...
Integrating Climate Information and Adaptation in Project
... appropriate and robust. For projects or assets with longer lifespans where emissions uncertainty can be important, the assessment should explore the consequences of a range of relevant GHG emissions scenarios commensurate with likely outcomes of international climate policy (e.g. RCP2.6 and RCP4.5). ...
... appropriate and robust. For projects or assets with longer lifespans where emissions uncertainty can be important, the assessment should explore the consequences of a range of relevant GHG emissions scenarios commensurate with likely outcomes of international climate policy (e.g. RCP2.6 and RCP4.5). ...
The effect of development on the climate sensitivity of agriculture
... that the temperature sensitivity of agriculture in the United States did not change when irrigation was included in a land-weighted Ricardian model. This is an important result since irrigation is difficult to control completely. Interestingly, the importance of precipitation increased with irrigati ...
... that the temperature sensitivity of agriculture in the United States did not change when irrigation was included in a land-weighted Ricardian model. This is an important result since irrigation is difficult to control completely. Interestingly, the importance of precipitation increased with irrigati ...
Using Data from Climate Science to Teach Introductory Statistics
... Third, easily accessible, well-documented data sets are available to both teachers and students. ...
... Third, easily accessible, well-documented data sets are available to both teachers and students. ...
Eurasian Arctic greening reveals teleconnections and the potential
... ice area reflected a similar pattern, with a strong effect of sea ice on adjacent land in spring followed by no effect during the summer months (Fig. 2b). Tall shrub growth was highly correlated to July NDVI (p < 0.01, r 2 ranging regionally from 0.4 to 0.75; Fig. 3 and Supplementary Fig. S1). Shrub ...
... ice area reflected a similar pattern, with a strong effect of sea ice on adjacent land in spring followed by no effect during the summer months (Fig. 2b). Tall shrub growth was highly correlated to July NDVI (p < 0.01, r 2 ranging regionally from 0.4 to 0.75; Fig. 3 and Supplementary Fig. S1). Shrub ...
Adapting_to_Climate_Change_ - MDG-F
... widespread epidemics of infectious and waterborne disease Climatic Drivers: Climatic changes increase the area and number of disease vectors and more frequent heavy rainfall and drought events could disrupt water supply and sanitation Non-climatic drivers: Severely degraded health care system; d ...
... widespread epidemics of infectious and waterborne disease Climatic Drivers: Climatic changes increase the area and number of disease vectors and more frequent heavy rainfall and drought events could disrupt water supply and sanitation Non-climatic drivers: Severely degraded health care system; d ...
A probabilistic analysis of human influence on
... 346 months. Such a fact would seem to strongly support the hypothesis that global warming is occurring, but the question remains: how strong is this evidence (Bowman et al., 2010)? Even given these and other extraordinary statistics as well as the body of evidence synthesised in the Intergovernmenta ...
... 346 months. Such a fact would seem to strongly support the hypothesis that global warming is occurring, but the question remains: how strong is this evidence (Bowman et al., 2010)? Even given these and other extraordinary statistics as well as the body of evidence synthesised in the Intergovernmenta ...
Addressing Climate Change Impacts through Disaster Planning
... that have not yet been impacted by climate changes or have not experienced recent disasters will have difficult time justifying redirecting resources. Resilience planning can be hard to justify, particularly when changes may be gradual, such as through climate change, and not attributable to a sudde ...
... that have not yet been impacted by climate changes or have not experienced recent disasters will have difficult time justifying redirecting resources. Resilience planning can be hard to justify, particularly when changes may be gradual, such as through climate change, and not attributable to a sudde ...
