A PERIOD OF CONSEQUENCES: GLOBAL WARMING, SOCIAL
... lakes swell until they burst through their dams. This is not my life, and these are not my cultures. I come from a place where so far global warming has meant more nice days to spend at the beach. This raises the question of why I have chosen a master’s project that focuses on a problem that for the ...
... lakes swell until they burst through their dams. This is not my life, and these are not my cultures. I come from a place where so far global warming has meant more nice days to spend at the beach. This raises the question of why I have chosen a master’s project that focuses on a problem that for the ...
Climate change and Tourism in the Alps: a position paper in view of
... named C3Alps that recently started. At the same time, the Alpstar project, which also started recently, will focus on climate change mitigation and on making the Alps a carbon neutral environment. The Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) contributed to several of these Alpine Space pr ...
... named C3Alps that recently started. At the same time, the Alpstar project, which also started recently, will focus on climate change mitigation and on making the Alps a carbon neutral environment. The Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) contributed to several of these Alpine Space pr ...
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... attention to climate as a determining factor in agricultural underdevelopment or human health. Lambert (1975) attempts to demonstrate the linkages between climate change and the growth of civilizations. In its most extreme form, climatic determinism is exhibited in the more popular literature. One o ...
... attention to climate as a determining factor in agricultural underdevelopment or human health. Lambert (1975) attempts to demonstrate the linkages between climate change and the growth of civilizations. In its most extreme form, climatic determinism is exhibited in the more popular literature. One o ...
Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement`s Impact on U.S.
... Structured Action” (e.g., Zald 2000a, 2000b) to solve the puzzle of the delegitimation of global warming as a major problem within the policy arena. Third, we extend the arguments made in our previous work in two crucial ways. In a previous article (McCright and Dunlap 2000), we describe the content ...
... Structured Action” (e.g., Zald 2000a, 2000b) to solve the puzzle of the delegitimation of global warming as a major problem within the policy arena. Third, we extend the arguments made in our previous work in two crucial ways. In a previous article (McCright and Dunlap 2000), we describe the content ...
Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement`s Impact
... Structured Action” (e.g., Zald 2000a, 2000b) to solve the puzzle of the delegitimation of global warming as a major problem within the policy arena. Third, we extend the arguments made in our previous work in two crucial ways. In a previous article (McCright and Dunlap 2000), we describe the content ...
... Structured Action” (e.g., Zald 2000a, 2000b) to solve the puzzle of the delegitimation of global warming as a major problem within the policy arena. Third, we extend the arguments made in our previous work in two crucial ways. In a previous article (McCright and Dunlap 2000), we describe the content ...
The Cost of Climate Change: What We`ll Pay if
... of Climate Change Many economic models have attempted to capture the costs of climate change for the United States. For the most part, however, these analyses grossly underestimate costs by making predictions that are out of step with the scientific consensus on the daunting scope of climatic change ...
... of Climate Change Many economic models have attempted to capture the costs of climate change for the United States. For the most part, however, these analyses grossly underestimate costs by making predictions that are out of step with the scientific consensus on the daunting scope of climatic change ...
PDF-B Document - Global Environment Facility
... The UNFCCC and Systematic Observation. The potential problems associated with global climate change are now widely recognized. The UNFCCC was negotiated in 1992 because countries were "concerned that human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas ...
... The UNFCCC and Systematic Observation. The potential problems associated with global climate change are now widely recognized. The UNFCCC was negotiated in 1992 because countries were "concerned that human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas ...
PDF - Journal of Resources and Ecology
... 1. Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 3. College of Global Change and Earth System Scie ...
... 1. Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 3. College of Global Change and Earth System Scie ...
LINKS BETWEEN RELIGION, EVOLUTION, AND CLIMATE
... attention and priorities among a single population of science skeptics, or is climate change skepticism driven by a different group? The science journalist Chris Mooney (2013, para. 1-3) suggests that climate skepticism is closely related to other forms of science skepticism, in particular, evolutio ...
... attention and priorities among a single population of science skeptics, or is climate change skepticism driven by a different group? The science journalist Chris Mooney (2013, para. 1-3) suggests that climate skepticism is closely related to other forms of science skepticism, in particular, evolutio ...
Is it Ethical to Use a Single Probability Density Function?
... RDM avoids these problems by running the analysis “backwards.” Rather than start with predictions, the approach begins with one or more plans under consideration (often a current or best-estimate plan) and uses multiple runs of the model to identify the futures most relevant to the plan’s success. ...
... RDM avoids these problems by running the analysis “backwards.” Rather than start with predictions, the approach begins with one or more plans under consideration (often a current or best-estimate plan) and uses multiple runs of the model to identify the futures most relevant to the plan’s success. ...
The Status of Climate Change Data: A Case Study for
... interference with the climate system, unless there is intervention. At present, impacts are already being felt. It is now well established that the two modes of action in the efforts to promote a sustainable future is the stabilization of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere by transitioning t ...
... interference with the climate system, unless there is intervention. At present, impacts are already being felt. It is now well established that the two modes of action in the efforts to promote a sustainable future is the stabilization of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere by transitioning t ...
Tackling climate change and promoting sustainable
... reduce carbon emissions and reach zero emissions by around mid-century. In fact, ensuring a fair chance of remaining below 1.5°C also remains technically and economically feasible, though this will require stronger and deeper action. Wealthier countries such as Australia, which have contributed more ...
... reduce carbon emissions and reach zero emissions by around mid-century. In fact, ensuring a fair chance of remaining below 1.5°C also remains technically and economically feasible, though this will require stronger and deeper action. Wealthier countries such as Australia, which have contributed more ...
Lebanon Country Report February - March 2013
... The ENPI CLIMA-South is implemented in a dynamic region, with rapidly changing social and political environments. At the same time, climate change is at a critical stage of the international negotiations in which new developments may be expected. Flexibility is therefore of the utmost importance and ...
... The ENPI CLIMA-South is implemented in a dynamic region, with rapidly changing social and political environments. At the same time, climate change is at a critical stage of the international negotiations in which new developments may be expected. Flexibility is therefore of the utmost importance and ...
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... The global warming movement is the most director, Citizen’s Alliance extensive and most expensive public relations for Responsible Energy campaign in the history of the world. Nearly every government agency in the United States and many more around the world are promoting the manmade-climate-change- ...
... The global warming movement is the most director, Citizen’s Alliance extensive and most expensive public relations for Responsible Energy campaign in the history of the world. Nearly every government agency in the United States and many more around the world are promoting the manmade-climate-change- ...
A critical exploration of the concept of `climate stabilization`
... stabilization. While the clarity of their arguments surrounding short- to medium-term emissions reduction deserves commendation, the functional discussion of emissions reductions was subsumed by the discourse of climate stabilization. The tension between their comments regarding ‘needless confusion’ ...
... stabilization. While the clarity of their arguments surrounding short- to medium-term emissions reduction deserves commendation, the functional discussion of emissions reductions was subsumed by the discourse of climate stabilization. The tension between their comments regarding ‘needless confusion’ ...
Ethics and Global Climate Change* Stephen M
... effect in isolation which causes the climate problem. Whether an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases does in fact cause the warming we would otherwise expect depends on how the immediate effects of an increase in low frequency radiation play out in the overall climate system. But that ...
... effect in isolation which causes the climate problem. Whether an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases does in fact cause the warming we would otherwise expect depends on how the immediate effects of an increase in low frequency radiation play out in the overall climate system. But that ...
9 Holocene rapid land-cover changes – evidence and theory
... the high albedo of ice caps and the atmospheric energy balance (see Hoffman and Schrag 2002). Likewise, a rapid onset of the last glacial was simulated by Calov et al. (2005), again, based on earlier theories of the atmosphere–cryosphere feedback by Budyko (1969) and Sellers (1969). Ecosystems, when ...
... the high albedo of ice caps and the atmospheric energy balance (see Hoffman and Schrag 2002). Likewise, a rapid onset of the last glacial was simulated by Calov et al. (2005), again, based on earlier theories of the atmosphere–cryosphere feedback by Budyko (1969) and Sellers (1969). Ecosystems, when ...
General Knowledge About Climate Change, Factors Influencing
... Climate change is the triggering mechanism for a variety of changes, but it cannot be experienced in itself. The consequences triggered by climate change happen very slowly and can only be determined through statistical analysis of temperature and precipitation data, and by continuous monitoring of ...
... Climate change is the triggering mechanism for a variety of changes, but it cannot be experienced in itself. The consequences triggered by climate change happen very slowly and can only be determined through statistical analysis of temperature and precipitation data, and by continuous monitoring of ...
Overcoming Behavioral and Institutional Inertia
... tend to shy away from the scientific community’s careful wording to express uncertainty. Readers then face messages lacking scientific caution and containing strong appeals that might then be refuted by other similarly strongly worded statements, hampering the perceived reliability of the informatio ...
... tend to shy away from the scientific community’s careful wording to express uncertainty. Readers then face messages lacking scientific caution and containing strong appeals that might then be refuted by other similarly strongly worded statements, hampering the perceived reliability of the informatio ...
Template: Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... planning initiative with your tribe. There are many available guidebooks, some of which provide frameworks similar to the Preparing for Climate Change guidebook, and others have a focus on a particular region of the U.S. or sector, such as water resources or fish and wildlife. There are similarities ...
... planning initiative with your tribe. There are many available guidebooks, some of which provide frameworks similar to the Preparing for Climate Change guidebook, and others have a focus on a particular region of the U.S. or sector, such as water resources or fish and wildlife. There are similarities ...
The Perils of Modelling How Migration Responds to Climate Change
... opposite of what actually happened. Fortunately, there is the spatial equilibrium model which has served economists well in understanding U.S. migration. Even with better theoretical models, the large structural changes in climate, technology, and possibly even in governance means that we still do n ...
... opposite of what actually happened. Fortunately, there is the spatial equilibrium model which has served economists well in understanding U.S. migration. Even with better theoretical models, the large structural changes in climate, technology, and possibly even in governance means that we still do n ...