Climate Models - Climate Wizard
... oceans, land surface, and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the weather and climate system to projections of future climate. All climate models balance, or very nearly balance, incoming energy as short wave electromagnetic radiation (visible and ultraviolet) ...
... oceans, land surface, and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the weather and climate system to projections of future climate. All climate models balance, or very nearly balance, incoming energy as short wave electromagnetic radiation (visible and ultraviolet) ...
Addressing the issue of climate change
... "Appendix B - Treasury Climate Change Mitigation Modelling - Assumptions." Strong Growth, Low ...
... "Appendix B - Treasury Climate Change Mitigation Modelling - Assumptions." Strong Growth, Low ...
Slide 1
... Most key impacts stem from reduced water availability. Projected changes (%) in run-off, 21st century. White areas are where less than two-thirds of models agree, hatched are where 90% of models agree (IPCC SYR) ...
... Most key impacts stem from reduced water availability. Projected changes (%) in run-off, 21st century. White areas are where less than two-thirds of models agree, hatched are where 90% of models agree (IPCC SYR) ...
Climate Change and Its Consequences
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say we probably are, and the consequences could be serious. But uncertainties about risks and response costs make it difficult to formulate a specific long-term action plan. The potential risks the panel identifies, however, are sufficient to warrant additio ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say we probably are, and the consequences could be serious. But uncertainties about risks and response costs make it difficult to formulate a specific long-term action plan. The potential risks the panel identifies, however, are sufficient to warrant additio ...
Climate Change: The Move to Action
... Uncertainty Discussion • How uncertain do you think climate science is? • What seems most uncertain to you? • Is this uncertainty small enough to motivate action, or is it so large that action is risky? • Is better communication of uncertainty what stands between us and doing something? • Is reduci ...
... Uncertainty Discussion • How uncertain do you think climate science is? • What seems most uncertain to you? • Is this uncertainty small enough to motivate action, or is it so large that action is risky? • Is better communication of uncertainty what stands between us and doing something? • Is reduci ...
Climate Access Roundtable Friday, April 11, 2014
... – A four page summary of the report Key Findings ...
... – A four page summary of the report Key Findings ...
Parallels and contrasts between the science of ozone
... phenomena involve the absorption of solar radiation and a change in energy distribution. Ozone is the predominant absorber of incoming ultraviolet radiation from the sun which it traps in the stratosphere and hence is responsible for most of the consequent heating of the stratosphere. The greenhouse ...
... phenomena involve the absorption of solar radiation and a change in energy distribution. Ozone is the predominant absorber of incoming ultraviolet radiation from the sun which it traps in the stratosphere and hence is responsible for most of the consequent heating of the stratosphere. The greenhouse ...
Challenges and needs in research
... “Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations12.” ...
... “Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations12.” ...
fig-cap
... Figure TS.1. Locations of significant changes in data series of physical systems (snow, ice and frozen ground; hydrology; and coastal processes) and biological systems (terrestrial, marine and freshwater biological systems), are shown together with surface air temperature changes over the period 197 ...
... Figure TS.1. Locations of significant changes in data series of physical systems (snow, ice and frozen ground; hydrology; and coastal processes) and biological systems (terrestrial, marine and freshwater biological systems), are shown together with surface air temperature changes over the period 197 ...
Climate Change Implications for the Quileute and Hoh Tribes
... and into higher elevations. Is there a way to plan and adapt to these changes? Give examples of mitigation and adaptation practices the tribes could be doing. What adaptation strategies have the tribes pursued thus far? ...
... and into higher elevations. Is there a way to plan and adapt to these changes? Give examples of mitigation and adaptation practices the tribes could be doing. What adaptation strategies have the tribes pursued thus far? ...
Evaluation, characterization, and communication of uncertainty by
... factor in setting the global research agenda for the years between assessments. Furthermore, no part can be structurally changed without changing the rest. The SPM’s are bound by the same set of principles as the more detailed chapters.. Paragraph 2 of the amended Procedures Guiding IPCC Work (IPCC ...
... factor in setting the global research agenda for the years between assessments. Furthermore, no part can be structurally changed without changing the rest. The SPM’s are bound by the same set of principles as the more detailed chapters.. Paragraph 2 of the amended Procedures Guiding IPCC Work (IPCC ...
Climate Change Bill 2007 - IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
... “The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent danger ...
... “The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent danger ...
Allen_Climate_Change
... J. Knox, Living in a Globally Warmed World, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Vol. 86, 11-16. ...
... J. Knox, Living in a Globally Warmed World, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Vol. 86, 11-16. ...
Special Report on Emission Scenario’s
... • Mitigation can also be positive for: energy security, balance of trade improvement, provision of modern energy services to rural areas, sustainable agriculture and employment IPCC ...
... • Mitigation can also be positive for: energy security, balance of trade improvement, provision of modern energy services to rural areas, sustainable agriculture and employment IPCC ...
Global Climate Change - Center for Sustaining Agriculture and
... J. Harcarik, S. Kliegrová, and L. Grubhoffer. 2009. Vertical Distribution of the Tick Ixodes ricinus and Tick-borne Pathogens in the Northern Moravian Mountains Correlated with Climate Warming (Jeseníky Mts., Czech Republic). Central European Journal of Public Health 17: ...
... J. Harcarik, S. Kliegrová, and L. Grubhoffer. 2009. Vertical Distribution of the Tick Ixodes ricinus and Tick-borne Pathogens in the Northern Moravian Mountains Correlated with Climate Warming (Jeseníky Mts., Czech Republic). Central European Journal of Public Health 17: ...
Testimony to the US Senate - Energy and Natural Resources
... analyses of policy options. The IPCC 2001 report is in four volumes each of about 1000 pages and containing many thousands of references to the scientific literature8. Each chapter of the Report went through two major reviews, first by hundreds of scientists in the scientific community (any scientis ...
... analyses of policy options. The IPCC 2001 report is in four volumes each of about 1000 pages and containing many thousands of references to the scientific literature8. Each chapter of the Report went through two major reviews, first by hundreds of scientists in the scientific community (any scientis ...
The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report 2014
... The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report 2014 - Key Findings for Asia ...
... The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report 2014 - Key Findings for Asia ...
Climate Change
... converted the domesticated land, from less than 10% about 150 years ago, to about 35% now. Use of fertilizers to increase agricultural productivity to feed the growing population now result in more nitrogen fixation due to human activities than due to natural processes, since about 1980. Further, ov ...
... converted the domesticated land, from less than 10% about 150 years ago, to about 35% now. Use of fertilizers to increase agricultural productivity to feed the growing population now result in more nitrogen fixation due to human activities than due to natural processes, since about 1980. Further, ov ...
Climate Change: The Move to Action
... • Scientist are part of the conversation… should help frame better questions. • Two different realities, natural and the anthropogenically changed… this does not exist. • “The result is that scientific debates that were historically carried out in the slow deliberations of peer-reviewed journals are ...
... • Scientist are part of the conversation… should help frame better questions. • Two different realities, natural and the anthropogenically changed… this does not exist. • “The result is that scientific debates that were historically carried out in the slow deliberations of peer-reviewed journals are ...
PowerPoint File - Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
... Source: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ...
... Source: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ...
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR 5)
... century -- almost half way to the 2°C global warming target. 2.2 Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been the dominant driver of global warming over the industrial era. Cooling from aerosols (primarily sulphate aerosols) has offset some of the warming that would otherwise have occurred. ...
... century -- almost half way to the 2°C global warming target. 2.2 Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been the dominant driver of global warming over the industrial era. Cooling from aerosols (primarily sulphate aerosols) has offset some of the warming that would otherwise have occurred. ...
Global Resource Pack
... The report does not recommend specific goals for mitigation, but “assesses the options available at different levels of governance and in different economic sectors”. The report makes it clear that we can still keep global warming below 2 degrees C compared to pre-industrial levels - the danger-thre ...
... The report does not recommend specific goals for mitigation, but “assesses the options available at different levels of governance and in different economic sectors”. The report makes it clear that we can still keep global warming below 2 degrees C compared to pre-industrial levels - the danger-thre ...
document
... The IPCC summary says: “Mitigation efforts over the next two to three decades will have a large impact on opportunities to achieve lower stabilization levels.” (paragraph 18) Table TS2 in the IPCC summary goes further, saying that if global mean temperature increases are to be limited to 2-2.4degree ...
... The IPCC summary says: “Mitigation efforts over the next two to three decades will have a large impact on opportunities to achieve lower stabilization levels.” (paragraph 18) Table TS2 in the IPCC summary goes further, saying that if global mean temperature increases are to be limited to 2-2.4degree ...
PowerPoint Slideshow
... greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or more. - IPCC, 1990 The balance of evidence suggests a discernable human influence on global climate. - IPCC 1995 ...
... greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or more. - IPCC, 1990 The balance of evidence suggests a discernable human influence on global climate. - IPCC 1995 ...
Spring 2005
... Week 5. February 28, 2005. Climate Change – International policy response – Framework Convention, Kyoto Protocol and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) was signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio and put the issue of climate change ...
... Week 5. February 28, 2005. Climate Change – International policy response – Framework Convention, Kyoto Protocol and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) was signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio and put the issue of climate change ...