Alberto Montanari - University of Bologna
... impossible, given the present state of the knowledge). The current level of uncertainty in climate studies prevents to reach statistically ...
... impossible, given the present state of the knowledge). The current level of uncertainty in climate studies prevents to reach statistically ...
Report - UNHCR
... shared resources (especially water) has often provided an incentive for transboundary cooperation. The question is how existing agreements and institutions can be reinforced so as to continue to function effectively in the face of increased scarcity. Secondly, in the case of resource abundance, ther ...
... shared resources (especially water) has often provided an incentive for transboundary cooperation. The question is how existing agreements and institutions can be reinforced so as to continue to function effectively in the face of increased scarcity. Secondly, in the case of resource abundance, ther ...
"A Broader View of the Role of Humans in the... Assessment of Costs and Benefits of Effective Climate Policy"
... Since all first-order human climate forcings are not included, as presented in Section 2, the attribution of specific climate forcings to a regional response is not yet scientifically robust. With respect to assessing climate model skill, there have been recent studies on this issue. For example, as ...
... Since all first-order human climate forcings are not included, as presented in Section 2, the attribution of specific climate forcings to a regional response is not yet scientifically robust. With respect to assessing climate model skill, there have been recent studies on this issue. For example, as ...
Topic 12: Agriculture, Climate Change and Adaptation
... considerations of liability and ethics; political issues, polluters pay principles and North-South issues. ...
... considerations of liability and ethics; political issues, polluters pay principles and North-South issues. ...
Is there a role for power relations in climate vulnerability and
... sustainability issues. This implies an increasing body of research and policy efforts, which have also been able to gather great consensus on the most relevant issues, and engage various stakeholders other than academia and policymakers (Bennett et al., 2015; Lemos and Agrawal, 2006; Oreskes, 2005) ...
... sustainability issues. This implies an increasing body of research and policy efforts, which have also been able to gather great consensus on the most relevant issues, and engage various stakeholders other than academia and policymakers (Bennett et al., 2015; Lemos and Agrawal, 2006; Oreskes, 2005) ...
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
... change. It considers how impacts and risks related to climate change can be reduced and managed through adaptation and mitigation. The report assesses needs, options, opportunities, constraints, resilience, limits, and other aspects associated with adaptation. Climate change involves complex interac ...
... change. It considers how impacts and risks related to climate change can be reduced and managed through adaptation and mitigation. The report assesses needs, options, opportunities, constraints, resilience, limits, and other aspects associated with adaptation. Climate change involves complex interac ...
IPCC 5-2014 WG-2 Summary.pdf
... change. It considers how impacts and risks related to climate change can be reduced and managed through adaptation and mitigation. The report assesses needs, options, opportunities, constraints, resilience, limits, and other aspects associated with adaptation. Climate change involves complex interac ...
... change. It considers how impacts and risks related to climate change can be reduced and managed through adaptation and mitigation. The report assesses needs, options, opportunities, constraints, resilience, limits, and other aspects associated with adaptation. Climate change involves complex interac ...
Lost in the problem: the role of boundary organisations in the
... Change (IPCC) has been at the heart of attempts to build a global policy regime centred on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and especially its Kyoto protocol.1 The IPCC is a prominent example of a boundary organisation. These are ‘institutions that straddle the shifting divide ...
... Change (IPCC) has been at the heart of attempts to build a global policy regime centred on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and especially its Kyoto protocol.1 The IPCC is a prominent example of a boundary organisation. These are ‘institutions that straddle the shifting divide ...
What range of future scenarios should climate change policy be based on? -Modal falsificationism and its limitations
... Figure 3a shows the range of future temperature scenarios from the 4AR. Because the graph itself does not display the results from all emission scenarios, the range it indicates is slightly smaller than the corresponding range in the TAR (figure 1); but the bars at right, comprising all emission sce ...
... Figure 3a shows the range of future temperature scenarios from the 4AR. Because the graph itself does not display the results from all emission scenarios, the range it indicates is slightly smaller than the corresponding range in the TAR (figure 1); but the bars at right, comprising all emission sce ...
united nations - Stockholm Convention
... The mandate from POPRC 7 was to consider relevant data on CC in all stages. The scope and mandate of the task set out by POPRC7, was to base the guidance on UNEP/AMAP 2011. From the conclusions and recommendations in the report all stages will be relevant. However, some may have more weight than oth ...
... The mandate from POPRC 7 was to consider relevant data on CC in all stages. The scope and mandate of the task set out by POPRC7, was to base the guidance on UNEP/AMAP 2011. From the conclusions and recommendations in the report all stages will be relevant. However, some may have more weight than oth ...
Interpretation of Climate Change Scenarios
... determine whether or not these events are due to climate change or to other factors, although some studies lead one to believe that these events were caused by warming attributable to the greenhouse effect (IPCC 2007b). The main objective of this technical document is to define some concepts related ...
... determine whether or not these events are due to climate change or to other factors, although some studies lead one to believe that these events were caused by warming attributable to the greenhouse effect (IPCC 2007b). The main objective of this technical document is to define some concepts related ...
Waterborne transport, ports and waterways: A review of
... IPCC takes the global lead on assessing and summarising information on past and future climate change. Individual countries or industries then focus on their particular interests, with the aim of providing specific guidance on climate change issues for actual use within that country or industry. For ...
... IPCC takes the global lead on assessing and summarising information on past and future climate change. Individual countries or industries then focus on their particular interests, with the aim of providing specific guidance on climate change issues for actual use within that country or industry. For ...
The scientific consensus on climate change: How do we know we`re
... Scientists glean their colleagues’ conclusions by reading their results in published scientific literature, listening to presentations at scientific conferences, and discussing data and ideas in the hallways of conference centers, university departments, research institutes, and government agencies. ...
... Scientists glean their colleagues’ conclusions by reading their results in published scientific literature, listening to presentations at scientific conferences, and discussing data and ideas in the hallways of conference centers, university departments, research institutes, and government agencies. ...
Document Title - Sanjeev Sabhlok
... From these two LONG TERM trends, I can CLEARLY SEE that there is NO CORRELATION between CO2 in the atmosphere and temperature. Yes, I notice a slight increase in temperatures over the past 117 years in USA (0.067 degrees C per decade, or 0.67 degree centigrade per century) but I'm not convinced tha ...
... From these two LONG TERM trends, I can CLEARLY SEE that there is NO CORRELATION between CO2 in the atmosphere and temperature. Yes, I notice a slight increase in temperatures over the past 117 years in USA (0.067 degrees C per decade, or 0.67 degree centigrade per century) but I'm not convinced tha ...
(AGE). OPIM 319, Spring 2010 - Operations, Information and
... I am assigning each of you to cover one of 8 regions of the world. If you feel you have special interest or expertise in some other region and can find someone to trade with, you may do so. I am requesting a short report (2 pages) from each of you on your assigned (or acquired) regions. This report ...
... I am assigning each of you to cover one of 8 regions of the world. If you feel you have special interest or expertise in some other region and can find someone to trade with, you may do so. I am requesting a short report (2 pages) from each of you on your assigned (or acquired) regions. This report ...
P R I N C E T O N ... P R I N C E T O N ... Wagner_ClimateShock_FINAL.indd 3 12/30/14 8:32 AM
... 280 parts per million (ppm) seems all but inevitable. The world has just passed carbon dioxide concentrations of 400 ppm, and levels are still rising at 2 ppm per year. Counting other greenhouse gases, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the world will end up somewhere around 700 pp ...
... 280 parts per million (ppm) seems all but inevitable. The world has just passed carbon dioxide concentrations of 400 ppm, and levels are still rising at 2 ppm per year. Counting other greenhouse gases, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the world will end up somewhere around 700 pp ...
Lindzen2014-What Catastrophe.pdf
... greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. As a result of such policies—and a fortuitous increase in natural gas production—U.S. greenhouse emissions are at a 20-year low and falling. But global emissions are rising, thanks to massive increases in energy use in the developing world, particularly ...
... greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. As a result of such policies—and a fortuitous increase in natural gas production—U.S. greenhouse emissions are at a 20-year low and falling. But global emissions are rising, thanks to massive increases in energy use in the developing world, particularly ...
Global change: state of the science
... What these gases do not have in common is the way their emissions have been treated. Production and emissions of the recognized harmful chemicals have been eliminated as a result of national and international policy to protect the ozone layer. Replacements that do not signi®cantly aect ozone have g ...
... What these gases do not have in common is the way their emissions have been treated. Production and emissions of the recognized harmful chemicals have been eliminated as a result of national and international policy to protect the ozone layer. Replacements that do not signi®cantly aect ozone have g ...
4. Climate Change Scenarios
... transformed into results at a smaller scale than GCM grid boxes. There are three basic options for downscaling: ...
... transformed into results at a smaller scale than GCM grid boxes. There are three basic options for downscaling: ...
PPT
... OZONE IS STRONGEST IN ARCTIC WINTER particularly sensitive region for recovery of ozone layer! GCM temperature change in lower stratosphere in DJF (oC) from increasing tropospheric ozone over 20th century ...
... OZONE IS STRONGEST IN ARCTIC WINTER particularly sensitive region for recovery of ozone layer! GCM temperature change in lower stratosphere in DJF (oC) from increasing tropospheric ozone over 20th century ...
Climate Models for the Layman - The Global Warming Policy
... calculated for each cell in the grid – repeatedly for each of the time steps that make up the simulation period.1 The number of cells in the grid system determines the model ‘resolution’ (or granularity), whereby each grid cell effectively has a uniform temperature, and so on. Common resolutions for ...
... calculated for each cell in the grid – repeatedly for each of the time steps that make up the simulation period.1 The number of cells in the grid system determines the model ‘resolution’ (or granularity), whereby each grid cell effectively has a uniform temperature, and so on. Common resolutions for ...
The Real Truth about Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change:
... linkages, such that weaknesses or failure of any particular detailed finding does not weaken the overall strength of scientific understanding). Unless footnoted, the views I have offered are primarily drawn from IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report and/or from perspectives on climate change that are summ ...
... linkages, such that weaknesses or failure of any particular detailed finding does not weaken the overall strength of scientific understanding). Unless footnoted, the views I have offered are primarily drawn from IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report and/or from perspectives on climate change that are summ ...
Radiative forcing of gases, aerosols and, clouds.
... their role in the Earth energy balance. Positive forcing occurs over the regions where clouds act to increase the net energy into the Earth system, while the negative forcing is over the regions where clouds act to decrease the net energy. The solar and terrestrial properties of clouds have offset ...
... their role in the Earth energy balance. Positive forcing occurs over the regions where clouds act to increase the net energy into the Earth system, while the negative forcing is over the regions where clouds act to decrease the net energy. The solar and terrestrial properties of clouds have offset ...
Geoengineering and the Accusation of Hubris
... However, referring to the intrinsic value of nature does not seem to be decisive in our context, since it could speak both against and in favor of GE. On the one hand, research on GE can be driven by the moral conviction that GE is not just owed to other human beings, but also to other parts of natu ...
... However, referring to the intrinsic value of nature does not seem to be decisive in our context, since it could speak both against and in favor of GE. On the one hand, research on GE can be driven by the moral conviction that GE is not just owed to other human beings, but also to other parts of natu ...
Geoengineering and the Accusation of Hubris
... However, referring to the intrinsic value of nature does not seem to be decisive in our context, since it could speak both against and in favor of GE. On the one hand, research on GE can be driven by the moral conviction that GE is not just owed to other human beings, but also to other parts of natu ...
... However, referring to the intrinsic value of nature does not seem to be decisive in our context, since it could speak both against and in favor of GE. On the one hand, research on GE can be driven by the moral conviction that GE is not just owed to other human beings, but also to other parts of natu ...