crTanzania - University of York File Library
... variations will also occur. Extreme events, in the form of drought, flooding, tropical storms and cyclones are expected to become more frequent, intense and unpredictable (IPCC 2003). Agriculture is by far Tanzania's most important economic sector, in terms of both employment provision and contribu ...
... variations will also occur. Extreme events, in the form of drought, flooding, tropical storms and cyclones are expected to become more frequent, intense and unpredictable (IPCC 2003). Agriculture is by far Tanzania's most important economic sector, in terms of both employment provision and contribu ...
Climate Trends and Global Crop Production Since 1980
... Downloaded from www.sciencemag.org on February 3, 2012 ...
... Downloaded from www.sciencemag.org on February 3, 2012 ...
Stephen Schneider 1945–2010 A Biographical Memoir by B. D. Santer
... thought experiments that could not be conducted in the real world. How might Earth’s climate respond to human-caused changes in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases? Could models provide credible estimates of the climate of the Cretaceous? How does the climate system respond to massive volcanic er ...
... thought experiments that could not be conducted in the real world. How might Earth’s climate respond to human-caused changes in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases? Could models provide credible estimates of the climate of the Cretaceous? How does the climate system respond to massive volcanic er ...
Review of Climate Change Adaptation Plan and Policies in Nepal
... Climate change bring extreme hardship to the most vulnerable— especially those living in the least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS)— who did not profit from the fossil fuel driven larger economies (UNITAR, 2010). In developing countries people are experiencing inc ...
... Climate change bring extreme hardship to the most vulnerable— especially those living in the least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS)— who did not profit from the fossil fuel driven larger economies (UNITAR, 2010). In developing countries people are experiencing inc ...
On the Chopping Block - Allegheny Highlands Climate Change
... harm from flooding and severe weather. Landowners and managers can build wildlife corridors and preserve critical landscapes to help endangered species find refuge from rising temperatures. Scientists can devise remedies to hold back climate-related diseases and pests. Another smart choice is to sup ...
... harm from flooding and severe weather. Landowners and managers can build wildlife corridors and preserve critical landscapes to help endangered species find refuge from rising temperatures. Scientists can devise remedies to hold back climate-related diseases and pests. Another smart choice is to sup ...
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... to urban land. Construction of buildings and infrastructure has made undue unavoidable changes in land surface properties. One important property is the land surface temperature (LST). LST is responsible for the change in air temperature of a region [1]. Anthropogenic activities like use of vehicles ...
... to urban land. Construction of buildings and infrastructure has made undue unavoidable changes in land surface properties. One important property is the land surface temperature (LST). LST is responsible for the change in air temperature of a region [1]. Anthropogenic activities like use of vehicles ...
CLIMATE OF DISPLACEMENT, CLIMATE FOR PROTECTION
... Convention refugee protection, may receive subsidiary protection if it is considered that the applicant faces “a real risk of suffering serious harm.” Although the drafters departed somewhat from a human rights approach, the current Article 15 defining serious harm, is still partly based on the Euro ...
... Convention refugee protection, may receive subsidiary protection if it is considered that the applicant faces “a real risk of suffering serious harm.” Although the drafters departed somewhat from a human rights approach, the current Article 15 defining serious harm, is still partly based on the Euro ...
Perceptions of Obvious and Disruptive Climate Change: Community
... wildfires, and insect outbreaks are more common, all of which significantly impact Native communities there even with their long cultural experience of adapting to environmental change [49]. In Himes-Cornell and Kasperski’s [55] index of climate change vulnerability in Alaska, of the three elements ...
... wildfires, and insect outbreaks are more common, all of which significantly impact Native communities there even with their long cultural experience of adapting to environmental change [49]. In Himes-Cornell and Kasperski’s [55] index of climate change vulnerability in Alaska, of the three elements ...
Diapositiva 1
... Link to observational and reanalysis efforts. ● Model improvement: leverage knowledge and resources from modelling at other time scales, drift reduction. More efficient codes and adequate computing resources. ● Calibration and combination: empirical prediction (better use of current benchmarks), loc ...
... Link to observational and reanalysis efforts. ● Model improvement: leverage knowledge and resources from modelling at other time scales, drift reduction. More efficient codes and adequate computing resources. ● Calibration and combination: empirical prediction (better use of current benchmarks), loc ...
Environmental Variability and Climate Change
... and are now much higher than they have been for at least 420,000 years. Global average temperatures exceed anything seen in the last thousand years. The evidence is now overwhelming that such changes are a consequence of human activities, but these are superimposed on underlying natural variations. ...
... and are now much higher than they have been for at least 420,000 years. Global average temperatures exceed anything seen in the last thousand years. The evidence is now overwhelming that such changes are a consequence of human activities, but these are superimposed on underlying natural variations. ...
Review of climate and cryospheric change in the Tibetan Plateau
... dynamics of those changes. Section 6 concisely summarizes the way forward. ...
... dynamics of those changes. Section 6 concisely summarizes the way forward. ...
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... cattle would need up to 16% longer to grow from 350 to 550kg during the summer and early fall (June 1 to October 31), with a year round average of 4% to 5%. However, they did not consider changes in the risk of mortality and morbidity. Belasco et al. (2009) simulated profitability risk considering s ...
... cattle would need up to 16% longer to grow from 350 to 550kg during the summer and early fall (June 1 to October 31), with a year round average of 4% to 5%. However, they did not consider changes in the risk of mortality and morbidity. Belasco et al. (2009) simulated profitability risk considering s ...
PDF - Climate Diplomacy
... working internationally on issues like climate change independently. Rather than letting cities conduct their diplomacy entirely on their own, some form of aligning of agendas and interests might help both cities and national governments in the international sphere. There is potential that city dipl ...
... working internationally on issues like climate change independently. Rather than letting cities conduct their diplomacy entirely on their own, some form of aligning of agendas and interests might help both cities and national governments in the international sphere. There is potential that city dipl ...
Low-carbon resilient development in the least developed countries
... Since 2009, nine least developed countries (LDCs) have announced plans or strategies incorporating elements of both low-carbon development and resilience to climate change. Low-carbon development is an approach that focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the development process; this i ...
... Since 2009, nine least developed countries (LDCs) have announced plans or strategies incorporating elements of both low-carbon development and resilience to climate change. Low-carbon development is an approach that focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the development process; this i ...
NEWSLETTER - UU Ministry for Earth
... Island provide both a laboratory and a platform to address rising waters worldwide and will be among the first to be affected by global weather disturbances. Resting so near sea level, the island offers an opportunity to serve as a “ground zero” threshold for discussions and actions on ways to addr ...
... Island provide both a laboratory and a platform to address rising waters worldwide and will be among the first to be affected by global weather disturbances. Resting so near sea level, the island offers an opportunity to serve as a “ground zero” threshold for discussions and actions on ways to addr ...
Roger Jones - Climate sensitivity, coping ranges and risk
... Risks to unique and threatened systems Risks from extreme climate events Distribution of impacts Aggregate impacts Risks from large-scale discontinuities ...
... Risks to unique and threatened systems Risks from extreme climate events Distribution of impacts Aggregate impacts Risks from large-scale discontinuities ...
The Impacts of 1.5°C
... Agreement includes a long-term global temperature goal of “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C… and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts o ...
... Agreement includes a long-term global temperature goal of “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C… and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts o ...
The EPA & Climate Change Responsibilities, challenges and opportunities 2011 Update
... The National Climate Change Strategy gave the EPA responsibility for developing annual national emission projections for GHGs, for all key sectors of the economy, alongside relevant State and other bodies. Developing GHG emissions projections is a complex process involving several strands of analyti ...
... The National Climate Change Strategy gave the EPA responsibility for developing annual national emission projections for GHGs, for all key sectors of the economy, alongside relevant State and other bodies. Developing GHG emissions projections is a complex process involving several strands of analyti ...
Climate risks and their impact on agriculture and forests in Switzerland
... 2001; Bush et al. 2004), and similar principles apply to semi-natural grasslands (Grime et al. 1994). A climate extreme can thus be considered an ecological disturbance in semi-natural terrestrial ecosystems, and they are implicated as mechanistic drivers of species diversity, nutrient cycling or ca ...
... 2001; Bush et al. 2004), and similar principles apply to semi-natural grasslands (Grime et al. 1994). A climate extreme can thus be considered an ecological disturbance in semi-natural terrestrial ecosystems, and they are implicated as mechanistic drivers of species diversity, nutrient cycling or ca ...
Effectively addressing climate risk through adaptation for
... 3 Based on Emanuel (2005) “Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years.” Nature 436; Knutson and Tuleya (2004) “Impact of CO2-induced warming on simulated hurricane intensity and precipitation: Sensitivity to the choice of climate model and convective parameterization”. J. ...
... 3 Based on Emanuel (2005) “Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years.” Nature 436; Knutson and Tuleya (2004) “Impact of CO2-induced warming on simulated hurricane intensity and precipitation: Sensitivity to the choice of climate model and convective parameterization”. J. ...
Mistreatment of the economic impacts of extreme events
... actions on climate change, then at least in the case of extreme events it has missed an opportunity to clarify the scope of such actions and their possible consequences, and arguably misdirects attention away from those actions most likely to be effective with respect to future catastrophe losses. I ...
... actions on climate change, then at least in the case of extreme events it has missed an opportunity to clarify the scope of such actions and their possible consequences, and arguably misdirects attention away from those actions most likely to be effective with respect to future catastrophe losses. I ...
1. dia - The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern
... "The [previously published] IPCC fourth assessment didn't consider either the tundra-thawing or tropical forest feedbacks in detail because they weren't yet well understood," he says. "But new studies are now available, so we should be able to assess a wider range of factors and possible climate out ...
... "The [previously published] IPCC fourth assessment didn't consider either the tundra-thawing or tropical forest feedbacks in detail because they weren't yet well understood," he says. "But new studies are now available, so we should be able to assess a wider range of factors and possible climate out ...
Source control as an adaptation measure to
... The two CRCM simulations used in this study cover two periods: one from 1961 to 1990 (control climate) and one from 2041 to 2070 (future climate). CRCM is driven by a simulation from the Canadian Global Coupled Climate Model (CGCM2). For the control climate, Plummer et al. (2006) found that simulati ...
... The two CRCM simulations used in this study cover two periods: one from 1961 to 1990 (control climate) and one from 2041 to 2070 (future climate). CRCM is driven by a simulation from the Canadian Global Coupled Climate Model (CGCM2). For the control climate, Plummer et al. (2006) found that simulati ...
Microfinance and Climate Change: Threats and Opportunities C
... the form of infrared radiation. This is the heat one can feel radiating up from, say, a paved road in the sun at midday. Most of the heat that is radiated up escapes into space, but a bit is trapped by heavy molecules in the atmosphere, a process called the greenhouse effect. Although it is sometime ...
... the form of infrared radiation. This is the heat one can feel radiating up from, say, a paved road in the sun at midday. Most of the heat that is radiated up escapes into space, but a bit is trapped by heavy molecules in the atmosphere, a process called the greenhouse effect. Although it is sometime ...