climate change, sea-level rise and extreme events
... Historical sea-level reconstruction is shown by the thin black line, with grey shading indicating ±95% confidence limits. Magenta dots and arrows indicate the estimate of sea-level rise from 1842–2001 from Port Arthur, Tasmania (Hunter et al.2003). Dashed grey lines indicate the upper and lower limi ...
... Historical sea-level reconstruction is shown by the thin black line, with grey shading indicating ±95% confidence limits. Magenta dots and arrows indicate the estimate of sea-level rise from 1842–2001 from Port Arthur, Tasmania (Hunter et al.2003). Dashed grey lines indicate the upper and lower limi ...
Climate Change and Resource Depletion:The Challenges for Actuarie
... Are actuarial risk models sufficiently robust to incorporate the new and changing environment? The authors also believe that there is a potentially important role for actuaries in contributing to the policy response to climate change and other sustainability issues, and understanding the potential r ...
... Are actuarial risk models sufficiently robust to incorporate the new and changing environment? The authors also believe that there is a potentially important role for actuaries in contributing to the policy response to climate change and other sustainability issues, and understanding the potential r ...
Coastal Councils and Planning for Climate Change
... dismay and potential legal liability. However, it is often difficult for local councils to decide how to proceed in responding to the threats posed by climate change. As the NSW Coastline Management Manual 1990 states, “natural" fluctuations in world climate make it difficult to identify and define ...
... dismay and potential legal liability. However, it is often difficult for local councils to decide how to proceed in responding to the threats posed by climate change. As the NSW Coastline Management Manual 1990 states, “natural" fluctuations in world climate make it difficult to identify and define ...
CHAPTER 2 OUR CHANGING CLIMATE Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... earlier historical observations are less reliable and because many climate model simulations begin in 1900 or 1901. The other commonly used reference period is 1971-2000, which is consistent with the World Meteorological Organization’s recommended use of 30-year periods for climate statistics. This ...
... earlier historical observations are less reliable and because many climate model simulations begin in 1900 or 1901. The other commonly used reference period is 1971-2000, which is consistent with the World Meteorological Organization’s recommended use of 30-year periods for climate statistics. This ...
... Aiguamolls de l’Empordà was the first natural protected area to be created in the Costa Brava and is the second most important wetland area in Catalonia, after the Ebro Delta. This thesis researched how key stakeholders experience, perceive and respond to changing climate, together with an analysis ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE LIMITED LC/CAR/L.302
... imminent danger from another threat – climate change. Climate change presents an increasing threat to the tourism industry. As Caribbean countries look to further growth in the tourism sector, it is important to take advantage of the near-term opportunities to reduce operating costs and increase eff ...
... imminent danger from another threat – climate change. Climate change presents an increasing threat to the tourism industry. As Caribbean countries look to further growth in the tourism sector, it is important to take advantage of the near-term opportunities to reduce operating costs and increase eff ...
challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle
... Stratospheric aerosols from explosive volcanic black carbon forcing influences the intermodel spread eruptions also influence the water cycle. Sharp rein global-mean precipitation change in the Coupled ductions in observed global-mean land precipitation Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) ...
... Stratospheric aerosols from explosive volcanic black carbon forcing influences the intermodel spread eruptions also influence the water cycle. Sharp rein global-mean precipitation change in the Coupled ductions in observed global-mean land precipitation Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) ...
An Inter-Comparison of the Holiday Climate Index (HCI) and the
... range of moderate to non-extreme thermal conditions, other factors may assume relatively greater importance in determining the attractiveness rating of a given climatic condition [54]. For example, a number of studies that have surveyed tourists directly have found the absence of rain to be more imp ...
... range of moderate to non-extreme thermal conditions, other factors may assume relatively greater importance in determining the attractiveness rating of a given climatic condition [54]. For example, a number of studies that have surveyed tourists directly have found the absence of rain to be more imp ...
STRIVE An Assessment of Uncertainties Report Series No.48
... of projected temperature changes between GCMs; for ...
... of projected temperature changes between GCMs; for ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MONTSERRAT
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2007) provided compelling scientific evidence that human activity in the form of GHG emissions is responsible for many observed climate changes, but noted that use of this knowledge to support decision making ...
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2007) provided compelling scientific evidence that human activity in the form of GHG emissions is responsible for many observed climate changes, but noted that use of this knowledge to support decision making ...
Paris`s adaptation strategy
... Climate change is a global phenomenon that threatens the overall balance of our planet, with impacts that differ at times from one geographical area to another. Scientific studies, summarised by the IPPC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), of which the 5th report was published in 20132014, ...
... Climate change is a global phenomenon that threatens the overall balance of our planet, with impacts that differ at times from one geographical area to another. Scientific studies, summarised by the IPPC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), of which the 5th report was published in 20132014, ...
Module 11: Groundwater and climate change
... play in adapting to the impacts of climate change. Although the focus is on Africa, it is important to recall the global extent of climate change, and to consider the impacts on the scale of the global hydrologic cycle. Of Africa’s population of 1 billion, roughly 60% live in rural areas. Around 80% ...
... play in adapting to the impacts of climate change. Although the focus is on Africa, it is important to recall the global extent of climate change, and to consider the impacts on the scale of the global hydrologic cycle. Of Africa’s population of 1 billion, roughly 60% live in rural areas. Around 80% ...
The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy
... and sometimes unifying, provoke social and even international conflict, inflame religious turbulence, focus anger against migrants or minorities, and direct wrath toward governments for their actions or inaction. People have reacted with strategies of resistance and resilience — from flood control t ...
... and sometimes unifying, provoke social and even international conflict, inflame religious turbulence, focus anger against migrants or minorities, and direct wrath toward governments for their actions or inaction. People have reacted with strategies of resistance and resilience — from flood control t ...
Is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change an
... Given its global scale and transboundary nature, addressing climate change and its impacts will require some degree of cooperation and coordination at the international level, and the institutions created to that purpose will need to be critically assessed to ensure their effectiveness, yet his proc ...
... Given its global scale and transboundary nature, addressing climate change and its impacts will require some degree of cooperation and coordination at the international level, and the institutions created to that purpose will need to be critically assessed to ensure their effectiveness, yet his proc ...
The age of consequences—the foreign policy and national security
... and sometimes unifying, provoke social and even international conflict, inflame religious turbulence, focus anger against migrants or minorities, and direct wrath toward governments for their actions or inaction. People have reacted with strategies of resistance and resilience — from flood control t ...
... and sometimes unifying, provoke social and even international conflict, inflame religious turbulence, focus anger against migrants or minorities, and direct wrath toward governments for their actions or inaction. People have reacted with strategies of resistance and resilience — from flood control t ...
The Age of Consequences - The Web site cannot be found
... and sometimes unifying, provoke social and even international conflict, inflame religious turbulence, focus anger against migrants or minorities, and direct wrath toward governments for their actions or inaction. People have reacted with strategies of resistance and resilience — from flood control t ...
... and sometimes unifying, provoke social and even international conflict, inflame religious turbulence, focus anger against migrants or minorities, and direct wrath toward governments for their actions or inaction. People have reacted with strategies of resistance and resilience — from flood control t ...
Climate Change Effects on Forest and Alpine (and Western Prairie
... Please note that we accepted information as it was presented in synthesis reports. Readers may wish to return to the primary sources utilized in those synthesis reports for more information. In cases where we accepted the interpretation of primary information as it was stated in a secondary source, ...
... Please note that we accepted information as it was presented in synthesis reports. Readers may wish to return to the primary sources utilized in those synthesis reports for more information. In cases where we accepted the interpretation of primary information as it was stated in a secondary source, ...
Australian horticulture`s response to climate change and
... study focused on the gathering of knowledge on work already undertaken in the area of climate variability and climate change, and the potential for the Australian vegetable industry to capitalise on tools and programs currently available. The Final Report “Climate Change and Climate Variability – Ri ...
... study focused on the gathering of knowledge on work already undertaken in the area of climate variability and climate change, and the potential for the Australian vegetable industry to capitalise on tools and programs currently available. The Final Report “Climate Change and Climate Variability – Ri ...
Energy Partisanship - Scholarship Repository
... These partisan disagreements constrain possibilities not only for U.S. legislative efforts 17 but also for international ones. At the December 2015 climate change negotiations, for example, the groundbreaking Paris Agreement limited what clauses were binding in order to allow the United States to pa ...
... These partisan disagreements constrain possibilities not only for U.S. legislative efforts 17 but also for international ones. At the December 2015 climate change negotiations, for example, the groundbreaking Paris Agreement limited what clauses were binding in order to allow the United States to pa ...
Climate Change, Vulnerability and Health: A Guide to Assessing
... The numbers and relative abundances of different genes (genetic diversity), species, and ecosystems (communities) in a particular area ...
... The numbers and relative abundances of different genes (genetic diversity), species, and ecosystems (communities) in a particular area ...
Climate Change and Agricultural Vulnerability
... for example the Kyoto Protocol. Not much attention has been given to climatechange adaptation, which will be critical for many developing countries. The developing world has not yet realized that this issue needs to be on the global agenda and for developed countries this is not a priority, as they ...
... for example the Kyoto Protocol. Not much attention has been given to climatechange adaptation, which will be critical for many developing countries. The developing world has not yet realized that this issue needs to be on the global agenda and for developed countries this is not a priority, as they ...
Grenada - Climate Investment Funds
... established under the Climate Investment Fund (CIF) aims to help countries transform to a lowcarbon climate resilient development path, consistent with poverty reduction and sustainable development goals. The PPCR is expected to complement the currently available adaptation financing for climate res ...
... established under the Climate Investment Fund (CIF) aims to help countries transform to a lowcarbon climate resilient development path, consistent with poverty reduction and sustainable development goals. The PPCR is expected to complement the currently available adaptation financing for climate res ...
Scoping Study: Reviewing the Coverage of Economic Impacts in the
... These results provide important information on the size of the domestic risks to the UK from climate change and the scale of the challenge for adaptation. However, the quantified economic results from the CCRA show relatively modest impacts when expressed in net economic terms. This arises because o ...
... These results provide important information on the size of the domestic risks to the UK from climate change and the scale of the challenge for adaptation. However, the quantified economic results from the CCRA show relatively modest impacts when expressed in net economic terms. This arises because o ...
Earth`s Energy Imbalance and Implications
... About 40 percent of the equilibrium response is obtained within five years. This quick response is due to the small effective inertia of continents, but warming over continents is limited by exchange of continental and marine air masses. Only 60 percent of the equilibrium response is achieved in a c ...
... About 40 percent of the equilibrium response is obtained within five years. This quick response is due to the small effective inertia of continents, but warming over continents is limited by exchange of continental and marine air masses. Only 60 percent of the equilibrium response is achieved in a c ...
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... these ecosystems into the future. At present there is little to no evidence on whether public support exists. Another issue that has arisen over recent years is what type of land loss prevention projects should be used to maintain coastal Louisiana. The two primary types of projects that are being ...
... these ecosystems into the future. At present there is little to no evidence on whether public support exists. Another issue that has arisen over recent years is what type of land loss prevention projects should be used to maintain coastal Louisiana. The two primary types of projects that are being ...