Science Communication - Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program
... between 1993 and 2003 disagreed with conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that human activities have increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The year after the Boykoff and Boykoff study (2004) was published, the journalism trade publication Nieman Re ...
... between 1993 and 2003 disagreed with conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that human activities have increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The year after the Boykoff and Boykoff study (2004) was published, the journalism trade publication Nieman Re ...
Enhancing Climate Change Mitigation Efforts
... about to be published, the UNFCCC COP18 meeting in Qatar had just concluded with parties agreeing to the ‘Doha Climate Gateway’ which extends the Kyoto Protocol for eight more years and provides direction for negotiating a new pact to supplant the Kyoto Protocol in 2020. Clearly, there are signs of ...
... about to be published, the UNFCCC COP18 meeting in Qatar had just concluded with parties agreeing to the ‘Doha Climate Gateway’ which extends the Kyoto Protocol for eight more years and provides direction for negotiating a new pact to supplant the Kyoto Protocol in 2020. Clearly, there are signs of ...
Climate Change Trends and Vulnerability to Biome Shifts
... Future Climate Projections The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has coordinated research groups to project possible future climates under defined greenhouse gas emissions scenarios (IPCC 2007a). The three main IPCC greenhouse gas emissions scenarios are B1 (lower emissions), A1B (med ...
... Future Climate Projections The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has coordinated research groups to project possible future climates under defined greenhouse gas emissions scenarios (IPCC 2007a). The three main IPCC greenhouse gas emissions scenarios are B1 (lower emissions), A1B (med ...
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... Capstick, Pidgeon, and Whitehead 2013, De Bruin, Wong-Parodi, and Morgan 2014, Taylor, Bruin, and Dessai 2014, Capstick et al. 2015), although Whitmarsh (2008) and Lawrence et al. (2013) suggest an opposing view. While evidence suggests a clear link between experience and response, the nature of th ...
... Capstick, Pidgeon, and Whitehead 2013, De Bruin, Wong-Parodi, and Morgan 2014, Taylor, Bruin, and Dessai 2014, Capstick et al. 2015), although Whitmarsh (2008) and Lawrence et al. (2013) suggest an opposing view. While evidence suggests a clear link between experience and response, the nature of th ...
Winter 2016
... Workshops like this one will no doubt lead to highly collaborative and comprehensive research.” “The workshop encouraged the development of meaningful interactions between modelers, theorists, and scientists making or aggregating fundamental trait observations,” said Barton. “These new lines of comm ...
... Workshops like this one will no doubt lead to highly collaborative and comprehensive research.” “The workshop encouraged the development of meaningful interactions between modelers, theorists, and scientists making or aggregating fundamental trait observations,” said Barton. “These new lines of comm ...
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND EQUITY IMPACTS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE AND
... affected by this event. Although heat exposure alone can cause morbidity and mortality, physiological, social and economic factors are integral in explaining the uneven distribution of these adverse heatspecific health outcomes across diverse populations (Epstein and Rodgers 2004). Risk factors for ...
... affected by this event. Although heat exposure alone can cause morbidity and mortality, physiological, social and economic factors are integral in explaining the uneven distribution of these adverse heatspecific health outcomes across diverse populations (Epstein and Rodgers 2004). Risk factors for ...
Climate Changes, Impacts and Implications for New Zealand to
... designed to be extended to regional and sectoral scenarios but make no assumptions about global or national-level climate change policy. In addition, Shared climate Policy Assumptions (SPAs) describe potential climate change mitigation and/ or adaptation policies specific to New Zealand, which enabl ...
... designed to be extended to regional and sectoral scenarios but make no assumptions about global or national-level climate change policy. In addition, Shared climate Policy Assumptions (SPAs) describe potential climate change mitigation and/ or adaptation policies specific to New Zealand, which enabl ...
Perceptions of Obvious and Disruptive Climate Change: Community
... makers working on climate change adaptation to determine the perceptions of risk held by indigenous people living in this rapidly transforming region. It is also important to identify the particular adaptation needs of indigenous peoples and to assess climate change risk from their perspective. Repr ...
... makers working on climate change adaptation to determine the perceptions of risk held by indigenous people living in this rapidly transforming region. It is also important to identify the particular adaptation needs of indigenous peoples and to assess climate change risk from their perspective. Repr ...
The change of the hydrological cycle under the influence of global
... river runoff which is the major source of fresh water needed by society. The growing interest to this problem is to a great extent due to the high sensitivity of the large river basins combined with large inner reservoir systems. This problem is most acute in the USSR. Examples of such systems are t ...
... river runoff which is the major source of fresh water needed by society. The growing interest to this problem is to a great extent due to the high sensitivity of the large river basins combined with large inner reservoir systems. This problem is most acute in the USSR. Examples of such systems are t ...
Uncertainty and Decision Making in Climate Change Economics
... Estimates of Uncertainty in Socioeconomic Impacts There are a limited number of econometric studies of the impacts of climate on socioeconomic systems (Burke et al. 2009; Dell, Jones and Olken 2008; Deschenes and Greenstone 2007; Fisher Hanemann and Schlenker 2012; Mendelsohn Nordgaus and Shaw 1994; ...
... Estimates of Uncertainty in Socioeconomic Impacts There are a limited number of econometric studies of the impacts of climate on socioeconomic systems (Burke et al. 2009; Dell, Jones and Olken 2008; Deschenes and Greenstone 2007; Fisher Hanemann and Schlenker 2012; Mendelsohn Nordgaus and Shaw 1994; ...
Towards a unifying narrative for climate change
... Individuals are inherently sceptical when there is a lack of immediate evidence for carrying out a certain action, or immediate and measurable consequences following that action. Climate change tempts this scepticism: CO2 is invisible, so one cannot see its increasing concentrations in the atmospher ...
... Individuals are inherently sceptical when there is a lack of immediate evidence for carrying out a certain action, or immediate and measurable consequences following that action. Climate change tempts this scepticism: CO2 is invisible, so one cannot see its increasing concentrations in the atmospher ...
Climate Change Class at Osher Lifelong Learning
... trajectory and the difficulty of getting onto it are consequences, above all, of the emission levels already attained, the long time scale for removal of CO2 from the atmosphere by natural processes, and the long operating lifetimes of CO2-emitting energy technologies that today are being deployed a ...
... trajectory and the difficulty of getting onto it are consequences, above all, of the emission levels already attained, the long time scale for removal of CO2 from the atmosphere by natural processes, and the long operating lifetimes of CO2-emitting energy technologies that today are being deployed a ...
Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome
... tundra biome as a whole could be weaker than predicted at present. We quantified the climate sensitivity of shrub growth—that is, the strength of relationship between annual growth and climate variables (including temperature and precipitation, specific calculations described below)—to test four hyp ...
... tundra biome as a whole could be weaker than predicted at present. We quantified the climate sensitivity of shrub growth—that is, the strength of relationship between annual growth and climate variables (including temperature and precipitation, specific calculations described below)—to test four hyp ...
(Box 3). Increased understanding of climate change and biodiversity
... provide individual participants personal copies of such tools. Instead a demonstration of various tools and techniques was included in the curriculum with the anticipation that participants may subsequently be able to acquire tool(s) relevant to their work through their home institutions. Indeed ma ...
... provide individual participants personal copies of such tools. Instead a demonstration of various tools and techniques was included in the curriculum with the anticipation that participants may subsequently be able to acquire tool(s) relevant to their work through their home institutions. Indeed ma ...
Will we leave the Great Barrier Reef for our children?
... a case study of the likely impacts of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). From an Australian and global perspective, severe damage to the GBR represents “dangerous climate change” on all three criteria of Article 2 of the UNFCCC: not allowing ecosystems to adapt naturally; threatening fo ...
... a case study of the likely impacts of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). From an Australian and global perspective, severe damage to the GBR represents “dangerous climate change” on all three criteria of Article 2 of the UNFCCC: not allowing ecosystems to adapt naturally; threatening fo ...
Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome
... Previous studies have identified summer temperatures as an important driver of vegetation change1,13,14,26 , but the role of soil moisture is less often examined. A recent synthesis of two decades of ecological monitoring (the International Tundra Experiment Network) showed that increased shrub abun ...
... Previous studies have identified summer temperatures as an important driver of vegetation change1,13,14,26 , but the role of soil moisture is less often examined. A recent synthesis of two decades of ecological monitoring (the International Tundra Experiment Network) showed that increased shrub abun ...
U.S. Global Change Research Program · 1717 Pennsylvania... Washington, D.C. 20006 USA · 1-202-223-6262 (voice) ·...
... analysis, and synthesis of the relevant scientific literature, considering more than 1,000 separate publications. This document summarizes their major findings and conclusions. ...
... analysis, and synthesis of the relevant scientific literature, considering more than 1,000 separate publications. This document summarizes their major findings and conclusions. ...
Ville Kumpu A climate for reduction? Futures imagined in
... changes in climate while human agency as well as social and cultural changes that do not easily fit with these models are left unexplored. [T)his hegemony is rooted in the knowledge claims of climate, or Earth system, models. In the absence of comparable epistemological reach emerging from the socia ...
... changes in climate while human agency as well as social and cultural changes that do not easily fit with these models are left unexplored. [T)his hegemony is rooted in the knowledge claims of climate, or Earth system, models. In the absence of comparable epistemological reach emerging from the socia ...
Impact of Climate Change on Wetland Functions
... wetland and water birds. As a result, it was analyzed that there was a change in the area of wetlands due to temperature rise and increase in the amount of precipitation, and the changes in the area of wetland had showed changes in the number of individuals of water birds. Erwin (2009) explained tha ...
... wetland and water birds. As a result, it was analyzed that there was a change in the area of wetlands due to temperature rise and increase in the amount of precipitation, and the changes in the area of wetland had showed changes in the number of individuals of water birds. Erwin (2009) explained tha ...
flying blind: navigating climate change without the
... is an increased likelihood that more lives will be lost and property damaged, and more funding misspent on ill-informed investments. Critically, in a rapidly changing climate where the nature of risks is constantly changing, ongoing research is required to continually improve our knowledge base. It ...
... is an increased likelihood that more lives will be lost and property damaged, and more funding misspent on ill-informed investments. Critically, in a rapidly changing climate where the nature of risks is constantly changing, ongoing research is required to continually improve our knowledge base. It ...
Pattern scaling using ClimGen: monthly
... concentrations of greenhouses gases, and hence different future global temperature changes (Huntingford et al. 2010); or (iii) time periods for which suitable simulations have not been undertaken (e.g., to use RCM simulations of the late 21st century to provide projections for the early or mid 21st ...
... concentrations of greenhouses gases, and hence different future global temperature changes (Huntingford et al. 2010); or (iii) time periods for which suitable simulations have not been undertaken (e.g., to use RCM simulations of the late 21st century to provide projections for the early or mid 21st ...
Demographic models and IPCC climate projections predict the
... la Recherche Scientifique, F-79360 Villiers en Bois, France; cOceanography Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80305; and dNational Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO 80309 Edited by Joel E. Cohen, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, and approved December 2, 2008 ...
... la Recherche Scientifique, F-79360 Villiers en Bois, France; cOceanography Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80305; and dNational Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO 80309 Edited by Joel E. Cohen, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, and approved December 2, 2008 ...
Climate and Culture - George Mason University
... from contemporary climate change (ACIA 2005, IPCC 2007). Natural scientists have generated more than sufficient proof to show the world that (a) contemporary global climate change is happening; (b) it is unprecedented in comparison to the natural climate change cycles of the past 600,000 years (time ...
... from contemporary climate change (ACIA 2005, IPCC 2007). Natural scientists have generated more than sufficient proof to show the world that (a) contemporary global climate change is happening; (b) it is unprecedented in comparison to the natural climate change cycles of the past 600,000 years (time ...
Climate Change mitigation via Afforestation, Reforestation and
... Key words: Climate change, mitigation, adaptation, afforestation, reforestation, deforestation ...
... Key words: Climate change, mitigation, adaptation, afforestation, reforestation, deforestation ...