Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change
... An appreciation of the psychological impacts of global climate change entails recognizing the complexity and multiple meanings associated with climate change; situating impacts within other social, technological, and ecological transitions; and recognizing mediators and moderators of impacts. This a ...
... An appreciation of the psychological impacts of global climate change entails recognizing the complexity and multiple meanings associated with climate change; situating impacts within other social, technological, and ecological transitions; and recognizing mediators and moderators of impacts. This a ...
s1|2008 protected areas and biodiversity conservation special issue
... situ biodiversity conservation against the background of emerging climate change. PAs can exemplify progress in climate change mitigation and adaptation. What role do PA managers – and their risk perception and response – play in this context? A global survey with biosphere reserve (BR) managers inv ...
... situ biodiversity conservation against the background of emerging climate change. PAs can exemplify progress in climate change mitigation and adaptation. What role do PA managers – and their risk perception and response – play in this context? A global survey with biosphere reserve (BR) managers inv ...
Climate Change and Insecurity in the Global South
... The Pressing Threats to Global Security in the Twenty First Century: A Changing Climate The issue of global climate change has become prominent over recent decades, growing to be seen by many in the environmental movement as a problem of apocalyptic proportions (Lean, 2005). Whilst the issue was fir ...
... The Pressing Threats to Global Security in the Twenty First Century: A Changing Climate The issue of global climate change has become prominent over recent decades, growing to be seen by many in the environmental movement as a problem of apocalyptic proportions (Lean, 2005). Whilst the issue was fir ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... The climate science community sources a suite of models to inform decision makers on future climate. Among the most widely used are GCMs (Global Climate Models), RCMs (Regional Climate Models), downscaling techniques (both empirical and statistical), and several comprehensive reviews are available o ...
... The climate science community sources a suite of models to inform decision makers on future climate. Among the most widely used are GCMs (Global Climate Models), RCMs (Regional Climate Models), downscaling techniques (both empirical and statistical), and several comprehensive reviews are available o ...
Climate change and water resources
... through the atmosphere but prevent the reflected heat from escaping back into space. This causes the earth’s temperature to rise. GHG emissions have been rising since industrialisation in the 1900s, due to increased burning of fossil fuels. Further significant increases in GHG levels are expected, p ...
... through the atmosphere but prevent the reflected heat from escaping back into space. This causes the earth’s temperature to rise. GHG emissions have been rising since industrialisation in the 1900s, due to increased burning of fossil fuels. Further significant increases in GHG levels are expected, p ...
An ecohydrological sketch of climate change impacts on water and
... Abstract. For policy making and spatial planning, information is needed about the impacts of climate change on natural ecosystems. To provide this information, commonly hydrological and ecological models are used. We give arguments for our assessment that modelling only is insufficient for determini ...
... Abstract. For policy making and spatial planning, information is needed about the impacts of climate change on natural ecosystems. To provide this information, commonly hydrological and ecological models are used. We give arguments for our assessment that modelling only is insufficient for determini ...
The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics
... many, then, the most rational line to take may seem the wait-and-see approach. And even if some emitters were to undertake major mitigation measures, they could not be certain that other emitters would reciprocate. Reducing national emissions amounts to the provision of ...
... many, then, the most rational line to take may seem the wait-and-see approach. And even if some emitters were to undertake major mitigation measures, they could not be certain that other emitters would reciprocate. Reducing national emissions amounts to the provision of ...
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... Building on these findings, we have developed a “climate change vulnerability index” (hereafter, “index”) to serve the needs of wildlife managers for a practical, multifaceted rapid assessment tool. The aim of the index is to provide a means of rapidly distinguishing species likely to be most vulnera ...
... Building on these findings, we have developed a “climate change vulnerability index” (hereafter, “index”) to serve the needs of wildlife managers for a practical, multifaceted rapid assessment tool. The aim of the index is to provide a means of rapidly distinguishing species likely to be most vulnera ...
Global Climate Science, Uncertainty and Politics: Data
... ganization charged with coordinating research sponsored by a dozen different US government agencies, hovers near $1.8 billion (US Global Change Research Program, 1998). Although the USGCRP covers many areas in addition to atmospheric science, a large num ber of these—including oceanography, ecology, ...
... ganization charged with coordinating research sponsored by a dozen different US government agencies, hovers near $1.8 billion (US Global Change Research Program, 1998). Although the USGCRP covers many areas in addition to atmospheric science, a large num ber of these—including oceanography, ecology, ...
Fear Won`t Do It - Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
... messages is illustrated in Hulme (2007). Hulme conducted a study into the coverage of the IPCC Working Group I report in 10 major U.K. national newspapers. Only one newspaper did not run a story on the IPCC report. The other nine all ran articles introducing the adjectives catastrophic, shocking, te ...
... messages is illustrated in Hulme (2007). Hulme conducted a study into the coverage of the IPCC Working Group I report in 10 major U.K. national newspapers. Only one newspaper did not run a story on the IPCC report. The other nine all ran articles introducing the adjectives catastrophic, shocking, te ...
The impact of high-end climate change on agricultural welfare
... Climate change increases the prices for consumers independently of a trade regime in international agricultural commerce (Fig. 3), affecting almost all regions with negative change in consumer surplus. Distinctively for liberalized markets (LIB), a large part of the agricultural production is shifte ...
... Climate change increases the prices for consumers independently of a trade regime in international agricultural commerce (Fig. 3), affecting almost all regions with negative change in consumer surplus. Distinctively for liberalized markets (LIB), a large part of the agricultural production is shifte ...
Climate change, development, and migration: an African Diaspora
... This paper focuses on the role of the African Diaspora in assisting their country of origin in its fight against the adverse impacts of climate change. In order to combat climate change poor countries need to mobilize all resources (financial, institutional and human) on different fronts. Diaspora c ...
... This paper focuses on the role of the African Diaspora in assisting their country of origin in its fight against the adverse impacts of climate change. In order to combat climate change poor countries need to mobilize all resources (financial, institutional and human) on different fronts. Diaspora c ...
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... Farrow, 1998). This is fine if in a national context (if compensation indeed works). It is fine in the case of many sovereign actors, with compensation and if the baseline/no policy case is agreeable. In climate change, neither of these conditions are met. Essentially, the Pareto superiority criteri ...
... Farrow, 1998). This is fine if in a national context (if compensation indeed works). It is fine in the case of many sovereign actors, with compensation and if the baseline/no policy case is agreeable. In climate change, neither of these conditions are met. Essentially, the Pareto superiority criteri ...
Climate Change Survey Measures: Exploring Perceived Bias and
... debates, tend to have sharp partisan or ideological implications. For instance, assertions are frequently made alleging a politically liberal tendency among the climate science community. In support of these assertions are studies indicating that climate or natural scientists tend to identify as pol ...
... debates, tend to have sharp partisan or ideological implications. For instance, assertions are frequently made alleging a politically liberal tendency among the climate science community. In support of these assertions are studies indicating that climate or natural scientists tend to identify as pol ...
Senate Environmental Quality Committee
... The Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation (ARCCA) was formed in early 2012 out of the urgent need to prepare California’s urban centers for the emerging impacts of climate change, including extreme storm events, heat waves, droughts, and sea level rise. ARCCA currently brings to ...
... The Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation (ARCCA) was formed in early 2012 out of the urgent need to prepare California’s urban centers for the emerging impacts of climate change, including extreme storm events, heat waves, droughts, and sea level rise. ARCCA currently brings to ...
Template: Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... planning initiative with your tribe. There are many available guidebooks, some of which provide frameworks similar to the Preparing for Climate Change guidebook, and others have a focus on a particular region of the U.S. or sector, such as water resources or fish and wildlife. There are similarities ...
... planning initiative with your tribe. There are many available guidebooks, some of which provide frameworks similar to the Preparing for Climate Change guidebook, and others have a focus on a particular region of the U.S. or sector, such as water resources or fish and wildlife. There are similarities ...
A framework for modelling fish and shellfish
... A. B. Hollowed, T. K. Wilderbuer, and W. T. Stockhausen: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA. N. A. Bond: Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean, Box 354925, ...
... A. B. Hollowed, T. K. Wilderbuer, and W. T. Stockhausen: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA. N. A. Bond: Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean, Box 354925, ...
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... decomposes a time-dependent periodic phenomenon into a series of sinusoidal functions, each defined by unique amplitude and phase values. The proportion of variance in the original time-series data set accounted for by each term of the harmonic analysis can also be calculated [25,26]. The first orde ...
... decomposes a time-dependent periodic phenomenon into a series of sinusoidal functions, each defined by unique amplitude and phase values. The proportion of variance in the original time-series data set accounted for by each term of the harmonic analysis can also be calculated [25,26]. The first orde ...
OESCHGER, HANS (b. Ottenbach, Zürich, Switzerland, 2 April 1927
... was first measured in the surface layers of the firn (granular snow) on Jungfraujoch in 1962. This technique was then applied to ice samples from Greenland as reported in 1963. The next goal was to date Greenland ice using radiocarbon. This marked the start of a long and fruitful collaboration with ...
... was first measured in the surface layers of the firn (granular snow) on Jungfraujoch in 1962. This technique was then applied to ice samples from Greenland as reported in 1963. The next goal was to date Greenland ice using radiocarbon. This marked the start of a long and fruitful collaboration with ...
Letters to the editor (7/19/10)
... look back and say, '[Grandpa] understood what was happening, but he did not make it clear.' " Hansen is doing everything in his power to be clear about climate change and what needs to be done. At an Earth Day rally on the National Mall in Washington this past spring, he unveiled a proposal called " ...
... look back and say, '[Grandpa] understood what was happening, but he did not make it clear.' " Hansen is doing everything in his power to be clear about climate change and what needs to be done. At an Earth Day rally on the National Mall in Washington this past spring, he unveiled a proposal called " ...
Communicating climate change: conduits, content
... between 1996 and 2010, although there were significant differences between countries in the extent of growth and media attention.26 However, since this period there have been signs of these trends reversing, with late 2009 marking a peak in print media coverage of climate change, driven by the Copenh ...
... between 1996 and 2010, although there were significant differences between countries in the extent of growth and media attention.26 However, since this period there have been signs of these trends reversing, with late 2009 marking a peak in print media coverage of climate change, driven by the Copenh ...
Meeting the needs of Future Generations
... The Paris Agreement is expected to include measures to regularly review these national contributions to determine their adequacy and to strengthen commitment to staying as far below 2°C as possible, (which is hoped to be a safe level of warming for future generations). There is an opportunity to use ...
... The Paris Agreement is expected to include measures to regularly review these national contributions to determine their adequacy and to strengthen commitment to staying as far below 2°C as possible, (which is hoped to be a safe level of warming for future generations). There is an opportunity to use ...