Making Science Useful to Decision Makers: Climate
... various interactions. Knowledge networks, in turn, are related to—but distinct from—boundary organizations (see section 5). The latter play an intermediary role between different specializations and disciplines within a knowledge network by providing translation services between disciplines, mediati ...
... various interactions. Knowledge networks, in turn, are related to—but distinct from—boundary organizations (see section 5). The latter play an intermediary role between different specializations and disciplines within a knowledge network by providing translation services between disciplines, mediati ...
Report - UNHCR
... availability or access and the resultant competition and possible territorial disputes between countries. This may be because of worsening resource scarcities (e.g., shared waters) or the sudden expansion of shared or undemarcated resources. In the latter category is the possibility of exploiting ne ...
... availability or access and the resultant competition and possible territorial disputes between countries. This may be because of worsening resource scarcities (e.g., shared waters) or the sudden expansion of shared or undemarcated resources. In the latter category is the possibility of exploiting ne ...
global climate change and presidential leadership
... Differences of opinion make resolution difficult: Serious differences of opinion among elites as well as the general public have made global climate change particularly difficult to resolve. Much of the confrontation has come in rhetorical exchanges among politicians, scientists, policy makers, and ...
... Differences of opinion make resolution difficult: Serious differences of opinion among elites as well as the general public have made global climate change particularly difficult to resolve. Much of the confrontation has come in rhetorical exchanges among politicians, scientists, policy makers, and ...
the journal Nature Climate Change
... Precipitation. Whereas surface temperatures rise everywhere in future projections, precipitation change is highly variable spatially in sign and amplitude, with a relatively small global mean change (Fig. 1). The fundamentally regional character of forced precipitation change highlights the challeng ...
... Precipitation. Whereas surface temperatures rise everywhere in future projections, precipitation change is highly variable spatially in sign and amplitude, with a relatively small global mean change (Fig. 1). The fundamentally regional character of forced precipitation change highlights the challeng ...
Climate Change and British Woodland
... warming of some 3–5 ºC over the coming century. This magnitude and rate of change has not occurred since before the last ice age. The implications of this level of temperature change are further highlighted by the observation that, during the last ice age, mean northern hemisphere temperatures were ...
... warming of some 3–5 ºC over the coming century. This magnitude and rate of change has not occurred since before the last ice age. The implications of this level of temperature change are further highlighted by the observation that, during the last ice age, mean northern hemisphere temperatures were ...
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
... This paper draws most of its information directly or indirectly from analyses of the global impacts of climate change based on the IPCC (2000) emission scenarios whose salient characteristics are shown in Table 1, along with the corresponding IPCC labels for the scenario, estimates of atmospheric CO ...
... This paper draws most of its information directly or indirectly from analyses of the global impacts of climate change based on the IPCC (2000) emission scenarios whose salient characteristics are shown in Table 1, along with the corresponding IPCC labels for the scenario, estimates of atmospheric CO ...
Science Communication Research
... ! Strategies that scientists can adopt for establishing and maintaining trust among members of the public and policymakers. ! Strategies for identifying and recruiting everyday opinion-‐leaders who are highly skille ...
... ! Strategies that scientists can adopt for establishing and maintaining trust among members of the public and policymakers. ! Strategies for identifying and recruiting everyday opinion-‐leaders who are highly skille ...
climate change: challenges to sustainable development in india
... and politics - that makes it not just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues, but the mother of all issues. Climate change, however, is different from other problems facing humanity and it compels us to think differently at many levels. It obliges us to think about what it m ...
... and politics - that makes it not just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues, but the mother of all issues. Climate change, however, is different from other problems facing humanity and it compels us to think differently at many levels. It obliges us to think about what it m ...
Forecasting the combined effects of urbanization
... functional groups (e.g. feeding, spawning, temperature). While there is a rich literature on stream fishes, the impacts of climate change on their resource base are not well understood. Changes in food availability (an indirect effect) may exert as much control over fish growth and reproduction as d ...
... functional groups (e.g. feeding, spawning, temperature). While there is a rich literature on stream fishes, the impacts of climate change on their resource base are not well understood. Changes in food availability (an indirect effect) may exert as much control over fish growth and reproduction as d ...
Cooperation Studies of Catastrophe Avoidance: Implications for
... We review five findings observed using the collective-risk game that cast light on the factors that spur and inhibit collective efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. Specifically, (1) we present evidence that the risk of collective failure is a major variable underpinning cooperation—the higher ...
... We review five findings observed using the collective-risk game that cast light on the factors that spur and inhibit collective efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. Specifically, (1) we present evidence that the risk of collective failure is a major variable underpinning cooperation—the higher ...
full publication
... remain immune from its consequences. Yet we each contribute to it. Every time we use electricity and gas at home, drive a car and get on an aeroplane we are emitting greenhouse gases that are warming the planet and changing our climate. If dangerous climate change is to be avoided, the public’s cont ...
... remain immune from its consequences. Yet we each contribute to it. Every time we use electricity and gas at home, drive a car and get on an aeroplane we are emitting greenhouse gases that are warming the planet and changing our climate. If dangerous climate change is to be avoided, the public’s cont ...
Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientif
... international regulation. There was also a book by the prominent science writer Lowell Ponte (The Cooling) that derided the skeptics and noted the importance of acting in the absence of firm, scientific foundation. There was even a report by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy ...
... international regulation. There was also a book by the prominent science writer Lowell Ponte (The Cooling) that derided the skeptics and noted the importance of acting in the absence of firm, scientific foundation. There was even a report by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy ...
Frequency of wet and dry soil conditions in Tasmanian beef and
... in climate results in different patterns of pasture production which needs to be managed to meet feed demands on extensive livestock farm systems (beef and sheep farms). In recent decades, south eastern Australia has experienced a decline in total annual rainfall (Australian Bureau of Meteorology 20 ...
... in climate results in different patterns of pasture production which needs to be managed to meet feed demands on extensive livestock farm systems (beef and sheep farms). In recent decades, south eastern Australia has experienced a decline in total annual rainfall (Australian Bureau of Meteorology 20 ...
People as sensors: Mass media and local temperature influence
... e.g., corresponds to air temperature anomaly exceeding the multiyear mean by at least one standard deviation) was suggested to be a perceptible climate change. This suggestion was formulated as a testable hypothesis, but was not in fact tested (Hansen et al., 1998). Therefore, the question remains: ...
... e.g., corresponds to air temperature anomaly exceeding the multiyear mean by at least one standard deviation) was suggested to be a perceptible climate change. This suggestion was formulated as a testable hypothesis, but was not in fact tested (Hansen et al., 1998). Therefore, the question remains: ...
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... Awareness of climate change in many studies has been of great concern. Adaptation measures to climate change have often been a way to pursue for many African countries in order to reduce the negative effects. A consensus has emerged that developing countries are more vulnerable to climate change tha ...
... Awareness of climate change in many studies has been of great concern. Adaptation measures to climate change have often been a way to pursue for many African countries in order to reduce the negative effects. A consensus has emerged that developing countries are more vulnerable to climate change tha ...
Reliable Science: Overcoming Public Doubts in the Climate Change
... so on and so forth.32 For example, human systems encompass various economic, political and cultural subsystems.3 3 The climate's behavior reflects the collective interactions of these systems and subsystems, but not always in a linear manner. The so-called "butterfly effect" is a popular metaphor fo ...
... so on and so forth.32 For example, human systems encompass various economic, political and cultural subsystems.3 3 The climate's behavior reflects the collective interactions of these systems and subsystems, but not always in a linear manner. The so-called "butterfly effect" is a popular metaphor fo ...
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... bringing together individuals from all walks of life with the common purpose of expressing and understanding the impacts of climate change on their lives in Maine. It also recognized and elevated the stature of even more University of Maine strengths in climate related research, education and servi ...
... bringing together individuals from all walks of life with the common purpose of expressing and understanding the impacts of climate change on their lives in Maine. It also recognized and elevated the stature of even more University of Maine strengths in climate related research, education and servi ...
FAO - NWP: Adaptation Planning and Strategies 2009 (pp. 42-50)
... Adaptation Planning and Strategies FAO Contribution to “The Nairobi Work Programme (NWP) on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change” On invitation of SBSTA to submit to the secretariat, by 31 May 2007, information on the relevant programmes, activities and views on the issues listed ...
... Adaptation Planning and Strategies FAO Contribution to “The Nairobi Work Programme (NWP) on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change” On invitation of SBSTA to submit to the secretariat, by 31 May 2007, information on the relevant programmes, activities and views on the issues listed ...
Regional Impacts of climate change
... Foreword Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change In 2007, the science of climate change achieved an unfortunate milestone: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reached a consensus position that human-induced global warming is already causing physical and biological ...
... Foreword Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change In 2007, the science of climate change achieved an unfortunate milestone: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reached a consensus position that human-induced global warming is already causing physical and biological ...
Do people “personally experience” global warming, and if so how
... However the range of increasing impacts from climate change offers the possibility that individuals may recognize other signals less subject to everyday variability, such as shifts in species distribution, and the onset and length of the growing season. If individuals are able to personally experien ...
... However the range of increasing impacts from climate change offers the possibility that individuals may recognize other signals less subject to everyday variability, such as shifts in species distribution, and the onset and length of the growing season. If individuals are able to personally experien ...
Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Appendix A
... of Global Warming New Jersey 2007. http://www.environmentnewjersey.org/uploads/z/wV/-zwV3Jt9hnScxAwZbMymqQ/An-Unfamiliar-State---Local-Impacts-of-GlobalWarming-in-New-Jersey.pdf. ...
... of Global Warming New Jersey 2007. http://www.environmentnewjersey.org/uploads/z/wV/-zwV3Jt9hnScxAwZbMymqQ/An-Unfamiliar-State---Local-Impacts-of-GlobalWarming-in-New-Jersey.pdf. ...
Proposal for a poverty-adaptation-mitigation window - HAL
... need for poverty alleviation as the highest priority. This objective is translated in each of these national energy scenarios into a 100% access to modern energy in the next decades. Given the service life of infrastructure and facilities, it is essential that all the resources devoted to alleviatin ...
... need for poverty alleviation as the highest priority. This objective is translated in each of these national energy scenarios into a 100% access to modern energy in the next decades. Given the service life of infrastructure and facilities, it is essential that all the resources devoted to alleviatin ...
Proposal for the creation of a poverty-adaptation - Hal-SHS
... need for poverty alleviation as the highest priority. This objective is translated in each of these national energy scenarios into a 100% access to modern energy in the next decades. Given the service life of infrastructure and facilities, it is essential that all the resources devoted to alleviatin ...
... need for poverty alleviation as the highest priority. This objective is translated in each of these national energy scenarios into a 100% access to modern energy in the next decades. Given the service life of infrastructure and facilities, it is essential that all the resources devoted to alleviatin ...
Climate Change and National Security
... warning about the potential security consequences of global warming, but the proposed solutions that accompanied recent efforts have emphasized broader climate policy rather than specific responses to security threats. Because the links between climate change and national security are worthy of conc ...
... warning about the potential security consequences of global warming, but the proposed solutions that accompanied recent efforts have emphasized broader climate policy rather than specific responses to security threats. Because the links between climate change and national security are worthy of conc ...