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 ...
Evaluating Climate Visualization
... Information on climate change is of a particularly complex nature. Studies of causes, effects and means to take action include several interlinked areas of studies. Climate science includes areas such as atmospheric chemistry, oceanography, biology, palaeoclimatology, physics, biology, glaciology as ...
... Information on climate change is of a particularly complex nature. Studies of causes, effects and means to take action include several interlinked areas of studies. Climate science includes areas such as atmospheric chemistry, oceanography, biology, palaeoclimatology, physics, biology, glaciology as ...
Climate Change: Potential Effects on Human Health in New Zealand
... only be given as a range of possible scenarios. Future refinement of global climate models could lead to projections that are not necessarily captured by the range of current climate models represented in this report. The scenarios and the impact assessment in this report should therefore only be se ...
... only be given as a range of possible scenarios. Future refinement of global climate models could lead to projections that are not necessarily captured by the range of current climate models represented in this report. The scenarios and the impact assessment in this report should therefore only be se ...
adaptation - Network for Business Sustainability
... unavoidable damages) together with longer term mitigation can reduce risk ...
... unavoidable damages) together with longer term mitigation can reduce risk ...
Human Mobility in the context of Climate Change
... of populations. COP20 in Lima is an opportune moment for policy makers to ensure that adaptation measures are taken to prevent and mitigate displacement in the context of climate change, including through migration as an adaptation strategy and planned relocation as an adaptation measure of last res ...
... of populations. COP20 in Lima is an opportune moment for policy makers to ensure that adaptation measures are taken to prevent and mitigate displacement in the context of climate change, including through migration as an adaptation strategy and planned relocation as an adaptation measure of last res ...
... The analysis of the energy sector has shown that the economic impact of climate change during 2011-2050 is similar under the A2 (US$142.88 million) and B2 (US$134.83 million) scenarios with A2 scenario having a slightly higher cost (0.737% of 2009 GDP) than the B2 scenario (0.695% of 2009 GDP) for t ...
USA–NPN Attributed Publications - USA National Phenology Network
... management in the U.S. . International Journal of Biometeorology (2013). Euskirchen, E. S., Carman, T. B. & McGuire, A. D. Changes in the structure and function of northern Alaskan ecosystems when considering variable leaf-out times across groupings of species in a dynamic vegetation model. Global C ...
... management in the U.S. . International Journal of Biometeorology (2013). Euskirchen, E. S., Carman, T. B. & McGuire, A. D. Changes in the structure and function of northern Alaskan ecosystems when considering variable leaf-out times across groupings of species in a dynamic vegetation model. Global C ...
Climate change justice and the global policy mix
... given significant disparities in living standards amongst high and middle income states, to require that the poorer state in this group (however wealthy they might be compared to low income states) bear identical economic burdens in percentage terms to their richer counterparts merely because an eff ...
... given significant disparities in living standards amongst high and middle income states, to require that the poorer state in this group (however wealthy they might be compared to low income states) bear identical economic burdens in percentage terms to their richer counterparts merely because an eff ...
Work package No 2F: Ecosystems and Forests
... show a change in the phenology of species, i.e. the timing of seasonal activities of animals and plants, as a result of changing climate conditions (see reviews in Walther et al. 2002, and Parmesan 2006). For example, some bird species have been found to breed earlier due to recent climate change (C ...
... show a change in the phenology of species, i.e. the timing of seasonal activities of animals and plants, as a result of changing climate conditions (see reviews in Walther et al. 2002, and Parmesan 2006). For example, some bird species have been found to breed earlier due to recent climate change (C ...
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... £20 million. The damage to households in the West Midlands could cost between £185 million and £360 million. The cost of disruption to transport could be between £30 million and £80 million. These figures are just for one event. If the occurrence of these extreme events increased, then the costs wou ...
... £20 million. The damage to households in the West Midlands could cost between £185 million and £360 million. The cost of disruption to transport could be between £30 million and £80 million. These figures are just for one event. If the occurrence of these extreme events increased, then the costs wou ...
Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements
... energy provision and industrial production. Local economies will be disrupted and populations will be stripped of their assets and livelihoods. The impacts of climate change will be particularly severe in low-elevation coastal zones, where many of the world’s largest cities are located. Although the ...
... energy provision and industrial production. Local economies will be disrupted and populations will be stripped of their assets and livelihoods. The impacts of climate change will be particularly severe in low-elevation coastal zones, where many of the world’s largest cities are located. Although the ...
Bronze Age Review
... For the first volume of the Bronze Age Review, the editor invited senior scholars to draw on their experience and expertise and write on what they would like to see happening in Bronze Age research in Britain in the future. They were asked to look as broadly as they can and explore issues and areas ...
... For the first volume of the Bronze Age Review, the editor invited senior scholars to draw on their experience and expertise and write on what they would like to see happening in Bronze Age research in Britain in the future. They were asked to look as broadly as they can and explore issues and areas ...
Future development in extreme one-hour precipitation over Europe
... seasonal rainfall, temperature and other atmospheric conditions that are conducted today. Such approaches have however not yet been tried out. We therefore argue that climate factors calculated straight-forward as in this study, based on 12 km, 1-hour RCM data representing the highest resolution so ...
... seasonal rainfall, temperature and other atmospheric conditions that are conducted today. Such approaches have however not yet been tried out. We therefore argue that climate factors calculated straight-forward as in this study, based on 12 km, 1-hour RCM data representing the highest resolution so ...
Experience of extreme weather affects climate change mitigation
... In order to outline our approach to testing these hypotheses, it is important to draw attention to several shortcomings in the methodology used within the research literature to date. First, an important limitation has been the wide-ranging way in which experience has been conceptualised, measured a ...
... In order to outline our approach to testing these hypotheses, it is important to draw attention to several shortcomings in the methodology used within the research literature to date. First, an important limitation has been the wide-ranging way in which experience has been conceptualised, measured a ...
Future Climate: Projected Average
... Projected climate for the Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States is based on a series of GCM and downscaled projection data sets. A set of CMIP3iv GCM outputs, from fifteen GCMs (used in an initial set of experiments) and sixteen GCMs (used in later experiments) that were identi ...
... Projected climate for the Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States is based on a series of GCM and downscaled projection data sets. A set of CMIP3iv GCM outputs, from fifteen GCMs (used in an initial set of experiments) and sixteen GCMs (used in later experiments) that were identi ...
Submission by Japan to the UN Framework Convention on Climate
... Regarding satsuma mandarin oranges, apples, and Japanese nashi pears, develop breeding materials adaptive to high temperature conditions. (Plant pests and weeds) It has been pointed out that damage to agricultural crops may increase due to the increasing occurrence of pests and diseases, and the exp ...
... Regarding satsuma mandarin oranges, apples, and Japanese nashi pears, develop breeding materials adaptive to high temperature conditions. (Plant pests and weeds) It has been pointed out that damage to agricultural crops may increase due to the increasing occurrence of pests and diseases, and the exp ...
Feng et al (2009)
... bias. In part C of Table 2, we use only precipitation and its square as IV and rerun FE-TSLS and FE-LIML. Similarly, part D of Table 2 reports results that take into account only annual mean temperature and summer mean temperature and their squares as instruments in the Zit vector. Overall, the resu ...
... bias. In part C of Table 2, we use only precipitation and its square as IV and rerun FE-TSLS and FE-LIML. Similarly, part D of Table 2 reports results that take into account only annual mean temperature and summer mean temperature and their squares as instruments in the Zit vector. Overall, the resu ...
Student Conceptions about Global Warming and Climate Change
... climate. Yet, these textbooks appear to be designed with little consideration of students’ conceptions and in fact may reinforce certain misconceptions. Furthermore, students’ conceptions may or may not fit current scientific perspectives because their conceptions are built on a combination of uniqu ...
... climate. Yet, these textbooks appear to be designed with little consideration of students’ conceptions and in fact may reinforce certain misconceptions. Furthermore, students’ conceptions may or may not fit current scientific perspectives because their conceptions are built on a combination of uniqu ...
space and climate change
... well-being of all humankind. The potential consequences extend to virtually all aspects of sustainable development – from food, energy and water security to broader economic and political stability. Global observing systems, including those from space, play an important role in helping to gauge thes ...
... well-being of all humankind. The potential consequences extend to virtually all aspects of sustainable development – from food, energy and water security to broader economic and political stability. Global observing systems, including those from space, play an important role in helping to gauge thes ...
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
... to a robust result for the model’s climate sensitivity. A different test of a climate model’s capabilities that comes closer to actually testing its predictive capability on the century time scale is to compare its simulation of changes in the 20th century with observed changes. A particularly commo ...
... to a robust result for the model’s climate sensitivity. A different test of a climate model’s capabilities that comes closer to actually testing its predictive capability on the century time scale is to compare its simulation of changes in the 20th century with observed changes. A particularly commo ...
Climate, conflict, and social stability: what does the evidence say?
... are easier to manage than abrupt climatic “shocks” (Gleditsch 2012). However, the evidence does not support this hypothesis. Instead, previous studies document associations between climate and conflict at all temporal scales, ranging from a climatologically anomalous hour to an anomalous millennium. ...
... are easier to manage than abrupt climatic “shocks” (Gleditsch 2012). However, the evidence does not support this hypothesis. Instead, previous studies document associations between climate and conflict at all temporal scales, ranging from a climatologically anomalous hour to an anomalous millennium. ...
Climate, conflict, and social stability: what does the evidence say
... are easier to manage than abrupt climatic “shocks” (Gleditsch 2012). However, the evidence does not support this hypothesis. Instead, previous studies document associations between climate and conflict at all temporal scales, ranging from a climatologically anomalous hour to an anomalous millennium. ...
... are easier to manage than abrupt climatic “shocks” (Gleditsch 2012). However, the evidence does not support this hypothesis. Instead, previous studies document associations between climate and conflict at all temporal scales, ranging from a climatologically anomalous hour to an anomalous millennium. ...
Accurate Answers to Professor Plimer`s 101 Climate Change
... Historical records reveal that the Earth has experienced significant past changes in its climate such as the changes between glacial and interglacial periods. However, none of the previous drivers of change in the Earth’s climate are responsible for all the current temperature increases. ...
... Historical records reveal that the Earth has experienced significant past changes in its climate such as the changes between glacial and interglacial periods. However, none of the previous drivers of change in the Earth’s climate are responsible for all the current temperature increases. ...