Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... In light of the DOE’s and other federal agencies’ on-going examination of the SCC (including the SCC review being undertaken by the OMB) we submit our comments for consideration on this topic. We note, however, that the May 2013 update (and subsequent November 2013 revision) to the SCC made by the I ...
... In light of the DOE’s and other federal agencies’ on-going examination of the SCC (including the SCC review being undertaken by the OMB) we submit our comments for consideration on this topic. We note, however, that the May 2013 update (and subsequent November 2013 revision) to the SCC made by the I ...
Observed Strengthening of the Zonal Sea Surface Temperature Gradient
... have been shown to have powerful impacts on global climate. Future projections from different climate models do not agree on how this critical feature will change under the influence of anthropogenic forcing. A number of attempts have been made to resolve this issue by examining observed trends from ...
... have been shown to have powerful impacts on global climate. Future projections from different climate models do not agree on how this critical feature will change under the influence of anthropogenic forcing. A number of attempts have been made to resolve this issue by examining observed trends from ...
Poverty and climate change: Natural disasters, agricultural
... crops (wheat, rice and maize) in tropical and temperate regions, with higher emissions pathways worsening the impacts (Porter et al. 2014). Under the most optimistic climate scenario – and with CO2 fertilization (an effect that suggests plants can improve photosynthesis and productivity with higher ...
... crops (wheat, rice and maize) in tropical and temperate regions, with higher emissions pathways worsening the impacts (Porter et al. 2014). Under the most optimistic climate scenario – and with CO2 fertilization (an effect that suggests plants can improve photosynthesis and productivity with higher ...
Climate change in the Sahel
... 2009 its worst floods for over 30 years. Losses caused by these floods are estimated at several billions of dollars. This situation which actually concerns not the Sahel region alone, is increasingly seen as a manifestation of climate change caused by global warming, which is itself due to the increas ...
... 2009 its worst floods for over 30 years. Losses caused by these floods are estimated at several billions of dollars. This situation which actually concerns not the Sahel region alone, is increasingly seen as a manifestation of climate change caused by global warming, which is itself due to the increas ...
Worksheets on Climate Change: Going under! The threat of rising
... The threat of rising sea levels for the small island nation of Tuvalu The scenarios and warnings of international scientists regarding climate change and its inevitable consequences must seem like a constant sword of Damocles hanging over the people of Tuvalu. In its new report (2013), the Intergove ...
... The threat of rising sea levels for the small island nation of Tuvalu The scenarios and warnings of international scientists regarding climate change and its inevitable consequences must seem like a constant sword of Damocles hanging over the people of Tuvalu. In its new report (2013), the Intergove ...
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... Impacts on crop productivity: The estimates of climatic impacts on crop productivity used in the TFK study are presented in Table 1. These are based on the work of Rosenzweig and Iglesias (1994) as summarized in Reilly, Hohmann and Kane (1993). As is widely acknowledged, there is a great deal of unc ...
... Impacts on crop productivity: The estimates of climatic impacts on crop productivity used in the TFK study are presented in Table 1. These are based on the work of Rosenzweig and Iglesias (1994) as summarized in Reilly, Hohmann and Kane (1993). As is widely acknowledged, there is a great deal of unc ...
Executive Summary - A New Climate for Peace
... may spur competition over essential resources, increasing tensions and provoking local conflicts. Competition over resources is likely to be particularly disruptive in regions that rely on a narrow resource base, have a history of conflict, or are home to marginalized groups. Local competition can a ...
... may spur competition over essential resources, increasing tensions and provoking local conflicts. Competition over resources is likely to be particularly disruptive in regions that rely on a narrow resource base, have a history of conflict, or are home to marginalized groups. Local competition can a ...
climate risks: impact on natural hazards insurance between now and
... work on extreme events led by my colleague Pascal Yiou at the Environmental Science and Climate Change Research Institute (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement), using an innovative methodology that overlays economic projections and climate projections. It uses a peril by peril a ...
... work on extreme events led by my colleague Pascal Yiou at the Environmental Science and Climate Change Research Institute (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement), using an innovative methodology that overlays economic projections and climate projections. It uses a peril by peril a ...
Yesterday`s dinner, tomorrow`s weather, today`s news? US
... take action on a problem until they know about it. The literature indicates multiple factors driving newspapers’ agendas regarding topics warranting coverage. In addition to ‘objective’ newsworthiness, these include: journalist and editor judgement; issue promotion by interest groups; pressures to p ...
... take action on a problem until they know about it. The literature indicates multiple factors driving newspapers’ agendas regarding topics warranting coverage. In addition to ‘objective’ newsworthiness, these include: journalist and editor judgement; issue promotion by interest groups; pressures to p ...
A Conceptual Tool for Climate Change Risk Assessment
... Understanding the potential consequences of climate change to society is extremely challenging because climate impacts will depend on a multitude of contributing factors that interact in complicated ways and that are characterized by varying degrees of uncertainty (Moss 2011). For example, the risk ...
... Understanding the potential consequences of climate change to society is extremely challenging because climate impacts will depend on a multitude of contributing factors that interact in complicated ways and that are characterized by varying degrees of uncertainty (Moss 2011). For example, the risk ...
Climate Change: The Scientific Debate
... I KNOW James Lovelock and respect him tremendously. He's been one of the most influential scientists on the environment for many years now. Everything he's writing has to be taken very seriously. It's not just some 'Doomsday' prediction. I think this is really meant as a wake-up call - among the man ...
... I KNOW James Lovelock and respect him tremendously. He's been one of the most influential scientists on the environment for many years now. Everything he's writing has to be taken very seriously. It's not just some 'Doomsday' prediction. I think this is really meant as a wake-up call - among the man ...
Assessing the Relative Roles of Initial and Boundary Conditions in
... boundary conditions, such as explosive volcanic eruptions, are unlikely ever to be predictable in a deterministic sense, but their role still needs to be understood since it places limits on attainable forecast skill. 2. Comparing two kinds of predictability The question of predictability of the sec ...
... boundary conditions, such as explosive volcanic eruptions, are unlikely ever to be predictable in a deterministic sense, but their role still needs to be understood since it places limits on attainable forecast skill. 2. Comparing two kinds of predictability The question of predictability of the sec ...
GENERAL Climate Change Handbook for NE South Africa (Gauteng
... activities are affecting the Earth’s system at the global scale. Increasingly strong evidence suggests that the functioning of this system is changing in response. Global change is more than climate change. Global change refers to any changes in the Earth system. The Earth system encompasses the cli ...
... activities are affecting the Earth’s system at the global scale. Increasingly strong evidence suggests that the functioning of this system is changing in response. Global change is more than climate change. Global change refers to any changes in the Earth system. The Earth system encompasses the cli ...
What Role Do Property Rights Play In Climate Change?
... stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at levels that avoid dangerous climate change. Its emphasis is on mitigation, or abatement, of rising greenhouse gas emissions. The objective of the Convention reflects the paradigmatic approach to climate change in the early 1990s: th ...
... stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at levels that avoid dangerous climate change. Its emphasis is on mitigation, or abatement, of rising greenhouse gas emissions. The objective of the Convention reflects the paradigmatic approach to climate change in the early 1990s: th ...
4 Climate change impacts in a context of full
... suited to measure important social phenomena like conflicts, mass migrations, disruption of knowledge, learning and social capital potentially triggered by climate change (Anthoff and Tol, 2013; Stern, 2013). IAMs emphasize impacts on GDP, which even disregarding its deficiency as a welfare measure, ...
... suited to measure important social phenomena like conflicts, mass migrations, disruption of knowledge, learning and social capital potentially triggered by climate change (Anthoff and Tol, 2013; Stern, 2013). IAMs emphasize impacts on GDP, which even disregarding its deficiency as a welfare measure, ...
Climate change impacts on global agricultural land availability
... The regional variability of GCM simulations and the diversity of emission scenarios are considered as the two major sources of uncertainty in climate change projections at the regional scale. Two widely used ensemble approaches are employed to deal with GCM regional variability, the simple average m ...
... The regional variability of GCM simulations and the diversity of emission scenarios are considered as the two major sources of uncertainty in climate change projections at the regional scale. Two widely used ensemble approaches are employed to deal with GCM regional variability, the simple average m ...
Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery
... alternative livelihoods, placing pressures on other sectors or resources. For example, in West Africa, when coastal fisheries resources are scarce, fisherfolk adopt alternative livelihood strategies including hunting for bushmeat [33]. Climate change is thus likely to have multiple impacts across sect ...
... alternative livelihoods, placing pressures on other sectors or resources. For example, in West Africa, when coastal fisheries resources are scarce, fisherfolk adopt alternative livelihood strategies including hunting for bushmeat [33]. Climate change is thus likely to have multiple impacts across sect ...
Handbook on the OECD-DAC Climate Markers
... programme in the forestry sector because of its links to climate change adaptation. The specific motivation for contributing to the basket fund should be made clear in the activity documentation, i.e. in the programme document and in the donor’s supporting documentation: the donor, through its contr ...
... programme in the forestry sector because of its links to climate change adaptation. The specific motivation for contributing to the basket fund should be made clear in the activity documentation, i.e. in the programme document and in the donor’s supporting documentation: the donor, through its contr ...
A changing climate of skepticism? The factors shaping climate
... continues and replicates the work of previous studies (especially Boykoff & Boykoff, 2004 and Painter & Ashe, 2012) and examines the US print media’s more recent coverage of climate change. This allows us to develop a long-term perspective from which we then can reconstruct possible shifts and chang ...
... continues and replicates the work of previous studies (especially Boykoff & Boykoff, 2004 and Painter & Ashe, 2012) and examines the US print media’s more recent coverage of climate change. This allows us to develop a long-term perspective from which we then can reconstruct possible shifts and chang ...
Adaptation policy and practice in densely populated glacier
... R. Sud A. Mishra (&) N. Varma S. Bhadwal The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), IHC Complex, ...
... R. Sud A. Mishra (&) N. Varma S. Bhadwal The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), IHC Complex, ...
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... equity implications. These equity considerations have domestic and international dimensions, and implications for both present and future human generations, and for the survival of other species. 1.6.2 [Insert Local Government here] acknowledges that climate equity has both domestic and internationa ...
... equity implications. These equity considerations have domestic and international dimensions, and implications for both present and future human generations, and for the survival of other species. 1.6.2 [Insert Local Government here] acknowledges that climate equity has both domestic and internationa ...
climate engineering: which role for space?
... compensating the reduced outgoing, long-wave radiation due to higher levels of greenhouse gases by either increasing the amount of generally short-wave radiation that is reflected back into space or by directly reducing the total amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s atmosphere. The first category ...
... compensating the reduced outgoing, long-wave radiation due to higher levels of greenhouse gases by either increasing the amount of generally short-wave radiation that is reflected back into space or by directly reducing the total amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s atmosphere. The first category ...