Climate Hype Exposed
... photo ops with victims of recent tornadoes. President Obama’s impassioned statements went well beyond what even the IPCC and NCA reports had said. Humaninduced climate change, “once considered an issue for the distant future, has moved firmly into the present,” he claimed. It is “affecting Americans ...
... photo ops with victims of recent tornadoes. President Obama’s impassioned statements went well beyond what even the IPCC and NCA reports had said. Humaninduced climate change, “once considered an issue for the distant future, has moved firmly into the present,” he claimed. It is “affecting Americans ...
Submission regarding Australia UNFCC
... terminology because it assumes a resumption of warming at some point, which might or might not be true. The real challenge for scientists is to explain how an absence of warming could occur when the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing and man-made emissions have continued. A pop ...
... terminology because it assumes a resumption of warming at some point, which might or might not be true. The real challenge for scientists is to explain how an absence of warming could occur when the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing and man-made emissions have continued. A pop ...
Environmental Education Research.
... While numerous studies have carefully cataloged the many misunderstandings students have about climate change, we found only one other peer-reviewed study that characterized the representation of climate change in school science textbooks. Building on their previous work about student misconceptions ...
... While numerous studies have carefully cataloged the many misunderstandings students have about climate change, we found only one other peer-reviewed study that characterized the representation of climate change in school science textbooks. Building on their previous work about student misconceptions ...
The politics of true convenience or inconvenient truth: struggles over
... for Washington, but its risky workings also hold Earth in the balance with a host of inconvenient truths, including philosophical and political struggles over how to sustain capitalism, democracy, and ecology (Beck, 1992; Gore, 2006b; Luke, 1999) in the 21st century. For some the world will not be e ...
... for Washington, but its risky workings also hold Earth in the balance with a host of inconvenient truths, including philosophical and political struggles over how to sustain capitalism, democracy, and ecology (Beck, 1992; Gore, 2006b; Luke, 1999) in the 21st century. For some the world will not be e ...
Smallholder Farmers` Perception of Climate Change
... Shemsanga et al., 2010; Yanda and Mubaya, 2011). The impacts of climate change are likely to severely damage social and economic systems of most developing countries (Yanda and Mubaya, 2011). The ongoing changes in global climate threaten the sources of livelihood, especially in poor parts of the wo ...
... Shemsanga et al., 2010; Yanda and Mubaya, 2011). The impacts of climate change are likely to severely damage social and economic systems of most developing countries (Yanda and Mubaya, 2011). The ongoing changes in global climate threaten the sources of livelihood, especially in poor parts of the wo ...
4. Climate Change Scenarios
... check that scenarios are consistent with estimated changes in global climate and with regional climatologists to check if regional changes are consistent with what is known about regional climatology. If the regional climate change scenarios are to be used in a V&A assessment, they must provide info ...
... check that scenarios are consistent with estimated changes in global climate and with regional climatologists to check if regional changes are consistent with what is known about regional climatology. If the regional climate change scenarios are to be used in a V&A assessment, they must provide info ...
Migration and Climate Change: How will Climate Shifts Affect
... 2050, a substantial demographic shift that will also be felt most profoundly in developing countries. It is uncertain what the implications of this uneven population growth will be, but they could increase the number of people who consider migrating internally or across national borders, irrespectiv ...
... 2050, a substantial demographic shift that will also be felt most profoundly in developing countries. It is uncertain what the implications of this uneven population growth will be, but they could increase the number of people who consider migrating internally or across national borders, irrespectiv ...
BODY PARAGRAPHS
... those who disagree with her are likely to listen. Oreskes invites readers to think through the issue with her and, by so doing, she gives respect to the reader and to the issue at hand. 10 ■ In conclusion, the chapter by Oreskes is one very important given that its importance and topic of global war ...
... those who disagree with her are likely to listen. Oreskes invites readers to think through the issue with her and, by so doing, she gives respect to the reader and to the issue at hand. 10 ■ In conclusion, the chapter by Oreskes is one very important given that its importance and topic of global war ...
CLIMATIC CHANGE AT HIGH ELEVATION SITES: AN OVERVIEW 1
... Although mountains may appear to be mere roughness elements on the earth’s surface, they are in fact an important element of the climate system. They are one of the trigger mechanisms of cyclogenesis in mid latitudes, through their perturbations of large-scale atmospheric flow patterns. The effects ...
... Although mountains may appear to be mere roughness elements on the earth’s surface, they are in fact an important element of the climate system. They are one of the trigger mechanisms of cyclogenesis in mid latitudes, through their perturbations of large-scale atmospheric flow patterns. The effects ...
Typologies of Loss and Damage and Associated Actions
... will depend on how L&D is conceptualised, and the actions taken to address it. The typologies could be used to inform collaboration between scientists, policy-makers and practitioners to discuss actions to address L&D and relevant research gaps. These could be explored through a workshop to identify ...
... will depend on how L&D is conceptualised, and the actions taken to address it. The typologies could be used to inform collaboration between scientists, policy-makers and practitioners to discuss actions to address L&D and relevant research gaps. These could be explored through a workshop to identify ...
Ozone Depleting Substances Protocol
... Montreal Protocol stops at production of CFCs and other ODS Kyoto Protocol does not include ODS ODS produced prior to their phase out deadlines remain in legal use ...
... Montreal Protocol stops at production of CFCs and other ODS Kyoto Protocol does not include ODS ODS produced prior to their phase out deadlines remain in legal use ...
Communicating Science: A Primer with Applications
... precision and technicality necessary in the lab, but as Alan Alda was able to draw out in his PBS show Scientific American Frontiers, most scientists do have a sense of humor about their work and what they’ve discovered. It is this excitement that needs to work its way into how those discoveries are ...
... precision and technicality necessary in the lab, but as Alan Alda was able to draw out in his PBS show Scientific American Frontiers, most scientists do have a sense of humor about their work and what they’ve discovered. It is this excitement that needs to work its way into how those discoveries are ...
DRACULA AND THE ECO WARRIOR Teacher`s Notes Synopsis 1
... reign in fossil fuel emissions, will likely tell. Hansen has long called for a straightforward rising price on greenhouse gas emissions, which he argues would “quicken the transition to cleaner energy.” “This is a tragic situation, because it is unnecessary,” he says. We could already be phasing out ...
... reign in fossil fuel emissions, will likely tell. Hansen has long called for a straightforward rising price on greenhouse gas emissions, which he argues would “quicken the transition to cleaner energy.” “This is a tragic situation, because it is unnecessary,” he says. We could already be phasing out ...
Forced migration: a new challenge
... however, it is also a common symptom of inadequate resettlement policy and a consequence of slowonset climate change. Being uprooted from a habitual place of residence increases a community’s risk of suffering from temporary or chronic undernourishment, which is defined as calorie-protein intake lev ...
... however, it is also a common symptom of inadequate resettlement policy and a consequence of slowonset climate change. Being uprooted from a habitual place of residence increases a community’s risk of suffering from temporary or chronic undernourishment, which is defined as calorie-protein intake lev ...
Managing the business risks and opportunities of a changing climate
... of extreme weather conditions and the availability of water can have a direct bearing on firms’ risk profiles and, in some cases, strategic positioning. Recent experience with extreme weather highlights our economic exposure to these changes: in 2010, 950 natural catastrophes caused global losses to ...
... of extreme weather conditions and the availability of water can have a direct bearing on firms’ risk profiles and, in some cases, strategic positioning. Recent experience with extreme weather highlights our economic exposure to these changes: in 2010, 950 natural catastrophes caused global losses to ...
An Ethical Defense of Global-Warming Skepticism
... fact, the cause of the often-touted temperature rise between 1980 and the present (shown in Figure 1) has become contentious due to a lack of warming during the most recent ten years that does not fit with what models predicted. Figure 4 shows that a trend line for the global average temperatures fr ...
... fact, the cause of the often-touted temperature rise between 1980 and the present (shown in Figure 1) has become contentious due to a lack of warming during the most recent ten years that does not fit with what models predicted. Figure 4 shows that a trend line for the global average temperatures fr ...
Presentation
... increased greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations b) To understand and evaluate how sensitive systems may be affected by human-induced climate change in the hope for policy-relevant information about expected changes and guidance for appropriate mitigation and adaptation measures • It is critical to kee ...
... increased greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations b) To understand and evaluate how sensitive systems may be affected by human-induced climate change in the hope for policy-relevant information about expected changes and guidance for appropriate mitigation and adaptation measures • It is critical to kee ...