Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide
... large warming at intermediate ocean depths in response to initial surface warming are consistent with the concept of a methane hydrate role in hyperthermal events. The hyperthermals confirm understanding about the long recovery time of the Earth’s carbon cycle [21] and reveal the potential for thresh ...
... large warming at intermediate ocean depths in response to initial surface warming are consistent with the concept of a methane hydrate role in hyperthermal events. The hyperthermals confirm understanding about the long recovery time of the Earth’s carbon cycle [21] and reveal the potential for thresh ...
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Engaging
... The central argument for climate change adaptation is that climate change is inevitable due to historic emissions and inertia within the climate system.2 Even stringent emissions reduction efforts cannot avoid impacts for some decades to come. Climate change adaptation is therefore essential to redu ...
... The central argument for climate change adaptation is that climate change is inevitable due to historic emissions and inertia within the climate system.2 Even stringent emissions reduction efforts cannot avoid impacts for some decades to come. Climate change adaptation is therefore essential to redu ...
Australia - Met Office
... everyone understand how their environment has changed, and plan for future, is improving all the time. But there is still a long way to go. These reports – led by the Met Office Hadley Centre in collaboration with many institutes and scientists around the world – aim to provide useful, up to date an ...
... everyone understand how their environment has changed, and plan for future, is improving all the time. But there is still a long way to go. These reports – led by the Met Office Hadley Centre in collaboration with many institutes and scientists around the world – aim to provide useful, up to date an ...
The Cost of Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa
... adaptation may outweigh the costs by a factor of about two and that this ratio may be higher in nonOECD countries than OECD countries. Sectoral specific studies in agriculture and health, two crucial sectors for Africa’s adaptation efforts, provide further evidence on the cost effectiveness of adapt ...
... adaptation may outweigh the costs by a factor of about two and that this ratio may be higher in nonOECD countries than OECD countries. Sectoral specific studies in agriculture and health, two crucial sectors for Africa’s adaptation efforts, provide further evidence on the cost effectiveness of adapt ...
Faculty of Science and Agriculture Dissertation submitted in partial
... sensitivity and adaptive capacity were simultaneously analysed and averaged to determine the magnitude of vulnerability. Thereafter, the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to establish weighted contributions of these components to vulnerability. The weights applied to the AHP were obtained ...
... sensitivity and adaptive capacity were simultaneously analysed and averaged to determine the magnitude of vulnerability. Thereafter, the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to establish weighted contributions of these components to vulnerability. The weights applied to the AHP were obtained ...
IFC Definitions and Metrics for Climate
... must be professionally managed in order for their companies to stay competitive. At the same time as climate change increasingly strains scarce resources such as water, energy, food, and land, the poorest are and will be hardest hit because they are the least equipped to adapt to these changes. As g ...
... must be professionally managed in order for their companies to stay competitive. At the same time as climate change increasingly strains scarce resources such as water, energy, food, and land, the poorest are and will be hardest hit because they are the least equipped to adapt to these changes. As g ...
Preserving the Ocean Circulation
... greenhouse gases at a level that will “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. Which stabilization level for greenhouse gases would avoid dangerous interference and whether this risk justifies costly reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is controversial. The policies ...
... greenhouse gases at a level that will “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. Which stabilization level for greenhouse gases would avoid dangerous interference and whether this risk justifies costly reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is controversial. The policies ...
Climate Change and Variability in the Sahel Region
... Now our understanding of climate change has considerably improved. Several sources including the assessment reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Communications (NCs) of the parties to the Convention and direct observations on the ground are increasin ...
... Now our understanding of climate change has considerably improved. Several sources including the assessment reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Communications (NCs) of the parties to the Convention and direct observations on the ground are increasin ...
Climate change impact on available water resources obtained using
... 2000): ECHAM5/MPIOM (denoted as ECHAM5 henceforth) of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, LMDZ-4 of Institute Pierre Simon Laplace (denoted as IPSL henceforth) and CNRM-CM3 of Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Météo-France (denoted as CNRM henceforth). Note that the GCMs chose ...
... 2000): ECHAM5/MPIOM (denoted as ECHAM5 henceforth) of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, LMDZ-4 of Institute Pierre Simon Laplace (denoted as IPSL henceforth) and CNRM-CM3 of Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Météo-France (denoted as CNRM henceforth). Note that the GCMs chose ...
Background Document - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
... beach areas and historic settlement patterns that are sea-based. The Israel Antiquities Authority have prepared a first report and analysis, the questionnaire of which is added to this paper. Further studies will be conducted on the implications on underwater archaeology. These studies will also hav ...
... beach areas and historic settlement patterns that are sea-based. The Israel Antiquities Authority have prepared a first report and analysis, the questionnaire of which is added to this paper. Further studies will be conducted on the implications on underwater archaeology. These studies will also hav ...
Background Paper Nansen Initiative South Asian Regional
... South Asia faces a wide variety of natural hazards and experiences numerous disasters annually that have been steadily increasing in number over recent decades.16 The annual monsoon season, with its associated storms and cyclones, produces the most significant hazards in the region. In fact, of the ...
... South Asia faces a wide variety of natural hazards and experiences numerous disasters annually that have been steadily increasing in number over recent decades.16 The annual monsoon season, with its associated storms and cyclones, produces the most significant hazards in the region. In fact, of the ...
Assessing the impact of climate change on ecosystem services in
... Regulating Services – benefits obtained from regulation of ecosystem processes. ...
... Regulating Services – benefits obtained from regulation of ecosystem processes. ...
National Park Service - Montana State University
... Paleoenvironmental records provide critical information on past climates and the response of ecosystems to climatic variability. Ecosystems have changed in variety of ways as a result of past climate change, and they will continue to do so in the future. At large scales, climate governs the distribu ...
... Paleoenvironmental records provide critical information on past climates and the response of ecosystems to climatic variability. Ecosystems have changed in variety of ways as a result of past climate change, and they will continue to do so in the future. At large scales, climate governs the distribu ...
View PDF - Hofstra Law
... defined anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming as a legitimate social problem deserving of federal policy action. At the same time, a coordinated anti-environmental countermovement mobilized in the United States to challenge the legitimacy of climate change as a problem on which society should ...
... defined anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming as a legitimate social problem deserving of federal policy action. At the same time, a coordinated anti-environmental countermovement mobilized in the United States to challenge the legitimacy of climate change as a problem on which society should ...
Manuscript - CSIRO Research Publications Repository
... fisheries and forestry production (Fig 1), offers the potential for society to realise a corresponding increase in its capacity to adapt to climate change. < Insert Fig. 1 here > Nelson et al. 2007 suggest that one approach for adapting to climate change and reducing vulnerability is by placing emph ...
... fisheries and forestry production (Fig 1), offers the potential for society to realise a corresponding increase in its capacity to adapt to climate change. < Insert Fig. 1 here > Nelson et al. 2007 suggest that one approach for adapting to climate change and reducing vulnerability is by placing emph ...
End of Program Report - Pacific Climate Change Science
... how their climate and oceans have changed and how they may change in the future. The Program was set up to deliver early results in priority knowledge areas while providing the base upon which longer-term climate change science outcomes could be delivered. The $20 million PCCSP, a part of the Intern ...
... how their climate and oceans have changed and how they may change in the future. The Program was set up to deliver early results in priority knowledge areas while providing the base upon which longer-term climate change science outcomes could be delivered. The $20 million PCCSP, a part of the Intern ...
Background Paper
... South Asia faces a wide variety of natural hazards and experiences numerous disasters annually that have been steadily increasing in number over recent decades.16 The annual monsoon season, with its associated storms and cyclones, produces the most significant hazards in the region. In fact, of the ...
... South Asia faces a wide variety of natural hazards and experiences numerous disasters annually that have been steadily increasing in number over recent decades.16 The annual monsoon season, with its associated storms and cyclones, produces the most significant hazards in the region. In fact, of the ...
Energy Partisanship - Scholarship Repository
... climate change are charged with engaging in a “War on Coal.” Those opposed are labeled “members of the Flat Earth Society.” Set against these dysfunctional climate and energy politics, how can progress be made? For people who accept the science of climate change, this has become a critical question. ...
... climate change are charged with engaging in a “War on Coal.” Those opposed are labeled “members of the Flat Earth Society.” Set against these dysfunctional climate and energy politics, how can progress be made? For people who accept the science of climate change, this has become a critical question. ...
Designing Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives
... The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) states unequivocally that the world is warming. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of how climate change is affecting natural and human systems. There is increasing concern about the likely implicatio ...
... The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) states unequivocally that the world is warming. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of how climate change is affecting natural and human systems. There is increasing concern about the likely implicatio ...
Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Coastal and Inland Wetlands in
... assessments take into account reliance on wetland habitat, but do not otherwise break out or rank wetland dependent species. Databases that are being developed through these projects will be useful in further analysis. The initial report is anticipated late in 2012. Other strategies identify common ...
... assessments take into account reliance on wetland habitat, but do not otherwise break out or rank wetland dependent species. Databases that are being developed through these projects will be useful in further analysis. The initial report is anticipated late in 2012. Other strategies identify common ...
Climate Change and Whitebark Pine
... that often precludes planning for mitigation (IPCC 2007). While there is little debate that atmospheric CO2 is increasing and this increase will cause major changes in climate (IPCC 2007), there is a great deal of uncertainty about the magnitude and rate of change (Stainforth et al. 2005, Roe and Ba ...
... that often precludes planning for mitigation (IPCC 2007). While there is little debate that atmospheric CO2 is increasing and this increase will cause major changes in climate (IPCC 2007), there is a great deal of uncertainty about the magnitude and rate of change (Stainforth et al. 2005, Roe and Ba ...
NRDC: Clean Power – The Case for Carbon Pollution Limits
... The plan will reduce not only carbon pollution but hundreds of thousands of tons of other harmful air pollutants from existing power plants, such as sulfur dioxide and particulate matter, preventing up to 100,000 asthma attacks and 2,100 heart attacks in just the first year of implementation, accord ...
... The plan will reduce not only carbon pollution but hundreds of thousands of tons of other harmful air pollutants from existing power plants, such as sulfur dioxide and particulate matter, preventing up to 100,000 asthma attacks and 2,100 heart attacks in just the first year of implementation, accord ...
Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Climate Change
... discussions revealed that adaptation strategies include before drought, during and after drought initiatives. Households without stable incomes often engaged strategies such as barter trade, piece jobs, gold panning, selling firewood and livestock. Average income households diversify livestock and c ...
... discussions revealed that adaptation strategies include before drought, during and after drought initiatives. Households without stable incomes often engaged strategies such as barter trade, piece jobs, gold panning, selling firewood and livestock. Average income households diversify livestock and c ...