U. S. Senate Minority Report:
... served as staff physicist at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ...
... served as staff physicist at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ...
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... Climate change is among the most pressing challenges that the world faces today. Given current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), the world is already committed to significant warming. This is a serious challenge, given the wide range of expected climate impacts on natural system ...
... Climate change is among the most pressing challenges that the world faces today. Given current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), the world is already committed to significant warming. This is a serious challenge, given the wide range of expected climate impacts on natural system ...
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... Situated beside the Thi Nai lagoon, Quy Nhon City has undergone dramatic changes in its land-use patterns due to very rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. The physical growth of the city was caused by the development of residential and industrial activity around the city, particularly since the ...
... Situated beside the Thi Nai lagoon, Quy Nhon City has undergone dramatic changes in its land-use patterns due to very rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. The physical growth of the city was caused by the development of residential and industrial activity around the city, particularly since the ...
Annex 3: Key Figures Showing Climatic Trends for Guinea Bissau
... change adaptation measures into integrated agricultural and water resource management across different institutional, social and spatial frameworks. Technical capacity of both government and local communities to manage the emerging threats imposed by climate change is required. The likely impacts of ...
... change adaptation measures into integrated agricultural and water resource management across different institutional, social and spatial frameworks. Technical capacity of both government and local communities to manage the emerging threats imposed by climate change is required. The likely impacts of ...
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... human activity. At the same time, human activities never are totally neutral to the environment, constantly changing its resources and its current state. Global environment has always evolved and changed throughout earth and human history due both to natural processes and humans interactions. Howeve ...
... human activity. At the same time, human activities never are totally neutral to the environment, constantly changing its resources and its current state. Global environment has always evolved and changed throughout earth and human history due both to natural processes and humans interactions. Howeve ...
Academic paper: Vulnerability: A generally applicable conceptual
... (2004), this conceptualization of vulnerability includes factors outside the vulnerable system, such as characteristics of the stressor and the expected level of external assistance. Several researchers distinguish biophysical (or natural) vulnerability from social (or socioeconomic) vulnerability. ...
... (2004), this conceptualization of vulnerability includes factors outside the vulnerable system, such as characteristics of the stressor and the expected level of external assistance. Several researchers distinguish biophysical (or natural) vulnerability from social (or socioeconomic) vulnerability. ...
Torres Strait Regional Adaptation and Resilience Plan
... wellbeing, culture and environment. It is timely to take serious action to address the impacts that climate change will continue to bring to the Torres Strait. This Plan considers those impacts and proposes a number of strategies and actions that will prepare the region for the future. Climate chang ...
... wellbeing, culture and environment. It is timely to take serious action to address the impacts that climate change will continue to bring to the Torres Strait. This Plan considers those impacts and proposes a number of strategies and actions that will prepare the region for the future. Climate chang ...
Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations
... the atmosphere helps to determine its climate. Chapter 2 contains a brief description of energytransfer simulation within models, particularly within the atmospheric component. More important, Chapter 4 includes an extensive discussion about radiative forcing of climate change and climate sensitivit ...
... the atmosphere helps to determine its climate. Chapter 2 contains a brief description of energytransfer simulation within models, particularly within the atmospheric component. More important, Chapter 4 includes an extensive discussion about radiative forcing of climate change and climate sensitivit ...
Environmental Change and Migration: State of the
... ferent environmental changes affect people’s lives and their propensity to move would be useful in increasing understanding of the interconnections between the environment and migration. Also needed is research on the forms of movement that are likely to be associated with different environmental c ...
... ferent environmental changes affect people’s lives and their propensity to move would be useful in increasing understanding of the interconnections between the environment and migration. Also needed is research on the forms of movement that are likely to be associated with different environmental c ...
Australia`s Sixth National Communication on Climate Change
... geography, coastal population concentrations and biodiversity render it particularly vulnerable to small variations in climate. Many of Australia’s key industry sectors such as agriculture and tourism are also vulnerable to high variability in temperature and rainfall patterns. If global greenhouse ...
... geography, coastal population concentrations and biodiversity render it particularly vulnerable to small variations in climate. Many of Australia’s key industry sectors such as agriculture and tourism are also vulnerable to high variability in temperature and rainfall patterns. If global greenhouse ...
Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptations in Canadian Arctic
... Adaptation decision support methods embedded within overall vulnerability and adaptation assessment frameworks can be divided in two sub-categories. The first sub-category includes decision support tools embedded within development policies and assistance initiatives in developing countries and usua ...
... Adaptation decision support methods embedded within overall vulnerability and adaptation assessment frameworks can be divided in two sub-categories. The first sub-category includes decision support tools embedded within development policies and assistance initiatives in developing countries and usua ...
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... Science is built through credible peer-reviewed journals, but anti-science or “advocacy science” uses OpEds, blogs, newsletters and personal attacks on scientists. It is fake “advocacy science” designed to confuse non-scientists, often for financial and/or ideological reasons. Modern anti-science wa ...
... Science is built through credible peer-reviewed journals, but anti-science or “advocacy science” uses OpEds, blogs, newsletters and personal attacks on scientists. It is fake “advocacy science” designed to confuse non-scientists, often for financial and/or ideological reasons. Modern anti-science wa ...
Coastal Ecosystems Responses to Climate Change
... species, ecosystems and human settlements and industries. Given that even the strictest climate change mitigation policies are unlikely to halt or reduce the threat that climate change currently poses to coastal ecosystems, consideration is needed as to how species, ecosystems and human communities ...
... species, ecosystems and human settlements and industries. Given that even the strictest climate change mitigation policies are unlikely to halt or reduce the threat that climate change currently poses to coastal ecosystems, consideration is needed as to how species, ecosystems and human communities ...
Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities
... Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and Congress every four years on the status of climate change science and impacts. The NCA informs the nation about already observed changes, the current status of the climate, and anticipated trends for the future. The NCA ...
... Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and Congress every four years on the status of climate change science and impacts. The NCA informs the nation about already observed changes, the current status of the climate, and anticipated trends for the future. The NCA ...
Climate Change Adaptation in Clayoquot Sound
... carbonic acid. In addition, the ocean is becoming more stratified in some areas, as surface temperatures increase, and there is also decreasing oxygen availability at the surface, and also in ‘dead zones’. All these factors have been observed to be occurring already, which climate change will amplif ...
... carbonic acid. In addition, the ocean is becoming more stratified in some areas, as surface temperatures increase, and there is also decreasing oxygen availability at the surface, and also in ‘dead zones’. All these factors have been observed to be occurring already, which climate change will amplif ...
Review of Current and Planned Adaptation Action: Central America
... increase in heavy rainfall events. Some areas have seen important reductions or increases in average precipitation (Aguilar et al. 2005). These trends are projected to continue over the remainder of this century. Climate models suggest that an annual mean warming of 1.8° to 5.0°C (with a median of 3 ...
... increase in heavy rainfall events. Some areas have seen important reductions or increases in average precipitation (Aguilar et al. 2005). These trends are projected to continue over the remainder of this century. Climate models suggest that an annual mean warming of 1.8° to 5.0°C (with a median of 3 ...
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... activities from North, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean. It provided an opportunity for researchers and decision makers from a wide range of disciplines to share results and information in a pan-America event. The symposium program included invited keynote and plenary presentation ...
... activities from North, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean. It provided an opportunity for researchers and decision makers from a wide range of disciplines to share results and information in a pan-America event. The symposium program included invited keynote and plenary presentation ...
Climate Change Effects and Adaptation Approaches in Freshwater
... Information in this report focuses on the NPLCC region, which extends from Kenai Peninsula in southcentral Alaska to Bodega Bay in northwestern California, west of the Cascade Mountain Range and Coast Mountains. The extent of the NPLCC reaches inland up to 150 miles (~240 km) and thus only includes ...
... Information in this report focuses on the NPLCC region, which extends from Kenai Peninsula in southcentral Alaska to Bodega Bay in northwestern California, west of the Cascade Mountain Range and Coast Mountains. The extent of the NPLCC reaches inland up to 150 miles (~240 km) and thus only includes ...
Climate Change in the Northwest: Implications for Our Landscapes
... Climate Change in the Northwest: Implications for Our Landscapes, Waters, and Communities is a report aimed at assessing the state of knowledge about key climate impacts and consequences to various sectors and communities in the Northwest United States. This report draws on two recent state climate ...
... Climate Change in the Northwest: Implications for Our Landscapes, Waters, and Communities is a report aimed at assessing the state of knowledge about key climate impacts and consequences to various sectors and communities in the Northwest United States. This report draws on two recent state climate ...
Macarthy, J.M. 12 - Newcastle University eTheses: Home
... climate change on cities. Whilst urban planners are increasingly being urged to develop robust and clear strategies for dealing with the impacts, in reality there is very little knowledge about the way the local context shapes whether, and how, planners and households are able to address the challen ...
... climate change on cities. Whilst urban planners are increasingly being urged to develop robust and clear strategies for dealing with the impacts, in reality there is very little knowledge about the way the local context shapes whether, and how, planners and households are able to address the challen ...
The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on US Transportation
... eading scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change published their fourth assessment of the state of knowledge about climate change and its impacts in spring 2007. They reached consensus that human activity is responsible for many observed climate changes, particularly the warming t ...
... eading scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change published their fourth assessment of the state of knowledge about climate change and its impacts in spring 2007. They reached consensus that human activity is responsible for many observed climate changes, particularly the warming t ...
A Climate Risk Management Approach to Disaster
... is one of the central development issues of our time and the achievement of the UN Millennium Goals will not be possible unless climate-related risks are significantly managed and reduced. The current proliferation of parallel international frameworks and programming mechanisms for addressing what i ...
... is one of the central development issues of our time and the achievement of the UN Millennium Goals will not be possible unless climate-related risks are significantly managed and reduced. The current proliferation of parallel international frameworks and programming mechanisms for addressing what i ...
Jordan`s Third National
... Jordan is committed to being an active player in the international climate efforts based on the principles of the UNFCCC. The following pages will provide all interested parties and institutions with a long term, scientifically sound description of the projected impacts of Climate Change on Jordan, ...
... Jordan is committed to being an active player in the international climate efforts based on the principles of the UNFCCC. The following pages will provide all interested parties and institutions with a long term, scientifically sound description of the projected impacts of Climate Change on Jordan, ...
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... cooperate on climate change (in different degrees) or to act solely in self interest. The first aim of this paper is to analyse whether the results of de Bruin et al. (2009a) are valid in a multi-regional setting with various forms of cooperation. Both the UNFCCC and IPCC WGIII TAR (IPCC, 2007) stre ...
... cooperate on climate change (in different degrees) or to act solely in self interest. The first aim of this paper is to analyse whether the results of de Bruin et al. (2009a) are valid in a multi-regional setting with various forms of cooperation. Both the UNFCCC and IPCC WGIII TAR (IPCC, 2007) stre ...