-portal.org Journal of Applied Ecology
... 2002) as well as monopolizing carrion resources in the winter (Killengreen et al. 2012). In Finland, red fox establishment on the mountain tundra coincided with a rapid decline of the arctic fox population (Fig. 2a; Kaikusalo, Mela & Henttonen 2000), and a similar trend has been recorded in the Swed ...
... 2002) as well as monopolizing carrion resources in the winter (Killengreen et al. 2012). In Finland, red fox establishment on the mountain tundra coincided with a rapid decline of the arctic fox population (Fig. 2a; Kaikusalo, Mela & Henttonen 2000), and a similar trend has been recorded in the Swed ...
IJTK 10(1) 57-70
... in the direction of prevailing winds has shifted snowdrifts that were once used as navigational markers. Navigation becomes more difficult and dependent on technology such as GPS. In general, this means people have to take longer routes, do not go out onto the land or don’t venture as far from the c ...
... in the direction of prevailing winds has shifted snowdrifts that were once used as navigational markers. Navigation becomes more difficult and dependent on technology such as GPS. In general, this means people have to take longer routes, do not go out onto the land or don’t venture as far from the c ...
international legal implications of climate change for the polar
... within the polar regions.8 However, despite the likely significant environmental impacts of climate change, and the potential indirect consequences on political stability within the polar regions, the legal and policy responses of the relevant regional institutions to climate change have been limite ...
... within the polar regions.8 However, despite the likely significant environmental impacts of climate change, and the potential indirect consequences on political stability within the polar regions, the legal and policy responses of the relevant regional institutions to climate change have been limite ...
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
... not set below it at summer solstice – “the land of the midnight sun”. Other boundaries used to define the Arctic include treeline, climatic boundaries, and permafrost extent on land and sea-ice extent on the ocean. For the purposes of this assessment, the boundary will be more flexible, also encompa ...
... not set below it at summer solstice – “the land of the midnight sun”. Other boundaries used to define the Arctic include treeline, climatic boundaries, and permafrost extent on land and sea-ice extent on the ocean. For the purposes of this assessment, the boundary will be more flexible, also encompa ...
Ice entombed our planet hundreds of millions of years ago, and
... entered a deep freeze, the high albedo of its icy veneer would have driven surface temperatures so low that it seemed there would have been no means of escape. Had such a glaciation occurred, Budyko and others reasoned, it would have been permanent. The first of these objections began to fade in the ...
... entered a deep freeze, the high albedo of its icy veneer would have driven surface temperatures so low that it seemed there would have been no means of escape. Had such a glaciation occurred, Budyko and others reasoned, it would have been permanent. The first of these objections began to fade in the ...
Snowball Earth
... entered a deep freeze, the high albedo of its icy veneer would have driven surface temperatures so low that it seemed there would have been no means of escape. Had such a glaciation occurred, Budyko and others reasoned, it would have been permanent. The first of these objections began to fade in the ...
... entered a deep freeze, the high albedo of its icy veneer would have driven surface temperatures so low that it seemed there would have been no means of escape. Had such a glaciation occurred, Budyko and others reasoned, it would have been permanent. The first of these objections began to fade in the ...
The year 2007 to be the hottest ever
... The world’s leading climate scientists (7) ______ agree that human activity is accelerating global warming. It is a fact that the world's ten warmest years have all occurred in the last twelve years. A United Nations (8) ______ on climate change predicted that global temperatures could rise by as mu ...
... The world’s leading climate scientists (7) ______ agree that human activity is accelerating global warming. It is a fact that the world's ten warmest years have all occurred in the last twelve years. A United Nations (8) ______ on climate change predicted that global temperatures could rise by as mu ...
Demographic models and IPCC climate projections predict the
... we note that the 56-year penguin observation period includes 10 warm events, for a frequency of w! o " 10/56 " 0.18 (dotted line of Fig. 2B). Thus, for each climate model, we calculated the SIE threshold that produced a frequency of w! o " 0.18 over the observation period; these thresholds range fro ...
... we note that the 56-year penguin observation period includes 10 warm events, for a frequency of w! o " 10/56 " 0.18 (dotted line of Fig. 2B). Thus, for each climate model, we calculated the SIE threshold that produced a frequency of w! o " 0.18 over the observation period; these thresholds range fro ...
Unit 4 – Glaciation - Geography @ KE Camp Hill Boys
... What effect has ice had on the land? Understand the fluctuations of temperature in the recent geological past Understand changes in the extent and distribution of ice in the world resulting from changes in global temperature. Understand the components of the glacier budget Understand how the glacier ...
... What effect has ice had on the land? Understand the fluctuations of temperature in the recent geological past Understand changes in the extent and distribution of ice in the world resulting from changes in global temperature. Understand the components of the glacier budget Understand how the glacier ...
Formation and evolution of the periglacial landscape under major
... increasingly abundant. The fate of this ground-ice reservoir is tied to dramatic global climate change during the recent history of Mars (<10 Myr). The planet is thought to have undergone periodic variations of its orbital parameters deeply modifying the climate like Milankovitch’s cycles on Earth. ...
... increasingly abundant. The fate of this ground-ice reservoir is tied to dramatic global climate change during the recent history of Mars (<10 Myr). The planet is thought to have undergone periodic variations of its orbital parameters deeply modifying the climate like Milankovitch’s cycles on Earth. ...
Changing climate and rising seas - Parliamentary Commissioner for
... over a hundred metres many times in the history of the Earth. But over the last few thousand years the climate has been relatively stable and the sea level has varied only a little. However, since about 1900, sea levels have risen by about 20 centimetres. There is a strong consensus among scientists ...
... over a hundred metres many times in the history of the Earth. But over the last few thousand years the climate has been relatively stable and the sea level has varied only a little. However, since about 1900, sea levels have risen by about 20 centimetres. There is a strong consensus among scientists ...
Aquatic Microbial Ecology 70:17 - ICM-CSIC
... 2003, Wassmann et al. 2011) and functioning of microbial food webs in Arctic waters (Boras et al. 2010). The microbial loop is fundamental to the functioning of Arctic marine ecosystems (Nielsen & Hansen 1995, Iversen & Seuthe 2011) in which the bacterioplankton play a pivotal role as recyclers of t ...
... 2003, Wassmann et al. 2011) and functioning of microbial food webs in Arctic waters (Boras et al. 2010). The microbial loop is fundamental to the functioning of Arctic marine ecosystems (Nielsen & Hansen 1995, Iversen & Seuthe 2011) in which the bacterioplankton play a pivotal role as recyclers of t ...
beyond 2 degrees celsius
... by the Earth from solar radiation and the energy/heat emitted back to space— estimated at +3.1 Watt/m2, equivalent to a +2.3 degrees C (based on climate sensitivity of 3C per doubling of CO2) (Hansen et al., 2011 [1]), is currently in part mitigated by the cooling effect of albedo-enhancing sulphur ...
... by the Earth from solar radiation and the energy/heat emitted back to space— estimated at +3.1 Watt/m2, equivalent to a +2.3 degrees C (based on climate sensitivity of 3C per doubling of CO2) (Hansen et al., 2011 [1]), is currently in part mitigated by the cooling effect of albedo-enhancing sulphur ...
Rain driven by receding ice sheets as a cause of
... Received 6 April 2009; revised 29 June 2009; accepted 17 July 2009; published 10 November 2009. ...
... Received 6 April 2009; revised 29 June 2009; accepted 17 July 2009; published 10 November 2009. ...
Kansas Geological Survey Public Information Circular 28
... the submerged continental shelves for use as dryland migration routes for plants, animals, and humans into North America (Pielou, 1991; fig 1). Glacial melt returned a vast amount of freshwater to the oceans, creating a rising sea level that continues Figure 6. Sea of Sioux Quartzite erratics on rid ...
... the submerged continental shelves for use as dryland migration routes for plants, animals, and humans into North America (Pielou, 1991; fig 1). Glacial melt returned a vast amount of freshwater to the oceans, creating a rising sea level that continues Figure 6. Sea of Sioux Quartzite erratics on rid ...
Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) Report card
... The time that it takes to collect data and recognise a trend varies between all of the topics covered in this card. There are also challenges with attributing these trends directly to climate change. Below we provide two illustrations highlighting some of the issues; the collation of physical time s ...
... The time that it takes to collect data and recognise a trend varies between all of the topics covered in this card. There are also challenges with attributing these trends directly to climate change. Below we provide two illustrations highlighting some of the issues; the collation of physical time s ...
global_cooling_ESS_analysis_final
... trends are highly correlated over substantial geographical distances. The first published results (Hansen et al. 1981) showed that, contrary to impressions from northern latitudes, global cooling after 1940 was small, and there was net global warming of about 0.4°C between the 1880s and 1970s. The a ...
... trends are highly correlated over substantial geographical distances. The first published results (Hansen et al. 1981) showed that, contrary to impressions from northern latitudes, global cooling after 1940 was small, and there was net global warming of about 0.4°C between the 1880s and 1970s. The a ...
Global Warming Effects on Antarctic Ecosystems with
... However, there are features of the pattern of change that are difficult to explain by atmospheric warming alone. In particular, there was a period in the late-1980s and early-1990s when retreat slowed down along most of the coast, and scientists don't see any cause for this in the temperature record ...
... However, there are features of the pattern of change that are difficult to explain by atmospheric warming alone. In particular, there was a period in the late-1980s and early-1990s when retreat slowed down along most of the coast, and scientists don't see any cause for this in the temperature record ...
This Unit Plan was developed by: Valarie Gray Cleveland
... smooth or rough. The average albedo for the Earth is 0.31 (Boundless, 2015). The climate system is driven by strong positive and negative feedback loops between the processes that influence the atmosphere, ocean and terrestrial surfaces. Nowhere on the Earth are the feedback loops having a stronger ...
... smooth or rough. The average albedo for the Earth is 0.31 (Boundless, 2015). The climate system is driven by strong positive and negative feedback loops between the processes that influence the atmosphere, ocean and terrestrial surfaces. Nowhere on the Earth are the feedback loops having a stronger ...
doha - save the planet
... IPCC reviews. Friends of Science have spent the past decade reviewing peer-reviewed papers on climate change. The scientific evidence shows that the sun is the main driver of climate change. Not CO2. It‟s time to STOP THE WANTON WASTE OF RESOURCES on useless carbon reduction policies or so-called „d ...
... IPCC reviews. Friends of Science have spent the past decade reviewing peer-reviewed papers on climate change. The scientific evidence shows that the sun is the main driver of climate change. Not CO2. It‟s time to STOP THE WANTON WASTE OF RESOURCES on useless carbon reduction policies or so-called „d ...
WPmagSkeptics506
... Human beings are pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, warming the planet in the process. Since the dawn of the industrial era, atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen steadily from about 280 to about 380 parts per million. In the past century, the average surface temperature of Earth has warme ...
... Human beings are pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, warming the planet in the process. Since the dawn of the industrial era, atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen steadily from about 280 to about 380 parts per million. In the past century, the average surface temperature of Earth has warme ...
Future sea level rise constrained by observations and long
... century. Observation-based estimates of glacier mass changes (18– 20) (see Supporting Information for description) have recently become more consistent despite their different reconstruction techniques (21). Although human influence dominated glacier loss in the second half of the 20th century, earl ...
... century. Observation-based estimates of glacier mass changes (18– 20) (see Supporting Information for description) have recently become more consistent despite their different reconstruction techniques (21). Although human influence dominated glacier loss in the second half of the 20th century, earl ...
How much more global warming and sea level rise?
... downs in meridional overturning in the respective models (greater percentage-wise in CCSM3 than PCM) are not characterized by less warming over northern Europe in either model. The warming from increases of GHGs overwhelms any tendency for decreased high latitude warming from less northward heat tra ...
... downs in meridional overturning in the respective models (greater percentage-wise in CCSM3 than PCM) are not characterized by less warming over northern Europe in either model. The warming from increases of GHGs overwhelms any tendency for decreased high latitude warming from less northward heat tra ...
Climate_Change_CARDS-2011 - Willits Economic Localization
... Over the same period of time, deforestation has eliminated a significant fraction of the terrestrial plant life, affecting the rate at which land vegetation can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Current climate models predict that the increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other "g ...
... Over the same period of time, deforestation has eliminated a significant fraction of the terrestrial plant life, affecting the rate at which land vegetation can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Current climate models predict that the increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other "g ...