Teacher`s Guide - Royal Society of New Zealand
... Do these people believe Climate Change is happening, or do they consider it a made up myth? Their viewpoint will show their values position on Climate Change. The evidence for their viewpoint is in their words. Your Task: In your groups, discuss each statement and come to some conclusions then recor ...
... Do these people believe Climate Change is happening, or do they consider it a made up myth? Their viewpoint will show their values position on Climate Change. The evidence for their viewpoint is in their words. Your Task: In your groups, discuss each statement and come to some conclusions then recor ...
Global Atmospheric Changes
... • Heat waves and periods of unusually warm weather • Ocean warming, sea-level rise and coastal flooding • Glaciers melting • Arctic and Antarctic warming ...
... • Heat waves and periods of unusually warm weather • Ocean warming, sea-level rise and coastal flooding • Glaciers melting • Arctic and Antarctic warming ...
Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent
... forms differ in productivity, decomposition rates, albedo and snow-catching capacity, so understanding their response to climate warming can inform models of global surface energy balance and carbon sequestration22,23 and generate predictions for areas beyond the monitored regions. The vast geograph ...
... forms differ in productivity, decomposition rates, albedo and snow-catching capacity, so understanding their response to climate warming can inform models of global surface energy balance and carbon sequestration22,23 and generate predictions for areas beyond the monitored regions. The vast geograph ...
MOCA- Methane Emissions from the Arctic OCean to the
... Future impact of methane emissions from the seabed (CICERO) Radiative forcing and associated temperature changes from projected future changes in atmospheric CH4 composition related to MH dissociation Focus on 2050 and 2100 scenarios Sensitivity study of climate impacts related to duration of ...
... Future impact of methane emissions from the seabed (CICERO) Radiative forcing and associated temperature changes from projected future changes in atmospheric CH4 composition related to MH dissociation Focus on 2050 and 2100 scenarios Sensitivity study of climate impacts related to duration of ...
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Intro-1 EOSC 112 Course Overview [text KKC, pp.]
... • Naturally occurring greenhouse gas, generally unaffected by humans. ...
... • Naturally occurring greenhouse gas, generally unaffected by humans. ...
positive feedbacks and climate runaway
... (379 ppm) and CH4 (1774 ppb)1 in 2005 exceed by far the natural range over the last 650,000 years (emphasis added). Global increases in CO2 concentrations are due primarily to fossil fuel use—with land use change providing another significant but smaller contribution. It is very likely that the obse ...
... (379 ppm) and CH4 (1774 ppb)1 in 2005 exceed by far the natural range over the last 650,000 years (emphasis added). Global increases in CO2 concentrations are due primarily to fossil fuel use—with land use change providing another significant but smaller contribution. It is very likely that the obse ...
Factors affecting sea level rise
... • Since the Last Glacial Maximum (~20,000 years BP) MSL has risen by over 120 m at locations far from present and former ice sheets • Between 15,000 and 6,000 years ago MSL rose rapidly at an average rate of 10 mm/yr. • Following last glacial period local vertical land movements are still occurring ...
... • Since the Last Glacial Maximum (~20,000 years BP) MSL has risen by over 120 m at locations far from present and former ice sheets • Between 15,000 and 6,000 years ago MSL rose rapidly at an average rate of 10 mm/yr. • Following last glacial period local vertical land movements are still occurring ...
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... includes estimates of the radiative effects of observed temporal variations in greenhouse gases, sulfate aerosols, solar irradiance, and volcanic aerosols over the past century agree with our observation-based estimate of the increase in ocean heat content. The results we present suggest that the ob ...
... includes estimates of the radiative effects of observed temporal variations in greenhouse gases, sulfate aerosols, solar irradiance, and volcanic aerosols over the past century agree with our observation-based estimate of the increase in ocean heat content. The results we present suggest that the ob ...
Arctic Climate and Water Change: Information Relevance for Assessment and Adaptation Arvid Bring
... e↵orts to understand transport and origin of key waterborne constituents. Further development of monitoring cannot rely only on a reconciliation of observations and projections on where climate change will be the most severe, as they diverge in this regard. Climate model simulations of drainage basi ...
... e↵orts to understand transport and origin of key waterborne constituents. Further development of monitoring cannot rely only on a reconciliation of observations and projections on where climate change will be the most severe, as they diverge in this regard. Climate model simulations of drainage basi ...
MODULE 5: ICE AND CLMATE CHANGE
... how sea‐level has risen since the ice sheets melted. The map given to students was only released in the past few years. When the ice sheets moved over the land, they left many clues of the direction that they moved. These clues remain today, visible to use as features such as drumlins, eskers, m ...
... how sea‐level has risen since the ice sheets melted. The map given to students was only released in the past few years. When the ice sheets moved over the land, they left many clues of the direction that they moved. These clues remain today, visible to use as features such as drumlins, eskers, m ...
A comprehensive approach for reducing anthropogenic climate
... threaten vulnerable ecosystems and peoples, with sea level rise projections now up to 1.6 meters by end of the century, more than double the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4) scenarios.21 These and other climate impacts are expected to increase in number a ...
... threaten vulnerable ecosystems and peoples, with sea level rise projections now up to 1.6 meters by end of the century, more than double the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4) scenarios.21 These and other climate impacts are expected to increase in number a ...
Reconsidering the Climate Change Act
... 4. The claims that the earth has been warming, that there is a greenhouse effect, and that man’s activities have contributed to warming, are trivially true and essentially meaningless in terms of alarm. Nonetheless, they are frequently trotted out as evidence for alarm. For example, here is the res ...
... 4. The claims that the earth has been warming, that there is a greenhouse effect, and that man’s activities have contributed to warming, are trivially true and essentially meaningless in terms of alarm. Nonetheless, they are frequently trotted out as evidence for alarm. For example, here is the res ...
Global Warming
... in many millions of years. Oceans now gain more energy per 2 years than cumulative human energy use. Since 1993, the US warmed very fast: 1.2°F / decade. That pace turns Kansas, “breadbasket of the world,” into desert by 2100, while 2012 US heat becomes its new normal in 2020. Sulfate level variatio ...
... in many millions of years. Oceans now gain more energy per 2 years than cumulative human energy use. Since 1993, the US warmed very fast: 1.2°F / decade. That pace turns Kansas, “breadbasket of the world,” into desert by 2100, while 2012 US heat becomes its new normal in 2020. Sulfate level variatio ...
Module 12 Arctic Biodiversity in a Global Context
... analysis and predictions. Other threats to biodiversity include chemical pollutants generated locally and in lower latitudes. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are particularly important because of their concentration within food chains. Introduction of species from lower latitudes is increasing ...
... analysis and predictions. Other threats to biodiversity include chemical pollutants generated locally and in lower latitudes. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are particularly important because of their concentration within food chains. Introduction of species from lower latitudes is increasing ...
4 Degrees Hotter
... Much of the tropics would be too hot, much of the temperate regions desertified. The “4 degrees and beyond” conference heard that 4C could render half of the world uninhabitable. Populations would be driven towards the poles, and practically-speaking that means the north pole. How many would survive ...
... Much of the tropics would be too hot, much of the temperate regions desertified. The “4 degrees and beyond” conference heard that 4C could render half of the world uninhabitable. Populations would be driven towards the poles, and practically-speaking that means the north pole. How many would survive ...
Climate change and its potential effects on tree line position: An
... Global warming is a real, rapidly advancing, and widespread threat facing humanity this century. Climate change is expected to accelerate water cycles and thereby increase the available, renewable freshwater Recent observations suggest that at global scales, rapid environmental changes may be alteri ...
... Global warming is a real, rapidly advancing, and widespread threat facing humanity this century. Climate change is expected to accelerate water cycles and thereby increase the available, renewable freshwater Recent observations suggest that at global scales, rapid environmental changes may be alteri ...
Rapid and significant sea-level rise expected if global warming
... sea-level rise will not be uniform, and will differ for different points of the globe. Sea-level rise is one of the biggest hazards of climate change. It threatens coastal populations, economic activity in maritime cities and fragile ecosystems. Because sea-level rise is a delayed and complex respon ...
... sea-level rise will not be uniform, and will differ for different points of the globe. Sea-level rise is one of the biggest hazards of climate change. It threatens coastal populations, economic activity in maritime cities and fragile ecosystems. Because sea-level rise is a delayed and complex respon ...
South Africa
... The 2011-15 period began with a strong La Niña event and finished with a strong El Niño. The 201011 La Niña event was a significant event which had major impacts in numerous parts of the world. It ranked as one of the strongest La Niña events of the post-1950 period. The six-month mean of the Southe ...
... The 2011-15 period began with a strong La Niña event and finished with a strong El Niño. The 201011 La Niña event was a significant event which had major impacts in numerous parts of the world. It ranked as one of the strongest La Niña events of the post-1950 period. The six-month mean of the Southe ...
Earth science 2 (English)
... world was warmer than it is today, and then cooled down again. Fluctuations in temperature have continued, with a particularly cold time ("the Little Ice Age") being experienced in Europe during the late 17th century and in the South Pacific during the 14th century (Nunn, 1997). In the early 20th ce ...
... world was warmer than it is today, and then cooled down again. Fluctuations in temperature have continued, with a particularly cold time ("the Little Ice Age") being experienced in Europe during the late 17th century and in the South Pacific during the 14th century (Nunn, 1997). In the early 20th ce ...
Pacific puzzle
... an estimate of 0.07 °C per decade from 1998 to 2012. What’s more, a recent study 7 by Kevin Cowtan of the University of York, UK, and Robert Way of the University of Ontario, Canada, shows that if satellite data are used to fill in missing Arctic temperature data, then the rate of warming is 0.12 °C ...
... an estimate of 0.07 °C per decade from 1998 to 2012. What’s more, a recent study 7 by Kevin Cowtan of the University of York, UK, and Robert Way of the University of Ontario, Canada, shows that if satellite data are used to fill in missing Arctic temperature data, then the rate of warming is 0.12 °C ...
The ocean`s role in polar climate change: asymmetric Arctic and
... warming, the Arctic will warm the most: models generally exhibit enhanced warming and seaice loss in the Arctic in response to increasing GHGs, but the observed changes over the past decade lie at the upper limit of the model projections [5,6]. According to projections of the Fifth Assessment Report ...
... warming, the Arctic will warm the most: models generally exhibit enhanced warming and seaice loss in the Arctic in response to increasing GHGs, but the observed changes over the past decade lie at the upper limit of the model projections [5,6]. According to projections of the Fifth Assessment Report ...
The ocean`s role in polar climate change: asymmetric Arctic and
... warming, the Arctic will warm the most: models generally exhibit enhanced warming and seaice loss in the Arctic in response to increasing GHGs, but the observed changes over the past decade lie at the upper limit of the model projections [5,6]. According to projections of the Fifth Assessment Report ...
... warming, the Arctic will warm the most: models generally exhibit enhanced warming and seaice loss in the Arctic in response to increasing GHGs, but the observed changes over the past decade lie at the upper limit of the model projections [5,6]. According to projections of the Fifth Assessment Report ...
THE WEATHER MAKERS RE-‐EXAMINED
... have to wait for decades or hundreds of years to see whether it is a natural cycle ...
... have to wait for decades or hundreds of years to see whether it is a natural cycle ...
Be skeptical of Skeptic`s skepticism of skeptics
... was making it impossible for the environmental extremists driving the climate scare to convince the world’s policymakers that today’s comparatively temperate temperatures were anything to worry about. The “hockey stick”, therefore, was a deliberate attempt to falsify the true climate record. In 1998 ...
... was making it impossible for the environmental extremists driving the climate scare to convince the world’s policymakers that today’s comparatively temperate temperatures were anything to worry about. The “hockey stick”, therefore, was a deliberate attempt to falsify the true climate record. In 1998 ...