Ethics and Geoengineering: Reviewing the Moral Issues Raised by
... option on the table.1,2,7,16–22 Even those advocating for geoengineering research seem to anticipate this risk by firmly cautioning that continued efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must accompany any geoengineering research.1,7,13 The exact impact that the prospect of geoengineering will ha ...
... option on the table.1,2,7,16–22 Even those advocating for geoengineering research seem to anticipate this risk by firmly cautioning that continued efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must accompany any geoengineering research.1,7,13 The exact impact that the prospect of geoengineering will ha ...
CHAPTER 2 OUR CHANGING CLIMATE Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... 1. Global climate is changing and this change is apparent across a wide range of observations. The global warming of the past 50 years is primarily due to human activities. 2. Global climate is projected to continue to change over this century and beyond. The magnitude of climate change beyond t ...
... 1. Global climate is changing and this change is apparent across a wide range of observations. The global warming of the past 50 years is primarily due to human activities. 2. Global climate is projected to continue to change over this century and beyond. The magnitude of climate change beyond t ...
PDF Format - Department of Environmental Sciences
... Erb, M. P., C. S. Jackson, and A. J. Broccoli, 2015: Using single-forcing GCM simulations to reconstruct and interpret Quaternary climate change, J. Climate, 28, 9746-9767, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0329.1. Erb, M. P., A. J. Broccoli, N. Graham, A. C. Clement, A. T. Wittenberg, and G. A. Vecchi, 2015: R ...
... Erb, M. P., C. S. Jackson, and A. J. Broccoli, 2015: Using single-forcing GCM simulations to reconstruct and interpret Quaternary climate change, J. Climate, 28, 9746-9767, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0329.1. Erb, M. P., A. J. Broccoli, N. Graham, A. C. Clement, A. T. Wittenberg, and G. A. Vecchi, 2015: R ...
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... researchers and approximately 200 research papers selected from more than 500 initial proposals. The symposium was a groundbreaking event, given its scale and its focus on cities and climate change. The symposium’s research topics were organized around five clusters. The first dealt with models and ...
... researchers and approximately 200 research papers selected from more than 500 initial proposals. The symposium was a groundbreaking event, given its scale and its focus on cities and climate change. The symposium’s research topics were organized around five clusters. The first dealt with models and ...
Urban Areas and Climate Change: Review of Current Issues and
... mitigation strategies. This paper will contribute to the wealth of information already available on climate change by going beyond context specific urban case studies and to an understanding of the common ingredients that can help urban centers become better prepared and more resilient to respond ch ...
... mitigation strategies. This paper will contribute to the wealth of information already available on climate change by going beyond context specific urban case studies and to an understanding of the common ingredients that can help urban centers become better prepared and more resilient to respond ch ...
3.5.2. Water resources
... further financial assistance for BiH to prepare the INC. Due to technical issues, the attempts by the government to tender the preparation of the INC were not successful, so in agreement with the relevant entity and state stakeholders of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the UNDP in BiH, it was decided tha ...
... further financial assistance for BiH to prepare the INC. Due to technical issues, the attempts by the government to tender the preparation of the INC were not successful, so in agreement with the relevant entity and state stakeholders of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the UNDP in BiH, it was decided tha ...
Rethinking Development in a Carbon
... have the greatest responsibility, but developing countries can also contribute by discarding the choices that have proven to be dangerous. Development aid can help in this task. Ways and means have to be found through which people in all countries can lead a life worthy of human dignity, in a way t ...
... have the greatest responsibility, but developing countries can also contribute by discarding the choices that have proven to be dangerous. Development aid can help in this task. Ways and means have to be found through which people in all countries can lead a life worthy of human dignity, in a way t ...
Utilization of Science-Based Information on Climate Change in
... Agencies such as NOAA recognize the importance of bridging the gap between the producers and users of scientific information, and considerable effort has been made to encourage this. Examples include the work done by NOAA’s Regional Integrated Science and Assessment teams and, at a broader scale, NO ...
... Agencies such as NOAA recognize the importance of bridging the gap between the producers and users of scientific information, and considerable effort has been made to encourage this. Examples include the work done by NOAA’s Regional Integrated Science and Assessment teams and, at a broader scale, NO ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in Low‐Income Countries
... have been highlighted by Weitzman (2009), who has emphasized the need to consider possible “fat tails” in the distribution of the consequences of climate change when formulating climate policy. Uncertainty about climate impacts is clearly also relevant to adaptation: uncertain climate impacts make i ...
... have been highlighted by Weitzman (2009), who has emphasized the need to consider possible “fat tails” in the distribution of the consequences of climate change when formulating climate policy. Uncertainty about climate impacts is clearly also relevant to adaptation: uncertain climate impacts make i ...
Climate Change Scenarios + cov.
... affected many physical and biological systems. The rising socio-economic costs coming from climaterelated damage and regional variations in climate suggest increasing vulnerability to climate change. But what is causing all these changes? “There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming ...
... affected many physical and biological systems. The rising socio-economic costs coming from climaterelated damage and regional variations in climate suggest increasing vulnerability to climate change. But what is causing all these changes? “There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming ...
Ambiguity and climate policy
... presentation is widely considered the most satisfactory, since it derives both utility functions and subjective probabilities from primitive preferences over ‘acts’, i.e. maps between states and outcomes. Indeed his axioms are often considered to be synonymous with rational choice. Nevertheless, Sav ...
... presentation is widely considered the most satisfactory, since it derives both utility functions and subjective probabilities from primitive preferences over ‘acts’, i.e. maps between states and outcomes. Indeed his axioms are often considered to be synonymous with rational choice. Nevertheless, Sav ...
Earth`s Energy Imbalance and Implications
... Climate models, based on physical laws that describe the structure and dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, as well as processes on the land, have been developed to simulate climate. Models help us understand climate sensitivity, because we can change processes in the model one-by-one and study the ...
... Climate models, based on physical laws that describe the structure and dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, as well as processes on the land, have been developed to simulate climate. Models help us understand climate sensitivity, because we can change processes in the model one-by-one and study the ...
climate change
... Migration is very complex to understand and always has a big impact. It can be successful when individuals and communities use migration to increase their resilience. Successful migration can be considered a necessary and positive adaptation strategy. However, migration, and in particular forced dis ...
... Migration is very complex to understand and always has a big impact. It can be successful when individuals and communities use migration to increase their resilience. Successful migration can be considered a necessary and positive adaptation strategy. However, migration, and in particular forced dis ...
Key Adaptation Concepts and Terms
... The term ‘Adaptation Assessment’ while appearing to be clear on paper can be difficult in some cases to apply in practice.5 Currently, there is no set of criteria or metrics that allow us to assess adaptation options objectively across locations and situations.6 When analysing adaptation, one can fo ...
... The term ‘Adaptation Assessment’ while appearing to be clear on paper can be difficult in some cases to apply in practice.5 Currently, there is no set of criteria or metrics that allow us to assess adaptation options objectively across locations and situations.6 When analysing adaptation, one can fo ...
Earth`s energy imbalance and implications
... Global surface temperature does not respond quickly to a climate forcing, the response being slowed by the thermal inertia of the climate system. The ocean provides most of the heat storage capacity, because approximately its upper 100 m is rapidly mixed by wind stress and convection (mixing is deep ...
... Global surface temperature does not respond quickly to a climate forcing, the response being slowed by the thermal inertia of the climate system. The ocean provides most of the heat storage capacity, because approximately its upper 100 m is rapidly mixed by wind stress and convection (mixing is deep ...
International cooperation in the field of CCS - Approaches and implementation
... CO2 utilization (Carbon Capture & Use, CCU) does yet not offer sufficient potential as a replacement for CO2 storage, although it may become significant as part of supply chains of raw materials for industry. The electricity generation costs will rise considerably and the CO2 avoidance costs (electr ...
... CO2 utilization (Carbon Capture & Use, CCU) does yet not offer sufficient potential as a replacement for CO2 storage, although it may become significant as part of supply chains of raw materials for industry. The electricity generation costs will rise considerably and the CO2 avoidance costs (electr ...
Cognitive and Behavioral Challenges in Responding to Climate Change P R
... disproportionately to the global airshed, while lack of resources and infrastructure place poor nations most at risk (Watson et al. 1998). While the phrase environmental justice was at first applied mostly to domestic situations (e.g. Bullard 1990), there is increasing attention to a global environm ...
... disproportionately to the global airshed, while lack of resources and infrastructure place poor nations most at risk (Watson et al. 1998). While the phrase environmental justice was at first applied mostly to domestic situations (e.g. Bullard 1990), there is increasing attention to a global environm ...
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... importance in effective agricultural adaptation to climate change [14]. Therefore, the adaptation measures discussed in this paper are basically autonomous adaptation. There have been numerous studies from researchers across different disciplines investigating determining factors that affect farmers ...
... importance in effective agricultural adaptation to climate change [14]. Therefore, the adaptation measures discussed in this paper are basically autonomous adaptation. There have been numerous studies from researchers across different disciplines investigating determining factors that affect farmers ...
National Climate Change Strategy
... This Strategy also reiterates Tanzania’s commitment to address climate change in consideration of the fact that the country is amongst the highly vulnerable group of countries globally. The challenge of climate change mitigation requires the commitment and participation of all countries. Under the a ...
... This Strategy also reiterates Tanzania’s commitment to address climate change in consideration of the fact that the country is amongst the highly vulnerable group of countries globally. The challenge of climate change mitigation requires the commitment and participation of all countries. Under the a ...
Climate: Observations, projections and impacts
... 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 and impartial information, based on the best cli ...
... 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 and impartial information, based on the best cli ...
An Analysis of Methane Mitigation as a Response
... Methane is generated when organic matter decays in anaerobic conditions. Natural methane sources include wetlands, termites, oceans, and gas hydrates (cp. Milich 1999). Recently, Keppler et al. 2006 have suggested large-scale methanogenesis by plants in aerobic conditions. Given this newly detected ...
... Methane is generated when organic matter decays in anaerobic conditions. Natural methane sources include wetlands, termites, oceans, and gas hydrates (cp. Milich 1999). Recently, Keppler et al. 2006 have suggested large-scale methanogenesis by plants in aerobic conditions. Given this newly detected ...
Carbon emissions due to deforestation for the steel industry LETTERS
... and 2007 (Fig. 2 and Supplementary Table 3). Therefore, significant national emissions could have been avoided if native charcoal use had been eliminated. This has been recognized in some Brazilian states, where legal use of native charcoal is gradually being phased out (Supplementary Discussion 5). ...
... and 2007 (Fig. 2 and Supplementary Table 3). Therefore, significant national emissions could have been avoided if native charcoal use had been eliminated. This has been recognized in some Brazilian states, where legal use of native charcoal is gradually being phased out (Supplementary Discussion 5). ...