Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States
... climate scientists were endorsers3 (Anderegg, Prall, Harold, & Schneider, 2010). Many other important aspects of climate change, particularly about its consequences, are less well established. Estimates of these have various degrees of uncertainty. Uncertainties involve how much warming will result ...
... climate scientists were endorsers3 (Anderegg, Prall, Harold, & Schneider, 2010). Many other important aspects of climate change, particularly about its consequences, are less well established. Estimates of these have various degrees of uncertainty. Uncertainties involve how much warming will result ...
Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States
... climate scientists were endorsers3 (Anderegg, Prall, Harold, & Schneider, 2010). Many other important aspects of climate change, particularly about its consequences, are less well established. Estimates of these have various degrees of uncertainty. Uncertainties involve how much warming will result ...
... climate scientists were endorsers3 (Anderegg, Prall, Harold, & Schneider, 2010). Many other important aspects of climate change, particularly about its consequences, are less well established. Estimates of these have various degrees of uncertainty. Uncertainties involve how much warming will result ...
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... Uncertainty can of course be reduced through learning. This consideration leads to a second-order, or meta- form of uncertainty: what new information will be revealed to resolve the present uncertainties? To what extent can and will research accelerate the pace of learning? Given the possibility of ...
... Uncertainty can of course be reduced through learning. This consideration leads to a second-order, or meta- form of uncertainty: what new information will be revealed to resolve the present uncertainties? To what extent can and will research accelerate the pace of learning? Given the possibility of ...
Characterising half a degree difference: A review of methods for
... Running from 2013 to 2015, this process involved consultations with scientists and experts through a ‘Structured Expert Dialogue’ (SED). Findings of the IPCC were key inputs to the SED, including its expert assessment of climate change risks for five main ‘Reasons for Concern’ as a function of global ...
... Running from 2013 to 2015, this process involved consultations with scientists and experts through a ‘Structured Expert Dialogue’ (SED). Findings of the IPCC were key inputs to the SED, including its expert assessment of climate change risks for five main ‘Reasons for Concern’ as a function of global ...
Solution Aversion: On the Relation Between Ideology and Motivated
... There is often a curious distinction between what the scientific community and the general population believe to be true of dire scientific issues, and this skepticism tends to vary markedly across groups. For instance, in the case of climate change, Republicans (conservatives) are especially skepti ...
... There is often a curious distinction between what the scientific community and the general population believe to be true of dire scientific issues, and this skepticism tends to vary markedly across groups. For instance, in the case of climate change, Republicans (conservatives) are especially skepti ...
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... increase the risk of violent conflict (Brauch, 2002; Gleick, 1992; Homer-Dixon, 1991; van Ireland, Klaassen, Nierop, & van der Wusten, 1996). There are two broad ways in which conflict might be stimulated by climate change. First, conflict could come about through changes in the political economy of ...
... increase the risk of violent conflict (Brauch, 2002; Gleick, 1992; Homer-Dixon, 1991; van Ireland, Klaassen, Nierop, & van der Wusten, 1996). There are two broad ways in which conflict might be stimulated by climate change. First, conflict could come about through changes in the political economy of ...
Americans` Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in April 2013
... Majority of Americans are "worried" about global warming ................................................................. 8 Global warming is still seen as a relatively distant threat ........................................................................ 9 Nearly half of Americans perceive global ...
... Majority of Americans are "worried" about global warming ................................................................. 8 Global warming is still seen as a relatively distant threat ........................................................................ 9 Nearly half of Americans perceive global ...
The Climate Change Generation?
... American adults under the age of 35 have come of age in the decades since WKH´GLVFRYHU\µRIPDQmade climate change as a major societal problem. The oldest of this cohort was twelve in 1988, when NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified at a Senate Energy Committee hearing that global temperatu ...
... American adults under the age of 35 have come of age in the decades since WKH´GLVFRYHU\µRIPDQmade climate change as a major societal problem. The oldest of this cohort was twelve in 1988, when NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified at a Senate Energy Committee hearing that global temperatu ...
Climate Change and the World Council of Churches
... ground for the approach of the climate change work in subsequent years. Without his insistence the term ‘sustainable’ would not have become of the WCC vision of the future. During the 1970s, the WCC focused this work through a program on the just, participatory and sustainable society (JPSS). In 198 ...
... ground for the approach of the climate change work in subsequent years. Without his insistence the term ‘sustainable’ would not have become of the WCC vision of the future. During the 1970s, the WCC focused this work through a program on the just, participatory and sustainable society (JPSS). In 198 ...
Toward Extreme Weather and Climate Resilience in the Region of
... Semi-‐quantitative risk assessments are common practice in many areas of environmental management, and have proven useful for communicating environmental hazards and their impacts and consequences in fields such ...
... Semi-‐quantitative risk assessments are common practice in many areas of environmental management, and have proven useful for communicating environmental hazards and their impacts and consequences in fields such ...
Estimating Regions` Relative Vulnerability to Climate Damages in
... floods, famine and disease. While some regions will adapt to extreme weather occurrences and longterm climate change, others will suffer serious damages, even in the face of the least severe climate change still thought possible. In general, richer regions – where a broad set of adaptation measures ...
... floods, famine and disease. While some regions will adapt to extreme weather occurrences and longterm climate change, others will suffer serious damages, even in the face of the least severe climate change still thought possible. In general, richer regions – where a broad set of adaptation measures ...
Earth Negotiations Bulletin ADP 2-6
... and mechanisms under the Convention post-2020, among other issues. UN CLIMATE SUMMIT 2014: The UN Climate Summit was held on 23 September 2014, at UN Headquarters in New York, US, hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Summit aimed to mobilize the political will necessary to reach a global ...
... and mechanisms under the Convention post-2020, among other issues. UN CLIMATE SUMMIT 2014: The UN Climate Summit was held on 23 September 2014, at UN Headquarters in New York, US, hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Summit aimed to mobilize the political will necessary to reach a global ...
Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the... Authors: , Taciano L. Milfont , Yoshihisa Kashima
... Communicating climate science and co-benefits should be complementary, not competing, strategies. How to combine these approaches most effectively requires further consideration, with research suggesting that importance and co-benefit messages may counteract each other when used together, at least f ...
... Communicating climate science and co-benefits should be complementary, not competing, strategies. How to combine these approaches most effectively requires further consideration, with research suggesting that importance and co-benefit messages may counteract each other when used together, at least f ...
151725 Public Policy Text - A Convention For Persons Displaced By
... change – does not establish legally binding limits on GHG emissions for state parties to it (see, generally, Hodgkinson and Garner 2008: 34-39). Rather, parties commit to mitigate climate change ‘with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels ... [of] anthropogenic emissions’ ...
... change – does not establish legally binding limits on GHG emissions for state parties to it (see, generally, Hodgkinson and Garner 2008: 34-39). Rather, parties commit to mitigate climate change ‘with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels ... [of] anthropogenic emissions’ ...
The Rockefeller Way - Energy and Environmental Legal Institute
... The Rockefellers are arguably the wealthiest and most powerful family in the history of the United States. For more than 100 years, they have shaped and directed America’s economic, financial, political, and public policy while simultaneously amassing one of the largest family empires in the modern ...
... The Rockefellers are arguably the wealthiest and most powerful family in the history of the United States. For more than 100 years, they have shaped and directed America’s economic, financial, political, and public policy while simultaneously amassing one of the largest family empires in the modern ...
solidarity, justice and climate change law
... Current scientific predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (‘IPCC’) indicate that average global temperatures are likely to increase during the 21st century by at least 1.8°C, although an increase of more than 5°C is not unlikely.3 It is widely recognised that one of the key cha ...
... Current scientific predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (‘IPCC’) indicate that average global temperatures are likely to increase during the 21st century by at least 1.8°C, although an increase of more than 5°C is not unlikely.3 It is widely recognised that one of the key cha ...
An Introduction to the Science of Climate Change
... international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The UNFCCC aims at reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases. The United Nations Conference on Climate Change allows for ...
... international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The UNFCCC aims at reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases. The United Nations Conference on Climate Change allows for ...
Pattern scaled climate change scenarios: are these useful for adaptation? - Working Paper 71 (699 kB) (opens in new window)
... 5. Management of forests and ecosystems More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham. ...
... 5. Management of forests and ecosystems More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham. ...
3.3 Evidence of temperature changes in the study regions
... were viewed as rather defeatist and were thought to demonstrate a lack of faith in countries’ abilities to limit emissions”. However, the world will likely continue to warm at a significant rate for many decades whatever targets may be agreed to reduce emissions. Therefore, adaptation is necessary i ...
... were viewed as rather defeatist and were thought to demonstrate a lack of faith in countries’ abilities to limit emissions”. However, the world will likely continue to warm at a significant rate for many decades whatever targets may be agreed to reduce emissions. Therefore, adaptation is necessary i ...
Differential climate impacts for policy
... to guide assessments of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a two-headed temperature goal: “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 ◦ C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature ...
... to guide assessments of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a two-headed temperature goal: “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 ◦ C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature ...