Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Indian Policy Planning
... energy. This necessitates a rapid response by the government, especially in light of recent global negotiations. In this context, an attempt is made to present findings thus far on the potential vulnerability to the effects of climate change in India’s key sectors. This paves the way for an argument ...
... energy. This necessitates a rapid response by the government, especially in light of recent global negotiations. In this context, an attempt is made to present findings thus far on the potential vulnerability to the effects of climate change in India’s key sectors. This paves the way for an argument ...
Why We Need A New Direction In Climate Change Science
... Why We Need A New Direction In Climate Change Science Roger A. Pielke Sr. Senior Research Scientist CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder Presented at the Department of Geological Sciences University of Texas at Austin January 23, 2007 ...
... Why We Need A New Direction In Climate Change Science Roger A. Pielke Sr. Senior Research Scientist CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder Presented at the Department of Geological Sciences University of Texas at Austin January 23, 2007 ...
A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept
... forcing range, e.g. for the two RCPs attaining 6 and 8.5 W/m2 by the end of the century, may be populated by reference scenarios that project socioeconomic developments and emissions in the absence of climate policy and are based purely on the SSPs, although the extent and pattern of climate change ...
... forcing range, e.g. for the two RCPs attaining 6 and 8.5 W/m2 by the end of the century, may be populated by reference scenarios that project socioeconomic developments and emissions in the absence of climate policy and are based purely on the SSPs, although the extent and pattern of climate change ...
Chapter 9. Establishing Common Ground: Finding Better Ways to
... materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.” We know now that carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the key greenhouse gases giving the planet a fever. So did President Johnson, five decades ago. A few months after this special message to Congress, his Science Adviso ...
... materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.” We know now that carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the key greenhouse gases giving the planet a fever. So did President Johnson, five decades ago. A few months after this special message to Congress, his Science Adviso ...
Annual report 2014
... However, the risks of damage by pests and fungi would also increase with a higher average temperature. To allow for the increased risk of heat waves and drought, Findus can take measures such as avoiding growing crops on dry, light soils, investing more in plant varieties that are resistant to droug ...
... However, the risks of damage by pests and fungi would also increase with a higher average temperature. To allow for the increased risk of heat waves and drought, Findus can take measures such as avoiding growing crops on dry, light soils, investing more in plant varieties that are resistant to droug ...
Key aspects of global climate change
... aerosol-induced atmospheric cooling holds a SAT increase (new estimates suggest the conclusion about a weaker manifestation of the aerosol impact); 4) the presence of the warming minima in the North Atlantic and in the circumpolar regions of the oceans in the Southern Hemisphere due to mixing in the ...
... aerosol-induced atmospheric cooling holds a SAT increase (new estimates suggest the conclusion about a weaker manifestation of the aerosol impact); 4) the presence of the warming minima in the North Atlantic and in the circumpolar regions of the oceans in the Southern Hemisphere due to mixing in the ...
An Initial Look at DoD`s Activities Toward Climate Change Resiliency
... Executive Office of the President “National Security Strategy,” February 2015, https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2015_national_security_strategy.pdf The White House identifies climate change as a top eight strategic risk to U.S. efforts, explicitly noting that climate change contri ...
... Executive Office of the President “National Security Strategy,” February 2015, https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2015_national_security_strategy.pdf The White House identifies climate change as a top eight strategic risk to U.S. efforts, explicitly noting that climate change contri ...
El Ni˜no Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and global - adv
... Climate variability and change over the 20th century have been detected in the observational records. In its assessment of the scientific literature, the IPCC (2001) concluded “an increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system” a ...
... Climate variability and change over the 20th century have been detected in the observational records. In its assessment of the scientific literature, the IPCC (2001) concluded “an increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system” a ...
Climate-change lore and its implications for
... influence the individual perceptions of political decision makers?). To that end, it is necessary to distinguish between traditional knowledge and lore. As used in the following discussion of climate-change lore, succinctly, lore simply is, in essence it is knowledge; traditional knowledge does, in ...
... influence the individual perceptions of political decision makers?). To that end, it is necessary to distinguish between traditional knowledge and lore. As used in the following discussion of climate-change lore, succinctly, lore simply is, in essence it is knowledge; traditional knowledge does, in ...
Science or Spin? Assessing the Accuracy of Cable News Coverage
... or not the science itself is valid. Debates over whether scientific conclusions should be accepted prevent the American public from having an open, democratic dialogue about whether, when, and how to respond to the scientific evidence related to risks from climate change. Politicians and interest gr ...
... or not the science itself is valid. Debates over whether scientific conclusions should be accepted prevent the American public from having an open, democratic dialogue about whether, when, and how to respond to the scientific evidence related to risks from climate change. Politicians and interest gr ...
Understanding Climate Change And Impacts On Tourism In The
... weather and moderate temperatures. The livelihoods of providers of visitor services at destinations are often dependent on a certain number of good weather days during the tourism season. Many tourism businesses have failed simply because of weather conditions. “….until we adequately address the iss ...
... weather and moderate temperatures. The livelihoods of providers of visitor services at destinations are often dependent on a certain number of good weather days during the tourism season. Many tourism businesses have failed simply because of weather conditions. “….until we adequately address the iss ...
- Inderscience Online
... publications (Headline Statements from the Summary for Policymakers, 2013) discusses developments regarding global climate change and states that human influence on the climate system is clear. This is concluded from the increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative ...
... publications (Headline Statements from the Summary for Policymakers, 2013) discusses developments regarding global climate change and states that human influence on the climate system is clear. This is concluded from the increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative ...
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... impact of a doubling of the atmospheric concentration on the current economy is relatively small. Although the estimates differ, impacts are not more than a few percent of GDP. The estimates of Hope (2006), Mendelsohn et al. (2000a,b) and Tol (2002b) even point to initial benefits of climate change. ...
... impact of a doubling of the atmospheric concentration on the current economy is relatively small. Although the estimates differ, impacts are not more than a few percent of GDP. The estimates of Hope (2006), Mendelsohn et al. (2000a,b) and Tol (2002b) even point to initial benefits of climate change. ...
nota di lavoro - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
... Note that an implicit assumption of uncertainty propagation is that the decision maker is unaware of the multiplicity of future contingencies and does not adjust his or her decisions according to her risk preferences. In fact, a major problem with uncertainty propagation is that it is generally una ...
... Note that an implicit assumption of uncertainty propagation is that the decision maker is unaware of the multiplicity of future contingencies and does not adjust his or her decisions according to her risk preferences. In fact, a major problem with uncertainty propagation is that it is generally una ...
Disaster risk reduction or climate change adaptation: Are we
... local level are becoming a reality (see CICERO and UNEP/GRID-Arendal, 2008 for SIDS information; UNFCCC, 2007). As a result, international policy discussions have begun to focus upon a need to ‘adapt’ (UNFCCC, 2006). CCA as defined by IPCC (2007) is ‘an adjustment in natural or human systems in resp ...
... local level are becoming a reality (see CICERO and UNEP/GRID-Arendal, 2008 for SIDS information; UNFCCC, 2007). As a result, international policy discussions have begun to focus upon a need to ‘adapt’ (UNFCCC, 2006). CCA as defined by IPCC (2007) is ‘an adjustment in natural or human systems in resp ...
Climate Change: Overview and Implications for Wildlife
... 10,000 years (before A.D. 1700), particularly when compared with the longer record. That relative constancy in chemical composition of the greenhouse gases held until the industrial age during the last two centuries. The transition from extensive glaciation of the Ice Age to the more hospitable land ...
... 10,000 years (before A.D. 1700), particularly when compared with the longer record. That relative constancy in chemical composition of the greenhouse gases held until the industrial age during the last two centuries. The transition from extensive glaciation of the Ice Age to the more hospitable land ...
Developing site scale projections of climate change in the Scottish
... oceanic mountains would be buffered against climatic change by their more limited annual temperature range, by comparison with higher mountains such as the Alps, the lack of a nival zone limits the potential upward migration of species (Crawford 2001), at least for marginal arctic-alpine association ...
... oceanic mountains would be buffered against climatic change by their more limited annual temperature range, by comparison with higher mountains such as the Alps, the lack of a nival zone limits the potential upward migration of species (Crawford 2001), at least for marginal arctic-alpine association ...
Climate Change and Insecurity in the Global South
... Climate Change and Conflict: The Case of Bangladesh Bangladesh is a ‘frontline state’ of climate change, predicted to be one of the first and the hardest hit countries to face the adverse impacts of warmer global temperatures. This is particularly due to its unique geographic location, dominance of ...
... Climate Change and Conflict: The Case of Bangladesh Bangladesh is a ‘frontline state’ of climate change, predicted to be one of the first and the hardest hit countries to face the adverse impacts of warmer global temperatures. This is particularly due to its unique geographic location, dominance of ...
Climate change, development, and migration: an African Diaspora
... This paper focuses on the role of the African Diaspora in assisting their country of origin in its fight against the adverse impacts of climate change. In order to combat climate change poor countries need to mobilize all resources (financial, institutional and human) on different fronts. Diaspora c ...
... This paper focuses on the role of the African Diaspora in assisting their country of origin in its fight against the adverse impacts of climate change. In order to combat climate change poor countries need to mobilize all resources (financial, institutional and human) on different fronts. Diaspora c ...
Global Climate Risk Index 2015
... occur if no action towards limiting global temperatures to 2°C is taken, with many of these events affecting developing countries whose vulnerability to climate change is particularly high. There is still time to achieve the 2°C goal and minimalize the consequences of climate change; however, if mit ...
... occur if no action towards limiting global temperatures to 2°C is taken, with many of these events affecting developing countries whose vulnerability to climate change is particularly high. There is still time to achieve the 2°C goal and minimalize the consequences of climate change; however, if mit ...
Draft Risk Assessment Framework Outline
... categorized into high- and low- consequence groupings. since a change in one climate variable may be significant to one region or transportation Finally assess the risk to each asset by group assets by high/low likelihood and mode, but insignificant to another. FHWA will high/low consequence. work w ...
... categorized into high- and low- consequence groupings. since a change in one climate variable may be significant to one region or transportation Finally assess the risk to each asset by group assets by high/low likelihood and mode, but insignificant to another. FHWA will high/low consequence. work w ...
Experience of extreme weather affects climate change mitigation
... measured and interpreted. Many studies have used ambiguous or loosely-defined constructs or left participants to judge for themselves what might constitute ‘experience’ of extreme weather (e.g. Dai et al. 2015; Rudman et al. 2013; Spence et al. 2011; Taylor et al. 2014a; van der Linden 2014; Lujala ...
... measured and interpreted. Many studies have used ambiguous or loosely-defined constructs or left participants to judge for themselves what might constitute ‘experience’ of extreme weather (e.g. Dai et al. 2015; Rudman et al. 2013; Spence et al. 2011; Taylor et al. 2014a; van der Linden 2014; Lujala ...
Club Club - OECD.org
... more on the type of relations defined in the second school of thought, using examples from the Sahel region. “This school is based on the premise that, because of their source or their gravity, environmental problems can be a hazard to a state’s national security. It would actually be affected to va ...
... more on the type of relations defined in the second school of thought, using examples from the Sahel region. “This school is based on the premise that, because of their source or their gravity, environmental problems can be a hazard to a state’s national security. It would actually be affected to va ...
Shaping National Climate Change Legislation in Uganda, May 2015
... Agricultural Policy identifies climate change as one of the emerging threats to agricultural productivity and sustainability of farmer livelihoods. The Policy promotes climate smart agricultural practices. In addition, one of the strategies mentioned in the Policy is to develop capacity at all level ...
... Agricultural Policy identifies climate change as one of the emerging threats to agricultural productivity and sustainability of farmer livelihoods. The Policy promotes climate smart agricultural practices. In addition, one of the strategies mentioned in the Policy is to develop capacity at all level ...