Review of the consensus and asymmetric quality of research on
... A subsequent survey of scientists affiliated with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), with 489 participants, found that 97% agreed that global temperatures had increased in the past 100 years (Farnsworth and Lichter, 2012). 84% agreed that human-induce ...
... A subsequent survey of scientists affiliated with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), with 489 participants, found that 97% agreed that global temperatures had increased in the past 100 years (Farnsworth and Lichter, 2012). 84% agreed that human-induce ...
Manyatsi, AM - IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
... will be increasingly vulnerable in the future. Especially at risk are developing counties, which are highly dependent on agriculture and have fewer resources and options to combat damage from climate change. Agriculture is both a culprit and a victim when it comes to climate change. It is estimated ...
... will be increasingly vulnerable in the future. Especially at risk are developing counties, which are highly dependent on agriculture and have fewer resources and options to combat damage from climate change. Agriculture is both a culprit and a victim when it comes to climate change. It is estimated ...
Federal Adaptation Policy Framework
... assets and resources and strengthening planning and decision-making. Experts agree that integrating climate variability and change information into policy, planning, and decision-making is more effective and more cost-efficient than addressing adaptation in isolation. ...
... assets and resources and strengthening planning and decision-making. Experts agree that integrating climate variability and change information into policy, planning, and decision-making is more effective and more cost-efficient than addressing adaptation in isolation. ...
Peak energy and climate change: the double bind
... The strategy was to divert part of the wealth generated by economic growth to repair the worst effects of pollution. Alas, this did not address the fundamental problem: exponential growth generates emissions that cannot be absorbed by finite environmental sinks. The chicken is now coming home to roos ...
... The strategy was to divert part of the wealth generated by economic growth to repair the worst effects of pollution. Alas, this did not address the fundamental problem: exponential growth generates emissions that cannot be absorbed by finite environmental sinks. The chicken is now coming home to roos ...
Climate Change, Convention, Protocol and CDM by Kalipada
... of carbon are photosynthesis, plant respiration, and microbial conversion of the organic material in the soil back into CO2 The carbon balance can be changed considerably by the direct impact of human activities (land use, land use change, forestation) ...
... of carbon are photosynthesis, plant respiration, and microbial conversion of the organic material in the soil back into CO2 The carbon balance can be changed considerably by the direct impact of human activities (land use, land use change, forestation) ...
Working Paper 217 - Bettis et al 2016 (opens in new window)
... 5. Future generations and social justice 6. Growth and the economy 7. International environmental negotiations 8. Modelling and decision making 9. Private sector adaptation, risk and insurance More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found a ...
... 5. Future generations and social justice 6. Growth and the economy 7. International environmental negotiations 8. Modelling and decision making 9. Private sector adaptation, risk and insurance More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found a ...
Green Climate Fund - Philippine Movement for Climate Justice
... over from the previous meetings, re-emerged in Songdo. But with participants under significant pressure to hammer out a working fund by next year’s COP21 in Paris, debates were eventually resolved through a series of compromises and meetings that extended for hours at a time, with negotiators hung u ...
... over from the previous meetings, re-emerged in Songdo. But with participants under significant pressure to hammer out a working fund by next year’s COP21 in Paris, debates were eventually resolved through a series of compromises and meetings that extended for hours at a time, with negotiators hung u ...
Climate Change: Observed, Projections and Impacts in ASEAN Plus Three
... promoted as an effective means of providing output of integrated climate-agronomic information as scenario analyses • For medium and low input systems in the developing countries, crop or agro-ecosystem modeling be used to guide general ...
... promoted as an effective means of providing output of integrated climate-agronomic information as scenario analyses • For medium and low input systems in the developing countries, crop or agro-ecosystem modeling be used to guide general ...
Psychological research and global climate change
... limit climate change24. Indeed, at least in the USA and UK, acceptance versus rejection of climate science seems to be linked far more to political ideology and worldview than to any other factor, and that polarization has increased over time25. Regression analyses of survey data show that political ...
... limit climate change24. Indeed, at least in the USA and UK, acceptance versus rejection of climate science seems to be linked far more to political ideology and worldview than to any other factor, and that polarization has increased over time25. Regression analyses of survey data show that political ...
The politics of climate change
... more urgent, threats than is ordinarily acknowledged. These, whom I shall call the “radicals”, argue that there are threshold effects in climate change, as the naturally-induced climatic fluctuations we know about from the past reveal. Abrupt changes in climate have happened in previous ages, even w ...
... more urgent, threats than is ordinarily acknowledged. These, whom I shall call the “radicals”, argue that there are threshold effects in climate change, as the naturally-induced climatic fluctuations we know about from the past reveal. Abrupt changes in climate have happened in previous ages, even w ...
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... gases we can emit into the atmosphere. The perceived necessity on global warming is developing fast, and becoming ever more concrete for people. It used to be about how many parts of greenhouse gases per million (ppm) a livable atmosphere could endure. In 2006, the United Nations “Intergovernmental ...
... gases we can emit into the atmosphere. The perceived necessity on global warming is developing fast, and becoming ever more concrete for people. It used to be about how many parts of greenhouse gases per million (ppm) a livable atmosphere could endure. In 2006, the United Nations “Intergovernmental ...
Karen M. Shell Associate Professor, Atmospheric Science Climate
... Served on web site, newsletter, faculty evaluation, faculty hiring, and Open House committees ...
... Served on web site, newsletter, faculty evaluation, faculty hiring, and Open House committees ...
An investigation into the impact of science communication and
... presentation to clarify or confuse the public’s understanding of timely topics. In addition to the impact of science communication, there appear to be factors specific to the individual that can influence our assessment of information. A study from the University of Maine found that participants who ...
... presentation to clarify or confuse the public’s understanding of timely topics. In addition to the impact of science communication, there appear to be factors specific to the individual that can influence our assessment of information. A study from the University of Maine found that participants who ...
Policy Update on 2°C Warming
... in Bangladesh, Africa (Nile and Niger basins) and the Maldives. The IMPACT2C aims to integrate and synthesize the findings for awareness-raising and to communicate to a wide audience, relevant for ...
... in Bangladesh, Africa (Nile and Niger basins) and the Maldives. The IMPACT2C aims to integrate and synthesize the findings for awareness-raising and to communicate to a wide audience, relevant for ...
Discuss - Harvard University
... Shopping Centers Climate Resilience: From Static to Dynamic Climate Adaptation Introduction: The head of the United Nations Disaster Reduction Office stated that environmental disasters are becoming the ““new normal” that the world will have to deal with if we don’t speed up curbs on global warning” ...
... Shopping Centers Climate Resilience: From Static to Dynamic Climate Adaptation Introduction: The head of the United Nations Disaster Reduction Office stated that environmental disasters are becoming the ““new normal” that the world will have to deal with if we don’t speed up curbs on global warning” ...
KNOWLEDGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND CAUSES OF CLIMATE
... VARIABLE NAME: cc_knowledge1 VARIABLE HISTORY: Cycle 4 (January 2010) - New variable Cycle 6* (September 2010) - Variable name changed from a1 to cc_knowledge1 Cycle 19 (January 2015) – Interviewer prompt changed from “By climate change we mean a change in the average weather that a given region exp ...
... VARIABLE NAME: cc_knowledge1 VARIABLE HISTORY: Cycle 4 (January 2010) - New variable Cycle 6* (September 2010) - Variable name changed from a1 to cc_knowledge1 Cycle 19 (January 2015) – Interviewer prompt changed from “By climate change we mean a change in the average weather that a given region exp ...
Salluit - Canadian Institute of Planners
... Canadian and international climate models predict that northern regions will undergo accelerated warming in the 21st century. The Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis predicts increases in average annual temperatures of 1° to 2°C over the next 25 years. Actual temperature records indic ...
... Canadian and international climate models predict that northern regions will undergo accelerated warming in the 21st century. The Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis predicts increases in average annual temperatures of 1° to 2°C over the next 25 years. Actual temperature records indic ...
Agenda Setting and Issue Definition at the Micro Level: Giving
... The literature on agenda setting focuses on questions related to how governments, the public, and the media prioritize issues. Issues rise and fall from the agenda due to a variety of factors including competing issues, politics, public mood, focusing events, and others. To explain the dynamics of a ...
... The literature on agenda setting focuses on questions related to how governments, the public, and the media prioritize issues. Issues rise and fall from the agenda due to a variety of factors including competing issues, politics, public mood, focusing events, and others. To explain the dynamics of a ...
The Reality, Risks and Response to Climate Change
... variation? Does a particularly cold or snowy winter, such as the one the eastern United States experienced in 2013 and 2014, or variations in the rate of global surface temperature change call global warming into question? If the climate is changing, are human activities responsible, or is it being ...
... variation? Does a particularly cold or snowy winter, such as the one the eastern United States experienced in 2013 and 2014, or variations in the rate of global surface temperature change call global warming into question? If the climate is changing, are human activities responsible, or is it being ...
Beyond long-term averages: making biological sense of a rapidly
... ectothermic (i.e., retain no appreciable metabolic heat) and many have body temperatures that fluctuate with environmental conditions; in some environments, daily ranges of 20°C or more are not uncommon. The relationship between body temperature and ecophysiological metrics or traits such as growth ...
... ectothermic (i.e., retain no appreciable metabolic heat) and many have body temperatures that fluctuate with environmental conditions; in some environments, daily ranges of 20°C or more are not uncommon. The relationship between body temperature and ecophysiological metrics or traits such as growth ...
Climate Change Scenarios
... data in climate impact and adaptation assessment. The criteria listed here have been put together from these guidelines (Carter et al., 1999) as well as from earlier reports (Carter et al., 1994; Parry and Carter, 1998; Smith and Hulme, 1998). The scenarios should contain a sufficient number of vari ...
... data in climate impact and adaptation assessment. The criteria listed here have been put together from these guidelines (Carter et al., 1999) as well as from earlier reports (Carter et al., 1994; Parry and Carter, 1998; Smith and Hulme, 1998). The scenarios should contain a sufficient number of vari ...
Science integration into US climate and ocean policy
... The third NCA, released in May 2014, is the most integrative and comprehensive US climate assessment to date18. The third NCA process differed markedly from previous US climate assessments in three important ways: (1) the NCA covered new topics, including a chapter specifically addressing oceans and ...
... The third NCA, released in May 2014, is the most integrative and comprehensive US climate assessment to date18. The third NCA process differed markedly from previous US climate assessments in three important ways: (1) the NCA covered new topics, including a chapter specifically addressing oceans and ...
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... range of climate and policy scenarios. In general, models have to address the tradeoff between uncertainty and complexity. The more the complexity of the model the more realistic assumptions can be made. However, this requires one to increase the number of parameters that have to be estimated and ma ...
... range of climate and policy scenarios. In general, models have to address the tradeoff between uncertainty and complexity. The more the complexity of the model the more realistic assumptions can be made. However, this requires one to increase the number of parameters that have to be estimated and ma ...