Brussels, 21 September 2007 Participants: MEPs: Vittorio Agnoletto
... Perhaps the greatest injustice associated with climate change lies in the fact that the people most affected by it are the people who have contributed the least to the causes of the current situation. Both Greenland and the North Pole are situated far from the epicentre of emissions. Still, the temp ...
... Perhaps the greatest injustice associated with climate change lies in the fact that the people most affected by it are the people who have contributed the least to the causes of the current situation. Both Greenland and the North Pole are situated far from the epicentre of emissions. Still, the temp ...
Geoengineering: An Introduction to the Possibilities
... Large-scale fertilisation of the ocean is being actively promoted by various commercial organisations as a strategy to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels. However the current scientific evidence indicates that this will not significantly increase carbon transfer into the deep ocean, nor will it lower atm ...
... Large-scale fertilisation of the ocean is being actively promoted by various commercial organisations as a strategy to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels. However the current scientific evidence indicates that this will not significantly increase carbon transfer into the deep ocean, nor will it lower atm ...
- Gulf of Mexico Foundation
... measured in Buras, Louisiana, Mississippi’s delta Camille, 7.5 m, 17/August/1969, hurricane 5 at San Luis Bay, Mississippi’s delta ...
... measured in Buras, Louisiana, Mississippi’s delta Camille, 7.5 m, 17/August/1969, hurricane 5 at San Luis Bay, Mississippi’s delta ...
The Impacts of SLR on The Kingdom of Bahrain
... climate change, causing major threats to human beings around the world particularly in low lying coastal areas. The potential impacts increase when populations and their related economic activities are highly concentrated along the coastal zones (McGranahan et al.,2007; Nicholls et al., 2008). The K ...
... climate change, causing major threats to human beings around the world particularly in low lying coastal areas. The potential impacts increase when populations and their related economic activities are highly concentrated along the coastal zones (McGranahan et al.,2007; Nicholls et al., 2008). The K ...
Observed Impacts: Sea
... • Persistent regional warming trend since 1961 (0.18°C annual), with warmest years on record in the last two decades • The frequency of warm days and nights has increased more than three-fold: Rare extremes have risen from 20days/year to 4580 days/years • Sea surface temperatures have also increased ...
... • Persistent regional warming trend since 1961 (0.18°C annual), with warmest years on record in the last two decades • The frequency of warm days and nights has increased more than three-fold: Rare extremes have risen from 20days/year to 4580 days/years • Sea surface temperatures have also increased ...
Greenhouse Earth
... - Contributed to poleward heat flux to warm the poles - Reduced the large temperature and density contrast between the surface and bottom ocean which would caused faster overturning and more poleward heat flow. ...
... - Contributed to poleward heat flux to warm the poles - Reduced the large temperature and density contrast between the surface and bottom ocean which would caused faster overturning and more poleward heat flow. ...
Slide 1
... living in rural areas of Southeast Florida, Belle Glade in Palm Beach County and Key Largo of Monroe County, and the need to prepare for the health effects of sea level rise and extreme heat conditions through policies and systemic changes. • The findings will be translated into recommendations on t ...
... living in rural areas of Southeast Florida, Belle Glade in Palm Beach County and Key Largo of Monroe County, and the need to prepare for the health effects of sea level rise and extreme heat conditions through policies and systemic changes. • The findings will be translated into recommendations on t ...
4. Sea level changes and application of Oxygen isotopes
... forms most glacial ice is also depleted in 18O. •As glacial ice melts, it returns16O-rich fresh water to the ocean. Therefore, oxygen isotopes preserved in ocean sediments provide evidence for past ice ages and records of salinity. ...
... forms most glacial ice is also depleted in 18O. •As glacial ice melts, it returns16O-rich fresh water to the ocean. Therefore, oxygen isotopes preserved in ocean sediments provide evidence for past ice ages and records of salinity. ...
Meltdown – Evidence of Climate Change from Polar Science Eric Wolff (
... • IPCC (4th AR) projects 18-59 cm of sea level rise by 2100 • But ignores contributions from ice flow instabilities (no basis for quantifying) • And this figure takes no account of later sea level rise that we will soon commit to ...
... • IPCC (4th AR) projects 18-59 cm of sea level rise by 2100 • But ignores contributions from ice flow instabilities (no basis for quantifying) • And this figure takes no account of later sea level rise that we will soon commit to ...
San Francisco Bay: Interfacing ocean and rivers through
... 8, 9 and 10 neutrons = different masses Each behaves differently Warmer water = more 18O More ice = more 18O d18O ...
... 8, 9 and 10 neutrons = different masses Each behaves differently Warmer water = more 18O More ice = more 18O d18O ...
Slide 1
... vertical axis – Bangkok mean temperature change horizontal axis - global mean temperature change SERS (Special Report on Emissions Scenarios) Red - A1B, blue - B1 solid black line - least-square fit to all data points ...
... vertical axis – Bangkok mean temperature change horizontal axis - global mean temperature change SERS (Special Report on Emissions Scenarios) Red - A1B, blue - B1 solid black line - least-square fit to all data points ...
ppt converted from keynote - Hans
... Example Hampton Roads Today’s rate: 5 mm per year (about 1.5 feet in 100 years) Soon could get as high as: 20 mm per year (about 6 feet in 100 years) ...
... Example Hampton Roads Today’s rate: 5 mm per year (about 1.5 feet in 100 years) Soon could get as high as: 20 mm per year (about 6 feet in 100 years) ...
Advantages and disadvantages of living near the sea.
... one mile wide. The map shows that the most densely populated areas are along coastlines. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly one-third of the population in the United States lives in a coastline city or county. Tell students that this doesn’t happen just in the United States. Scientists at C ...
... one mile wide. The map shows that the most densely populated areas are along coastlines. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly one-third of the population in the United States lives in a coastline city or county. Tell students that this doesn’t happen just in the United States. Scientists at C ...
Exploring Climate Change
... The rate at which glaciers retreat has increased dramatically in the last decades and is in line with the known trends in global and local temperature. These changes have occurred on all continents. Some scientists predict that ice melt from glaciers will be the major cause of sea-level rise in the ...
... The rate at which glaciers retreat has increased dramatically in the last decades and is in line with the known trends in global and local temperature. These changes have occurred on all continents. Some scientists predict that ice melt from glaciers will be the major cause of sea-level rise in the ...
Climate forcing
... The red line is a reconstruction of global mean sea level from tide gauges (Section 5.5.2.1), and the red shading denotes the range of variations from a smooth curve. The green line shows global mean sea level observed from satellite altimetry. The blue shading represents the range of model projecti ...
... The red line is a reconstruction of global mean sea level from tide gauges (Section 5.5.2.1), and the red shading denotes the range of variations from a smooth curve. The green line shows global mean sea level observed from satellite altimetry. The blue shading represents the range of model projecti ...
Global Warming, Sea Level Rise and Beach Nourishment
... rate of sea-level rise expected for this century, the likely range of sea level increase4 lies between 0.7 ft and 2.3 ft, with a plausible average of about 1.5 ft. This is about twice the rate of increase during the 20th Century. Predictions regarding future sea-level rise should be placed in the co ...
... rate of sea-level rise expected for this century, the likely range of sea level increase4 lies between 0.7 ft and 2.3 ft, with a plausible average of about 1.5 ft. This is about twice the rate of increase during the 20th Century. Predictions regarding future sea-level rise should be placed in the co ...
Flood Hazard Maps of Pilot Site Flood Hazard Maps of Pilot
... • Storm surge (climatic factor: increase of wind speed extreme) • Large Wave run-up ( climatic factor : increase of wave height which depends on the wind speed extreme) • Mean sea level rise (MSLR) ( climatic factor : temperature increase ) ...
... • Storm surge (climatic factor: increase of wind speed extreme) • Large Wave run-up ( climatic factor : increase of wave height which depends on the wind speed extreme) • Mean sea level rise (MSLR) ( climatic factor : temperature increase ) ...
Lesson - nottspgcegeog
... David Milligan Fantastic Geographies – Melting Ice Rationale: Climate change is prevalent in much of today’s media. The media focuses on the causes of climate change and the direct effects through sea level rise. However we rarely hear about the melting Cryosphere as a whole and the impacts this wil ...
... David Milligan Fantastic Geographies – Melting Ice Rationale: Climate change is prevalent in much of today’s media. The media focuses on the causes of climate change and the direct effects through sea level rise. However we rarely hear about the melting Cryosphere as a whole and the impacts this wil ...
NRDC: Miami and the Keys, Florida: Identifying and Becoming More
... aquifers. Sea level rise could also leave many of Miami’s sandy beaches, and parts of the nearby Everglades, including the sensitive habitats that depend on that ecosystem, underwater by mid-century. These impacts would cause Miami’s tourism economy to suffer. Storm Events and Coastal and Inland Flo ...
... aquifers. Sea level rise could also leave many of Miami’s sandy beaches, and parts of the nearby Everglades, including the sensitive habitats that depend on that ecosystem, underwater by mid-century. These impacts would cause Miami’s tourism economy to suffer. Storm Events and Coastal and Inland Flo ...
Ocean Floor
... • Caribou need ice to island-hop; they are falling through as ice thins • Polar bears hunt on ice in winter, retreat to land in summer. Less ice forces them onto land earlier ...
... • Caribou need ice to island-hop; they are falling through as ice thins • Polar bears hunt on ice in winter, retreat to land in summer. Less ice forces them onto land earlier ...
what is the right target for co2?: 350 ppm is a death sentence for
... A geological cross section of the central North Coast of Jamaica. The solid blue line shows todayʼs sea level, the dashed blue line 7 meters higher (25 feet) is the sea level from 125,000 years ago, the last time global temperatures were 1 degree C warmer than today, and a significant part of the Gr ...
... A geological cross section of the central North Coast of Jamaica. The solid blue line shows todayʼs sea level, the dashed blue line 7 meters higher (25 feet) is the sea level from 125,000 years ago, the last time global temperatures were 1 degree C warmer than today, and a significant part of the Gr ...
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Fifth Assessment Report of the
... In the recently published AR5, the authors continued to grapple with high uncertainty relating to dynamical changes in the ice sheet. However, they attempted to manage this differently than in AR4 and included a wider breadth of information. Also, there have been strides made in understanding the cl ...
... In the recently published AR5, the authors continued to grapple with high uncertainty relating to dynamical changes in the ice sheet. However, they attempted to manage this differently than in AR4 and included a wider breadth of information. Also, there have been strides made in understanding the cl ...
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... specific cases where there is some contention as to the direction of IPCC. c. For instance, the oceans, and the ice sheets are only seen as providing boundary conditions for differential equations describing the atmosphere. It is impossible under their (IPCC) regime to describe stochastic events der ...
... specific cases where there is some contention as to the direction of IPCC. c. For instance, the oceans, and the ice sheets are only seen as providing boundary conditions for differential equations describing the atmosphere. It is impossible under their (IPCC) regime to describe stochastic events der ...
press release
... “The next logical step in our work was to understand how future changes in winds, projected by most climate models, will impact the interannual swings in sea level,” recalls Timmermann. “We noted a trend in greater variability and were surprised at first to find not only more frequent and prolonged ...
... “The next logical step in our work was to understand how future changes in winds, projected by most climate models, will impact the interannual swings in sea level,” recalls Timmermann. “We noted a trend in greater variability and were surprised at first to find not only more frequent and prolonged ...
Sea level rise
Sea level rise has been estimated to be on average between +2.6 mm and +2.9 mm per year ± 0.4 mm since 1993. Additionally, sea level rise has accelerated in recent years. For the period between 1870 and 2004, global average sea levels are estimated to have risen a total of 195 mm, and 1.7 mm ± 0.3 mm per year, with a significant acceleration of sea-level rise of 0.013 ± 0.006 mm per year per year. If this acceleration would stay constant, the 1990 to 2100 sea level rise would range from 280 to 340 mm. Another study calculated the period from 1950 to 2009, and measurements show an average annual rise in sea level of 1.7 ± 0.3 mm per year, with satellite data showing a rise of 3.3 ± 0.4 mm per year from 1993 to 2009. Sea level rise is one of several lines of evidence that support the view that the global climate has recently warmed.In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that it is very likely human-induced (anthropogenic) warming contributed to the sea level rise observed in the latter half of the 20th century. The 2013 IPCC report (AR5) concluded, ""there is high confidence that the rate of sea level rise has increased during the last two centuries, and it is likely that GMSL (Global Mean Sea Level) has accelerated since the early 1900’s.Sea level rises can considerably influence human populations in coastal and island regions and natural environments like marine ecosystems. Sea level rise is expected to continue for centuries. Because of the slow inertia, long response time for parts of the climate system, it has been estimated that we are already committed to a sea-level rise of approximately 2.3 meters for each degree Celsius of temperature rise within the next 2,000 years. It has been suggested that besides CO2 emissions reductions, a short term action to reduce sea level rise is to cut emissions of heat trapping gases such as methane and particulates such as soot.