climate change science Articles
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Coastal sensitivity to sea level rise: A focus on the mid-Atlantic region
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) was launched in February 2002 as a collaborative federal interagency program, under a new cabinet-level organization designed to improve the government-wide management and dissemination of climate change science and related technology development. The mission of the CCSP is to “facilitate the creation and application of knowledge of the Earth’s ...
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Closing knowledge–action gaps in adaptation to climate change in the Asia–Pacific region
Major knowledge–action gaps remain with respect to adaptation to climate change in the Asia–Pacific. Knowledge–action gaps arise because knowledge is missing, inaccessible or unused. In this study initiatives to close knowledge–action gaps in developing and low–to–middle income countries of the Asia–Pacific region were reviewed. Specific attention was given to: who is involved in the design and ...
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Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources
The US Government’s Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is responsible for providing the best science-based knowledge possible to inform management of the risks and opportunities associated with changes in the climate and related environmental systems. To support its mission, the CCSP has commissioned 21 “synthesis and assessment products” (SAPs) to advance decision-making on climate ...
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Market Mechanisms: Understanding the Options
The most recent study on climate change by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences concluded that, “Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for—and in many cases is already affecting—a broad range of human and natural systems. (See Climate Change 101: Science and Impacts.) The combustion of fossil fuels has contributed to the ...
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Prospects for future climate change and the reasons for early action
The 2008 A&WMA Critical Review, which was entitled “Prospects for Future Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action,” focused on the vital issue of global climate change. During the presentation of the review on June 25, 2008, in Portland, OR, Dr. Michael C. MacCracken, chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute in Washington, DC, gave an overview of the basic ...
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Climate science: Major new discoveries
This annual WRI review highlights the latest major research and innovations in climate change science and technology. It presents a timely synthesis of current understanding of global warming at a critically important time for the United States and the world. The international community is negotiating a new global agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases for the period post-2012, while ...
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Joint action on climate change: Key resources
Who’s linking climate change, development, and disaster reduction? Ilan Kelman rounds up vital sources and voices. Many useful and mainly free online resources reflect the links amongst climate change, development and disaster risk reduction — the following are some key organisations and documents. Focus on climate change Climate change science has been much debated. The full ...
By SciDev.Net
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The scientific basis for the prediction of climate change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently published a Supplementary Report updating and supporting the First Assessment of 1990 and their findings are summarised here. If greenhouse emissions continue at the present level, the Report estimates a global temperature increase of 0.3% per decade – a rate probably greater than any since the last ice age. Sulphur pollution ...
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Climate change decision-making: science, policy and economics
The threat of global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to humanity. Although climate change is potentially important, it is crucial to recognise also that (especially for the developing countries) there are a number of other priorities that affect human welfare more immediately - such as hunger and malnutrition, poverty, health, and pressing local environmental issues. In this ...
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When does science become 'junk'? An examination of junk science claims in mainstream print media
This paper examines the definitional content of junk science claims in the newsprint media, finding the term evoked for multiple ends. This paper begins by briefly examining some of the more prominent attempts by 20th century philosophers of science to establish criteria to differentiate science from non-science, each of which has failed. This failure has lead to a sociological turn in how ...
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Fresh Eyes on Ice - Case Study
Fresh Eyes on Ice is a current (multi-year) project aimed at connecting researchers and local Arctic communities using freshwater ice data. This data is used to study the changing climate conditions and for science education and outreach. beadedstream provided Buoy Loggers and Digital Temperature Cables to monitor lake ice. Transmission of the data through satellite modems allows stakeholders to ...
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Africa Analysis: Filling climate data gaps is only the first step
Africa is often blamed for having scarce and unreliable weather records that hold back predictions of how climate change will affect the continent. This has led to calls over the years for better climate-change science and record-keeping, with the most recent coming from African science academies last November. In a statement entitled 'Climate change in Africa: Using science to reduce climate ...
By SciDev.Net
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More extreme weather: Say hello to our changing climate
It’s the question on everyone’s minds these days: What’s up with the weather? The answer is increasingly clear: It’s our changing climate. The trends we are currently experiencing– a warmer world with more intense, extreme weather events– could not be clearer. It’s exactly what climate scientists and their models have, for many years now, forecast ...
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Joint action on climate change: Facts and figures
Ilan Kelman examines the history, overlaps and conflicts between climate change, development and disasters. By the end of 2015, three global policy processes will have set the stage for how the world responds to major challenges facing humanity in the years to come. A voluntary agreement to tackle disasters was reached in Sendai, Japan, in March; the voluntary Sustainable Development Goals ...
By SciDev.Net
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EC announces support for better climate change data
The European Commission (EC) calls for better science-based climate change information and understanding to be developed, reports Envido.The EC has announced its backing for a new climate change framework to improve the scientific accuracy of climate forecasts and modeling. In the run-up to the Copenhagen Conference, the Global Framework for Climate Services is designed to develop better ...
By Vital Energi
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3 Climate change action items for the second Obama Administration
With President Obama’s re-election, he has the opportunity to extend his legacy and take on big challenges. Climate change stands high on the list of issues that need to be addressed. As the President said in his acceptance speech: “We want our children to live in an America that isn’t burdened by debt, that isn’t weakened by inequality, that isn’t threatened by the ...
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Greater Expectations: 3 Actions for Companies to Take on Climate Policy
A region that collectively represents the fifth-largest economy in the world recently launched a new effort to address climate change—with the backing of business. The premier of British Columbia and governors from California, Oregon, and Washington state announced a collaborative policy effort to: account for the costs of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; push for an international climate ...
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EU action against climate change
Climate change is happening. The February 2007 science report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that the world has warmed by an average of 076º Celsius since pre-industrial times and the temperature rise is accelerating. Sea levels rose almost twice as fast between 1993 and 2008 as during the previous three decades. Man made emissions of greenhouse gases are causing ...
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A lawyer`s look at the science of global climate change
Whether one believes, as a matter of science, the problem of climate change is real or imagined, exaggerated or understated, the authors say the legal storm has already broken. They say this article is written to assist the lawyers who must deal with the “nuts and bolts” of advising and representing clients, and who must make recommendations and decisions affecting a client's economic ...
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Understanding political processes in climate change negotiations by means of an interdisciplinary curriculum in higher education
Political science draws on different theoretical approaches that can be used for explaining the outcome of climate negotiations. These approaches take into account that interests shape the preferences of states, of the economy and of civil society. In its analysis of climate change as an issue of global governance, political science must be part of an approach which combines the contributions of ...
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