Sentences with phrase «assessment of climate change»

However, every comprehensive assessment of climate change impacts points to serious disruptions ahead.
It is considered the most comprehensive assessment of climate change ever undertaken.
This is another reason for considering the entire range of future emissions in future assessments of climate change.
To support an informed assessment of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, model results for regional climate simulations must be robust at reasonable computational cost.
He presents a fairly precise assessment of climate change, but he is so uncertain on remediation possibilities and really avoids stating directly that fossil fuel burning must go.
This list of impacts is intended to provide a starting point for more detailed local assessment of climate change impacts.
Pekka, «Use of state - of - the - art statistical methods could substantially improve the quantification of uncertainty in assessments of climate change
He will keep his positions as head of an Indian research group focused on energy and the environment and chairman of the climate panel, which is beginning work on its fifth assessment of climate change since 1988.
The first statewide assessment of climate change effects on New York State paints a grim picture.
Chris Field, co-chair of the next IPCC assessment of climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, and Mike MacCracken of the Climate Institute were interviewed February 3 on human - driven climate change and its potential impacts and responded to global warming «skeptics».
The year - long rollout of the latest assessment of climate change science and solutions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ended today in Copenhagen with the release of a final synthesis report offering an overview of the world's climate trajectories and choices.
Many economic assessments of climate change policies completed to date, especially from opponents of the Waxman - Markey bill (H.R. 2454), make a flawed argument that meeting...
Many economic assessments of climate change policies completed to date, especially from opponents of the Waxman - Markey bill (H.R. 2454), make a flawed argument that meeting greenhouse gas emissions goals will result in job losses and economic costs to American families and businesses.
That is when the Climate Change Authority delivers its first report on Australia's ambition, and this will be in the same year as the IPCC delivers its next assessment of the climate change science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets before 2020.
Regulators want to see a more robust assessment of climate change risks in the next one.
Next month, a scientific committee sponsored by the United Nations will put out its latest assessment of climate change.
The subtitle of my talk is: How the decision - analytic framework is influencing the scientific interpretation and assessment of climate change uncertainty.
In a June 3 interview on the program Wake Up Call on WBAI - FM, the Pacifica station in New York, CSW director Rick Piltz talked about the scientific assessment of climate change released released May 29 by the U.S. government, the... Continue reading →
The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP; currently in it's 6th phase) is organized under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and designed to better understand past, present, and future climate change through coordinated international multi-model experiments that have become a central element of national and international assessments of climate change, e.g., IPCC reports.
After much anticipation, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Friday revealed it's new assessment of climate change, after two years of deliberation.
In its landmark assessment of climate change published last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that sea level rise would probably fit in the range between 28 and 43 cm over the century, although 59 cm was a possibility.
The idea of a finite «carbon budget» — a key part of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's recent assessment of climate change — have been ignored at the ongoing climate talks in Warsaw, which end on Friday, in favor of what some scientists say are piecemeal emissions cuts that are less likely to solve the problem.
The announcement expected on Monday will come less than a month after the White House released a sweeping assessment of climate change's impact on the United States.
It's the last of the major inquiries and reviews surrounding climate science that were commissioned in the wake of «ClimateGate», «HimalayaGate» and so on - and probably the most important, as it could significantly affect how the organisation pursues its work towards its fifth major assessment of climate change, due out in 2013.
Geyer R (2008) Parametric assessment of climate change impacts of automotive material substitution, Environmental Science and Technology, 42 (18), 6973 - 6979.
The WMO secretary - general, Michel Jarraud, said: «A decade is the minimum possible timeframe for meaningful assessments of climate change.
Several hundred scientists in dozens of countries are working on final revisions to the latest installment of a United Nations assessment of climate change.
The synthesis contributed to a larger assessment of climate change as part of the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson - Delmotte et al., 2013], and comparisons with paleoclimate simulations are under way [Jungclaus et al., 2014].
Past assessments of climate change have all shown the same thing: Melting glaciers around the world are raising the sea level, and the ice melt in Greenland contributes heavily to this rise.
The IPCC 5th Assessment Report is condensed into this report, after their scientific and necessarily vast assessment of climate change.
Assessments of climate change by the IPCC, drawing on the work of hundreds of scientists from all over the world, enable policymakers at all levels of government to take sound, evidence - based decisions.
The first global scientific assessment of climate change impacts on World Heritage coral reefs, published by UNESCO's World Heritage Centre last July, revealed that 25 of 29 listed reefs experienced bleaching stress in the last three years.
Quantitative integrated assessment of climate change risks is not always possible, but it can play a key role in informing decisions both about local adaptation and about large - scale mitigation policy.
The federal government released its last national assessment of climate change impacts last year, Abbott said, and has begun working on a sequel due in 2013.
The first step recommended in the study is for the national intelligence community to include comprehensive assessments of climate change in future security plans, just as agencies now take into account traditional but uncertain threats.
Professor Wuebbles is a coordinating lead author for the next major international IPCC assessment of climate change, which will be published in 2013, and is a leader in the next U.S. National Climate Assessment.
The report is the second of three instalments of the IPCC's fifth assessment of climate change.
The Synthesis Report distils and integrates the findings of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report produced by over 800 scientists and released over the past 13 months — the most comprehensive assessment of climate change ever undertaken.
These new findings are likely to be reflected in the IPCC's next assessment of climate change science, scheduled for 2007.
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