Sentences with phrase «term climate change scenarios»

-- the Samanta et al paper, based on a three - month drought response, says not one word about long - term climate change scenarios reviewed in IPCC (but they advertise their analysis as «reject [ing] claims» put forward by the IPCC).

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In their paper, called «Adaptation Optimization of Residential Buildings under Hurricane Threat Considering Climate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term inClimate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term intChange in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term inclimate change during a long - term intchange during a long - term interval.

In terms of CO2 emissions, we are following the highest climate change scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September.climate change scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September.&change scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September.Climate Change released in September.&Change released in September.»

Hugh Pitcher • Contributing Author, Working Group III, «Issues Related to Mitigation in the Long - Term Context,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, «Emissions Scenarios 2000: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change» (2001).

We can not afford to delay further action to tackle climate change if the long - term target of limiting the global average temperature increase to 2 °C, as analysed in the 450 Scenario, is to be achieved at reasonable cost.

Even if CO2 concentrations were to increase according to worst - case scenarios, this, he estimates, would provide several decades» respite — which might provide time to develop non-carbon energy sources; research the intricate workings of climate systems; and plan long - term strategies to cope with a changing climate.

Rao, S. and Riahi, K. (2006) The role of non-CO ₂ greenhouse gases in climate change mitigation: long - term scenarios for the 21st century, Energy Journal, Multi-Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Climate Policy Special Issue, 177climate change mitigation: long - term scenarios for the 21st century, Energy Journal, Multi-Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Climate Policy Special Issue, 177Climate Policy Special Issue, 177 - 200.

In terms of climate change model predictions, there is a high degree of uncertainty in both regions as to what comes next in an anthropogenic climate change scenario.

Others believe the scenario of building Powder River Basin - sized coal fields would have a devastating impact in terms of climate change.

Contribution from working group I to the fifth assessment report by IPCC TS.5.4.1 Projected Near - term Changes in Climate Projections of near - term climate show small sensitivity to Green House Gas scenarios compared to model spread, but substantial sensitivity to uncertainties in aerosol emissions, especially on regional scales and for hydrological cycle varClimate Projections of near - term climate show small sensitivity to Green House Gas scenarios compared to model spread, but substantial sensitivity to uncertainties in aerosol emissions, especially on regional scales and for hydrological cycle varclimate show small sensitivity to Green House Gas scenarios compared to model spread, but substantial sensitivity to uncertainties in aerosol emissions, especially on regional scales and for hydrological cycle variables.

I think maybe the best - case scenario in terms of what this is going to look like is that progressives do a much better job of connecting the dots between climate change, economic inequality, a shredded safety net, a political program that has waged decades of war not only on the idea of bold climate action but on the idea of investing in a serious way in the public sphere, really connecting the dots.

In an interview with the Boston Globe on March 9, Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, the Navy's top officer in the Pacific, stated that climate change was the biggest long - term threat in the Pacific region and «probably the most likely thing that is going to happen... that will cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.»

The fossil - fuel contribution to climate change is considered in terms of 40 scenarios, each considered to be equally valid.

Between its Second and Third Assessment Reports, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change elaborated long - term greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, in part to drive global ocean - atmosphere general circulation models, and ultimately to assess the urgency of action to prevent the risk of climatic cChange elaborated long - term greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, in part to drive global ocean - atmosphere general circulation models, and ultimately to assess the urgency of action to prevent the risk of climatic changechange.

For example, the paper includes the following: «greenhouse gas pollution can impose great harms», «significantly increased risks of severe harms», and «A handful of geographic regions may experience short - term benefits from climate change, such as temporary agricultural gains in colder regions, but even in those areas, long - term, catastrophic scenarios would bring significant harms.»

Despite the extremist hyperbole and doomsday - cult scenario hysteria, the science of climate change is rather mundane, from a long - term view: it gets cold and, OMG!

A more general review of the literature on climate change mitigation is found in the WGIII AR4 Chapter 3 (Fisher et al., 2007) Sections 3.3.5 (on long - term stabilisation scenarios), 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 (on integrated assessment and risk management) and 3.6 (on linkages between short - term and long - term targets).

See: Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: «An argument that mitigation of ghgs makes sense in terms of decreasing the future costs of extreme events is not a strong one» — «Even under the assumptions of IPCC, Stern Review, etc. the future costs of extreme events under the most aggressive scenarios of climate change actually decrease as a proportion of GDP»

Mark Fulton, advisor to Carbon Tracker, former head of research at Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors, and co-author of the report, said: «Our work shows thermal coal has the most significant overhang of unneeded supply in terms of carbon of all fossil fuels on any scenario.

Here are some examples: # 1) «A Parallel Nonnegative Tensor Factorization Algorithm for Mining Global Climate Data» http://www.springerlink.com/content/u4x12132j06r40h3/ (from LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science) # 2) «Dowinscaling of precipitation for climate change scenarios: A support vector machine approach» http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/18799/ (Journal Of Hydrology) # 3) «Semi-supervised learning with data calibration for long - term time series forecasting» http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1401911 (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Journal) There are tons that I can quoted, but the 3 references that I have linked to above clarifies myClimate Data» http://www.springerlink.com/content/u4x12132j06r40h3/ (from LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science) # 2) «Dowinscaling of precipitation for climate change scenarios: A support vector machine approach» http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/18799/ (Journal Of Hydrology) # 3) «Semi-supervised learning with data calibration for long - term time series forecasting» http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1401911 (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Journal) There are tons that I can quoted, but the 3 references that I have linked to above clarifies myclimate change scenarios: A support vector machine approach» http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/18799/ (Journal Of Hydrology) # 3) «Semi-supervised learning with data calibration for long - term time series forecasting» http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1401911 (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Journal) There are tons that I can quoted, but the 3 references that I have linked to above clarifies my point.

Loarie et al. (2009) calculated velocities of climate change in terms of relative changes in temperature gradients using three different emissions scenarios (A2, AB, and B1) and concluded that between 2050 to 2100, organisms now living in areas that cover about 29 percent of the planet's land will have to disperse faster than observed post-glacial velocities.

Develop a risk assessment of overall investments if the best - and worst - case scenarios for climate change play out in terms of potential financial losses.

«Scientists were quick to declare the results of the Turner et al paper, which covered 1 per cent of the Antarctic continent, did not negate a long - term warming because of man - made climate change... «Climate model projections forced with medium emission scenarios indicate the emergence of a large anthropogenic regional warming signal, comparable in magnitude to the late - 20th - century peninsula warming, during the latter part of the current century,» the Turner research concluded.climate change... «Climate model projections forced with medium emission scenarios indicate the emergence of a large anthropogenic regional warming signal, comparable in magnitude to the late - 20th - century peninsula warming, during the latter part of the current century,» the Turner research concluded.Climate model projections forced with medium emission scenarios indicate the emergence of a large anthropogenic regional warming signal, comparable in magnitude to the late - 20th - century peninsula warming, during the latter part of the current century,» the Turner research concluded.»

For the CMIP5 models» ability to project future scenarios for the Arctic sea ice retreat we turn to Chapter 12: Long - term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility, section 4.6.1:

Chapter 12: Long - term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility Executive Summary • Scenario description • Projections for the 21st century • Projections beyond the 21st century • Regional climate change, variability and extremes • Forcing, response and climate sensitivity • Climate change commitment and inertia • Potential for abrupt change and irreversibility in the climate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projClimate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility Executive Summary • Scenario description • Projections for the 21st century • Projections beyond the 21st century • Regional climate change, variability and extremes • Forcing, response and climate sensitivity • Climate change commitment and inertia • Potential for abrupt change and irreversibility in the climate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projeChange: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility Executive Summary • Scenario description • Projections for the 21st century • Projections beyond the 21st century • Regional climate change, variability and extremes • Forcing, response and climate sensitivity • Climate change commitment and inertia • Potential for abrupt change and irreversibility in the climate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projclimate change, variability and extremes • Forcing, response and climate sensitivity • Climate change commitment and inertia • Potential for abrupt change and irreversibility in the climate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projechange, variability and extremes • Forcing, response and climate sensitivity • Climate change commitment and inertia • Potential for abrupt change and irreversibility in the climate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projclimate sensitivity • Climate change commitment and inertia • Potential for abrupt change and irreversibility in the climate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projClimate change commitment and inertia • Potential for abrupt change and irreversibility in the climate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projechange commitment and inertia • Potential for abrupt change and irreversibility in the climate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projechange and irreversibility in the climate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projclimate system • Quantification of the range of climate change projclimate change projechange projections

[147] The IPCC has pointed out that many long - term climate scenario models require large - scale manmade negative emissions to avoid serious climate change.

The long - term nature and uncertainty of climate change and its driving forces require scenarios that extend to the end of the 21st century.

Even with this staggering investment, coupled with the ongoing drafting of a comprehensive climate change law, there is no credible scenario under which China's emissions stabilise and fall in the short - to medium - term.

Rao, S. and K. Riahi, 2006: The Role of non-CO2 greenhouse gases in climate change mitigation: long - term scenarios for the 21st century.