PPT-Climate and Climate Change

17 January 2011 How and Why Does Climate Change Climate changes over a broad range of time scales Years decades centuries millennia Many factors combine to affect climate Variability of incoming solar radiation. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rising global temperatures will very likely increase the frequency and intensity of heat waves droughts and heavy rainfall events adversely affecting agriculture forests water resources indu Ms. . Divya. Mohan. Associate Fellow. Earth . Sceince. and Climate Change Division. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Agriculture and Climate Change. Agriculture contributes to climate change through GHG emissions. Regional Impacts and Predictions. Lesson 7. A. B. C. D. E. How do plants survive such different climates?. How does climate change impact these biomes?. ACTIVITY. Worksheet Rubric. A complete worksheet must: . Using these websites, the textbook and your own research- complete a table of information about how people at different scales are responding to climate change. Individual . Local. National. International. John Olson. Desert Research Institute. Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting. 23 May 2016. River & stream salinity. Varies . over four orders of magnitude, . specific electrical conductivity (EC) from < . Doug Campbell. Department of Philosophy. University of Canterbury. What is skepticism?. First pass: a skeptic is someone who opposes bullshit. . Okay: but what’s ‘bullshit?’. How is this technical term to be unpacked?. CUHK Summer Institute 2017. Prof. Benoit MAYER, . bmayer@cuhk.edu.hk. . Sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Session 3:. International cooperation. Today’s class:. International cooperation. Addressing climate change. What is it? . An assessment of the risks . climate change poses to human health in the United . States . An Interagency product of the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). Part of the ongoing National Climate Assessment (NCA) process. What is it? . An assessment of the risks . climate change poses to human health in the United . States . An Interagency product of the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). Part of the ongoing National Climate Assessment (NCA) process. S. Appanah. Climate Change Coordinator . a.i. . . FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Background. Review “Rice and climate change in Asia”. Study outsourced to IRRI. Constitutes part of consultation on the formulation of rice strategy for Asia. HiGEM. Ray Bell. Supervisors: Prof. Pier Luigi Vidale, Dr. Kevin Hodges and Dr. Jane Strachan. Introduction. Motivation. Socio-economic impacts and changing risk with climate change. . Impacts on the climate system, removing heat and moisture from the ocean affecting large scale circulation.. What does this mean for New England?. Ellen M. Douglas, PE, PhD. School for the Environment. University of Massachusetts, Boston. . 2017 Massachusetts Smart Growth Conference . May 18, 2017. Theoretically, records will always be broken, but the time between record events should increase.. Climatology. is . the study of Earth’s climate and the factors that affect past, present, and future climatic changes.. Climate describes annual variations of temperature, precipitation, wind, and other weather factors.. Is it getting worse?. Are Humans causing it?. Is Time running out?. Is there anything that should be done?. Is the “standard model” the only option?. Climate change?. . “Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.” Enrico Fermi 1938..