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IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report
Workshop for Media and Students
Basic issues in climate science
SAUDI ARABIA
Abdalah Mokssit
Climate Change is Broad Issue
• Majority of the sciences and engineering disciplines are
involved.
• Social sciences are interested.
• Business/Industry has a stake in.
• Involves citizens, politicians, public policy experts, and
advocates.
• Every sector of the economy is affected.
• All aspects of our lives touched: environment, jobs,
health, politics, national security, arts, religion, etc.
What is happening in the
climate system?
What are the risks?
What can be done?
–18°C +15°C
Earth without air Our planet
+
33°C
If the world had no atmosphere, it would
be very cold
Natural GHG effect
33 °C
Other GHG <1 °C
CO2 2 °C
H2O 31 °C
–18oC
+15oC
BUT THE COMPOSITION OF
AIR IS CHANGING RAPIDLY
due to human activities:
→ more GHG (CO2, CH4, NOx...)
→ more aerosol (air pollution)
Enhanced GHG
effect
33 °C
+ 1 °C
Other GHG <1 °C
CO2 2 °C + 1oC
H2O 31 °C
–18oC
+16oC
IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report
Impacts are already underway
• Tropics to the poles
• On all continents and in the ocean
• Affecting rich and poor countries
(but the poor are more vulnerable
everywhere)
AR5 WGII SPM
+2°
+4°
PROBLEMATIC
• 1 - 2 billion additional people with water stress
• Impacts on cereal productivity at low latitudes
• Increased coastal flooding and storms
• Greater depth of seasonal permafrost thaw
DISASTROUS
• A 16 ºC increase in the Arctic
• 1.1 - 3.2 billion additional people with water stress
• Widespread coral mortality; risk of major
extinctions around the globe
• Substantial global impact on major crops
• Long-term prospect of sea level rise
Global temperature rise
Facing the dangers from climate change…
…there are only three options:
Mitigation, meaning measures to reduce the
pace & magnitude of the changes in global
climate being caused by human activities.
Adaptation, meaning measures to reduce the
adverse impacts on human well-being resulting
from the changes in climate that do occur.
Suffering the adverse impacts that are not
avoided by either mitigation or adaptation.
IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report
The Choices We Make Will Create Different Outcomes
With substantial
mitigation
Without
additional
mitigation
Change in average surface temperature (1986–2005 to 2081–2100)
AR5 WGI SPM
a)
b)
Future changes issued from ALADIN-Climate, under
the emission scenario RCP4.5, for:
a) annual mean temperature, b) heat wave duration
index. 2036-2065 /1971-2000
F. Driouech et K. El Rhaz
Future changes issued from ALADIN-Climate, under
the emission scenario RCP8.5, for:
a) annual mean temperature, b) heat wave duration
index. 2036-2065 /1971-2000
a) b)
F. Driouech et K. El Rhaz
c) d)
Future changes issued from ALADIN-Climate, under
the emission scenario RCP4.5, for:
c) the annual total rainfall amounts and d) the annual
number of maximum consecutive dry days.
2036-2065 /1971-2000
F. Driouech et K. El Rhaz
- A generalized warming over the entire region is expected to
vary from 1 to 2.4°C depending on the scenarios and sub-
regions.
- The warming will also manifests in terms of increase in the heat
wave durations.
- The western part (mainly in Morocco) and at northernArabian
Peninsula should register a decrease in annual total rainfall
amounts.
- The extreme droughts are expected to be more persistent in the
north western part of the region (Morocco and Algeria).
IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

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Characterization and the Kinetics of drying at the drying oven and with micro...
 

Basic issues in Climate Science

  • 1. IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Workshop for Media and Students Basic issues in climate science SAUDI ARABIA Abdalah Mokssit
  • 2. Climate Change is Broad Issue • Majority of the sciences and engineering disciplines are involved. • Social sciences are interested. • Business/Industry has a stake in. • Involves citizens, politicians, public policy experts, and advocates. • Every sector of the economy is affected. • All aspects of our lives touched: environment, jobs, health, politics, national security, arts, religion, etc.
  • 3. What is happening in the climate system? What are the risks? What can be done?
  • 4. –18°C +15°C Earth without air Our planet + 33°C If the world had no atmosphere, it would be very cold
  • 5. Natural GHG effect 33 °C Other GHG <1 °C CO2 2 °C H2O 31 °C –18oC +15oC
  • 6. BUT THE COMPOSITION OF AIR IS CHANGING RAPIDLY due to human activities: → more GHG (CO2, CH4, NOx...) → more aerosol (air pollution)
  • 7. Enhanced GHG effect 33 °C + 1 °C Other GHG <1 °C CO2 2 °C + 1oC H2O 31 °C –18oC +16oC
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  • 9. IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Impacts are already underway • Tropics to the poles • On all continents and in the ocean • Affecting rich and poor countries (but the poor are more vulnerable everywhere) AR5 WGII SPM
  • 10. +2° +4° PROBLEMATIC • 1 - 2 billion additional people with water stress • Impacts on cereal productivity at low latitudes • Increased coastal flooding and storms • Greater depth of seasonal permafrost thaw DISASTROUS • A 16 ºC increase in the Arctic • 1.1 - 3.2 billion additional people with water stress • Widespread coral mortality; risk of major extinctions around the globe • Substantial global impact on major crops • Long-term prospect of sea level rise Global temperature rise
  • 11. Facing the dangers from climate change… …there are only three options: Mitigation, meaning measures to reduce the pace & magnitude of the changes in global climate being caused by human activities. Adaptation, meaning measures to reduce the adverse impacts on human well-being resulting from the changes in climate that do occur. Suffering the adverse impacts that are not avoided by either mitigation or adaptation.
  • 12. IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report The Choices We Make Will Create Different Outcomes With substantial mitigation Without additional mitigation Change in average surface temperature (1986–2005 to 2081–2100) AR5 WGI SPM
  • 13. a) b) Future changes issued from ALADIN-Climate, under the emission scenario RCP4.5, for: a) annual mean temperature, b) heat wave duration index. 2036-2065 /1971-2000 F. Driouech et K. El Rhaz
  • 14. Future changes issued from ALADIN-Climate, under the emission scenario RCP8.5, for: a) annual mean temperature, b) heat wave duration index. 2036-2065 /1971-2000 a) b) F. Driouech et K. El Rhaz
  • 15. c) d) Future changes issued from ALADIN-Climate, under the emission scenario RCP4.5, for: c) the annual total rainfall amounts and d) the annual number of maximum consecutive dry days. 2036-2065 /1971-2000 F. Driouech et K. El Rhaz
  • 16. - A generalized warming over the entire region is expected to vary from 1 to 2.4°C depending on the scenarios and sub- regions. - The warming will also manifests in terms of increase in the heat wave durations. - The western part (mainly in Morocco) and at northernArabian Peninsula should register a decrease in annual total rainfall amounts. - The extreme droughts are expected to be more persistent in the north western part of the region (Morocco and Algeria).
  • 17. IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report IPCC Fifth Assessment Report