Professor Schneider is actively involved with the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and specializes in projecting global climate change and related impacts for the future. He is also dedicated to communicating science to the public.
Dr. John Perona closing keynote at ScienceFEST 2019M4SPDXScienceFEST
This document summarizes information about climate change science and solutions. It discusses how satellite data from NASA's GRACE mission has helped scientists monitor groundwater depletion and ice sheet melting related to climate change. It also outlines some solutions for mitigating climate change through transitioning to renewable electricity, electrifying transportation where possible, improving forest carbon storage, and engaging in advocacy efforts. Citizen scientists are encouraged to help analyze cloud data. Overall the document provides an overview of climate impacts, monitoring techniques, and potential policy approaches to addressing the problem.
This document discusses the political challenges of solar geoengineering. It notes that the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5-2°C may be difficult to achieve based on current emission reduction commitments. While solar geoengineering could potentially help reduce climate risks, there are concerns it could undermine emissions cuts, have unpredictable impacts if halted, and lead to conflicts over responsibility for weather events and democratic decision-making around its use. Independent assessment and consideration of alternatives would be needed to avoid interests prolonging fossil fuel use or decisions being captive to certain groups.
Pyrogeography of savanna fire intensity and severityDaniel Godwin
Fire intensity is considered an important component of our understanding of savannas. Fire intensity can be used to predict probability of top kill of woody stems, and thus can deterministically link fire to demographic bottlenecks observed in savanna woody species. However, our understanding of the spatial processes of fire intensity is limited: What tree neighborhood effects on fire intensity exist? How does intensity vary across woody cover gradients? Is fire intensity really the best metric for understanding impact of fire on savanna plant communities? My research hopes to expand on these topics while suggesting future directions for research and applications in fire management.
This presentation by Stuart Midgley of the NSW Rural Fire Service gives a brief overview of the 2016/2017 fire season and presents some of the initiatives and projects that the RFS is pursuing with their partner agencies.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
Wildland fires are exceedingly complex phenomena. No human can integrate all the interacting factors in real-time. More sophisticated tools are needed that capture interactions between the fire and the local atmosphere. Research is yielding emerging wildfire decision support technologies that are primed to be transitioned to operations.
Energy Assembly- Switching on to switching off age 7 to 16 UKGosia Garkowska
Energy powers many aspects of modern life like transportation, cooking, heating, lighting, and machines. Most energy comes from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas, which produces carbon dioxide and contributes to global warming. To reduce energy usage and carbon emissions, people should use less energy by turning off lights and devices when not in use. Developing renewable energy sources from wind, solar, and water can also help address these issues.
This document discusses the eMAST project which aims to deliver a research data infrastructure integrating various data streams to enable ecosystem model optimization through data assimilation. It provides high-resolution climate and canopy conductance data and tools for interpolation, downscaling, and data assimilation. Key goals are understanding the carbon, water, climate change impacts on land management. Driving science questions focus on these areas plus fire risk, climate feedbacks, and biodiversity. The tools and data are shared through various online portals and computational resources to advance ecosystem science.
How Fear of Nuclear Power is Warming our PlanetPaul H. Carr
The world is presently decommissioning nuclear reactors faster than the increase in wind and solar power (1). Solar energy is only available 26% of the time and wind 33%. Nuclear is 24/7. To make up for the net nuclear decrease, we are increasing our burning of fossil fuels. They are raising carbon dioxide emissions that are warming our planet. This is particularly true in Germany.
Bill Gates is presently funding next generation nuclear power. TerraPower's nuclear pilot plant is being built in China. This traveling wave reactor converts depleted uranium, a byproduct of the nuclear-fission process, into usable fuel.
Thorium molten salt nuclear reactors (MSR), demonstrated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1965-1970, consume nearly 100% of their fuel, compared with 3% for older reactors with solid uranium fuel (2). MSRs eliminate the need for Yucca Mountain storage by consuming nuclear waste. Thorium fluoride molten fuel for MSRs is of no weapons value. Thorium fuel is more abundant and cheaper than uranium. MSRs require no expensive containment since they operate close to atmospheric pressure.
REFERENCES: (1) Michael Shellenberger YouTube 2016 TED Talk.
(2) David A. Cornell. “Fracking and the Future of Fuel.” Physics Today, pgs 10 -11. February 2017
Dr. John Perona closing keynote at ScienceFEST 2019M4SPDXScienceFEST
This document summarizes information about climate change science and solutions. It discusses how satellite data from NASA's GRACE mission has helped scientists monitor groundwater depletion and ice sheet melting related to climate change. It also outlines some solutions for mitigating climate change through transitioning to renewable electricity, electrifying transportation where possible, improving forest carbon storage, and engaging in advocacy efforts. Citizen scientists are encouraged to help analyze cloud data. Overall the document provides an overview of climate impacts, monitoring techniques, and potential policy approaches to addressing the problem.
This document discusses the political challenges of solar geoengineering. It notes that the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5-2°C may be difficult to achieve based on current emission reduction commitments. While solar geoengineering could potentially help reduce climate risks, there are concerns it could undermine emissions cuts, have unpredictable impacts if halted, and lead to conflicts over responsibility for weather events and democratic decision-making around its use. Independent assessment and consideration of alternatives would be needed to avoid interests prolonging fossil fuel use or decisions being captive to certain groups.
Pyrogeography of savanna fire intensity and severityDaniel Godwin
Fire intensity is considered an important component of our understanding of savannas. Fire intensity can be used to predict probability of top kill of woody stems, and thus can deterministically link fire to demographic bottlenecks observed in savanna woody species. However, our understanding of the spatial processes of fire intensity is limited: What tree neighborhood effects on fire intensity exist? How does intensity vary across woody cover gradients? Is fire intensity really the best metric for understanding impact of fire on savanna plant communities? My research hopes to expand on these topics while suggesting future directions for research and applications in fire management.
This presentation by Stuart Midgley of the NSW Rural Fire Service gives a brief overview of the 2016/2017 fire season and presents some of the initiatives and projects that the RFS is pursuing with their partner agencies.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
Wildland fires are exceedingly complex phenomena. No human can integrate all the interacting factors in real-time. More sophisticated tools are needed that capture interactions between the fire and the local atmosphere. Research is yielding emerging wildfire decision support technologies that are primed to be transitioned to operations.
Energy Assembly- Switching on to switching off age 7 to 16 UKGosia Garkowska
Energy powers many aspects of modern life like transportation, cooking, heating, lighting, and machines. Most energy comes from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas, which produces carbon dioxide and contributes to global warming. To reduce energy usage and carbon emissions, people should use less energy by turning off lights and devices when not in use. Developing renewable energy sources from wind, solar, and water can also help address these issues.
This document discusses the eMAST project which aims to deliver a research data infrastructure integrating various data streams to enable ecosystem model optimization through data assimilation. It provides high-resolution climate and canopy conductance data and tools for interpolation, downscaling, and data assimilation. Key goals are understanding the carbon, water, climate change impacts on land management. Driving science questions focus on these areas plus fire risk, climate feedbacks, and biodiversity. The tools and data are shared through various online portals and computational resources to advance ecosystem science.
How Fear of Nuclear Power is Warming our PlanetPaul H. Carr
The world is presently decommissioning nuclear reactors faster than the increase in wind and solar power (1). Solar energy is only available 26% of the time and wind 33%. Nuclear is 24/7. To make up for the net nuclear decrease, we are increasing our burning of fossil fuels. They are raising carbon dioxide emissions that are warming our planet. This is particularly true in Germany.
Bill Gates is presently funding next generation nuclear power. TerraPower's nuclear pilot plant is being built in China. This traveling wave reactor converts depleted uranium, a byproduct of the nuclear-fission process, into usable fuel.
Thorium molten salt nuclear reactors (MSR), demonstrated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1965-1970, consume nearly 100% of their fuel, compared with 3% for older reactors with solid uranium fuel (2). MSRs eliminate the need for Yucca Mountain storage by consuming nuclear waste. Thorium fluoride molten fuel for MSRs is of no weapons value. Thorium fuel is more abundant and cheaper than uranium. MSRs require no expensive containment since they operate close to atmospheric pressure.
REFERENCES: (1) Michael Shellenberger YouTube 2016 TED Talk.
(2) David A. Cornell. “Fracking and the Future of Fuel.” Physics Today, pgs 10 -11. February 2017
Heatwaves, climate change and MelbourneJohn Englart
In this presentation I focus on how climate change, through rising temperatures and heatwaves, is already impacting the urban and social environment in Melbourne. It is a problem we need to address now, at all levels of Government, business and individual action.
The document summarizes MIT's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory and climate action plan. It discusses that MIT measures its direct and indirect GHG emissions according to the GHG Protocol's three scopes. Scope 1 includes direct emissions, Scope 2 includes indirect emissions from purchased electricity, and Scope 3 includes other indirect emissions. For public reporting, MIT categorizes its emissions into Buildings, Fugitive Gases, and Campus Vehicles. The inventory includes on-campus buildings but excludes several off-campus research facilities. The document also outlines the challenges of keeping global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius.
SBSTA - IPCC Special Event - Emission pathways and system transitions consist...ipcc-media
This document discusses pathways for limiting global warming to 1.5°C as outlined in the IPCC's Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. It finds that current national climate commitments would lead to around 52-58 GtCO2eq emissions by 2030, which would not limit warming to 1.5°C. The pathways consistent with 1.5°C require rapid and far-reaching changes across all systems between now and 2050, including a transition to renewable electricity, declines in coal and increases in gas use by 2050, and carbon dioxide removal technologies like BECCS. Significant investments are needed, rising to over 2% of global GDP by 2035 in 1.5°
The Climateprediction.net programme, big data climate modellingDavid Wallom
The Climateprediction.net program harnesses over 600,000 volunteers and their computers to conduct large ensemble climate simulations through the BOINC distributed computing platform. It has run over 130 million model years across more than 25 subprojects exploring uncertainties in climate predictions and extreme weather attribution. Current work includes super-ensembles examining stratosphere-troposphere coupling and mid-latitude dynamics, as well as the HAPPI project simulating 1.5°C and 2°C warming scenarios consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The document summarizes the key reports and findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from its first assessment report (FAR) in 1990 to the upcoming sixth assessment report (AR6). It notes that previous assessment reports have informed major international agreements on climate change including the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol. It highlights some of the main conclusions from the IPCC's fifth assessment report (AR5) including that greenhouse gas emissions growth between 2000-2010 was larger than the previous three decades and that limiting warming to 2°C will require transformation of the energy system through technologies available today as well as lifestyle and behavior changes. The presentation concludes by outlining the main products planned for the AR6 cycle including
Plenary talk on examples of global GEO activities relevant to UN-GGIM regarding the Sendai Framework, Paris Agreement and the United Nations 2030 Agenda
The USGS conducts wildfire science to help build safer communities. It identifies wildfire risks and reduces hazards by studying historical fire patterns, monitoring current fires, and assessing post-fire impacts. USGS tools like FPI, GeoMAC and LANDFIRE provide data and maps to support land managers, emergency responders, and scientists.
This document analyzes ecosystem functioning and recovery after extreme drought years in 2018 and 2019 in Switzerland using data from two long-term eddy covariance measurement sites. It finds that atmospheric and soil dryness were more severe in the low-elevation mixed forest in 2018 but more severe in the high-elevation coniferous forest in 2019. Both forests showed reductions in net carbon uptake during drought, though the low-elevation forest was more impacted. The coniferous forest also demonstrated a stronger physiological response to drought and a larger increase in water use efficiency. Overall, the years 2018 and 2019 had similar effects on ecosystem carbon uptake.
The document discusses long term trends in solar radiation at Earth's surface over past decades and future projections. It finds that solar radiation underwent widespread decline ("global dimming") from the 1950s to 1980s, followed by a partial recovery ("brightening") likely caused by changes in atmospheric transparency from air pollution. These changes affect solar power production and need to be considered in resource assessments. Climate models project some increases in photovoltaic performance in parts of Europe and Asia through 2050 due to projected increases in solar radiation and temperature effects, while higher latitudes may see decreases.
After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians. What will it take for Canada to reach Trudeau's Paris climate commitments?
A talk with Gordon Laxer.
The Paris climate accords were strong on aspirations to keep the world below a 2C temperature rise but very weak on delivery. Despite Trudeau's claims that Canada is back, Ottawa has stuck with Stephen Harper's pathetic climate targets. To meet its commitments, each country must find its own unique road map. Canada doesn't have one. Gordon Laxer outlines a bold strategy to get with the global move to a low carbon society, run on conservation and renewable energy sources including wind, solar and low-impact hydro to ensure that all Canadians, including those on lower incomes, have access to a sufficient amount of energy as a human right.
Presentation recorded in Toronto, 7 April 2016.
Chapter 2: Mitigation pathways - The 1.5°C Transition: Challenges and Opportu...ipcc-media
1) Limiting warming to 1.5°C would require rapid and far-reaching transitions across all sectors and regions, including deep emissions cuts, a wide range of low-carbon technologies, and lifestyle changes.
2) 1.5°C pathways involve transitioning energy systems away from fossil fuels toward solar, wind, and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) by mid-century, as well as fully decarbonizing the power and electricity sectors.
3) All 1.5°C pathways require some degree of carbon dioxide removal (CDR), particularly BECCS and afforestation/land-use management, capturing between 100-1000 gigatons of CO2
This document outlines Steven Ramage's career experience over 30 years in the fields of information systems, European marketing, spatial databases, open standards, smart cities, future cities, urban big data, and sustainable finance. It notes his degrees in commerce and information systems and postgraduate study in European marketing. It lists his roles at various companies in offshore marine survey services, global digital mapping, and spatial databases. It also outlines his positions as Executive Director of OGC, Managing Director of Ordnance Survey International, and various visiting professor and lecturer roles focusing on future cities, urban big data, and sustainability.
1. Agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) account for 23% of total net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, with agriculture responsible for 44% of methane emissions and 81% of nitrous oxide emissions.
2. Land use change can decrease nitrous oxide fluxes when areas are left unfertilized but increase emissions in fertilized systems.
3. Changes in temperature resulting from biophysical processes like albedo, evapotranspiration, and roughness show that large scale deforestation increases surface air temperatures while large scale reforestation decreases temperatures.
The document discusses coal seam gas (CSG) mining in Queensland and the various perspectives on it. CSG involves hydraulic fracking which releases chemicals that can cause health and environmental issues. Farmers and traditional owners often view CSG negatively as it impacts waterways, land, and the environment. Members of the public and employees sometimes view CSG positively as it provides cheaper energy and jobs. The CSG industry aims to balance values by reducing environmental impacts through methods like capturing methane emissions. However, different stakeholders have differing perspectives on CSG mining.
This presentation discusses plans for an ecosystem modeling and scaling infrastructure project involving several Australian research organizations. The project aims to 1) integrate multiple data streams to test and optimize process-based ecosystem models, 2) incorporate topographic effects on climate modeling, and 3) assess land-use trade-offs and climate impacts across Australia. Key questions to be addressed include improving model skill, using observations to inform strategic questions, and predicting land-use conflicts under climate change. The initial phase will deliver a model-data interface and re-analyses of carbon storage, water use, and runoff. Engagement efforts include open data portals and workshops. The project provides a unique opportunity to advance ecosystem modeling and demonstrate the value of long-term observations
Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science Seminar, George Mason University, Falls Church, VA, September 2015.
Increasingly, GIS is part of the collaboration between computer scientists, information scientists, and domain scientists to solve complex scientific questions. Successfully addressing scientific problems, such as informing regional decision- and policy-making for coastal zone management and marine spatial planning, requires integrative and innovative approaches to analyzing, modeling, and developing extensive and diverse data sets. The current chaotic distribution of available data sets, lack of documentation about them, and lack of easy-to-use access tools and computer modeling and analysis codes are still major obstacles for scientists and educators alike. Contributing solutions to these problems is part of an emerging science agenda at Esri for a range of environmental, conservation, climate and ocean sciences that will be discussed. The talk will highlight some recent projects in progress, including a new global map of ecological land units, new tools to support multidimensional scientific data, continued work on an ocean basemap, and more.
1) Global temperatures have risen about 1 degree Celsius since 1880 due to increased greenhouse gases from human activities like burning fossil fuels.
2) Reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants like methane, black carbon, and HFCs could significantly slow the rate of global warming over the next 25 years and increase agricultural yields.
3) Controlling emissions pathways in the near-term is important to reduce risks to current and future generations from climate change impacts, limit temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and support achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Business in boundaries göteborg sept 2015Sarah Cornell
This document provides an overview of navigating the global "safe operating space" with three key points:
1) It discusses five core sustainability principles and acknowledges the ecological, social, economic, and governance challenges of staying within planetary boundaries.
2) It notes the urgent issues of climate change, biodiversity loss, perturbed biogeochemical cycles, land use change, pollution, and their interacting effects that require addressing simultaneously.
3) It recognizes the need for new science-business-policy partnerships to help shift trajectories towards sustainability given the knowledge that exists around necessary actions like halting fossil fuel emissions and resource overuse.
Dr Brett Paris – The physical and economic impacts of climate variability NEXTDC
The document summarizes a presentation on the physical and economic impacts of climate change. It discusses the context of resurgent skepticism on climate change and recaps the scientific evidence of rising global temperatures supported by multiple independent records. It outlines projections for significant impacts including rising sea levels that threaten coastal areas, more extreme weather events, effects on global food security, and impacts in regions like Africa, Asia and Australia. It notes Australia's high per capita emissions and contribution to rising CO2 levels. It argues for strong mitigation efforts to transition to a low-carbon economy as a responsible approach and avoid severe economic and social consequences of unchecked climate change in the coming decades and centuries.
The document summarizes MIT's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory and goals to reduce emissions. It discusses that MIT measures direct Scope 1 emissions, indirect Scope 2 emissions from purchased electricity/steam, and some Scope 3 emissions. Emissions are categorized as Buildings, Fugitive Gases, and Campus Vehicles. The inventory includes most MIT buildings and properties but excludes some off-campus facilities. The document outlines the challenges in achieving MIT's goal of reducing emissions 32% below 2014 levels by 2030.
Heatwaves, climate change and MelbourneJohn Englart
In this presentation I focus on how climate change, through rising temperatures and heatwaves, is already impacting the urban and social environment in Melbourne. It is a problem we need to address now, at all levels of Government, business and individual action.
The document summarizes MIT's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory and climate action plan. It discusses that MIT measures its direct and indirect GHG emissions according to the GHG Protocol's three scopes. Scope 1 includes direct emissions, Scope 2 includes indirect emissions from purchased electricity, and Scope 3 includes other indirect emissions. For public reporting, MIT categorizes its emissions into Buildings, Fugitive Gases, and Campus Vehicles. The inventory includes on-campus buildings but excludes several off-campus research facilities. The document also outlines the challenges of keeping global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius.
SBSTA - IPCC Special Event - Emission pathways and system transitions consist...ipcc-media
This document discusses pathways for limiting global warming to 1.5°C as outlined in the IPCC's Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. It finds that current national climate commitments would lead to around 52-58 GtCO2eq emissions by 2030, which would not limit warming to 1.5°C. The pathways consistent with 1.5°C require rapid and far-reaching changes across all systems between now and 2050, including a transition to renewable electricity, declines in coal and increases in gas use by 2050, and carbon dioxide removal technologies like BECCS. Significant investments are needed, rising to over 2% of global GDP by 2035 in 1.5°
The Climateprediction.net programme, big data climate modellingDavid Wallom
The Climateprediction.net program harnesses over 600,000 volunteers and their computers to conduct large ensemble climate simulations through the BOINC distributed computing platform. It has run over 130 million model years across more than 25 subprojects exploring uncertainties in climate predictions and extreme weather attribution. Current work includes super-ensembles examining stratosphere-troposphere coupling and mid-latitude dynamics, as well as the HAPPI project simulating 1.5°C and 2°C warming scenarios consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The document summarizes the key reports and findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from its first assessment report (FAR) in 1990 to the upcoming sixth assessment report (AR6). It notes that previous assessment reports have informed major international agreements on climate change including the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol. It highlights some of the main conclusions from the IPCC's fifth assessment report (AR5) including that greenhouse gas emissions growth between 2000-2010 was larger than the previous three decades and that limiting warming to 2°C will require transformation of the energy system through technologies available today as well as lifestyle and behavior changes. The presentation concludes by outlining the main products planned for the AR6 cycle including
Plenary talk on examples of global GEO activities relevant to UN-GGIM regarding the Sendai Framework, Paris Agreement and the United Nations 2030 Agenda
The USGS conducts wildfire science to help build safer communities. It identifies wildfire risks and reduces hazards by studying historical fire patterns, monitoring current fires, and assessing post-fire impacts. USGS tools like FPI, GeoMAC and LANDFIRE provide data and maps to support land managers, emergency responders, and scientists.
This document analyzes ecosystem functioning and recovery after extreme drought years in 2018 and 2019 in Switzerland using data from two long-term eddy covariance measurement sites. It finds that atmospheric and soil dryness were more severe in the low-elevation mixed forest in 2018 but more severe in the high-elevation coniferous forest in 2019. Both forests showed reductions in net carbon uptake during drought, though the low-elevation forest was more impacted. The coniferous forest also demonstrated a stronger physiological response to drought and a larger increase in water use efficiency. Overall, the years 2018 and 2019 had similar effects on ecosystem carbon uptake.
The document discusses long term trends in solar radiation at Earth's surface over past decades and future projections. It finds that solar radiation underwent widespread decline ("global dimming") from the 1950s to 1980s, followed by a partial recovery ("brightening") likely caused by changes in atmospheric transparency from air pollution. These changes affect solar power production and need to be considered in resource assessments. Climate models project some increases in photovoltaic performance in parts of Europe and Asia through 2050 due to projected increases in solar radiation and temperature effects, while higher latitudes may see decreases.
After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians. What will it take for Canada to reach Trudeau's Paris climate commitments?
A talk with Gordon Laxer.
The Paris climate accords were strong on aspirations to keep the world below a 2C temperature rise but very weak on delivery. Despite Trudeau's claims that Canada is back, Ottawa has stuck with Stephen Harper's pathetic climate targets. To meet its commitments, each country must find its own unique road map. Canada doesn't have one. Gordon Laxer outlines a bold strategy to get with the global move to a low carbon society, run on conservation and renewable energy sources including wind, solar and low-impact hydro to ensure that all Canadians, including those on lower incomes, have access to a sufficient amount of energy as a human right.
Presentation recorded in Toronto, 7 April 2016.
Chapter 2: Mitigation pathways - The 1.5°C Transition: Challenges and Opportu...ipcc-media
1) Limiting warming to 1.5°C would require rapid and far-reaching transitions across all sectors and regions, including deep emissions cuts, a wide range of low-carbon technologies, and lifestyle changes.
2) 1.5°C pathways involve transitioning energy systems away from fossil fuels toward solar, wind, and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) by mid-century, as well as fully decarbonizing the power and electricity sectors.
3) All 1.5°C pathways require some degree of carbon dioxide removal (CDR), particularly BECCS and afforestation/land-use management, capturing between 100-1000 gigatons of CO2
This document outlines Steven Ramage's career experience over 30 years in the fields of information systems, European marketing, spatial databases, open standards, smart cities, future cities, urban big data, and sustainable finance. It notes his degrees in commerce and information systems and postgraduate study in European marketing. It lists his roles at various companies in offshore marine survey services, global digital mapping, and spatial databases. It also outlines his positions as Executive Director of OGC, Managing Director of Ordnance Survey International, and various visiting professor and lecturer roles focusing on future cities, urban big data, and sustainability.
1. Agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) account for 23% of total net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, with agriculture responsible for 44% of methane emissions and 81% of nitrous oxide emissions.
2. Land use change can decrease nitrous oxide fluxes when areas are left unfertilized but increase emissions in fertilized systems.
3. Changes in temperature resulting from biophysical processes like albedo, evapotranspiration, and roughness show that large scale deforestation increases surface air temperatures while large scale reforestation decreases temperatures.
The document discusses coal seam gas (CSG) mining in Queensland and the various perspectives on it. CSG involves hydraulic fracking which releases chemicals that can cause health and environmental issues. Farmers and traditional owners often view CSG negatively as it impacts waterways, land, and the environment. Members of the public and employees sometimes view CSG positively as it provides cheaper energy and jobs. The CSG industry aims to balance values by reducing environmental impacts through methods like capturing methane emissions. However, different stakeholders have differing perspectives on CSG mining.
This presentation discusses plans for an ecosystem modeling and scaling infrastructure project involving several Australian research organizations. The project aims to 1) integrate multiple data streams to test and optimize process-based ecosystem models, 2) incorporate topographic effects on climate modeling, and 3) assess land-use trade-offs and climate impacts across Australia. Key questions to be addressed include improving model skill, using observations to inform strategic questions, and predicting land-use conflicts under climate change. The initial phase will deliver a model-data interface and re-analyses of carbon storage, water use, and runoff. Engagement efforts include open data portals and workshops. The project provides a unique opportunity to advance ecosystem modeling and demonstrate the value of long-term observations
Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science Seminar, George Mason University, Falls Church, VA, September 2015.
Increasingly, GIS is part of the collaboration between computer scientists, information scientists, and domain scientists to solve complex scientific questions. Successfully addressing scientific problems, such as informing regional decision- and policy-making for coastal zone management and marine spatial planning, requires integrative and innovative approaches to analyzing, modeling, and developing extensive and diverse data sets. The current chaotic distribution of available data sets, lack of documentation about them, and lack of easy-to-use access tools and computer modeling and analysis codes are still major obstacles for scientists and educators alike. Contributing solutions to these problems is part of an emerging science agenda at Esri for a range of environmental, conservation, climate and ocean sciences that will be discussed. The talk will highlight some recent projects in progress, including a new global map of ecological land units, new tools to support multidimensional scientific data, continued work on an ocean basemap, and more.
1) Global temperatures have risen about 1 degree Celsius since 1880 due to increased greenhouse gases from human activities like burning fossil fuels.
2) Reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants like methane, black carbon, and HFCs could significantly slow the rate of global warming over the next 25 years and increase agricultural yields.
3) Controlling emissions pathways in the near-term is important to reduce risks to current and future generations from climate change impacts, limit temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and support achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Business in boundaries göteborg sept 2015Sarah Cornell
This document provides an overview of navigating the global "safe operating space" with three key points:
1) It discusses five core sustainability principles and acknowledges the ecological, social, economic, and governance challenges of staying within planetary boundaries.
2) It notes the urgent issues of climate change, biodiversity loss, perturbed biogeochemical cycles, land use change, pollution, and their interacting effects that require addressing simultaneously.
3) It recognizes the need for new science-business-policy partnerships to help shift trajectories towards sustainability given the knowledge that exists around necessary actions like halting fossil fuel emissions and resource overuse.
Dr Brett Paris – The physical and economic impacts of climate variability NEXTDC
The document summarizes a presentation on the physical and economic impacts of climate change. It discusses the context of resurgent skepticism on climate change and recaps the scientific evidence of rising global temperatures supported by multiple independent records. It outlines projections for significant impacts including rising sea levels that threaten coastal areas, more extreme weather events, effects on global food security, and impacts in regions like Africa, Asia and Australia. It notes Australia's high per capita emissions and contribution to rising CO2 levels. It argues for strong mitigation efforts to transition to a low-carbon economy as a responsible approach and avoid severe economic and social consequences of unchecked climate change in the coming decades and centuries.
The document summarizes MIT's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory and goals to reduce emissions. It discusses that MIT measures direct Scope 1 emissions, indirect Scope 2 emissions from purchased electricity/steam, and some Scope 3 emissions. Emissions are categorized as Buildings, Fugitive Gases, and Campus Vehicles. The inventory includes most MIT buildings and properties but excludes some off-campus facilities. The document outlines the challenges in achieving MIT's goal of reducing emissions 32% below 2014 levels by 2030.
Electric Utility Risk Management in the Face of Climate RiskMark Trexler
Electric utilities are a key contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, and have been thinking about climate change and climate policy longer than any other sector. This presentation to the Executive Committee of an electric utility in North America walks through the key issues and questions in developing an effective risk management strategy.
Nobel Laureate Mario Molina spoke about the impact of energy on climate change at the Joint Public Advisory Committee's public forum on Greening North America's Energy Economy in Calgary on 24 April 2013. More at: http://cec.org/jpacenergy
The document discusses the risks of climate change and argues for increased investment in renewable energy technologies. It notes that climate change could displace hundreds of millions of people and cause trillions of dollars in damages. The document advocates focusing technology efforts on solutions that can achieve cost competitiveness within 5-7 years and scale effectively. It outlines various renewable energy companies and technologies that could potentially replace fossil fuels.
Can Australia lead the way with an effective climate action program?
Why is local and global action on climate change taking so long? Why are politicians, the media, scientists and industry chasing each other’s tails on the urgent issue of reducing carbon dioxide pollution? Almost two years on from the anticlimactic Copenhagen climate change summit, CO2 emissions are still rising. Why aren’t Australians willing to invest in protecting the future survival of their descendents?
This interactive forum takes stock of the current CO2 emissions and carbon tax debate and considers how a positive climate action program could work with the big polluters as well as foster community groups and households to be powerful change agents.
Speakers:
Dr Ian McGregor
Ian McGregor is a Lecturer in the UTS School of Management and researcher in the global politics of climate change, with a particular focus on the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009 and Cancun Climate Summit in 2010. He is also part of the Steering Committee of Climate Action Network Australia and works closely with Climate Action Network International on a variety of global climate change policy issues.
Associate Professor James Goodman
James Goodman conducts collaborative research into social movements that pursue global justice and climate justice. He is a political sociologist concerned with ecological change and how societies respond to it. His current work puts special emphasis on the role of grassroots mobilisation in addressing the climate crisis.
Dr Chris Riedy
Chris Riedy is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures and President of the Climate Action Network Australia. He has particular expertise in energy policy, climate change response and socio-cultural change. He works as a facilitator and change agent to help deliver personal, organisational, systemic and cultural responses to sustainability challenges.
UTSPEAKS: is a free public lecture series presented by UTS experts discussing a range of important issues confronting contemporary Australia.
Use the hashtag #utspeaks to tweet about the lecture on Twitter.
Global warming is increasing due to greenhouse gas emissions, while populations and economies are growing rapidly. This is creating pressures around energy, resources and climate change. To address these challenges, policies are being implemented to price carbon emissions, while markets and technologies are shifting towards increased energy efficiency, renewable energy and electric vehicles. These trends will impact energy prices, consumer preferences and open new economic opportunities in clean technologies.
- Climate change poses risks of catastrophic and uncertain impacts from rising carbon emissions. Estimating appropriate prices for carbon is challenging due to uncertainties but crucial for risk management.
- Standard utility models used in climate economics calibrate risk preferences too low, underestimating appropriate carbon prices. Higher societal risk aversion, as seen in equity markets, implies much higher carbon prices to account for hard-to-predict climate risks.
- Delaying reductions in emissions increases future mitigation costs and disaster risks. Higher carbon prices now can lower total costs by incentivizing early emissions cuts and new technologies.
Technology and Policies are Available to Save Our Environment.Paul H. Carr
OUTLINE: POLICY INFLUENCERS
1. Wall Street Journal - Is climate science settled?
2. Peer-reviewed Climate Science Articles- 99% settled.
3. Forbes – Is carbon-free energy available?
4. Nashua Telegraph – What about China’s coal burning?
5. Risky Business Report - Economics of Global Warming. by Bloomberg, Paulsen, & Steyer
6. Pope Francis’ Moral Responsibility to bequeath a habitable planet to future generations
Tibor Farago, Honorary professor at St. Istvan University/ former Hungarian c...European Journalism Centre
This document discusses several key issues regarding the science-policy interface on climate change:
1) While climate change is unprecedented in scale, there are precedents from other environmental issues that can provide lessons for addressing it.
2) There is already a high level of scientific certainty about many aspects of climate change like human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and warming temperatures to inform policy action.
3) Climate change is a major policy concern because of its impacts across key economic sectors and implications for global development.
For Climate Change Workshop by British Computer Society on 17-Sep-08.
Physics & Chemistry of Climate Change,
Effects and Costs of Climate Change,
Geographical Information and use of it,
Some International Meetings and Local Authority Measures,
Climate Change Bill 2008,
Carbon trading / offsetting,
Reducing Carbon Emissions – Websites & Actions.
The document discusses climate change mitigation efforts like the Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord. It aims to teach students to describe these agreements, explain how they effectively and ineffectively address climate change, and discuss the causes and impacts of climate change. Key topics covered include the enhanced greenhouse effect from increased greenhouse gases, both natural and anthropogenic causes of climate change, and how countries are trying to reduce their emissions through the agreements.
The document outlines the key points of a presentation on climate change including: what factors influence climate (sun output, earth orbit, greenhouse gases); evidence it is occurring through observed effects on snow/ice and ecosystems; reasons to care such as impacts of temperature rise on health and coastlines; how scientists are very sure that warming is caused by human activities; and potential actions that can be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at both societal and individual levels.
The 14th Summer Environmental Health Sciences Institute took place in Houston, TX the week of 7/14/2014. This workshop on climate change, comes from educational designers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. While you may not have been able to join us, you can still review content and download all the activities at our website: https://scied.ucar.edu/events/clone-climate-change-connections-2014
The document presents information on climate change, including:
1) Various natural and human factors that can influence climate, with an emphasis on increasing greenhouse gases trapping more heat and changing the climate.
2) Evidence that climate change is occurring through observed effects like changing snow and ice levels as well as impacts on ecosystems and precipitation patterns.
3) Reasons to care about climate change including risks of sea level rise affecting populated coastal areas and events like the 2003 European heat wave that resulted in over 14,000 deaths.
4) The scientific consensus represented by the IPCC that climate change poses severe risks and is very likely caused by human activity.
The document presents information on climate change, including:
1) Various natural and human factors that can influence climate, with an emphasis on increasing greenhouse gases trapping more heat in the atmosphere.
2) Evidence of climate change effects like shrinking glaciers and changes in precipitation and ecosystems.
3) Reasons the impacts of climate change matter, such as risks to coastal populations from sea level rise and risks of severe weather events.
4) Discussion of scientific consensus around human-caused warming and its risks, though some uncertainties remain.
The app “It Feels Like” provides users a means of viewing their current weather conditions in an adventurous fashion. It takes current local weather information aggregated from Data Canvas nodes and compares this to a database of typical weather conditions from various international cities and finds the match with most similar weather. Once the match is found, “It Feels Like” presents to the user further visual information of the city and the season which it feels like. This could help recollect feelings from an old vacation spot, serve as a guide to possibly the next destination or introduce people to somewhere completely new.
This survey of Swiss academic institutions found that:
1. While social media is now a priority and part of communications strategies, lack of resources is still a major challenge.
2. Facebook and Twitter remain the most widely used and successful channels, but Instagram and Pinterest are growing in popularity.
3. Half of respondents find it difficult to measure the return on investment from social media, but most see its great potential benefits.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document discusses the University of Lausanne's use of Instagram to engage current and prospective students. It provides statistics on the UNIL Instagram account's followers, posts, and engagement. The goals are to create a positive image of campus life, understand student interests, and build a photo database. Content features daily campus scenes and events. Interaction occurs on Facebook and the university website. Videos and competitions increase participation. Metrics like likes and followers are used to measure success. Future plans include more cross-promotion and collaborative activities with other schools.
How Swiss schools are using social media, what kind of accounts they have, how many followers, and highlights of the best use of social media in Switzerland.
This document summarizes a meeting about social media strategies for Swiss academia. It provides an overview of the institutions represented and their Facebook and Twitter presence. EPFL, ETH Zurich, and UNIGE have the most Twitter followers. HSG's departments are most liked on Facebook. Content tips include featuring students/alumni, using images/videos, and engaging audiences. New presences include UNIL's Facebook page and ECAL/UNIBAS using social media innovatively. Participants are encouraged to try new platforms like Google+ and use analytics. Future webinars and events are announced.
This document summarizes a case study workshop about how to respond to issues that arise on social media. It discusses four cases that university social media managers might encounter and how they responded. One case involves responding to a student Twitter account, @fduproblems, that was used to report issues on campus. The university manager engaged with the anonymous student running the account and found it helped them address real problems while building trust between the university and students.
The document outlines the SNSF's social media strategy and policy. It discusses using social media like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn to disseminate information, ensure transparency, and interact with researchers and the public. It provides details on the language policy, current pilot projects, and plans for future development including redesigning the website for better social media integration and expanding monitoring and evaluation measures. The organization, processes, and roles for communication, IT, editing, and publishing are also reviewed.
This document discusses several studies on neural synchronization during viewing of audiovisual content like movies and during natural speech. It summarizes findings that brain responses are highly correlated between individuals viewing the same movie segments. For speech, it finds coupling between production and comprehension regions in speakers and listeners, and that greater coupling predicts better comprehension. It proposes that shared neural responses may underlie communication and discusses applications like using neuroscience to improve filmmaking, psychotherapy or education.
This document discusses how film music constructs emotive narratives through leitmotifs in the genre of film noir. It analyzes a scene from the film Double Indemnity, where Miklos Rozsa uses four leitmotifs to represent musical characters, emotive states, and narrative functions. Specifically, the leitmotifs reflect the protagonist losing his moral compass, trespassing laws and norms, and ultimately reflecting the feeling of guilt through the musical narration of recollection and reflection. The document argues that film music provides an emotive contour that works together with the cinematic narration to give meaning and shape a ritual of recollecting one's actions and feelings in the story.
1. The document discusses research on how the brain processes complex natural stimuli like movies, stories and music. It finds reliable synchronized neural responses across individuals when exposed to such stimuli, indicating shared representations.
2. It examines how the brain integrates information over different timescales, finding a hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in different brain regions. Early auditory cortex responds over short timescales of seconds while prefrontal cortex integrates over longer timescales of paragraphs or more.
3. Open questions remain about the role of the hippocampus in sustaining long temporal windows and how information is represented at event boundaries. The research has implications for theories of working memory and how memory systems represent the real world.
This document discusses two early experimental sound films from 1929 that used music: Fats Waller's sound film made for Edison's kinetophone, which combined the kinetoscope and phonograph; and King Vidor's film that featured music by Irving Berlin. It also lists several films known for their creative use of music including works by David Lynch, Sergei Eisenstein, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, and Francis Coppola that were produced between 1938-2002.
This document discusses Gracenote's efforts to analyze music and automatically label songs with mood descriptors to help users discover and navigate music collections. Gracenote analyzed over 30 million songs and generated a sonic mood profile for each using machine learning models trained on a taxonomy of over 10,000 expert-annotated songs. The mood profiles provide scores across 101 mood dimensions and aim to describe the music in terms that parallel how listeners describe their desired listening experiences. The mood labels can be used to power more intuitive music recommendations, playlists, radio stations and discovery experiences for consumers.
Brennon Bortz - A Mobile Physiological Sensing System for Measuring Emotional...swissnex San Francisco
The document describes research from the Music, Sensors and Emotion (MUSE) group at Virginia Tech. The MUSE group uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study the relationship between music and emotion. Key areas of research include measuring gestures and physiological signals during music performance and exploring how emotion is shared between performers and audiences. The group has developed several tools and experiments including MobileMUSE, Emotion in Motion, and the ShEMP framework for shared emotion, music and physiology research.
Eduardo Coutinho - Psychoacoustic cues to emotion in speech prosody and musicswissnex San Francisco
- Listeners can perceive emotional meaning in both music and speech based on acoustic features like tempo, pitch, timbre, and loudness.
- Computational models using recurrent neural networks can successfully predict listeners' continuous ratings of emotion in music and speech from psychoacoustic features alone, with an accuracy around 65%.
- The models are able to generalize and perceive emotion in both familiar and unfamiliar musical genres, suggesting emotions may be communicated universally through acoustic profiles.
Shane Myrbeck - Listening to Design - Immersive Acoustics Modeling in the ARU...swissnex San Francisco
Shane Myrbeck is a senior consultant at Arup who specializes in acoustics, audiovisual design, and immersive audio environments. Arup is a global firm of over 10,000 professionals in various engineering and design disciplines. Myrbeck discussed Arup's acoustic consulting work and the Arup SoundLab, which is used to design and evaluate 3D computer models and immersive soundscapes for new audio environments. He also covered topics such as spatial hearing, ambisonics, and challenges in communicating acoustic concepts to non-experts.
Interactive Socio-Mobile Systems for Active Experience of Audiovisual Content swissnex San Francisco
- The document describes research from the Casa Paganini – InfoMus Research Centre focusing on interactive socio-mobile systems using music and audiovisual content.
- The European SIEMPRE project aims to study social interaction and entrainment in music performance using experiments with string quartets and orchestras.
- Research uses the EyesWeb software platform to record multimodal data on movement, audio, and physiology during music performances to analyze factors like leadership, synchronization, and audience response.
Philippe Dinkel - Artistic versus scientific research: the challenge of the S...swissnex San Francisco
This document discusses the nature of artistic research conducted by musical artists at art universities in Switzerland. It defines artistic research as research done by artists for the arts that involves exploring questions through experimentation and bringing new perspectives. The document outlines four principal areas of inquiry for musical artistic research: musical production, performance, teaching, and music in society. It notes that artistic researchers are likely to investigate questions emerging from their own artistic practice and standards, taking their own perceptions as the object of study, and producing research that can be applied to their artistic work.
This document discusses conceptual metaphors in music through the lens of the Study and Research Group on Musical Metaphors (GERMM). It provides examples of conceptual metaphors that understand musical ideas in terms of other domains, such as architecture, language, and the body. The group aims to study the links between metaphorical language, conceptual metaphors, and our physical and sensory experiences of music through techniques like questionnaires, interviews, motion capture, and neuroimaging. Their research could provide insights into how metaphor, expectation, and embodiment relate to musical meaning and response.
- The document explores the question "What is Operatic Emotion?" through examining portrayals and accounts of Maria Malibran's performances as Desdemona in Rossini's Otello
- Malibran was seen as a preeminent singer and tragedienne who made audiences weep, shudder and suffer as if witnessing a real scene through her emotional performances
- However, some accounts note she sometimes exaggerated emotions to the point of nearing ridiculousness
- The document suggests emotions in opera are cultivated and constructed rather than natural through exploring where emotions belong and how we make them
El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
Acolyte Episodes review (TV series) The Acolyte. Learn about the influence of the program on the Star Wars world, as well as new characters and story twists.
An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
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Discover the essential tools and strategies for modern PR business success. Learn how to craft compelling news releases, leverage press release sites and news wires, stay updated with PR news, and integrate effective PR practices to enhance your brand's visibility and credibility. Elevate your PR efforts with our comprehensive guide.
Here is Gabe Whitley's response to my defamation lawsuit for him calling me a rapist and perjurer in court documents.
You have to read it to believe it, but after you read it, you won't believe it. And I included eight examples of defamatory statements/
Motivating Game Changing Actions In an Era of Spin and Confusion
1. Stephen H. Schneider * Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor, Department of Biology Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment Stanford University Motivating Game Changing Actions In an Era of Spin and Confusion SWISSNEX, Meeting the Energy Challenge Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:30-8:30pm *[Website for more info: climatechange.net.]
30. Some adaptive capacity Source: MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Climate Change <1°C (4.1%; 1 in 24 odds) 1 to 1.5°C (11.4%; 1 in 9 odds) 1.5 to 2°C (20.6%; 1 in 5 odds) 2 to 2.5°C (22.5%; 1 in 4 odds) 2.5 to 3°C (16.8%; 1 in 6 odds) 3 to 4°C (16.2%; 1 in 6 odds) 4 to 5°C (4.6%; 1 in 22 odds) >5°C (3.8%; 1 in 26 odds)
31. NASA After Schaer et al., 2004 Switzerland Summer T, 1860-2003 Extreme Events: Heat
38. Some adaptive capacity Source: MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Climate Change <1°C (4.1%; 1 in 24 odds) 1 to 1.5°C (11.4%; 1 in 9 odds) 1.5 to 2°C (20.6%; 1 in 5 odds) 2 to 2.5°C (22.5%; 1 in 4 odds) 2.5 to 3°C (16.8%; 1 in 6 odds) 3 to 4°C (16.2%; 1 in 6 odds) 4 to 5°C (4.6%; 1 in 22 odds) >5°C (3.8%; 1 in 26 odds) Little adaptive capacity
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61. Policy Sequence: 1-Adaptation to change already in the pipeline 2-Performance standards 3-Public private partnerships (incentives to innovation) 4-Shadow price on carbon (polluter pays--with equity side payments) 5-Geoengineering
62. Policy Sequence: 1-Adaptation to change already in the pipeline 2-Performance standards 3-Public private partnerships (incentives to innovation) 4-Shadow price on carbon (polluter pays--with equity side payments) 5-Geoengineering
63. Policy Sequence: 1-Adaptation to change already in the pipeline --mitigation for changes beyond what we can adapt to 2-Performance 2-Performance standards 3-Public private partnerships (incentives to innovation) 4-Shadow price on carbon (polluter pays--with equity side payments) 5-Geoengineering
64. Policy Sequence: 1-Adaptation to change already in the pipeline 2-Performance standards 3-Public private partnerships (incentives to innovation) 4-Shadow price on carbon (polluter pays--with equity side payments) 5-Geoengineering
67. If a KWh is $0.15, then 40,000 GWh hours per year is a savings of about $6 billion per year!
68. Policy Sequence: 1-Adaptation to change already in the pipeline 2-Performance standards 3-Public private partnerships (incentives to innovation -IT Opportunity ) 4-Shadow price on carbon (polluter pays--with equity side payments) 5-Geoengineering
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76. Figure 1. Concept of low-temperature pyrolysis bio-energy with biochar sequestration. Typically, about 50% of the pyrolyzed biomass is converted into biochar and can be returned to soil. Source: Johannes Lehmann, 2007
77. Policy Sequence: 1-Adaptation to change already in the pipeline 2-Performance standards 3-Public private partnerships (incentives to innovation) 4-Shadow price on carbon (polluter pays--with equity side payments) 5-Geoengineering
78. Shadow price on carbon (fee for dumping in the atmosphere—polluter pays principle) -Cap and trade -Carbon tax -Revenue recycling for equity side payments?
79. Shadow price on carbon (fee for dumping in the atmosphere—polluter pays principle) -Cap and trade -Carbon tax -Revenue recycling for equity side payments?
80. Shadow price on carbon (fee for dumping in the atmosphere—polluter pays principle) -Cap and trade -Carbon tax -Revenue recycling for equity side payments?
81. Shadow price on carbon (fee for dumping in the atmosphere—polluter pays principle) -Cap and trade -Carbon tax -Revenue recycling for equity side payments?
82. Policy Sequence: 1-Adaptation to change already in the pipeline 2-Performance standards 3-Public private partnerships (incentives to innovation) 4-Shadow price on carbon (polluter pays--with equity side payments) 5-Geoengineering
Here is an outline of the structure of my talk. First I’ll discuss some of the key findings of a recent Intergovernmental report that investigated the nature and causes of climate change. Then I’ll define some terms that I’ll be using in my talk. Next I’ll try to give you some indication of the principal advances that have been made in our knowledge of the causes of climate change. Most of the talk will focus on discussion of one example of a so-called “fingerprint” study - a statistical comparison of patterns of climate change in observed data and in model predictions. Finally, in my concluding remarks, I’ll point out some of the key uncertainties in this type of work, and tell you why I believe that we all have a stake in advancing the science.
In the context of vulnerability, vulnerability is generally higher to extreme events, because we are less adapted to cope with extreme conditions, especially as they move beyond what we have seen previously
Expected to be one of the near-term challenges of climate change, since small changes in average conditions can create large changes in the incidence of extremes.
1972 - 2003, NPS, USFS & BIA Fires over 1000 acres
Here is an outline of the structure of my talk. First I’ll discuss some of the key findings of a recent Intergovernmental report that investigated the nature and causes of climate change. Then I’ll define some terms that I’ll be using in my talk. Next I’ll try to give you some indication of the principal advances that have been made in our knowledge of the causes of climate change. Most of the talk will focus on discussion of one example of a so-called “fingerprint” study - a statistical comparison of patterns of climate change in observed data and in model predictions. Finally, in my concluding remarks, I’ll point out some of the key uncertainties in this type of work, and tell you why I believe that we all have a stake in advancing the science.