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Climate Drivers Compound Under Climate Change
Seasonal climate variability in south-east Australia is influenced by three major climate drivers; the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and the Southern Annular Mode (SAM). Each climate driver has impacts upon seasonal rainfall, temperature and fire risk. In …
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Climate Drivers Compound Under Climate Change
Seasonal climate variability in south-east Australia is influenced by three major climate drivers; the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and the Southern Annular Mode (SAM). Each climate driver has impacts upon seasonal rainfall, temperature and fire risk. In …
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BEYOND BELIEFS. FROM CLIMATE ATTITUDES TO CLIMATE ACTIONS
… to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change, the translation of these recommendations into effective actions has been limited. Understanding public attitudes toward climate change is crucial to identify some of the barriers to climate action, the social groups more resistant to …
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SOCIAL NORMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: INVESTIGATING CLIMATE INACTION
Climate change is a well-understood problem with well-understood solutions. Why, then, has there been so little effective climate change mitigation action? In this dissertation, I conceptualize climate change as a social, rather than a physical, problem and investigate possible reasons for climate …
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Climate predictability and simulation with a global climate model.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology.
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Designing With Climate: Using Parking Lots to Mitigate Urban Climate
… and offer a great opportunity to correct urban climate problems. This thesis looks at current United States parking lot ordinances to determine if and how well principles of designing with climate have been incorporated. Guidelines are then given to help in the construction of a parking lot …
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The Climate Emergency and the Need for Global Climate Stabilization: The Role of Energy Efficiency in Climate Policy
<p>Global climate change is a worldwide challenge requiring a coordinated, international policy response. However, political pressures and disagreements between developed and developing countries have obstructed past climate negotiations and have stalled the adoption of binding greenhouse gas …
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Climate Change and Human Rights. Exploring Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation
… motivation behind a growing global phenomenon of climate change litigation grounded in human rights arguments. Its beginning focuses on uncovering the litigants’ incentives and legal position by studying the interconnectedness of climate change and human rights in their relevant international and …
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Is climate real? A phenomenological approach to climate and its changes
The question if climate is real is occasioned by a discrepancy between the increased certainty that climate change is being experienced and the impossibility of experiencing climate (change) according to the very framework which provides the basis for this certainty: climate science. I trace this …
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Breaking the Loop: Climate-Driven Urbanism for America's Climate Migration Hubs
As sea level rise and other climate impacts force millions across the U.S. to increasingly relocate in coming decades, how receiving cities accommodate this growth will significantly impact future emissions trajectories. This thesis examines the climate migration feedback loop, where climate …
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A new climate for regionalism : metropolitan experiments in climate change adaptation
Climate change threatens the function and even existence of coastal cities, requiring them to adapt by preparing for near-term risks and reorienting long-term development. Most policy and academic interest in the governance of climate adaptation has focused on global, national, and local scales. …
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The implications of potential vorticity homogenization for climate and climate sensitivity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1998.
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Re-Constructing Climate Change: Discourses of the Emerging Movement for Climate Justice
… the discourses surrounding the subject of climate change, with particular emphasis on the discourse(s) of the emerging social movement for climate justice. Positioned within the social constructivist and critical research paradigms, the methodology involves a Foucauldian-inspired discourse …
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Influence of high latitude anomalies on tropical climate phenomena and global climate
… active and very important region of the globe. Climate phenomena such as El Ni˜no (Philander, 1990), the Tropical Atlantic Dipole, and the Indian Ocean Dipole, play an important role in global climate variability. The tropical atmospheric boundary layer is very sensitive to even small changes in …
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Perceptions and Predictions with School Climate: Analyzing the Comprehensive School Climate Inventory
… of variance, data from the Comprehensive School Climate Inventory was used to understand the following: 1.) the predictive ability of student perceptions of safety on overall school climate; 2.) the relationship between geographic location and school climate; and 3.) the predictive ability of …
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Constrained stochastic climate simulation
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1982
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The climate of cities
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1949.
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Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity
… of the past decades. As societal challenges, climate change and urban migration, become more obvious, this phenomenon calls for urgent action. The only path out requires immediate efforts to bring net-carbon emissions to negative numbers. We must provide reliable and clean energy for everyone, …
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Feeling the Climate Crisis
This project visualizes the ongoing climate crisis through the means of kinetic sculptures that are made with found natural objects juxtaposed with electromechanical elements. Together they create movement patterns that express climate data. The project attempts to create an experience that allows …
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