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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"”.
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Taking responsibility for climate knowledge in a warming world: Exploring responsibility assembled in and around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This thesis interrogates what it means for expert climate knowledge holders to take responsibility for what they know in a warming world. ‘Responsibility’ in the context of climate change is often invoked around historical responsibility for emissions and cause-effect relations. However, conceptual …
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Modeling change : a case study comparison of biosphere reserve governance in Canada and the United Kingdom
Climate change is inevitable. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has forewarned the global community of the consequences of unrestrained burning of fossil fuels (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2011, para. 2). Until there is an economically viable source of alternative …
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Ahead of the Storm: Implications of Changing Parameters in U.S. Tropical Cyclone Likelihood and Damage Estimation Models in the Face of Global Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports tropical cyclones have been occurring with increasing intensity as a result of global climate change. We examine these projections using stochastic modeling of tropical cyclone frequency and damages over two time periods in the United …
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The place of international law and relevant bodies in addressing climate change displacement – the move towards cooperation
Anthropogenic climate change is no longer a debate. The Summary for Policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report states ‘it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.’ …
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Trade and the environment : the political economy of CO₂ emission leakage with analysis of the steel and oil sands industries
Introduction: In 2007, scientists and governmental officials from around the world contributed to the United Nations-authorized Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report. Through peer-reviewed scientific research and governmental review, the IPCC came to the …
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United States Land Cover Land Use Change, Albedo and Radiative Forcing: Past and Potential Climate Implications
<p>Land Cover Land Use (LCLU) change affects Earth surface properties including albedo that impose a radiative forcing on the climate. Recent spatially explicit satellite derived contemporary LCLU, albedo, and projected LCLU data are used to study the impact of LCLU change from 1973 to 2000, and …
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Klimawirkung von Kondensstreifen: Untersuchungen mit einem globalen atmosphärischen Zirkulationsmodell
A parameterization of line-shaped contrails for use within the framework of a general circulation model (ECHAM) was developed for the first time. Contrail coverage, optical properties and radiative forcing are calculated at any model time step depending in a physically based manner on the …
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Climate Literacy as an Emerging Concept in Science Education
Climate change represents one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2023) predicts considerable risks for global communities in the coming decades. In this context, education is regarded as a pivotal source of hope. Both the …
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Development of a Higher-Order Ice Sheet Model Using a Rescaled Coordinate System
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated between 9 and 88 cm of sea level rise over the next hundred years. Of this, only negative 19 to 11 cm is attributed to the largest ice masses on the planet, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Over the last decade, dramatic …
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Development of a Higher-Order Ice Sheet Model Using a Rescaled Coordinate System
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated between 9 and 88 cm of sea level rise over the next hundred years. Of this, only negative 19 to 11 cm is attributed to the largest ice masses on the planet, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Over the last decade, dramatic …
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Sea level change in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, southern British Columbia : implications for the interpretation of nearshore archaeological features
Sea level along the B.C. coastline has changed dramatically over the past 10,000 years due to isostatic rebound following deglaciation from the Fraser Glaciation (Clague & James, 2002). In the future, sea levels globally are also predicted to rise according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
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The Effects of Anthropogenic Warming on Changes of Extreme Precipitation Over Kansas City Metropolitan Area
When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report Global Warming of 1.5°C was released in 2018 it postulated about the devastating effects of a 2° C increase in global temperature, based on projections of coarse resolution global climate models (GCMs). While GCMs are useful …
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Evaluating the Time of Emergence of Heat Waves using Different Definitions
… extremes do not analyze how varying the definition of heat waves contribute to emergence. Using daily resolution of 10 CMIP6 era General Circulation Models forced by the SSP2-4.5 warming scenario, we evaluate the frequency of two definitions presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
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Laser-based method for black carbon determination in lake sediment cores and black carbon deposition in Greenland since 300 CE
Black carbon (BC) is a conservative tracer for industrial combustion and open biomass burning that has a significant contribution to Earth's radiative budget. Because BC is a dark, light-absorbing particle, BC is estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to have a forcing of …
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Design and Optimization of Post-Combustion CO2 Capture
This dissertation describes the design and optimization of a CO2-capture unit using aqueous amines to remove of carbon dioxide from the flue gas of a coal-fired power plant. In particular we construct a monolithic model of a carbon capture unit and conduct a rigorous optimization to find the lowest …
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Predicting Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) Range Expansion Near Missoula Montana Using Localized Climate and Elevation Data
… this plant species dominated more than five million acres in Montana, half of the total infestation of noxious weeds in the state. This project demonstrates the utility of using downscaled Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) data for predicting vegetation movement …
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Predicting Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) Range Expansion Near Missoula Montana Using Localized Climate and Elevation Data
… this plant species dominated more than five million acres in Montana, half of the total infestation of noxious weeds in the state. This project demonstrates the utility of using downscaled Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) data for predicting vegetation movement …
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O discurso das mudanças climáticas globais abordadas nos livros didáticos de Geografia da Coleção Projeto Araribá.
… he performs as disseminator of ideas and concepts aims of this research was to identify the reading that it brings about the issue, either through texts properly said, reading suggestions or pictures. Knowledge on Climate Change is still living in the field of uncertainty, so it will be …
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Assessment of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production Potential Using Crop Allocation Optimization
Sustainable aviation Fuel (SAF) has been recognized as a viable solution in the near to medium future for decreasing carbon emissions in the aviation industry. Global SAF production, however, is limited and falls well short of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) goal to achieve …
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Battle for the dinner table: Can vegan analogues curb America’s reliance on meat?
As demand for meat continues to rise, globally, the livestock industry produces an estimated 14.5% of manmade greenhouse gas emissions –– more than two-thirds of which come from cattle. Meat production requires roughly three-fourths of the world’s agricultural land and heavy crop and water usage, …
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