global warming
There will be a special session on "Accelerated Warming at High Elevations: Evidence, Processes, and Future Projections" at the Fall 2013 AGU Meeting in San Francisco (A002 in Atmospheric Sciences).
Deadline for abstract submissions is August 6.
Are mountain regions warming faster than their lower elevation counterparts, and within mountains, is...
The CIPRA compact “Energy” provides an overview on energy use and energy production in the Alps and describes national and regional strategies for climate protection and climate adaptation. Here CIPRA gives its central statement on this issue: if we want to stem earth warming, increasing efficiency is important but not sufficient: we must reduce our consumption of energy services. Renewable...
The effects of global warming will be varied. Many are already being felt and rich nations are taking measures to adapt. Perhaps the first and the worst effects poor people will come about as a result of the rapid melting of mountain glaciers. These effects are highly geo-specific and may be more predictable than other effects of global warming - and are already under way.
Oxfam is...
Global warming affects poor people first and worst. It is a major obstacle to development and poverty alleviation, as well as a serious threat to business supply chains and markets in developing countries. Oxfam believes that companies can help to determine whether the world wins or loses the fight...
The objective of this paper was to organize the information, classify and resolute the altered frequency of climatic types of different micrometeorological stations in Kathamndu valley ( Kakani, Budhanilakantha, Godavari, Khumaltar, Airport, Panipokhari, Nagarkot, Khokana and Thankot). Analyzed data of the stations revealed the prevalence of "C' (humid mesothermal)as the major type of...
Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading causes of global warming. Interest in the potential of avoided deforestation has been growing and solutions to the problems are currently being worked out through the development of proposed mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) called Reducing Emission Thorough Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). This paper argues that...
Global warming is a real, rapidly advancing, and widespread threat facing humanity this century. Climate change is expected to accelerate water cycles and thereby increase the available, renewable freshwater Recent observations suggest that at global scales, rapid environmental changes may be altering the structure, composition and dynamics of forests. Predicted global warming will...
The glaciers in the Blackfoot–Jackson Glacier Basin of Glacier National Park,Montana, decreased in area from 21.6 square kilometres (km2) in 1850 to 7.4 km2 in 1979. Over this same period global temperatures increased by 0.45ºC (± 0.15ºC).
The authors analysed the climatic causes and ecological consequences of glacier retreat by creating spatially explicit models...
Digital elevation models of Gepatschferner in Northern Tyrol, Austria were obtained with digital photogrammetry from high altitude stereo photo pairs and by digitising an analogue topographic glacier map, for 1990 and 1971, respectively. A difference map was calculated to identify regions of glacier elevation increases and decreases corresponding to glacier mass gain and loss. While the...
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