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Role of Microplastics in Global Warming and Climate Change: A Review - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution - Springer  (Mar 7) |
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Mar 7 · You have full access to this open access article Microplastics (MPs) have become an important concern among scientists and policymakers all around the globe. Despite this, the contribution of MPs to global warming and climate change, a significant aspect of the issue, has been overlooked. Continuous greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting in climate change have long been a major issue with apparent consequences. Climate change and plastic crises are threatening our planet, and the co-occurrence of both would be catastrophic. This article addressed the links between microplastic pollution and climate change; how MPs contribute to climate change by interacting with water, air, ... Read more ... |
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Climate change threatens global prosperity. The World Bank should help | USAPP - Springer  (Aug 13, 2022) |
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Aug 13, 2022 · Part of a collection: Abstract This study investigates to what extent climate risks can affect foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to developing countries and how their governments may respond to this effect. Using national level data between 2004 and 2018 for 108 countries, we estimate the impacts of two types of climate risks, namely physical risk measured by a vulnerability index and transition risk measured by carbon dioxide damage. The results show that both climate risks reduce FDI inflows during the sample period. We further find that better national governance can alleviate these negative impacts. These findings provide important implications to authorities ... Read more ... |
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Biochar as multi-purpose sustainable technology: experiences from projects in Tanzania | SpringerLink - Springer  (Jun 29, 2020) |
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Jun 29, 2020 · Help us understand how you use our websites. Take part in our 30 minute study now. Abstract Biochar was recently included as a promising negative emissions technology (NET) in the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Unlike other NETs, it can potentially be used to mitigate global climate change while adding to local resilience in countries highly exposed and sensitive to impacts of climate change, such as least-developed countries (LDCs). The study is as an empirical contribution to the, as of yet, underdeveloped literature on deployment of negative emissions technologies in LDCs in general and on biochar ... Read more ... |
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The public remain uninformed and wary of climate engineering | SpringerLink - Springer  (Apr 12, 2020) |
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Apr 12, 2020 · International CO2 emissions reduction commitments are insufficient to avert damaging global warming and imperil a sustainable future. Climate engineering approaches are increasingly proposed as near-term intervention strategies, but deployment of these controversial techniques will require careful engagement with and the support of the public. New quantitative measurements of public perceptions for six climate engineering approaches show that the public of the United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), Australia (AU) and New Zealand (NZ) continue to have little knowledge of climate engineering. All approaches are regarded unfavourably, albeit less so for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) ... Read more ... |
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The effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols on the inter-decadal change of the South China Sea summer monsoon in the late 20th century - Springer  (Feb 22, 2020) |
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Feb 22, 2020 · Analysis of observational precipitation indicates that in last few decades, the precipitation in boreal summer (June–August) over the South China Sea (SCS) exhibited an interdecadal variation, characterized by a decrease of 0.59 mm/day from the period 1964–1981 to the period 1994–2011. Accompanied this decrease in precipitation is weakened monsoon circulation featured by an anti-cyclonic circulation anomaly over the SCS in the later period relative to the early period. This work investigates impacts of anthropogenic forcing changes on this interdecadal change in observations, quantify the relative roles of greenhouse gases (GHG) forcing and anthropogenic aerosol (AA) forcing. A set ... | By Zhongxi Lin Read more ... |
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Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019 | SpringerLink - Springer  (Feb 01, 2020) |
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Feb 01, 2020 · Download to read the full article text Abram, N., and Coauthors, 2019: Framing and context of the report. IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, H.-O. Pörtner et al., Eds. (in press) Behrens, E., D. Fernandez, and P. Sutton, 2019: Meridional oceanic heat transport influences marine heatwaves in the tasman sea on inter-annual to decadal timescales. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 228, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00228. Bindoff, N. L., and Coauthors, 2019: Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities. IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, H.-O. Pörtner et al., Eds. (in ... Read more ... |
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The 2018 Kerala floods: a climate change perspective - Springer  (Jan 18, 2020) |
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Jan 18, 2020 · About 80% of the annual rainfall in India falls during the monsoon season (Parthasarathy et al. 1994) and the Indian population depends on this water for agriculture, hydration, and industry. Any variability in timing, duration and intensity of the monsoon rains have a significant impact on the lives of the people in India. In recent years, several parts of India have experienced devastating flooding events. For example, on 26 July 2005, Mumbai experienced the worst flooding in recorded history when the city received 942 mm of rainfall on a single day (Prasad and Singh 2005). Similarly, on 17 June 2013, the state of Uttarakhand received more than 340 mm of rainfall resulting in ... | By Kieran M R Hunt Read more ... |
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Insurance for the future? Potential avian community resilience in cities across Europe - Springer  (Jan 17, 2020) |
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Jan 17, 2020 · Instant unlimited access to the full article PDF. US$ 39.95 Immediate online access to all issues from 2019. Subscription will auto renew annually. US$ 199 This is the net price. Taxes to be calculated in checkout. References Alberti M, Marzluff JM (2004) Ecological resilience in urban ecosystems: linking urban patterns to human and ecological functions. Urban Ecosyst 7:241–265 Andrew SC, Awasthy M, Griffith AD et al (2018) Clinal variation in avian body size is better explained by summer maximum temperatures during development than by cold winter temperatures. Auk 135:206–217. https://doi.org/10.1642/auk-17-129.1 Aronson MFJ, La Sorte ... | By Federico Morelli Read more ... |
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New Study Finds Blog Comments Influence Readers' Perceptions Of Climate Consensus - Springer  (Dec 11, 2019) |
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Dec 11, 2019 · November 2019, Volume 47, Issue 8, pp 1445–1456 | Cite as Abstract Internet blogs have become an important platform for the discussion of many scientific issues, including climate change. Blogs, and in particular the comment sections of blogs, also play a major role in the dissemination of contrarian positions that question mainstream climate science. The effect of this content on people's attitudes is not fully understood. In particular, it is unknown how the interaction between the content of blog posts and blog comments affects readers' attitudes. We report an experiment that orthogonally varied those two variables using blog posts and comments that either did, or did ... Read more ... |
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Approval of political leaders can slant evaluation of political issues: evidence from public concern for climate change in the USA - Springer  (Dec 09, 2019) |
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Dec 09, 2019 · Climate change has become one of the signature issues that divide the American public. Numerous empirical studies of the past two decades have identified the politicization of this issue. In recent years, the concurrence of rising extreme weather events and uptick in public concern for climate change has led to common speculation that the former may drive up the latter. Using a nationally representative survey dataset combined with climate extremes data including extreme heat, extreme precipitation, and mild drought or worse, we use Structural Equation Modeling to examine how politics and climate extremes altogether shape American public concern for climate change. In addition to ... | By Wanyun Shao Read more ... |
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Modelling the climate, water and socio-economic drivers of farmer exit in the Murray-Darling Basin - Springer  (Dec 03, 2019) |
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Dec 03, 2019 · Absolute farm numbers all over the world have been decreasing over time, and in many countries, this is a source of concern for rural communities. In particular, the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) in Australia has faced considerable change in the form of increased temperatures and drought severity, reduced irrigation water diversions, declining real agricultural commodity prices, and declining rural community services. This study applies spatial regression modelling at the regional level to assess the impact of weather, economic, and water factors on net farmer number changes over a 20-year period from 1991 to 2011, with climate risk measured using data from 1961 onwards. Our analysis ... | By Sarah Ann Wheeler Read more ... |
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The impact of heat exposure on reduced gestational age in pregnant women in North Carolina, 2011–2015 - Springer  (Dec 01, 2019) |
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Dec 01, 2019 · Immediate online access to all issues from 2019. Subscription will auto renew annually. US$ 99 This is the net price. Taxes to be calculated in checkout. Rent this article via DeepDyve. Alberini A, Gans W, Alhassan M (2011) Individual and public-program adaptation: coping with heat waves in five cities in Canada. Int J Environ Res Public Health 8:4679–4701 Auger N, Gamache P, Adam-Smith J, Harper S (2011) Relative and absolute disparities in preterm birth related to neighborhood education. Ann Epidemiol 21(7):481–488 Auger N, Naimi A, Smargiassi A, Lo E, Kosatsky T (2014) Extreme heat and risk of early delivery among preterm and term pregnancies. ... | By Ashley Ward Read more ... |
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Challenges and Opportunities of Bioenergy With Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) for Communities - Springer  (Oct 23, 2019) |
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Oct 23, 2019 · Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports pp 1–7 | Cite as BECCS cannot be viewed on just the community scale without considering how national and global scales influence system design. The limited research relevant to BECCS on the community scale looks at public acceptance or social license, rather than opportunities for communities. Future research can move beyond "social impact" to study "social demand" for BECCS, and identify opportunities for communities along the farm-to-underground or farm-to-product chain. Read more ... |
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How accurately can the climate sensitivity to CO2 be estimated from historical climate change? - Springer  (Oct 10, 2019) |
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Oct 10, 2019 · Climate Dynamics pp 1–29 | Cite as The equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS, in K) to \(\hbox {CO}_{2}\) doubling is a large source of uncertainty in projections of future anthropogenic climate change. Estimates of ECS made from non-equilibrium states or in response to radiative forcings other than \(\hbox {2}\times \hbox {CO}_{2}\) are called "effective climate sensitivity" (EffCS, in K). Taking a "perfect-model" approach, using coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) experiments, we evaluate the accuracy with which \(\hbox {CO}_{2}\) EffCS can be estimated from climate change in the "historical" period (since about 1860). We find that (1) for statistical ... | By J M Gregory Read more ... |
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Fixing the Climate? How Geoengineering Threatens to Undermine the SDGs and Climate Justice | SpringerLink - Springer  (Oct 01, 2019) |
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Oct 01, 2019 · Development pp 1–8 | Cite as Geoengineering—large-scale technological interventions in the Earth's natural processes and ecosystems promoted to counteract some of the symptoms of climate change—threaten to undermine the achievement of SDGs and climate justice. Both Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Radiation Management schemes are bound to exacerbate concomitant socio-ecological and socio-economic global crises, deepen societal dependence on technocratic elites and large-scale technological systems and create new spaces for profit and power for new and old economic elites. Read more ... |
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Reduction of urban heat island and associated greenhouse gas emissions - Springer  (Sep 11, 2019) |
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Sep 11, 2019 · The reduction of urban heat island (UHI) and carbon emission is of great importance for thermal environment of urban residential areas. This paper aimed to establish a method to analyze the effect of different underlying surface layouts on the reduction of heat island intensity and carbon emission. Taking Tianjin, China, as a case study area, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model, satellite-based remote sensing retrieval technology, and orthogonal experimental design were performed to investigate and quantify the performance of mitigation strategies (i.e., urban green space or water body, cool/high reflectivity pavement, and reflective roofs and facades) on UHI. The results ... | By Ruoning Chen Read more ... |
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The impact of temperature on mortality across different climate zones - Springer  (Sep 09, 2019) |
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Sep 09, 2019 · There are numerous studies that have estimated the number of deaths attributable to heat and cold using city-level or provincial-level data. However, none of these studies have assessed temperature-mortality relationships using meteorological climate zones and data that covers an entire population/country. This analysis uses a national data set of death records to create time-series data for different regional aggregations. Temperature-mortality relationships are estimated using this data set of 1,717,224 deaths, which covers the whole of Australia between 2006 and 2017. This paper finds that the majority of deaths related to temperature in Australia are caused by heat. It also ... | By Thomas Longden Read more ... |
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Does it matter if you 'believe' in climate change? Not for coastal home vulnerability - Springer  (Sep 05, 2019) |
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Sep 05, 2019 · Public attitudes toward climate change are the subject of considerable study. An essential and understudied question is whether these attitudes influence public behavior. We answer this question with respect to a particular behavior, action to protect coastal homes from the increasing risk of hurricanes and rising seas. Coastal homeowner behavior is critically important because homeowner risk reduction in most cases is not mandated by government regulations or insurance requirements and instead largely reflects individual voluntary decisions. Analyzing novel data from the 2017 Coastal Homeowner Survey of 662 respondents in one of the most frequently exposed US coastal communities, ... | By Debra Javeline Read more ... |
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The impact of climate change and variability on coffee production: a systematic review - Springer  (Sep 04, 2019) |
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Sep 04, 2019 · Coffee is one of the most important globally traded commodities and substantially contributes to the livelihoods of millions of smallholders worldwide. As a climate-sensitive perennial crop, coffee is likely to be highly susceptible to changes in climate. Using a systematic approach, we explore evidence from the published academic literature of the influence of climate change and variability, specifically drought, on coffee production. A number of mostly negative impacts were reported in the current literature, including declines in coffee yield, loss of coffee-optimal areas with significant impacts on major global coffee-producing countries and growth in the distribution of pest ... | By Yen Pham Read more ... |
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The visual framing of climate change impacts and adaptation in the IPCC assessment reports - Springer  (Aug 14, 2019) |
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Aug 14, 2019 · The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a key source on climate change information. How the IPCC presents and frames this climate information influences how policymakers and various stakeholders worldwide perceive climate change and make decisions accordingly. Visuals are powerful components in this communication. Here, we assess how the visuals (N N | By Arjan Wardekker Read more ... |
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Think globally, act locally: adoption of climate action plans in California - Springer  (Aug 14, 2019) |
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Aug 14, 2019 · California has been a global leader in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The state has set an ambitious goal of reducing GHG to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. The statewide goal cannot be accomplished without the support of local stakeholders. We analyzed over 150 city climate action plans (CAPs) in California and examined their reduction goals. We hypothesized five sets of factors that can explain whether a jurisdiction adopts a plan or not, and what kind of target it sets. We find that size of the city, political ideology, and institutional capacity are related to a higher chance of adopting a climate action plan, while political ideology and air ... | By Iris Hui Read more ... |
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Estimation of heat-related deaths during heat wave episodes in South Korea (2006–2017) - Springer  (Aug 05, 2019) |
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Aug 05, 2019 · International Journal of Biometeorology pp 1–9 | Cite as In 2016, South Korea experienced extremely high temperatures and the Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported 17 heat-caused deaths during these heat waves, most due to heat stroke. Because the reported number of heat-caused deaths is only part of the total deaths associated with heat waves, we aimed to estimate attributable deaths during heat wave episodes. We linked mortality to meteorological data in 16 regions in South Korea and estimated relative risk at or above threshold of maximum temperature during summer using generalized linear regression models after controlling for confounders. ... | By Youn-Hee Lim Read more ... |
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Past and future climate change over the Himalaya–Tibetan Highland: inferences from APHRODITE and NEX-GDDP data - Springer  (Jun 12, 2019) |
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Jun 12, 2019 · The Himalaya–Tibetan Highland (HTH) is highly vulnerable to climate change for multiple reasons. In this work, we present past and future changes in HTH climate, using temperature and precipitation from APHRODITE, CMIP5 and NEX-GDDP. To assess observed climate change, we analysed APHRODITE and found significant warming (up to 3 °C) during all seasons but no significant change in precipitation. We validated CMIP5 and NEX-GDDP against APHRODITE and found the latter more accurate. Future climate projections under RCP8.5 using NEX-GDDP suggest widespread warming (~5–8 °C) and increase in monsoon and post-monsoon precipitation (up to ~50%) over HTH by the end of the twenty-first century. | By Saroj K Mishra Read more ... |
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Climatic change and the rise of the Manchu from Northeast China during AD 1600–1650 - Springer  (Jun 06, 2019) |
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Jun 06, 2019 · The Ming-Qing transition (MQT) was a watershed in Chinese history. Events in three critical regions—North China Plain (NCP), southern Inner Mongolia (IM), and the Liaodong Peninsula (LP)—paved the way for political change in the latter years of the Ming dynasty. These developments occured in part as a response to climate change. Climate in these regions is controlled by topography and monsoon intensity (summer and winter). Here, we compare historical records with multi-proxy temperature and moisture reconstructions to understand the linkage between climate, the rise of the Manchu, and the collapse of the Ming dynasty and Mongolian steppe. In the last decades of the Ming, both the ... | By Jianxin Cui Read more ... |
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Beliefs about climate change in the aftermath of extreme flooding - Springer  (May 31, 2019) |
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May 31, 2019 · When faced with natural disasters, communities respond in diverse ways, with processes that reflect their cultures, needs, and the extent of damage incurred by the community. Because of their potentially recurring nature, floods offer an opportunity for communities to learn from and adapt to these experiences with the goal of increasing resiliency through reflection, modification of former policies, and adoption of new policies. A key component of a community's ability to learn from disaster is how community members perceive the causes of extreme flood events and whether there is risk of future similar events. Perceptions of causes of flooding, including climate change, may be ... | By Elizabeth A Albright Read more ... |
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Heat stress vulnerability and risk at the (super) local scale in six Brazilian capitals - Springer  (May 24, 2019) |
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May 24, 2019 · Brazilian cities host 86% of the country's population and have been more intensely hit by rising temperatures than the average of cities across the world over the last century. Nevertheless, assessments of the vulnerability of Brazilian urban dwellers to urban heat islands (UHI) are scarce. In this study, we take advantage of the availability of high-resolution data to calculate the heat stress vulnerability and risk indexes (HSVI HSRI HDI HSVI HDI HSRI | By David M Lapola Read more ... |
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Assessing the impacts of climate change on biodiversity: is below 2C enough? - Springer  (May 22, 2019) |
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May 22, 2019 · Large changes in biodiversity are expected to occur if climate change continues at its current pace. Adverse effects include changes in species habitats and compositions, and consequently changes in ecosystem functioning. We assessed the magnitude of expected changes of biodiversity by performing a meta-analysis of the responses of species distributions to climate change. We focused on the proportion of local remaining species and their habitats. We summarized 97 studies and calculated two effect-size metrics from their results to quantify changes in biodiversity. These metrics are the fraction of remaining species (FRS) and the fraction of remaining area (FRA) with suitable climate ... | By Sarahi Nunez Read more ... |
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The impact of weather on economic growth and its production factors - Springer  (May 16, 2019) |
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May 16, 2019 · We investigate the influence of weather on countries' GDP and their main components of production, namely total factor productivity, capital stock, and employment. Our panel dataset includes annual observations on 103 countries for the period 1961–2010. We find that the main impacts of weather occur through temperature and drive the growth in GDP. Our results show that, for higher levels of temperature, the poor countries are much more strongly impacted than the rich countries. We also find that weather impacts per capita GDP growth through all its factors of production, with the largest impacts on total factor productivity. Again it is the poor countries for which these impacts are ... | By Martin Henseler Read more ... |
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Substantial increase in minimum lake surface temperatures under climate change - Springer  (May 15, 2019) |
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May 15, 2019 · The annual minimum of lake surface water temperature influences ecological and biogeochemical processes, but variability and change in this extreme have not been investigated. Here, we analysed observational data from eight European lakes and investigated the changes in annual minimum surface water temperature. We found that between 1973 and 2014, the annual minimum lake surface temperature has increased at an average rate of +?0.35 °C decade-1, comparable to the rate of summer average lake surface temperature change during the same period (+?0.32 °C decade-1). Coherent responses to climatic warming are observed between the increase in annual minimum lake surface temperature and the ... | By R Iestyn Woolway Read more ... |
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Tools of the trade: practices and politics of researching the future in climate engineering - Springer  (May 06, 2019) |
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May 06, 2019 · Making sense of the implications of climate engineering approaches (solar radiation management, SRM; and carbon dioxide removal, CDR) at planetary scales occurs via a host of methods that calculate, project, and imagine the future in distinct ways. We take a systemic and synthesizing view of some of the (inter)disciplinary methods by which these futures are derived: climate and integrated assessment modeling, ‘deductive' modes of social science inquiry, deliberative stakeholder engagement, and foresight-based scenarios. We speak to the epistemologies, objectives, and user communities surrounding these research practices, highlighting that different modes of constructing and ... | By Sean Low Read more ... |
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Changes in the spatial pattern of rice exposure to heat stress in China over recent decades - Springer  (Apr 18, 2019) |
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Apr 18, 2019 · Greater than 90% probability that heat waves will increase globally through the twenty-first century, poses a serious threat to China—the world's largest rice producer. Under climate change, understanding whether and how the spatial pattern of rice exposure to heat stress (EHS) in China has changed is urgently required for adaptation optimization; however, it remains unclear. Here, we examined the changes in the area exposed to heat stress and historical movements of the geographical centroid of rice EHS over 1980–2015 across the major irrigated rice-growing areas in mainland China. Our results showed that the rice-planted area exposed to heat stress has generally increased ... | By Pin Wang Read more ... |
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Rich man's solution? Climate engineering discourses and the marginalisation of the Global South - Springer  (Mar 06, 2019) |
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Mar 06, 2019 · Numerous recent studies project that ‘climate engineering' technologies might need to play a major role in the future. Such technologies may carry major risks for developing countries that are often especially vulnerable to, and lack adaptive capacity to deal with, the impacts of such new technologies. In this situation, one would expect that developing countries—especially the least developed countries that are most vulnerable—should play a central role in the emerging discourse on climate engineering. And yet, as this article shows in detail, the discussion about whether and how to engage with these technologies is shaped by experts from just a small set of countries in the Global ... | By Frank Biermann Read more ... |
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Arctic warming amplified by interactive chlorophyll under greenhouse warming - Springer  (Mar 01, 2019) |
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Mar 01, 2019 · It has been shown that the interaction between marine phytoplankton and climate systems may intensify Arctic warming in the future via shortwave heating associated with increased spring chlorophyll bloom. However, the changes of chlorophyll variability and its impact on the Arctic future climate are uncomprehended. Lim et al. (Clim Dyn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4450-6, 2018a) (Part I) suggested that two nonlinear rectifications of chlorophyll variability play cooling role in present-day climate. In this study, we suggest that the decreased interannual chlorophyll variability may amplify Arctic surface warming (+?10% in both regions) and sea ice melting (- 13% and -?10%) ... | By Hyung-Gyu Lim Read more ... |
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Biogeophysical feedback of phytoplankton on Arctic climate. PartII: Arctic warming amplified by interactive chlorophyll under greenhouse warming - Springer  (Mar 01, 2019) |
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Mar 01, 2019 · It has been shown that the interaction between marine phytoplankton and climate systems may intensify Arctic warming in the future via shortwave heating associated with increased spring chlorophyll bloom. However, the changes of chlorophyll variability and its impact on the Arctic future climate are uncomprehended. Lim et al. (Clim Dyn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4450-6 , 2018a) (Part I) suggested that two nonlinear rectifications of chlorophyll variability play cooling role in present-day climate. In this study, we suggest that the decreased interannual chlorophyll variability may amplify Arctic surface warming (+?10% in both regions) and sea ice melting (- 13% and -?10%) ... | By Hyung-Gyu Lim Read more ... |
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