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Probabilistic cost estimates for climate change mitigation
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For more than a decade, the target of keeping global warming below 2 6C has been a key focus of the international climate debate1. In response, the scientific c... |
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Carbon Market Lessons and Global Policy Outlook
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Summary: Ongoing work on linking markets and mixing policies builds on successes and failures in pricing and trading carbon. Closing sentence, 1st paragraph: Ar... |
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pollinatorsInCities.pdf
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Commentary: The climate policy narrative for a dangerously warming world
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It is time to acknowledge that global average temperatures are likely to rise above the 2 °C policy target and consider how that deeply troubling prospect shou... |
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Comment: The end of cheap coal
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New forecasts suggest that coal reserves will run out faster than many believe. Energy policies relying on cheap coal have no future, say Richard Heinberg and D... |
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WWF : A CLOSING WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY - GLOBAL GREENHOUSE REALITY 2008
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Scientific evidence accumulating since the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report reveals that global warming is accelerating, at times far beyond projections outlin... |
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Are conservation organizations configured for effective adaptation to global change?
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Conservation organizations must adapt to respond to the ecological impacts of global change. Numerous
changes to conservation actions (eg facilitated ecologica... |
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The New Era Of Climate Risk Disclosure
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In February of this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made clear in no uncertain terms that corporations have a duty to disclose risks faced thr... |
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PNAS-2015-Villa Mart-n-1414.pdf
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Global temperature change
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We conclude that global warming of more than 1°C, relative to 2000, will constitute ‘‘dangerous’’ climate change as judged from likely effects on s... |
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The elephant, the blind, and the intersectoral intercomparison of climate impacts
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1st paragraph: When decision makers discuss anthropogenic climate change, they often ignore the mighty elephant in the room, namely the question of what global ... |
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Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change
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Targets for stabilizing climate change are often based on considerations of the impacts of different levels of global warming, usually assessing the time of rea... |
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Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming
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Lightning plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry and in the initiation of wildfires, but the impact of global warming on lightning rates is poorly con... |
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Global separation of plant transpiration from groundwater and streamflow
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Current land surface models assume that groundwater, streamflow and plant transpiration are all sourced and mediated by the same well mixed water reservoir—th... |
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Untangling human and environmental effects on geographical gradients of mammal species richness: a global and regional evaluation
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1. Different hypotheses (geographical, ecological, evolutionary or a combination of them) have been suggested to account for the spatial variation in species ri... |
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PNASProtectedAreasNotEnough.pdf
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Implications of Limiting CO2 Concentrations for Land Use and Energy
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Limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations to low levels requires strategies to manage anthropogenic carbon emissions from terrestrial systems as ... |
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First signs of carbon sink saturation in European forest biomass
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European forests are seen as a clear example of vegetation rebound in the Northern Hemisphere; recovering in area and growing stock since the 1950s, after centu... |
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Forecasting the response of Earth’s surface to future climatic and land use changes: A review of methods and research needs
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In the future, Earth will be warmer, precipitation events will be more extreme, global mean
sea level will rise, and many arid and semiarid regions will be dri... |
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The Role of Livestock Production in Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles
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This review looks at the role of the livestock sector in carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles from a global perspective and considers impacts at the various stage... |
