Extreme weather events Climate change Agricultural adaptation Food production Farm management Risk perception The Netherlands Rhine delta 1. Introduction The agricultural sector is adversely and extensively impacted by global climate change (CC) manifest by extreme weather events (EWEs), such as intense ra...
Hello and welcome to my blog. There's lots said about why climate change now confronts us, and what it means, but the real issue is what to do about it. Plenty is said about that too, but there's not enough discussion on the practical aspects of implementation. Focusing on energy, th...
finding significant errors, inconsistencies and other shortcomings. Lewis remedied these shortcomings and also revised key input data, almost entirely to reflect more recent evidence. The results of Lewis’ analysis determined alikelyrange of 1.75 to 2.7oC for climate sensitivity. The central estimate...
Climate change has already had a significant impact on both tangible and intangible cultural heritage globally. Climate change-induced impacts on tangible cultural heritage include historic buildings being damaged by increasing sea levels, and harm caused to coral reefs as a result of increased water ...
Increasing risk over time of weather-related hazards to the European population: A data-driven prognostic study. Lancet Planet. Health 2017, 1, e200–e208. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Liu, D.; Wang, T.; Yang, T.; Yan, Z.; Liu, Y.; Zhao, Y.; Piao, S. Deciphering ...
Why We Are Exaggerating “Extreme Weather” Skeptic Summaries Presentation: The Science of the Skeptic Position CO2 Abatement,Cross-posted from CoyoteBlog My Climate Plan, Wherein a Climate Skeptic Actually Advocates for A Carbon Tax March 18, 20166 Comments ...
In the ensuing discussion, Peter Webster mentioned the substantial drop in deaths from storms, which can be attributed to greatly improved weather forecasts. Ben’s controversial remarks about NGOs went unchallenged until, near the end of the discussion, panel member Maurice Frankel (famous for his...
But one day there was an extreme storm, a black swan event, in which an extraordinary concurrence of weather features came together to produce a huge influx of water that drove the water level behind the dam to 24 ft, overtopping the dam and doing immense damage to the city (see below)...
Is Space Weather hitting you? Because AT&T allegedly “goofed up” the other day and their mobile network went splat into the dirt, some journalists claimed incorrectly it was due to a major X-Class flare (which it was not). I’m not going to go into the details of why as the physics...
Climate refers to the short-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country. Answer Key False, because the correct statement is: Climate refers to weather patterns over the course of years, decades, even centuries. True True True True True ...