Global warming is a worldwide environmental, social, and economic challenge, with far-reaching implications for human welfare and the health of natural systems. While this qualitative assessment is generally agreed upon by a large share of scientific, policy-making, and stakeholder communities, a ...
In another hundred years or so, the same interests that will benefit now, from “getting us to beg them to take our money,” will be warning of the coming glacial period and “getting us to beg them to take our money.”Then there is the 5000 year period of warming and cooling cycles...
Regarding Australia and New Zealand, water security issues are predicted to worsen with a 1 °C world average warming in the northern and some eastern regions of New Zealand, as well as in southwestern and southeastern Australia, A large portion of southern Australia as well as the northern and...
One strand of recent research has accordingly focused on a search for universal responses to environment, applicable to all (C3) plants. Eco-evolutionary optimality hypotheses12,13,14,15have been invoked in recent efforts to derive general principles for the prediction of plant traits and productivit...
The aim of this study was to estimate the amount of global warming from wood heating in Australia and evaluate ways in which this might be reduced. Methane from the average wood heater in Brisbane, Perth or Sydney is estimated to cause at least as much global warming as gas central heating...
The Paris agreement focused global climate mitigation policy on limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Consequently, projections of hazards and risk are increasingly framed in terms of global warming levels rather than emission scenarios. Here, we use a multimethod ...
Australia's challenge to global warming norms Hayley Stevenson Volume 63, Issue 2, 2009 ‘A diabolical challenge’: public opinion and climate change policy in Australia Juliet Pietsch, et al. Volume 19, Issue 2, 2010 Political divisions over climate change and environmental issues in ...
1 The acceleration of global warming has resulted in 19 of the 20 hottest years occurring after 2000 and an unprecedented frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme temperature events, such as heatwaves, worldwide. Exposure to non-optimal temperatures has been associated with a range of ...
(Supplementary Fig.S14). In particular, in a low emission-scenario most impacts could be removed by adjustment once global temperatures stabilise (Supplementary Fig.S14c, d). However, in scenarios of un-mitigated warming, persistent impacts of considerable size remain despite introducing adjustment ...
Finally, the summer warming efficiency η was obtained as the ratio between the difference in LSWT and the difference in air temperature: 𝜂=Δ𝐿𝑆𝑊𝑇Δ𝐴𝑇η=ΔLSWTΔAT (1) We first computed the warming efficiency of each lake, and then we determined the statistics for the...