Climatology
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Tom Rand

* * * i — An externality is an unaccounted-for cost (or benefit) that hits a third party who didn’t choose to take on that cost (or benefit). Throwing out ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:Bjørn Vassnes

A CLOSER LOOK The Cryosphere Today The factor that determines the size of the cryosphere is which areas experience temperatures below the freezing point of water over the course of ...
( Category: Geology March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:David Archer

Having corrected the MAT data, we can now estimate the SST corrections required to ensure overall compatibility between the land, MAT and SST data by comparing the corrected MAT and ...
( Category: Weather March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-20 | Author:David Toomey

It was mid-December 1944, exactly a week before Christmas. Eighty-six vessels of U.S. Navy Task Force 38 were in the Philippine Sea, 300 miles east of Luzon. There were eight ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Thomas M. Kostigen [Kostigen, Thomas M.]

Ice Stupas Receding glaciers do more than affect sea level rise; they also crimp water supplies. Higher temperatures cause more glacial meltwater that wastes away down rivers and streams during ...
( Category: Green Business March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Thomas M. Kostigen

Ice Stupas Receding glaciers do more than affect sea level rise; they also crimp water supplies. Higher temperatures cause more glacial meltwater that wastes away down rivers and streams during ...
( Category: Green Business March 25,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Toby Ord [ORD, TOBY]

CHOICES I have sketched three dimensions of humanity’s potential: the vistas of time, space and experience that the future holds. My concern has not been to paint a detailed picture, ...
( Category: Philanthropy & Charity March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Kathryn Miles

SANDY IS FORECAST TO BE A LARGE CYCLONE AT OR NEAR HURRICANE INTENSITY THROUGH THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. That’s what John Svendsen most remembers about the forecast advisory ...
( Category: Atmospheric Sciences March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Patrick J. Michaels & Paul C. Knappenberger [Michaels, Patrick J. & Knappenberger, Paul C.]

Typically, a doubling of the air ’s CO2 content above present-day concentrations raises the productivity of most herbaceous plants by about one-third; this positive response occurs in plants that utilize ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:B. Lynn Ingram

FIGURE 25. An ancient tree stump submerged in the West Walker River, eastern Sierra Nevada. (Photo courtesy of D. J. DePaolo, University of California, Berkeley.) By counting the annual growth ...
( Category: Weather March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Moazzem Hossain, Robert Hales & Tapan Sarker

Interruptions or reversals of the fertility transition, such as those in Egypt and Indonesia, are not accommodated in the UN’s population model (O’Sullivan, 2016). The UN’s medium projection continues to ...
( Category: Environmental Economics March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Linsky

Included in Table 8.2 are simulations of stellar winds and the solar wind at different ages (100 Myr and 700 My) and various conditions (for minimum and maximum activity today, ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 22,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-13 | Author:Frank Landis

One other PETM phenomenon has been unearthed: Wyoming dwarfing. After the “carbon isotope excursion,” (CIE) the anomalous peak of carbon-13 that marks the start of the PETM, the animals got ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:William D. Nordhaus

18 CLIMATE POLICY BY BALANCING COSTS AND BENEFITS Chapter 17 concluded that a sensible target for climate-change policy would require balancing abatement costs and climate damages. This approach is often ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-03 | Author:peter langdon ward, ph.d, david bennett laing, peter langdon ward

( Category: Weather March 22,2020 )