Cross-cutting Research Archives - Page 12 of 12

Integrated Model Shows that Atmospheric Brown Clouds and Greenhouse Gases Have Reduced Rice Harvests in India

Published:December 2006

Author(s):Maximilian Auffhammer, V. Ramanathan, Jeffrey R. Vincent

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America

This study suggests that adverse climate changes due to brown clouds and greenhouse gases contributed to the slowdown in harvest growth that occurred during the past two decades.Read More →

Climate Agreements Based on Responsibility for Global Warming: Periodic Updating, Policy Choices, and Regional Costs

Published:January 2006

Author(s):Nathan Rive, Asbjørn Torvanger, Jan S. Fuglestvedt

Publisher:Global Environmental Change

This article explores regional mitigation costs resulting from global allocation schemes based on the Brazilian Proposal, and assess policy options available for calculating historical responsibility. Read More →

Navigating the Numbers: Greenhouse Gas Data and International Climate Policy

Published:December 2005

Author(s): Tim Herzog, Jonathan Pershing, Kevin A. Baumert

Publisher:World Resources Institute

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the world's greenhouse gas emissions at the global, national, sectoral, and fuel levels and identifies implications of the data for international cooperation on global climate change.Read More →

Detecting the Effect of Climate Change on Canadian Forest Fires

Published:September 2004

Author(s):N. P. Gillett, A. J. Weaver, F. W. Zwiers, M. D. Flannigan.

Publisher:Geophysical Research Letters

This report shows that human‐induced climate change has had a detectable influence on the area burned by forest fire in Canada over recent decades. Read More →

Ethics and Global Climate Change

Published:April 2004

Author(s):Stephen Gardiner

Publisher:Ethics

This article argues that climate change is an issue that should be of serious concern to both moral philosophers and humanity at large.Read More →

Introduction: An Architecture for Climate Protection

Published:January 2002

Author(s):Kevin A. Baumert, Nancy Kete

Publisher:Building on the Kyoto Protocol: Options for Protecting the Climate

This chapter describes the issue of climate change and addressing it and probes the key architectural elements that could collectively constitute an international climate protection architecture. Read More →

Optimal Fingerprints for the Detection of Time-Dependent Climate Change

Published:October 1993

Author(s):K. Hasselmann

Publisher:Journal of Climate

This paper details the application of optimal fingerprints to detect time-dependent, multivariable climate change signal in the presence of natural climate variability noise. Read More →

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Published:May 1992

Author(s):United Nations

This document outlines the objectives of the 1992 UNFCCC. Read More →

Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment

Published:July 1979

Author(s):Ad Hoc Study Group on Carbon Dioxide and Climate

Publisher:National Academy of Sciences

This report assesses the scientific basis for projection of possible future climatic changes resulting from man-made releases of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.Read More →

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