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The Role Of Global Land Use In Determining Greenhouse Gases Mitigation Costs, Thomas Hertel, Huey-Lin Lee, Steven Rose, Brent Sohngen

GTAP Working Papers

This paper develops a CGE model with unique regional land types and detailed non-CO2 GHG emissions which it uses to analyze the potential for reductions in land-based greenhouse gas emissions as well as forest sequestration. In our global, general equilibrium analysis of carbon taxation, we find that forest carbon sequestration is the dominant means for global GHG emissions reduction in the land using sectors. However, when compared to the rest of the world, emissions abatement in the US comes disproportionately from agriculture, and, within agriculture, disproportionately from reductions in fertilizer-related emissions (primarily in maize production). In the world as a …

Module 1: Meteorology And Climatology - Project: Training Educators For The Development Of Educational Activities On Climate Change, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This document provides educators with a a very detailed introduction to climate change and explanations of various phenomena with which it is associated.

Module 4: Effects Of Climate Change - Project: Training Educators For The Development Of Educational Activities On Climate Change, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This document provides information and detailed descriptions of the effects that climate change has the humans and natural phenomena.

Sequential Work Analysis, Tania Vázquez V.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This PDF of a Powerpoint presentation identifies the teaching objectives of the national Climate Change Module (1-6) curriculum in Bolivia.

Module 6: Educational Guides For Teaching Climate Change Modules To High School Students - Project: Training Educators For The Development Of Educational Activities On Climate Change, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This document serves as an educational guide, providing suggestions and objectives for teaching Modules 1-5 on Climate Change.

Module 4: Graphs And Images From The Energética Curriculum, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This is a PDF of the images and graphs (excluding photos) from Module 4 of the Bolivian national ENERGÉTICA Curriculum on climate change, titled ""Efectos de Cambio Climático"" / ""Effects of Climate Change"", which can be used as supplementary materials for classrooms.

Module 5: Graphs And Images From The Energética Curriculum, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This is a PDF of the images and graphs (excluding photos) from Module 5 of the Bolivian national ENERGÉTICA Curriculum on climate change, titled ""Haciendo frente al Cambio Climático"" / ""Addressing Climate Change"", which can be used as supplementary materials for classrooms.

Carbon Dioxide And Climate Changes, Gregorio Marbán, Ana Arenillas, Ángeles Gómez Borrego, Teresa Valdés-Solís Iglesias, Marta Álvarez Rodríguez, Jesús M. Arrieta López De Uralde, Alexandra Coello Camba, Carlos M. Duarte Quesada, Neus Garcías Bonet, Núria Marbà Bordalba, Aurore Regaudie De Gioux, Sergio Ruiz Halpern, María Sánchez Camacho, Raquel Vaquer Suñer, Roberto Martínez Orio, Isabel Suárez Díaz, Ignacio Cruz Cruz, Diego Martínez Plaza, Fernanda Sánchez Ojanguren

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This short guide is divided into four sections. Each one provides an explanation of climate change and how it affects the following: ecosystems; our role as global citizens; our daily habits; the problems associated with the current energy sector; possible clean energy alternatives; and the challenge of transportation.

Module 3: Causes Of Climate Change - Project: Training Educators For The Development Of Educational Activities On Climate Change, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This document provides detailed explanations and information about the natural and human causes of climate change.

Module 5: Addressing Climate Change - Project: Training Educators For The Development Of Educational Activities On Climate Change, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This document addresses both global and national (Bolivian) responses to climate change and how to appropriately address it; includes cases studies documented in Bolivia.

Module 1: Graphs And Images From The Energética Curriculum, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This PDF contains all of the images and graphs (excluding photos) from Module 1 of the ENERGÉTICA Curriculum, titled ""Meteorología y Climatología"", which can be used as supplementary materials for classrooms.

Module 2: Graphs And Images From The Energética Curriculum, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This is a PDF of the images and graphs (excluding photos) from Module 2 of the Bolivian national ENERGÉTICA Curriculum on climate change, titled ""Efecto Invernadero"" / ""Greenhouse Gas Effect"", which can be used as supplementary materials for classrooms.

Brochure Of The Climate Change Curriculum Development Guide For Educators Project, Energética - Energía Para El Desarrollo

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This is a PDF version of a two page overview of the national Bolivian ENERGÉTICA high school level curriculum on climate change. It can be printed off, folded in thirds, and utilized in pamphlet form.

Module 3: Graphs And Images From The Energética Curriculum, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This is a PDF of the images and graphs (excluding photos) from Module 3 of the Bolivian national ENERGÉTICA Curriculum on climate change, titled ""Causas de Cambio Climático"" / ""Causes of Climate Change"", which can be used as supplementary materials for classrooms.

Interaction Of Ice Storms And Management Practices On Current Carbon Sequestration In Forests With Potential Mitigation Under Future Co2 Atmosphere, Heather R. Mccarthy, Ram Oren, Hyun-Seok Kim, Kurt H. Johnsen, Chris Maier, Seth G. Pritchard, Micheal Davis

Faculty Publications

[1] Ice storms are disturbance events with potential impacts on carbon sequestration. Common forest management practices, such as fertilization and thinning, can change wood and stand properties and thus may change vulnerability to ice storm damage. At the same time, increasing atmospheric CO₂ levels may also influence ice storm vulnerability. Here we show that a nonintensively managed pine plantation experienced a ∼250 g C m⁻² reduction in living biomass during a single storm, equivalent to ∼30% of the annual net ecosystem carbon exchange of this ecosystem. Drawing on weather and damage survey data from the entire storm cell, …

Climate Variability Has A Stabilizing Effect On The Coexistence Of Prairie Grasses, Peter B. Adler, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Phaedon C. Kyriakidis, Qingfeng Guan, Jonathan M. Levine

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

How expected increases in climate variability will affect species diversity depends on the role of such variability in regulating the coexistence of competing species. Despite theory linking temporal environmental fluctuations with the maintenance of diversity, the importance of climate variability for stabilizing coexistence remains unknown because of a lack of appropriate long-term observations. Here, we analyze three decades of demographic data from a Kansas prairie to demonstrate that interannual climate variability promotes the coexistence of three common grass species. Specifically, we show that (i) the dynamics of the three species satisfy all requirements of ‘‘storage effect’’ theory based on recruitment …

Hazards, Climate Change And Extreme Weather Events, Christian Jaedicke, Kalle Kronholm, Anders Solheim, Ketil Isaksen, Dagrun Vikhamar, Kari Sletten, Lars Harald Blikra, Asgeir Sorteberg, Asbjørn Aaheim

Geohazards

Geohazards are events related to geological features and processes that cause loss of life and severe damage to property and the natural and built environment. The most common and destructive geohazards in Norway are snow avalanches, clay-, debris- and rock slides, and floods, which together caused more than 2000 deaths during the last 150 years. Statistically, about 10 large slides and avalanches are expected to occur in Norway the next 50-100 years, each with possibly 20-100 deaths, unless preventive planning and actions are made. In addition to the loss of lives, geohazards pose a large impact on infrastructure and the …

Integrated Database For Rapid Mass Movements In Norway, Christian Jaedicke, Karstein Lied, Halvor Juvet, Kalle Kronholm

Geohazards

Rapid mass movements include all kinds of slides in geological material, snow or ice. Traditionally, information about such events is collected separately in different databases covering selected geographical regions and event types. In Norway the terrain is susceptible to all types of rapid mass movements ranging from single rocks hitting roads and houses to large avalanches and huge rock falls where entire mountainsides collapse into fjords creating flood waves and endangering large areas. In addition, quick clay slides occur in desalinated marine sediments in south eastern and mid Norway. For the authorities and inhabitants of endangered areas, the type of …

Agenda: Climate Change And The Future Of The American West: Exploring The Legal And Policy Dimensions, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9)

Sponsors: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; BP America; Holland & Hart; Patrick, Miller & Krope, P.C.; The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Rocky Mountain Natural Resource Center of the National Wildlife Federation, Western Water Assessment.

Exploring the legal and political dimensions that climate change will bring to the American West will be the focus of the CU-Boulder Natural Resources Law Center's 27th Annual Summer Conference.

Titled "Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions," the conference will be held June 7-9 at the Fleming Law Building on the University of Colorado at …

Climate Scenarios For California, Edwin P. Maurer, Michael Dettinger, Daniel Cayan, Mary Tyree, Katherine Hayhoe, Celine Bonfils, Philip B. Duffy, Benjamin Santer

Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering

Possible future climate changes in California are investigated from a varied set of climate change model simulations. These simulations, conducted by three state-of-the-art global climate models, provide trajectories from three greenhouse gas (GHG) emission scenarios. These scenarios and the resulting climate simulations are not “predictions,” but rather are a limited sample from among the many plausible pathways that may affect California’s climate. Future GHG concentrations are uncertain because they depend on future social, political, and technological pathways, and thus the IPCC has produced four “families” of emission scenarios. To explore some of these uncertainties, emissions scenarios A2 (a medium-high emissions) …

Ambassadors Of The Bay: 2005 Final Report, Maine Sea Grant College Program

Maine Sea Grant Publications

The MDI Water Quality Coalition has been working with citizens on water quality related projects in Frenchman Bay since 1997. Over the last decade, many issues of concern to the residents and users of the bay have come up. These issues include polluted runoff from paved streets and parking lots, increasing development in the upper reaches of coastal watersheds as well as right on the shoreline, nutrient enrichment of bays, over harvesting of marine resources, shifting of mussel harvesting techniques to aquaculture, building of piers, increasing visitation by cruise ships, contamination of swim areas, declining eelgrass populations, shoreline erosion, and …

Some Like It Wet – Biological Characteristics Underpinning Tolerance Of Extreme Water Stress Events In Antarctic Bryophytes., J. Wasley, Sharon A. Robinson, C. E. Lovelock, M. Popp

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Antarctic bryophyte communities presently tolerate physiological extremes in water availability, surviving both desiccation and submergence events. This study investigated the relative ability of three Antarctic moss species to tolerate physiological extremes in water availability and identified physiological, morphological, and biochemical characteristics that assist species performance under such conditions. Tolerance of desiccation and submergence was investigated using chlorophyll fluorescence during a series of field- and laboratory-based water stress events. Turf water retention and degree of natural habitat submergence were determined from gametophyte shoot size and density and ?13C signatures respectively. Finally, compounds likely to assist membrane structure and function during desiccation …

Historical Glacier And Climate Fluctuations At Mount Hood, Oregon, Karl Lillquist, Karen Walker

Geography Faculty Scholarship

Terminus fluctuations of five glaciers and the correspondence of these fluctuations to temperature and precipitation patterns were assessed at Oregon's Mount Hood over the period 1901–2001. Historical photographs, descriptions, and climate data, combined with contemporary GPS measurements and GIS analysis, revealed that each glacier experienced overall retreat, ranging from −62 m at the Newton Clark Glacier to −1102 m at the Ladd Glacier. Within this overall trend, Mount Hood's glaciers experienced two periods each of retreat and advance. Glaciers retreated between 1901 and 1946 in response to rising temperatures and declining precipitation. A mid-century cool, wet period led to glacier …

Loop Current Warming By Hurricane Wilma, Lie-Yauw Oey, Tal Ezer, Dong-Ping Wang, S. J. Fan, Xun-Qiang Yin

CCPO Publications

Hurricanes mix and cool the upper ocean, as shown here in observations and modeling of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico during the passage of hurricane Wilma. Curiously, the upper ocean around the Loop Current warmed prior to Wilma's entrance into the Gulf. The major cause was increased volume and heat transports through the Yucatan Channel produced by storm-induced convergences in the northwestern Caribbean Sea. Such oceanic variability may have important impacts on hurricane predictions.

Responding To Climate Change In Nunavut: Policy Recommendations, James Ford, Johanna Wandel

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Climate Change And Its Effects On Polar Bears, Alex C. Jospe, Bethany C. Peck, Emily Sinnott

Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

Polar bears are key indicators of the effects of climate change on the arctic ecosystem, because their existence is directly related to the sea ice habitat, where they hunt. As the Arctic continues to warm, their habitat will be reduced further and local extinction is likely to occur, especially in southern populations.

Uncertainty, Climate Change And Nuclear Power, David M. Hassenzahl

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications

Long time-horizon environmental risks with potential for global impacts have increased in visibility over the past several decades. Such issues as climate change, the nuclear fuel cycle, persistent synthetic chemicals, and stratospheric ozone depletion share some characteristics, including intergenerational impacts, strongly decoupled incidence of risks and benefits, substantial decision stakes and extreme uncertainty. What is not well understood are the similarities and differences among sources and implications of uncertainty among these global environmental threats, especially those associate with current and future human behavior. This describes the uncertainties associated with managing two global concerns: the nuclear (fission) fuel cycle and anthropogenic …

Migration Out Of 1930s Rural Eastern Oklahoma: Insights For Climate Change Research, Robert Mcleman

Great Plains Quarterly

I undertook an investigation of how rural populations responded to a period of adverse climatic conditions in rural eastern Oklahoma during the 1930s, with particular interest in those households that adapted by migrating to rural California. This is not the first time that 19305 Oklahoma has been the subject of research into how people and communities adapt to difficult environmental conditions. In the wake of a 1985 conference entitled "Social Adaptation to Semi-Arid Environments" at the Center for Great Plains Studies in Lincoln, Great Plains Quarterly presented a series of papers by well-known scholars exploring human-environment interactions that gave rise …

Climate Change Curriculum Development Guide For Educators, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This Powerpoint identifies existing challenges encountered in teaching about climate change in Bolivia; objectives of the national educational project of teaching about climate change; outlines the expected results and impact; and the general strategy of the project. In addition, it also provides additional visuals from each of the teaching modules.

Letter Written In The Year 2070, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This is a PDF version of a Powerpoint presentation to be used in the classroom. It conceptualizes the world in the future (2070), where water is scarce and how climate change has affected the quality of life for all living things. The presentation is also available as a Word document (just text).