Download or read book Projections for Canada s Climate Future written by Canadian Climate Centre and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Data and Scenarios for Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many aspects of Canada's infrastructure, economy, and ecology are directly affected by climate variability and change. Observations provide information about historical climate and therefore the 'baseline' against which future change is compared. Future climate change information, needed to assess future impacts, plan adaptation measures, and develop mitigation policy, cannot be reliably obtained by extrapolation of observed historical changes. Quantitative longer-term applications of climate information require model-based projections driven by a range of greenhouse gas emission scenarios. This document provides a brief overview of the most up-to-date analysis of historical climate observations and future climate projections focusing specifically on Canada. The information presented here builds upon, and is fully consistent with, the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I (IPCC, 2013). The current document is intended as a resource for dissemination of climate information with a specific focus on historical and future climate change across Canada. It is not intended to serve as a definitive reference or complete characterization, and readers are directed to the underlying data sources for more detailed and quantitative analyses specific to their climate impact, adaptation, or environmental assessment context.
Download or read book Projections du climat futur du Canada written by Henry Hengeveld and published by Environnement Canada. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document provides the Canadian climate impacts research community, policy makers and the general public with a summary of recent results from climate change experiments undertaken with the first version of the Canadian coupled climate model, describes how they were achieved, and discusses both their credibility and limitations. The model, known as CGCM1, is made up of four key components: an atmospheric general circulation model, an ocean general circulation model, a thermodynamic sea ice model, and a land surface model.
Download or read book Projections of Future Physical and Biogeochemical Conditions in Hudson and Baffin Bays from CMIP5 Global Climate Models written by Diane Lavoie and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Climate Change written by Henry Hengeveld and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first four chapters of this report summarize current scientific understanding of climate change and its global impact. Data in these chapters are mainly derived from the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and key scientific papers published in the international peer-reviewed literature in recent years. Topics covered in these chapters include the natural global climate system, the climatic balance, climates of the past, the greenhouse effect, prediction of future climate, and the impacts of a warmer world on ecosystems, coastal regions, resources, health, & security. Chapter 5 focusses on the many possible impacts of a warmer climate on Canada, including impacts on forests, agriculture, water resources, fisheries, coastal zones, transportation, health, and energy production. The final chapter discusses how people can respond to climate change issues.
Download or read book From Impacts to Adaptation written by and published by Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations. This book was released on 2008 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses current and future risks and opportunities that climate change presents to Canada, with a focus on human and managed systems. Based on analysis of existing knowledge.
Download or read book Canada s Top Climate Change Risks written by The Expert Panel on Climate Change Risks and Adaptation Potential and published by Council of Canadian Academies. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada’s Top Climate Change Risks identifies the top risk areas based on the extent and likelihood of the potential damage, and rates the risk areas according to society’s ability to adapt and reduce negative outcomes. These 12 major areas of risk are: agriculture and food, coastal communities, ecosystems, fisheries, forestry, geopolitical dynamics, governance and capacity, human health and wellness, Indigenous ways of life, northern communities, physical infrastructure, and water. The report describes an approach to inform federal risk prioritization and adaptation responses. The Panel outlines a multi-layered method of prioritizing adaptation measures based on an understanding of the risk, adaptation potential, and federal roles and responsibilities.
Download or read book Projections of Future Physical and Biogeochemical Conditions in the Northwest Atlantic from CMIP5 Global Climate Models written by Diane Lavoie and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Normal written by University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian Prairies in a Changing Climate is a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of climate change in the prairie provinces, the impacts on natural resources, communities, human health and sectors of the economy, and the adaptation options that are available for alleviating adverse impacts and taking advantage of new opportunities provided by a warmer climate.
Download or read book High Resolution Regional Climate Downscaling and Probabilistic Projection for Impact Assessment A Canadian Case Study written by Xiuquan Wang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human-induced climate change has been regarded as one of the most pressing issues around the world because it often leads to severe, widespread, and irreversible consequences. Assessing the potential impacts of climate change is essential and critical for developing appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies against the changing climate. In this research, a series of approaches and methodologies have been proposed for dealing with the challenges in climate change impact assessment due to the lack of highresolution climate projections and the difficulty in quantifying the uncertainties associated with future climate projections. The proposed approaches and methodologies have been applied to the Province of Ontario, Canada to demonstrate their effectiveness in generating probabilistic and high-resolution regional climate scenarios. Specifically, a new statistical downscaling tool, named SCADS, has been developed to help perform rapid development of downscaled scenarios under current and future climate forcing conditions. The SCADS uses a cluster tree to effectively deal with continuous and discrete variables, as well as nonlinear relations between large-scale atmospheric variables and local surface ones. A hybrid downscaling approach by coupling the PRECIS model and the SCADS model has been proposed to construct high resolution climate projections for studying climate change impacts at local scales. The coupled approach was applied for projecting the future climate over Ontario at a fine resolution of 10 km. A Bayesian hierarchical model has been developed to quantify the uncertainties of regional climate projections in a statistical framework based upon a limited number of explicit assumptions for prior distributions. By feeding the observations for current climate and the PRECIS ensemble simulations into the Bayesian model, probabilistic projections of future climatic changes over Ontario have been developed. The likely changes in temperature and precipitation as well as extreme precipitation events across the Province of Ontario were evaluated to help understand its local climate's response to global warming. A public climate change data portal, named Ontario CCDP, have been established to ensure impact researchers and decision makers have free access to the high-resolution climate projections, thus supporting further impact studies and development of climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Download or read book Climate Change Projections for Ontario written by Stephen John Colombo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And Resume -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Methods -- Climate Projections -- Southern Ontario -- Northeastern Ontario -- Northwestern Ontario -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References.
Download or read book Estimates written by National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change and the Future Fire Environment in Ontario written by Mike Wotton and published by Sault Ste Marie : Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Applied Research and Development. This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increased fi re load is expected to increase the cost of fi re management in the province 16% by the year 2040 and 54% by the year 2090 over year 2000 costs, exclusive of infl ation or other factors. [...] In addition to increases in seasonal fi re severity indices, a number of these studies also predict increases in the frequency of occurrence of extreme fi re danger in some areas of the country (e.g., Stocks et al. [...] This study uses lightning- and people-caused fi re occurrence models developed specifi cally for Ontario with GCM projections of future climate and Ontario's level of protection analysis software, LEOPARDS (see McAlpine and Hirsch 1999) to estimate the impacts of climate change on the fi re management organization both in terms of numbers of escaped fi res and with respect to changes in operationa [...] The sites of the GCM grid cell centres and OMNR weather stations used are shown in Figure 1. Fire Weather and Fire Danger To create the fi re climate of a future decade, the monthly anomalies were applied to the daily data from the OMNR fi re weather station archive from the years 1992-2001 (corresponding to the period over which lightning records were available). [...] The Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System (Forestry Canada Fire Danger Group 1992) was used in conjunction with the Initial Spread Index (ISI), the Build-up Index (BUI) (calculated on the detection date of the fi re using the FWI System), and the fuel type associated with the fi re to estimate an initial rate of spread for each fi re.
Download or read book Canada and Climate Change written by William Leiss and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experience. The federal government recently announced aggressive climate targets for Canada. We have committed to producing net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, which will require major changes for our economy and way of life. Canadian citizens need to understand why our most distinguished climate scientists and our senior political leaders think that we must meet this target. Canada and Climate Change explains the importance of policies that will ensure we meet the net-zero emissions target. William Leiss provides a firm grasp on what climate change is and how scientists have described shifts in the earth’s climate as they have occurred over hundreds of millions of years and as they are likely to occur in the near future, especially by the end of this century. Leiss argues that citizens have a right to place their trust in what climate scientists tell us. Canada and Climate Change is an essential primer on where we stand on the issue of climate change in Canada and what will unfold in the years ahead.
Download or read book Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 written by Anita Engels and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many countries, communities, and social actors around the world are struggling to cope with the impacts of climate change. Adapting to climate change in a sustainable manner involves a huge collective effort and is barely happening. How can sustainable climate change adaptation become plausible? The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 provides a unique systematic and global assessment of the context conditions for sustainable climate change adaptation, evaluating the social dynamics of deep decarbonization and the physical dynamics in regional climate variability and extremes. Through nine case studies across the globe, the assessment provides insights into key barriers and opportunities for sustainable climate change adaptation.
Download or read book The Future We Choose written by Christiana Figueres and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cautionary but optimistic book about the world’s changing climate and the fate of humanity, from Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac—who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015. The authors outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement’s climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero emissions. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination and optimism. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster.
