climate sensitivity

  • 1Climate sensitivity — is a measure of how responsive the temperature of the climate system is to a change in the radiative forcing. It is usually expressed as the temperature change associated with a doubling of the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth s… …

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  • 2Climate change mitigation scenarios — are possible futures in which global warming is reduced by deliberate actions, such as a comprehensive switch to energy sources other than fossil fuels. A typical mitigation scenario is constructed by selecting a long range target, such as a… …

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  • 3Climate change and agriculture — are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale.[1] Global warming is projected to have significant impacts on conditions affecting agriculture, including temperature, carbon dioxide, glacial run off, precipitation and the… …

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  • 4Climate change in Australia — Climate change has become a major issue in Australia due to drastic climate events since the turn of the 21st century that have focused government and public attention.[1] Rainfall in Australia has increased slightly over the past century,… …

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  • 5Climate ethics — is a new and growing area of research that focuses on the ethical dimensions of climate change, and concepts such as climate justice. Human induced climate change raises many profound ethical questions, yet many believe that these ethical issues… …

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  • 6Climate justice — is generally used as a term for viewing climate change as an ethical issue and considering how its causes and effects relate to concepts of justice, particularly social justice and environmental justice. For example examining issues such as… …

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  • 7Climate commitment — describes the fact that climate reacts with a delay to influencing factors ( climate forcings ) such as the presence of greenhouse gases. Climate commitment studies attempt to assess the amount of future warming that is committed under the… …

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  • 8Climate Change Science Program — The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) was the program responsible for coordinating and integrating research on global warming by U.S. government agencies from February 2002 to June 2009.[1] Toward the end of that period, CCSP issued 21… …

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  • 9Climate: Long range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction — CLIMAP map of ice sheets, sea temperature changes, and changes in the outline of coastal regions during the last glacial. Climate: Long range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction, known as CLIMAP, was a major research project of the 1970s and… …

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  • 10Climate change feedback — See also: Avoiding dangerous climate change, Runaway climate change, and Abrupt climate change Climate change feedback is important in the understanding of global warming because feedback processes may amplify or diminish the effect of each… …

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