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Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an
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Mapping the Global Future The third unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next decade and a half to influence world events. Mindful that there are many possible "futures," our report offers a range of possibilities and potential discontinuities, as a way of opening our minds to developments we might otherwise miss.
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Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force The U.S. Global Change Research Program 2009 report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, summarizes the science of climate change and the impacts of climate change on the United States, now, and some of those expected in the future.
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Species and Climate Change: More than Just the Polar Bear The Polar Bear has come to symbolise the impacts of climate change on the natural world. But it is only one of a multitude of species affected, and many of these are also
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Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East The Levant—made up of Syria, Lebanon, Israel,Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territory —has experienced more than 60 years of bloody conflict. Against this backdrop, the mounting scientific evidence confirming the speed and scope of climate
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The Physical Science Behind Climate Change Why are climatologists so highly confident that human activities are dangerously warming Earth? Members of the IPCC, the 2007 peace winner, write on climate change.
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Too Much Pollution: State and National Trends in Global Warming Emissions from 1990 to 2007 This report analyzes the most recent
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Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty The report outlines evidence of how climate change is affecting every issue linked to poverty and development from access to food and water to health and security. It warns that without immediate action 50 years of development gains in poor countries will be permanently lost.
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Temperature Projections For the 50 US States over the Next 100 years To help average Americans, policy makers and other local stakeholders better understand how climate change will directly impact their states, The Nature Conservancy has analyzed the latest and most comprehensive scientific data available to calculate specific temperature projections for each of the 50 US states over the next 100 years.
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Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems Ecological thresholds occur when external factors, positive feedbacks, or nonlinear instabilities in a system cause changes to propagate in a domino-like fashion that is potentially irreversible.
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Understanding and Reducing the Risks of Climate Change for Transboundary Waters Global climate change will increase the risk of conflict over shared international freshwater resources. Treaties and other cross-border agreements can help reduce those risks, but existing agreements are inadequate for dealing with the impacts of climate change.
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. More recently, a number of nations approved an addition to the treaty: the Kyoto Protocol, which has more powerful (and legally binding) measures. This section contains numerous resources -- for beginners or experts -- such as introductory and in-depth publications, the official UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol texts and a search engine to the UNFCCC library.
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The impact of sea level rise on developing countries : a comparative analysis Sea level rise (SLR) due to climate change is a serious global threat. The scientific evidence is now overwhelming. Continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions and associated global warming could well promote SLR of 1m-3m in this century, and unexpectedly rapid breakup of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets might produce a 5m SLR. In this paper, the authors have assessed the consequences of continued SLR for 84 developing countries.
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World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change Developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty, but this depends on financial and technical assistance from high-income countries. High-income countries also need to act quickly to reduce their carbon footprints and boost development of alternative energy sources to help tackle climate change. If they act now, a 'climate-smart' world is feasible, and the costs for getting there will be high but still manageable.
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Why Population Aging Matters: A Global Perspective Why Population Aging Matters: A Global Perspective provides a succinct description of population trends that are transforming the world in fundamental ways. The report, using data from the United Nations, US Census Bureau, and the Statistical Office of the European Communities as well as regional surveys, identifies nine emerging trends in global aging. These trends present a snapshot of challenges and opportunities that will stimulate a cross-national scientific and policy dialogue.
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What Every Citizen Should Know About Our Planet An absolute mother lode of information, analysis and insights on a wide range of topics related to population and climate change.
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What is Abrupt Climate Change in a Warming World? The Abrupt Climate Change in a Warming World (ACWW) project is the latest incarnation of a long running NOAA funded program of integrated research at Lamont into the problem of abrupt climate change. The focus is on (1) climate change in the late Pleistocene and Holocene periods and (2) near term future abrupt change, including social impacts of anticipated change.
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