The paper concerns influences of global warming on a climate change in Georgia and health of the population. In particular, one important parameter of a human thermal comfort a heat index(that represents a combination of the air temperature and relative humidity) has been investigated. The investigation was carried out on the base of real data collected in the Ministry of Preservation of the En...

Dorte Krause-Jensen* and Carlos M. Duarte 1 Arctic Research Centre, Bioscience, Aarhus University, Århus, Denmark 2 Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark 3 Department of Global Change Research, Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain 4 The UWA Oceans Institute and School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley...

The global economy is undergoing a profound and momentous shift. The first half of the 21st century will undoubtedly be dominated by the consequences of a new Asian dynamism. China is likely to become the second biggest economy in the world by 2016, and India the third largest by 2035. A cluster of other countries in the Asian region, such as Thailand and Vietnam, are also growing rapidly. Thes...

A box model study on photochemical interactions between VOCs and reactive halogen species in the marine boundary layer K. Toyota, Y. Kanaya, M. Takahashi , and H. Akimoto Frontier Research System for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan Also at Center for Climate System Research, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Received: 1 August 2003 – Accepted: 28 August 2003 – Published: 1 September 2003 Cor...

a College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China b Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China c Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China d School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875,China e Department of Geograph...

Research suggests climate change beliefs among science teachers mirror those of the general public, raising questions of whether teachers may be perpetuating polarization of public opinion through their classrooms. We began answering these questions with a survey of middle school science teachers (n = 24) and their students (n = 369) in North Carolina, USA. Similar to previous studies, we found...

Terrestrial ecosystems have encountered substantial warming over the past century, with temperatures increasing about twice as rapidly over land as over the oceans. Here, we review the likelihood of continued changes in terrestrial climate, including analyses of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project global climate model ensemble. Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st-cen...

Predation affects life history traits of nearly all organisms and the population consequences of predator avoidance are often larger than predation itself. Climate change has been shown to cause phenological changes. These changes are not necessarily similar between species and may cause mismatches between prey and predator. Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus, the main predator of passerines,...

Pedology was born in the 18th and 19th centuries, when soil was first conceived as a natural body worthy of its own scientific investigation. For well over a century, pedology explored soil as a system developed from a complex of natural processes. By the mid-20th century, however, human activities began to affect substantial global soil changes with influence on the dynamics of the Earth’s env...

I. I n t r o d u c t i o n The purpose of the SEQUOIA 2000 project is to build a better computing environment for global change researchers, hereafter referred to as SEQUOIA 2000 "clients." Global change researchers investigate issues of global warming, the Earth's radiation balance, the oceans' role in climate, ozone depletion and its effect on ocean productivity, snow hydrology and hydrochemi...