Climate Change Resilience
In a new study released 6 May 2015, three distinguished scientists from the Australia Bureau of Meteorology have been able to unambiguously show that the Western Pacific has warmed beyond historical limits.
They concluded that the mean surface air temperature has steadily increased in the last 50 years with no hiatus, and that it is caused by “external facings”, meaning human activities resulting in greenhouse gas emissions.
They also note that the future warming rate over the remainder of the 21st century is projected to be greater than the warming rate over the last 60 years under the two business-as-usual scenarios used by the study.
This study is a sobering confirmation of what earlier scientific studies, as well as global studies on climate change have indicated, and reaffirms the views expressed by Pacific Island leaders on the urgent challenge that climate change presents for the region.
The full study, “Unambiguous warming in the western tropical Pacific primarily caused by anthropogenic forcing” by Guomin Wang, Scott B. Power and Simon McGree, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, can be accessed on the Pacific Climate Change Portal and here. Additionally, The Guardian has also written an article.
They concluded that the mean surface air temperature has steadily increased in the last 50 years with no hiatus, and that it is caused by “external facings”, meaning human activities resulting in greenhouse gas emissions.
They also note that the future warming rate over the remainder of the 21st century is projected to be greater than the warming rate over the last 60 years under the two business-as-usual scenarios used by the study.
This study is a sobering confirmation of what earlier scientific studies, as well as global studies on climate change have indicated, and reaffirms the views expressed by Pacific Island leaders on the urgent challenge that climate change presents for the region.
The full study, “Unambiguous warming in the western tropical Pacific primarily caused by anthropogenic forcing” by Guomin Wang, Scott B. Power and Simon McGree, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, can be accessed on the Pacific Climate Change Portal and here. Additionally, The Guardian has also written an article.