Climate change adaptation literature : Litterature sur l'adaptation aux changements climatiques

This is accomplished in two parts: first, a rough overview of the AR4 Synthesis report is provided to inform the reader of the larger issues within the field at the time of AR4 publishing (Section 2.0); and second, a framework for managing one’s access to the CCA information landscape is provided to keep researchers abreast of emerging issues (Section 3.0). [...] The relative extent of these various drivers of the climate is established by first determining the historical changes in these various components of the climate systems: global human GHG emission increases of 70% between 1970 and 2004; concentrations of CO2, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) have increased markedly since 1750; and concentrations of CO2 and CH4 in 2005 far in excess of the nat [...] Aside from the lack of consistency, this was not very revealing in terms of the conditions that would have produced a doubling of CO2 in the first place, nor did it take into account the inherent circularity of the problem (i.e. [...] The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. [...] Table 3 identifies the citation\paper ratio which is the number of articles that cite the author over the number of papers written by the author in the CCA database.