Responses of energy use to climate change: A climate modeling study

Hadley, Stanton W.; Erickson, D. J.; Hernández, José Luis; Broniak, Christine; Blasing, T. J.

doi:10.1029/2006gl026652

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“…For example, in Europe, there are projected to be strong increases in cooling demand in summer particularly in the south, but reduced heating demand in winter, particularly in the north (EEA 2008). Similar results are reported for the US, (Hadley et al 2006) and Japan (IPCC 2001). Moreover, these changes may be exacerbated by the types of energy sources used, since whilst winter heating demand is more associated with primary fossil fuel use, summer cooling is associated with electricity demand, which may lead to additional GHG emissions, depending upon the fuel type for generation.…”

Section: Energysupporting

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Climate change impacts and adaptation in cities: a review of the literature

2010

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Many of the decisions relating to future urban development require information on climate change risks to cities This review of the academic and "grey" literature provides an overview assessment of the state of the art in the quantification and valuation of climate risks at the city-scale. We find that whilst a small number of cities, mostly in OECD countries, have derived quantitative estimates of the costs of climate change risks under alternative scenarios, this form of analysis is in its infancy. The climate risks most frequently addressed in existing studies are associated with sea-level rise, health and water resources. Other sectors such as energy, transport, and built infrastructure remain less studied. The review has also undertaken a case study to examine the progress in two cities-London and New York-which are relatively advanced in the assessment of climate risks and adaptation. The case studies show that these cities have benefited from stakeholder engagement at an early stage in their risk assessments. They have also benefited from the development of specific institutional responsibilities for co-ordinating such research from the outset. This involvement has been critical in creating momentum and obtaining resources for subsequent in-depth analysis of sectoral impacts and adaptation needs..While low cost climate down-scaling applications would be useful in future research, the greatest priority is to develop responses that can work within the high future uncertainty of future climate change, to build resilience and maintain flexibility. This can best be used within the context of established risk management practices. A. Hunt (B)

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Section: Energysupporting

confidence: 91%

Climate change impacts and adaptation in cities: a review of the literature

2010

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“…Compared to the mean temperature increase, changes in regional temperature extremes have more direct impacts on society and the ecosystem [5]. Extremely hot summers can drastically reduce agricultural production [6][7][8], increase energy consumption [9], and lead to hazardous health conditions [10][11][12]. Thus, understanding and predicting the spatial and temporal variability and trends of extreme weather events is crucial for the protection of socio-economic well-being and for understanding extreme weather events for mitigation of their regional impact.…”

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Changing Trends and Abrupt Features of Extreme Temperature in Mainland China from 1960 to 2010

Fang

Han

et al. 2016

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Studies based on the 10th (90th) percentiles as thresholds have been presented to assess moderate extremes in China and globally. However, there has been notably little research on the occurrences of high extremes of warm days and hot days (TX95p and TX99p) and cold nights and very cold nights (TN05p and TN01p), based on the 95th and 99th (5th and 1st) percentiles of the daily maximum (minimum) temperature data at a certain station in the period 1971-2000, which have more direct impacts on society and the ecosystem. The trends analyses of cool nights or warm days are based upon the hypothesis that expects a linear trend and no abrupt change. However, abrupt changes in the climate, especially in extreme temperatures, have been pointed to as a major threat to ecosystem services. This study demonstrates that (1) the mean frequencies of TX95p and TX99p increased by 1.80 day/10 year and 0.62 day/10 year, respectively, and that those of TN05p and TN01p decreased by 3.18 day/10 year and 1.01 day/10 year, respectively, in mainland China. Additionally, the TX95p and TX99p increased significantly by 50.42% and 58.21%, respectively, while the TN05p and TN01p of all of the stations decreased significantly by 83.76% and 76.48%, respectively. Finally, (2) the TX95p and TX99p trends underwent abrupt changes in the 1990s or 2000s, but the trends of TN05p and TN01p experienced abrupt changes in the late 1970s and early 1980s. After the abrupt change points, the trend of warm and hot days increased more rapidly than before in most regions, but the trend of cold days and very cold days decreased more slowly than before in most regions, which indicates a greater risk of heat waves in the future.

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“…Their use generates more heat into "island" microclimate and contributes more to greenhouse gases due to increased electricity generation [44]. The extent of increased demand in energy for cooling in summer can be such that it exceeds that of energy demand for heating in winter, which has been documented in North America, Europe and Asia [82]. In the aftermath of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake in March 2011 off the coast of Sendai, Japan, in the summer of 2013 the Japanese Government reconvened an energy conservation campaign in order to reduce peak energy demand when most air conditioning units are operating for cooling interiors [83].…”

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Ensuring adaptation to climate change does not increase health risks from the built environment

Walls¹

2016

J Environ Eng Ecol Sci

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Adaptation to climate change is taking place and there is a need to ensure that it escalates unabated to provide support for and mitigate the adverse effects of the present world population. However, the built environment is changing at an exponential rate in all aspects such as complexity, coverage over the earth's surface and in accommodating a burgeoning world population. Natural disasters such as flooding, inundation, drought, hot days and fire continue to occur, some of which may be attributed to or exacerbated by climate change, impact on the built environment. Apart from direct mortality of many people and resulting morbidity affecting many more people, the vulnerabilities of the built environment in providing shelter, warmth, comfort and services to people are exposed and challenged with each successive disaster event. While we strive to improve our processes and implement new technologies to cope and improve quality of life under a climate change regime, we must also be sufficiently circumspect to avoid adverse and unintended consequences, which may include eye diseases from modern artificial lighting, increased radon exposure from air-tight buildings, Legionella infections from air conditioning systems, dengue fever due to increasing numbers of on-site rain water tanks and others.

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Responses of energy use to climate change: A climate modeling study

Cited by 96 publications

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Climate change impacts and adaptation in cities: a review of the literature

Climate change impacts and adaptation in cities: a review of the literature

Changing Trends and Abrupt Features of Extreme Temperature in Mainland China from 1960 to 2010

Ensuring adaptation to climate change does not increase health risks from the built environment

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