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This dataset contains two metrics for climate change exposure using downscaled climate projections with the SRES A2 emissions scenario (Tabor and Williams, 2007).The metrics represent dissimilarity measurements of the squared Euclidean distance between seasonal (June–August and December–February) temperature and precipitation variables in the 20th century climate and mid-21st century climate. (1) disappearing climate risk - measure of dissimilarity between a pixel’s late 20th century climate and its closest matching pixel in the global set of 21st-century climates (2) novel climate risk - measure of dissimilarity between a pixel’s future climate and its closest matching pixel in the global set of late 20th-century climates. The data are in arcASCII format. All data are in units of standard Euclidean distance and multiplied by 1000. This is the original data. To scale the data similar to Tabor et al. (2018), remove outliers above the 99th percentile distribution before rescaling from 0-1. Unprojected number of columns 2160 number of rows 857 Lower Left X Center -179.917 Lower Left Y Center -59.084 Cell size 0.166667 decimal degrees (10 minutes or ~17 km) {"references": ["Tabor, K. et al. (2018). Tropical Protected Areas Under Increasing Threats from Climate Change and Deforestation: https://doi.org/10.3390/land7030090", "Tabor and Williams (2010). Globally downscaled climate projections for assessing the conservation impacts of climate change. https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0173.1", "Williams, J.W. et al. (2007). Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 20100 AD. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606292104"]} Support for this project was provided by Conservation International, the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin, the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin, and the Environment Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This research has been funded in part by the Walton Family Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and a gift from Betty and Gordon Moore.

Forest aboveground carbon density (ACD) for the main eight Hawaiian Islands in 2015-2016. The data are in 30 meter resolution format with the units of Mg C per hectare. The file is a standard GeoTIFF. Use of these data requires citation of this dataset plus citation of the source study as follows: Asner, G.P., S. Sousan, D.E. Knapp, P.C. Selmants, R.E. Martin, R.F. Hughes, and C.P. Giardina. 2016. Rapid forest carbon assessments of oceanic islands: a case study of the Hawaiian archipelago. Carbon Balance and Management 11, doi:10.1186/s13021-015-0043-4

DataForAssessingSeasonalEffectsOnElectricityAndWaterForRepositoryThis Excel file contains data used to conduct a seasonal analysis to assess whether seasonal patterns exist in electricity use in dorms and whether these patterns differ by latitude. The first worksheet contains metadata.Fall 2010 Campus Conservation Nationals surveyThis online survey was administered to students attending colleges who participated in the Fall 2010 Campus Conservation Nationals competition. Not all schools who participated in the competition administered the survey.CCN_F10_survey.pdfSpring 2012 Campus Conservation Nationals surveyThis online survey was administered to students attending colleges who participated in the Spring 2012 Campus Conservation Nationals competition. Not all schools who participated in the competition administered the survey.CCN_Spring12_survey.pdfFall 10 Campus Conservation Nationals electricity, water, webhit, and commitment dataThis data file contains data at the dorm level collected by Lucid before, during, and after the Fall 2010 CCN competition. The first sheet contains metadata defining all variable names.Fall10_CCN_elec_water_webhits_commitments.xlsxSpring 2012 Campus Conservation Nationals electricity, water, and commitment dataThis data file contains data at the dorm level collected by Lucid before, during, and after the Spring 2012 CCN competition. The first sheet contains metadata defining all variable names.Spring12_CCN_elec_water_commitments_no.xlsxFall 10 CCN data aggregated at dorm level with psychological variablesThis data file contains data at the dorm level collected from our online survey and merged with the resource use data. The first sheet contains metadata defining all variable names.Fall10_CCN_dormagg_with_psych_variables.xlsxSpring 2012 CCN data with psychological variablesThis data file contains data at the dorm level collected from our online survey and merged with the resource use data. The first sheet contains metadata defining all variable names.Spring12__CCN_dormagg_with_psych_variables.xlsx “Campus Conservation Nationals” (CCN) is a recurring, nation-wide electricity and water-use reduction competition among dormitories on college campuses. We conducted a two year empirical study of the competition’s effects on resource consumption and the relationship between conservation, use of web technology and various psychological measures. Significant reductions in electricity and water use occurred during the two CCN competitions examined (n = 105,000 and 197,000 participating dorm residents respectively). In 2010, overall reductions during the competition were 4% for electricity and 6% for water. The top 10% of dorms achieved 28% and 36% reductions in electricity and water respectively. Participation was larger in 2012 and reductions were slightly smaller (i.e. 3% electricity). The fact that no seasonal pattern in electricity use was evident during non-competition periods suggests that results are attributable to the competition. Post competition resource use data collected in 2012 indicates that conservation behavior was sustained beyond the competition. Surveys were used to assess psychological and behavioral responses (n = 2,900 and 2,600 in 2010 and 2012 respectively). Electricity reductions were significantly correlated with: web visitation, specific conservation behaviors, awareness of the competition, motivation and sense of empowerment. However, participants were significantly more motivated than empowered. Perceived benefits of conservation were skewed towards global and future concerns while perceived barriers tended to be local. Results also suggest that competitions may be useful for “preaching beyond the choir” – engaging those who might lack prior intrinsic or political motivation. Although college life is distinct, certain conclusions related to competitions, self-efficacy, and motivation and social norms likely extend to other residential settings.

Methane emissions from aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems play a crucial role in global warming, which is particularly affecting high-latitude ecosystems. As major contributors to methane emissions in natural environments, the microbial communities involved in methane production and oxidation deserve a special attention. Microbial diversity and activity are expected to be strongly affected by the already observed (and further predicted) temperature increase in high-latitude ecosystems, eventually resulting in disrupted feedback methane emissions. The METHANOBASE project has been designed to investigate the intricate relations between microbial diversity and methane emissions in Arctic, Subarctic and Subantarctic ecosystems, under natural (baseline) conditions and in response to simulated temperature increments. We report here a small subunit ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) analysis of lake, peatland and mineral soil ecosystems.

We examine unequal outcomes in the implementation of India's national rural electrification program in Uttar Pradesh. We ask two questions: (1) to what extent did Dalits, the lowest group in India's caste hierarchy, receive less attention when the state electrified rural communities? (2) Was BSP, the state's Dalit party, able to reduce this inequality? Using data from a hundred thousand villages, we provide robust evidence for unequal outcomes. Villages inhabited solely by Dalits were 20 percentage points less likely to be covered by the program than villages without any Dalits. Moreover, a regression discontinuity analysis shows that the electoral success of BSP failed to reduce such differences. These results highlight the magnitude and persistence of caste inequality in the implementation of democratic public policy, despite political representation.

This file contains the complete dataset collected and underpinning the estimated carbon emissions data in the companion paper, in Microsoft Excel (XLSX) format. The workbook contains an index sheet with full details of each included worksheet. The file has been verified to open in Microsoft Excel (https://products.office.com/excel) and LibreOffice (https://www.libreoffice.org)

This ORDA repository location contains estimated contemporary and future surface relief, depression volume and surface lake volume maps of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The maps are produced for 3 time slices which each use different greenhouse gas emission scenarios (i.e. historical or Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP)):Two separate versions are produced for future time-slices:1. incorporating the effects of the changing surface mass balance2. incorporating the effects of both the changing surface mass balance and the changing ice sheet thickness and flow velocityThese datasets are the key outputs of our manuscript entitled: "Enhanced formation of surface lakes in the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet after 2100 due to growing surface relief".The files are presented in GeoTiff (.tif) format.For further information please see "Readme.txt"

Replication data and materials for "Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation".