Global Warming
Impact on agricultureand foodsupply 169 Trace gases Climate models Observed climate Climate change scenarios CO 2 effects wheat, ...
170 The impactsof climate change The impact on ecosystems A little over ten per cent of the world’s land area is under cultivati ...
The impact onecosystems 171 Figure 7.11Vegetation maps of the south-eastern United States during past climate regimes: (a) for 1 ...
172 The impactsof climate change Figure 7.12The pattern of world biome types related to mean annual temperature and precipitatio ...
The impact onecosystems 173 Forests, deforestation and climate change Extensive changes in the area of forests due to de- forest ...
174 The impactsof climate change Figure 7.13Simulated environmental realised niches (the realised niche describes the conditions ...
The impact onecosystems 175 these studies are indicative of the more serious levels of forest die-back that are likely to occur ...
176 The impactsof climate change threatened ecosystems are those that could mitigate against some climate change impacts (e.g. c ...
The impact onhuman health 177 health from increased malnutrition and from a prevalence of conditions more likely to lead to the ...
178 The impactsof climate change whether the reduction in winter mortality will be greater or less than the increase in summer m ...
Costing the impacts:extreme events 179 damages. Examples of adaptation options are listed in Table 7.1. Many of the options list ...
180 The impactsof climate change See Table 3.6 on p. 76 of Watson, R.et al.(eds.) 2001,Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report. Be ...
Costing the impacts:extreme events 181 disasters amount to approximately 0.2% of global world product (GWP) and vary from about ...
Table 7.2 Fatalities, economic losses and insured losses (both in 1999 US dollars) for disasters in different regions as estimat ...
The insurance industry and climate change The impact of climate on the insurance industry is mainly through extreme weather even ...
184 The impactsof climate change extreme events, then multiplying by two to allow for the factors men- tioned above (e.g. associ ...
Costing the totalimpacts 185 predominantly in the developed world; strongly negative effects are ex- pected for populations that ...
186 The impactsof climate change Table 7.4Examples of singular non-linear events and their impactsa Singularity Causal process I ...
The overall impactof global warming 187 warming, although large, at a few per cent of GWP are not imposs- ibly large, and that w ...
188 The impactsof climate change low-lying land that is subsiding because of the withdrawal of ground- water and because the amo ...
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