Global Warming
Changes in climateextremes 129 (a) Cold Lesscold weather Previous climate New climate Morehot weather Average Increase in mean P ...
130 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond Figure 6.7Changes in the frequency of occurrence of different daily rainf ...
Changes in climateextremes 131 (^53) 7 5 2 2 2 Greenhouse/control 5 5 5 5 5 3 12357 1 2 1 (^222) 7 Figure 6.8The changing probab ...
132 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond Figure 6.9Daily rainfall for Italy for a three-year period simulated by a ...
Regional climatemodels 133 evidence from model projections of changes in the frequency of tropi- cal cyclones or their areas of ...
134 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond Table 6.2Estimates of confidence in observed and projected changes in ext ...
Longer-term climatechange 135 Probability (%) Thresholds (mm day−^1 ) <0.1 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 >10 >20 >30 >50 Obse ...
136 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond The discovery of the ‘ozone hole’ is an example of a change in the at- mo ...
Other factorsthat might influenceclimate change 137 22 20 18 16 14 1850 Circulation strength (Sv) 1900 No change SRES A1FI SRES ...
138 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond Does the Sun’s output change? Some scientists have suggested that all cli ...
Notes 139 50 000 years the solar radiation incident in summer on the polar regions will be unusually constant so that the presen ...
140 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond The changes that are likely to have the greatest impact will be changes ...
Notes 141 2 For details of IS 92a see Leggett, J., Pepper, W. J., Swart, R. J. 1992. Emission scenarios for the IPCC: an update. ...
142 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond 13 Allen, M. R., Ingram, W. J. 2002.Nature, 419 , pp. 224–32. 14 For more ...
Chapter 7 The impacts of climate change The lasttwo chapters have detailed the climate change that we can expect during the twen ...
144 The impactsof climate change will aid the growth of some types of plants leading to increased crop yields. Sensitivity, adap ...
How much will sea level rise? 145 Sensitivity, adaptive capacity and vulnerability (see box above) vary a great deal from place ...
146 The impactsof climate change sea level during the last warm interglacial period was a reduction in the Antarctic or Greenlan ...
How much willsea level rise? 147 glaciers. If all glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland were to melt, the rise in sea level ...
148 The impacts of climate change 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090 2100 Year 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 Sea l ...
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