impacts of climate change Articles
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Climate change, adaptation and water
Impacts of climate change Observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by anthropogenic climate changes. The socio-economic impacts of climate change are significant: between 2000 and 2006, the frequency of disaster from extreme climate events worldwide increased by 187 per cent as compared with the previous decade, accounting for ...
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Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises
Both abrupt changes in the physical climate system and steady changes in climate that can trigger abrupt changes in other physical, biological, and human systems present possible threats to nature and society. Abrupt change is already underway in some systems, and large scientific uncertainties about the likelihood of other abrupt changes highlight the need for further research. However, with ...
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Environment as infrastructure: Resilience to climate change impacts on water through investments in nature
Impacts of climate change, in combination with other drivers of global change, are compromising our ability to address global economic, security and social priorities. As floods, drought and other impacts of climate change on water become more frequent or intense, economies and livelihood security ...
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Predicting the impacts of climate change on the evolutionary adaptations of polar fish
The recognition of the important role of the polar habitats in global climate changes has awakened great interest in the evolutionary biology of the organisms that live there, as well as the increasing threat of loss of biological diversity and depletion of marine fisheries. These organisms are exposed to strong environmental constraints, and it is important to understand how they have adapted ...
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Impacts of climate change in monetary terms? Issues for developing countries
This paper raises some issues that may explain why developing countries are more reluctant than developed countries to let monetary estimates of the impacts of climate change determine climate policy. Many limitations of cost-benefit analysis become even stronger when applied to economies with distorted markets and limited abilities to adapt to new economic conditions. The implicit influence of ...
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Impact of Climate Change: Causes & Effects
In order to strive in this highly competitive world, everyone from a student to a working professional is busy chasing their goals, targets, and deadlines. It is important to remember that since most countries have employed the capitalistic model to drive their economic sectors, it has automatically structured our world in a way that distracts people from focusing on the subjects that are of ...
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The impact of climate change on water quality
Deforestation has the high potential to accelerate reservoir eutrophication Long-term changes in thermal dynamics may increase the direct effects of climate change on lakes and reservoirs A High-frequency monitoring strategy is proposed by researchers to tackle this challenge Rapid climate change as a result of global warming has made deforestation a widespread phenomenon and a major ...
By LG Sonic
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The impacts of climate change on poverty alleviation: Managing the risks
This paper will consider the distributional impact of climate change on developed and developing countries and, in particular, flag the potential for climate change policies to negate development objectives for the poorest countries. Developing countries, such as China, India, Brazil and Mexico, are essential participants to the success of any global campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage Systems
Cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to flooding because of rapid urbanization, installation of complex infrastructure, and changes in the precipitation patterns caused by anthropogenic climate change. While there are many previous works that have dealt with the effects of urbanization, the number of quantitative assessment studies related to the impacts of climate change on urban drainage ...
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Impacts of climate change on rainfall extremes and urban drainage systems: a review
A review is made of current methods for assessing future changes in urban rainfall extremes and their effects on urban drainage systems, due to anthropogenic-induced climate change. The review concludes that in spite of significant advances there are still many limitations in our understanding of how to describe precipitation patterns in a changing climate in order to design and operate urban ...
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Climate Change Impact on Hydro-meterological Variables: A Review
Due to increasing concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, several hydro-meteorological variables are likely to be significantly impacted. Reservoir operations, crop production, erosion processes, runoff production and many other hydrological processes are likely to be impacted by the ongoing climate change. This paper presents a comprehensive review of ...
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Briefing 1/2007 - Climate change and water adaptation issues
The impact of climate change on Europe's water resources is a critical issue for people's lives and the economy. Even if emissions of greenhouse gases were stabilised today, increases in temperature and the associated impacts, including water availability and flooding, will continue for many decades to come. Countries are aware of these impacts and have started to adapt to them but there is still ...
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Adapting to the future: the role of science academies in capacity building
The 21st century will confront many challenges arising from resource scarcity, climate change, emerging diseases, and other yet to be recognised causes. These challenges are global and do not respect political boundaries. Wealthy nations cannot avoid the impacts of climate change or disease epidemics or other resource stresses that may have sources elsewhere in the world. International ...
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Economic impact of climate change on Nigeria's agriculture: a conceptual framework
Total impact of climate change (CC) on Nigeria's agriculture will be realised through direct and indirect pathways with a secondary effect on the economy. Impact however, depends on the capacity of the sector to manage CC risk and uncertainty. The review reveals sparse literature on this issue for Nigeria compared to the whole of Sub–Saharan Africa, South Africa and the USA. Observable climate ...
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Water: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the Water Resources of the United States
This report summarizes the conclusions of the substantial body of literature on the implications of both existing climate variability and future climate change for U.S. water resources. We have identified nearly 1,000 relevant peer-reviewed studies, and that number grows larger every day. As a result, this report must be considered just a snapshot in time, a summary of what we think we ...
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Climate change, urbanisation and hydrological impacts
This paper is a review of recent studies that addressed the hydrological impacts, especially on streamflow, of climate change and/or urbanisation. Articles published between 1996 and 2002 on this subject were reviewed focusing on research methods and results. The main issues addressed with regard to research methods include development of climate change and urbanisation scenarios, assessment of ...
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Climate change and water adaptation issues
The report reviews the challenges facing Europe to adapt to the impacts of climate change on water resources. Water is a critical sector for people's lives and the economy. Even if emissions of greenhouse gases were stabilised today, increases in temperature and the associated impacts, including those on water availability and flooding, will continue for many decades to come. Using a policy ...
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`Biopreferred Products` championed by US Secretary of Agriculture
US Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack recently urged his peers on President Obama’s Cabinet to give procurement preference to products that comply with the federal BioPreferred program. EOS® is among a wide range of products the United Soybean Board lists as Biobased Products for Government. This program aims to reduce the impact of climate change, improve American environmental ...
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Climate change, rights of future generations and intergenerational equity: an in-expert exploration of a dark and cloudy path
This paper stresses that the impacts of climate change would be distributed unevenly over future generations in a yet unknown way. It also discusses the limitations of mainstream economics to deal with issues of intergenerational equity, noting the possibilities of different ways to select an appropriate discount rate. Given these limitations, great care must be applied in using tools from ...
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A climate of change: African Americans, global warming, and a just climate policy for the US
Everywhere we turn, the issues and impacts of climate change confront us. One of the most serious environmental threats facing the world today, climate change has moved from the minds of scientists and offices of environmentalists to the mainstream. Though the media is dominated by images of polar bears, melting glaciers, flooded lands, and arid desserts, there is a human face to this story as ...
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