Sentences with phrase «adverse health effects of climate change»

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The letter begins «As you know, an overwhelming majority of climate scientists are convinced about the potentially serious adverse effects of human - induced climate change on human health, agriculture, and biodiversity.»

I know there have been surveys that aim to show the level of consensus on the existence of man - made climate change, but were climate scientists polled about «potentially serious adverse effects... on human health, agriculture and biodiversity»?

The social cost of carbon is the discounted monetary value of future climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).