Sentences with phrase «estimate future impacts of climate change»

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linking probabilistic simple climate models, complex Earth system models, and econometric analyses of historical weathering and climate impacts to project future risks associated with climate change and improve estimates of the social cost of carbon.

Based on the estimated coefficients of mean temperatures in four regimes, we separate 78 cities into five areas with latitudes below 30 °, 31 ° -40 °, 41 ° -50 °, and 61 ° -70 °, and predict the impacts of future climate change on mortality for 2021 - 2040, 2041 - 2060, and 2061 - 2100.

There are a number of areas where improved scientific information or understanding would enhance the capacity to estimate future climate change impacts.

Marco Springmann, post-doctoral researcher in population health at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at Oxford University, UK, and colleagues report in The Lancet that their study of the impact of climate change on diet and bodyweight is the first of its kind, and the first to estimate the possible number of deaths in 155 countries.

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (2006) estimates that the international costs of unabated climate change is already at least five percent of global per capita GDP and will continue at this rate into the future, with estimates rising to 20 percent of GDP or more when accounting for a wider range of iClimate Change (2006) estimates that the international costs of unabated climate change is already at least five percent of global per capita GDP and will continue at this rate into the future, with estimates rising to 20 percent of GDP or more when accounting for a wider range of imChange (2006) estimates that the international costs of unabated climate change is already at least five percent of global per capita GDP and will continue at this rate into the future, with estimates rising to 20 percent of GDP or more when accounting for a wider range of iclimate change is already at least five percent of global per capita GDP and will continue at this rate into the future, with estimates rising to 20 percent of GDP or more when accounting for a wider range of imchange is already at least five percent of global per capita GDP and will continue at this rate into the future, with estimates rising to 20 percent of GDP or more when accounting for a wider range of impacts.

Sea level rose faster in the 20th century than in any other century of the last 3,000 years, new methods for estimating future sea level rise and heat waves, consumers to blame for their carbon footprint, and new virtual forests predict future impacts of climate change.

The impact on our «understanding and attributing climate change» is major, of course: if up to 50 % of past warming can be attributed to solar forcing (as many solar studies have concluded) then the whole model - predicted (2xCO2) climate sensitivity estimates are in serious question and, with these, all the projections for future climate change caused by AGW.

In «Too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry: Drivers and impacts of seasonal weather in the UK», the Met Office considered whether recent seasonal variations could be attributed to climate change, and to what extent this could be used to estimate likely future climate.

It is therefore important to understand the relative influence of the various factors in order to estimate future climate changes and to decide how best to mitigate the negative impacts.

Overall, the synopsis emphasized the positive effects of climate change over the negative, the uncertainty surrounding predictions of future change rather than the emerging consensus and the low end of harmful impact estimates rather than the high end.

Our current approach to water management doesn't adequately integrate climate change projections into estimates of future water supply or designs for new water infrastructure, yet climate change will have a bigger impact on water availability than any single El Niño or La Niña cycle.