Sentences with phrase «main consequences of climate change»

Many questions were raised from both groups about the main consequences of climate change and how these consequences have become more evident in the latest years.

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Climate change has been identified as one of the main threats to this group and the atlas provides the most comprehensive evaluation of the likely consequences this will have.

The consequences of our changing climate are one of the main issues facing crop production.

The lines of evidence and analysis supporting the mainstream position on climate change are diverse and robust — embracing a huge body of direct measurements by a variety of methods in a wealth of locations on the Earth's surface and from space, solid understanding of the basic physics governing how energy flow in the atmosphere interacts with greenhouse gases, insights derived from the reconstruction of causes and consequences of millions of years of natural climatic variations, and the results of computer models that are increasingly capable of reproducing the main features of Earth's climate with and without human influences.

Though precise consequences can not yet be defined, three main pathways of climate change impact are outlined, affecting fisheries and aquaculture, their dependent communities and their economic activities: direct physical (e.g. flooding, severe droughts), biological and ecological (e.g. productivity of lakes and rivers), and indirect wider social and economic (e.g. fresh water use conflicts).

This analytical report presents the main features and consequences of climate change.