The last words from the Swiss scientists are these: «The hiatus has not changed our projections of
the overall magnitude of climate change or the emission reductions that are required to address it.»
Not exact matches
-- Projected precipitation and temperature
changes imply
changes in floods, although
overall there is low confidence at the global scale regarding
climate - driven
changes in
magnitude or frequency
of river - related flooding, due to limited evidence and because the causes
of regional
changes are complex.
Overall risk to human health, society and the environment increases with increases in both the rate and
magnitude of climate change.
Overall, the report identifies many more negative impacts than positive impacts projected for the future, especially for high
magnitudes and rates
of climate change.
No - I also don't doubt that ACO2 will warm the
climate if all other conditions remain unchanged (which is highly unlikely to happen in the actual system), but am uncertain about the
magnitude / timing
of the effect in the real
climate system and whether any
change will lead to conditions that are better or worse for the US or the planet
overall.