The U.S. National Institutes of Health has launched a research program that will examine
the potential effects of climate change on health.
Justin Gillis is taking reader questions on
the potential effects of climate change on the global food supply and will respond this week on the Green blog.
With an international transition to a lower - carbon economy underway, many teams at Wellington are focused on helping clients understand
the potential effects of climate change on their inves...
He was part of a team that has studied
the potential effects of climate change on nutrition.
In the past decades, scientists have increasingly focused on studying
the potential effects of climate change on all aspects of life, including agriculture.
The interplay between these mechanisms complicates efforts to forecast
the potential effects of climate change on pathogens and insects.
Furthermore, only recently have researchers been able to consider both the ecological relationships among krill predators (e.g., niche overlap) and
the potential effects of climate change on those relationships, specifically as they relate to the availability of their krill prey [14].
The potential effects of climate change on the spread of insect - borne diseases is a major public health concern, but this study found little evidence that mosquito populations in these areas were responding to changes in temperature or precipitation.
Scientists studying
the potential effects of climate change on the world's animal and plant species are focusing on the wrong factors, according to a new paper by a research team from the Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Queensland, and other organizations.
Regardless of the original intent of the study, Lee keeps coming back to what his results say about
potential effects of climate change on perennial plants.
Not exact matches
«Identifying which
of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the
potential to understand whether evolution to
climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the
effects of anthropogenic
climate change on a wide range
of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor
of evolutionary genetics in the Division
of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author
of the study.
The findings suggest that effective new greenhouse gas controls could help lessen the
effects of climate change on the release
of carbon from soils
of the northern permafrost region and therefore decrease the
potential for a positive feedback
of permafrost carbon release
on climate warming.
This special section
of Science focuses
on the current state
of knowledge about the
effects of climate change on natural systems, with particular emphasis
on how knowledge
of the past is helping us to understand
potential biological impacts and improve predictive power.
Daintree is just one
of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data
on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots
of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the
potential effects of climate change.
But in general terms how would you compare the
potential effects of these industries
on climate change?
According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled
climate change's
effects on them, human - caused
climate change accounted for about 55 percent
of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares
of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based
on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average
of 9 additional days per year
of high fire
potential due to
climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline
of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.
While
climate change in recent decades has been found to negatively affect crop yields in many regions, a new study led by Carnegie's Julia Pongratz is the first to examine the
potential effect of geoengineering
on food security.
In addition, we do not detail
potential responses
of individual tree species to
climate shifts in this assessment; instead, we focus
on the direct and indirect
effects of climate change on forests.
But in general terms how would you compare the
potential effects of these industries
on climate change?
In order to understand the
potential importance
of the
effect, let's look at what it could do to our understanding
of climate: 1) It will have zero
effect on the global
climate models, because a) the constraints
on these models are derived from other sources b) the
effect is known and there are methods for dealing the errors they introduce c) the
effect they introduce is local, not global, so they can not be responsible for the signal / trend we see, but would at most introduce noise into that signal 2) It will not alter the conclusion that the
climate is
changing or even the degree to which it is
changing because
of c) above and because that conclusion is supported by multiple additional lines
of evidence, all
of which are consistent with the trends shown in the land stations.
Written for a general audience, it deals with a number
of current, and
potential future,
effects of global
change — with an emphasis
on climate change —
on various health - related issues.
Nearly all
of the assertions by the Australian blogger in the second chart were inflammatory and untrue, with only thin threads leading to legitimate issues (one being that the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, as noted in a review by the Dutch environment agency, has traditionally focused its summaries on worst - case outcomes and left out potential positive effects or other factors, like population growth, that contribute to climate vulnerab
Climate Change, as noted in a review by the Dutch environment agency, has traditionally focused its summaries
on worst - case outcomes and left out
potential positive
effects or other factors, like population growth, that contribute to
climate vulnerab
climate vulnerability).
As the new Ceres report notes: «ExxonMobil does not analyze or quantify the
effect on the company and
on shareholder value
of any plausible greenhouse gas regulatory scenarios; in fact, the company states that «it is impossible today to assess the
potential implications for shareholder value from initiatives to address
climate change,» in part because no governments have established definitive regulations for the 2008 - 2012 Kyoto period or for post-2012.
In the first major study to examine the
effects of climate change on ocean fisheries, a team
of researchers from UBC and Princeton University discovered that catch
potential will fall 40 percent in the tropics and may increase 30 to 70 percent in high latitude regions, affecting ocean food supply throughout the world by 2055.
Climate Change and the Global Harvest:
Potential Effects
of the Greenhouse
Effect on Agriculture.
A recent meta - analysis published in the journal Nature
Climate Change, by Challinor et al. (2014) examines 1,722 crop model simulations, run using global climate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the potential effects of climate change and adaptation on crop
Climate Change, by Challinor et al. (2014) examines 1,722 crop model simulations, run using global climate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the potential effects of climate change and adaptation on crop
Change, by Challinor et al. (2014) examines 1,722 crop model simulations, run using global
climate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the potential effects of climate change and adaptation on crop
climate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the
potential effects of climate change and adaptation on crop
climate change and adaptation on crop
change and adaptation
on crop yield.
Public health impact
of global heating due to
climate change:
Potential effects on chronic non-communicable diseases
The
potential effects that aviation has had in the past and may have in the future
on both stratospheric ozone depletion and global
climate change are covered; environmental impacts
of aviation at the local scale, however, are not addressed.
Tagaris, E., K. J. Liao, A. J. DeLucia, L. Deck, P. Amar, and A. G. Russell, 2009:
Potential impact
of climate change on air pollution - related human health
effects.
Kjellstrom, T., A. J. Butler, R. M. lucas, and R. Bonita, 2010: Public health impact
of global heating due to
climate change:
Potential effects on chronic non-communicable diseases.
(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions
of higher education to study the
effects of consumer behavior
on total energy use, the
potential energy savings from
changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through
changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness
of federal
climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the
potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.
The federal auditors found that the federal government has not undertaken strategic government - wide planning to manage
climate risks by using information
on the
potential economic
effects of climate change to identify significant risks and craft appropriate federal responses.
Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions
of higher education to study the
effects of consumer behavior
on total energy use;
potential energy savings from
changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through
changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness
of Federal
climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the
potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.
This paper finds that under a wide range
of assumptions about future growth in wealth and population, and about the
effects of human - caused
climate change, in every case there is far greater
potential to affect future losses by focusing attention
on the societal conditions that generate vulnerability to losses.
For more than a decade, officials in Ecuador's mountainous capital have been studying the
effects of global warming
on nearby melting glaciers, developing ways
of dealing with
potential water shortages and even organizing conferences
on climate change for leaders
of other Latin American cities.
So even if the State comments had properly considered the real
effect of climate change on extreme weather events instead
of the inappropriate total cost
of a storm, there are a legitimate range
of potential outcomes --(15 % more intense to 3 % more intense).
Favourite plays include hyper - focus
on one, extremely speculative study (T&S 09); misrepresenting the
potential for abrupt cooling in the C21st, dismissing the dominance
of the centennial forced trend, misrepresenting deglacial abrupt
climate change; grossly over-stating the accuracy and utility
of pre-CERES TOA reconstructions (especially the synthetic, non-observational ISCCP - FD reconstruction); hyper - focus
on interannual OHC variability; confusion
of cause and
effect with long - term trends in OHC (CO2 forcing denial) and general inability to see that natural variability from now
on will be riding up a forced trend which will increasingly dominate
climate behaviour.
Climate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal bene
Climate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss
of iconic species and landscapes,
effects on food chains and the timing and success
of species migrations, and the
potential for extreme weather and
climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal bene
climate events to destroy or degrade the ability
of ecosystems to provide societal benefits.11
Research in primary care and the study
of environmental influences
on health, including the
potential effects of climate change and the health co-benefits
of the low carbon economy.
While the GCC distributed a «backgrounder» to politicians and media in the early 1990s claiming «The role
of greenhouse gases in
climate change is not well understood,» a 1995 GCC internal memo drafted by Mobil Oil (which merged with Exxon in 1998) stated that: «The scientific basis for the Greenhouse
Effect and the
potential impact
of human emissions
of greenhouse gases such as CO2
on climate is well established and can not be denied.»
The SEC is alerting registrants to the increasing importance
of climate change - related regulation and the
potential effects of that regulation
on companies» operations and financial performance.
On the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate chang
On the basis
of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 %
of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause
of climate change.1 — 4 Although the
effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude
of the
effects of future
changes depends
on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate chang
on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst
potential effects of climate change.
Uncertainty in these projections due to
potential future
climate change effects on the ocean carbon cycle (mainly through
changes in temperature, ocean stratification and marine biological production and re-mineralization; see Box 7.3) are small compared to the direct
effect of rising atmospheric CO2 from anthropogenic emissions.
FIGURE 2.10
Potential effects of changes in temperature distribution
on extremes: a)
effects of a simple shift
of the entire distribution toward a warmer
climate; b)
effects of an increased temperature variability with no shift
of the mean; and c)
effects of an altered shape
of the distribution, in this example an increased asymmetry toward the hotter part
of the distribution.
Final results from the first phase
of PCIC's Hydrologic Impacts research program with BC Hydro have been published, the culmination
of four years
of collaborative work aimed at better understanding the
potential effects of climate variability and
change on BC water resources.
I would simply say that IPCC is a political organization whose charter is to investigate and report the» scientific basis
of risk
of human - induced
climate change, its
potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation», IOW to evaluate the risk
of human - induced
climate change and any negative
effects it may have
on our society and environment.
This policy brief discusses the
potential negative
effects of climate change mitigation programmes
on biodiversity.
It seems that the
effect of climate change on crop pests goes relatively unnoticed, there is a summary
of potential impacts
on the UK here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/whri/research/climatechange/cgpests/ it makes for some interesting reading (IMHO)
We recognize the critical impacts
of climate change and the
potential impacts
of response measures
on countries particularly vulnerable to its adverse
effects and stress the need to establish a comprehensive adaptation programme including international support.
Rosenzweig, C., and D. Hillel, 1998:
Climate Change and the Global Harvest:
Potential Impacts
of the Greenhouse
Effect on Agriculture.