An assessment of the relationship between significant observed changes from Section 1.3 and
significant regional temperature changes is presented in Section 1.4.2.3.
Not exact matches
The attribution of the term at
regional scales is complicated by
significant regional variations in
temperature changes due to the the influence of modes of climate variability such as the North Atlantic Oscillation and the El Nino / Southern Oscillation.
Joint attribution involves attribution of
significant changes in a natural or managed system to
regional temperature changes, and attribution of a
significant fraction of the
regional temperature change to human activities.
At any point in time, at anyplace on the globe, there could be
significant warming, while
significant cooling is simultaneously happening at another locale, and both can be associated with vast
regional areas of insignificant
temperature change.
Other factors, including greenhouse gases, also contributed to the warming and
regional factors played a
significant role in increasing
temperatures in some regions, most notably
changes in ocean currents which led to warmer - than - average sea
temperatures in the North Atlantic.
The report states that climate impacts could include «
significant changes in sea level, ocean currents, precipitation patterns,
regional temperature and weather.»
While surface
temperature show a
significant warming over western Himalayas in the last few decades, the observed
regional precipitation
changes are irregular and not spatially coherent.
Current models of climate
change include sea level rise, land degradation,
regional changes in
temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these
significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,136].