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Climate change scenario simulations with the community climate system model version 3 ccsm3, a global coupled climate model, show that if concentrations of all greenhouse gases ghgs could have been stabilized at the year 2000, the climate system would already be committed to 0. Th e impact of climate change in africa introduction climate change has been identifi ed as a leading human and environmental crisis of the 21st century. Climate change projections over south america in the late. For the climate change simulations with ccsm3, there is a continuous decrease of sea ice in both polar regions in the twentyfirst century. This collection emphasizes the importance of 21st century choices regarding longterm. Each part of the world faces specific vulnerabilities to climate change and has different opportunities to mitigate the effects and build resilience in the 21st century. Denis aelbrecht, martin airey, claesolof brandesten, trevor jacobs, ron lemons, amirhasan pakdaman. Climate science and emissions scenarios climate change in. Feb 11, 2011 climate data are dramatically increasing in volume and complexity, just as the users of these data in the scientific community and the public are rapidly increasing in number. Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems. Under various climate change scenarios, the seasonal peak and time window for dengue epidemic potential increases during the 21st century. Climate change and global warming is one of the most extensively discussed topics in the late 20 th and early 21 st century on our planet. Climate models simulate future climate change with varying degrees of confidence scientists know a great deal about future climate change.
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There is a growing consensus ipcc 1996 that the warming is at least in part a consequence of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Climate change projections for the twentyfirst century and. In this book, the reader will find information about future trends in air temperature, precipitation, sea level, mountain glaciers, large ice. The significant shift in the estimated pdfs imply that smaller heatuptake than is simulated by coupled gcms is an important factor for explaining the observed climate changes of the 20th century, however, the implications for future climate forecasts remains unclear.
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