POTENTIAL CLIMATE
CHANGE IMPACT
"You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe."
"You take the red pill and
you stay in Wonderland and I'll show you how deep the
rabbit-hole goes."
Vital Climate Graphics :
Potential Impacts
of Climate Change
Next: The six IPCC scenarios
18. Humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions are expected to lead to
climatic changes in the 21st century and beyond. These changes will
potentially have wide-ranging effects on the natural environment as
well as on human societies and economies. Scientists have made
estimates of the potential direct impacts on various socio-economic
sectors, but in reality the full consequences would be more
complicated because impacts on one sector can also affect other
sectors indirectly. To assess potential impacts, it is necessary to
estimate the extent and magnitude of climate change, especially at the
national and local levels. Although much progress has been made in
understanding the climate system and climate change, projections of
climate change and its impacts still contain many uncertainties,
particularly at the regional and local levels.
Next: The six IPCC scenarios
Vital Climate Graphics :
Potential Impacts
of Climate Change
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