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Summary of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, part III
This time, it's personal |
Joseph Romm |
11 Apr 2007 |
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| (Continued from parts I and II.) Last but not least (actually, what quite literally hits closest to home!): North America Moderate climate change in the early decades of the century is projected to increase aggregate yields of rain-fed agriculture by 5-20 percent, but with important variability among regions. Warming in Western mountains is projected to cause decreased snowpack, more winter flooding, and reduced summer flows, exacerbating competition for ove ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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