Original title: Approaching dangerous impacts of global climate change
Authors: Ač, Alexander
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Quo vaditis agriculture, forestry and society under Global Change?, Velké Karlovice (CZ), 20171002
Year: 2017
Language: eng
Abstract: Current global policy efforts are focused on limiting the global rise in mean temperature to well below a 2 K\nwarming compared to the pre-industrial temperature. It is questionable if achieving such goal is still feasible.\nHere, I review published works that suggesting that to keep global warming below or at a 2 K level cannot\nbe considered as safe, as is often assumed. A large body of studies have emerged recently investigating\nthe impacts of global climate change (GCC) at a 1.5 K or 2 K warming. The impacts range from changes in\nthe hydrological cycle, increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, triggering of change\nfeedback processes at various spatio-temporal scales, affecting biological processes from the molecular to\necosystem levels, and to disrupting socio-economic conditions. In this short review, I present the latest scientific\nknowledge regarding some of the most important impacts of GCC on natural ecosystems, humanmade\nsystems, and societies.
Keywords: global climate change
Project no.: LO1415 (CEP), EF16_013/0001609
Funding provider: GA MŠk, GA MŠk
Host item entry: Quo vaditis agriculture, forestry and society under global change? Conference proceeding, ISBN 978-80-87902-22-6

Institution: Global Change Research Institute AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0280312

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