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" Higher maximum temperatures and more hot days over nearly all land areas Higher minimum temperatures, fewer cold days and frost days over nearly all land areas Reduced diurnal temperature range over most land areas Increase of heat index (a measure of... "
Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada - Page 31
by University of Victoria (B.C.). Centre for Studies in Religion and Society - 2004 - 273 pages
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Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report: Third Assessment Report of the ...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group I. - 2001 - 416 pages
...projected changes (latter half of the 20th century) Changes in Phenomenon (during the 2Ist century) Likely Higher maximum temperatures and more hot days over nearly all land areas Very likely Very likely Higher minimum temperatures, fewer cold days and frost days over nearly all...
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American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States' Response to Global ...

Donald A. Brown - 2002 - 294 pages
...that the following were changes in climate that were very likely in the twenty-first century:80 • Higher maximum temperatures and more hot days over...nearly all land areas, • Higher minimum temperatures and fewer cold days and frost days over nearly all land areas • Reduced diurnal temperature range...
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Megawatts and Megatons: The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons

Richard L. Garwin, Georges Charpak - 2002 - 436 pages
...likely (that is, a 90-99% probability) that the world will experience during the twenty-first century "higher maximum temperatures and more hot days over nearly all land areas; reduced diurnal temperature range over most land areas and more intense precipitation events." Global...
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Natural Disasters and Development in a Globalizing World

Mark Pelling - 2003 - 270 pages
...processes such as soil loss and degradation, groundwater Higher maximum temperatures Likely Very likely and more hot days over nearly all land areas Higher minimum temperatures, Very likely Very likely fewer cold days and frost days over nearly all land areas Reduced diurnal temperature...
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Climate Changes the Water Rules: How Water Managers Can Cope with Today's ...

Pavel Kabat, Henk Van Schaik - 2003 - 122 pages
...change projection Climatic change already observed? To occur in the 21st century? •OB Effects on water Higher maximum temperatures and more hot days over nearly all land areas Likely Very likely Water resources reduced Higher minimum temperatures. fewer cold days and frost days,...
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Climate Change and India: Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation

P. R. Shukla - 2003 - 526 pages
...the IPCC has also projected the likelihood of the following climate change events (Table 9.6): • Higher maximum temperatures and more hot days over nearly all land areas (9099% confidence), leading to increased risk of damage to a number of crops, increased heat stress...
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Coral Health and Disease

Eugene Rosenberg, Yossi Loya - 2004 - 520 pages
...changes will be seen in the latter half of the twenty-first century in terrestrial environments: • Higher maximum temperatures and more hot days over...areas. • Higher minimum temperatures, fewer cold and frost days over nearly all land areas. • Reduced diurnal temperature range over most land areas....
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Ecological Economics: An Introduction

Michael Common, Sigrid Stagl - 2005 - 600 pages
...government and private flood insurance systems and disaster relief. Also noted as very likely were higher maximum temperatures and more hot days over nearly all land areas, which would have the following impacts: • increased incidence of death and serious illness in older...
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Climate Change Damage And International Law: Prevention Duties And State ...

Roda Verheyen - 2005 - 419 pages
...land areas Likely in a few Not observed in the few analyses available Insufficient data for assessment Higher maximum temperatures and more hot days over nearly all land areas Very likely, and 67-95% confident that this will result in increased incidence of death, serious illness...
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River Basin Modelling for Flood Risk Mitigation

Donald Knight, Asaad Shamseldin - 2005 - 626 pages
...Changes in phenomenon (during the 2 1 st century) Higher maximum temperatures and more Very likely hot days over nearly all land areas Higher minimum temperatures, fewer cold Very likely days and frost days over nearly all land areas Reduced diurnal temperature range over Very...
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