A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and sustainable mitigation measures

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 29(28), P. 42539 - 42559

Published: April 4, 2022

Language: Английский

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The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health: A Systematic Descriptive Review

Frontiers in Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: March 6, 2020

Background Climate change is one of the great challenges our time. The effects in terms consequences climate on exposed biological subjects and most vulnerable societies are a concern whole scientific community. Rising temperatures, heat waves, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, fires, loss forest ice, disappearance rivers, advancement desert can cause both directly indirectly human pathologies that physical mental. Psychiatric studies about mental disorders linked to very scarce. Methods We reviewed all papers available Pubmed, EMBASE Cochrane library from February 2018 end June 2019. Articles association reports were 212, out which 117 selected. looked for between classical psychiatric such as anxiety schizophrenia, mood disorder depression, suicide, aggressive behaviors, despair usual landscape, phenomena related weather extreme events. Results impacts expose more people places public health threats. However, some delay be highlighted, due complexity novelty matter. It has been shown acts with different timing. phenomenology different: common others specific because peculiar climatic conditions. also affects population groups their geographical conditions, access resources, information protection. worth underlining paper events was described through introduction new (ecoanxiety, ecoguilt, ecopsychology, ecological grief, solastalgia). Conclusions either direct or indirect, short- long-term basis. Acute able act mechanisms traumatic stress, leading well known psychopathological patterns. Beyond that, exposure prolonged may delayed, encompassing other than posttraumatic even transmitted subsequent generations.

Language: Английский

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Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California

Nature Climate Change, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 8(5), P. 427 - 433

Published: April 19, 2018

Language: Английский

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Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security

Annual Review of Plant Biology, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 69(1), P. 789 - 815

Published: Feb. 28, 2018

The eighteenth-century Malthusian prediction of population growth outstripping food production has not yet come to bear. Unprecedented agricultural land expansions since 1700, and technological innovations that began in the 1930s, have enabled more calorie per capita than was ever available before history. This remarkable success, however, at a great cost. Agriculture is major cause global environmental degradation. Malnutrition persists among large sections population, new epidemic obesity on rise. We review both successes failures system, addressing ongoing debates pathways health security. To deal with these challenges, coordinated research program blending modern breeding agro-ecological methods needed. call plant biologists lead this effort help steer humanity toward safe operating space for agriculture.

Language: Английский

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Global warming has increased global economic inequality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 116(20), P. 9808 - 9813

Published: April 22, 2019

Significance We find that global warming has very likely exacerbated economic inequality, including ∼25% increase in population-weighted between-country inequality over the past half century. This results from impact of on annual growth, which course decades accumulated robust and substantial declines output hotter, poorer countries—and increases many cooler, wealthier countries—relative to a world without anthropogenic warming. Thus, caused by fossil fuel use associated with historical disparities energy consumption. Our suggest low-carbon sources have potential provide secondary development benefit, addition primary benefits increased access.

Language: Английский

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Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 115(52), P. 13288 - 13293

Published: Dec. 10, 2018

As the world warms due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations, Earth system moves toward climate states without societal precedent, challenging adaptation. Past offer possible model systems for warming of coming decades. These include Early Eocene (ca. 50 Ma), Mid-Pliocene (3.3-3.0 Last Interglacial (129-116 ka), Mid-Holocene (6 preindustrial 1850 CE), and 20th century. Here, we quantitatively assess similarity future projected these six geohistorical benchmarks using simulations from Hadley Centre Coupled Model Version 3 (HadCM3), Goddard Institute Space Studies E2-R (GISS), Community Climate System Model, Versions 4 (CCSM) models. Under Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) emission scenario, by 2030 CE, climates most closely resemble climates, 2150 they climates. RCP4.5, stabilizes at Pliocene-like conditions 2040 CE. Eocene-like emerge first in continental interiors then expand outward. Geologically novel are uncommon RCP4.5 (<1%) but reach 8.7% globe under RCP8.5, characterized high temperatures precipitation. Hence, is roughly equivalent stabilizing while unmitigated trajectories, such as similar reversing millions years long-term cooling on scale a few human generations. Both emergence geologically rapid reversion may be outside range evolutionary adaptive capacity.

Language: Английский

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Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

Environmental Research Letters, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 15(9), P. 094016 - 094016

Published: March 30, 2020

Abstract California has experienced devastating autumn wildfires in recent years. These have coincided with extreme fire weather conditions during periods of strong offshore winds coincident unusually dry vegetation enabled by anomalously warm and late onset precipitation. In this study, we quantify observed changes the occurrence magnitude meteorological factors that enable California, use climate model simulations to ascertain whether these are attributable human-caused change. We show state-wide increases temperature (∼1 °C) decreases precipitation (∼30%) over past four decades contributed aggregate indices (+20%). As a result, frequency days (95th percentile) weather—which preferentially associated wildfires—has more than doubled since early 1980s. further find an increase model-estimated probability ∼1950, including long-term trend toward increased same-season co-occurrence northern southern California. Our analyses suggest continued change will amplify number end century, though pathway consistent UN Paris commitments would substantially curb increase. Given acute societal impacts years, our findings critical relevance for ongoing efforts manage wildfire risks other regions.

Language: Английский

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Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices

Geophysical Research Letters, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 46(1), P. 326 - 336

Published: Nov. 30, 2018

Abstract Changes in global fire activity are influenced by a multitude of factors including land‐cover change, policies, and climatic conditions. This study uses 17 climate models to evaluate when changes weather, as realized through the Fire Weather Index, emerge from expected range internal variability due anthropogenic change using time emergence framework. Anthropogenic increases extreme Index days for 22% burnable land area globally 2019, much Mediterranean Amazon. By midtwenty‐first century, among different metrics occurs 33–62% lands. Emergence heightened weather becomes more widespread function temperature change. At 2 °C above preindustrial levels, is half that 3 °C. These results highlight conditions with human‐caused incentivize local adaptation efforts limit detrimental impacts.

Language: Английский

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Climate Change and Drought: From Past to Future

Current Climate Change Reports, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 4(2), P. 164 - 179

Published: May 12, 2018

Language: Английский

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Biological responses to the press and pulse of climate trends and extreme events

Nature Climate Change, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 8(7), P. 579 - 587

Published: June 21, 2018

Language: Английский

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