The impact of emissions and climate change on future ozone concentrations in the USA

Resumen: Organismos internacionales coinciden que el cambio climático representa una amenaza para el ser humano, particularmente para su salud. Entidades como la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) y voces de la comunidad científica han venido advirtiendo sobre los efectos que las distorsiones climáticas están teniendo sobre la propagación de enfermedades cuyos vectores dependen de su entorno. Sectores vitales para el desarrollo social como la distribución del agua, la agricultura, y la sanidad pública se están viendo cada vez más amenazados por la vorágine climatológica. Sin embargo, persiste una indiferencia silenciosa en diferentes segmentos sociales que consideran el Cambio Climático como un problema abstracto o simplemente algo muy sobre sus capacidades de resolución. Desactivar este desafecto, concienciar a la población general y movilizar a la toma de acción han sido unos de los retos que diversos actores sociales han asumido. Uno de los casos de éxito que más llama la atención ha sido el uso de encuadres de salud. El siguiente artículo disecciona el impacto que el Cambio Climático tiene y presenta el caso sobre el uso de la promoción de la salud en EEUU para concienciar sobre la problemática ambiental.Palabras clave: Salud; Cambio Climático; encuadres; mensaje.Abstract: International organizations agree that climate change poses a threat to the human being, particularly to his health. Entities such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and voices from the scientific community have been warning about the effects the climatic distortions are having on the propagation of illnesses which vectors depend on their surroundings. Vital sectors for social development such as water distribution, agriculture, and public health are progressively seeing themselves more threatened by the climatic maelstrom. Nevertheless, an indifferent silence persists in different social segments who consider Climate change as an abstract problem or simply something out of their reach to resolve. Deactivating this disaffection, raising awareness in the general population and mobilize to take action have been some of the challenges social actors have undertaken. One particular success story that grabs the attention is the use of health frames. The following article dissects the impact that Climate Change has and presents the case of the use of health promotion in the USA to raise awareness about the environmental problem.Keywords: Health; Climate Change; Frames; Message.

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Indicators of climate change in agricultural systems

Climatic Change ◽

10.1007/s10584-018-2222-2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 163 (4) ◽

pp. 1719-1732 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Jerry L. Hatfield ◽

John Antle ◽

Karen A. Garrett ◽

Roberto Cesar Izaurralde ◽

Terry Mader ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Management Practices ◽

Warming Trend ◽

Historical Record ◽

Climate Impacts ◽

Agricultural Systems ◽

Agricultural Enterprise ◽

The Usa ◽

Near Term ◽

The Impact

AbstractClimate change affects all segments of the agricultural enterprise, and there is mounting evidence that the continuing warming trend with shifting seasonality and intensity in precipitation will increase the vulnerability of agricultural systems. Agricultural is a complex system within the USA encompassing a large number of crops and livestock systems, and development of indicators to provide a signal of the impact of climate change on these different systems would be beneficial to the development of strategies for effective adaptation practices. A series of indicators were assembled to determine their potential for assessing agricultural response to climate change in the near term and long term and those with immediate capability of being implemented and those requiring more development. The available literature reveals indicators on livestock related to heat stress, soil erosion related to changes in precipitation, soil carbon changes in response to increasing carbon dioxide and soil management practices, economic response to climate change in agricultural production, and crop progress and productivity. Crop progress and productivity changes are readily observed data with a historical record for some crops extending back to the mid-1800s. This length of historical record coupled with the county-level observations from each state where a crop is grown and emerging pest populations provides a detailed set of observations to assess the impact of a changing climate on agriculture. Continued refinement of tools to assess climate impacts on agriculture will provide guidance on strategies to adapt to climate change.

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The relation of environmental and climatic changes and migration situation in Oceania

RUDN Journal of Economics ◽

10.22363/2313-2329-2019-27-2-313-325 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 313-325

Author(s):

Galina N Ochirova ◽

Evgeniya M Moiseeva ◽

Anastasiya S Maksimova

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

New Zealand ◽

Local Population ◽

Climatic Changes ◽

Natural Phenomena ◽

Island States ◽

The Usa ◽

Employment Education ◽

And Migration ◽

The Impact

The article presents overview of environmental and climatic, economic and migration situations in the countries of Oceania. In order to determine the relation of environmental and climatic changes and migration processes in the island states and territories of Oceania, New Zealand and Australia, analytical reports and censuses of the population of the states, estimates and statistics of international organizations are studied. The article analyses the state policy of island states and territories in the field of sustainable development and migration, as well as immigration policies of the main host countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the USA. It was found that internal and external migration in Oceania is mainly driven by socio-economic factors (problems with employment, education and medical services), while internal migration is usually directed to urban area, and external - from the city to foreign countries. Exploring the peculiarities of climate change and natural phenomena and their impact on the livelihoods of people in the region of Oceania, we can conclude that natural and climatic influences directly and indirectly affect different spheres of life of the local population. Nevertheless, the impact of climate change and natural phenomena on the migration of the population of Oceania at the moment is insignificant (no more than 10-12% of international flows), however, in the case of an increase in the intensity and frequency of na- tural disasters, and also due to an increase in the number and density of population (71 million people will live in the region to 2100) an increase in the flow of environmental migrants is inevitable.

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Tropical cyclone losses in the USA and the impact of climate change — A trend analysis based on data from a new approach to adjusting storm losses

Environmental Impact Assessment Review ◽

10.1016/j.eiar.2009.03.003 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 29 (6) ◽

pp. 359-369 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Silvio Schmidt ◽

Claudia Kemfert ◽

Peter Höppe

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Tropical Cyclone ◽

Trend Analysis ◽

New Approach ◽

Impact Of Climate Change ◽

The Usa ◽

The Impact

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Climate change and Forest disturbances in Europe: an economic analysis of the losses

10.21203/rs.3.rs-144593/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jaume Sempere ◽

Jose Maria Da-Rocha ◽

Javier García-Cutrín ◽

María-Luisa Chas-Amil ◽

Eduardo Sánchez-Llamas ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Extreme Event ◽

Forest Disturbance ◽

Economic Effect ◽

Economic Cost ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Economic Resilience ◽

The Usa ◽

The Impact ◽

The Eu

Abstract Climate warming is expected to increase the frequency and magnitude of extreme events in the mid to long term (Lindner et al., 2010; Bolte et al., 200); Morin et al., 2018; Dale et al. (2000), Seidl et al., 2011)). Here, we combine a (dynamic general equilibrium) model of forest management with inter-country input-output tables (Remond-Tiedrez et al., 2019)) to estimate the economic effect on the EU-28 and USA economies of changes in the output of the forestry and logging sectors due to extreme forest disturbance events. Given our model results, we estimate that the impact on the EU-28 economy will be equivalent to the value of wood damaged multiplied 3.32 fold [3.00-3.44]. We find that the economic cost of a global pan-European extreme event (a pulse of 450 M m3) could be 120.4 billion Euros in the EU-28 and and 1.7 billion in the USA (i.e. 0.926 and 0.015% of their respective GDPs). Finally, we explore how to design incentives to increase the economic resilience of the response of forestry and logging companies to expected future climate change. Using a heterogeneous companies model, we show that payments to landowners to conserve forest increase economic resilience.

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European summer surface ozone 1990–2100

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions ◽

10.5194/acpd-12-7705-2012 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 7705-7726 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

J. Langner ◽

M. Engardt ◽

C. Andersson

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Decadal Variability ◽

Surface Ozone ◽

Regional Climate ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Regional Climate Change ◽

Ozone Concentrations ◽

Ozone Precursor ◽

The Impact ◽

Surface O3

Abstract. The impact of climate change and changes in ozone precursor emissions on summer surface ozone in Europe were studied using a regional CTM over the period 1990 to 2100. Two different climate simulations under the SRES A1B scenario together with ozone precursor emission changes from the RCP4.5 scenario were used as model input. In southern Europe regional climate change leads to increasing surface ozone concentrations during April–September, but projected emission reductions in Europe have a stronger effect, resulting in net reductions of surface ozone concentrations. In northern Europe regional climate change decreases surface O3 and reduced emissions acts to further strengthen this trend also when including increasing hemispheric background concentrations, although on the British Isles the combined effect is an increase. Due to substantial decadal variability in the simulations it is important to study averages over sufficiently long time periods in order to be able to extract robust signals of climate change impacts on surface O3 concentrations.

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The Impact of Socio-Economics and Climate Change on Tropical Cyclone Losses in the USA

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1425547 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Silvio Schmidt ◽

Claudia Kemfert ◽

Peter Hoeppe

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Tropical Cyclone ◽

The Usa ◽

The Impact

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Climate change and Forest disturbances in Europe: an economic analysis of the losses

10.21203/rs.3.rs-144593/v2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jose-Maria Da-Rocha ◽

Javier Garcia-Cutrin ◽

Jaume Sempere ◽

Maria-Jose Gutierrez ◽

Maria-Luisa Chas-Amil ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Extreme Event ◽

Forest Disturbance ◽

Economic Effect ◽

Economic Cost ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Economic Resilience ◽

The Usa ◽

The Impact ◽

The Eu

Abstract Climate warming is expected to increase the frequency and magnitude of extreme events in the mid to long term. Here, we combine a model of forest management with inter-country input-output tables to estimate the economic effect on the EU-28 and USA economies of changes in the output of the forestry and logging sectors due to extreme forest disturbance events. Given our model results, we estimate that the impact on the EU-28 economy will be equivalent to the value of wood damaged multiplied 3.32 fold [3.00-3.44]. We find that the economic cost of a global pan-European extreme event (a pulse of 450 M m3) could be 120.4 billion Euros in the EU-28 and and 1.7 billion in the USA (i.e. 0.926 and 0.015% of their respective GDPs). Finally, we explore how to design incentives to increase the economic resilience of the response of forestry and logging companies to expected future climate change. Using a heterogeneous companies model, we show that payments to landowners to conserve forest increase economic resilience.

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Decreased wheat production in the USA from climate change driven by yield losses rather than crop abandonment

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0252067 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (6) ◽

pp. e0252067

Author(s):

Oladipo S. Obembe ◽

Nathan P. Hendricks ◽

Jesse Tack

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Winter Wheat ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Climate Impacts ◽

Wheat Production ◽

The Usa ◽

The Impact ◽

Level Production ◽

Production Losses

An increase in global average surface temperature over the 21st century will affect food production. There is still uncertainty if the source of the production losses caused by climate change could be driven either by lower yield or reduced area harvested. We use county-level production data on winter wheat coupled with fine-scale weather outcomes between 1981-2007 to examine the impact of climate change on winter wheat production in Kansas. We decompose the total impact of weather variables through both the yield and harvested acreage channels. We find that an insignificant portion—both in terms of magnitude and statistical significance—of the production losses are due to reduced harvested acres (i.e., crop abandonment). The proportion harvested only account for 14.88% and 21.71% of the total damages under RCPs 4.5 and 8.5 and neither effect is statistically significant. An implication of this result implies that studies that only examine climate impacts on harvested yields are not significantly underestimating the climate change impacts on production.

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