Climate Change overview

The area of California influenced by a Mediterranean climate is home to over 30 million people. Climate variability and human water demand make freshwater a very precious resource. Allocations of water to cities, agriculture, and the environment create continual tension as demands for this vital and over-allocated resource grow. This paper presents a brief overview of water resource science and policy in a Mediterranean climate with substantial challenges from climate variability, climate change, and increasing human need. 

Constructive prospects to solution of this problem are connected with the development and application of complex models to evaluate possible changes in climate and socio-economic development. Parson and Fisher-Vanden (1997,1999) and Dess-ler and Parson (2005) prepared a detailed overview of the methods and results of numerical modeling of global climate changes with the dynamics of socio-economic processes taken into account, in which basic aspects of so-called integrated assessments (IAs) were discussed. The main goal of such developments is substantiation of recommendations for decision-makers in the sphere of ecological policy. 

Posfai and Moln (2000), and Prospero et al. (2002). A detailed overview of tropospheric aerosols and their environmental effects is given by EPA (2002). Kaufman et al. (2002) provide an overview of satellite measurement of aerosols pertinent to climate change. 

Mapes, Jennifer. U.N. Scientists Warn of Catastrophic Climate Changes. National Geographic News. February 6, 2001. Available online. URL http //news.nationalgeographic.eom/news/2001/02/0206 dimatel.html. A first-rate overview of the current data and consequences of global warming. 

I Process Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry Challenges in an Ever Changing Climate—An Overview... 

Overview of climate science and the mechanisms of climate change, from the UK Met Office. 

Chakraborty, S., Newton, A. (2011). Climate change, plant diseases and food security an overview. Plant Pathology, 60, 2-14. 

Piguet, E., Pecoud, A., andde Guchtenarire, P. (2011) Migration and Climate Change An Overview. Re/ugee Survey... 

The atmospheric CO concentration and the average global temperature over the last 250 years. Note the significant increase in COj concentration in the last 50 years. (Source National Assessment Synthesis Team, Climate Change Impacts on the United States The Potential Consequences Climate, Variability and Chaise, Overview, Report for the U.S. Global Chan Research Program, Cambrid University Press, Cambridge,... 

Scbmidt, L., 2004. Biodiesel Vebicle Fuel GHG Reductions, Air Emissions, Supply and Economic Overview. Discussion Paper C3-015. Climate Change Centra, Canada. 

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