Approaching dangerous impacts of global climate change

0485245 - ÚVGZ 2019 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Ač, Alexander
Approaching dangerous impacts of global climate change.
Quo vaditis agriculture, forestry and society under global change? Conference proceeding. Brno: Global change research institute, 2017 - (Urban, O.; Šprtová, M.; Klem, K.), s. 91-97. ISBN 978-80-87902-22-6.
[Quo vaditis agriculture, forestry and society under Global Change? Velké Karlovice (CZ), 02.10.2017-04.10.2017]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LO1415; GA MŠMT(CZ) EF16_013/0001609
Institutional support: RVO:86652079
Keywords : global climate change
OECD category: Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Current global policy efforts are focused on limiting the global rise in mean temperature to well below a 2 K
warming compared to the pre-industrial temperature. It is questionable if achieving such goal is still feasible.
Here, I review published works that suggesting that to keep global warming below or at a 2 K level cannot
be considered as safe, as is often assumed. A large body of studies have emerged recently investigating
the impacts of global climate change (GCC) at a 1.5 K or 2 K warming. The impacts range from changes in
the hydrological cycle, increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, triggering of change
feedback processes at various spatio-temporal scales, affecting biological processes from the molecular to
ecosystem levels, and to disrupting socio-economic conditions. In this short review, I present the latest scientific
knowledge regarding some of the most important impacts of GCC on natural ecosystems, humanmade
systems, and societies.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0280312