Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change

International audience Significant changes in physical and biological systems are occurring on all continents and in most oceans, with a concentration of available data in Europe and North America. Most of these changes are in the direction expected with warming temperature. Here we show that these...

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Published in:Nature
Main Authors: Rosenzweig, Cynthia, Karoly, David, Vicarelli, Marta, Neofotis, Peter, Wu, Qigang, Casassa, Gino, Menzel, Annette, Root, Terry L., Estrella, Nicole, SEGUIN, Bernard, Tryjanowski, Piotr, Liu, Chunzhen, Rawlins, Samuel, Imeson, Anton
Other Authors: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Partenaires INRAE, University of Melbourne, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma (OU), Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECs), Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Stanford University, Antenne de la Direction Scientifique Environnement - Ecosystèmes Cultivés et Naturels (AVIGNON DS ECONAT), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM), China Water Information Center, Caribbean Epidemiology Center, 3D-Environmental Change
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2008
Subjects:
CLIMATE CHANGE
GREENHOUSE GAS
LAND USE
STATISTICAL METHOD
GLOBAL CHANGE
SPATIAL ANALYSES
DATABASE
NATURAL SYSTEMS
WARMING
OCEAN
FOREST SYSTEM
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM
[SDV.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cellular Biology
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02668822
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06937
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Summary:International audience Significant changes in physical and biological systems are occurring on all continents and in most oceans, with a concentration of available data in Europe and North America. Most of these changes are in the direction expected with warming temperature. Here we show that these changes in natural systems since at least 1970 are occurring in regions of observed temperature increases, and that these temperature increases at continental scales cannot be explained by natural climate variations alone. Given the conclusions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely to be due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations, and furthermore that it is likely that there has been significant anthropogenic warming over the past 50 years averaged over each continent except Antarctica, we conclude that anthropogenic climate change is having a significant impact on physical and biological systems globally and in some continents

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