Human Impacts on Climate

Climate Change and Human Health: Aims to characterize and communicate scientific research, through integrated assessment, to support analysis and policy development. A program of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - Special Report: The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: A detailed assessment of the vulnerability of every region on the planet, in eleven chapters. Annexes examine trends and variations, models, and socio-economic baseline data.

UK Climate Impacts Programme: Assessing the likely environmental and economic effects of climate change in the UK. Includes background information, research, research tools and guidance, publications and newsletters, and answers to frequently asked questions.

Climate Impacts on Freshwater Systems: An overview of observed responses of the largest lakes in Sweden to a warmer winter climate. Provides brief studies of lake ice, water temperature, water discharge and water level, water chemistry, and biological life. Includes maps, graphs, photographs, references, suggestions for further reading, and links to related sites.

Ecological Impacts of Climate Change: Presentation by Christopher Field of the Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institute of Washington. Includes brief text and pictorial evidence of altered range limits, responses to experiments, responses to earlier springs, trends in plant growth across North America, and trends in US agriculture. [PDF]

Assessment of Knowledge on Impacts of Climate Change: A detailed report for the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) into the effects of dangerous anthropogenic interference on ecosystems, food production, water, and socio-economic systems. Studies include: processes causing loss of biodiversity and ecosystem damage; processes driving species endangerment and extinction; projected effects on species and ecosystems. [PDF]

Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change in Norway: Assesses sensitivity in the primary sectors: fisheries, agriculture, and forestry. From the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) in Oslo. [PDF]

Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity in Australia: A report of the outcomes of a workshop for researchers and policymakers, sponsored by the Biological Diversity Advisory Committee in Australia. Includes an assessment of whether there is evidence for change that has already occurred, a compilation of knowledge about sensitivities of species and communities, and identification of key characteristics of ecosystems that result in high sensitivity. [PDF]

The Impacts of Climate Change on Portland's Water Supply: An investigation of the effects of increased temperatures, changed precipitation, and shifts in the historic hydrologic cycle on the fresh water supply from the Bull Run watershed. From the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington. [PDF]

International Year of the Ocean: Impacts of Global Climate Change: A document prepared by various participating US Government agencies as a background discussion paper for this declaration. Considers the influence of the ocean in three parts: seasonal to interannual effects; decadal to centennial effects; and with an emphasis on US coastal areas.