Global economic impacts of climate variability and change during the 20th century.

ABSTRACT: Estimates of the global economic impacts of observed climate change during the 20th century obtained by applying five impact functions of different integrated assessment models (IAMs) are separated into their main natural and anthropogenic components. The estimates of the costs that can be attributed to natural variability factors and to the anthropogenic intervention with the climate system in general tend to show that: 1) during the first half of the century, the amplitude of the impacts associated with natural variability is considerably larger than that produced by anthropogenic factors and the effects of natural variability fluctuated between being negative and positive. These non-monotonic impacts are mostly determined by the low-frequency variability and the persistence of the clima

SUBMITTER: Estrada F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5315296 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature