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Predicted changes in average surface temperature according to a range of global climate models assuming no significant action is taken to combat global warming.

This figure, adapted from the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [1], presents a conceptual assessment of the relative impact and risks associated with global warming across five categories of concern.

The left part of the figure shows the range of mean global temperature change that may occur during the 21^st century after accounting for both a wide range of greenhouse gas emission scenarios and the uncertainty associated with global climate models.

The bars on the figure are colored to suggest the relative impact or concern that should be attributed to each factor as a function of temperature increase. According to the IPCC: "White indicates neutral or small negative or positive impacts or risks, yellow indicates negative impacts for some systems or low risks, and red means negative impacts or risks that are more widespread and/or greater in magnitude." As assessed by the IPCC, the temperature increase of 0.6 °C between 1900 and 1990 has already produced threats to vulnerable physical, ecological and human systems as well as producing an increase in the extreme weather events. By contrast, the net economic and ecological impact of global warming thus far has been modest/neutral, but threatens to become significantly negative during the first part of this century. Lastly, radical and irreversible large-scale changes, such as the disintegration of major ice sheets, breakdown of thermohaline circulation or the collapse of rain forest ecosystems, is not expected to occur before a several degree increase in temperature. Such an increase may occur by the end of the century.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:32, 8 July 2006		650×686 (56 KB)	Robert A. Rohde (Talk | contribs)