India Environment Portal Knowledge for change

Michael D. Mastrandrea

• Tolerance adaptation and precipitation changes complicate latitudinal patterns of climate change impacts

  Global patterns of biodiversity and comparisons between tropical and temperate ecosystems have pervaded ecology from its inception. However, the urgency in understanding these global patterns has been accentuated by the threat of rapid climate change.

  • 13/07/2010

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • • Ecosystems
    • Climate Change
    • Global Warming
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Biodiversity
    • Rainfall
    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    • Michael D. Mastrandrea
    • Timothy C. Bonebrake

• Calculating the benefits of climate policy: examining the assumptions of integrated assessment models

  Policy-relevant results of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) are sensitive to a number of uncertain assumptions that govern model simulation of the climate, society, and the policy response to climate change. Uncertainties remain in understanding of the rate and magnitude of climate change, the nature and severity of climate impacts, and the ability to cope with those impacts.

  • 01/12/2009

  • Pew Center on Global Climate Change
  • • Cost Benefit Analysis
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Carbon Sinks
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Green House Gases