Climate sensitivity measures the response of Earth's surface temperature to changes in forcing. The response depends on various climate processes that feed back on the initial forcing on different timescales. Understanding climate sensitivity is fundamental to reconstructing Earth's climatic history as well as predicting future climate change. On timescales shorter than centuries, only fast cli...

The projected rainfall change under various scenarios is likely to have both positive and negative implications on agriculture and water supply because in rainfall pattern across the country. Rise in rainfall is seen over all states except Punjab, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, which show slight decrease in precipitation in the future scenarios. Marked increase in covering the Western Ghats and nort...

[1] This study was conducted to examine direct and indirect impacts of global warming on carbon processes in a tallgrass prairie in the U.S. Great Plains. Infrared radiators were used to simulate global warming, and clipping was used to mimic hay mowing. Experimental warming caused significant increases in green biomass in spring and autumn and total biomass in summer on most of the measuring d...

A key consideration in assessing impacts of climate change is the possibility of synergistic effects with other human-induced stressors. In the ocean realm, climate change and overfishing pose two of the greatest challenges to the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems. In eastern Tasmania, temperate coastal waters are warming at approximately four times the global ocean warming average...

Much of the focus global warming impacts on lakes have focused changes in mean temperature. However, are also highly vulnerable to thermal extremes. Such extremes occur, by definition, during lake heatwaves. Heatwaves occurred globally recent decades and had severe negative impacts. unlike their atmospheric counterparts, it is currently unknown what extent heatwaves altered human-induced climat...

Today, the stems of edible Opuntia are consumed as vegetables, cattle food, and processed in addition to being used for raw materials cosmetics medical supplies various countries, including Mediterranean, South America, Middle East, North Africa Asia, showing their wide adaptability climate zones ranging from arid, semiarid temperate zones. In a time when global warming population growth requir...