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Global and regional climate can change as a result of natural and anthropogenic factors. This chapter provides a brief synopsis of those factors, including processes that have driven historic, and present-day changes and likely future changes within the present century. Included is an overview of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate projections, using a variety of possible future greenhouse gas concentrations (though also accounting for natural climate fluctuations). The possible implications of these changes (especially changes in temperature and precipitation) to crop growth and agriculture is then examined.
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Wallace, C., Hemming, M., Viner, D. (2016). Climate Change Scenarios and Their Potential Impact on World Agriculture. In: Orszulik, S. (eds) Environmental Technology in the Oil Industry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24334-4_14
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