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Facts and Projections on Climate Change

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This chapter outlines the main facts about changes in the global climate in recent decades and established projections of climate scientists regarding the future evolution of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, temperature, sea level and precipitation. Apart from the global level, the past and future evolution of key climate variables in Europe, the Mediterranean region and Cyprus is described. Latest available information from international and regional studies is used for this purpose.

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Notes

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    Definitions of macro- and microclimate according to Merriam–Webster’s dictionary, available online at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/, last accessed in December 2015.

  2. 2.

    Graphs and results reproduced here are from the EU-funded project ENSEMBLES (Contract number 2003-505539) (van der Linden and Mitchell 2009)—more details can be found on the website www.ensembles-eu.org.

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    See the Department’s web page (http://www.moa.gov.cy/ms) for graphs and brief reports about the climate of Cyprus.

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Zachariadis, T. (2016). Facts and Projections on Climate Change. In: Climate Change in Cyprus. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29688-3_2

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