By the 2080s, overall yield changes are projected to result in an additional 70 million hungry people globally, 40% more than expected (McMichael 2001b).
Future climate changes are projected to intensify precipitation patterns in western North America, leading to more pronounced shifts in plant distributions and potential subsequent effects on the wildlife that depend on them for food and habitat.
All told, the changes are projected to cut the growth rate in Medicare spending — from 7.3percentt a year to 6.1percentt in the fifth year.
These changes were projected to result in an 0.11 to 0.27% increase in nonaccidental mortality and an average 0.31% increase in cardiovascular disease mortality.
Overall, the impacts of climate change are projected to result in a net loss of global biodiversity and major shifts in the provision of ecosystem services.
NIH's scientific labor force must begin to reflect the demographic changes that are being projected in this country over the next 10 to 20 years.
For soybean (Brazil) and rice (Southeast Asia), conclusions are less clear, but an overall beneficial effect of climate change on rice is projected in Southern China.
Similarly in Northeastern Canada, climate change is projected to result in a northward shift in the range of Ixodes scapularis, a tick that carries Borrelia burgdorferi the etiologic agent of Lyme disease (20).
Climate change is projected to result in an increase in the intensity and/or frequency of extreme weather events, such as cyclones, and seasonal changes which will affect Fiji by changing rainfall patterns (10, 11).
Where climate change is projected to result in an increased frequency of stable anticyclonic conditions with little boundary layer ventilation and associated high temperatures, cloud-free conditions, and large solar radiation inputs, exceedance of current air quality standards will likely occur (Hogrefe et al. 2004a; Mickley et al. 2004; Murazaki and Hess 2006; Sousounis et al. 2002).
