Finally, our analysis shows that the source of oil combustion and mobile factors are impacted by local sources in the Ordos region; however, some regional impacts from other regions were also observed for mobile source in the area.
There's a lot more minute-to-minute input on the City Room blog on regional impacts.
The greatest scientific uncertainties concern how fast the climate will change and what will be the regional impacts.
They also rely on climate models that lose precision when assessing regional impacts of a warming global climate.
Regional impacts are particularly difficult to predict, though some work has been done to map the risks in different areas of the UK.
This challenge will be aggravated by climate change – so climate science needs better data, and modelling that can reliably predict regional impacts.
The new report from the World Bank, Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience (pdf) suggests that the worst impacts can be avoided if the temperature rise is kept under 2° Celsius.
If this means we can move on from a sterile debate about the global response to much more interesting questions about regional impacts, the rights of different generations, and, most interesting of all, what to do about it, that's great.
The GoE is sharing intelligence with Kenya, but Meles expressed a lack of confidence in Kenya's capacity to pull off a tactical success, which he feared could have negative regional impacts.
