ESP 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Adaptive Capacity, Acid Rain, Nitrogen Cycle
13 Jan 2018
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Agricultural growing conditions likely to change -- numbe frost free days. - nitrogen cycle expected to change --> nitrogen will be. - reductions are greater at low latitudes, less or better fo. - biggest losses in productivity from tropical areas, - increased co2 actually increases yield more than ag to keep it productive. By 2050 we have to produce 70% more food from land w. At increases above 3c, all regions are expected t. Risen almost 3 inches globally in the last 20 years. Predict it will rise by 1 m at the end of the century. Lose 1/3rd of southern florida and many major citie. 4 million people in us, billions of gdp loss, land are. Some regions too much water, others too little. By 2100, 74% pop more than 20 days of "deadly h. Environmental refugees: people forced to leave their h. Hard to estimate bc problems are closely linked w/
