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Cambio climático y fenómenos extremos
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Carlos Gay García
Carlos
Gay García
Programa de Investigación en Cambio Climático
Coordinador
Resumen EPA
Resumen EPA
Projected Impacts by Sector
Projected Change
Agriculture, forestry
Water resources
Human health/
mortality
Industry/settlement/s
ociety
Increased yields in colder
Effects on water
Reduced human mortality
environments; decreased
resources relying on snow from decreased cold
yields in warmer
exposure
melt
environments;
Reduced energy demand
for heating; increased
demand for cooling;
declining air quality in
cities; reduced effects of
snow, ice etc.
Warm spells/heat
waves: frequency
increases over most
land areas
Reduced yields in warmer
Increased water demand;
Increased risk of heatregions due to heat stress
water quality problems,
related mortality
at key devel. stages; fire
e.g., algal blooms
danger increase
Reduction in q
quality
y of life
for people in warm areas
without air conditioning;
impacts on elderly and
very young; reduced
thermoelectric power
production efficiency
Heavy precipitation
events: frequency
increases over most
areas
Damage to crops; soil
erosion, inability to
cultivate land, water
logging of soils
Warmer/fewer cold
days/nights;
warmer/more hot
days/nights over most
land areas.
Adverse effects on quality
of surface and
groundwater;
contamination of water
supply
Disruption of settlements,
Deaths, injuries,
commerce, transport and
infectious diseases,
societies due to flooding;
allergies and dermatitis
pressures on urban and
from floods and landslides
rural infrastructures
Projected Change
Heavy precipitation
events: frequency
inc eases over
increases
o e most
areas
Area affected by
y
drought: increases
Number of intense
tropical
t
i l cyclones:
l
increases
Projected Impacts by Sector
Damage to crops; soil
erosion, inability to
lti t lland,
d water
t
cultivate
logging of soils
Adverse effects on
quality of surface and
groundwater;;
g
contamination of water
supply
Land degradation, lower
yields/crop
water
y
/
p damage
g and More widespread
p
failure; livestock deaths; stress
land degradation
g to crops;
p ;
Damage
windthrow of trees
Power outages cause
disruption
off public
di
ti
bli
water supply
Incidence of extreme
Decreased freshwater
Salinization of irrigation
high
availability
g sea level:
y due to
d well
ll water
t
and
increases
saltwater intrusion
Deaths, injuries,
infectious diseases,
allergies
g
and dermatitis
from floods and
landslides
Disruption of
settlements, commerce,
transport and societies
d
due
tto flooding;
fl di
pressures on urban and
rural infrastructures
Water shortages for
Increased risk of food
settlements, industry
and water shortage and
and societies;; reduced
ild fi
d risk
i k
fires; iincreased
wild
hydropower generation
of water- and food-borne
potentials; potentials for
diseases
population migration
Disruption by flood and
Increased risk of deaths, high winds; withdrawal
injuries,
waterand
off risk
i j i
t
d
i k coverage in
i
food-borne diseases
vulnerable areas by
private insurers
Costs of coastal
Increase in deaths by
protection versus costs
drowning in floods;
of land-use relocation;;
i
iin stress-related
t
l t d
increase
also see tropical
disease
cyclones above
Abrupt Climate Change
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changes in the Earth
changes
in the Earth’ss orbit
orbit
a brightening or dimming of the sun
melting or surging ice sheets
li
i i
h
strengthening or weakening of ocean currents
emissions of climate‐altering gases and p
particles into the atmosphere
p
Adapted from Alexander et al. (2006).
Alexander et al. (2006).
IPCC
Escenarios Globales AR4 Desastres mas frecuentes
Escala global durante
1991-2005
Mayores desastres en México
durante 1980-2003
( ill
(millones
d
de dls.)
dl )
(EM-DAT, 2006)
Origen hidrometeorológico
(Zuñiga-Bello, 2007)
REDESClim, 2011
Origen Hidrometeorológico y Climático
(Stahle ett al. 2009)
Junio 2010: Paso del Huracán Alex por Monterrey
Inundaciones y heladas
2010
Todo México: Sequías e incendios
REDESClim, 2011
México (temperatura anual)
México (precipitación anual)
DF (temperatura mayo)
DF (temperatura
DF (precipitación anual)
DF (precipitación
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