Alteration of spatial and temporal patterns in temperature, rainfall, solar radiation, and winds from a changing climate Patient will exacerbate desertification. [ CHANG_3IPCCCONSEQUENCE 0 GC 19/11/2012 ]

Climate change is a long-term shift or alteration in the climate of a specific location, a region or the entire planet Patient . [ CHANG_6CANADAQFP 0 GC 19/11/2012 ]

Possible causes for such primary changes in absorbed incoming sunlight or emitted heat energy (called climate forcings) include variations in the concentrations of aerosols and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, changes in the reflective properties of the Earth 's surface, and alterations in the intensity of sunlight reaching the Earth 's atmosphere Patient . [ 5CANADAICC 0 GC 19/11/2012 ]

Key human influences include changes in greenhouse gas concentrations, stratospheric ozone depletion, local air pollution and alterations in land use Patient . [ 6CANADAQFP 0 GC 19/11/2012 ]

Some of the region 's ecosystems appear to be very vulnerable to climate change, at least in the long term, because alterations to soils, plants and ecosystems Patient are very likely, and there may be increases in fire occurrence and insect outbreaks. [ 7IPCCREGION 0 GC 19/11/2012 ]

The components of the climate system influence global and regional climate in a number of distinct ways: (a) by influencing the composition of the Earth 's atmosphere, thereby modulating the absorption and transmission of solar energy and the emission of infrared energy back to space; (b) through alterations in surface properties and in the amount and nature of cloud cover Patient , which have both regional and global effects on climate (...) [ 10IPCCMODELE 0 GC MCLH 19/11/2012 ]

Captive breeding for reintroduction and translocation is likely to be less successful if climate change is more dramatic as such change Cause could result in largescale modifications of environmental conditions, including the loss or significant Degree alteration of existing habitat Patient over some or all of a species' range Expanse . [ CHANG_2IPCCBIODIVERSITE 0 GC MCLH 06/04/2014 ]

These radiative forcings arise from changes in the atmospheric composition, alteration of surface reflectance Patient by land use Cause , and variation in the output of the sun. [ CHANG_11IPCCBILAN2001 0 GC 19/11/2012 ]

Changes in these temperature patterns Cause will also cause alterations in atmospheric wind patterns and in ocean currents Patient . [ 5CANADAICC 0 GC 19/11/2012 ]