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TURN DOWN THE HEAT: CLIMATE EXTREMES, REGIONAL IMPACTS, AND THE CASE FOR RESILIENCEeven at present warming of 0.8°C above pre-industrial levels, theobserved climate change impacts are serious and indicate howdramatically human activity can alter the natural environmentupon which human life depends.The projected climate changes and impacts are derivedfrom a combined approach involving a range of climate modelsof varying complexity, including the state of the art CoupledModel Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), semi-empiricalmodeling, the “Simple Climate Model” (SCM), the Model forthe Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change(MAGICC; see Appendix 1) and a synthesis of peer reviewedliterature.Figure 1 ***Upper panel:Lower panel:industrial period.

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