Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia

4	PHYSICAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE 21st CENTURY	105
	4.1 Regional Patterns of Warming and Related Factors,	105
	4.2 Precipitation Response,	114
	4.3 Hurricanes,	118
	4.4 Circulation and Related Factors,	0120
	4.5 Temperature Extremes,	122
	4.6 Precipitation Extremes,	123
	4.7 Sea Ice, Snow, and Related Factors,	129
	4.8 Sea Level Rise (inc. ice sheets and glaciers),	142
	4.9 Ocean Acidification,	153
5	IMPACTS IN THE NEXT FEW DECADES AND COMING CENTURIES	159
	5.1 Food Production, Prices, and Hunger,	159
	5.2 Coastal Erosion and Flooding,	165
	5.3 Streamflow,	169
	5.4 Fire,	175
	5.5 Infrastructure,	181
	5.6 Health,	188
	5.7 Ecology and Ecosystems,	196
	5.8 Biological Ocean,	205
	5.9 Illustrative Additional Factors,	211
6	BEYOND THE NEXT FEW CENTURIES	217
	6.1 Long-term Feedbacks and Earth System Sensitivity,	217
	6.2 Long-term Societal and Environmental Issues,	231
REFERENCES		235
APPENDIXES
A	Statement of Task	269
B	Committee Membership	271
C	Methods	279
D	Acronym List	283