Regional Evaluation Of The Positive Feedback Between Climate Change And Energy Consumption
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Free (open access)
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Volume
29
Pages
8
Published
1998
Size
759 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/ENVMAN980031
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
J. Jorge, A. Closas & C. Comejo
Abstract
It is assumed that climate change induced by anthropogenic actions will manage to a new kind of human behaviour. In particular, since the economy is sensitive to climatic variations, including leisure activities like tourism, health and energy consumption, some aspects of the "possible" climate change will be able to cause a positive feedback from an economic point of view. An example of this feedback is located in heating consumption for domestic and industrial sectors. The modifications in the heating practice will be a reality. In the winter season, corresponding to local climate, households and industries consume more or less natural resources in function of air temperature. Hence, considering one of the standard scenarios of global change, we find more than 50% of reduction in vapor co
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