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Climate change can be divided into two parts: natural change and change induced by human activity. Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Houghton et al, 1990; Houghton et al, 1992) has found that global warming of about 0.3–0.6°C has occurred over the last 100 years. Warming of about 0.6–0.8°C in East Asia over the last 100 years has been calculated by Hulme et al, (1992). Global climate change scenarios due to the greenhouse effect have indicated that global temperature and precipitation might increase (Houghton et al, 1990; Houghton et al, 1992). Regional climate change scenarios have also demonstrated that the temperature and precipitation in East Asia and China might increase due to the greenhouse effect (Hulme et al, 1992).
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Wang, F., Zhao, Zc. (1996). Climate Change and the Agro-ecosystems in China. In: Downing, T.E. (eds) Climate Change and World Food Security. NATO ASI Series, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61086-8_12
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