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Impacts of These Atmospheric Changes
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... /mpacis of g/ob~/~Imos,oheric changes Robert Watson, who is now chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , discussed the impacts resulting from global scale atmospheric changes, in particular stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change.
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... Such changes, in turn, will have important consequences for human wellbeing, because we depend on healthy ecosystems for so many essential goods and services, such as food, fiber, medicine, soil protection, water purification, flood control, and nutrient cycling. Climate change also could have direct deleterious impacts on human health, due 2 Climate Charge 199S.
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