BIOL 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Habitat Destruction, Sea Level Rise, Ipcc Fourth Assessment Report
10 Jan 2018
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*climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period. Impacts of climate change: human displacement, each year, millions of people are driven from their homes by floods, storms, droughts, and other weather-related disasters, the climate displacement program was the inspiration of ri"s late president, ken. Bacon: scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come, due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities, the ipcc predicts that increases in global mean temperature of less than 1. 8 to. The relative contributions of human and natural causes to these increases are still uncertain. Hurricane-associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm: us regional effects, northeast. Heat waves, heavy downpours and sea level rise pose growing challenges to many aspects of life in the northeast. Infrastructure, agriculture, fisheries and ecosystems will be increasingly compromised.
