Climate change is breeding storms with heavier rainfall, flooding farms — such as this one, which grows cotton. A warmer world — even by a half-degree Celsius — has more evaporation, leading to more water in the atmosphere. Such changing conditions put our agriculture, health, water supply and more at risk. The crops get more flooded and damaged than they did half a century ago. Every rise in warming is worse for the planet than the last. It's not too late to slow the pace of climate change as long as we act today.
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The effects of climate change on coffee are well-documented and coffee producers are already seeing reduced harvests, and more pests, because of it. Finding Nemo or Dory may become harder as their beautiful homes crumble under the stress of climate change. Warmer air and ocean temperatures cause coral bleaching, where corals lose their colour and may die. Ocean acidification — from increased CO2 in the atmosphere — compounds the problem.
Climate change is very bad news for anyone hoping to see the Great Barrier Reef one day. Did you know that 2 in every 3 people worldwide live in regions of severe water scarcity? Even a small increase in global temperatures will destabilise the water cycle and could make water scarcity much worse.
Climate change affects rainfall patterns, meaning both drought and flooding will be more common, and more intense. Globally temperature records have been broken in recent years, and flooding in the UK gets worse.
More frequent and more intense extreme weather is a documented result of our greenhouse gas emissions, and the annual cost of flooding in the UK could increase fold by the s as a result of climate change. We need to see politicians taking serious action on climate change, not looking for the next photo opportunity.
They really are amazing; the Amazon, for example, is home to an astonishing 1 in 10 of all the known species on Earth. Yet over a third of the Amazon rainforest is already threatened by climate change. With anthropogenic climate change driven by human-caused emissions to the atmosphere, it stands to reason that we face compromised air quality. Below are some of the impacts that are currently visible throughout the U. Global Change Research Program :.
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. Many states and cities are beginning to incorporate climate change into their planning. Changes in the timing of streamflow reduce water supplies for competing demands. Sea level rise, erosion, inundation, risks to infrastructure and increasing ocean acidity pose major threats.
Increasing wildfire, insect outbreaks and tree diseases are causing widespread tree die-off. Extreme heat will affect health, energy, agriculture and more. Decreased water availability will have economic and environmental impacts.
Extreme heat, heavy downpours and flooding will affect infrastructure, health, agriculture, forestry, transportation, air and water quality, and more. Climate change will also exacerbate a range of risks to the Great Lakes. Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all linked to climate change, have increased wildfires.
Declining water supplies, reduced agricultural yields, health impacts in cities due to heat, and flooding and erosion in coastal areas are additional concerns. Taken as a whole, the range of published evidence indicates that the net damage costs of climate change are likely to be significant and to increase over time. An indicator of current global sea level as measured by satellites; updated monthly. GISS climate models. Climate Time Machine.
Video: Global warming from to NASA visualization of future global temperature projections based on current climate models. Visualization comparing s and s. NASA visualizations of future precipitation scenarios. Precipitation Measurement Missions. Precipitation quiz.
West projected to be worst of millennium. Sea level quiz.
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