Impacts Of Climate Change Flashcards
Low lying coastal areas
Bangladesh affected with large scale displacement of people, loss of land, destruction of property
More extreme and variable weather
Floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes more frequent and intense
Increase in precipitation
Winter in Scotland
Great Plains get drier
Tropical disease
Increases
Such as Malaria in Africa
Longer growing season
In Europe which increases food production and range of crops being grown
Impact on wildlife and natural habitat
Extinction of 10% of land species and coral reefs bleached
Changes to ocean current circulation
Considerably colder winters
Thermohaline circulation loses impact on NW Europe
Increased risk of forest fires
Australia and California due to change in surface temperatures and in rainfall patterns
Sea level
Rises as it expands with heat and also by the melting of glaciers and ice caps in Greenland, Antarctica