Geography Climate Change
- Created by: Jamelia
- Created on: 29-05-13 11:30
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- Negative Effects of Climate Change
- Changing Pattern of Crop Yields
- Coutries closest to the Euquator may suffer crop yeild decrease
- Tanzania and Mozambique with lose 1/3 of crops due to longer droughts
- 50% decrease in available wheat growing land in India
- Retreating Glaciers
- Vast majority of world's glaciers retreating
- Melting ice in the Arctic could cause Gulf stream to move south leading to colder temperature in Western Europe
- 90% glaciers in Antartic retreating affecting ocean movement
- Rising Sea Levels
- Between 1993 and 2006 sea levels rose 3.3 mm a year
- Will be a threat to low lying coastal areas (e.g. London, New York, Tokyo)
- 2 Kiribati islands are covered by sea water in the Pacific
- LICs
- Kenya droughts, now happen every 3 years instead of every 10
- Suffered worst drought in 80 years in 2006 causing a great loss in cattle
- Colca region of Peru, villages been abandoned
- Because of lack of snow they no longer have water supply
- Kenya droughts, now happen every 3 years instead of every 10
- HICs
- Greenpeace predicts the Great Barrier Reef will be dead in 30 years due to rising temperatures
- Increase in storms and floods in UK leading to an increase in cost of food damage
- Changing Pattern of Crop Yields
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