Climate Change Impacts
- Created by: mollygaughan
- Created on: 05-02-20 11:53
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- Impacts of Climate Change
- Ecosystems and Species
- Polar
- artic warming 2 times faster than global average
- causing ice to melt
- Polar bears rely on sea ice to feed and hibernate, they are at risk of extinction
- artic warming 2 times faster than global average
- 1.5C rise may put 20-30% of species at risk
- Ecosystems will struggle
- Polar
- Weather
- Storms
- Higher temps give storms more energy
- Hurricanes can happen in new locations as sea temps rise in areas where it is to cold for extreme storms
- Patterns
- Unreliable, precipitation
- Loss of seasons
- Storms
- Sea Levels
- Sea ice
- Ice influences earths climate, reflecting suns energy and helping regulate global temperatures
- =more frequent floods, uninhabitable places
- Maldives uninhabitable by 2030, putting 380,000 people at risk
- Sea ice
- Farming
- Caused by droughts and floods impacting quantity & quality of water.
- Rice production in South Asia to fall by 10%
- Maize production in South Africa to fall by 30% by 2030
- Forests
- High levels of extinction
- Dying trees emit their CO2 stores
- Increase in wildfires
- Disease
- Distribution of pets and diseases will change
- Also effecting farming
- Increased risk of tick-bourne diseases
- Increased risk of mosquito-bourne diseases
- Distribution of pets and diseases will change
- Ecosystems and Species
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