Impacts of global warming
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- Created on: 01-10-14 10:50
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- IMPACTS OF GLOBAL WARMING
- PHYSICAL
- More intense rainfall will cause flooding
- Puts communities at risk
- Famine
- Vegetation zones will change, affecting yields of agricultural crops
- Migrations will increase the potential for conflict
- Storm, fire, drought, coastal flooding
- 50 million people worldwide could be affected by rising sea levels and many will be displaced
- Will put pressures on countries where they flee to
- Vegetation zones will change, affecting yields of agricultural crops
- Decrease in crop yields in the south-east of UK
- Increased agricultural and public demand for water
- Famine
- Migrations will increase the potential for conflict
- Storm, fire, drought, coastal flooding
- 50 million people worldwide could be affected by rising sea levels and many will be displaced
- Will put pressures on countries where they flee to
- Decrease in crop yields in the south-east of UK
- Increased agricultural and public demand for water
- Will put pressures on countries where they flee to
- Health risks
- Diseases such as malaria will be more widespread as insects are able to survive in areas previously too cold
- Increased risk of skin cancer
- Heatsroke
- Migrations will increase the potential for conflict
- Health risks
- Diseases such as malaria will be more widespread as insects are able to survive in areas previously too cold
- Increased risk of skin cancer
- Heatsroke
- Water shortages
- Famine
- Will put pressures on countries where they flee to
- Water shortages
- Famine
- Cost of reparations will put pressure on economies
- Puts communities at risk
- Rising sea levels
- Desertification in Europe
- UN CCD
- USA produces 25% of global emissions but is reluctant to commit to any targets
- UN CCD
- More intense rainfall will cause flooding
- ENVIRON-MENTAL
- Major species extinctions
- Increase in soil aridity, soil desiccation, soil erosion and shrinkage of clay soils
- Increase in insect species North as a result of northward migration
- Small decrease in number of plant species due to the loss of northern and mountainous climates
- ECONOMICAL
- UK: Increase in timber yields (up to 25 per cent by 1950)
- UK: Northward shift of farming zones by roughly 200-300 km/oC of warming or 50-80 km/decade will improve some forms of agriculture
- UK: Enhanced potential for tourism and recreation as a result of increased temperatures
- POLITICAL
- USA produces 25% of global emissions but is reluctant to commit to any targets
- 1992 Rio Earth Summit agreement reached to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by 2000
- 1997 Kyoto Protocol implemented commitments by developed nations to reduce the emission of six main greenhouse gases to 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels over 2008-2012
- Does not apply to developing nations
- Does not apply to developing nations
- SOCIAL
- Refugees from Africa as people move North in search of milder climate
- PHYSICAL
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