NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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- Created on: 10-04-13 18:16
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- Negative effects of climate change
- In the UK, due to rising temperatures, bananas can be grown.
- Research has shown that 90% of the glaciers in Antarctica are melting.
- Tanzania & Mozambique could lose almost a third of their maize crop due to longer drought periods.
- Rising sea levels will threaten low-lying coastal land including cities like London.
- Two of the Kiribati Islands are now covered by the sea.
- Droughts now happen every 3 years in Kenya instead of every 10 years.
- Many farmers have lost all of their cattle due to lack of water.
- Polar bears cannot travel overland to catch prey due to loss of sea ice & habitat.
- Negative effects of climate change
- In the UK, due to rising temperatures, bananas can be grown.
- Research has shown that 90% of the glaciers in Antarctica are melting.
- Tanzania & Mozambique could lose almost a third of their maize crop due to longer drought periods.
- Rising sea levels will threaten low-lying coastal land including cities like London.
- Two of the Kiribati Islands are now covered by the sea.
- Droughts now happen every 3 years in Kenya instead of every 10 years.
- Many farmers have lost all of their cattle due to lack of water.
- Negative effects of climate change
- By the end of the century, sea levels could increase by 3.3mm a year, 88cm by the end of the century
- Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers when created in 1910. It has no decreased to 30. It's predicted that in 30 years, most will disappear.
- If the sea level in Bangladesh goes up by 1 metre, Bangladesh will lose 17.5% of its land.
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