What is the impact? - Extreme weather: heat waves, droughts, hurricanes and floods - Failures in food production: droughts, water deficiencies, rising sea levels, floods, heat waves and temperature shifts will harm food manufacture, especially in most developing countries, such as Africa, Asia and the Pacific - Health disease: raising the range of tropical and sub-tropical contamination bearing pests, such as malaria and dengue carrying mosquitoes. - Sea level rise: due to melting glaciers and the thermal expansion of the oceans as global temperature rises - Species extinction: an increase of chances of species extinction and biodiversity forfeiture due to habitat loss - Water pollution: disappearing glaciers, increasing droughts and salt-water intrusion will critically worsen the worlds current fresh water shortage
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:31:15 +0000
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