Climate Change Research Paper

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Climate change can be the main factor in the increase of extreme weather events around the world, researchers say that climate change will increase the frequency of these kind of natural disasters including heavy rainstorms and floods, putting many nations in the danger of devastation. Floods that used to happen one in a century now it happens four or five times during that same period, causes huge lost in homes and lives. Some small floods may not have large affects on the areas they happen in, but those little damages should not be ignored nor underestimated because one thing leads to another, the increasing of those little events associated with climate change put the society at risk of unknown challenges. This report will look at some… …show more content…

Higher temperature means more challenges the world might face in the near future and more events are likely to happen. According to some researches, the most pronounced increases observed over the last 25 years, and that will continue to go up, as scientists believe that temperature might increase by 1.5 to 6 Celsius degrees over the next 100 years. That will put all kinds of lives on this planet in danger. Wildlife is threatened with extinction from more wildfire, drought, tree diseases and insect outbreaks. Marine life is exposed, higher temperature causing more coral bleaching and more species move into deeper water to find new homes, furthermore, it is increasing ocean acidity and reducing oxygen level in deeper levels of the sea, that is all has a huge effect on marine life cycle, and behavior of marine species including its metabolism. However, the fact that mankind are responsible for climate fluctuation does not alter the danger we are in, as extreme heat, will lead to other serious issues. for example, heat waves, heavy downpours and flooding will affect infrastructure, sea level rise, health, air and water …show more content…

This dirty water can carry some very dangerous bacteria that cause diseases and this considered as one of the biggest unseen risks of floods. Standing water which is a result of heavy downpours and floods, can be the prefect new home for mosquitoes, therefore that would increase the chance of of losing more lives by spreading communicable diseases such as Malaria, Dengue and West Nile fever. For example, a Malaria outbreaks happened in Costa Rica 's in 1991 was because of an earthquake and subsequent flooding, another example is the outbreaks of West Nile fever in some European countries between 1996 and 1998 that caused by heavy rains and

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