Climate Change In Coastal Communities

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To me the coastal communities are what I would choose to relate to. I chose them because they are the ones who I feel would suffer the most from global climate change. The coastal communities are highly dependent upon things remaining the same. There are many things that global climate change can change for their way of life. These areas are highly populated 25 million people are at risk at of climate change. (E.P.A,n.d) Life in these communities are highly dependent upon marine transportation of goods, offshore energy drilling, resource extraction, fish cultivation, recreation, and tourism are integral to the nation's economy, generating 58% of the national gross domestic product (GDP). (E.P.A,n.d) I decided that this audience needed to know …show more content…

The best way is to teach the controversy. Numbers are just not enough to convince the population to change. The concepts and the meanings are what would be needed to change the way the population contributes to climate change. This means we would have to address myths and misconceptions to eliminate skepticism. The objectives would be laid out in first we first set out how the change will affect the area. Then state how we can alter lifestyles to help drive change. The structure would be to set a strategy that is easily understood, communicate, and will respond well with the rapid change in climate. My key terms would be Climate change which is a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. (O,n.d) Adaptive Capacity- The ability of a system to adjust to climate change (including climate variability and extremes) to moderate potential damages, to take advantage of opportunities, or to cope with the consequences. (E.P.A,n.d) Climate Sensitivity - In Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, equilibrium climate sensitivity refers to the equilibrium change in global mean surface temperature following a doubling of the atmospheric (equivalent) CO2 concentration. More generally, equilibrium climate sensitivity refers to the equilibrium change in surface air temperature following a unit change in radiative forcing (degrees Celsius, per watts per square meter, ?C/Wm-2). One method of evaluating the equilibrium climate sensitivity requires very long simulations with Coupled General Circulation Models (Climate model). The effective climate sensitivity is a related measure that circumvents this requirement. It is evaluated from model output for

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