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Impacts of Climate Change
Presenter:Aastha GurungBibasha Khadgi
Kushma Shrestha12/04/2015
Objectives
• To understand major consequences of climate change (CC) in this century and beyond.
Content
Introduction Negative Impacts of CC• Physical Impacts • Ecological Impacts • Socio-economic ImpactsPositive Impacts of CC
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
IntroductionWhen you change the climate you change
every thing.It effects people and nature in countless ways.Impact on ecosystems, economics and
communities.
Negative Impacts of CCPhysical impacts Raise in global temperature• Heat weaves Rising sea level• Melting polar ice• Loss of mountain glaciers and snow pack• Expansion of the oceans Increase in extreme events• Stronger hurricanes• More droughts and flooding
Ecological ImpactsShifts in species ranges and phenology• 130 species, both plants and animals have responded
to earlier spring warming• 1400 species are listed endangered due to CC- Red
list Wildfire, drought and insects• Increase in global temperature• Drying of spring, ground water depletion
Invasive speciesAgricultural shiftsOcean acidification• Emission of carbon dioxide• Dissolve of carbon dioxide in seawater
Socio- Economic ImpactsEquity and InequalityHealth• Infectious diseases• Water borne diseases• Food borne diseases• Vector borne disease• Respirator illness• Diabetes/Hypertension/Obesity
Social conflictCommunity will be forced to relocateRisk and property householdsAgriculture, transportation and food
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Positive Impacts of CCFewer winter deathsLower energy costsBetter agricultural yieldsProbably fewer droughtsMay be richer biodiversity
Thank You!
References • Climate Change 101: Understanding and Responding to
Global Climate Change, published by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and the Pew Center on the States
• The biodiversity BC technical subcommittee for the report on the status of biodiversity BC, May 2007
• National Research Council, 2011 in Climate change; Evidence, impacts, and choices
• National Research Council, 2009 In Ecological Impacts Of Climate Change
• Climate Change 2007 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC