Have you ever wondered about how or when the temperature started rising on the earth? Well‚ let’s just get straight to the point. I’m talking about climate change. It may not seem like an important topic but it is. It’s an immensely important topic. My goal today is to tell you about climate change and how it all began… All of this began in the 1800’s when the “Industrial Revolution” took place. When this happened‚ people started to make goods in factories‚ rather than making them by hand and because
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as the country wasn’t able to cope with the severe weather. On the other side of the pacific in Australia and Indonesia the cold weather reduces evaporation‚ which causes very little rain and therefore drought‚ for example in the 1982/83 El Nino eastern Australia suffered one of it’s worst drought ever‚ resulting in a $2000 million loss in agriculture production. It causes crop failure and famine and many people died as a result. The dry spell also causes bush fires and dust storms‚ and in very severe
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Africa rely heavily on agriculture and wildlife to survive. With widespread poverty‚ any type of change in climate has the potential to be devastating‚ and cause malnutrition in children and adults. Climate change can already be seen in severe droughts in the Horn of Africa‚ and agricultural losses of up to 22 percent of maize‚ wheat‚ and rice. For these reasons‚ Africa will surely be one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. The people of Africa rely mostly on agriculture to sustain
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2000). In addition‚ it can be also defined as the series or event which disrupts the normal activities seriously. Disaster means a sudden or great misfortune. This may include tsunami; fires; floods; droughts; flood and many others. The major disasters naturally may include earthquake‚ cyclone‚ flood‚ and drought. Minor disasters naturally include storm‚ heat waves‚ cold wave‚ mud slides‚ and thunderstorm. The major disasters that may occur in man made activities include deforestation‚ fires‚ setting
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ISDR Briefing Note 01 Geneva‚ September 2008 Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Weather‚ climate and climate change Defining climate change For most people‚ the expression “climate change” means the alteration of the world’s climate that we humans are causing‚ through fossil fuel burning‚ clearing forests and other practices that increase the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG)1 in the atmosphere. This is in line with the official definition by the United Nations Framework Convention
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and Chinese Civilizations are both examples of societies that used their geography to help them as civilizations. These civilizations were able to develop based on the resources they had‚ and were able to become complex civilizations by irrigating floods and devising early plumbing systems. Geography had a dramatic influence on the lives of people in the Indus River Valley. Primarily centered along the Indus and the Punjab region‚ the civilization extended into the Ghaggar-Hakra River valley and
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Regular annual flooding is essential to people who live on the flood plain of these rivers‚ the farming season is planned around the floods‚ rice is a main crop and requires large quantities of water. Also‚ when the river floods it leaves behind fertile silt. write about how soils‚ vegetation and climate influence surface runoff which influences flooding or water shortage in the stupid drainage basin.. 1. Flood - Like droughts‚ flood are a naturally occurring phenomenon. Flooding is a result of
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including‚ enlargement and increased numbers of glacial lakes‚ settlements in mountain regions are at high risk of outburst floods caused by melting glaciers. Governmental institutions in some areas are responding to the problems caused by global climate changes by building drainage networks and dams. The climate changes also lead to increasing volatility in storms and wild fires‚ droughts‚ and reduced energy demand’s and increasing sea levels. The aspects of climate change we are certain of are as
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REPORT On Environment Degradation & Climate Change Date of Submission: 21/11/2011 Definition: Environmental degradation is a result of the dynamic interplay of socio-economic‚ institutional and technological activities. Environmental changes may be driven by many factors including economic growth
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layer has big holes. Those big holes are increasing the temperature of the earth because the sun’s rays came to the earth with more intensity. These high temperatures on the earth are making hotter days‚ rainfall‚ flood‚ wildfires‚ earthquakes‚ tornados F4 or F5‚ stronger hurricanes‚ droughts more severe‚ melting glaciers‚ and rise seas levels. As a result‚ each year those natural Phenomena are stronger and powerful causing many death and destructions. A lot intense climate is already occurring.
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