From rising sea levels to more severe storms and more intense droughts, climate change will present serious risks to, and create major opportunities for, nearly every industry.
According to its latest report – the culmination of seven years of research and intense negotiations – climate change is on its way to causing "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage on the world's people, cultures, ecosystems and economies.
Similar climate stories are playing out on nearly every continent, where a steady onslaught of droughts, floods and heat waves, which are expected to become even more frequent and intense with climate change, have displaced millions of people and led to widespread food shortages.
Taking into account that water balance in PRB is deficient already since 1990′s, the water stress signal becomes more intense and climate change adaptation becomes more difficult.
Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson, who presented the findings here yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW), says his study of the vanishing Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru provides frightening new evidence of accelerating glacier loss, which he says could be a "canary in the coal mine" for intense global climate change.
Studies also have predicted more intense monsoons with climate change.
For instance, some researchers have presented evidence suggesting that hurricanes are growing more intense because of climate change, but the report sided with a group of experts who say that such a claim is premature.
Scientists say that El Niño is probably getting more frequent and more intense because of climate change.
And, say scientists, wildfires in the area could become more frequent and more intense due to climate change.
Floods, hurricanes, wildfires and other extreme events are becoming more frequent and more intense because of climate change, experts warn, and that's never been more apparent than in 2015.
