Most of the observed changes resulting from climate change concern natural systems, such as water resources, sea levels or biodiversity.
The impacts these changes are having on water resources, sea-level rise and climate feedbacks are already observable and significant.
Miami can access a wealth of resources, including sea level rise projections, thanks to its membership in regional bodies like the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact.
We will examine multiple environmental effects on human health, food supply and price changes, infrastructure, energy demand, the quantity and quality of water resources, and sea level rise and coastal damage.
Climate havoc on water resources and sea levels displaces millions of people and jeopardizes the existence of entire countries.
Among their choices are damage to agriculture, forestry, water resources, energy consumption, sea level, ocean acidification, ecosystems and health.
An expanded systematic, uniform analysis of many more glaciers is needed to isolate the glacier response components due to climatic and nonclimatic perturbations, to produce quantitative measures of regional variation in glacier changes, and to predict future regional glacier trends relevant to water resources, glaciological hazards, and global sea level.
The remaining 23 states and territories have "barely adequate" or "poor" resources to appropriately manage for sea level rise and coastal erosion (Grades 'D'-'F').
Food insecurity is sure to become a bigger problem; marine health is being compromised; the health of our people is being impacted; and there is increased salinization of our already limited ground-water resources as a result of Sea Level Rise (SLR).
This will potentially lead to catastrophic effects on water resources and agricultural productivity, and accelerate sea level rise.
Writing today in PLOS One, a team composed of nine archaeologists from around the U.S. detail their model of cultural resources most at risk should the sea level rise predicted to result from anthropogenic global climate change bear out.
