In addition, "projected increases in heatwaves will increase heat-related deaths and hospitalisations, especially among the elderly", while coastal areas will be at risk from erosion, landslides and flooding, owing to weather pattern changes and sea level rises.
Its conclusions about climbing temperatures and the resulting weather pattern changes should give notice to those charged with ensuring our border security.
As a result of deforestation, the area experiences seasonal weather pattern changes, a decrease in river water volumes, and an increasing threat to the loss of national economic assets in tourism, energy and agriculture sectors.
That one wet day at Wimbledon was actually a monsoon, as our weather patterns change beyond all recognition.
The flooding at Sabic underscores how floodplain designations may be increasingly outdated as rains intensify and weather patterns change.
The conflict between water and power, seen in India's blackout, is poised to become more acute as weather patterns change and fast-growing economies consume more water.
"Some of their nations could disappear entirely and as weather patterns change, we might deal with tens of millions of climate refugees in the Asia Pacific region".
As the global climate and local weather patterns change, the apple belt of the state of Himachal Pradesh in the Indian Himalaya has been migrating to higher elevations.
"People who do research on how weather patterns change in long-term cycles believe that is part of what is making the weather do what it is doing now," he said.
In addition, unless weather patterns change markedly over the next few weeks, there will be big crops through the Corn Belt and other areas, bringing higher yields per acre that will soften the blow of lower prices.
If weather patterns change and the glaciers decline, so does the water supply, fundamental to human health and sanitation, agriculture, and industry, not to mention the lives of countless other living beings.
