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Climate change is accelerating according to scientists and will have significant impacts on Catalonia. Summers will be hotter, winters milder, and sea level rise will cause Catalonia to lose land area. The temperature increase of 3.5°C on average will also affect snow levels in the Pyrenees and Barcelona. Within 60-70 years, the effects of climate change will be visible through changes to vegetation zones, skin variations, and water temperatures in lakes and the sea.
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Scientists warned of climate change over a century ago, and now Catalonia has lost some land to rising sea levels. Global temperatures have increased by 3 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years due to increased population and pollution. Cities like Venice are at risk of flooding, while some regions like Russia may see agricultural benefits from climate change. Leaders need to take action to reduce emissions and consumption to mitigate the future impacts, which include stronger hurricanes, drier conditions in Catalonia, and potentially needing to pay for clean air.
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The polar ice caps are melting at an increasing rate due to human-caused climate change. Studies from 2013 estimated that if melting continues, sea levels would rise 66 meters over the next 5,000 years. The main cause is carbon dioxide emissions which are enhancing the greenhouse effect and warming the planet's temperatures. As the ice melts, it has consequences like reduced albedo and sea level rise, as well as potential methane emissions from marine permafrost and changes to ocean currents. The extent of summer sea ice has declined significantly over the last few decades in both polar regions.
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The polar ice caps are melting at an increasing rate due to human-caused climate change. Studies from 2013 estimated that if melting continues, sea levels would rise 66 meters over the next 5,000 years. The main cause is carbon dioxide emissions which are enhancing the greenhouse effect and warming the planet's temperatures. As the ice melts, it has consequences like reduced albedo and sea level rise, as well as potential methane emissions from marine permafrost and changes to ocean currents. The extent of summer sea ice has declined significantly over the last few decades in both polar regions.
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The climate change refers to changes in modern climate caused primarily by global warming due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere. It affects the poles the most where temperature increases quickly, and mountains where snow and ice are disappearing. If unchecked, climate change will cause sea levels to rise over 10 meters flooding coastal cities, disrupt rainfall patterns, and destroy habitats leading to widespread plant and animal death along with food and resource shortages that put many human lives at risk. The primary cause is pollution that is trapping more heat from the sun near the earth's surface and depleting the ozone layer, in addition to wasteful energy practices.
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Greenhouseeffect
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Search Premier
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BEYOND LIMITS: WHERE WE'RE HEADED
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Already we are witnessing the future envisioned by many of these models take shape. As predicted, there has been more warming over land than over the oceans, more at the poles than near the equator, more in winter than in summer and more at night than in the day. Extreme downpours have become more common. In the Arctic, ice and snow cover less area, and methane-rich permafrost soils are beginning to melt. Weather is getting weirder, with storms fueled by the additional heat.
What are the ultimate limits of the change that we are causing? The best historical example comes from the 100-million-year-old climate of the Cretaceous period, when moist, hot air enveloped dinosaurs' leathery skin, crocodilelike creatures swam in the Arctic and teeming plant life flourished in the CO2-rich air. The greenhouse that is forming now will have consequences that last for hundreds of thousands of years or more. But first, it will profoundly affect much of life on the planet -- especially us.
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Just how much CO2 could we put into the atmosphere? All told, there are about one quadrillion metric tons (1021 grams) of organic carbon locked up in Earth's sedimentary shell in one form or another. So far we have burned only one twentieth of 1 percent of this carbon, or roughly 2,000 billion metric tons of CO2.
With all the carbon locked in Earth's crust, we will never run out of fossil fuels. We are now extracting oil from tar sands and natural gas from water-fractured shale -- both resources once thought to be technologically and economically inaccessible. No one can confidently predict just how far ingenuity can take us. Yet eventually the cost of extraction and processing will become so high that fossil fuels will become more expensive than alternativ ...
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ECOLOGY
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Already we are witnessing the future envisioned by many of these models take shape. As predicted, there has been more warming over land than over the oceans, more at the poles than near the equator, more in winter than in summer and more at night than in the day. Extreme downpours have become more common. In the Arctic, ice and snow cover less area, and methane-rich permafrost soils are beginning to melt. Weather is getting weirder, with storms fueled by the additional heat.
What are the ultimate limits of the change that we are causing? The best historical example comes from the 100-million-year-old climate of the Cretaceous period, when moist, hot air enveloped dinosaurs' leathery skin, crocodilelike creatures swam in the Arctic and teeming plant life flourished in the CO2-rich air. The greenhouse that is forming now will have consequences that last for hundreds of thousands of years or more. But first, it will profoundly affect much of life on the planet -- especially us.
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Just how much CO2 could we put into the atmosphere? All told, there are about one quadrillion metric tons (1021 grams) of organic carbon locked up in Earth's sedimentary shell in one form or another. So far we have burned only one twentieth of 1 percent of this carbon, or roughly 2,000 billion metric tons of CO2.
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1. Different biomes and their typical climates such as tundra, taiga, temperate grasslands, and tropical rainforests.
2. Causes of climate change like the greenhouse effect, El Nino, and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
3. Impacts of climate change like rising sea levels, more frequent extreme weather events, threats to agriculture and water supplies, and effects on plants and animals.
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This document summarizes key points from a course on climate change:
1. We are already experiencing impacts from 0.6-0.8°C of warming and have at least another 0.6-0.8°C committed due to past emissions.
2. Continuing at current emission rates would take us to 450ppm CO2 by 2035, a potential "tipping point" for climate change and ecosystems.
3. Warming of 2°C may be too much and could lead to further warming from feedbacks like melting ice sheets and methane release potentially taking us to 3°C.
Catalonia
Catalonia experienced significant climate change starting in 2010, with summers lengthening, winters becoming milder, and sea levels rising enough to shrink Catalonia's size. By 2036, Catalonia no longer saw snow year-round and its glaciers had disappeared, while Venice now experienced occasional small floods. The Ebro Delta, which had existed for 1000 years, was also gone due to higher sea levels. While climate change effects were already dramatic, they could have been less severe if all countries had worked to reduce greenhouse gases as suggested by the Kyoto agreement.
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- 1. Catalonia Climate change Amira BCN Congrés
- 2. Climate change is being accelerated. The cientificts say that this change will be a big problem. Summers will be hotter and winter will be softer.
- 3. Because of the rising see level Catalonia will become smaller. Thisalso affects other cities like Venice, you’ll only be able to visit it by boat. There’ll be demonstrations in Camarles because of the disappearance of the Ebro delta and our grandsons probably won’t see it.
- 4. Many countries are trying to produce less industrial gases. The temperature will raise about 3.5ºC average. Catalonia is a snowy place, it always snows in the Pyrenees even in Barcelona but not anymore.
- 5. Because of the climate, vines will be planted in Scotland.
- 6. Within 60-70 years, our skin will be more uniform, there won’t be much skin variation. There will be big changes in the lakes and reservoirs, the see temperature will rise to about 27ºC.
- 7. Inshort, the things we do today can have determinal effects on the future.