Concept information
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campaigns, elections, and the law
natural environment
environmental deterioration
climate change
Preferred term
effects of climate change
Definition
- The effects of climate change have already been observed around the planet and are expected to become more severe as global temperatures increase. Ice sheets and glaciers are rapidly melting as sea levels continue to rise, forcing the relocation of low-lying populations and threatening water supplies for millions of people. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change; Climate Change, Effects of]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- afforestation
- agriculture
- attribution of global warming
- aviation
- chaos theory
- cost of affecting climate change
- dangerous anthropogenic interference
- deforestation
- desertification
- deserts
- droughts
- economic impact of climate change
- ecosystems
- el Niño and la Niña
- floods
- food production
- global warming
- global warming debate
- greenhouse effect
- impacts of global warming
- marine mammals
- nitrous oxide
- penguins
- perfluorocarbons
- plants
- polar bears
- rainfall patterns
- retreating glaciers
- rising sea level
- species extinction
- sulfur dioxide
- sulfur hexafluoride
- tsunamis
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/effects_of_climate_change
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