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Characteristics & Threats
Increase Average Temperature, Which will lead To a Wide Range of Impacts & this Includes,
- Continued loss of polar ice and glaciers, and resultant rise in sea levels.
- More frequent and more intense storms and cyclones.
- Increased intensity of precipitation.
- Changes in rainfall pattern leading to severe water shortage or flooding.
- Increases in the frequency and intensity of heat waves.
- Increasing salinity of coastal freshwater aquifers.
- Coastal Erosion/Soil erosion.
- A loss of Biodiversity.
- Shifts in crop growing season leading to food security.
- Drought
- Changes in Distribution of DVctor Borne Diseases Thereby Putting More People at risk from Diseases Such as Malaria,Chikunguniya and Dengue fever
- Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect in Urban Areas
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