Effects of Climate Change on the UK
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- Created on: 28-12-13 17:53
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- Effects of Climate Change in the UK
- Drought due to high temperatures and below average rainfall
- farmers become affected because crops do not grow well and water supplies become more tightly controlled
- Sea levels rise due to global warming
- Low-lying coasts like East Anglia, Essex and London could flood and coast lines erode quicker, e.g. Holderness
- Expensive sea defenses and flood barriers needed.
- Low-lying coasts like East Anglia, Essex and London could flood and coast lines erode quicker, e.g. Holderness
- Warmer UK benefits
- in winter heating costs and road gritting costs could fall
- more people could take their holidays in the Uk, which would be good for the tourism industry
- there could be fewer deaths of old people in the winter from the cold
- New crops might mean new sales opportunities for farmers
- more land could be farmed at higher altitudes
- Warmer UK negatives
- In the summer, drought and water shortages could become more common, especially in the south
- There could be more illnesses such as, heat-stroke and skin cancer
- Very hot temperatures can melt road surfaces and buckles railway lines
- Farmers might have to change crops to those that need less water and more sunshine
- Some plants and animals might die out in the UK
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP)- the total value of goods and services in a nation measure over a year
- In 2005 Sir Nicholas Stern wrote a report on global warming and its impacts. THis was called the, "Stern Review
- "We should spend 2% of our GDP reducing greenhouse gases and pollution now"
- If we don't do this the effects of global warming could reduce our GDP by 20%
- "We should spend 2% of our GDP reducing greenhouse gases and pollution now"
- In 2005 Sir Nicholas Stern wrote a report on global warming and its impacts. THis was called the, "Stern Review
- Extreme Weather
- Storms like the great gales in 1987 and 1990
- flooding, like summer 2007, when parts of the midlands had a month's rainfall in 1-2 days
- Expensive because insurance companies have to pay out, and the government has to help.
- Heat waves like summer 2003, when temperature s reached 38 degrees
- By 2030 heat waves like the one in 2003 could happen once in every 3 years
- Storms like the great gales in 1987 and 1990
- Heat waves like summer 2003, when temperature s reached 38 degrees
- millions of pounds need to be spent on flood barriers
- Expensive because insurance companies have to pay out, and the government has to help.
- Heat waves like summer 2003, when temperature s reached 38 degrees
- By 2030 heat waves like the one in 2003 could happen once in every 3 years
- Drought due to high temperatures and below average rainfall
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