Brace for all possible impacts

• Autores: Catherine Brahic
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2963, 2014, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It is hard to prepare for a disaster, but harder still to prepare for a disaster that people can't identify. Yet that is the quandary facing many nations, which still don't know how climate change will affect them--even though it is already happening. That means many communities must prepare for the unknown. People are running out of time to gather scientific evidence, says Koko Warner of the United Nations University in Bonn Germany. It is clear that climate change is happening, driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and its impacts will be felt around the world. But it has proved difficult to predict how events like floods and droughts will change in specific areas over the coming decades. Here, Brahic discusses why people still cannot predict exactly how climate change will affect each part of the world, but those on the front lines are showing others how to adapt.