The effects of climate change

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The effects of climate change:

 

• temperature rise (melting of glaciers and consequently rising sea levels, floods and the destruction of coastal areas);

• extreme weather phenomena (intense rain fainfall, storms, hail, tornadoes, extended droughts);

• more deaths caused by heat waves;

• increased costs resulting from the destruction of infrastructure, households and enterprises during storms;

• changes in the occurrence of individual species within natural communities, in a specific latitudes;

• groundwater pollution;

• the occurrence of the so-called smog, it means: clouds concentrating steam and dust;

• chronical occupational promotes the development of chronic bronchitis and emphysema.