2) A Warming climate can create new opportunities for agriculture (2).
3) What can be grown outdoors is determined by the climate (3).
4) Climate determines the extent of sea ice, and whether or not ocean travel is allowed (4).
5) How much water can be safely stored behind a dam depends on climate records (5).
6) Climate records determine what needs to be done to prepare for Winter. Those who ignore those records, and fail to prepare, do so at great risk (6).
The consequences of a cooling climate can be severe (7).
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<<... climates never really posed any threats.>> The historical record says otherwise (9).
<<... people have seen their once fertile land turn into desert ...>> Agricultural production has increased
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Climate changes has importance in every organism in the earth. Surely change in climate mostly effect the daily activities of humans. In the development areas sometimes require water availability and in some cases water is needed. In the stage when water is not required if a rain come it will destruct the building.
In agriculture also water has a vital role. Water is required at time only it required. Unexpected climate change will affect the productivity in the farm.
The climate has effects on all activities of human, whether it is in development or in agriculture or in transportation.
Yes, Climate affects people in different ways especially on health. Sunstroke or sun burn, many allergies to respiratory organic etc. It makes week the immune system of people. Climate change also affects the crop by longer or smaller season of it, unwanted rainfall or no rain in the raining season. So, directly or indirectly people get affected by the climate.
The whole development of humanity has been governed by the climates, perhaps more than any other factor.
For example, it’s only in specific climatic regions that liquid water exists, that animals can be grazed, that food can be grown. In order for humans, and pretty much every other species, to have survived, we had to live in areas with a favourable climate.
Everything from where we live, the food we eat, the language we speak, the colour of our skin is dictated by the climates. In that respect, every one of us is massively influenced by the climates.
Given our total reliance on climate we have always sought out places with the most favourable climate – the places that are warmer, have reliable rainfall and water provision, a climate that provides for farming and agriculture etc.
It’s only in comparatively recent times that technology has enabled us to live in otherwise inhospitable locations. Las Vegas provides a good example of this, until we had the technology to construct the Hoover Dam and as a result bring power, light and water into the desert, it was an area that people could barely have survived in for any length of time.
For thousands of years the global climates have been relatively stable. Our distant ancestors established themselves in suitable locations and over centuries and millennia these places have grown into the towns and cities we live in today. The climates never really posed any threats.
Today the climates are changing and we’re already seeing the effects, largely in Africa and Asia. Millions of people have seen their once fertile land turn into desert, many millions more no longer have a water supply and have been forced to migrate elsewhere. Whilst this is something that’s always happened, it’s never been witnessed on anything like the current scale.
The future brings the potential threat from rising sea-levels – a consequence of a warmer global climate melting the polar ice and warming the seas and oceans. Cities that have stood for thousands of years are facing the risk of being inundated by rising sea-levels.
Two thousand years ago the Romans founded Londinium, what we now call London. It’s been on the tidal banks of the River Thames for all this time without any real risk of flooding. Today it has to be protected by a massive tidal barrage that can be raised to cut London off from the sea and keep the floodwaters out. We’re going to need more and more of these tidal defences in order to protect some of our largest cities, either that or we abandon them and move to higher ground.
So whether it’s past, present or future, the climate is something that has had, and always will have, a very significant impact on our lives.
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EDIT: TO NW JACK
Thanks for your added comments, there are however problems with all of them.
? Firstly, the Loehle graph ends in 1935 so can’t possibly be used as a comparison to modern climates. In any event, recent warming is 38 times the magnitude of warming that led to the MWP.
? The Dust Bowl Years were not a climatological event, what makes you would think they are?
? Global food production has increased because we’re farming more land, use more intensive methods, have invested heavily in R and D. Higher temps reduce global food yields because much farming is in marginal areas that can not adapt to higher temps. In temperature climates we can adapt, in dry and arid climates we can’t.
? As for your link re sea level rises, please see the next page on the site which explains that sea-level rise is accelerating and could be 50cm or more in the next 50 to 100 years.
Climate, itself has a big effect on the food we eat, the energy we use, homes we live in, work we do (and how we travel to work), our culture and heritage and the way we spend our spare time. It can even affect our health, from sunburn to allergies to respiratory illnesses and many others way.
Climate effects weather, and weather effects whether you get sunburn or rain-drenched or want to wear shorts or long underwear, and whether or not the Sunday baseball game gets rained out.
Did you also know that plants turn carbon dioxide in oxygen and that people do the opposite?
In everything they do.
Nobody is immune from the climate in which they live.
Go here:
http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/impac...
or
http://www.ehow.com/about_6163202_weathe...
Not if they are prepared.
Climate changes has importance in every organism in the earth. Surely change in climate mostly effect the daily activities of humans. In the development areas sometimes require water availability and in some cases water is needed. In the stage when water is not required if a rain come it will destruct the building.
In agriculture also water has a vital role. Water is required at time only it required. Unexpected climate change will affect the productivity in the farm.
The climate has effects on all activities of human, whether it is in development or in agriculture or in transportation.
Yes, Climate affects people in different ways especially on health. Sunstroke or sun burn, many allergies to respiratory organic etc. It makes week the immune system of people. Climate change also affects the crop by longer or smaller season of it, unwanted rainfall or no rain in the raining season. So, directly or indirectly people get affected by the climate.
The whole development of humanity has been governed by the climates, perhaps more than any other factor.
For example, it’s only in specific climatic regions that liquid water exists, that animals can be grazed, that food can be grown. In order for humans, and pretty much every other species, to have survived, we had to live in areas with a favourable climate.
Everything from where we live, the food we eat, the language we speak, the colour of our skin is dictated by the climates. In that respect, every one of us is massively influenced by the climates.
Given our total reliance on climate we have always sought out places with the most favourable climate – the places that are warmer, have reliable rainfall and water provision, a climate that provides for farming and agriculture etc.
It’s only in comparatively recent times that technology has enabled us to live in otherwise inhospitable locations. Las Vegas provides a good example of this, until we had the technology to construct the Hoover Dam and as a result bring power, light and water into the desert, it was an area that people could barely have survived in for any length of time.
For thousands of years the global climates have been relatively stable. Our distant ancestors established themselves in suitable locations and over centuries and millennia these places have grown into the towns and cities we live in today. The climates never really posed any threats.
Today the climates are changing and we’re already seeing the effects, largely in Africa and Asia. Millions of people have seen their once fertile land turn into desert, many millions more no longer have a water supply and have been forced to migrate elsewhere. Whilst this is something that’s always happened, it’s never been witnessed on anything like the current scale.
The future brings the potential threat from rising sea-levels – a consequence of a warmer global climate melting the polar ice and warming the seas and oceans. Cities that have stood for thousands of years are facing the risk of being inundated by rising sea-levels.
Two thousand years ago the Romans founded Londinium, what we now call London. It’s been on the tidal banks of the River Thames for all this time without any real risk of flooding. Today it has to be protected by a massive tidal barrage that can be raised to cut London off from the sea and keep the floodwaters out. We’re going to need more and more of these tidal defences in order to protect some of our largest cities, either that or we abandon them and move to higher ground.
So whether it’s past, present or future, the climate is something that has had, and always will have, a very significant impact on our lives.
- - - - - - - -
EDIT: TO NW JACK
Thanks for your added comments, there are however problems with all of them.
? Firstly, the Loehle graph ends in 1935 so can’t possibly be used as a comparison to modern climates. In any event, recent warming is 38 times the magnitude of warming that led to the MWP.
? The Dust Bowl Years were not a climatological event, what makes you would think they are?
? Global food production has increased because we’re farming more land, use more intensive methods, have invested heavily in R and D. Higher temps reduce global food yields because much farming is in marginal areas that can not adapt to higher temps. In temperature climates we can adapt, in dry and arid climates we can’t.
? As for your link re sea level rises, please see the next page on the site which explains that sea-level rise is accelerating and could be 50cm or more in the next 50 to 100 years.
Climate, itself has a big effect on the food we eat, the energy we use, homes we live in, work we do (and how we travel to work), our culture and heritage and the way we spend our spare time. It can even affect our health, from sunburn to allergies to respiratory illnesses and many others way.
Climate effects weather, and weather effects whether you get sunburn or rain-drenched or want to wear shorts or long underwear, and whether or not the Sunday baseball game gets rained out.
Did you also know that plants turn carbon dioxide in oxygen and that people do the opposite?
In everything they do.
Nobody is immune from the climate in which they live.
Go here:
http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/impac...
or
http://www.ehow.com/about_6163202_weathe...
Not if they are prepared.
