"Really? Is it via the CO2 in the air or the nitrogen level?"
Most often drought and famine. Up north, thawing permafrost and less lichen. In some places, ocean water on the streets..
Sao Paulo’s Reservoirs are Drying Out When they Should Be Filling Up
It’s the rainy season for Brazil. But, thus far, adequate rains have not come.
A persistent high pressure system has lingered over Brazil. A blocking high of the kind that has now become so common with global temperatures spiking to more than +0.8 C above 1880s averages — thickening heat domes and granting these powerful weather systems an ever greater inertia. A set of circumstances that has set off a plethora of very severe droughts ranging the globe since the early 2000s.
During early 2015, Brazil’s own persistent atmospheric block re-strengthened over an Amazon whose water re-circulating abilities have been crippled by a combined deforestation and ever more prevalent wildfires. Ever since late December, the high has warded off cold front after cold front. The result is a terrible extension of the worst drought to impact Brazil in at least 80 years.
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/januarys-rainfall-forecast-cut-in-half-sao-paulos-reservoirs-are-drying-out-when-they-should-be-filling-up/
This new report based on scores of personal testimonies from refugees in Eastern Africa finds that climate change can make people more vulnerable and can also play a part in driving them into areas of conflict and ultimately across borders and into exile. "Climate change, vulnerability and human mobility: Perspectives of refugees from the East and Horn of Africa" is the first issue of the newly established UNU-EHS Report series.
http://www.ehs.unu.edu/article/read/climate-change-vulnerability-and-human-mobility
Inupiaq people are watching in horror as climate change claims their homes. Having endured repeated flooding and erosion from sea-ice melting and permafrost thaw, the 400 residents of Kivalina, an Alaskan village on a low barrier island in the Chukchi Sea, voted in 1998 and in 2000 to relocate — together — to coastal sites on higher ground. More than a decade and a half later, Kivalina remains in limbo, its move stymied by institutional, financial and physical barriers 1
nature.com
Climate Change Threatens Reindeer and Arctic People
climate.org
Drowning Kiribati
businessweek.com
Miami Hopes Storm Pumps, Seawall Will Protect Against Rising Seas
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