Europe: Increased risk of inland flash floods more frequent coastal flooding and increased erosion from storms and sea level rise glacial retreat in mountainous areas reduced snow cover and winter tourism extensive species losses reductions of crop productivity in southern Europe.Latin America: Gradual replacement of tropical forest by savannah in eastern Amazonia risk of significant biodiversity loss through species extinction in many tropical areas significant changes in water availability for human consumption, agriculture and energy generation.North America: Decreasing snowpack in the western mountains 5-20 percent increase in yields of rain-fed agriculture in some regions increased frequency, intensity and duration of heat waves in cities that currently experience them.Scientists have predicted that long-term effects of climate change will include a decrease in sea ice and an increase in permafrost thawing, an increase in heat waves and heavy precipitation, and decreased water resources in semi-arid regions.īelow are some of the regional impacts of global change forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
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