...consistent with predicted changes, but we do not yet know if they actually confirm that greenhouse warming is indeed in progress. Individual disastrous climatic...impair water supplies and agriculture in coastal areas. • Warming is expected to be considerably greater in polar latitudes than in the tropics, and sea...

...Crop zones and the changing climate. Extinction of some species may occur or be accelerated. * Melting glaciers and thermal expansion of sea water are expected...global sea levels significantly over the next century; reasonable estimates center on a one meter rise. This will increase coastal erosion, wetlands loss,...

...could clearly have far-reaching economic, social, and political consequences* * Melting of Und-bcme glaciers and thermal expansion of sea water are expected to raise global sea levels significandy over die next century. Prvvevoons of th« amount of nse range from tens of csr.^r.Ktrs...

...migrate with the changing climate. Extinction of some species may occur or be accelerated. * Melting glaciers and thermal expansion of sea water are expected...global sea levels significantly over the next century; reasonable estimates center on a one meter rise. This will increase coastal erosion, wetlands loss,...