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Nowadays, we also feel the effect of climate change as it really observable today. We
now feel an intense increase in temperature, sea level rise, Change in precipitation
(causes floods) and extreme weather. And this climate change impacts foods (falling
crops yields in many areas), water (small mountain glaciers disappear- water supplies
threatened in several areas, sea level rise threatens major cities), Ecosystem (Extensive
damage to coral reefs, rising number of species face extinction), extreme weather events
(Rising intensity of storms, forest fires, droughts, flooding)
In the sea level rise, 93% of the extra heat trapped by manmade global warming pollution
goes into the Ocean, noted in the presentation. The tendency is that when warm water
touches the glacier its will melt the glacier and will cause a major rise of sea level.
According to NASA, about 3.42 mm per year of sea level is increasing. There was a major
scientific evidence of dramatic impacts of climate change on coastlines and people.
Recently at least five reef islands in the remote Solomon Islands have been lost
completely to sea-level rise and coastal erosion, and a further six islands have been
severely eroded. These islands lost to the sea range in size from one to five hectares.
They supported dense tropical vegetation that was at least 300 years old. Nuatambu
Island, home to 25 families, has lost more than half of its habitable area, with 11 houses
washed into the sea since 2011.
Ronald Tejerero Baldago Date Assigned:
BsChE-3A Date Submitted:
Sea level in the Philippines is projected to rise two to three times faster than the global
average. With a 1 meter sea level rise. The Senator also noted a study by the University
of the Philippines Los Baos (UPLB) Climate Change Program which showed that a total
of 167,290 hectares of seashore land in 171 coastal towns under 10 provinces will go
underwater due to a one-meter sea level rise. The 10 provinces are Cagayan, Palawan,
Iloilo, Zamboanga Sibugay, Camarines Sur, Negros Occidental, Capiz, Bohol, Tawi-Tawi
and Sulu. At least 13.6 million Filipinos may have to relocate to higher elevations due to
sea level rise. Kiribati is the first nation to purchase land in another country to house its
climate refugees.
As global temperatures continue to increase, the Earths water cycle intensifies even more
thus resulting to Super Typhoon Yolanda. The worst El- Nio in 15 years results an 85%
of PH to be affected by drought by march, 32 provinces forecasted to be affected by a 4-
month dry spell. The same extra heat that evaporates more water from the ocean,
causing bigger downpours and floods pulls moisture even more quickly from the soil,
causing longer and deeper droughts.