Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyoshi Higuchi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Biological Interactions ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
Seed Dispersion ◽  
Phenological Changes ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Breeding Seasons ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Rising temperatures brought about by global warming are causing plants to bloom and leaf earlier, and advancing the start of animal breeding seasons. The ranges of some species of plants and animals are also being shifted northwards or to higher elevations. In cities, the heat island effect is raising temperatures still further, accelerating the flowering of plants. The degree of such phenological changes, and of the range in shifts, varies according to species and group, resulting in the distortion or mismatch of biological interactions such as predation, pollination, seed dispersion and parasitism. Rising sea levels due to the rising temperatures is destroying tidal wetlands and wiping out coral reefs and, consequently, killing off the various organisms that live there. It has been predicted that if warming continues, sudden and drastic changes will occur in the structure and functioning of ecosystems around the world, including in Japan, and that such regime shifts, which cannot easily be reversed, will be frequent. These ecological changes would affect a variety of aspects of human life such as housing, diet and health.

GAYA HIDUP BERKELANJUTAN DI ATAS PULAU APUNG DI PULAU UNTUNG JAWA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
Samuel Prinardi Suteja ◽  
Suwandi Supatra
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Floating Island ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Rising Sea Level

Humans had been living side by side with threats that are affecting human life, such threat in the future is the rising sea level. Mainly caused by global warming that results in several phenomenon which affects the increasing water volume on earth, this gives land dwellers a threat of being submerged especially island dwellers that had less land area. This causes great loss for the dwellers such as losing a home and source of livelihood. Therefore the function that is correct is a floating island that adapts with the rising sea levels and sustainable with purpose of fulfilling the needs of this floating island without harming the environment and maintaining tourism aspect by designing main function of the island as a tourism island and floating residence. Keyword: future; floating island; residence; sea level; submerged; tourismAbstrakManusia hidup berdampingan dengan ancaman yang mempengaruhi keberlangsungan hidup manusia, salah satunya di masa depan adalah meningkatnya permukaan air laut. Dilatar belakangi pemanasan global yang menyebabkan beberapa fenomena alam dan berdampak pada meningkatnya volume air pada bumi, sehingga masyarakat penghuni daratan memiliki ancaman berupa tenggelamnya daratan khususnya penghuni pulau yang memiliki luas daratan lebih kecil. Ancaman ini mengakibatkan kerugian yang besar bagi penghuni yang dapat kehilangan tempat berhuni serta sumber mata pencaharian utama. Oleh karena itu fungsi yang tepat adalah sebuah proyek pulau apung yang beradaptasi dengan ketinggian permukaan air laut serta mengadaptasi konsep sustainable sehingga dapat memenuhi kebutuhan pulau tersebut tanpa merusak lingkungan serta mempertahankan aspek pariwisata dengan menjadikan fungsi utama pulau sebagai pulau pariwisata dan hunian mengapung.

scholarly journals A Study on the Impacts of Climate Change on various sectors, with reference to the state of Karnataka

2020 ◽  
pp. 402-407
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Defining Moment ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Weather Patterns ◽  
The North ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate Change is the defining issue of our time and we are at a defining moment. From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale. Without drastic action today, adapting to these impacts in the future will be more difficult and costly. India is both a major greenhouse gas emitter and one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to projected climate change. The country is already experiencing changes in climate and the impacts of climate change, including water stress, heat waves and drought, severe storms and flooding, and associated negative consequences on health and livelihoods. With a 1.2 billion but growing population and dependence on agriculture, India probably will be severely impacted by continuing climate change. Karnataka is the second most vulnerable state in India to be impacted by Climate Change as the North Karnataka regions have the arid and driest regions. As a progressive state, Karnataka envisions job oriented, inclusive economic growth. This will require sustainable industrialization and livelihood diversification. However, such a transition is likely to increase the demand for resources and energy significantly. In this, our proposed study will enable us to know the impact of climate change on important sectors like energy and agriculture, which are the backbone of the state’s economy.

Special Issue on Climate Change (Part 2)

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-97
Author(s):  
Hideaki Karaki ◽  
◽  
Syunsuke Ikeda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Biological Interactions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Seed Dispersion

Global warming precipitated by human activity in turn affects plants and animals in addition to human life. This special issue on Climate Change (Part 2) presents two reviews on the biological effects of global warming. Higuchi discusses how plants have started to bloom, leaf, and bear fruits earlier than 30 years ago. Birds have started laying eggs earlier than 25 years ago and migrating and singing -- both related to breeding -- earlier than before. Other changes include a shift in the ranges of some plants and animals northward or to higher elevations. One problem resulting from these changes are distortions or mismatches in biological interactions such as predation, pollination, seed dispersion, and parasitism because changes in phenology and habitation ranges vary by species and groups. newpage Global warming is thus also affecting biodiversity and changing ecosystem structures and functioning. In the second review, Kobayashi et al. show how global warming is changing the habitation range of disease-transmitting insects such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas. Because insects are cold-blooded, their activities are strongly influenced by environmental temperature. Changes in the distribution of disease-transmitting "vector" insects in turn change the distribution of disease. Summarizing his review, Higuchi wrote that "From a cynical point of view, it could be said that we are currently making an experiment on a global scale to investigate when and how our warming of the entire globe will affect the natural world and our own lifestyles."

scholarly journals Study the Meteorological Environment on Physical and Mental Well-Being (Ayurveda and Modern View)-A Conceptual Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
A. B. Dharmarathna ◽  
B. L. Edirisinghe ◽  
W. M. S. S. K. Kulathunga
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Changes ◽  
Physiological State ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Introduction: Ritucharya (seasonal regimen) have been mentioned in the classics of Ayurveda. According to Ayurveda tridoshas (Three body humors)plays important role in maintaining physiological state of an individuals. But chaya(Accumilation), prakopa(Unbalanced) and prasmana(Balanced) of doshas takes place naturally by seasonal changes. A year is divided into 2 Kaals (time periods-Uththarayanaya/Adana kaal and Dakshinayanaya/Visaraga kaal). Each Kaal comprises of 3 seasons which gives a total of 6 seasons in a year. Each season lasts for two months The impacts of climate change include warming temperatures, changes in precipitation, increases in the frequency or intensity of some extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. These impacts threaten our health by affecting the food , the water, the air and the weather we experience. Objectives: To identify the Meteorological environment on Physical and Mental well-being (Ayurveda and Modern view) Methodology: Literature review was done from classical Ayurvedic texts,web references and modern literature regarding selected Scientific Research articles published in PubMed, Research gate, Google scholar, Science direct, Elsevier, Cochrane library and PMC,including health impact of meteorological changes. Results: According to Ayurveda tridoshas plays important role in maintaining physiological state of an individuals. But chaya, prakopa and prasmana of doshas takes place naturally by seasonal changes. In the beginning of visarga kala and at the end of adana kala, human beings on the Earth experience weakness. In the middle of these two periods, humans possess medium strength. At the end of the visarga kala and at the beginning of adana kala the strength in human beings is maximum. The impacts of climate change include warming temperatures, changes in precipitation, increases in the frequency or intensity of some extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. These impacts threaten our health by affecting the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the weather we experience. Conclusion: Lifestyle disorders are very common in the present era, basically originating from lack of following seasonal regimens due to lack of concentration in seasonal characteristics In this study reflect that meteorological environment effect on both physical and mental health.

An Imperial Disaster

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kingsbury
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Full Moon ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Natural Event ◽  
Cholera Epidemic ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Great Rivers ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides were at their peak; the great rivers of eastern Bengal were flowing high and fast to the sea. In the early hours the inhabitants of the coast and islands were overtaken by an immense wave from the Bay of Bengal — a wall of water that reached a height of 40 feet in some places. The wave swept away everything in its path, drowning around 215,000 people. At least another 100,000 died in the cholera epidemic and famine that followed. It was the worst calamity of its kind in recorded history. Such events are often described as "natural disasters." This book turns that interpretation on its head, showing that the cyclone of 1876 was not simply a "natural" event, but one shaped by all-too-human patterns of exploitation and inequality — by divisions within Bengali society, and the enormous disparities of political and economic power that characterized British rule on the subcontinent. With Bangladesh facing rising sea levels and stronger, more frequent storms, there is every reason now to revisit this terrible calamity.

Potential impacts of global warming on water resources in southern California

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 165-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Beuhler
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Scenario Planning ◽  
Potential Range ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

Global warming will have a significant impact on water resources within the 20 to 30-year planning period of many water projects. Arid and semi-arid regions such as Southern California are especially vulnerable to anticipated negative impacts of global warming on water resources. Long-range water facility planning must consider global climate change in the recommended mix of new facilities needed to meet future water requirements. The generally accepted impacts of global warming include increased temperature, rising sea levels, more frequent and severe floods and droughts, and a shift from snowfall to rain. Precipitation changes are more difficult to predict. For Southern California, these impacts will be especially severe on surface water supplies. Additionally, rising sea levels will exacerbate salt-water intrusion into freshwater and impact the quality of surface water supplies. Integrated water resources planning is emerging as a tool to develop water supplies and demand management strategies that are less vulnerable to the impacts of global warming. These tools include water conservation, reclamation, conjunctive use of surface and groundwater and desalination of brackish water and possibly seawater. Additionally, planning for future water needs should include explicit consideration of the potential range of global warming impacts through techniques such as scenario planning.

scholarly journals Effects of climate change on spatiotemporal patterns of tropical cyclone tracks and their implications for coastal agriculture in Myanmar

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Hirano
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Considerable Increase ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Storm Surges ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Spatiotemporal Patterns ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

AbstractImportant aspects for understanding the effects of climate change on tropical cyclones (TCs) are the frequency of TCs and their tracking patterns. Coastal areas are increasingly threatened by rising sea levels and associated storm surges brought on by TCs. Rice production in Myanmar relies strongly on low-lying coastal areas. This study aims to provide insights into the effects of global warming on TCs and the implications for sustainable development in vulnerable coastal areas in Myanmar. Using TC records from the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship dataset during the 30-year period from 1983 to 2012, a hot spot analysis based on Getis-Ord (Gi*) statistics was conducted to identify the spatiotemporal patterns of TC tracks along the coast of Myanmar. The results revealed notable changes in some areas along the central to southern coasts during the study period. These included a considerable increase in TC tracks (p value < 0.01) near the Ayeyarwady Delta coast, otherwise known as “the rice bowl” of the nation. This finding aligns with trends in published studies and reinforced the observed trends with spatial statistics. With the intensification of TCs due to global warming, such a significant increase in TC experiences near the major rice-producing coastal region raises concerns about future agricultural sustainability.

scholarly journals Rising sea levels alter Earth's spin

Nature ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 528 (7582) ◽  
pp. 310-310
Keyword(s):  
Sea Levels ◽  
Rising Sea Levels
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