Question

What are some possible future changes in the global climate?
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Answer 1

Over the coming decades the global climate is expected to warm further, with more frequent and intense heatwaves, longer and more severe droughts in some regions and heavier, more concentrated rainfall and flooding in others, while Arctic and mountain ice and glaciers continue to shrink and sea levels rise, threatening coastal areas. Oceans will warm and acidify, harming marine ecosystems and worsening coral bleaching, and changes in atmospheric and ocean circulation (including a possible slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) could alter regional weather patterns. Extreme events such as intense tropical cyclones and wildfires are likely to become more common or severe, ecosystems and species ranges will shift (increasing extinction risk for some), and agricultural productivity and water availability will be disrupted, with knock-on effects for human health, infrastructure and migration. Feedbacks such as permafrost thaw releasing greenhouse gases could accelerate warming, but the magnitude and timing of these changes will depend strongly on future greenhouse gas emissions and how quickly societies reduce them and adapt.