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Scientists use various climate change scenarios when they carry out climate risk analysis. [8] The interaction of three risk factors define the degree of climate risk. They are hazards, vulnerability and exposure. [9]: 2417 There are various approaches to climate risk management. One example is climate risk insurance.
Climate change vulnerability is defined as the "propensity or predisposition to be adversely affected" by climate change. It can apply to humans but also to natural systems , and both are interdependent. [1]: 12 Vulnerability is a component of climate risk. Vulnerability will be higher if the capacity to cope and adapt is low.
Climate change threatens people with increased flooding, extreme heat, increased food and water scarcity, more disease, and economic loss. Human migration and conflict can also be a result. [ 12 ] The World Health Organization calls climate change one of the biggest threats to global health in the 21st century. [ 13 ]
Economic inequities, as well as individual characteristics, place some individuals at greater risk for the effects of climate change on mental health.
Without timely attention, cities risk being caught in a crisis where financial and climate factors create a death spiral, driving people away and leaving behind only those unable or unwilling to ...
The climate system will vary in response to changes in forcings. [15] The climate system will show internal variability both in the presence and absence of forcings imposed on it. This internal variability is a result of complex interactions between components of the climate system, such as the coupling between the atmosphere and ocean. [16]
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius in the coming decades.
Climate Central's analysis shows that 56 of California’s 58 counties have a high or very high risk of wildfires impacting people’s homes. That’s more than 38 million people or 97% of the ...