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Climatic pattern change
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- El Nino & La Nina
Ozone depletion and Acid rain
Alteration to lifestyle
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Climatic pattern change

Overview

A combination of the following happenings:

  • Rapid emission of greenhouse gases from mass utilization of transportation & heavy industrial economic activities

  • Clearing of land leaving an exposed idle barren land

  • Chemical composition of atmosphere altered

  • Natural disasters of frequent volcanic eruptions

will result in...

pH, light intensity, wind speed and globe temperature distorted

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Change in wind direction cause for alteration in the world's seasonal climates

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Concentration of the extremes of temperatures could cause a build up of air and ocean currents

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Allocation and shift of these currents to different continents from its original location

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Activities are rapid and instantaneous, which can leave lots of damages and lost of lives

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Corrosive to land surfaces and mountain ice-capped which can lead to erosions and melting of ice cap due to distortion from climate pattern

..and will finally cause

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