Introduction and lead questions

Effects of climate-change on societies

The projections are that certain countries such as those in the Middle East, in Africa and in the Mediterranean will suffer from droughts whereas those in the North European countries will have more rainfall.

There might also be a change in rainfall pattern because of climatic variability and rain in certain countries rain might be concentrated on certain days and floods may result with the consequence that crops will be ruined.

The adaptative capacity of certain countries might be limited because of political turmoil, limited access to health-care and limited access to education.

Dear Sirje, thank you for

Dear Sirje,

thank you for your comment. Could you try to find some results from scientific research into the role of water as indicator of climate change that you mentioned? That would be a great addition to the debate.

Best wishes,

Bianca

Climate change an actual

Climate change is an actual problem representing one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats facing the Earth. The European Union is committed to working for a global agreement to control climate change, and is leading the way by taking useful action of its own.

The warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level. The Earth's average surface temperature has risen by 0.76° C since 1850. Most of the warming that has occurred over the last 50 years is very likely to have been caused by human activities.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/home_en.htm

Climate change affects the function and operation of
existing water infrastructure – including hydropower,
structural flood defences, drainage and irrigation systems
– as well as water management practices. Adverse effects
of climate change on freshwater systems aggravate the
impacts of other stresses, such as population growth, changing
economic activity, land-use change and urbanisation (very high
confidence). Globally, water demand will grow in the coming
decades, primarily due to population growth and increasing
affluence; regionally, large changes in irrigation water demand
as a result of climate change are expected

I mentioned that water is

I mentioned that water is performing as an evidence of climate change. There are a lot of alternative researching programs and sciencists are using quite sophisticated methods and equipment to study the climate change and there are definately many ways of informing about the results of researches and giving the terrifying prospects. But ordinary people can notice the real changes by theirselves thanks to water. Even now half of the Europe is suffering of heavy snowfalls, autumn and spring are the time of catastrophic floods, in summer we can observe extensive fires because of lack of water and rain. Water is the nature's facility to show the world that something is going wrong.