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ECE3779 Impacts of Global Warming and solutions Report Lecturer: Ming Liu Student Name: Ip Wong Student Number: 18556899 Friday Classes Affections of Environment Climate The Earth is heating up! Climate models show that atmospheric temperatures will increase by between 1.5 and 4.5 C by the year 2100 if a "wait and see and do nothing" approach is adopted. The global temperature increase since the last ice age (10,000 years ago) has been about 5 C. Temperature and precipitation patterns in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, which appear to be becoming "more tropical." There is less of a difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures, and rainfall tends to more often come in intense bursts. Oceans & sea level Their first concern of global warming is causing the rise of sea levels. Since oceans absorb more heat than land areas. The best-guess forecast of the IPCC for sea level rise is a global average of 3-10 millimeters per year. As...

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