Including the closely related terms flooding, and flood.
… 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Climate change is a developing global crisis. Climatic changes are being felt through more frequent short-term events such as droughts, flooding, heat waves and wildfires, together with longer term pressures, such as sea level increase and the loss of productive land. In September 2019…
…, the gradual changes in the past decades have made it difficult to grasp what it means for Suffolk. In the last few years, we have seen more evidence of the effects, which include: Increased summer droughts that require more irrigation. Some Suffolk farms are now drier than Jerusalem. Increased intense rainfall events that cause surface water flooding on roads, causing travel disruption…
…. Increased storm events (such as Ciara and Dennis) combined with spring tides, cause tidal surges up our estuaries and coastal flooding and erosion. This damages properties and business premises. Combined with sea level rises from warming oceans, significant flooding and inundation will occur. All of this can disrupt Suffolk’s critical infrastructure, including the food and medical supply chains…
… the science related to climate change) demonstrated in its 2018 report1 that to increase the probability of addressing global warming, emissions must be reduced sooner than 2050. The consequences of not meeting net zero are set out, with impacts already observed on land and in human systems, including extreme weather (from drought to flooding), rising sea levels, land, habitat and species loss…