Including 4 closely related terms such as flood, flooding, and frequent flooding.
… at a faster rate than previously seen, more intense rainfall and more frequent flooding, continued and increased sea level rise, melting glaciers, ice sheets, and permafrost, and warmer and more acidified oceans. These changes are already taking place in all regions. This report also states that we have already reached 1.1°c of warming globally and can expect to surpass 2°c within the 21st century…
… of influence ................................................................................... 35 Figure 5. Island areas predicted to lie beneath the UK’s annual flood level by 2050 ................... 117 6 GLOSSARY Abatement The act or process of reducing something. In the context of climate change, reducing emissions or pollution. Afforestation Planting new forests on land…