Tag: impact of Climate Change
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[1] Authors: Emmanuel Abasiubong Bassey and Margaret Harford. 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The well documented rapid rise in sea levels in the Gulf of Guinea poses a great threat to the coastal region of Nigeria and the wider Gulf of Guinea. Driven primarily by climate change, its impacts have resulted in an increased rate of flooding,…
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Although the global climate has fluctuated unevenly through the ages, the rate of change of theclimate and warming that the earth has experienced from the final decades of the 20th Century till date has been completely unprecedented compared with previous changes over the past thousands of years. According to the World Meteorological Organisation, the past…