Apart from the long term impact of climate change and the famous sea level rising that will affect several regions globally .. can global warming and associated impacts such as temperature rising and some possible drier weather conditions result in an extreme scenarios that will hit harder in specific regions?
i have listened to prof Brooks interesting speech about emerging diseases due to climate change .. and the thing that came to my mind .. what if the rising temperature in some regions will be enough to provide necessary environment for some specific evolution of some unexpected of some type of creatures (plant, animal, virus, bacteria .... ) .. i dont want to sound like a sci fi writer .. but this can be a possibility .. has this been investigated .. are there areas with (with fragile ecosystem) that can be exposed to certain type (s) of threat (s) due to climate change?
he most affected area is the city of Basra, the temperature reaches 55 degrees. The salt tide in the Shatt al-Arab river reaches midway along the river
Hello Nidal; Your speculation has already happened. I live in Southern California where two new mosquitoes now are common. The Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus vector diseases that didn't used to occur here. Culex quinquefasciatus vectors West Nile Virus and the range of the mosquito is expanding. This year several people have died from that infection. These range extensions can be directly attributed to the changing climate here. Best regards, Jim Des Lauriers
I also support wholeheartedly all of your speculations regarding effect of global warming, many more new things may appear and these are not astonishing at all. There are two burning example already given above by Dr J. D. Lauriers and Dr K.Khafagi.
Khaled al Khafaji .. do you have any document about shatt al arab ? if yes can you kindly share it with us
James Des Lauriers it is scary .. because if you look at it .. the two scary examples that you have mentioned coupled with Khaled al Khafaji example of what i know is a very fragile ecosystem are just the tip of the iceberg .. a more horrifying scenarios can develop as indicated by Phani Bhusan Ghosh
Nidal; The two examples I mentioned are only specifics of the more general ecological case. In SW North America, as the climate warms and dries, species' distributions are moving northward generally and upward in the mountains. Migratory patterns and timing are shifting to earlier dates in the spring and there are populations that used to migrate but now have become more sedentary.
Trends like these are to be expected worldwide with the details being geographically specific. We should anticipate - if diseases are the focus- encountering more unwelcome newcomers. In agriculture new patterns of crop choices, husbandry practices and the like will become common.
It will be the poorest among us who will suffer the most and every nation should be planning how to mitigate the perfectly predictable misery and dislocation. The behavior and policies of leaders like those of the USA and Brazil are not a good sign. Best regards, Jim Des Lauriers
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